Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-27
While Armour & Company Have a Soap
Plant Worth Mint Of
Money.
Some Prominent Men that the Board Of
Review Ought to Obtain Informa-
ton From.

Armour 4 Company. that great cor.
poration that Chicago Is 80 proud Of.
has been grossly insulted by the Board
Of Assessors
Tho Assessors reported that they
could only find s2.5OO.OOo worth Of per-
sonal property belonging to Armour 4
Company In Chicago.
Why the Armour soap plant alone,
which Is furnishing tho world with
Ponds Extract Soap and other brands
Of fine washing material, Is worth g..
100000.
Yet the soap plant is very insis.
nlfcant part Of tho Armour holdings,
which embrace over a score Of other
important Industries.
OF course the soap plant should not
be bellttied, for the Pullman Company
now uses Armour's individual soap
cakes" on all Of Its palace cars and
rumor had It the other day that the
Pullman Company itself was going ia
become one OF tho cOgs In the Armour
system.
Personal property Of the big corpora.
ton known rs Swift and Company has
Ocen assessed this year by the Board
of Assessors at $3,OOO,O0O.
Personal property Of the big cor
poratlon known as Armour and Com
pany has been assessed this year by
thu Board Of Assessors ut $2,0OO,OOO
J. Ogden Armour and the estate OF
the late +. ID. Armour possess together
Just 100000 Of taxable personal prop
erty according to figures given out by
the Board Of Assessors this year.
G. II. Swift IL assessed at $oOO.OOC
and Edward Il. Swift at $4,000.
Louis +. Swift Is probably assessed
on his personal property In Lake For
est as he lives Mt Lake Forest.
J. Ogden Armours personal assess
ment Is based on the Ownerahlp Of
$4,000 worth Of personal property.
The Armour estate Ia assessed on
100000 worth Of personal property.
The Marshall Field estate IL assessed
at Sl3,33O.726.
But Marshall Field IL dead.
The Probate Court seems to 10 bettel
at discovering personal property, thar
the Board Of Assessors.
When Field was living he only PAID
personal taxes on f2,60O,OOO.
o. w. POtter's estate Is assessed a.
100000 this year.
Last year Il was assessed at $4,000
by the way, what about the p. d
Armour, Jr., estate? We mover hea
anything about the personal taxes Of
that very valuable piece Of prObate'
personality. How 10 this, Board Of Re
view?
Swift and Company, the corporation
should pay taxes on Its $6O,OOO.O
capital stock according to the laws o
Illinois.
The assessors have listed its per
sonal holdings at only $3,OOO,OOO.
Nor IL this all
Swift and Company, Of Illinois, tina
great corporation capitalized for $50
100000 should pay taxes on every do
lars worth of stock 1t owns In fOrelg
corporations.
Has the Board Of Review ever take
any steps to ascertain how much tn
corporation or Its officers own In Col
porations outside the State?
Perhaps we may help them by quo
Ing the following list Of outside col
p0rations owned by Swift and Con
pany, of Illinois, according to the n
port of the United States Commission
or Of Corporations:
Swift and Company, Of Maine. a Co
poration which sells the output Of Swii
and Company, Of Illinois, In the Ne
England States and parts OF New Vol
and New Jersey. and owns contro
ling interest In the firms OF the Swi
Beef Company, Of Boston; q. =. an
d. @. Swift, Boston; q. =. Swift an
Company, Boston, and N. d. Holl
and Company, Boston. Massachusetts
Swift and Comnany. of West vi