Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-05-16
The Chicago Stock-Yards.

would get TO San Francisco in ten
days, and with surprisingly little
fatigue, and he will have seen
several very remarkable sights on
! the way. For instance, though
Chicago itself was burned and is
not rebuilt, the ruin is worth see
! ing; and near at hand, accessi.
bic by frequent trains, he may
find one Of the most, characteris-
tic sights Of our continent, the
great Chicago stock, yards-a city
whose inhabi ;ants are cattle,
sheep and hogs, and where these
creatures are SO well cared for
that many poor human being
supposed to have an immortal and
amenable soul, living in a New
York tenement house, is neither
SO cleanly lodged nor SO well pro-
tected against harm or cruelty.
This city of the beasts has
streets, sewers, drains ;. it has wa
ter laid on; it is lighted with gas;
it has a bank, an exchange, tel.
egraph Office, post Office. an ad-
mirably kept hotel; it has even a
newspaper-else it would not be
an American city. 1t has very
comfortable accommodations for
ll8350 residents-namely, 81.
600 head of cattle, 75.0O0 hogs,
$4,000 sheep, with stalls for $50
horses. 1t contains 345 acres of
land and when all this is pre-
pared for use, 100000 head of
cattle can be4odged, fed, and cared
for there at once, and with the
certainty that not one will suffer
or 60 astray. n aa''
1t has 35 miles of sewers ten
miles of streets and alleys, all
paved with wood three miles of
water troughs, all SO arranged
that The water may be stopped
off at any point; $500 gates,
which are the front-doors, so to
speak, of the place 1900 open
pens, heavily fenced in with
double plank 100 acres are COW
cred with pens for cattle, and all
these are floored with three-inch
plank; 500 covered sheds for
sheep and hogs; and II miles of |
railroad track connect this city
of the beasts with every road |
which runs into Chicago. 1t has
two Artesian wells, one 1.022, /,
the other 100 feet deep, which,
being spouting wells, send the
water into huge tanks 45 feet
high, whence it is distributed all
over the place in pipes. Four
teen fire p ugs are ready to fur
nish water in case OF fire; i'm !
mense stacks of hay and large
granaries of corn contain the food
needed for the beasts and, | be-
lieve, a train of palace cattle cars
now bears the emigrant animals
from this their city comfortably
to the Eastern butchers, S.!
OF course, as the slower ami
mails" do not help themselves, a.
considerable force of men is need /,
ed to attend upon those gathered
here. The company receives and
ares for all animals sent to it,
1t has thus taken, in penned, fed,
Uttered, and taken ac-
count of 41.OOO hogs, 5000 cat
lie, and 1000 sheep in a single
lay, and that without accident,
hitch or delay. From l75 to
200 men are constantly employed
m this labor and to accommo-
late these and their families nu-
neroNs cottages have been built,
while a town ball for public meet {
ngs and lectures, a church, a y
Sunday school, and a well kept
lay school providt for their in
,truction and amusement. The
MOTEL, which has bathrooms, and
s in other respects we'll fitted. is
or the use of drovers and own
ars Of cattle, whom business brings
nither At the Exchange sales
IRE effected, and the news of a
sale may be sent to Maine or
Texas by j. a telegraph from the
,amecroor@, while the money paid
may be securely deposited in the !,
bank, which is under the same
roof. Thus you will see that this
enterprise is complete
ly' furnished in every part !; and I,
it will not be the least part of ,
your surprise and pleasure to find
that this whole business. which 4
abou, New York often involves
painful brutalities, is here con-
Quoted as quietly as though a
Quaker presided over it, and with
as much care for the feelings of
the dumb brutes as though good
Mr.. Bergh were looking on all the
time. ~ e1c q Gag 4
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