The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-11

. NOFlneStern railroad depot ana When l
| attended the National fair in 1859 there
were but a very few houses on that side
of the river, and now it is one solid
mass of buildings five or six miles north
and west Of the wheel In 1860 Balti-
more's population was 212, Ais, st, Lou
is, 100, 773; New Orleans, 16S 675i Cincin-
natl, 1G1044, Chicago, 109, 26O. 1900,
Baltimore, sos, 957; st. Louis. 575,23S;
New Orleans, 2S7104; Cincinnati, $685.
502. Total Of the four cities, 1896 sol;
Chicago, 1,G9S,575.
Chicago in 1860 was the smallest by
fifty thousand or more of the five cities,
or but about a thousand more than
New Haven at the present time, and
now it is about two thousand more than
the four combined.
And now let US visit the Union stock
yards of Chicago. One square mile of
the city is given over to this food-pro-
ducing enterprise. A special railroad
runs through the yards, bringing live
stock in endless procession from the
plains and ranches of the west A sin
gle day. April 25, 1892, 32,677 cattle; Oc-
tober /, 1884, 31,334 sheep; February II,
1895, 74,551 hogs We're recsived. In the
year 1892, cattle, 3,571, 1856; in 1897 $685.
GAO sheep; in 1891, $500, sos hogs were re-
ceived; which, these items alone taken
together, exceed the combined popula-
ton of London, Paris, New York Chi
cago, Philadelphia and Boston. SO
many animals every year that we may
live! Take Swift & CO.'S figures of
facts for the year 1899: Sales, 100000
600; shipments, 1l0969 cars; refrigerator
cars, $500; other cars, 1,160; employees
1S,77S; weekly pay roll, $211 252,5O; man
ufactured product, 230, 1922 657; TBS. lard,
6,515,917; Tbs, wool, 3,925,SS2; lbs, Neat
foot OIL 62S5, 750; lbs. glue, 11,750l55;
lbs. butterine, 81, 1854, S46; lbs tallow and
grease, 60,037, $50; bis. oil, 80, 7S7, 407; lbs.
hides, 104,756,333; lbs fertilizer.
Largest number of animals handled
in one day--10,343 cattle, 1914 COZ sheep,
26S05 hogs; total, 56,S15; largest day
slaughtering of poultry, 29,S02
Then there is Libby, Mcneil & Lib
by, the worlds largest packers of
canned meats. Space occupied by
plant, six acres; total amount of floor
space 251a acres; capacity of cutting
floor $50 cattle per hour; number of
cattle slaughtered weekly, $4,000 The
refrigerating plant has a capacity of 100
tons per day. They put seventy-five
varieties of readyto-eat foods in tins
monthly output, 100000 cans number
of boxes of tinplate used annually, l50,
600; number people employed in the
Chicago plant $500; annual pay roll,
$100O,000. There are six hundred peo-
pie Dookkeepers, type-writers, &C., in
one room. have recorded a very small
of ~ hnci of "a
firm No person who goes to Chicago
should fail to visit this plant.
Now let us go on our visit, as l only
spent two days in Chicago. We next
arrive at kenosha, about fifty miles
above Chicago, a very pleasant city on
Lake Michigan, where we find friends,
who receive us very cordially, where
we spend one day. We then make our
way westward into the farming coun-
try. While we here in Connecticut
have prayed for rain, all through
northern Illinois and southern Wiscon-
sin they have had so much rain that
the farmers have not been able to get
in their oats They are out in the
shock at the present time. Passing on
through Bristol, Wis, where we again
find relatives; still pressing forward to
Rockford, ILL.,, where we find thriving
city The principal business is the
manufacturing of farming implements
and furniture, the place being situated
on both sides of the Rock river. After
spending two days there we take the
most superb train in the world ESQ they
claim for st. Paul and Minneapolis,
some four hundred miles distant. AL
though it was a night train, the moon
was full and we could see the surround
ing country very well. Striking the
Mississippi river at Savanna, we ride
along it's banks for nearly three hum
dred miles. About 100 to $50 miles be-
low ST. Paul the bluffs rise to a height
of three to four hundred feet and look
magnificent St Paul and Minneapolis
we find are very wide awake cities.
While staying there we had the privi- |
lege Of attending the Minnesota state
fair. The show of fruit was very fine.
There was large variety of agricul-
tural implements, but the show Of ami
mails, horses, cattle, sheep and hogs, +
was the best that | ever saw.
In visiting Pillsbury's flour mills ]
obtained the following facts: In mill
"a" there is one belt that Is 1886 feet
long and weighs eight tons, with 1900
horse power. They have just added
$150000 worth of new and most ap-
proved machinery and new belt 425
feet long, weighing eleven tons, 1000
horse power; cost of belt, $500. The
daily production of this mill is $4,000
barrels of flour, using $4,000 bushels of
wheat, 400 men employed night and
day; the five mills employ 1,175 men;
capacity $4,000 barrels of flour daily;
eight million bags of flour, of 10 Tbs.
each, We're sent to Lord Roberts in At
RIGA; three men will head up 400 barrels
per day; six men 1000 sacks per day,
241a TBS each, capacity $4,000 per day;
shipment 65 carloads daily. The logs
are floated down the river to this point
and made into RATS and then floated on
down the river to the cities along the
banks. The famous Minnehaha Falls
are about six miles from Minneapolis
and the scenery is very fine at that
plac. There is quite large park there
also, making a delightful place for the
city people to go, there being an elec-
trio road between the two places. Fort
Smelling is about two miles from the
falls, and there is also a soldiers home
about one-half q mile from the falls.
After spending three days in Minneap-
oils and St Paul we strated on our way
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