Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-02-27
Predominant Industry Of Chicago
Is SIauqhtering Business.

According to stetlstIes Of the Depart
ment Of Commerce At Washington,
the Windy city's Products In This
Line Exeseds Al Others.
Washington.-The predominant In
dustry Of the city of Chicago remains
slaushtering and meat packing. ae
cording to statistics made public here
by the department Of commerce.
THE metropolitan district Of Chi.
cago embraces 409.0s7 acres Of terri
tory. Of which 11S.433 acres consti.
tute the area Of Chicago and 290.65l
acres the area of the outside terri.
tory" reads the report The popula-
ton Of the city Of Chicago proper in
1910 was 2.1S6.283. and that Of the
outside territory 261.63S. the total for
the district being 2.446.921..
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. Stickney,
Thornton and Worth townships. all In
Cook county. ILL.,. and Calumet and
North townships in Lake county. Ind.
Within these townships, or coexten.
sive with them, there ara seven In
corporated places Of 10000 or more
Inhabitants.
In 1909 the Chicago district had
10.z02 manufacturing establishments,
which gave employment to an aver.
age Of 3s3. $50 persons during the year.
and paid out s266.e26.s15 in salaries
and wages OF the persons employ.
Cd. 325.s24 we're wage earners. These
establishments turned out products Ia
the value Of $1.40s.77s.s 1s. to produce
which materials costing $S70.6ss. 561
were utilized. The value added BY
manufacture was thus 536.193,257.
The Chicago district ranked sec
ond In 1909 among all the metropolis
tan districts Of the United States In
the value Of its manufactured prod
ucts. 1t far exceeded any Of them in
value Of products Of the slaughtering
and meat packing industry.
In the Chicago district, a. in all
but two Of the districts. the greater
part of the value Of the manufactured
products was reported by factories
within the central city. Chicago con-
tanned nearly nine-tenths 1913 per
cent Of the population Of the district.
Of which It II the manufacturing. com
mercial and financial center. and con-
tributed over nine-tenths (90.9) Der
cent? of the value of products. Its
manufacturing establishments consti-
tuted 94.6 per cent. Of all in the dis
trict. and gave employment to s02
per cent. OF the average number Of
wage earners for that area.
"Of the places outside Chicago.
Hammond reported the largest value
Of products, but this value represented
only one per cent Of the total for the
metropolitan district, The population
Of this city formed only nine-tenths Of
one per cent. of the total in the dis
trict,
The leading industries In : Chicago
Heights in 1909 we're foundries and
machine shops, steel works and roll
ing mills. and steam railroad car con-
struction shops. The production of
Illuminating gas occupied FIRST place in
Oak Park. In Gary. Ind. three estab-
lishnents. . steel plant, . blast fur.
mace and . cement factory. named In
the order Of their importance, together
contributed nearly the total value Of
the manufactured products Of the city.
The principal Industries Of Hammond
were distilleries, steam railroad repair
shops. and foundries and machine
shops. The manufacture Of iron and
steel was the leading industry in East
Chicago. An important industrial
place. the statistics for which are not
shown separately. ID Indiana Harbor.
Ind. with large steel works and roll.
ing mills.
The figures shown for slaughtering
and meat packing are for Chicago en-
clusively. one small establishment In
1909 engaged In the manufacture Of
sausage In the territory outside Chi
cago being excluded to avoid disclos-
ing the operations Of individual con-
Germs. The 81 establishments In Chi
caso in 1909 reported products valued
at $325.061. 657. or 23.1 per cent. Of
the value Of products Of al indus