History of Chicago. From the earliest period to the present time, Part 155

Author: Andreas, Alfred Theodore
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Chicago, A. T. Andreas
Number of Pages: 1340

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"SHIPPED IN GOOD ORDER and well conditioned by New- berry & Dole, on board the schooner called ' Napoleon,' whereof is master for the present voyage John Stewart, now lying in the port of Chicago, and bound for Detroit .- To say:

O. Newberry, Detroit :

287 barrels beef.

14 .. tallow.

bees-wax-11534, 9412, 21014.

2 152 dry hides, weighing 4659 pounds.

"Being marked and numbered as in the margin, and to be delivered at the port of Detroit in like good order, (the dangers of the lakes and rivers to be excepted.) unto consignees or to their as- signees-he or they paying freight at -- per barrel bulk.

" In witness whereaf, the master of said vessel hath affirmed to two bills of lading, all of this tenor and date, one of which to be accomplished, the other to stand void.

"JOHN STEWART.

" Dated, CHICAGO, April 17. 1833."

From this first shipment dates the beginning of Chicago commerce. Following soon after came the trade in lumber, which, so soon as the town and tribu- tary country began to be settled, became a most impor- tant article of import. A large part of the region west of Chicago was prairie with large areas destitute of tim - ber, and the forests of Michigan and Wisconsin, along the lake shore, became early sources of wealth to the enterprising lumbermen; and building material became the second essential article of Chicago commerce. Charles Cleaver, in a letter written, descriptive of Chi- cago, in 1833, says that the stock of lumber at that time in the town did not exceed ten thousand feet, and that prices ranged from $60 to $70 per thousand. Two small saw-mills, one, (water-power) some six miles up the North Branch; and the other (steam-power), owned by Captain Huntoon, south of the present line of Divi- sion Street, cut such timber as grew in the vicinity. It was generally of small growth and of varieties not valu- able for building purposes: mostly oak, elm, poplar and white ash. Of course, with such a meager supply of growing timber and such inadequate facilities for its manufacture, the commerce in lumber was evolved from necessity, so soon as the town began to grow and the surrounding country began to be settled.

David Carver was the first lumber merchant in ('hi- cago, and the first to inaugurate that important branch of commerce. He came to Chicago in 1833, either in the spring or early summer. He owned a schooner, named for himself, the "David Carver," which plied as a lumber craft-probably the first-between St. Joseph, Mich., and Chicago. It was sometime during the summer or fall of that year that he brought in the first cargo of lumber, and started the first lumber yard in the city. He worked his vessel into the main river, and

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discharged his cargo of pine on the south bank, between LaSalle and Wells streets, where the first lumber yard was thus started. Two years later, Kinzie, Hunter & Co .. Jones, Clark & Co., and perhaps others had engaged in the business; quite a lumber fleet was employed, and Chicago became the great center of lumber trade, which trade has ever since been an essen- tial element in its commercial importance.

With the exception of the lumber trade and the shipment of beef and pork, both of which branches increased in amount and importance from year to year, the commerce of Chicago was still one of large receipts of food, clothing material, building material, agricultural implements, etc., etc., with small exports in return. It was not until 1838 that Chicago, now the greatest pri- mary grain market in the world, exported its first invoice of wheat. It amounted to seventy-eight bushels, and was shipped in bags to Buffalo, on the steamer "Great Western," by Charles Walker, of the firm of Walker & Co. The following year (1839) Messrs. Newberry & Dole commenced as shippers of wheat, on a scale which com- pletely overshadowed Walker in the magnitude of the business done. Governor Bross, in one of his historical papers in 1868, writes of this early shipment and of the elevator facilities of the time as follows :

"The history of the next shipment, in 1839, of three thousand six hundred and seventy-eight bushels, on board. the brig 'Osceola,' is scarcely less interest- ing. It was made by Newberry & Dole, whose ware- house was on the North Side, immediately east of where Rush-street bridge now stands. The wheat was bought from farmers' wagons and hoisted to the upper story by Irish power, with rope and pully. The problem of loading on the brig was solved by fixing a spout in one of the upper doors and making it gradually nar- row till it reached the deck, where the wheat was dis- charged into boxes holding four bushels, weighed and transferred into the hold of the vessel."

