. Notable men of Illinois & their state . of thebusiness chiefly for local consumption. Ten years later the refrigerator car made itsappearance and practically from that tlay the citys supremacy as a live stock centerbegan to grow. In 1866 the value of live stock handled in Chicago was $42,765,328. In1875 the amount had increased to $117,533,94^2, in 1885 to $173,598,00^2, in 1895 to $200,-584,380 and in 1905 to $300,472,480. In 1911 the value was $339,484,690 and the volume16,397,492 head. During 1911 271,660 carloads of stock were shipped into the stock yards. By headand value the classifica
. Notable men of Illinois & their state . of thebusiness chiefly for local consumption. Ten years later the refrigerator car made itsappearance and practically from that tlay the citys supremacy as a live stock centerbegan to grow. In 1866 the value of live stock handled in Chicago was $42,765,328. In1875 the amount had increased to $117,533,94^2, in 1885 to $173,598,00^2, in 1895 to $200,-584,380 and in 1905 to $300,472,480. In 1911 the value was $339,484,690 and the volume16,397,492 head. During 1911 271,660 carloads of stock were shipped into the stock yards. By headand value the classifications for that year were: cattle — head, 2,931,831, value, $180,-206,174; calves — head, 521,512, value, $5,788,785; hogs — head, 7,103,360, value, $110,-037,446; sheep — head, 5,736,244, value, $24,634,185; horses — head, 104,545, value,$18,818,100. Chicago receives and disposes of fully 30 per cent of all the live stock slaughtered inthe United States. Even with liberal distributions at other points, Chicago has received 398. PHOTO COPy^TIGHTED BY KAUFMANN, WEIMER & FARBY CO,, CHICAGO DS, CHICAGO in one day 49,000 cattle, 87,000 hogs, and 71,000 sheep and in one week 95,000 cattle,300,000 hogs and 2^27,000 sheep. The months record stands at 385,000 cattle, 1,111,000hogs and 895,000 sheep. There are sixty-seven abattoirs in Chicago under government supervision. Nearly700 acres in the southwest section of the city are given over to the packing and buildings for the yarding of stock take up 3*25 acres and the abattoirs whichconvert the major part of this stock into food take up more than 300 acres. There aremore than thirty miles of streets and more than 300 miles of railroad tracks in Packing-town, as the principal part of the stock yards is called. There are 13,000 pens, 8,500 ofwhich are covered or double decked. The water pumps have a daily capacity of 8,000,000gallons and the reservoirs have a capacity of 10,000,000 gallons. There are 90 miles ofwate
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