, 1874-11-29

| lhe receipt OF hor8e3 IN 1866 were IL ,553 head
whi'e for 1874 they were 1G.35o.
| The above table speaks for itself and shows
with official certainty the great increase Of the
LTe-stock traffic. as also the expansion OF capital
| Involved iu that important branch OF commerce.
And as We wish to give IN minute detail the now
mammoth concern kuown es the Union Stock
| Yards. We will again turn to the year 1926 where
| We find that before, and at that time,
FEW PENS, on Rou1H c3STnIyAScEs.
| III the early history OF the business, we're con-
| structed near the river, which would not far e1-
ceed the peus connected with the farms OF our
rural friends. Tho nc step OF progression
| mas the Lake Shore yards in 1886,
aud short time after this Willard F. AIyrick
erected IN the vicinity OF Twenty y-nnth street .
taYern-for such was the cognomon applied to =
country hotel in those days-aud nearly opposite
and to the cast Of this tavern 11r. 1fyrick COLI
structed q few stock peus, in which was placed
the first Fairbanks platform scale ever used iu
this city Shortly after this dir. jackson con-
structed faw stock pens near the then old
Southern Hotel, situated on the corner of State
and Twelfth streets. Al these two points a con-
siderable potion OF the stock coming to the civ
was banded, until the Year 1913. when the we'll
known
BULLS uEAD'
yards we're opened near the building now known
as tue Washingtooian Home. on tie coruer of
West Madison street and Ogden avenue. This
old tavern seems to hnve regretted its former
use, and to have thrown all its corn spirits into
the gutter, and turned itself into an nsylum for
inebIiates: Messrs. Latin, Loouis. Horace
Hopkins. D. 4. Bedding. and Jphn 3. Sherman
successfully sSsc operated these yards until
lSsg: 1Es, They proved PRO l., adequate for the
and the slow and easy manner in Which
this traffic was then carried on, There we're no
railroads in those days; hence the stock was
driven ia and disposed Of for city consumption
old-fashioueu waya, Was soon to become thing
Of the past, for. shortly after this time. the
Western railroads began to interaect the great |
prai,ies OF the West. and hence change for The |
move more rapidly, and an unprecedented de- |
West.
The Chicago Burlington L Quincy Railroad. |
!he Chicago q: Nofthwestern, the Chicago Rock
cago & Alton. tho Milwaukee & St. Paul. and
the Chicago. Danrille Vincennes are in tho
main the great railway channes that take in The
enormous receipts OF stock, depositlug the same
ut the great head-ceEtre.
For the distribution OF stock from thin nnrtet
to al points IN tbs East the following lines Of
railroad form the avenues for the outlet: Mich
,san Central, Lake Shore i Michigan Southern, |
felttsourg : q Fort Wayne. Pittsburg. Cincinnati
Ohio.
Mr.. Sherman foresaw the death-blow to the old
Bulls Head yards, and with that saeacity tha.
aas marked his business career from the day he
became identified with the livestock interests |
u the city, 1a sold them out, and purchased an
interest i'll
THE MrRICK YARDS,
6hica had previously been leased by the 1Iichi-
gan Central it 1856. From that time until the
md Of their ezistencs they were known as the
= Sherman Yards" and we're capable OF accom-
nodating about 5000 head Of cattle, and 10000
3ead Of sTine. About four years before this
lato, the Michigan Southern Road being com
olated, the " Son bern Yards " were copetrucsed
q ozdar to accommodate ths incteasiug traffic.