A reminiscence of this period in the commercial history of the city appeared in the Democrat of Sep- tember 25, 1848, from which are given the following extracts:

** In IS30 Chicago was a mere trading post, where some one hun- dred persons, principally Government agents, troops, Indian trace:s, etc., resided. In 1831 there was but one store, and that was kept by G. W. Dole inside the palisades of the fort .* From this year until 1839 the post and country, to the distance of one hundred miles and over, was supplied with the necessities of life- flour. corn, pork, beans-from the East, principally from Ohio. + In 1:39 the export trade commenced. That year a vessel which came to this port with seven hundred barrels of flour returned to Ohio without disposing of the article. This year also the first cargo of wheat was shipped from this port by Giles Williams, The pile of wheat lay in a shanty where the Winslow warehouse now stands (South Water, between Dearborn and Clark streets), and was quite a curiosity at the time. This was the commencement of the export trade, which in 1842 ran up to 586,907 bushels of wheat and 2,020 barrels of flour."

The above extracts mention a shipment of wheat in 1>39, other than that of Newberry & Dole before mentioned. It is possible that there is a confusion in names, and that both accounts refer to the same ship- mient.

1: appears that at that time the importation of flour to Chicago ceased, and from that date the city became an exporting point, not only for provisions, but for wheat and Hour. The commodities heretofore named as first becoming articles of commerce have ever since been the most important in the trade of the city, and the con-

* The writer is not historically correct. There were other traders in Chi- caprat that time. Ser early history.

. The writer is in erne concerning the article of park. Buth beef and por' arte in fair supply after 18;1. There were slaughtered that year in Chi-

stantly increasing volumes of trade in them has been a never failing source of prosperity. As the country became settled, the agricultural products became more diversified, and, with the increased facilities for trans- portation, first by the completion of the canal, and later by the railroad system, all the diversified products of the richest and most extended agricultural region on the continent, poured with a never ceasing stream through the marts of the growing city, increasing its wealth and importance, in a ratio from year to year such as was never known before in the history of any commercial city on the earth. The wonderful growth of Chicago's trade cannot be told in narrative. It is a matter of comparative statistics, and will be thus treated further on. Supplementary to the export of beef and pork in 1833, and wheat in 1839, flour was first exported in 1839, in small quantity, by John Gage. Corn, now the most important cereal raised in the West, and the largest in quantity of any exported, was not shipped in large amount until 1847. Although raised in large quantity it was fed to stock, or otherwise found a local consump- tion until long after the surplus wheat had become a regular article of export.

In IS41, a memorial was presented to Congress for a further appropriation for the improvement of the harbor of Chicago, and for other relief. It was accompanied by most elaborate statistics of the trade and commerce of the city during the preceding six years and a full list of the mercantile firms which had suspended bus- ness since 1837 .* The memorial was drawn and the statistics compiled by the late Thomas Hoyne, and are, so far as can be found, the only comprehensive statistics of Chicago trade and commerce, in the articles men- tioned, compiled during the period treated, sufficiently accurate to be deemed of historic value. His statement of the trade and commerce of the city for the years IS36 to 1841, inclusive, with names of dealers, description of products, and valuation, is given below:

1336-Walker & Co. exported $1,000 in hides.

1837-Walker & Co. exported Șto,ooo in hides, and Absalom Funk $1,000 in beef and pork. Total, $11,000.

1838 -- Walker & Co. $25,000 in hides and thirty-nine bags of wheat shipped in the steamer " Great Western"; Funk, $1,000 in beef and pork. Total. S26,000.

