Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-11-30

Company, anti Swift Live Stock Trans
portation Company, corporations Of the
State Of Maine.
Swift Beef Company, Limited, do.
Ing business In Great Britain.
Swift Packing Company, selling
agents for Swift and Company, Of iii.
nois, In Germany.
Swift and Company. Of Illinois, are
said to own large blocks Of stock In
the Union Stock Yards Company, Of
Omaha, the Kansas City Stock Yards
Company, the Fort Worth Stock Yards
Company, the st. Joseph Stock Yards
Company and the st. Paul Union Stock
Yards Company.
Besides the corporations already
named, the Swifts are said to own and
absolutely control LIBBY, Mcneil and
Libby, Of Maine; John p. Squire and
Company. a New Jersey corporation,
with a big packing plant In Cambridge,
Mass, and branches oil over New Eng.
land: Boston Packing and Provision
Company, Of Massachusetts; New Eng.
land Dressed Meat and Wool Company,
Of Maine; North Packing and Provision
Company. Of Maine; sperry and Barnes
Company, Of Connecticut; Sturtevant
and Haley. Of Boston; r. Merwln Cpm.
pany, Worcester. Mass; Springfield
Provision Company. Springfield. Mass.
White, Percy and Dexter Company,
Worcester, Mass. Halstead and Com.
pany. New York; G. II. Davis and Co.,
Norwich. Conn.,: Bimbler, Van Wage.
men ana Company, Newark, New Jer'
sey.
The capital stock of all Of the above
corporations being owned In Chicago
Why don't tho people Of Chicago gel
the benefit Of It?
The Board Of Review certainly ought
to get enough ont Of them to enable
the city to equip good street car line
Armour and Company, big Chicago
and Illinois corporation, owns q great
deal Of stock In outside corporations
Among others Armour and Company
Of New Jersey.
The following taken from pages @0l
and ?O2 Of the report Of the United
States Commissioner Of Corporations
tells US something upon this subject
The New Jersey corporation wal
formed for the purpose Of transactlni
certain business which the Illlnoi'
corporation was not authorized b
transact. Armour and Company, O.
New Jersey operates practically al
the branch houses for the sale Of bee
and other packing house products sup
piled by Armour and Company, Of I'LL
nOls. It also owns the Armour pack
Ing houses at Sioux City aud For
Worth. For convenience the accounts
Of Armour and Company, OF New Jer
sey are carried on the books Of Armour
and Company, Of Illinois. To ascertain
the business transactions OF the New
Jersey corporation, It u merely noces
sary to take the accounts relating Il
the branch houses and those relating
to the Fort Worth and Sioux CIT!
packing houses. The company, how
ever, Is a genuine one, having larry
actual assets Of Its own, not a merv
paper name. 1t has no separate book
ana no profits separate from those M
pearlng In the accounts Of Armour AM
Company, of, Illinois"
After reading the above from tn
report OF the United States Commits
sioner of Corporations. we would lik
to ask where our Board Of Assessor
and Board of Review have been?
And then the following might clain
the attention of the Board Of Review
Armour Car Lines Company--Ney
Jersey; $75O.OOO stock. Directors an
owners; ]. Ogden Armour and assc
elates.
Armour Grain COmpeny-New Jel
sey; $1.O0O.000 stock. Directors an
owners: ]. Ogden krmolr and dssc
ciates.
National Packing Company-Ns,
Jersey; $l5.OO0.000 stock. Director
and owners; ]. Ogden Armour, L. ]
swift. p. r. Swift. Edward Morril
- N. Horris. T. ]. Counors, Thoma