The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-04-28
Whole No. 100

box cars, all laueh wiz '' - =
their locomotives, reaching more IMAM nan
way from Chicago to Oinana' AM 1uese
n,i,sbt,, receptaeles could swallow up all the
o-re;,, and still cry for more. One elevator
conld alone contain almost the entire wheat
IRON Of the state of New Jersey, or Of all New
.England with that of little Delaware thrown
=, for good measure Two-sevenths of all
wheat and one half of all -four exported from
tbe limited States in 1884 were shipped from
CHICAGO Naturally enough, the grain quota
-, r7,ada in Chicago are virtually the quo
-, fo, the world Two hundred thou
ea,,d l,,,s of Grain arrived in Chicago last
-oo,al with their engines, to a solid
train l;325 mites long. Next 10 hef gram
business c,hicaao is famous for her slaughter
bouses As sficker of pigs and killer of
hoeves Gle leads the world. In this kind of
hIoodsbad she has no rival More than 4,OOO,-
DOo hogs and ]. doc, 900 beeves meet their fate
here every year Annually Chlcaso sniFs
the hungry Of this country and the Old World
something like 125, ,O00,0ae pounds of fresh
beef 40 900 600 tf salt beef 90 900, 900 of pork.
$50, 600, 900 of bacon and hams and %oo,-
nNo OOO of 4rd. What would the
worlds hunory do without Chicagol
and what wdilld Chicago do without
her great slaughter houses thlrty IN hIliioer'
employing 81. ooh men, and shipping SS.OOO,-
600 worth of product every week! Nowhere
a,sa in tbe world can such slaughter houses
-. fo,,,,g5 -, haye I'm Chicago. where in a year
81 fsu8 hogs 3O0,0O0 cattle
and 50 0A1 sbee-, His establishment. which
covers d acres contains IS acres Of floor.
and olives employment to 5000 men, and
where swift k3lls 400, 900 cattle and ships
them all east in refrigerator cars.
Ono Of the biowonders of Chicago is the
Union Stoct Yards. which cover 400 acres OF
Ground with 1O0 acres under cover, and hay
mo a canacitv for 1SO. .000 head of hogs,
AZ 0O0 heed Of cattle and Is, 600 head of sheep,
and 100 miles Of railway track within its
limits. Here 1856. 100 cars of stock are emptied
every wear. SODO.OO0 animals in twelve
months. or more than 2, 600 every day-the
yalue of the whole being $2OO,O0O,00l It is
not easy to apa,reciate the vastness Of such
figures
The greatest humber yard in the world IS in
Chicago. Down east half acre covered
with boards is called n lumber yard. In
Chicago half acres are single stacks, and the
yards cover hundreds of acres A tract
mora than two miles long and from one-half
70 three-ouarterS of mile wide, skirting
rhicapo's unlovely but important river, Is
one vast lumber yard. piled high with the
products of the pineries The magnificent
foures in the stock account-650, I ,0O0, 900 feet
If sawed lumber and timber, SOC, ,000, 900
SHINGLES. 100 900 doc lath, etc-are almost be-
vond comprehension. but when it is stated
that this and neighboring yards con-
fAin enough material i'm lumber and tim
ber alone to lalI a sidewalk five feet wide
nro,nd the globe, some idea may be gained
If the imInensityI OF stock on hand in these
supply wards for the great west Out of Der
lumber and timber on hand Chicago could
build for herself a monument one-fifth Of
mile square and 100 feet higher than the
Washington monument, and with the shin
e'cs- -trrrci iatt she could surmount this great
rode tai with statue 100 feet square and
rnaahing 5000 feet toward the heavens,
here all good Chicago men hope to go.