1839-Walker & Co., $15,000 in hides ; Giles Will- iams & Co., forty-three thousand six hundred and ninety- five bushels of wheat, t $6,000, and corn and flour, $780 ; C. McDonnell, merchandise, $1,000; John Gage, flour, $2,063 ; Payne & Norton, pork, beef and lard, $10,000 ; and Funk, beef and pork, $1,000. Total, $35,843. Newberry & Dole shipped three thousand six hundred and seventy-eight bushels of wheat on the " Osceola " in October.

1840-C. Walker & Co., hides and wheat, $185.000; Giles, Williams & Co., wheat. corn, flour, pork, beef, tallow and hams, $5,280 ; Church & Selden, white beans, São ; L. Lynd & Co., flour, salt and pork, SiSo : C. McDonnell, merchandise, SI,ooo ; B. W. Raymond, flour, wool, pork, wheat and beans, 83,000 ; S. B. Col- lins, lead, $150: John Gage, flour, 8626 ; Crawford & Harvey, wheat, $1,552 ; Bristol & Porter, wheat, Sio .- 120 ; John Finnerts, hides and furs, $2,000 ; Payne &

* The list of suspended firms appears elsewhere, in its proper historic con- nection.

+ There is no record of the shipment of this wheat to any Eastern market. It was probably buught of farmers and sold to the local trade in the city and surrouniling country. The same may be said uf a considerable portion of the hides, provisions, funr, eurn, and other commodities mentmed in the report. The statement is valuable as showing the growth of trade in these important comminrafities, whether they were shipped to Fastern markets or soll at hoor. It is a vonprebensive statement of the whole trade of the city embracing not only the export», but the home trude also.

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HISTORY OF CHICAGO.

Norton, pork, beef and lard, $6,700 ; H. C. Stone, wheat, flaxseed and beans, $2,271 ; Gurnee & Mattison, hides and furs, $9,454 : Funk, beef and pork, $1,500. Total, $228,883.

1841 .- W. W. Saltonstall, 7,326 bushels of wheat, $6,165 ; C. Walker & Co., 42,200 bushels of wheat, $29,536 ; W. L. Whiting, 94.548 bushels of wheat, $75.362 ; H. Norton & Co., 24,038 bushels of wheat, and 170 barrels of pork, $24,432 ; Giles, Williams & Co., 43,695 bushels of wheat, 1,781 bushels of corn, 553 barrels of flour, 141 barrels of pork, 401 barrels of beef, 2,71S hams, 33 bushels of grass seed, 39 bushels of beans, S33,733; Church & Selden, 16216 barrels of beans, $414.50 ; Harmon & Lewis, 8 tons of lead, $640; Lynd & Co., 70 barrels of flour, salt and pork, $240 ; C. McDonnell, merchandise, $1,500 ; B. W. Raymond, pork, beans, flour, wheat and wool, $6,000 ; Hiram Norton, butter, $200; G. W. Merrill, 12,212 bushels of wheat, $9.359 ; John Gage, flour, 1,852 barrels, $6, 144 .- 75 ; Crawford & Harvey, 18,700 bushels of wheat, and 1,000 barrels of beef and pork, $21,200; Dodge & Tucker, pork, lard and hams, $5,000 ; Bristol & Porter, 19,493 bushels of wheat, $10, 120; Payne & Norton, pork, beef and lard, $2,000 ; H. Buht, furs, $3,000 ; H. O. Stone, flour, pork, flaxseed and beans, $1,044: S. T. Otis, pork, hams and lard, $500 ; Gurnee & Mat- tison, hides and furs, $17,500; Absalom Funk, beef and pork, $1,200; M. & S. Co., beef and pork, $1,000 : Smith . & Webster, 42,000 bushels of wheat with beef, pork and flour, $72,000. Total, $328,290.25.

The statement also comprised the following schedule of products, shipped during the period which could not be apportioned : .

Shipped by Newberry & Dole, 6,627 barrels of pork, beef, flour and whisky, valued at $60,270 ; 50,136 bush- els of wheat, $50,136 ; 704 packages of furs, $7,000 ; 3,235 hides, $9,705 ; 40 tons of lead and shot, S800.

