Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-10-12
Over Ninety.two Million Dollars Worth
Of Quick Assets On Hand
Just Now.
hot to Mention Fifty Millions Of Dollars
in Capital Stock All Paying
Dividends,
And Yet tho Board Of Assessors Gould Only
Find Three Millions to
Tax

Company, ana 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
ngcnts for Swift and Company, Of iii.
nois, In Germany.
Swift and Company, Of Illinois, are
said to own large blocks Of stock In
tho 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 Swlfts are said to own and
absolutely control LIBBY, Mcneil and
Libby, OF Maine; John r. Squire ana
Company, q New Jersey corporation,
with big packing plant In Cambridge,
Mass, and branches all over New Eng.
land: B0ston 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. Merwin Cpm.
pany. Worcester. Mass; Springfield
Provision Company, Springfield. Mas. ;
White, Percy and Dexter Company,
Worcester. Mass Halstead and Com.
pany. New York; G. H. Davis and Co.,
Norwich, Conn. Bimbler. Van Wage.
ncn and Company, Newark, New Jer.
sey.
The capital stock OF oil Of the above
corporations being owned In Chicago.
Why don't the people Of Chicago got
the benefit Of IT.
The Board Of Review certainly ought
to get enough out Of them to enable
tho city to equip good street car line
Armour and Company, big Chicago
and Illinois corporation, owns great
deal Of stock In outside corporations
Among others Armour and Company
Of New Jersey.
The following taken from pages c0l
and 202 Of the report Of the United
States Commissioner Of Corporations
tells Us something upon this subject
Tho New Jersey corporation wal
formed for the purpose Of transactinl
certain business which tho Illinois
corporation was not authorized t.
transact. Armour and Company, OF
New Jersey operates practically al
the branch houses for the sale Of beel
and other packing house products sup
piled by Armour and Company, Of I'LL
nols It also owns the Armour pack
Ing houses ut Sioux City and 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 10 merely neces
sary to take the accounts relating Il
the branch houses and those relating
to the Fort Worth and Sioux CIT!
packing hOussa The company, how
ever, IL q genuine one, having larg
actual assets OF Its own, not q 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 th
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 Car Lines Company-Nev
Jersey; e760.000 stock. Directors an
owners; J. Ogden Armour and ass'
> ciatss.
Armour Grain Company-Nsw Je
. sey; 100000 stock. Directors an
ownsu; J. Ogden Armour and ass
clates
National Packing Company-Ns
. Jersey; elB.000O00 stock. Director
Q and owners: J. Ogden Armour. L.
Swift. u. y. Swift. Ddwsrd Morri
. Ira n Morris, z. J. Connors. Thom'