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■{^ a ii All sales are on a cash basis and proceeds are promptly remitted to the owner. f; ix -i^ The live stock farmer best serves his own interests by shipping to the central market. — 39 — V M?^ » ; Monthly Sound Films are distributed free by Union Stock Yard & Transit Co. — 40 — Physical Description of the Yards The Chicago Union Stock Yard is one mile long and one-half mile wide, representing an enormous investment in land, a nine-story office building and many other structures, nearly 150... miles of trackage, railroad equipment, the country's finest truck unloading chutes, cattle pens, sheep and hog houses, horse stables, scale houses, grain elevators, sale rings, water systems ; and a vast investment in new mechanical equipment. There are about 13, 000 pens, 8, 500 of which are covered for the housing of sheep and hogs. The record receipts for a single day are 49, 128 cattle, 122, 749 hogs, and 71, 792 sheep. At the crossroads of the continent, Chicago, greatest railroad center on earth, has been a natural outlet for meat animals from the great live stock production areas of the west, and the meat industry has been one of Chicago's great economic cornerstones.
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