Shipped by W. S. Whiting, 566 tons of pork, beef, flour and whisky, valued at $33,360.

Shipped by Smith & Webster, 3,450 barrels of beef, pork and flour, valued at $20,700.

Shipped by Bristol & Porter, 17,057 barrels of pro- visions and flour, valued at $102,402 ; 244 tons of mer- chandise, $14,000 ; 6,223 hides, $18,669; and 421 packages of furs, $4,210. Total shipments above named, $321.252.

The aggregate value of the trade in produce and native products for six years, as shown in the foregoing statements, is summarized as follows:

1836, $1,000; 1837, $11,000; 1838, $26,000; 1839,

$35.843; 1840, $228,883; . 1841, $328,290.25; Total

$631,016 25

Newberry & Dole and other shippers, not in above .. 321,252 00

Total for six years, 1836 to 1841, inclusive. $952,268 25'

The commerce of Chicago for this period, and for the two succeeding years, so far as imports and exports showed, was, according to the records of Captain Seth Johnson, Deputy Collector of the port, as shown in the following tabulated statements:

EXPORTS.

IMPORTS.

1336

$ 1,000 64

IS36.

.$325,203 90

IS37

11,065 00

IS37.

373,667 12

IS3S

16,044 75

1833 .. 579,174 61

IS39

33.843 00

1839 630,980 26

1840

223,635 74

IS40.

562,106 20

1841

348,362 24

1841. 564.347 88

IS12

659,305 20

1842. 664.347 SS

1843

682,210 85

1843.

971,849 75

ARTICLES EXPORTED IN THE VEAR IS43

Wheat .628,967 bus.

Tobacco.

74,900 lbs.

Corn.

2,443

Wool

22,050

Flaxseed

1,920

Candles

4,900

Pork ..

II. IIZ bbl.

Soap .

5,300

Lard.

2.823

Packages Furs.

393

Bee[

10,3Sc

Brooms

ISo doz.

Tallow

1,133

Flour ..

10,786 bbl.

ARTICLES IMPORTED IN THE YEAR IS43.

Merchandise .. 2,012 tons

Shingles. 4, 117,025

. 101,470 pckgs.

Square timber .. .

16,600 feet

Salt

27.03S bbl.

Staves.

57,000

Whisky.

2,585 *

Bark.

430 cds.

Lumber

· 7.545,142 feet

The shipments of wheat and flour up to the year 1842, inclusive, were given by early statisticians as follows:

Wheat, 1838, 78 bushels; 1839, 3,678 bushels; 1840, 10,000 bushels; 1841, 40,000 bushels; 1842, 586,907 bushels. Flour, 1842, 2,920 barrels, which was the first considerable shipment recorded in the annals of the trade.

No reliable statistics of the shipment of corn are extant earlier than 1847, although unimportant ship- ments were made prior to that date. In 1847, 67,315 bushels were shipped to Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, and other Eastern markets, the immense export trade in that cereal being inaugurated that year.

Oats also appears for the first time in the statistics of the year 1847, as an article of export, 38,S92 bushels being shipped.

The first shipment of wool, 1,500 pounds, was made in 1842.

The following price current, from the Daily Amer- ican, April 11, 1840, shows the variety of commodities then dealt in, and the prevailing prices at that time:

Provisions :-

Beel, per 100 1b.

$ 4.00 @@ $ 4.50

Pork, per 100 1b.

5.00 (

5-50

Pork, per bbl

12.00 ₡

14 00

Hams, smoked per 100 Ib

9.00 @

10.00

Lard, per 100 1b.

9.00 @ 10.00

Butter, per 100 Ib.

15.00 (0:

20.00

Cheese, per 100 Ib.

10.00 (₡

12.00

Flour :-

Wheat, superfine, per 100 Îb.

