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Show Denver Nows says: . "Omaha will assist In breaking the combination. Packing houses at Denver, and Cbeyenuo, and' Salt Lake, and Helena, not to mention the refrigerator system in' Texas, will render additional aid, and perhaps show the range men that in order to llnd u market it is not necessary to ship live animals half way across the continent to havo them slaughtered, and the beef shipped back in dressed form to feed a hungry people. The more packing centers cen-ters the more markets, and ns a consequence con-sequence an increased competitive demand." . O.maha's steady progress as a packing pack-ing center is a matter of congratula-' congratula-' tion for tho cntii'p country west of t ie i Missouri river. It gives to the western stock raisers as good a market as Chi-i Chi-i cago or Kansas City, and prevents those two points from monopolizing the cattle trade and dictating the prices. Until j Omaha enmc to the front as a competitor tho "Big Four" combination controlled everything. Iu this connection the |