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Very few things constitute a more infallible 
exponent of the character and prosperity of a 
city than the number and style of its new build, 
ings. This is not always true under a despotic 
government, which sometimes impoverishes a 
province to adorn a capital; but under a gov- 
ernment like our own, where trade is left to flow 
in its natural channel, and private enterprise 
alone tills the soil and rears the mart, the pro- 
gress of building is the unerring index which 
moves over the broad lace of a city, to advertise 
the vigorous and steady movement of the inte- 
rior wheels of commerce and the arts. 

An extensive conflagration, which mars and 
cripples a decaying town, invariably improves a 
prosperous one. The rapidity therefore with 
which a city rebuilds the ruins of a fire, has be- 
come a familiar criterion of its prosperity, and 
the inference is equally legitimate where the 
space filled is one left by Nature instead of the 
elements. The relation between these facts is 
obvious. The structures of a city are so much 
fixed capital withdrawn from the business which 
suBtaics it. The capital thus subtracted must 
ever bear a small ratio to that employed in ac- 
tive enterprise. Each new edifice, too, is a new 
centre of activity from which iBsue, and to which 
return, those plans and efforts which contribute 
to make up the sterling aggregate of a city's en- 
terprise. Iler new buildings are the plain and 
permanent landmarks of her advancing popula- 
tion — they are the definite and explicit response 
to the demands of her growing trade. 

It was the proud boast of Augustus that he 
found Rome of brick and left it of marble. 
Chicago has within the last five years undergone 
a similar, and scarcely less splendid, transfigura- 
tion. This change she owes to her free labor 
and her adventurous commerce — more imperial 
in their dignity and more opulent ii their re- 



sources than crowned head or royal exchequer. 

The enlargement of her proportions, more 
wonderful even than the grace of her finish, un- 
shrinkingly challenges ancient or modern civi- 
lization for a parallel. 

That Providence which, in anticipation of 
Grecian genius and greatness, buried in her 
mountains a quality of marble so pure and so 
indestructible that the storms of twenty centuries 
have not dimmed its complexion or effaced its 
lines, here also, where He drew in such deep and 
unmistakable lines the site of a powerful me- 
tropolis, laid down hard by an inexhaustible 
supply of peerless marble, and her rapid progress 
has summoned to the aid of this future mistress 
of the West a corps of architects and mechanics 
which Athens would not have scorned. 

We proceed to trace the broad, s elling wave 
of architecture which during the past year has 
rolled over the city, enriching its center and 
sweeping its boundaries far ont upon the open 

prairie. 

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IlliiioU Central Railroad. 
Passenger Depot. — This splendid building 
belonging to the Illinois Central and Michigan 
Central Railroads, which was noticed in our 
last Annual Review as being in progress, is now 
completed. It is situated on South Water St., 
on the harbor. It is built of rubied stone with 
a front looking north, three and a half stories 
high. Its dimensions are 166^ by 504 feet. 
The roof is an arch supporting itself with a rise 
of 36 feet. The building is admirably lighted 
with gas, 2,668 feet of pipe being used for the 
purpose. The Ticket Office occupies a conspicu- 
ous place near the main entrance in close prox- 
imity both to the Ladies' and Gentlemens' Wait- 
ing Rooms. Directly over it is the Telegraph 
Office belonging to the connecting companies, 
and by which they govern the running of their 
trains. Eight tracks are laid in the building. 



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All cut trains leave from the west side which 
faces the street. All in trains arrive by the two 
eastern tracks. The platforms are large and 
commodious, on one of which is built a tasteful 
baggage room, 125 feet long, w;ih offices and 
rooms over it for conductors, baggage-men, 
brake-men, &o. Nothing has been Deglected 
which could add to the comfort and convenience 
of the passengers, the accommodation of trains, 
and the disposal of freight, rendering this im- 
mense Station House one of the most complete 
in the Union and probably in the world. The 
entire structure has been erected in the short 
space of thirteen months, at a cost of $180,000. 

Otto H. Matz, architect; Stone, Boomer & 
Bouton, builders of the roof; Sam Porter, ma- 
son ; Sloat, stone-cutter; Hughes & Wilson, 
plumbers; Menard, Robinson & Harper, car- 
penters; J. C. Stokes & Bros., plasterers; Brown 
& Wilder, gas fitters. 

Store Room. — This building was commenced 
on the 1st of September, and completed on the 
20th. It is 120 by SO feet, and 14 feet at the 
eaves. It cost about §10,000. 

Car Shop. — This building was commenced on 
the 25th of September, and will be completed 
about the 1st of February. It is 200 by 75 feet, 
and 18 feet at the eaves. 

It is constructed to accommodate all the wood 
machinery, and it is furnished with ten tracks 
which will accommodate twenty freight cars and 
two passenger cars. Situated near Twelfth 
street, and will cost about $20,000. 



Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad. 

This company have erected a neat and commo- 
dious frame Freight House, 156 by 60 feet, situ- 
ated on the West Side, near Kinzie street 
bridge, with the offices of the company above it. 

Cost $7,000. 

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Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac Railroad. 

This company have erected a frame Freight 
House, situated on the West Side, near Kinzie 
street bridge, at a cost of $10,000, and a passen- 
ger depot costing $6,000. 



(lock Inland Railroad 

This company have during the year completsd 
a capacious and durable Grain Warehouse of 
spiked plank sufficient to store one million 
bushels. Cost $130,000. 

The machinery and the entire appointments 
are of the most complete and substantial charac- 
ter. They have also built a new frame Freight 
Depot, costing some $15,000. 



Michigan Southern Railroad. 

This company has erected during the year a 
convenient and substantial brick Freight House, 
situated on Clark near Twelfth street. Cost 
$15,000. 



Mich'gnn Central Railroad. 

This Company have erected during the ye3r 
in this city the following buildings : 

Building for Offices.— This is an elegant 
stone building, situated near the Union or Illi- 
nois Central Passenger Depot, three stories high 
and 120 by 50 feet in size. Cost $50,000. 

Addition to Round House. — This is a brick 
building situated near Twelfth street. Cost 
$10,000. 

New Freight House.— This is a brick build- 
ing situated at the foot of South Water street. 
It is designed for the transfer of freight, and 
enlarges still further the ample freighting ac- 
commodations of this company. Cost $50,000. 



Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. 

This Company have erected an Engine House 
near Illinois Central machine shops of a sub- 
stantial character. They are also erecting build- 
ings at South Branch Depot, with a convenient 
slip for lumber business. Cost about $15,000. 



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Chicago Water Works. 

The wate.- works of a city may properly be 
classed among its moral reforms. Cleanliness 
and godliness shade with each other, while 
filth is incipient vice. No metre can guage 
the refuse and unhealthy matter which ia daily 
washed from the vigorous frame of our young 
city by the grand bath into which she is daily 
plunged. No figures can express the value of 
that splendid artificial sea, "whose fountains 
are dispersed abroad" — causing waters to break 
forth in the wilderness, and springs of fresh 
water to well up into every home. In the va- 
riety and extent of its uses, public and private, 
it seem3 a material Providence watching over 
the general good, and yet attending upon the 
minutest want of the humblest citizen. 

Through the courtesy of the Superintendent 
of the Board of Water Commissioners we are 
enabled to present the following synopsis of its 
operations during the past year. 

About one mile of 24 inch main has been 
laid ou Chicago avenue, from the Engine House 
west to Union street. 

About one-half mile of 16 inch main has been 
laid on Union street, from Chicago avenue to 
Kinzie street. About ten miles of distribution, 
4, 6, 8 and 10 iDch, has also been laid. 

Under the direction of the Board there has 
been nearly completed one of the largest Pump- 
ing Beam Engines in the United States. It is 
about five hundred horse pov/er with double 
acting pumps, and capable of raising twenty 
million gallons in twenty -four hours. Its cost 
will be about $60,000. Lots for two additional 
Reservoirs have been purchased ; one iu the 
North Division, and the other in the West Divi- 
sion. These reservoirs are to be built next 
season. 



The receipts for water rents for 1S56 will be 
about $80,000. The operating expenses with in- 
terest, about $73,000. The improvements and 
extension will probably reach $250,000. 



Chicago Gas Li-'lH and Coke Company. 
This Company during the past year has large- 
ly extended its operations. Six miles of addi- 
tional pipe have been ordered and the expendi- 
ture has been $57,000. 



Sev.erase. 

In very few respects haa Chicago had greater 
injustice done her than in the charge which 
envy and ignorance have conspired to circulate 
that it was unhealthy. There is on either side 
of this city a grand old ventilator of lake or 
prairie, which in the absence of any drainage, 
would go far to keep her atmosphere pure, and 
it only needs that the system of paving and sew- 
ering her streets, which has been so vigorously 
commenced, should be carried out, to render 
this on,; of the healthiest, as it will inevitably 
be one of the largest cities of the continent. 

The following condensed statement of the op- 
erations of the Commissioners of Sewerage has 
been furnished us through the courtesy of the 
Secretary and Chief Engineer : 

Length of sewers laid in the city of Chicago 

under the Board of Sewerage Commisioners, 

up to December 1st, 185i> . 

1.59(5 feet of Sewers 6 feet ic diameter. 

