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MORNING, JULY S. 1003.
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-Eii ' ,Tr?- 1 - in
St Paul and Other Cities
Bent Upon Exciting Gov
ernment Interest in Wat
erways Position of Rail
road Companies.
- (Staff Correspondence of The Journal.)
. 6t Paul, Minn., July 4. Here and In
La Crosse, Dubuque and other river
towns demand Is strong for the crea
: 'tlon of -a six-foot channel In the Mis
sissippi to St. Louis; farther east, par
ticularly In New Tork, business men
.' couldn't see the rationale of the plan to
improv the Father of Vaters colncl-
dentally, the deepening; of "the Mlssis
. alppt will affect somewhat the cotnmer-
' clal supremacy of New York and Boston.
. If there be logical connection between
: these facts, one must make his own con
sections.
PODle hereabouts Ion aao were con.
; verted to the doctrines of utilization of
' 'waterways Inland, although they have
been content with using the Great Lakes
and have permitted the Mississippi and
Missouri to remain a mere system of
v watersheds, valueless lu late years to
- commerce.
Talking; with a prominent wholesale
man In St. Paul, and seeking light why
there had .not been more insistence on
- the deepening of the Mississippi, he
said:
Control Appropriations.
'I don't like to be negative and to
kick'; but the -truth Is that the rail
roads largely controlled the approprla-
tion of money in Washington for these
'XBtposet, and it has -been well-nigh im
possible to force Inland Improvements
' . through. That's one reason, and the
other was that this entire nation
' thought the use of waterways was too
: slow for these enterprising days, and we
negiectea Dettermeni or toe waterways
- until we awoke to two truths that the
roads were unable to transport freight
In normal business times, but got so
congested that goods laid piled up at
terminals, and that water carrying is
really as rapid as freight, on the aver-
Thls la a snapshot taken at New Haven of William H. Taft and J. Pierpont Morgan, In gown and cap aa
they marched to Woolsej hall, where the honorary degree of LL. D. was conferreO upon Mr. Morgan.
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An Interesting Analysis of
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College Graduates.
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This last assertion has been made so
t of ten that It seemed worth Investiga
tion, so I went at It to get some facts.
Here Is what I found:,
The steel (.trust, for instance, beats
the railroads for, speed in getting iron
. ore from the mines In northern Minne
sota to Erie or Illinois points on the
Great Lakes. Not only do the boats
carry ore cheaper, far cheaper, but they
i get tne ore over course tn much
less than a' week, when freight cars
have moved In late years only about 24
miles a day on the average, which would
require something like 40 days for 1,000
miles by rail for the same distance.
Cpming up the liXkes, seeing the facil
ities Installed by the steel trust for the
expedition of freight, one realizes how
much superior are the waterways prop
erly used to the rail transportation. Xt
and this side of the Sault Bte. Marie,
the Steel trust built coal bunkers In Jha
''"exact line" of the steamers' course, so
that they need not be taken one mile
A towards land to the , bunkers formerly
used, and this expensive bit of work
was merely to cut off a few minutes on
the time of each boat going and coming.
At the Sault one saw ore-laden steam
ers leave the locks and steam eastward
without stopping for supplies, so that a
few minutes might be saved, and a small
aupply steamer ran out from the dock,
made fast alongside, unloaded the sup
plies, and then, casting loose, returned
: to the dock to await another of th
, trust's ore boats.
Boats of takes.
, One hundred f these re boats ply
the waters of the Great Lakes and no
expense is spared to save time and per
mit them to keep steadily on their
courses, carrying the rich Minnesota
ores to the points of manufacture east
ward. 'Furthermore, the transfer of other
freight in terminals has reached what
seems to be the limit of present in
: ventive genius, and railroad men paua,
doubting what next to do to rellevd the
congestion, or what would be the con
gestion in normal times. In Chicago
- there is the ever-present problem of a
city built on piles offering difficulties
to the builder of subways, which will
be the resort in other cities. An.l Chi-
" cago, being the greatest rail center in
the world, must be taken Into account
7 In all rail problems.
But elsewhere, the question of ter
minals bothers the railroad engineer and
traffic manager and superintendent of
; operation, and none knows how to solve
It
I talked with railroad men down In
the yards, both officials and operators,
eind this is what one experienced man
aid:
"A fast freight will leave Pittsburg,
run an average of 26 miles an hour to
Chicago, make the same time lx-tween
that city and gt Paul, and between St.