Chicago has the biggest railways in the
world. The st. Paul now has greater mile
a~e than any other road in this or any other
country, ,OOe miles in all Two other roads
have more than 1900 miles each. Chicago
is the greatest railway center Twenty-one
railroads have teT1nini here, and their mile
age is q. 600, counting nothing east of Buffalo
or Pittsburg. The distinctively Chicago
roads have a greater number of miles of
track than any country in the world, save
only this These railroads are equipped with
5000 engines. $1,000 passenger coaches and
100000 freight cars Their rolling stock
would make a continuous train from this
city to the eastern frontier of Maine In no
less than forty days could a man travel over
all of the railroads whose metropolitan sta
ton is Chicago riding thirty miles an hour
and twenty -four hours day. Nearly one
quarter of all the railroad mileage of the
United States is in the systems directly
tributary to Chicago.
But grain elevators, live stock, slaughter
houses, lumber yards and railroads are nos
the only big things in which Chicago excels
Most people will. be surprised to learn that
the greatest STEEL works in America are In
Chicago. One-hhlf Of all the steel made In
the United st Ite' is the product of Illinois
mills and nine-tenths of the output in Illinois
is made in the works Of a Chicago company.
The vast steel works at South Chicago give
employment in busy seasons to 5000 men,
turn out 250. 600 tons of steel in year, using
$50 ship loads bf ore, 800 trains of coke Of
thirty cars each. 275 trains of coal, 135 trains
Of limestone and fifty trains of other mate
rial These works cost s., ,OOO, 900, and there
is nothing in Pennsylvania or any other state
to equal them i,E magnitude. 1t was in Chi
cago that the first steel rail was made on this
continent
The greatest industrial city in America Is
another of Chicago's big things Pullman is
more than toMn-it is complete, prosper
Gus city with many miles Of paved streets,
sewers, water works, bank. newspaper,
churches, opera house. library, market house.
schools-all ow1Aed by the Pullman company
Every foot Of ground in the place, every
house is owned by the company, and the
10000 inhabitants are mere tenants The
workmen at Pullman earn more than 81, ,000,-
600 year in wages. the average earnings
per year being k576. In PG:tInan the death
rate IS said to be The lowest in the world
Z per 600 per annum; while birth rate is
very high, 49, rer 1000
The largest ctfice building in the United
States is said to be the Chicago Opera house
block, which contains $40 rooms above the
basement, besides splendid opera house In
this building are more than 900 tenants and
their employees "a town under a single roof
Thers are dozen Office buildings in Chicago
that are almost as large as this one-soms OF
them twelve stories high
Some people 'Fil be surprised to learn, also
that in Chicago stands the greatest mercan-
tile building In America. IL is the dry goods
house OF Farwell & Co., 400 feet long and $50
feet wide and seven stories high. This struc-
ture contains, with its two basemt nts, twelve
acres OF floor space. But even this mammoth
does not satisfy Chicago's greed for the vast,
and another mercantile building to contain
something like twenty acres Of flooring, is
now rising out Rf the ground
II: this strip lhg city exists the firm, one Of
the slaughter and packing houses already
alluded to, which enjoys the distinction OF
selling goods OF great.r aggregate value per
year tilah any other mercantile or manufac-
turing mousse individual or corporate in
America
Tut let not the attentive and possibly dazed
rea'cr tnlnk tnat the only big things in this
clty are those devised for money getting.
chicago mas ting greatest park and boulevard
system IN the world North and south of the
city, ON tue Like shore, are two large and
beautiful parEti west OF the city are three
. ln"fe ana connecting them all are a series Of
magnificent bculevarls. set with traas o,,d
finely macadanized The parks alone contain
nearly 1900 acres of insnrova1 c,,,o,,,d -
are easily accessible from all ual.ts Of the citv
The boulevard system efItirelv s,,,.,.o,,r5s t6o
town with another leading from near tho
center of the city west to fiarfal5 narlr N
all there are lnore than fifty miles Of fine
drlveWays, SOV feet wide. Drexel boulevard
Is she fnest garden thoroughfare in the
New World, and the Shore dr;vo
upon the beach OF Lake Michigan, is without
rival among its kind Only one American
city, Phlladelphia, exeels Chicago in extent
Oh PARKS and FairmonIt park is inaccessible
70 t"o-thlrds OF the population Of that city.
more tne wonder, Chicago's parks have for
most part been built up ont of marshy wastes.
There Is seemingly no Iinait N the stria,