6.0M " " 5 " '• 

1.021 •' " 4 '* 

280 " " 3 " " 

1.452 " " 2K 

12.062 " " 2 " 

8.304 " " 1 " 



Total 31,662 " " or siz miles. 
The total expenses incurred on account of the 
work, including preliminary expenses for sur- 
veys, maps, profiles, &c, as also materials and 
construction, is $133,800. Materials on hand 
consisting of brick, pipes, cement, &c, to be 
used during next season's operations, included 
in the foregoing amount, $11,000. 
Wm. B. Ogden, j 
J. D. Webster, >■ Commissioners. 
S. Lind. J 

Wm. Gamble, Secretary. 
E. S. Chesbrongh, Chief Engineer. 

W. H. Clarke, Assistant Engineer. 
John Reid, " " 

A. F. Bradley, " 



Public Improvements. 

As a corporation is but the product of its mul- 
tiplied citizens, the municipal will generally re- 
flect the individual character of a city. Inas- 
much, however, as the expenditures made by a 
city in its corporate capacity have in view a more 
general good, and are frequently of a strictly 
eleemosynary character} they evidence a more 
robust enterprise and a larger liberality than 
those made by individuals in response to the r 
own immediate wants. Whoever examines the 
following statement, kindly furnished us by E. 



Granger, Esq., the City Superintendent, will 
find ample proof that Chicago appreciates her 
high ca'hng as a great centre of wealth and 
moral influence, and is responding to the de- 
mands of her educational interests, her charities 
and her augmenting commerce with no niggard- 
ly hand : 

Olark street bridge, repairs $ 727 06 

Weils " " wrecking of i Id structure 

and removing $ 37183 

Wells street bridge.new structure per 

contract 15.000 00 

Wells street bridge, new structure, 

bill extras on cod tract 771 97 

Wells street bridge, fill'? approaches 1,227 84 
dredging and 

pulling old piles 1,285 60 

Wells street bridge, repairs to new 

structure 525 65-19,182 89 

Kir zie street bridge, repairs 39252 

Chicago avenue bridge, rebuilt 4,013 75 

Lake street bridge, repairs 1,27637 

Randolph 3treet bridge, repairs of oid struc- 
ture 2140 

Randolph street bridge, wreeting 

and removing o'd structure 235'80 

Randolph street bridge, dredging and 

pulling old piles 1,804 50 

Randolph street bridge, filling ap- 
proaches 4,984 92 

Randolph street bridge, new struc- 
ture for contract 13,084 02 

Randolph street bridge, repairs to 

new structure 1,650 39-20,81163 

Madison street bridge, repaiis 575 31 

VanBuren 396 57 

Polk " " " 37191 

Twelfth " " ■• 6K223 

Lake House Ferry, " 3iJ352 

Wells street Ferry, repairs (established tern- 

porary) 13333 

Randolph street ferry, repairs (established 

temporary) 6839 

Chicago avenue Jerry, repairs, (established 

temporary) 3313 

Rush street iron Dridee. contracted, to be com- 
pleted 1st April. 1857 4S.00U U0 

Amount paid on contract 15,825 00 

Filling, curbing and paving South W$Ler at. 

from Clark to Franklin 13,29912 

Grading and planking West Water Bt„ from 

Lake to Fulton st 465 43 

Grading and planking North Water Bt. from 

Cass to Sand st 328 53 

Filling West Randolph st from Market Hcuse 

toHalstedst 650 80 

Work shop and lumber yard, N. D , removing 

and repairs 12216 

Changing location of sewer through «. Wells 

st. dock 92 00 

Sewering east side Dec-plaines st. from Kmzie 

to Hubbard 88 88 

SeweriDg through Washington st. dock 16 25 

Filling and grading Washington equ»re, N.D. 1,917 I i 

Pcund, N. L>,, repairs 15 27 

Docking and dredging at foot of East Wash- 
ington st 1,020 51 

Planking Chicago av. from Kiver to Olark st. 874 To 
Paving -. Water st. from Wabash av. to rail- 
road 2,563 00 

P.'.vmg Lake st. from State to Market st 29,601 0U 

))earborn Park, fence and sidewalk 29919 

vVork sheps, bridge house and water closets at 

Welest bridge 1,352 29 

Work shops, bridge house and water cl< sets at 

Randolph st. 1 ridge 959 25 

Breaking ice in river MOO 

Raising canal boat (sunken) 9 ;:• 

Engineer's taking soundings , 5531 

Raising hulk of steamer Oregon 1.283 52 

Repairing old C'ty Hospital 139 40 

Filling HighSchoollot, W. D 64953 

S;wering " '• 18776 

Furniture " " 34 25 81154 

Filling through block 10, Wolcott'j addition... 
Planking Clark street from Polk to Monroe 

(lumber) 808 70 

Oil and fuel tor bridg-s 11;, 

Filling and relaying plank in Randolph itreet, 

W. D., from C'inton toDesplsiaes 1,27510 

Filling tasalle st. tromLakeio South Water 

street 46SJ10 

Docking nnd dredging ac foot of Lasal c street, 

„ 8.D 1,10803 

Macadamizing Weils s'.reel from Van Huron to 

Taylor street 1,302 7:1 

Filling and curbing Wells street from Lake to 

South Water ttreet 1,413 43 

Planking Milwaukee avenue from Elston road 

tocitylimits 82057 

Repairs to South Market 1* 41 

Fencing east side or Cemetery ground 41710 



Filling and relaying plank In East Madison 

sir eet from Ki ver to Market street 1,075 93 

Filling, sewering and planking alley through 

blocks 123 and 12-1, School Section addition. 773 84 
FilliDg, sewering and plankin* alley through 

block 126. School section addition 150 19 

Filling and planking tiorth Clark street from 

Riverto Ontario street 3,158 60 

Grading Mohawk street 143 00 

Grading Michigan avenue 102 75 

Add lumber used in the above 9,377 00 

$143,434 09 
In addition to the foregoing, there ia in pro- 
gress and under order, &c. : 

New float bridge at Indiana street.. . *5 000 00 

Erie street 5 000 00 

Polk street 5,000 00 

New draw iron bridge at Madison 

street 30,000 00 

Improvement of harbor at Ft Dear- 
born Point 40.00000 

Improvement of harbor around ol'ks 

No. 6. 7, 14andl4,inO. T 43,000 00 

$128 000 00 

The Wells street Bridge, enumerated in the 
foregoing improvements, was built by D. Har- 
per, Engineer and Bridge Builder. It is 190 feet 
long and 35 feet wide, being the longest draw- 
bridge in the West. It has S trusses 18 feet high 
and G feet at the ends, 2 road-ways 9 feet wide 
in the clear, 2 sidewalks 7 feet wide each. It is 
18 feet above the water, allowing the passage of 
tugs without opening. 

In addition to the above the following build- 
ings have been erected by the city : 

Citt Armory. — This is a three story brick 
building, with two stone fronts. Size, 100 feet 
by 100 feet ; height 70 feet ; cost $40,000. Van 
Osdel & Bauman architects, Weadly & Co., ma- 
sons and stone cutters, A. Grannis, carpenter. 

Engine House No. 7. — This is a two story 
brick building on State street. Size 25 by 50 
feet ; height 40 feet ; cost $9,400. Van Osdel 
& Bauaan, architects; J. Ward, mason ; Green- 
baum, plumber; Boggs & Son, carpenters; Bar- 
ry & Cushing, painters ; Skelly, stone cutter. 

High School. — This building has four stone 
fronts; it is three stories high, with a basement, 
and 52 by SS feet In size ; cost $38,000. Van 
Osdel & Bauman, architects ; Lawrence & Hinch- 
lafif, masons; Greenbaum, plumber; Boggs & 
Son, carpenters ; HcFarlane, gas-fitter ; Fanning 
& Co., stone cutters. 

School House on Chesnut Street. —This is 
a three story brick building, 5S by 78 feet; cost 
$24,000. Van Osdel & Bauman, architects; 
Bishop & Hammet, masons ; Harriot & McDon- 
nel, carpenters; Barry & Cushing, painters. 

The City Hospital— built of brick, three storis 
high, 66 by 115 feet, corner of New and Lasalle 
street — is in process of erection, to be com- 
pleted by the first of J uly next, at a cost of 
$45,000. Carter & Bauer, architects ; Benjamin 
& Leightier, masons; Edward Lesley, carpen- 
ter; Barry & Cushing, painter. 



Churchc9, Academies, &c. 

First Presbyterian Church. — This splendid 
edifice, now in process of erection, is located on 
Wabash avenue, between Van Buren and Con- 



gress streets. The style of architecture is Nor- 
man. A peculiar feature in this style is the 
liberal use of the stilted semi-circniar arches 
for all windows and door-openings, and all orna- 
mental work in the finish in its exterior and in- 
terior. 

This noble structure, 80 by 166 feet in size, is 
to be built of Athens marble, the front being 
highly ornamented with fine and richly carved 
work in stone. At the left of the main entrance 
rises a bold and lofty tower to the height of 
about one hundred and sixty feet. At the right 
a smaller one which vies with its elder brother 
for elegance and beauty of proportion. 

The main or principal entrance is through a 
spacious and elaborately carved Norman door- 
way, and a beautiful groined vestibule conduct- 
ing to the audience room. This room is some 
63 by 97 feet, and 50 feet to the highest point of 
the semi-circular vaulted ceiling, and is lighted 
from sky-lights through highly ornamented 
openings in the ceiling. In the rear is located a 
deep recess across which extends a gallery for 
the organ and choir. The side galleries are self- 
supporting. On each side of the vestibule are 
rooms designed for church and social meetings. 
Directly over this room is one fitted up for Sab- 
bath Schools and evening meetings. Over the 
front door-way is a mullioned window, filled 
with ornamental tracery and stained glass. — 
This edifice will be alike creditable to the Society 
which furnished the means, to the architects 
who have cast these means into so graceful and 
noble a mould, and to the city of which it is a 
conspicuous ornament. Cost $75,000; Boying- 
ton & Whedock, architects; B. & C. D. Weeks, 
masons and plasterers; Boyington & JlcWil- 
liams, carpenters. 

