Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 03/06/1903.
    Chicago’s consumption of livestock in 1902 amounted to 12,539,717 head, according to the December summary of the internal commerce just issued by the treasury bureau of statistics. The receipts at the five leading stockyards of Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis and 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. The contributions of the live stock to railwas traffic at these five markets amounted to 588,215 cars, compared with 622,352 cars in 1901, and 582,257 cars in 1900. It would thus seem that the high trade of live stock traffic was reached in 1901. The stock of cut meats at the five markets of Chicago, Kansa City, Omaha, St. Louis and Milwaukee Dec. 31, 1901, amounted to 269,137,117 pounds. On the corresponding date of 1902 the stocks were 179,029,100 pounds.
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