Paul and some point to 'ne westward,
yet so long delay will be caused In
- transfer points that the average lime
.of the train from origination to desti
nation will be one mile an hour, during
fierlods when trade is normal, which it
s not now, by more than 25 per cent.
"It isn't additional traoks end more
engines we need, but it's terminals
through which we can get freigh. quick
ly. "Personally, I see no relief excepting
through improved waterways. Our su-1
perlor officers in the railroads have I
jaugnea at tne errorts-or those who have
wrought for improvement of -.he water
ways, cut those same railroad cfflcials
have failed dismally to provide adequate
aavtuiiw lur mo irannmi?io:i or rreignt.
"Let me call your -mention to thls-r-railroad
officials cUlrn that the conges
. tion came on them suddenly, catching
them unawares and that they are !iaine
less for being unprepared. The truth'
. 1 that five, 10 and 15 years ago freight
was carried to Portland from Chicago
In never less than 30 days, notwith
standing through freight should re
quire no more than ID days, or an av
erage of 10 miles an hour.
Some glow Freight.
"We have reports that freight from
Cleveland to New Tork city lately took
three months. Indian packers would
have beat that time.
"It's all on account of the terminals
SM I cannot see much permanent re
lief, and look for a repititlon of ex
perience we had up to fan O-oi-er so
soon as business reaumes normality
a (tain. j '
On every hand, nowadays, one bears 1
demands for the deepening of the
waterways, and also not lnfreouentlv ! M
expressions of preference for the ex-
peodlture of public money on such lm- I
provementa Instead of for tie enlarge-'
ment of tb military eetabilnmnt l.y
as much each year ae would carry out
the river and harbor Improvement i
scheme of the Natieael River A Mrv
congreaa i,0.4 a er for ii '
7e? . "l,-?261 nel from beret
w le.tvv.ei, ad
te make It 14 feet from there to the eea
would eoet aa mack more. Then soma
bealihful legislation aa4 )at coortU
terpretatlon as te monopoly of ahera
rihte by trana porta u orwnpenlee Ov.
railreada have gobble aU useful land-1-
riaee from here te New Origan
would permit ike dsreispiusat ef rim
t rai(Mf-taUo hum p rev eat fatura
cof-feUoa of freight.
It U tw WeU keeww that aa Irant
wtU be raised betweea the t we parties
rt the queetlnei aa te expenditure ef
f ind for military porpneve ea4 their
i fir wsterway Improvement. Majiyts
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f-wrce ,ef ltnwrtaBt saevement
p.. I pet e taasrerea r CrlcOoiw
Statistics showing the various occu
pations'1 chosen by the various college
graduates of this year have been se
cured by the Times of New York,
Business claims the larger proportion
of the Harvard graduates, 183 of whom
have' designated that aa their chosen
calling. Law comes next, 94 of the
young men meaning to take up that profession-
62 will go in for engineering;
47 will qualify as teachers; 32 will
Btudy medicine; 16 will go into chemis
try, and 14 Into manufacturing Indus
tries. Thirteen have a liking for archi
tecture and the same unlucky number
mean to experiment with Journalism.
Forty-eight have selected miscellaneous
occupations, and sixty-nine are unde
cided. Vocations of Princeton ilea.
' Princeton statistics show that the av
erage age of graduation of members of
the class of 1908 Is 22 years. 7 months
and 8 days. The class contains 143
Republicans, 61 Democrats, 6 Prohibi
tionists and 3 independents. Religious
preferences are as follows:
Presbyterian St), Episcopal 48, Metho
dist 22, Congregationallst 8, Catholic 8,
Baptist 6, Unitarian 3, Jew 3. Mormon
2, Unlversalist 1, Christian 1. Lutheran
1, Agnostic 1, Christian Science 1, Spir
itualist 1, no preference 4.
The vocations which the Princeton
men will pursue are aa follows:
Business 66, law 61, civil engineering
22, manufacturing 17, ministry 10. elec
trical engineering 9, medicine 7, Jour
nalism 6, teaching 6, real estate 8, brok
erage 3, banking S, architect 3, mining
L', reporter 2, mining engineer 1, diplo
mat L publisher 1, Young Men's Chris
tian Association secretary 1, politics 1,
railways 1, financier 1, astronomer 1,
illustrator 1, lumber business 1, loafing
1, gentleman of leisure 1, second-story
man 1.
