. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. TENTS Page Breeding < 154 Bridle Bill 167 Horse Dealing 169 Willie the Telegraph Messenger 174 Buying Horses 177 Gallagher and Brown 185 Care and Conditioning of Horses 187 The Duke of Somerset 190 Selling Horses 192 Tne Itinerant Barber Shop 196 The Widow of the Deceased 198 Sea Faring on Cattle Boats 214 Billy the Letter Carrier 217 Transit House 219 The Belle of the Stockyards 221 The Can-Rush 226 Commission, Feed Charges, Dockage, etc 228 One Kind of Stick-to-ativeness 229 Daily Drovers
. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. TENTS Page Breeding < 154 Bridle Bill 167 Horse Dealing 169 Willie the Telegraph Messenger 174 Buying Horses 177 Gallagher and Brown 185 Care and Conditioning of Horses 187 The Duke of Somerset 190 Selling Horses 192 Tne Itinerant Barber Shop 196 The Widow of the Deceased 198 Sea Faring on Cattle Boats 214 Billy the Letter Carrier 217 Transit House 219 The Belle of the Stockyards 221 The Can-Rush 226 Commission, Feed Charges, Dockage, etc 228 One Kind of Stick-to-ativeness 229 Daily Drovers Journal 280 The Pen-Holders 231 Champion Beef Dresser of the World 288 Jack, Pety and Paddy 286 The Stockyards Scribes 240 Gus the Ham Tester 242 Manufacture of Butterine 244 Cattle Ranches and Ranging - 248 Range Horses 266 In Coach and Saddle 271 Veterinary Recipes 296 My Ups and Downs, With Good Advice to Fellow Men SIO THE UNION STOCKYARDS: THE GREATEST LIVE STOCK MARKET IN THE WORLD. You can get quicker action for your money at the Stockyardsthan in any other place on earth.*—A WAY back in 1848, when thepopulation of Chicago wasless than 50,000, when hershipping and commercial in-terests were no greater thanthose of many a little westerncity of to-day whose prosper-ity is dependent upon the dys-peptic caprices of a statesmanelected on a silver or gold issue, when she existed as thecountrys metropolis only in the imagination of theUtopian few, John B. Sherman, now one of the mostesteemed men in the West, took a step which went onehalf way toward making Chicago the magnificent cityshe is to-day. He felt one of the citys needs, and hispowerful mind devised the remedy which should turntoward Chicago the major portion of the wealth of theWest. Chicago needed a live stock market,and John B,Sherman established the Old Bulls Head Stockyards atthe corner of Madison Street and Ogden Avenue, and this 7 8 ILLUSTRATED HISTORY was the initial move toward making Chicago wh
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