Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-02-07
Predominant Industry Of Chicago
Is Strengthening Business.
According to Statistics Of the Depart
ment Ct Commerce at Washington,
the Windy City's Products in This
Line Exceeds All Others.

Washiugton.-The predominant in
dustry Of the city of Chicago remains
slaughtering and meat packing, &C
cording 10 statistics made public here
by the department Of commerce.
The metropolitan district Of Chi
cago embraces 409.0S7 acres OF terri
tory. Of which 1898 acres consti-
tute the area of Chicago and 29O,654
acres the area of the outside terri
tory" reads the report. The popula-
ton of the city of Chicago proper in
1910 was 2,lS5.283. and that Of the
outside territory POI ,63S, the total for
the district being 2,446,92l
AS defined at the census OF 1910,
the METROPOLITAN district INCLUDES the
central city, together with Berwyn'
Bloom, Calumet, Cicero, Evanston
Lyden. Lyons. Maine, New Trier'
Niles, Norwood Park. Oak Park, Pro
viso, Ridgeville Riverside, Suckney'
Thornton and Worth townships, all IN
Cook county. H., and Calumet and
North townships in Lake county, Ind.
Within these townships, or coexten-
sive with them. there are seven IN
corporated places of 10000 or more
inhabitants
In 1909 the Chicago district had
1O.2O2 manufacturing establishments
which gave employment to an aver
age of 393.S59 persons during the year.
and paid out $3.50, 626,915 in salaries
and wages. OF the persons employ
ed. 325. 924 were wage earners. Ihese
establishments turned out products to
the value of 81 ,40S, 779,S1S, to produce
which materials costing 1870, 5s6,56l
we're utilized The value added by
manufacture was thus 536,193,257.
The Chicago district ranked sec
ond in 1909 among all the metropoh
, tan districts of the United States IN
the value of its manufactured proc
ucts. 1t far exceeded any OF them IL
value of products of the slaughterlhs
and meat packing industry.
In the Chicago district, as in al
, but two of the districts, the greater
, part of the value of the manufacturer
, products was reported by factories
, within the central city. Chicago con
= tanned nearly nine-tenths 1913 pc
! cent of the population of the district
, of which it is the manufacturing, com
= mercial and financial center, and con
tributed over nine-tenths 5000 pc
4 cent? of the value of products. 1t
, manufacturing establishments const
4 tuted 94.6 per cent. of all in the dis
? trict, and gave employment to 9O-
v per cent. of the average number @
/ wage earners for that area.
V "Of the places outside Chicago
n Hammond reported the largest valu
. of products, but this value representa-
u only one per cent of the total for tn
s metropolitan district. The populatio
= of this city formed only nine-tenths
i one per cent of the total in the Oil
trict.
q The leading industries in Chlcag
It Heights in 1909 were foundries an
g. machine shops, steel works and rol
1t ing mills, and steam railroad car CO.
a. struction shops. The production {
lie Illuminating gas occupied first place
al Oak Park. In Gary Ind, three esta
USHulGulS, Il 6NCGi plohtS q A'S-SN -
" mace and a cement factory, named
lie the order of their importance, togeth'
r. contributed nearly the total value
e. the manufactured products Of the cit
The principal industries of Hammer
were distilleries, steam railroad repa
shops, and foundries and machil
shops. The manufacture of iron al
steel was the leading industry in Ea
Chicago. An important industri
place, the statistics for which are n
=, shown separately, is Indiana Harbt
- Ind. with large steel works and 70
In ing mills.
= The figures shown for slaughteri
and meat packing are for Chicago
clusively, one small establishment
1909 engaged in the manufacture
Tx sausage in the territory outside Z
cago being excluded TO avoid discl'
he ing the operations of individual CT
es Germs. The 81 establishments in Z
cago in 1909 reported products valu
at s325.O6l,65 or 231 per cent.
the value of products of all lnd
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