St. Paul's Church.— Now recently, built 
for the First Universalist Society, is located 
on the corner of Wabash Avenue and Van Bu- 
ren street. It is 78 by 96 feet, and when com- 
pleted will be one of the most chaste specimens 
of perpendicular gothic architecture in the West. 
This style of architecture is regarded by many 
as the most appropriate for church edifices of 
any ever adopted in this country. The struc- 
ture we are describing is built of Athens Mar- 
ble in the most thorough and substantial man- 
ner, the massive butresses along the side and 
front, giving it an appearance of great strength 
and durability. The high pointed window and 
door dressings haee deep and bold cut mouldings, 
with richly carved crockets and finials in stone. 
In the centre of the front, rises a lofty spire 
over 200 feet above the side-walk. The main 
roof aud the octaeonal point of the spire is 
carved with slate. At the corners of the main 
building are two turrets, through which the 
church and galleries are entered. In the base- 
ment is a large and commodious room fitted up 
for Sabbath Schools and lectures. The audi- 



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enceroom will be artistically furnished, the ceil- 
ing being high, vaulted and interlaced with ribs 
peculiar to this style of architecture, at the junc- 
ture of which hang richly carved pendants. In 
the rear is a deep recess of a semi-octagonal 
form, designed for the speaker's desk, its ceiling 
intersecting with the main arch ribs. The organ 
gallery is directly over the front entrance, and 
connects with the side-galleries, which are self- 
supporting. Cost $60,000. W. W. Boyington, 
architect; Walker & Boyington, carpenters; 
Brown & Wilder, gas-fitters ; 111. Stone Co., 
cut-stone. 

A stone church in progress on the corner of 
Cass and Huron streets. It is 72 by 150 feet, 
and is estimated to cost $90,000, of which $31,- 
00o, have been expended. E. Burling, architect 
St. Patrick's Church. — This Church is loca- 
ted on Desplaines and Adams streets, West 
Side. It is built of brick, 120 by 64 feet. Cost 
$35,000. Carter & Bauer, architects ; Heald & 
Waterhouse, masons ; W. E. Dunn, carpenter. 

Colored Baptist Church. — This Church is 
situated on Clark street above Polk. It is a 
frame building, 49 feet in height, and 38 by GO 
feet in size. Cost $3,500. P. A. Nicholson, ar- 
chitect. 

Reform School. — This is a frame building 
situated near the old Alms House. It has a 
dormitory 20 by 42 feet, and a school room 36 
by 42 feet. Cost $4,000. Matz & Gray, archi- 
tects ; T. D. Swan, carpenter. 

Westminster Presbyterian Church. — This 
edifice, situated on the corner of Dearborn and 
Ontario streets, is built of stone, 68 by 115 feet. 
Cost $40,000. Boyington & Wheelock, archi- 
tects; Hamilton & Gcodman, masons; M. Ran- 
dolph, carpenter. 

Third Baptist Church. — This is a frame 
building, situated on the corner of Harrison 
street and Edina place. Size 48 by 80 feet. Cost 
$4,200. boyington & Wheelock, architects. 



Hotels, Boarding Houses, <&c. 

Massasoit House. — This Hotel is a brick 
building covered with mastic, four stories high, 
130 by 40 feet, situated on South Water street. 
Gage Brother & Drake, owners ; cost $30,000 ; 
Boyington & Wheelock, architects; M. H. Bald- 
win, mason and plasterer ; Hand & Thompson, 
carpenters ; Heath & Hurd, painters ; B. E. Ro- 
finot, cut stone mason. 

Richmond House. — Hotel on South Water 
street, of Michigan avenue. This is a stone 
uilding 72 by 132 feet and six stories 
high, Richmond & Co., Proprietors. CcBt 
$120,000. W. B. Olmsted, architect; Pe- 
terson & Cochran, masons ; Jas. Brown, 
plumber and gas fitter; J. Foot, carpenter; C. 
Libbey, painter. 

Audubon House, on West Lake street. This 
is a brick building with a stone front, six stories 



high,with a basement, and 43 by 116 feet. Cost 
$60,000. J. W. Cochran, owner. Vanosdel & 
Bauman, archi tects ; Walbaum & Deakling, 
masons; McFarlane, plumber and gas fitter; 
Boggs & Son, carpenters; Douglass, painter; 
King & Co., stone cutter. 

The Cleveland House, situated on West Lake 
street, built by Cochran & Baker, cost $40,000. 

Railrsad Restaurant, store and offices on 

South Water street. This building is of pressed 

brick, 20 by 130 feet, and five stories high. Chas. 

M. Dupuy owner; cost $15,000; Boyington & 

Wheelock, architects ; Wilson & Hughes, plumb- 
ers. 

An additition to the Briggs House, built of 
brick, covered with mastic, five stories high, 
and 60 by 80 feet. Cost $28,000. F. Letz & W. 
Briggs, proprietors. Van Osdel & Bauman, ar- 
chitects ; Walbaum & Deakling, masons ; Ba- 
ker & McEwen, carpenters; Wolf & Co., stone 
cutters. 

A Hotel on the corner of Clark and Van Bu- 
ren streets, built of Milwaukee brick, five stories 
high, 105 by 25 feet. Marks, owner. Cost $13,- 
000. F. E. Khale architect. McFall, contractor 
for the whole. 

A frame boarding house on the corner of 
Twelfth and Buffalo streets, three stories high, 
20 by 50 feet; Barth, owner; cost $2,000; F. E. 
Khale, architect. 

A boarding house on Archer Road. It is a 
frame building with a stone cellar, two stories 
high, and 24 by 60 feet, with an addition. Hen- 
ry Milward, ownerf; cost $3,000; Maiz & Gray, 

architects ; C. & A. Price, masons ; Menard & 
Robinson, carpenters. 

South Division. 

business blocks and buildings. 

Freight House of the American Transpor- 
tation Company. — This is a substantial frame 
dwelling 400 by 100 feet with a central front 
containing the offices 80 by 100 feet and a conve- 
nient and durable dock in the rear. The Com- 
pany occupy the whole block between Washing- 
ton and Madison streets and between Market 
street and the river, making this conspicuous 
even among the mammoth Freight Houses of 
this city. Cost over $20,000. 

A brick store, with iron front, on Lake street 
Size 23 by 160 feet ; height 75 feet ; cost $19,000. 
Savage, Case & Co., owners ; Van Osdel & Bau- 
man, architects ; C. & W. Price, masons ; Wilcox 
& Ballard, carpenters; Comley, gas-fitter; 
Thomson & Alston, painters; P. Wolf & Co., 
stone cutters ; D. D. Badger & Co., iron front. 

A brick store, with iron front on Lake street. 
Size 23 by 160 feet; height 75 feet; cost $19,- 
000. J. W. Waughop, owner; Van Osdel & Bau- 
man, architects ; C. & W. Price, masons ; Wilson 
& Hughes, plumbers ; Boggs & Smith, carpen- 
ters; Comley, gas-fitter; Thomson & Alston, 
painters ; P. Wolf & Co., stone cutters ; D. D. 
Badger & Co., iron front. 



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Two brick stores, with iron fronts, on Lake 
street. 456 by 160 feet; height 75 feet; cost 
$37,000. C. & W. Price, owners ; Van Osdel & 
Bauman, architects ; C. & W. Price, masons ; 
Wiison & Hughes, plumbers ; Boggs & Smith, 
carpenters; Comley, gas fitter; Thompson & 
Alston, painters; P. Wolf & Co., 6tone cutters; 
D. D. Badger & Co., iron fronts. 

A brick store, with iron front, on Randolph 
street, near Dearborn. Size 20 by 90 feet; height 
72>£ feet; cost $13,000. Horton & Kidder own- 
ers ; Van Osdel & Bauman, architects ; Mortimer 
& Loberg, masons ; Wilson & Hughes, plumbers; 
Thomas Soper, carpenter ; Brown & Wilder, gas 
fitters; Morrison & Son, painters; Deakman, 
stone cutter; Stone, Boomer & Bouton, iron 
front. This building was blown down by the 
storm of Dec. 21st. 

A brick bank building, with iron front, corner 
of Randolph and Dearborn, (foundation only 
laid.) Size 20 by 90 feet; cost $25,000. D. Mc- 
Ilroy owner ; Van Osdel & Bauman, architects ; 
Mortimer & Loberg, masons; Wilson & Hughes, 
plumbers; Thomas Soper, carpenter; Brown & 
Wilder, gas fitters; Morris & Son, painters; 
Deakman, stonecutter; Stone, Boomer & Bou- 
ton, iron front. 

A four story brick store, with stone front, on 
Lake street, near Clark, 20 by 90 feet; cost 
$7,000. George Smith & Co. owners ; Van Os- 
del & Bauman, architects; Ed. Price, mason; 
Dunn, carpenter; Brown & Wilder, gas fitters; 
Thompson & Alston, painters; Illinois Stone 

Co., cut stone. This store is rented at $6,000 
per annum. 