Wistory was the favorite study with
the Princeton graduates. English was
second, politics third and science
fourth
Tennyson is the favorite poet, with
Kippling second, Byron third. BasebaJl
is the favorite sport. 64 voting for It,
tennis is second with 86 adherents, and
football third with 27. Wellesley is the
favorite woman's college.
Beven of the Princeton clasa sup
ported themselves wholly while in col
egle, 68 supported themselves in part,
S7 won literary prizes and 62 athletic
prizes.
Of the Yale graduates business claims
86, law 69, teaching 29 banking 23. med
icine 16, engineering 17, ministry 14. ar
chitecture 6. railroading 6, forestry 6,
and Journalism 4.
The average of the class Is 22 years
8 months and 24 days (on graduation
-day.) The average weight Is 147
pounds. ( mis is the lightest Xale class
In four years, the average weight of
Yale classes being 160 pounds.)
Harold Sherman of Newtonvllle.
Mass., is the heaviest, weighing 210
pounds. Clifton Adams of 14(11, N, H.,
Is the lightest, weighing 112 pounds.
He is also the shortest, standing 6 feet
3 inches In height. Of tha class 61 are
over 6 feet In height. The class is the
tallest which has graduated from Yale
in many years. Raymond Ives of New
York Is tne tallest, standing 6 feet i
Inches. The average expenses for the
course were as follows:
Freshman year .$1,062
Sophomore year . . 1.183
Junior year 1,197
Senior year 1,233
Total 1 4,16
Of the 317 members of the class, 79
r-elther drink nor smoke. One hundred
and twenty-three wear glasses, 80 hav
nig donned them during their course.
No spvnlfin Information regarding the
political and religious affiliations -of
the class were obtainable.
The average age of the graduates of
the Massachusetts Institute of Technol
ogy was 22 years,, 10 months, 4 days,
the average height 6 feet 10 2-5 Inches,
the average weight 140 pounds. The
youngest man was just 20 years, the
oldest 82; the tallest man 6 feet 4
Inches, the shortest Just a foot under;
the heavlKSt man weighs 190 pounds,
the lightest 11K pounds. Fifty per cent
somotlmea participate In the flowing
bowl, 62.04 use tobacco, while 48.88 per
cent wear glasses. The average shoe
is 7.38, the average hat 7.04, while
the average collar is 14.78.
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CLOSING OUT SALE.
A Great Chance to Buy Good (rood at
Wholesale Prices.
Women's and misses' ready-to-wear
suits, coats, skirts, waists, rain coals,
linen tourist coats, .hosiery, corsets
musltu underwear, gloves, parasols,
Wan), ni,f i, tahl llnfina . I wmu t tm ml n
silks, ec, etc., at greatly reduced
prices. MoAllen & McDonnell. Third
and Morrison streets.
Buying a Woman's .Smile.
From the New York Sun.
"Can a woman's smile be bourhtT
Well, yes." said Mr. Owlllklnnoss.
"sometimes, and It may be for little
money. .
Here Is a woman who for weeks has
beeir" slttlnir on a downtown doorstep
selling Shoestrings. This Is a disused
door and so she interferes with nobody
and nobody Interferes with her; and o
she sits there, with her stock spread
over the greater part of the step, while
she sits iiti the other end. holdlna on
her arm an Infant.-
Ahd It always seemed to me that
trade must be dull with her, because I
ever saw anynody buy or her: and fln-
lly I thought it was up to me to buy
omethlng and sort o, help trade along
little, because, you see, while the
profit on shoestrings is "very large, still
you don't make anything at all unless
Combination Tool.
A recent Invention of a Kansan Is de
signed to save a carpenter the labor of
carrying about with him a full kit of
tools. It can be used for nail puller,
bottle opener, screwdriver, pipe wrench.
can opener, gas pliers, foot rule, hatchet
and several other things.
Selz Shoes Are Good Shoes
. You know what "good
shoe" means when you.say
it comfortable fit, good
looks', correct style and long
service. '
That's what we mean
when we say it; and that's
what our Selz shoes are
good shoes. You'll find it
possible tt get a more per
fect fit than you're accus
tomed'to in these "good shoes
and they're made to last.
Selz Royal -Blue Shoes, $3.50 and $4.00.
