Types and market classes of live stock . At this time Chicago had a population ofonly 20,000, but was growing rapidly. In 1865, John B. Sher-man organized the Union Stock Yard and Transit Company,which purchased 320 acres at 39th and Halsted streets andopened the present Union Stock Yards, thus laying the basisfor a greater live-stock trade at Chicago. In 1876 the UnionStock Yards comprised 475 cattle yards, 675 covered hog andsheep pens, 375 chutes, 15 corn cribs, and 10 hay barns. Thecompany owned and operated 24 miles of railway, had put downseveral miles of macadamized streets and alleys,
Types and market classes of live stock . At this time Chicago had a population ofonly 20,000, but was growing rapidly. In 1865, John B. Sher-man organized the Union Stock Yard and Transit Company,which purchased 320 acres at 39th and Halsted streets andopened the present Union Stock Yards, thus laying the basisfor a greater live-stock trade at Chicago. In 1876 the UnionStock Yards comprised 475 cattle yards, 675 covered hog andsheep pens, 375 chutes, 15 corn cribs, and 10 hay barns. Thecompany owned and operated 24 miles of railway, had put downseveral miles of macadamized streets and alleys, and installeda drainage system. The market could then accommodate atone time 20,000 cattle, 100,000 hogs, 15,000 sheep, and 1000horses—in all, 136,000 animals. About one hundred com-mission firms were then doing business. The Union Stock Yards today,—The Union Stock Yardand Transit Company receives, unloads, yards, feeds, waters,weighs, and delivers or reships live stock, but neither buys, Types and Market Classes of Live Stock 77. ^ O) OJ to rt =« =« 5. ^ ^-^ « 4-: Ch > t« (P O o c c o g CO m 3 T3 C CO. o a; CO c^ -^J Q U) co_h c- D. CO OJ P Jh :: 4J CO +^ ^-p tin -t^ b CD C cc 0) is P o ba «ij o CO ai I t: ?tH g M CO CO CO t. 0) c5 01 O 5 CD tj -i^+jf-Q o CO 78 Types and Market Classes of Live Stock sells, nor slaughters animals. It is a great transportation andmarketing corporation, which connects all the twenty-six rail-way systems entering Chicago > with the Union Stock Yards,and provides unloading platforms, chutes, pens, buildings, andall necessary facilities for doing an immense daily business inhandling live animals, but takes no part in the transaction ofthe market. The Chicago yards now occupy an area of 500acres, 450 of which are paved. There are 22r miles of streets,and 300 miles of railway tracks. The number of pens is 13,000,of which 8,500 are double-decked and covered; there are 725chutes, 25,000 gates, 25 miles of
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