A four story brick store with stone front, 20 
by 90 feet. Cost $7,000. A. H. & C. Burley 
owners ; Van Osdel & Bauman, architects ; Ed« 
Price, mason; Dunn, carpenter ; Brown & Wil- 
der, gas fitters; Thomson & Alston, painters ; 
111. Stone Co., cut stone. 

A five story brick store, with stone front on 
Lake street near State, 20 by 40 feet. Cost $16,- 
000. N. Tuttle, owner; Van Osdel & Bauman, 
architects ; C. & W. Price, masons ; Wilson & 
Hughes, plumbers; James Walter, carpenter; 
Comley, gas fitter; Heath & Hurd, painters; 
Deakman, stone cutter. 

A brick store with iron front on Lake street, 
between State and Wabash avenue. Size 6S by 
140 feet ; height 72 feet. Cost $17,000. S. P. 
Skinner, owner ; Van Osdel & Bauman, archi- 
tects ; C. & W. Price, masons ; Raffen, plumber ; 
J. W. Watson, carpenter;; Comley, gas fitter 
Heath & Hurd, painters ; P. Wolf, stone cutter; 
D. D. Badger & Co., iron front. 

A brick store with iron front, on Lake street, 
between State street and Wabash avenue. Size 
22 by 135 ; height 72 feet ; cost $17,000. J. Mc- 
Cord, owner; Van Osdel & Bauman, architects ; 
Thos. Milner, mason ; Wilson & Hughes, Plumb- 
ers ; J. Campbell, carpenter; Comley, gas fitter ; 



Heath & Hurd, painters ; P. Wolf, stone cutter; 
D. D. Badger & Co., iron front. 

A brick store, with iron front, on Lake street 
Size 22 by 135 feet; height 72 feet; cost $17,000. 
Late Geo. Collins, owner; Van Osdel & Bau- 
man, architects ; Thos. Milner, mason ; Wilson 
& Hughes, plumbers ; J. Campbell, carpenter; 
Comley, gas fitter; Heath & Hurd, painters; 

P. Wolf, stone cutter ; D. D. Badger & Co., iron 
front. 

A brick store with iron front on Lake street. 
Size 22 by 135 feet ; height 72 feet; cost $17,000. 
T. King, owner; Van Osdel & Bauman, archi- 
tects ; Thos. Milner, mason ; Wilson & Hughes, 
plumbers; J. Campbell, Carpenter; Comley, 
gas fitter ; Heath & Hurd, painters ; P. Wolf, 
stone cutter ; D. D. Badger & Co., iron front. 

A brick store with iron front on Lake street. 
Size 22 by 135 feet; height 72 feet; cost $22,000. 

C. N. Henderson, owner; Van Osdel & Bauman, 
architects ; Heald & Waterhouse, masons ; Wil- 
son & Hughes, plumbers ; Wilcox & Ballard, 

carpenters; Fanning & Co., stone cutters; D. 

D. Badger & Co., iron front. 

Two brick stores with iron fronts on Lake 
street, adjoining City Hotel. Size 45 feet 6 
inches by 160 feet; height 75 feet; cost $37,000. 
Thos. Church, owner ; Van Osdel & Bauman, 
architects ; C. & W. Price, masons ; Wilson & 
Hughes, plumbers; Wilcox & BaLard, carpen- 
ters ; Comley, gas fitters ; Thomson & Alston, 
painters ; D. D. Badger & Co., iron fronts. 

A Brewery on Indiana avenue, consisting of 
several brick buildings two stories high with a 
cellar. Cost $8,000. M. Best, owner; Van Os- 
del &. Bauman, architects. 

Four three story frame stores on State street. 

Cost $7,000. C. R. Starkweather, owner; Van 
Osdel & Bauman, architects. 

Gallery to Metropolitan Hall for John M. Gur- 
ley. Cost $2,500. Van Osdel & Bauman, archi- 
tects ; Boyington & McWilliams, carpenters. 

A block of four brick stores with iron fronts 
on the corner of Wells and South Water streets. 
Size 80 by 150 feet; height 74 feet. Cost $95,000. 
Allen Robbins, owner; Van Osdel & Bauman, 
architects; P. Button, mason; Hughes & Wil- 
son, plumbers; John Hollister.carpenter; Com- 
ley, gas-fitter ; Barry & dishing painters ; Rofi- 
uot,stone-cutter. Both fronts 350 feet of iron ; 
75 feet high ; from D. D. Badger & Co's Iron 
Works New York. This is said to be one of the 
largest and finest iron front buildings in tha 
country, and is an ornament to the city. 

Three brick stores with iron fronts on the 
corner of Lake and State streets ; size 68 by 140 
feet; height 72 feet; cost $60,000. F. Tuttle, 
owner; Van Osdel & Bauman, architects; C. 
& W. Price, masons; Raffen, j plumber; J. M. 
Watson, carpenter; Comley, Jgas-fitter; Heath 
and Hurd, painters ; Rofinot, stone cutter. Iron 

fronts furnished and put up by D. D. Badger 
& Co., New York. 



A five story brick store 20 by 160 feet on Ran- 
dolph street; Greenbaum & Son owers; cost 
§16,000. Carter and Bauer, architects ; Deitz 
& Price masons ; Greenbaum, plumber ; Boggs 
& Son carpenters ; Brown & V\ ilder, gas-fitters ; 
Heath & Hurd, painters. 

A five story brick store 20 by 160 feet on Ran- 
dolph street; A. D. Taylor, owner; cost $14,- 
000. Carter & Bauer, architects ; Deitz & 
Price, masons; Greenbaum, plumbers; A D. 
Taylor, carpenter; brown & Wilder, gas-fitter3; 
Heath & Hurd, painters. 

A five story brick store 25 by Gl feet, on 
Franklin street; owned by Kcefler; cost $3,000. 
Carter & Bauer, architects ; Pull & Barton, ma- 
sons ; Greenbaum, plumber; J. Allen, carpen- 
ter; Lamparter, g\s-fitter; Drake, painter. 

A three story brick store 40 by 120 feet, an 
extension, on Randolph street ; W. Blair, own- 
er; cost $8,500. Carter & Bauer, architects; 
Hardcastle & Cobb, masons; Wilson & Hughes, 
plumbers; S. Johnson, carpenter; Thomson 
& Alston, painters. 

A three story brick store, extension, 40 by 
101 feet on Randolph street, J. Burr, owner ; 
cost $8,000. Carter & Bauer, architects ; Hard- 
castle & Cobb.masons ; Wilson & Hughes, plum- 
bers; S. Johnson, carpenter; Thomson & Al- 
ston, painters. 

A five story marble store, 24 by 145 feet on 
Lake street. W. H. Magie, owner ; cost $27,000. 
Carter & Bauer.'architects; Moss & Bro., ma- 
sons ; Greenbaum, plumber ; Boggs & Son, car- 
penters ; Moss & Bro., plasterers ; Brown & 
Wilder, gas-fitters ; Hummer, painter. 

A five story marble store, 23 by 145 feet on 
Lake street. C.Wright, owner; cost $25,600. 
Carter & Bauer, architects; Moss & Bro., ma- 
sons; Greenbaum, plumber; Bullard & Wilcox 
carpenters; Moss & Bro., plasterers ; Brown & 
Wilder, gas-fitters; Hummer, painter. 

A five story marble store, 28 by 145 feet on 
Lake street. E. Wright, owner. Cost $25,600. 
Carter & Bauer, architects ; Moss & Bro. masons; 
Greenbaum, plumber; Ballard & Wilcox, car- 
penters ; Moss & Bro. plasterers ; Brown & Wil- 
der, gas fitters. Hummer, painter. 

A five story brick store, 40 by 80 feet, on Lake 
street. E. H. Haddock, owner. Cost $13,000'; 
Carter & Bauer, architects; Manning, mason; 
Rice, carpenter ; Brown & Wilder, gas fitters; 
Barry & Cushing, painters. 

A five story brick store 20 by 80 feet on State 
street. S. Sawyer, owner. Cost $7,500. Carter 
& Bauer, architects ; Manning, mason ; Rice, 
carpenter; Brown & Wilder, gas fitters ; Barry 
& Cushing, painters. 

Two five story brick stores, 23 by 95'feet, cor- 
ner of Water and State streets. J. H. Dunham, 
owner. Cost $28,000. Carter & Bauer, archi- 
tects ; Moss & Chambers, masons ; Wilson & 



Hughes, plumbers; E. Ewing, carpenter; J. 
Brown, gas fitter; Donaby, painter. 

A five story brick store 28 by 95 feet, corner 
of Water and State streets. E. D. Taylor, own- 
er. Cost $'J, . Carter & Bauer, architects ; 
Moss & Chambers, masons ; Wilson & Hughes, 
plumbers; E. Ewing, carpenter; Barry & Cush- 
ing. painters. 

Five two story frame stores 20 by 40 feet on 
Clark street. E. S. Williams, owner. Cost 
$7,000. Carter & Bauer, architects; Hern & 
Mason, carpenters. 

Three two story frame stores 18 by 60 feet on 
Clark street. Capt. A. Bigelow, owner. Cost 
$3,400. Carter & Bauer, architects ; W. Goldie, 
carpenter. 

Six two story frame stores 20 by 60 feet on 
Clark street. J. G. Hansbrough, owner; cost 
$7,200 ; Carter & Bauer, architects ; W. Goldie 
carpenter. 

