Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-24


portatlon 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 I'LL.
nols, 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 aud
Libby, Of Maine; John p. Squire and
Company, q New Jersey corporation.
with 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; spcrry and Barnes
Company, of Connecticut; Sturtevant
and Haley. Of Boston; r. Merwin Com.
pany, Worcester, Mass; Springfield
Provision Company, Springfield. Mass.
White, Percy and Dexter Company.
Worcester, Mass. Haistead and Com.
pany, New York; c. II. Davis and Co.,
Norwich. Conn.,: Bimbler. Van Wage.
men and Company, Newark, New Jer.
sey.
Tho capital stock Of all Of the above
corporations being owned In Chicago
Why don't the people Of Chicago gel
the benefit Of it2
The Board Of Review certainly ought
to get enough out Of them to enable
the city to equip good street car line
Armour ana Company, a big Chicago
and Illinois corporation, owns a great
deal Of stock In outside corporations
Among others Armour and Company
of New Jersey.
The following taken from pages 90
and 202 Of the report Of the Unitet
States Commissioner Of Corporations
tells Us something upon this subject
'.rhe New Jersey corporation wal
formed for the purpose Of transactinI
certain business which the Illinoi
corporation was not authorized Il
transact. Armour aud 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
nois. 1t also owns the Armour pack
Ing houses at Sioux City and For
Worth. For convenience the account
Of Armour and Company, Of New Jer
sey are carried ON the books of Arm0u
and Company, Of Illinois. To ascertain
the business transactions OF the New
Jersey corporation, 1t 10 merely neces
sary to take the accounts relating +
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. II has no separate book
and no profits separate from those al
pearing In the accounts Of Armour an
Company, OF Illinois"
After reading the above from til
report of the United States C0mmi,
sioner of Corporations, we would llli
to ask where our Board of Assessor
and Board Of Review have been?
And then the following might clail
the attention Of the Board Of Review
; Armour Car Lines Company-Ne'
Jersey; $75O.O0O stock. Directors an
owners; ]. Ogden Armour and ass
, ciates.
Armour Grain Company-New Je
, sey; 100000 stock. Directors an
owners: ]. Ogden Armour and dss
clates.
National Packing Company-Ns
|, Jersey; $15,OOOyOOO stock. Dlrecto
. and owners: ]. Ogden Armour. L.
Swift. u. F. Swift. Edward MorrI
. Ira NJ Morris. 7. ]. Connors. Thorn