The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-09
GREAT is CHICAGO.
Trade and Commerce of the Garden CITY
for 1878.
From the Chicago Trihnne

for 1878.
From the Chicago Tribunel
For thirty years, despite all manner
OF calamities, war, pestilence, epidem-
les, fire, failure of crops, panics, crash
ing of banks, prostration of credits, and
countless vicissitudes special and gen
eral, the city of Chicago has annually
added to the quantity and value of the
merchandise she has received and
shipped, and the value and quantity of
her manufactures; and also to the ex-
pansion of her population, the beauty
and lumber of her buildings, the extent
OF her streets, the number of her rail-
roads and their connections. An I'M
broken series of annual increase in all
her business for thirty years is an evil
dence of her stability, and offers rea-
sonable grounds for the belief that the
city is even now but in the infancy of
the commercial greatness which is to be
hers in the near future. The story of
the growth of Chicago reads like tale
of the imagination. Let no one fail to
read the statement which in all its de-
tails this morning fills such a large
space in the Tribune. From the to-
talities we take the following general re-
suits:
The greatest amount of breadstuffs
(four being reduced to grain) in any pre-
vious year was in 1873, when the aggre-
gate was 99, 935, 413 bushels. Thereceipts
during 1878 reached the enormous ag-
gregate of 134,856,1 1913 bushels, an in
crease IS, 920,780 bushels, or of 36.3 per
cent over that year.
The number of hogs received during
the year was $3.50, 656, and the number
killed here 5,128,000. The number
killed in 1877 was 3,076,639. The
weight of the hogs killed during 1878
was 64S,200 TONS Their value was
So, $4,000, and the value of the whole
hog product was 100000.
The value of the live stock received
in Chicago during 1878 was 800, 400 900,
being an increase of S., 100000 over last
year, and this Notwithstanding the ex-
traordinary reduction in prices.
Despite the general decline in the
value of eli manner of productions, the
increase in the value of the manufact-
ures of the city over last year is $22,-
100000. The reader can readily esti-
mate the increase in the quantity nee
essary to warrant this increase in the
value.
The total of the wholesale sales in
1877 was $276,500,000, and of the like
sales in 1878 was $2S0000,O00. Re
membering the decline in prices, the
reader viii understand how great was
the increase in quantities. The values
given are in currency; reduced to gold
we have:
Wholesale sales in gold 1873. $27 800 600
Same in gold, 1877. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 265. 100 eco
Showing an increase in coin value of
$12,80O,0O0. The capital invested in
wholesale trade is about the same as
last year, not including the increase in
the value of the currency. There is Oh
increase in value of sales Of dry goods,
$2,000,000; oysters, $t,000,000; and to-
bacco, 81 100000. There is falling oft
in value of dried fruits, coal, and oils.
Under the comprehensive title of pro-
duce is included large list Of commod
tiles which may be grouped as follows,
with the values for the year of the re-
ceipts:
Breadstuffs S II 500 zoe
Live stock ............... .......... g78 300 900
Provisions, tallow, dressed Eogs...... 9,6s0. 900
Butter, cheese, hides, wool. .....-. q $3.50, coo
Seeds, potatoes, salt, broom conn. $3.50 600
Hay. poultry, apples, eggs. ............ 18S0,J00
Alcohol observation-disclosures. $4,000
Miscellaneous. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 3S00.000
Total 1875 ...............--.$ 1918, 1OO, coo