A Type Foundry on Washington street, under 
roof and to be completed during the winter. It 
is built ot brick, four stories high, and 20 by 50 
feet. C. T. White, owners; cost $3,600; Carter 
& Bauer, architects ; Moss & Brother, masons ; 
Ballard & Wilcox, carpenters. 

A four story brick store, 40 by 60 feet, on 
Clark street. H. B. Clancy, owner; cost $7,000. 
A five story store, marble front, 60 by 120 
feet, on Wabash avenue. Cooley & Farwell, 
owners ; cost $30,000 ; Carter & Bauer, archi- 
tects ; Baldwin & Thomas, masons ; Bingly, car- 
penter ; E. D. Comly & Co., gas-fitters ; Barry & 
Cushing, painters; Walworth & Co., steam. 

Two four story brick and frame stores, 80 by 
73 feet on State street. G. W. Snow, owner ; 
cost $8,000; Carter & Bauer, architects ; Marcus 
mason; Marcus, carpenter; Brown & Wilder, 
gas-fitters ; Barry & Cushinjr, painters. 

Carter & Bauer have made plans for about 
$10,000 of buildings in this division of which 
they have had no oversight. 

A frame block on Clark street, for stores and 
residences, 40 feet in height; size 44 by 80. W. 
& G. Wright owners. Cost $5,000; Olmsted & 
Nicholson, architects; J. Brown, plumber and 
gas-fitter; Marshall, carpenter. 

A brick factory (addition) situated on Sedg- 
wick street, 25 feet in height; size 72 by 90 feet; 
J. Garland, owner; cost $3,000; P. A. Nicholson, 
architect; Loberg & Mortimer, masons. 

Six two-story frame s ores and dwellings 
each 19 by 35 feet, Waller, owner; cost $10,000; 
W. H. Bayless, architect; J. E. Prince, con- 
tractor. 

Four brick stores, three stories, with a cellar, 
81 by 62 feet, on Madison street. James and 
Strong Wadsworth, owners; cost $12,000; Matz 
& Gray, architects. 

Pork and Slaughter House on the South 
Branch, Henry Milward, proprietor. It is built 
of brick, two stories high, with a cellar. Size 



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130 by 134 feet ; cost $25,000. It has a station 
ary engine house of brick, 22 by 50 feet, and a 
brick sa't house, 22 by 50. The chimney is of 
iroD. It is one of the most complete buildings 
of the kind in the country, having ample accom- 
modations for killing fifteen hundred hogs per 
day. It fronts n rthward on the river and 
southward on the Archer Road. Matz & Gray, 
architects; C. & A.Price, masons; Menard & 
Robinson, carpenters; Pfeiffer, stone cutter. 

A block of marble stores, nearly completed, on 
the corner of Lake street and Wabash avenue. 
Among the many splendid stores erected in the 
city during the past season, there are none per- 
haps that surpass these. The style of architec- 
ture, quality of material, workmanship, and es- 
pecially its substantial foundation, so desirable 
in this city, render this block of particular inter- 
est and value. The design is claimed as origi- 
nal, and as well adapted to wholesale stores. Ii 
comprises three stores, two of which are built by 
John R. Mills. They are 48 by 140 feet, five 
stories high with basement; cost $40,000. W. 
W. Boyington, architect; B. & C. D. Weeks, 
masons ; Wilson & Hughes, plumbers ; James 
Campbell, carpenter; Reese & Healy, painters. 

The remaining one is built by Charles Follans- 
be. It is 24 by 140 feet, five stories, with a 
basement; cost §16,000; Boyington & Wheel- 
ock, architects; D. D. Huddleston, carpenter ; 
J. E. Reese, painter. 

A four-story store on 4 Clark street, of pressed 
brick, 25 by SI feet. Cyrus Bentley, owner. 
Cost, $8,000. W. W. Boyington, architect; W. 
H. Baldwin, mason ; Wilson & Hughes, plumb- 
ers; John Sollitt, carpenter; Brown & Wilder, 
gas-fitters ; Rollins & Gaylord, painters. 

Eleven stores on the corner of Randolph and 
State streets, built of pressed brick, four stories 
high, 62 by 75 feet. F. Parmelee & Co., owners. 
Cost, $55,000. W. W. Boyington, architect ; 
Hambleton & Goodman, masons; Boggs & Son, 
carpenters ; Heath & Hurd, painters. 

Three stores, of pressed brick, five stories, 

with basement, 96 by 102 feet, on River street. 

Norton, Walter & Rogers, owners. Cost, $40,- 

000. W. W. Boyington, architect ; B. & C. D. 

Weeks, masons; W. C. Deakman, cut-stone 
mason. 

Two marble stores and dwellings, on South 
Water street, six stories high, with basement, 
48 by 100 feet. Chas. B. Phillips, owner. Cost, 
$35,000. Boyington & Wheelock, architects; 
Moss & Bro., masons. 

Two stores of pressed brick, on South Water 
street, 25 by 130 fett, five stories high. Carter 
& Fisher, owners. Cost, $12,000. Boyington & 
Wheelock, architects. 

A frame sale-stable, on State street, two stories 
high, 40 by 180 feet. Cost, $3,000. Wren & 
Perrin, owners. Boyington & Wheelock, archi- 
tects ; D. W. Clark, carpenter. 



A frame store and dwelling, on State street, 
25 by 50 feet, two otories high. Samuel Kay, 
owner. Cost, $2,000. Boyington & Wheelock, 
architects. 

A three-story brick store and dwelling, 25 by 
80 feet, on State street, for Harlys & Pitt. Cost, 
$4,000. Boyington & Wheelock, architects. 

A building, situated on the corner of South 
Water and Franklin streets, for stores, mercan- 
tile offices, five stories high, with a cellar, 
built of Milwaukee pressed brick, with stone 
lintels and window caps, 120 by 53 feet; Col. E. 
D. Taylor, owner; cost $40,000. F. E. Khale, 
architect; Mos3 & Bro., masons; Greenbaum, 
plumber; Tho3. S. Forrest, carpenter; McGraw, 
plasterer; Reese & Healy, painters ; Letz.wrought 
iron ; Brown & Wilder, gas-fitters. The foun- 
dation of this building wai a difficult one, one 
corner being twenty feet below the river level. 

A building fronting on the corner of South 
Water and Lasalle streets, built of Milwaukee 
brick, five stories high, 50 by 50 feet ; Geo. Steel' 
owner; cost $26,000. F. E. Khale, architect; 
Mortimer & Loberg, masons and plasterers ; 
Greenbaum, plumber; Losser, carpenter; Gran- 
ger, cast iron ; Reese & Healy, painters; Clark 
& Son., wrought iron ; Gerould & Bro., gas-fit- 
ters. 

A brick store and dwelling two stories high 
with a cellar; 25 by 50 feet on Milwaukee plank 
road; Deaden, proprietor; cost $2,300; F. E. 
Khale, architect; A. Easterbruck, contractor. 

A two-story brick store 20 by 50 feet on Ran- 
dolph street; Gerber, owner; cost $2,300; F. E. 
Khale, architect; Bishop & Hummurich, masons. 

A frame block, comprising eight stores and 
seventeen dwellings, two and three stories high; 
150 by 231 feet Lake and Jefferson streets; 
L. L. Baker, ~ovrner; cost $20,000; F. E. 
Khale, architect; Cleveland & Russell, contrac- 
tors and carpenters. 

Two six-story marble stores 4S by 100 feet on 
Water street; C. B. Phillips, owner; cost ,$35,- 
000; W.| B. Olmsted, architect; Cleveland & 
Russell, carpenters. 

Two two-story frame stores, 25 by 61 feet on 
Clark street; W. & T. Wright, owners; cost 
$6,000; W. B. Olmsted, architect; W. Marshall, 
carpenter; J. Brown, gas-fitter. 

RESIDENCES. 

A Marble Terrace is in process of construc- 
tion on Michigan avenue, which, when complet 
ed, will comprise fourteen superb dwellings. 
The walls for ten of these dwellings are finished 
and roofed in, and the foundations for the elev- 
enth are laid ready for its early erection the 
coming season. The following is the description 
of those now in progress : 

One for F. C. Sherman, 2S by 60 feet, five sto- 
ries high. Cost $30,000. 

One for F. S. Sherman, 26 by 60 feet, four sto- 
ries high. Cost $1S,000. 



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One for Chap. Walker, 26 by 68 feet, four sto- 
ries high. Cost §18,000. 

One for Wm. Bross, 26 by 50 feet, four stories 
high. Cost 118,000. 

One for John Sears, jr., 26 by 50 feet, four 
Stories high. Cost $1S,000. 

One for S. C. Griggs, 26 by 67 feet, four sto- 
ries high. Cost §18,000. 

One for Tuthill King, 26 by 73 feet, five stories 
high. Cost §23,000. 

One for Hugh T. Dickey, 26 by 65 feet, five 
stories high. Cost $23,000. 

One for Henry McAuley, 26 by 76 feet; four 
stories high. Cost §20,000. 

One for J. L. Clark, 26 by 53 feet, four stories 
high. Cost §15,000. The walls of this resi- 
dence were put up last year. It is now finished 
and occupied by the owner. 

One for J. T. Scammon, 23 by 113 feet, five 
stories high. Cost §30,000. 