2.00 ₡ 2.25

Wheat. fine, per 100 1b.

1.75

Wheat. superfine, per bbl

4.25

5.50

Wheat, fine, per bbl.

3.25

3.50

Corn Meal, per bushel.

.44

.50

Buckwheat, none.

Grain :-

Wheat, winter, per bushel.

.56

.63

Wheat. spring, per bushel.

-44 @

.50

Corn, per bushel.

.38 @

.44

Oats, per bushel.

.20

.22

Barley, per bushel.

-38 (0)

. 4.1

Vegetables :-

Potatoes, pcr bushel

. 19 (

.25

Turnips, per hushel.

.19 (

.25

Onions, per hushel

.63 @

.75

Beans, per bushel.

.63 CL

.75

Fruit :-

Apples, green, per barrel.

4.50 ₡

5.00

Apples, dried, per bushel.

2.00

2.25

Peaches, dried, per bushel.

3.75 ₡ 4.00

Cranberries, none.

Raisins, per box.

2.75 (

3.00

Raisins, per 12 box

1.62 4

1.75

Lead

360,000

Oats ..

3.767

Hides

14,536

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TRADE, COMMERCE AND MANUFACTURES.

Groceries :-

Sugar, St. Croix, per cwt.

12.00

@ 14.00

Porto Rico, per cwt

11.00

11.50

Muscovado, per cwt.

10.50

11.00

New Orleans, per cwt

10.00

10.50

Maple, per cwt

12.00

13.00

Lump, per cwt

17.00 @

17.50

Loaf, per cwt.

18.75 @

20.00

Molasses, per gallon

.60

.75

Tea, Imperial, per Ib.

.SS

1.13

Gunpowder, per Ib.

.75

.88

Old Hyson, per Ib.

.75

1.00

Young Hyson, per Ib.

.56

.75

Brandy, Seignette, per gallon

2.00 @ 2.50

American, per gallon.

1.00

1.50

Gin, Holland, per gallon

1.75

2.00

Columbia, per gallon.

1.00 @

1.12

Barbers, per gallon .

1.00 @

1.12

Rum, St. Croix, per gallon

1.75

2.00

Wine, Madeira, per gallon

1.50 @

3.00

Port, per gallon

1.25 @

3.00

Malaga, per gallon

1.25 @

2.00

Whisky, per gallon

.40

.44

Salt, per bbl.

3.00

3.25

White fish, per bbl.

10.00

Mackerel, No. I, per bbl.

14.00

Mackerel, No. 2, per bbl

11.50

Mackerel, No. 3. per bbl.

8.00

Dry Codfish, per cwt.

7.00 @

Haddock, per cwt ...

4.00

5.00

Soap, New York, per Ib

.08 @

.09

Soap, Chicago, per Ib.

.07

.08

Candle mould.

Hull & Son, New York, per Ib

.21

.22

Colgate, New York, per Ib

.21

.22

Chicago, per Ib.

.16

.18

Furs and Skins :-

Otter, per skin

4.00 @

6.00

Fox, per skin.

1.00

Deer, per skin.

.75

1.00

Raccoon, per skin

-38

.50

Mink, per skin

.38 @

.44

Muskrat, per skin.

.03 @

.IO

Hides :-

Green, per Ib.

.04 @

412

Dried, per Ib ..

.08 @

.IO

Lumber :-

Clear, per M.

18.00 @

20.00

Merchantable, per M.

12.00 @

14.00

Flooring. per M.

14.00 @

16.00

Siding, per M.

14.00 @

16.00

Refuse, per M

8.00

10.00

Shingles, per M.

2.50 @

4.00

Wood: -

Hickory, per cord

4.00

Oak, per cord.

3.25 @

3.50

From the foregoing the reader may trace the growth of the commerce of Chicago from its beginning in 1833 to 1843, at which time the city had fairly taken its place as the most important inland commercial mart in the country. In 1842, for the first time the exports were more than the imports. The succeeding five years to the close of 1847, at which time the Chicago Board of Trade was organized, the increase in the commerce and trade of the city kept pace with its own marvelous growth, and the rapid settlement and development of the vast region lying to the west and northwest, which then and ever since has been tributary to it.

