. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. ion of land bound by For-tieth and Forty-Seventh Streets on the north and south,and by Halsted Street and Center Avenue on the eastand west. In those early days this yard was far beyondthe limits of the city, being sufficiently isolated tosatisfy even Chicagoans that it was at a proper sanitarydistance. Its site was a reedy swamp, upon the un-measured front feet of which no real estate dealer hadyet cast a covetous eye. Old Nathaniel Hart still re-members and talks of the laying of the first p
. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. ion of land bound by For-tieth and Forty-Seventh Streets on the north and south,and by Halsted Street and Center Avenue on the eastand west. In those early days this yard was far beyondthe limits of the city, being sufficiently isolated tosatisfy even Chicagoans that it was at a proper sanitarydistance. Its site was a reedy swamp, upon the un-measured front feet of which no real estate dealer hadyet cast a covetous eye. Old Nathaniel Hart still re-members and talks of the laying of the first plank 10 ILLUSTRATED HISTORY which converted the bog into a teeming mart, and ex-changed the croaking of bullfrogs for the grunting ofswine and the chirping of reed birds for the voices ofmen. Chicago grew, however, and one morning JohnB. Sherman awoke to find his cattle market midwaybetween the city hall and the city limits, and his awak-ening was disturbed only by the complaints of near-by3esidents against the odors of cattle,and the excoriationsof sanitary committees. Hard work and bliss is not. THE GATEWAY TO THE STOCKYARDS. all which attends the progress of the founder of a newindustry; he must take a share of the worlds fault-finding also. At their first construction the stockyards covered onehundred and twenty acres with two thousand cattlepens, whereas today, thirty-one years later, three hun-dred and forty acres covered with five thousand pens, OF THE UNION BTOCKYARDS 11 stables, railroad statioDs, unloadiDg platforms, a splen-did horse pavilion and a magnificent hotel are includedwithin the grounds of the stockyards. Takingin Pack-ingtown, which is, indeed, the stockyards proper, thearea of the yard would be increased to six hundred andforty acres and extend to Ashland Avenue, a territorylarge enough to furnish the site for a prosperous , indeed, the population of a goodly city is con-
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