Each of these residences has also a basement 
aDd cellar. W. W. Boyington is the architect 
of the entire structure. Carter & Miller are the 
masons and plasterers of the first nine and of the 
eleventh, and J. W. Hambleton of the remain- 
ing one. T. S. Sanford is the carpenter of the 
first and second enumerated, Hern & Mason of 
the third, fourth, seventh, eighth and tenth, and 
Boggs & Smith of the sixth. E. L. Comley & 
Co. are the gas fitters of the sixth, seventh and 
eighth. Heath & Hurd are the painters of the 
first, and Geo. Drake of the ninth. Levi W. 
Park cut-stone mason ; f the nine first, and the 
Illinois Stone Co. of the tenth. The site for this 
magnificent block was selected several years 
since, with a prospect that a bbek of pressed 
brick dwellings would then be erected upon it ; 
but as all the different interests could not be 
conceatrated the project remained quiet from 
year to year. Meanwhile, the owners becoming 
more wealthy, and the location more desirable, 
it was conceded by all the parties interested 
that nothing less than palatial marble fronts 
would comport with the value of the site and the 

style of building prevalent in the city. 

The design is so far realized that we can point 
our friends and strangers to it as one of the 
most beautiful blocks of private dwellings which 
any city in the Union can boast. Its graceful 
proportions and harmonious style of architec- 
ture indicate the good taste and superior ability 
of the architect, as the elegant workmanship does 
the unsurpassed skill of Chicago mechanics. 

A three story residence of pressed brick, 25 
by 50 feet, on Wabash avenue, for H. H. Hu- 
sted; cost §10,000; Boyington & Wheelock, ar- 
chitects ; Heald & Waterhouse, masons ; Wilson 
& Hughes, plumbers; C. Vreeland, carpenter; 
B. F. Chase, painter. 

A three story residence of pressed brick, 25 by 
50 feet, on Wabash avenue, for T. F. Cook ; cost 



§10,000 ; Boyington & Wheelock, architects ; 
Heald & Waterhouse, masons; C. V reeland, car- 
penter. 

A marble residence three stories high, with a 
basement 27 by 50 feet, on Wabash avenue, for 
C. T. Wheeler ; cost §11,000 ; W. W. Boyington, 
architect; Samuel D. Walter, mason; James 
Brown, plumber; Dett & Lombard, carpenters ; 
Gerould Bros., gas-titters; Illinois Stone Co.. 
cut-stone. 

A marble residence three stories high, with a 
basement 27 by 50 feet, on Wabash avenue, for 
R. T. Gill; cost §11,000; W. W. Boyington, ar- 
chitect; S. L. Walter, mason; James Brown, 
plumber; Dett & Lombard, carpenters ; Gerould 
Bros., gas-fittters ; Illinois Stone Co., cut-stone. 
A three story marble building with a base- 
ment, 27 by 50 feet, on Wabash avenue, for 
Daniel Thompson ; cost §11,000 ; W. W. Boy- 
ington, architect ; S. L. Walter, mason; James 
Brown, plumber; Dett & Lombard, carpenters; 
Gerould Bros., gas-fitters ; Illinois Stone Co., 
cut-stone. 

A two story residence of Milwaukee brick, 25 
by 75 feet, on Wabash avenue, for Joel C. Wal- 
ter; cost §18,000; W, W. Boyington, architect; 
S. L. Walter, mason: Jas. Brown, plumber; 
Dett & Lombard, carpenters; Gerould Bros., 
gas-fitters; Illinois Stone Co., cut-stone. 

A two story frame residence 35 by 75 feet on 
Wabash avenue, for A. Luddington. Cost §7000. 
Boyington & Wheelock, architects; Wilson & 
Hughes, plumbers; J. Clark, carpenter. 

A two story frame residence 35 by 75 feet on 
Wabash avenue, for M. A. Neef. Cost §7,000. 
W. W. Boyington, architect. 

A two story frame residence 24 by 50 feet on 
Wabash avenue for Wm. H. Adams. Cost §4,000. 
W. W. Boyington, architect. 

A three story marble residence 26 by 60 feet 
on Washington street, for Dr. N. S. Davis. Cost 
§12,900. Boyington & Wheelock, architects; 
B. & C. D. Weeks, masons ; Saunders & Heeney, 
carpenters. 

A two story frame residence, 33 by 70 feet on 
North street, for James K. Burtis. Cost §6,000. 
W. W. Boyington, architect; W. Goldie, car 
penter. 

Two residences of pressed brick, three stories 
and basement, 56 by 44 feet on Wabash avenue, 
for Peter'Page. Cost §25,000. W.W. Boying- 
ton, architect ; James Biown, plumber; Heath 
& Hurd, painters. 

Two marble residences three stories and base- 
ment, 75 by 50 feet on Wabash avenue, for J, 
W. Waughop. Cost §25,000. Boyington & 
Wheelock, architects; B. & C. D. Weeks, ma- 
sons. 

A two story frame dwelling 25 by 50 feet on 
Buffalo street, for Wm. Piser. Cost §2,500. W. 
W. Boyington, architect. 
A block of three buildings with barns, on Wa- 



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bash avenue South of North street, each three 
stories high and 18 by 60 feet in size ; cost $1000. 
Jacob Harris, owner; E. Burling, architect; 
Greenbaum, plumber; Brown & Wilder, gas- 
fitters; Morrison & Sons, painters; Price & 
Deitv, masons; Jacob Harris, builder. 

A two story frame dwelling in progress on 
Michigan avenue, 26 by 82 feet; estimated cost, 
$7,000; expended $2,000; E. Burling, archi- 
tect. 

A three story brick residence in progress on 
Wabash avenue, 30 by 60 feet ; estimate cost, 
$16,000; expended $13,000; E. Burling, archi- 
tect. 

A 1wo story frame residence in progress on 
Wabash avenue; estimated cost, $6,000; ex- 
pended $2,C00; E. Burling architect. 

A brick residence with stone front, on Wa- 
bash avanue; size 24 by 42 feet, with addition; 
height, three stories and basement; cost $11,- 
000. A. G. Burley, proprieter ; Van Osdel & 
Bauman, architects ; Heald and Waterhouse, 
mason ; Wilder & Hughes, plumbers ; S. John- 
son carpenter; Brown & 'Wilder, gas-fitters; 
Thomson & Alston, painters; Illinois Stone 
Company, cut stone. 

A two story frame residence with a basement, 
20 by 44 feet on Michigan avenue, for E. L. Sher- 
man ; cost $15,000. Van Osdel & Bauman, ar- 
chitectects; Weadly & Co., masons; Wilson & 
Hughes, plumbers; A Booth, carpenter; Brown 
& Wilder, gas-fitters ; fleath & Hurd, painters; 
Skelly, stone cutter. 

A two story brick residence with a basement, 
on Wabash avenue, 50 by 38 feet, for P. War- 
ner; cost $10,000. Van Osdel & Bauman, arch- 
itects; P. Warner, mason; Wilcox & Ballard, 
carpenters; Wolf & Co., stone cutters. 

Two two-story frame cottages 22 by 5S feet 
each on Wabash avenue, for G. P. Adams; cust 
$9,000; Carter & Bauer, architect; W. Barker, 
mason; Jas. Brown, plumber; J. J. Lape, car- 
penter; Barker, plasterer; James Brown, gas- 
fitter. 

A two-story brick residence, 30 by 05 feet, on 
Wabash avenue, for E. H. Haddock; cost $18,000; 
Carter & Bauer, architects; Manning, mason; 
Rice, carpenter; Manning, plasterer; Walworth 
& Co., gas fitters; Barry & Gushing, painters; 
Walworth & Co., steam. 

A four story marble residence, 24 by 40 feet 
on Wabash avenue, for T. V. Chamberlain; cost 
$9,000; Carter & Bauer, architects; Waulbaum & 
Deakling, masons; Wilson & Hughes, plumbers; 
Boggs & Smith, carpenters; White & Thomasi 
plasterers; Jas. Brown, gas-fitter; Barry & Cash- 
ing, painters. 

Two four-story marble residences, 20 by 62 
feet each, on Wabash avenue, for J. H. Kedzie; 
cost $24,000 each; Carter & Bauer, architects; 
Henry Cobb, mason; Greenbaum & Bro., plumb- 
ers; Parker & Moody, carpenters; White & 



Thomas, plasterers; C. L. Comly [& Co., gas 
fitters; C. Hummer, painter. 

Three two-story frame cottages, 22 by 58 feet 
each, on Wabash avenue, for R. S. King; cost 
$11,000; Carter &3 Bauer, architect; Baldwin, 
Mason; Raffin, plumber; Baker & McEwen, car- 
penters; Baldwin, plasterer; D. Brobson, pain- 
ter. 

A residence of brick and cut stone, 40 feet in 
height, 64 by 68 feet on Washington and Union 
Park, for S. S. Hayes. Cost, $20,000. Olmsted 
& Nicholson, architects; J. Cotter, mason; 
Greenbaum, plumber; P. Healy, carpenter; 
Donahue & Fitzmorris, plasterers; R. McFar- 
lane, gas-fitter. 

A frame residence, thirty-one feet in height, 
4o by 48 feet, in South Division, for H. Knights. 
Cost, $2,900. P. A. Nicholson, architect. 

Two frame dwellings, 29 feet in height, 41 by 
48 feet, on Adams street, forE. ML Connel. Cost, 
$3,700. P. A. Nicholson, architect. 

A frame residence, 28 feet in height, 20 by 53 
feet, on Wabash avenue, for F. H. Hannah. 
Cost, $2,000. P. A. Nicholson, architect. 

