Rand, McNally & co.'s handy guide to Chicago, and World's Columbian exposition ..What to see and how to see it . asons, lesswidely known. Meat packing is the oldest of Chicagos indus-tries. In the fall of 1832 G. W. Dole slaughtered the first lot ofcattle ever packed in Chicago. They numbered 209 head, andcost | per cwt. About 359 hogs, costing $3 percwt., wereslaughtered and packed at the same time. Forty-eight yearslater, in 1880, the city received within twelve months no fewerthan 7,059,355 live hogs, 1,382, 477 cattle, and 335,810 sheep; butthe proportion of the hog products of the cou
Rand, McNally & co.'s handy guide to Chicago, and World's Columbian exposition ..What to see and how to see it . asons, lesswidely known. Meat packing is the oldest of Chicagos indus-tries. In the fall of 1832 G. W. Dole slaughtered the first lot ofcattle ever packed in Chicago. They numbered 209 head, andcost | per cwt. About 359 hogs, costing $3 percwt., wereslaughtered and packed at the same time. Forty-eight yearslater, in 1880, the city received within twelve months no fewerthan 7,059,355 live hogs, 1,382, 477 cattle, and 335,810 sheep; butthe proportion of the hog products of the country handled byChicago has kept on increasing, while a great increase has alsotaken place in its receipts of cattle and sheep. In 1891 thefigures were 8,600,805 hogs, 3,455,742 cattle, and 2,153,537sheep, the total value being estimated at $239,434,777. The ship-ments for the same period were 2,962,514 live hogs, 122,185dressed hogs, 1,066,264 cattle, 688,205 sheep, 877,297,875 lbs. ofdressed beef, 278,044 barrels of pork, 362,109,199 lbs. of lard,198,571,824 lbs. of hides, and 57,189,677 lbs. of wool.(155). (156) MARKETS, STOCK YARDS, ETC. 157 The Union Stock Yards, in which this enormous businesscenters, cover no less than 400 acres of ground. In 3,300 pens,1,800 covered and 1,500 open, provision is made for handling atone time 25,000 head of cattle, 14,000 sheep, and 150,000 yards contain twenty miles of streets, twenty miles of watertroughs, fifty miles of feeding troughs, and seventy-five miles ofwater and drainage pipes. Artesian wells, having an averagedepth of 1,230 feet, afford an abundant supply of water. Thereare also eighty-seven miles of railroad tracks, all the great roadshaving access to this vast market. The entire cost was $4,000,-000. About 1,200 men are employed at the Stock Yards proper. The meat-packing industry is carried on in immediate prox-imity to the Stock Yards. The extent of its operations havingalready been stated, it is only necessary to
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