The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-29

the hungry of this country and the Old World
something like 125, 00) 900 pounds Of fresh
beef 10 900 900 of salt beef, 80, 00l 900 of pork,
SD, 900 of bacon and hams, and ESQ.,
100000 of lard What would the
worlds hungry do without Chicagol
and what would Chicago do without |
her great slaughter houses, thirty in number |
employing 5000 mon, AMI shipping $1,000 |
900 worth of product every weekl Nowhere
else in the world can such slaughter houses
be found as here in Chicago where in year |
Armour kills 100000 hogs, 100000 cattle
and $4,000 sheep His establishments which
covers "a acres, contains 65 acres of floor, |
and gives employment to 5000 men, and
where Swift kills 100000 cattle and ships
them all east in refrigerator cars.
One of the big wonders of Chicago is the
Union Stock yards which cover 400 acres OF
ground, with 100 acres under cover, and hav
ing capacity for 10000 head of hogs,
A. 900 head of cattle and Is 900 head of sheep,
and 100 miles of railway track within its
limits Here lS5,OOO cars of stock are emptied
every year 100000 animals in twelve
months, or more than 92,0GO every day-the
value of the whole being s200OO0,0O0. 1t is
not easy to appreciate the vastness of such
figures
The greatest lumber ward in the world is in
CHICAGO Down east n half acre covered
with boards is callel n lumber ward. III
Chicago half acres ara single stacks, and the
wards cover hundreds of acres A tract
more than two miles long and from one-half
to three quarters of mile wide sllirting
Chicago's unlovely but important river, is
one vast lumber yard, piled high with the
products of the pineries. The magnificent
| figures i'm the stock ACCOMPLISH, 00O, 900 feet
of sawed lumber and timber, 100000 900
shingles, 100 600 900 lath, etc are almost be-
vond connrehension. Int when i; is stated
| that this and neighboring wards CON
tain enough material in lumber and tim
Der alone to Law a sidewalk five feet wide
around the globe. some idea NAV be gained
of the immensity of stock on hand in these
| supply wards for the great west Out of her
lumber and timber or hand Chicago could
build for herself m onument one-ffth of a
mile square and 100 feet higher than the
Washington monument, and with the shin
giles and lath she could surmount this great
PEDESTAL with statue 100 feet square and
reaching $4,000 feet toward the heavens
where all good Chicago men hope to 90.
Chicago has the biggest railways in the
world. The st. Paul now has greater mile
age than any other road in this or any other
country-5. 900 miles in all Two other roads
have more than 1000 miles each Chicago
is the greatest railway center Twenty-one
railroads have termini here, and their mile.
age is Is. OOO counting nothing east of Buffalo
or Pittshurg The distinctivelv Chicago
roads |, Y, a greater number of miles OF
track than any country in the world save
only this These RAILROADS.&C. are equipped with
5000 engines, 5000 passenger coaches and
200 900 freight cars. Their rolling stock
would make a continuous train from this
CITY to the eastern frontier of Maine. In nc
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 a 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 wards and railroads are MOI
the only big things in which Chicago excels
Most people will be surprised to learn thai
the greatest steel works in America are il
Chicago. Onq-half of an the steel made il
, the United State, is the product Of Illinois
mills, and nine -tenths of the output in Illinoi
> is made in the works of Chicago company
The vast steel works at South Chicago Civ
v employment in busy seasons to 5000 men
turn out $50, 600 tons of steel in year, usin
{ $50 ship loads of ore, 500 trains Of coke O
: thirty cars each, 275 trains of COAL 135 train
a of limestone and fifty trains Of other mats
rial These works cost SO, 0OO,0O0 and Their
/ is nothing in Pennsylvania or any other stat
A to equal them in magnitude. 1t was In Chi
D cago that the first steel rail was made on thi
continent
: The greatest industrial city In America
another I, Chicagos big things. Pullman 1
more than town--it is complete, prosper
t Gus city, with many miles Of paved streets
' sewers, water works, bank newspaper
1 churches, opera house, library, market house
| schools-all owned by the Pullman company
, Every foot of ground in the place, ever
| house is owned by the company, and tn
5 10000 inhabitants are mere tenants TIL
3 workmen at Pullman earn more than 81, 900
, 600 a year in wages, the average earning
per year being 1910 In Pullman the deaf
; rate is said to be the lowest in the worlt
7per 900 per annum; while birth rate
S very high, 461G per 1000.
The largest office building in the Unite
7 States Is said to be the Chicago Opera hous
] block, which contains $40 rooms above I'll
s basement besides splendid opera house.