A two story frame residence, 24 by 57 feet, on 
Wabash avenue, for J. Denister. Cost, $4,000. 
W. B. Olmsted, architect ; A. Grannis, contrac- 
tor. 

A two story brick residence, 44 by 72, for G. 
W. Gilson. Cost, $22,000. W. B. Olmsted, 
architect ; J. Foot, contractor. 

A two story frame residence, 40 by 60 feet, on 
Wabash avenue. R. M. Mitchell & Co., owners ; 
cost $4,000; Matz & Gray, architects ; Hughes 
& Wilson, plumbers; James Allen, carpenter; 
McGraw, plasterer ; Comly, gas fitter. 

A two story frame residence, 24 by 26 feet, 
with addition 21 by 18 feet, on Wabash avenue, 
for Rev. Mr. Shippen ; cost 2,700; Matz & Gray, 
architects ; Vreeland, carpenter. 

Four brick residences, three stories high, with 
a basement, 100 by 50 feet, with an addition, on 
Wabash aveDue, for J. M. Turner, J. T. Ed- 
wards, Leroy Church and Keene; cost $33,000; 
Matz and Gray, architects; Charles Busbie, ma- 
son; James Allen and Vreeland, carpenters; Pe- 
ter Wolf & Co., stone cutting. 

A two story frame residence, 24 Dy 34, with 
addition IS by 18 feet, for T. D. Owen ; cost 
2,100; Matz and Gray, architects; Houghton, 
carpenter. 

A two story brick residence, 24 by 40 feet, on 
Wabash avenue, for ijivingston ; cost $3,500 ; 
Carter & Bauer, architects. 

A two story brick residence 28 by 60 feet, on 
Indiana avenue, for S. B. Pomeroy ; cost $15,000 ; 
Carter & Bauer, architects ; Deitz & Price, ma- 
sons ; Wilson & Hughes, plumbers ; Hammett 
& Brother, plasterers; Brown & Wilder, gas-fit- 
ters ; Walworth & Co., steam. 

A two story brick residence, 28 by 60 feet, on 
Michigan avenue, for C. B. Brown ; cost $16,000 ; 



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Carter & Bauer, architects ; C. & B. D. Weeks, 
masons; Greeubaurn, plumber; Boggs & Smith, 
carpenters ; White & Thomas, plasterers; Hrown 
& Wilder, gas fitters; Heath & Hurd, painters; 
Walworth & Co., steam. 

A four story marble residence, 29 by 104 feet, 
on Michigan Avenue, for W. H. Brown ; cost 
§28,000. Carter & Baner, architects ; Lawrence 
& Hinchliff, masons; Wilson & Hughes, plumb- 
ers ; T. Johnson, carpeuter; White & Tho-na-*, 
pksterers; Brown & Wilder, gas-fitters ; Barry 
&. Gushing, psinters ; Walworth & Co., steam. 

A two story frame cottage, 24 by GO feet, on 
Michigan Avenue, for R. D. Holt; cost $8,000. 
Carter & Baner, architects; M. D. Baldwin, ma- 
son; Raffin & Son, plumbers; James & Plum- 
sted, carpenters ; Baldwin, plasterer; Brown & 
Wilder, gas-fitters; Barry & Cushing, painters; 
Walworth & Co., steam. 

A two story frame cottage, 37 by 100 feet, on 
Michigan Avenue, for S. B. Cobb ; cost £7,500 
Carter & Bauer, architect; M. D. Baldwin, ma- 
son; James Brown, plumber; J. Sol lit, carpen- 
ter; White & Thomas, plasterers; Brown & 
Wilder, gas-fitters; Barry & Cushing, painters. 

Two two-story frame residences, 40 by 36 feet, 
with addition, on Adams street, for Seorge P. 
Goodwin. Cost, §3,000. Matz & Gray, archi- 
tects ; Woolacott, mason ; T. A. Rubel, plumber ; 
Woolacott & Adams, carpenters; T. Comly 
gas-fitter. 

A two-story frame residence, on Edina place. 
25 by 50 feet, for Max M. Gerstley. Cost, $2,- 
900. Ms.tz & Gray, architects ; McGraw, mason; 
Allen Clark, carpenters; Livingston, gas-fitter. 

Two brick residences, three stories and a base- 
ment, 50 by 40 feet, on Edina place, for Mr- 
Walker. Cost, §14,000. Matz & Gray, archi- 
tects; Chas. Busbie, mason; Peter Wolf & Co., 
stone cutting. 

A two-story frame residence, with stone base- 
ment, 32 by 25 feet, on Edina place, for W. B. 
H. Gray. Cost, §2,500. Matz & Gray, archi- 
tects ; B. Bailey, carpenter. 

Seven two-story frame dwellings, 18 by 32 feet 
each, on Edina place, for Walker. Cost, §10,000. 
W. H. Bayless, architect ; J. C. Prince, contrac- 
tor. 

A reliable correspondent assures us that on 
the west side of the river at least 2,000 residence 
buildings have been erected during thi3 year, at 
a cost of over §250,000. 

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IVorth Division. 

B0SINESS BLOCKS AND BUILDINGS. 

Three four story brick stores, 20 by 1G2 feet 
each on North Water street. G. W. & J. Q. Ad- 
ams, owners. Cost, §23,000. Carter & Bauer, 
architects; Malcom & Gnut, masons; James 
Brown, plumber ; Cleveland & Russell, carpen- 
ters; Jas. Brown, gas-fitter; Dan Brobson. 
painter. 

Seven three story brick stores, 20 by 100 feet, 
on Michigan and Dearborn streets. Lake & 
Brown, owners. Cost, §28,000. Carter & Bauer, 
architects; Mortimer & Loberg, masons; Pow- 



ers & Boyce, carpenters ; Brown & Wilder, gas- 
fitters ; Dan Brobson, painter. 

A three story frame store, 20 by;80 feet, on 
Michigan and Dearborn streets. Lake & Brown, 
owners. Cost, §4,000. Carter & Bauer, archi- 
tects ; Page & Warner, masons ; Baker & Mc- 
Ewen, carpenters. 

Frame stores and dwelling, two stories, 100 by 
60 feet, on North Clark street; S. H. Kerfoot & 
Co., owners; cost §7000; Boyington & Wheelock, 
architects. 

A brick warehouse on Kiuzie street; cost §15,- 
000; W. W. Boyiugton, architect; W. Marshall, 
carpenter. 

A stone blacksmith shop with a slate roof, 63 
by 72 feet, on North avenue, for John S. Wright; 
cost §8000; Matz & Gray, architects; Grant & 
Malcolm, masons; Menard & Robinson, carpen- 
ters; Rofinot, stone cutting. 

RESIDENCES. 

A three story brick residence, 21 by 40 feet, on 
North Lasalle, for T. Mo3s; cost §3000; F. E. 
Khale, architect; Ewing, carpenter. 

Five two-story frame buildings, 100 by 40 
feet, on Market and Ontario street, for Loberg; 
cost §4000; F. E. Khale, architect. 

A two-story frame residence, 36 by 4S feet, at 
Lake "View, for E. D. Huntley; cost §3,000; W. 
H. Bayless, architect; E. Isbell, contractor for 
the whole. 

A two story frame residence, 40 by 66 feet, 
on Huron street, for Wm. T. Barrow, cost §5,- 
000. Boyington & Wheelock, architects; Don- 
ahoe & Fitzmorris, masons ; Rubel Bros, plumb- 
ers; Jas. Smith, carpenter; Brown & Wilder, 
gas-fitters; J. Orton, painter. 
Two frame dwellings on Kinzie street, Kennedy 
& Brady, owners ; cost §5,000. W.W. Boying 
ton, architect. 

A two and a half story Gothic dwelling, 30 by 
70 feet, on Superior street, for J. B. Sheridan. 
Cost §4,000. O. H. Matz, architect ; Harriot & 
McDonald, contractors; Brown & Wilder, gas- 
fitters ; W. B. Hamilton & Co., plumbers ; Bar- 
ry & Cushing, painters. 

A two and a half story frame gothic cottage, 
26 by 42 feet, on Hinsdale street, for S. S. Gree- 
ley; cost §2,100. Matz & Gray, architects; 
Wm. Porter, carpenter. 

A two story frame residence, 40 by 65 feet, 
on Indiana street, for Dr. Wm. 15. Herrick; cost 
§5,000. Matz & Gray, architects ; McGraw, ma- 
son ; McFarlane, plumber and gas-fitter ; James 
Allen, carpenter; Heath & Hurd, painters. 

A two and a half story frame gothic cottage, 
30 by 60 feet, on Superior street, for Wm. Sher- 
ridon ; cost §3,400. Matz & Gray, architects ; 
Harriott & McDonald, carpenters. 

A two story frame residence, 21 by 40 feet, on 
Hinsdale street, for F. Murphy ; cost §2,400. 
Matz & Gray, architects; Rubel Brothers, plum- 
bers; A. Swander, carpenter. 

A two and a half story frame residence, 27 by 
45 feet, on Hinsdale street, for Wm. H. Clarke; 
cost §2,200. Matz & Gray, architects ; Brown- 
field & Bierman, carpenters. 

A two story frame residence, 21 by 40 feet, on 
Wells street, for F. Murphy; cost |2,200. Matz 



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& Gray, architects ; Rubel Bros, plumbers; A. 
Swander, carpenter. 