The imports from the beginning showed the impor -. tance of Chicago as a distributing point for general merchandise, and marked it as the central inland en- porium of trade it has since become. It is unnecessary in this connection to trace, except so far as appears statistically, the growth of the trade in dry goods, gro- ceries, crockery, hardware, and other branches of mer- chandising from the beginning. The columns in the tables given and to be given, showing the increase of imports from year to year, are sufficient. They show

that in the distribution of goods the city has, in its increase, kept even pace with its exports of the natural products, and that it has with uninterrupted progress come to be, not only the greatest inland market for cereals and provisions, but the greatest inland distribut- ing point for general merchandise in the world. So, from the small beginnings here recorded each year, the increasing tides of trade have ebbed and flowed, carrying out the golden harvest to feed the nations, and bringing in the products and manufactures of other climes and other people for the enrichment, enjoyment, and comfort of the millions who now acknowledge Chi- cago as their great emporium .*

Supplementary to statistics already given, the follow- ing shows the growth of trade and commerce for the succeeding five years, from 1844 to 1847, inclusive:

IMPORTS.

EXPORTS.

1841.

$ 564.347 88

IS11.

$ 348.362 24

18.12

800,427 24

1842.

659.302 20

1843.

1,435.886 70

1843

1,008,207 94

1844.

1,656,416 00

IS44. 785.504 23

18.45.

2,043,445 73

I845.

1.543.519 85

18.46.

2,027,150 00

1846.

1, $13,468 00

18.47

2.641,852 52

I847 ..

2,296,299 00

The leading articles of export were:

Wheat, bu.

Flour. bbls.

Beef, Pork,bis.

Wool. ms.

1842

587,207

2,920

16,209

1,500

1843.

628,966

10,876

21.795

22,952

1844.

891.894

6,320

14.938

96,635

18.45.

956,860

13,752

13,268

216,616

18.46.

1,459,594

25.045

31,224

2SI,222

1847.

1.974.304

32,538

48.920

411,488

As showing the character and variety of the general mercantile trade of the city in 1847, the following analytical table of the imports of that year are given. The amount of goods, wares, and merchandise received at Chicago from the opening of navigation in 1847 to November I of the same year, not including goods landed here and taken to the interior, compiled from the original invoices of merchants, was as follows:

Dry goods $$37,451 22

Liquors . . $36,334 67

Groceries

506,027 56

Tobacco and cigars.

3.716 00

Hardware. 148,811 50

Ship chandlery.

23.000 00

Iron and nails. 88,275 00

68,612 00

Furniture trimming.

5.564 07

Crockery .

30,505 00

Glass.

8,949 24

Boots and shoes. ...

94,275 00

Scales.

4.044 55

Hats, caps and furs.

68,200 00

Coaches, etc.

1.500 00

Jewelry, etc .......

51,000 00

Looking glasses, etc. Marble ..

2,500 00

Books and station'y.

43,580 00

Soo oo

Printing paper .....

7,284 1I

Oysters.

2.500 00

Presses, type, and

Sportsmen's articles.

2,000 00

printing materials

7.432 50

Musical instruments.

6.426 00

Drugs & medicines. Paints and oils .....

92,081 41

Machinery, etc .....

30,000 00

25,460 00

Total value of imports of merchandise .. . $2,259,309 $3

The total value of miscellaneous articles imported in 1847, exclusive of lumber, and not included in the above, was $117,210.29. It comprised: Salt, 24,817 bbls., and 5,537 sacks; coal, 15.782 tons; water lime, 1,618 bu .; besides grindstones, iron, fish, cider, and other articles altogether of considerable value.

