Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1903 — USED 12,539,717 HEAD. [ARTICLE]

USED 12,539,717 HEAD.

That la Chicago's pt ion of Live Stock-Easi V6Bll Chicago's'c'dffiiimptiou of live\tock in 1902 amounted to 12,539,717 head, according to the December summary of internal commerce just issued by the treasury bureau of statistics. The receipts at the five leading stockyards of Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis nnd St. Joseph during the year were: Cattle, 7,710,559 head; hogs, 15,614,129. The average weight of the 7.895,238 hogs received in Chicago was 220 pounds. Tho contributions of live stock to railway traffic nt these five markets amounted to 588,245 cars, compared with 022,352 cars iu 1901, and 582,257 cars in 1900. It would thus seem that the high tide of live stock traffic was reached in 1901. Tho stock of cut meats nt tlie five markets of Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Lott is nnd Milwaukee Dec. 31, 1901, amounted to 209,137,147 pounds. On the corresponding date of 1902 the stocks were 179,029,100 pounds.