All Blaes aad Widths Harked In Plain Znjrlisb
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Cor. 71b and Washington Sfs.
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JOURNAL LINERS COST LITTLE. ACCOMPLISH MUCH
OREGON HOGS
ATTRACT THE, PEN OF TORfULST CRISSLY
(Eastern Magazine Writer of Note)
IN PACIFIC MONTHLY FOR JUNE,
Chicago's Tremendous Growth Following Directly Upon the Development of the Great
Packing Industry Suggests What the Plant on the Peninsula The Union
Meat Co. Is to Mean to Portland.
(Extracts from "Wanted Two Million Hogs," by Forrwt Crissey. An article that trety Oregonlan wfll want to read.)'
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You have seen Mrs. A. N. Colbv demonstrate
that she can do it WITH THE AID OF ELEC
TRICITY.. Everyone is invited to attend the
daily demonstrations that she is making at the
Supply Departriient of the Portland Railway,
Light & Power Company, 147 Seventh street,
between Morrison and Alder, and LEARN how
entirely practical and extremely convenient it is
to COOK WITH ELECTRICITY.
. Regular demonstration at 10 a. m. and 2:30
p. m. daily.
Special CHAFING DISH demonstration at
2:30 p. m. Tuesday, the seventh.
Special MEAT-ROASTING demotration
at 2 p.rrL"Thtirsday,'the ninth.
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Here before me was a man In the vigor of
life who was about to tell me, from his own
recollection, of the days when this Immense In
dustrial . structure (Chicago Packlna- Town) did
not even exist as a dream in the mind of man.
Here was a husa Industrial .entity reachlas; its
- tentacles of trade literally to the "uttermost
partsof the earth" a single creature of mater-
" lay'actlvlty. which, more than any other one
"tfilng, has lifted Chicago from a sprawling vlli
lage of 20,000 inhabitants to the second city of
the continent.
"Yes," reflectively observed Mr. Ward, as he
wheeled his chair about, "It's hard to believe
that all this great thing outside here has sprung
up slnco I began to earn my way In the world.
But It's a fact All you have to do is to 1
and hear It to know that It's one of the biggest
and - Iive8t things on earth. ..... They
(Chloagoans) don't realize that the plain truth
of the matter Is that the yards and the packing
houses are what have mad Chicago, and dons a
mighty quick job ef the making 1 It's only by
grasping what the animal Industry has accom
plished in a few years tor Chicago that any other
city can possibly realize what the establishment
of great packing plants and selling yards are
bound to mean to it. Can you name a single
place whore a practical packing outfit has ever
started up a plant on a modern line and on a
modern scale that the business haan't grown be
yond all calculation and the city expanded like
dried apples in hot water? Look at Omaha, Kan
sas City, Fort Worth, St. Joe, and all the rest
of 'em! Packing plants are the ur city-builders,
and no mistakes!"
"And still you can recall the time when the
packing Industry was unheard of and the cat
tle business was "
"pn a hand-to-mouth basis." interrupted the
commission men. "Certainly I can recall It. Fact
Is, It seems only yesterday when I sat In the
old home schoolhouse, back on the Federal road.
In Ohio, and watched drove after drove of cattle
and hogs and sheep being driven past to Phila
delphia and the" other eastern markets. And they .
came from Illinois and away west, tool Gener
ally arnan walked ahead and led a steer by a
halter and the rest followed.
"At the rear wojjld ride two or three men, de
pending on the size of the drove.
"This sort of thing was going on all over the
country, and much of the stock was literally fat
tened on the way. I recall on rich section of
pasturage not so very far from my boyhood
home where thousands of animals from the west
were, halted over the whole season and put Into
condition for th 'homestretch' on to the final
market.
"But there wasn't any market In the sense
In which there is today. The drover who had
brought his stock 100, 200, 800, S00- or even 1,000
miles was Just a likely to find the market where
he had expected to sell so glutted that he could
only dispose of his animals at a ruinous price.
Of course the expedient was open to him of mov
ing on to the next nearest big market or taking
his animals a little back into th country, to
good pasturage, and keeping them there until fi
could peddle them out at something like a living
price. If this was don one it waa don 1,000
time! Those were the days when the livestock
business was about as uncertain as playing the
races. Today it's the most certain and even bus
iness I know of- and what has mad th differ
ence? The packing plants! A free and open mar
ket every day In tb year for cash! ...
