Huebinger's map and guide for Omaha-Denver transcontinental route; . costing from $70,000 to $120,000 each, and a high school build-ing, which has been erected at a cost of a million and one-half dollars,are an expression of the aims and desires of the citizens. FourteenCatholic churches, ten parochial schools, and four academies, which havean enrollment of more than 4,000, are silent evidence in Omahas ac-tivitjf in educational lines. The Young Mens Christian Association, with a membership of2,145, and the Young Womens Christian Association, with a of 3,500, are both housed in ma
Huebinger's map and guide for Omaha-Denver transcontinental route; . costing from $70,000 to $120,000 each, and a high school build-ing, which has been erected at a cost of a million and one-half dollars,are an expression of the aims and desires of the citizens. FourteenCatholic churches, ten parochial schools, and four academies, which havean enrollment of more than 4,000, are silent evidence in Omahas ac-tivitjf in educational lines. The Young Mens Christian Association, with a membership of2,145, and the Young Womens Christian Association, with a of 3,500, are both housed in magnificent homes, which stand asmonuments to the citizens. Omaha has a public library, which contains 90,000 volumes, and arare collection of coins, curios, manuscripts and antiquaries of everyconceivable description. A new court house, erected at a cost of one and one-quarter milliondollars, stands in the very heart of the city, towering so that the eye ofthe transient is immediately secured. The financial standing and stability of the ten national banks in the 12. Omaha Clearing House are shown by the confidence reposed bythe citizens. The aggregate surplus and capital total of thesedepositories is $8,290,000, while the deposits reach the enormoustotal of $60,000,000. The bank clearings for the past yearwere more than $900,000,000, which showed a gain of 267 percent in the last ten years. In every direction is the progress shown. It is the close of 1911 the city has paved streets of one hun-dred and forty-five miles, which represent an aggregate outlayof $8,500,000; 210 miles of sewers, costing $2,857,000; 340 milesof sidewalks, costing $1,350,000; thirty miles of boulevards andhighways, and thirteen parks, which contain 1,500 acres. Omahajustly and proudly claims the best paved streets in the businessdistrict of any city in the United States. The Omaha water works plant, owned by the city, is one of
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