The amount of lumber, etc., received at Chicago for

* The city frum the breinning did a large retail trade in dry goods. CD)- ceries, hardware, boots and shows, etc .. with the settlers of the surrounding country. The wholesde trade in dry mounts was started in ria5. by llemitin & Day. Cooley, Wadsworth & Co .. Iwn years after commenced whoh &ding dry conds on a large s ale, and for years did a widely extended laritle ss throughout the West. In hardware and iron. William Hair was the pioneer Ht the wholesale trade, which he hegan in 1844. The wholesale trade in grucere . bugan quite carly. hut the question is to who was the first wholesale draler cannot be definitely decided. The jobbing trade in cluthing was bwgun by Henry A. Huntington. in November, 18:2. afterward Huntingdon, Walworth & Parks. Their siles fur the first year amounted to Szm ..... C. N Hridder- um & Co. were the first wholesale dealers in boots and shen ., beginning in d small way in 18st. 0. 1. Fuller comnu need the wholesde trade in druz», dyes and chemicals in 1852.

1.00

New England, per gallon

.88

White fish, per 12 bbl.

5.50

8.00

Toals & hardware .. 15,000 00

Stoves and hol'ware

558

HISTORY OF CHICAGO.

1847, from the opening of navigation to November 1, was as follows:

Plank, boards, etc., ft.32, 118,225 Shingles-bolts, cords .. .. 328

Shingles, MI . . . 12,148,500

Tanner's bark, cords .. 600

Lath, M ... .. 5.655,700

Staves. 50,000

Square timber. feet. 24,000 | Spokes. 109,000

Total value, $265,332.50.

1847 ....

32, 118,225

12,148,500

5,655,700

1848.

60,009,250

20,000,000

10,025,109

1849 .....

72,259,553

39.057.750

19.281,733

1850 .. .

100,364,779

55.423,750

19,809, 700

IS51 .....

125,056,437

60,238,250

27,583,475

1852 .....

147.816,232

70,080,500

19,759,670

1853 .....

202.101,098

93.483.784

39,133.116

1854. ....

228.336.783

28.061,250

32,431,550

228,336,7$3

IS55. . ...

306,553,467

158,770,860

46,487,550

306,553,457

1856. . . ..

456,673,169

135,876,000

79,235,120

456,673, 169

1857 .....

459,639, 195

131.832,250

80, 130,000

459,639, 195

WOOL.

YEAR.

· Receipts by lake and rail, Pounds.

Shipmeuts. Pounds.

Prices.

1848

500,000

20 @@ 23

IS49

520.242

25 4 30

1850.

913,681

25 0 30

1851.

I,OSS,553

25 0 40

1852

920,143

18 ( 37

IS53.

953,100

35 @@ 50

1854.

536,791

20 @ 30

1855.

1,943.415

2,158 462

20 4 35

1856

1,853,920

575,908

20 4 37

I857

1, 106.821

1,062, SSI

25 0 42

HIDES.

YEAR.

Receipts, Number.

+Slaughtered in Chicago, Number.

Shipments, Number.

1852

25,893

22,032

47,935

1853.

25.486

33,658

59,144

1854.

28,606

14,560

43,166

1855.

31,149

33,966

65,115

1856.

70,560

117,284

IS7,854

1857

171,770

+334

172,104

2,450

Beeswax, ...

5,390

Brooms, .

3,168

Oil, gallons.

S,793

White-fish, barrels.

1,229

Lead, pounds

10,254

Barley, bushels ... 400

Hemp,

6,521

Value, $2,296,299.

Besides a large amount of merchandise, produce, provisions, grain, horses, cattle, salt, and supplies of all kinds sent to the lumber and mining regions, and differ- ent ports on the upper and lower lakes .*

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History of Chicago. From the earliest period to the present time, Part 155

Author: Andreas, Alfred Theodore Publication date: 1884 Publisher: Chicago, A. T. Andreas Number of Pages: 1340

Author: Andreas, Alfred Theodore
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Chicago, A. T. Andreas
Number of Pages: 1340