"Again, ther was th question of getting your
money after sal was mad. It waa all a ques
tion of Individual credit than and tb seller had
to mak th credit for himself and take his
chances. Oh I th world has moved on several
pegs sine then, .and now catti. hogs and sheep
are as good aa cash? And all th credit la dne
to the packers That's what took th
meat trade from a perlahabla, block-to-mouth ba
sis and mad It a storaar traalnaea, a keeping
business, a surplus-carrying buslne.
"Th community that can attract tha aottrltiea
ef any of th big packer and gt a modern
plant located la It -territory Is dotug mora for
Itself than It ca wU reall.-
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Whea this wteraa of th stockyards bad fin
ished, I 'turned t th -maa who aajoya tb dis
tinction, at tha yards, of ha ting been closer to
th 1st Oastavc F. Swift thaa any other maa
saw II Ting. ao4 Ball:
"Mr. Leavltt, you don't think that Mr. Louis
Swift and his associates of the Union Meat Com
pany are overshooting the mark in making such
4n Immense outlay for a big packing plant at
Portland, Oregon?"
'That isn't a thing for me to dlscuss-and 1
decline to discuss it," he answered, "but of
course I don't think anything of the kind. In
some regions '.where plants are established the
animal Industry is more Tlrmly rooted and mora
widely developed than in others but, depend
upon it, the merits of any region hav been sifted
to the bottom and the horoscope of its industrial
future cast with a far-seeing eye before the huge
initial investment Involved in a modern, packing
plant is decided upon I And as to the big Port
land enterprise, of course that la not a new
proposition. It has been tried out for several
yeara. and has long since passed the experimen
tal stage. However, I'm not discussing Port
land; aH I want to do is to emphasize the point
that no leader In an Industry as solid, as highly
organized and as conservatively conducted aa
the packing business is going to go Into an en
terprise involving the expenditure of millions
Unless the situation absolutely and completely
Justifies it."
To complete the triangle of my Interview, I
went to the office of Louis F. Swift, president
of Swift & Co., who Is vitally interested In the
Union Meat Company.
"Yes." admitted Mr. Swift, "It Is true that
mo uiuuu meai company is going to erect a
big modern packing plant on the extensive acre
age secured near Portland, at the intersection
of the North Bank road and the line of the Ore
gon Railroad & Navigation Company, on the Pe
ninsula, This we regard as an Ideal location.
"The Union Meat Company has for some years
had abattoirs and yards at Troutdnle, aliout 20
miles from Portland. The business done by this
plant has been substantial and quite satisfac
tory under the existing condition. In fact, the
compuny has become one of the largest siaugh-
torers on th Paclfio Coast. Last year they
. slaughtered at the Troudal plant about 60,000
cattle, 60,000 hogs and 75,00 sheep, besides oper
ating factories for the manufacture of the vari
ous by-products. Including glue and commercial
wool
"Of course. It Is expected that this volume of
business will be greatly exceeded by that of the
new plant In faot. It seems only natural and
reasonable to expect that the six of last year's
business will prove to be only a well-defined
'Indication' of the livestock Industry of that
Northern Paclfio region whan carefully devel-
oped under really favorable circumstances and
adequate conditions and facilities.
"The rapid strides In packing-house construc
tion which hav taken place In lata years, to the
end of meeting the highest standards in sanita
tion, have Influenced us quit as much as other
considerations in a decision to abandon the old
plant and put up a new one which shall be as
Ideal In its construction and all lta appoint
ments as It la In Its location.
. "Again, I confess to the feeling that there Is
'not a mora alert, progressive and hustling people
on the face of the earth than thla people of th
Pacific Coast, and that the best of anything la
none too good for them. Anything short of thf
best Is not up to the standard which they have
set for themselves and which they maintain with
rare energy and fidelity. This is the kind of
people which inspire faith on tha part of a
ron-resldent who Is responsible for tha Invest
ment or the non-Investment of larg euma In aa
enterprise which means much to them as well aa
to Its owners and management.
