Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1903 — CHICAGO THE WONDERFUL. [ARTICLE]

CHICAGO THE WONDERFUL.

The laternntional Live Stock Exposition —One of the Features of the City and the Greatest Exhibiton of Its Kind in the World. Chicago no sooner gets the Centennial celebration of the past week out of the way than she begins to consider means for making the International Live Stock Exposition, to be held this fall, better than any ever held in the past. This, for Chicago, is not difficult to accomplish, for over $33,000,000 of live stock was handled at the Union Stock Yards last year, almost three hundred thousand carloads of live stock being received at the Chicago market during this period. This makes the city one of the greatest live stock ceiitens in the world. The International Live Stock Exposition has been an educational agency of , the greatest value to those who have visited the, show in recent years from the cattle ranges and feeding grounds of the West. These sources of supply are placed within easy reach of the city by such trunk lines of railway as the Chicago and - Northwestern, which brings to Chicago ejach year 70,000 carloads of live stock, raised and fed in the territory it reaches. The people living in this rich agricultural region, tributary to Chicago, are evincing each year more interest in the betterment of their stock. The exhibition at the Union Stock Yards during the International -Exposition this fall will be one of the rrfast notable ever seen, and its chief value~wiint>e along educational lines, looking to the improving of breeds and raising of standards, which means just so much more money in the pockets of the producer. Full particulars as to the program of the International, together with announcement of low railway rates via The North western Line, will appear later.