Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-11-02
Over Ninety.two Million Dollars Worth
Of Quick Assets On Hand
Just Now.
Not to Mention Fifty Millions of Dollars
in Capital Stock All Paying
Dividends,
And Yet the Board Of Assessors Gould Only
Find Three Millions to
Tax.

Company, ana Swift Lave 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 HI.
noia In Germany.
Swift and Company, Of Illinois, ars
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 81 Joseph Stock Yards
Company and the 81. 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 +. Squire and
Company, q New Jersey corporation.
with . BIG packing plant IN Cambridge.
Masa, and branches al over New Eng.
land: Boston Packing and Provision
Company, Of Massachusstts: New Eng.
land Dressed Meat and Wool Company.
Of Maine; North Packing and Provision
Company, Of Maine; 8perry and Barnes
Company, Of Connecticut; Sturtsvaut
and Haley, Of Boston; p. Msrwin Qpm.
pany, Worcester. Masa; Springfield
Provision Company. Springfield. Man. /;
white. Percy and Dexter Company,
Worcester, MasA Halstead and Com.
pany. New York; G. H. Davis and Co..
Norwich, Conn; Bimbler. Van Wage.
men and Company. Newark, New Jer.
my.
THE capital stock Of all Of the above
corporations being owned In Chicago.
Why don't the people Of Chicago get
the benefit Of 1T
The Board Of Review certainly ought
to Get enough out Of them to enable
the city to equip good street car line.
Armour and Company. q 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 29l
and zoe Of the report Of the United
States Commissioners Of Corporations.
tells 10 something upon this subject:
The New Jerssy corporation was
formed for the purposs Of 1ansacting
certain business which the Illinois
corporation was not authorised to
transact. Armour and Company, Of
New Jersey operates practically all
the branch houses for the sale Of beet
and other packing house products sup.
piled by Armour and Company, of I'LL.
nOiG II also owns the Armour pack.
Ing houses at Sioux CITY and Fort
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, II u merely neces-
sary to take the accounts relating to
the branch houses and those relating
to the Fort Worth aud Sioux City
packing houses The company. how.
ever. Is a genuine one. having large
actual assets Of its own, not q mere
paper name. 1t has no separate books
and no profits separate from those ap-
pearlng In the accounts of Armour and
Company, Of Illinois"
After reading tho above from the
report Of the United States Commits.
sioner Of Corporations, we would like
to ask where our Board Of Assessors
and Board Of Review have been?
And then the following might claim
the attention Of the Board of Review:
Armour Gar Lines Company-New
Jersey; $750OO0 stock. Directors and
owners; J. Ogden Armour and asso-
clates.
Armour Grain Company-New Jer-
sey; 100000 stock. Directors and
owners: J. Ogden Armour and asso-
ciates.
National Packing Company-Nsw
Jersey; $l5,OOO.OO0 stock. Directors
and owners: ]. Osien Armour, L. r.
Swift, II. f. Swi :. Edward Morris,
Ira N. Norris, T. j. Connors, Thomas