"Where ther la so muoh alartnesa. so much
energy, so much acumen and keen bualneas ap
plication, there Is little likelihood that any ma
terial opportunity is going to escap lta normal -development
or pass unrecognised. Again, where
this is th spirit, on feels that ther Is a sens
--of loyalty and etaadfastaea wtilch will stand tha
test la a time of trial All tha considerations
g6 to mak up tb Impression that tha peopl of
th Pacifla Coast will rto to aat any oppor
tunity. This la a most Important onsideratlon
In thla particular eaaa, for th raaea that t
bring thla industry up to th standard to which
we are building will require a certain ehaag la
th Industrial habits aad practice of tha people,
a certain cooperation without which th measure
of expansion aad sooces at which wa ar aira
: lag can era reel y b attained.'
Tor example, -i flare aay that tha 8 tat ef
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Oregon la at present compelled to bring from tha
eastern states over 76 per cent of tha pork prod
ucts consumed by Its people while Oregon It
self abounds In good farming, agricultural coun
try. Ther la no raason In th world why, with
a guarantee of the big open market aha ateady
demand for pork products by the existence of the
new packing plant, the farmers of Oregon should
not raise all, and more than all, th hogs used, in
their atate ' " '
"And this leads me to place emphasla on an
expression which I nave just used, an open mar
ket. Arrangement have been tnade with th
present owners of the Portland Union Stockyards
to establish a public livestock market near the
packing-house location. What is the result of
this? Evory farmer of that region who wishes
to raise, livestock can do so la the absolute cer
alnty that he will find a cash market right at
home for his SBCk any day he chooses to ship It.
He can always get the full market value for his
offerings, any and every day In the year. This
opportunity has never before occurred In that
territory.
.... "The meaning and possibilities of
the AlRSka trade are Just Beginning to be un
derstood; and aa for the Oriental trad w have
not yet begun to scratch the auxfac of It I Bo, X
can see an immense fntur for this trafflo which
has marvelous capacltlea of expansion. It ia one
of those propositions where the possibilities ar
so great that It la difficult to say: "It will ro
thus far and no farther.' Certainly we hav
every reason to believe that the trade of this
gateway to the Orient and to Alaska Is bound
to be large and progressive Enough la already
"known about it to demonstrate that Uh pro
gressive paclters can no longer afford to haul
stuff from eastern plants; it mnt be handled
on the Pacifio Coast to oome within the lines of
economyand sound business practice."
The enterprise, on the ground, will be tn charge
of C. C. Colt, who. Is president of th Union
Meat Company.
What the livestock, packing and allied Indus
trios have done for Chicago will never be told
In specific figures. To attempt it would be Ilk
trying to figure out what sun and rain have don
for the tvheat crops of the Dakota. But there
are some figures which, are certainly Illuminat
ing and intensely suggestive to those who read
between the lines when the characters used are
numerals. Tha sum paid by these allied Chicago
Industries in a year in wages and salaries Is
twenty-five millions of dollar. Thla helps aom
to ae what the animal Industries hare dona for
Chicago, doesn't It? '
And this Is- only a beginning! There la no way
of estimating how vast a sum they expend arery
year for materials of every sort.
Take a view af the question from another an
gle; how about the trs.de, tha money which a
great livestock and packing center brings to a
city. Well, fully 600,000 persons visit tha Chi
sago stockyards every yar. Probably th num
ber la really greater than this, for It la a mat
ter of record that 400,000 attend tha great Na
tional Livestock Exposition. How much do the
visitors spend whll In Chicago? That Isn't an
easy question to answer In a positive way But
those who hav com tn contact with thes vis
itor evry year and. know them "right down to
th ground" ar abla to mak a very shrewd aad
reeaonabl stimat of what that amount must be
Such an estimate waa figured out for me la
the office of th president of the Union Stock
yard Transit Company and tha amount la
twenty-five jailUon dollar. At first thla aeema
Impossible
- "It's only ISO apiece." waa tha quiet suggestion.
"Of coarse, many coma In who do not spend more
than S10 hut there are comparatively few , wbe
go below that figure. On the othr "hand. It
should bo remembered that a very great number
ef these visitors are stockman who core la with
carloads and va tralnloeda of stock, for which
they receive th cash.
"Ia aaaay ease th stay in the otty eorere twe
or three weeks for tha stockman aad hla family.
All thee consideration go to make aa average
expenditure of III a visitor look decide!? rea
sonable. However, you may cut the total ef la
a00.ee down t tll.o.( and atlli have aboet
aa big a eunvaa tha avers g man cea appreclata.'
It certainly doea lock aa If s b Lay pecking u
livestock laduat ry la a good thing for tha elty
aad th territory which la cboeea aa lu location! -
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