Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-27

ginla, which operates many branches
In several different States for selling
beef. pork, mutton, canned goods ETC..
etc.
Swift and Company, Of New York,
which controls a large number Of
branch houses In the State Of New
York, oil doing big business.
Swift Fertilizer Works, engaged in
manufacturing fertilizers In the State
Of Georgia.
Swift Refrigerator Transportation
Company, and Swift Live Stock Trans
portation Company. corporations Of tho
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
sud to own large blocks Of stock In
the Union Stock Yards Company, Of
Omaha, the Kansas City Stock Yards
Company, tho Fort Worth Stock Yards
Company. the st. Joseph Stock Yards
Company and the st. Paul Union Stock
Yards Company.
Besides tho corporations already
named, the Swifts are said to own and
absolutely control Libby. Mcneil and
Libby, Of Maine; John +. Squire and
Company, a New Jersey corporation.
with big packing plant In Cambridge.
Mass, and branches all over Now Eng
land; Boston Packing and Provision
Company, Of Massachusetts; New Eng
land Dressed Meat and Wool Company,
Of Maine; North Packing aud Provision
Company, Of Maine; Spcrry and Barnes
Company, OF Connecticut; Sturtcvant
and Haley. Of Boston +. Mcrwln Com.
pany, Worcester. Mass; Springfield
Provision Company. Springfield, Mass. {;
White, Percy and Dexter Company.
Worcester. Mass. Halstead and Com.
pany, New York; q. II. Davis and Co.,
Norwich, Conn. Biinblcr. Van Wage.
men and Company, Newark. New Jer.
sey.
The cnpital 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. a big Chicago
and Illinois corporation, owns great
deal Of stock In outside corporations.
Among others Armour and Company,
of New Jersey.
Tho following taken from pages POI
and 202 Of the report OF the United
States Commissioner Of Corporations,
tells us something upon this subject
'.rhe New Jersey corporation was
formed for the purpose Of transact!ng
certain business which the Illinois
corporation was not authorized ia
transact. Armour and Company, OF
New Jersey operates practically al
the branch houses for tho sale Of beef
and other packing house products sup
piled by Armour and Company, Of I'LL
nOis. It also owns the Armour pack
Ing houses at Sioux City aud 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. 10 ascertain
the business transactions OF the New
Jersey corporation, 1t Ia merely neces
sary to take the accounts relating u
the branch houses and those relatin,
to the Fort Worth and Sioux Cit!
packing houses The company. how
ever, Is a genuine one. having larg
actual assets Of its own, not a mer
paper name. 1t has no separate book
and no profits separate from those az
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 Tx
/ to ask where our Board Of Assessor
] and Board Of Review have beenf
] And then the following might clair
. the attention of the Board Of Review
Armour Gar Lines Company-NeV
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