A two story frirne residence, 25 by 61 feet, for 
T. Nyman ; cost $4,500. W. B. Olmsted, archi- 
tect; J. Smith, carpenter; J. Brown, gas-fitter. 

A double two story frame Cottage, 44 by 50 
feet, on Indiana street, for F. A. Grand. ■ Cost 
$5,000. Carter & Bauer, architects; J. Apel, 
mason. 

Two three story brick residences, 20 by 40 
feet on Indiana street, for F. Hoffman. Cost 
$5,500. Carter & Bauer, architects ; W albaum 
& Deakling, masons ; Greenbaum, plumber; J. 
Watson, carpenter; Lamparter, gas fitter. 

A two story frame residence, 28 by 50 feet, 
corner of Pine and Superior streets, for Mrs. J. 
H. Collins. Cost §7,000. Carter & Bauer, ar- 
chitects ; W. Barker, mason ; Hubbel, plumber; 
Hern & Mason, carpenters ; Comley & Co., gas 
fitters. 

Two three story brick residences, 20 by 40 
feet, on Indiana street, for F. A. Grand, to be 
finished this winter. Cost. $5,000. Carter & 
Bauer, architects ; Mortimer & Loberg, masons; 
Greenbaum, plumbers; James Plumsted, car- 
penter. 

A three story brick residence, 24 by 36 feet 
on Ohio street, for Mr. Schaub, to be finished 
this winter. Cost $3,500. Carter & Bauer , ar- 
chitects ; Malcom & Grant, masons. 

A two story frame residence, 24 by 50 feet, 
on Ohio street, for P. Grol!. Cost $3,000. 

A three story frame residence at Lake View, 
24by60feet. Cost $6,000. E. Burling, archi- 
tect. 

A one story frame dwelling at Lake View, 34 
by 36 feet. Cost $1,500. E. Burling, architect. 

A two story frame dwelling on North Dear- 
born street, 24 by 50 feet. Cost $3,200. E. Bur- 
ling, architect. 

A two story frame dwelling on Erie street, 
2 by 60 feet. Cost $3,300. E. Burling, archi- 
tect. 

A three story brick residence, corner of Rush 
and Huron streets, 52 by 60 feet. CoBt $24,000. 
E. Burling, architect. 

A two story brick residence, 50 by 74 feet, in 
progress, on the corner of Cass and Ohio streets. 
Estimated cost $20,000. Expended $12,000. E. 
Burling, architect. 

Two three story brick residences corner o 
Pine and Ohio streets, 25 by 50 feet. Cost $13- 
000. E. Burling, architect. 

A two story frame residence on Rush street, 
26 by 70 feet. Cost?$3,500. E. Burling, archi- 
tect. 

A two story frame residence on Indiana street, 
24 by 60 feet. Cost $4,400. E. Burling, archi- 
tect. 

Two three story brick residences in progress on 
Wolcott street, 22 by 40 feet. Estimated cost 



$9,000. Expended $4,000. E. Burling, archi- 
tect. 

A two story brick residence on Wolcott street, 
23 by 55 feet. Cost $6,00C. E. Burling, archi- 
tect. 

A three story brick residence, on Lasalle st., 
20 by 38 feet, for John Portman. Cost, $4,000. 

Van Osdet & Bauman, architects ; Donnel, car- 
penter. 

A two story brick residence, with abasement, 
on Lake View Plank road, 48 by 50 feet, for 
Chas. V. Doyle. Cost, $18,000. Van Osdel & 
Bauman, architects ; Grant & Malcom, masons ; 
Wilson & Hughes, plumbers; Campbell, car- 
penter; Comly, gas-fitter; P. Rofinot, stone 
cutter. 



West Division. 

BUSINESS BLOCKS AND BUILDINGS. 

Two four story stores and dwellings, on West 
Lake street, of pressed brick, 50 by 50 feet. 
Rev. S. P. Skinuer, owner. Cost, $15,000. Boy- 
ington & Wheelock, architects ; Peter Button, 
mason; Rub;l Bros., plumbers; Ewing & Eas- 
ton, carpenters ; Gerould Bros., gas fitters. 

A steam flour mill, on Canal street. Wood- 
worth, James & Co., owners. It is built of stone, 
three stories high, with a cellar, 36 by 60 feet. 
It has a brick engine house and a chimney 100 
feet high. Cost, $12,000. Matz & Gray, archi- 
tects ; T. Hanley, mason; H. Bliss, mill wright; 
Rofinot, stone cutter. 

Three two story frame stores, 20 by 40 feet, 
on Lake street, R. S. King, owner. Cost, $3,400. 
Carter & Bauer, architects; Abbe & Holden, 
carpenters. 

RESIDENCES. 

A two-story brick residence, 58 by 73 feet, for 
S. S. Hayes. Cost, $30,000. W. B. Olmsted, 
architect; Carter, mason ; Greenbaum, plumb- 
er; Sealy, carpenter; Donahoe, plasterer ; Mc- 
Farlane, gas-fitter; Heath & Hurd, painters. 

A two-story frame residence, 25 by 59 feet, on 
Washington street, for W. T. Miller. Cost, $5,- 
000. W. B. Olmstead, architect; Cleveland & 
Russell, contractors. 

A two-story 'orick carriage-house, 30 by 36 
feet, for S. S. Hayes. Cost, $6,000. W. B. Olm- 
stead, architect; Morse & Bros., masons; Green- 
baum, plumber; Cleveland & Russell, carpen- 
ters; McFarlane, gas-fitter; Heath & Hurd, 
painters. 

A two-story brick library to S. S. Hayes' resi- 
dence. Cost, $7,000. W. B. Olmsted, archi- 
tect; Morse & Bros., masons; Greenbaum, 
plumber; Cleveland & Russell, carpenters; Mc- 
Farlaae, gas-fitter ; Heath & Hard, painters. 

A two-story frame dwelling, for Russell. Cost, 
$4,000. W. B. Olmsted, architect; Russell, 
carpenter. 

Two brick residences on Green street, for : R. 
Stewart, 35 feet in height, 50 by 38 feet; cost 



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$5,000. P. A. Nicholson, architect; Wood & 
Chown, masons'; W.'T. Sollitt, carpenter. 

Two frame dwellings, 26 feet in height, each 
20 by 35 feet, in "West Division, for J. Allen ; 
cost $1,900. P.A.Nicholson, architect; J Al- 
len carpenter. 

A frame dwelling, near Bull's Head, 36 feet in 
height, 44 by 62 feet for C. H. Harrison ; cost 
$5,000. P. A. Nicholson, architectect; J. Allen, 
carpenter. 

A frame residence, near Bull's Head, 36 feet in 
height, 44 by 62 feet, for BeDJ. Bradley ; cost 
$5,500. P. A. Nicholson, architect. 

A two story frame dwelling, 44 by 70 feet, on 
Cottage Grove avenue, for N. S. Bouton ; cost 
$5,000. Boyington & Wheelock, architects. 

Five three story brick residences 100 by 40 
feet, corner of Van Buren and Aberdeen, for 
Reynolds & Ely ; cost $16,000. W. W. Boying- 
ton, architect ; Page & Warner, masons ; M. & 
J. Greenbaum, plumbers ; S. Johnson, carpen- 
ter; Comley & Co., gas-fitters. 

Two two story frame dwellings, 82 by 63 feet, 
on Randolph and Morgan streets, for Lind & 
Fowler; cost $5,000; Boyington & Wheelock, 
architects. 

A two story residence of pressed brick, 61 by 
3S feet, corner of Sangamon and Jackson streets, 
for F. B. Gardner ; cost $30,000. Boyington 
& Wheelock, architects. 

Two two story frame cottages, 20 by 30 feet 
each, on Cottage Grove avenue, for Howes ; cost 
$1,400 ; F. E. Khale, architect ; Yanhorn con- 
tractor and carpenter. 

A three story brick residence, 20 by 40 feet, 
on Rolker street, for Mortimer; cost $2,500; 
F. E. Khale, architect; Mortimer, mason ; Sollit 
& Brother, carpenters. 

A two story frame residence, 25 by 40 feet, on 
Warren street, for E. T. Banker ; cost $4,000 ; 
W. H. Bayless, architect; Hern & Mason, con- 
tractors. 

A two story frame residence, with cellar, 40 by 
45 feet, near Union Park, for W. Hull ; cost 
$6,000; Matz & Gray, architects; J. Clark, car- 
penter. 

A two story frame residence, 39 by 43 feet, on 
Ashland Addition, for Honore, Bradley & Hall; 
cost $4,500; Matz & Gray, architects ; J. Clark, 
carpenter. 

A two story frame residence, 25 by 36 feet, 
with addition, on the corner of Paulina and 
Washington streets, for T. Lamb ; cost $2,500 ; 
Matz & Gray, architects. 

A two-story frame cottage, 26 by 50 feet, on 
Carpenter street, for W. Osborne; cost $6,000; 
Carter & Bauer, architects; J. Ward, mason; 
Greenbaum & Bro., plumbers; Daniels, carpen- 
ter; Ward, plasterer. 

A double two-story frame residence, 44 by 56 
feet, on May street, for J. A. & J. H. Bross; cost 
$5,500. 



A two-story frame cottage, 22 by 40 feet, on 
Lake street, for Singer; cost $3,200. 

A two-story frame house and store, 20 by 40 
feet, on Blue Island avenue, for Iglehart; cost 
$3,000; Carter & Bauer, architects. 

A two-story residence built of Milwaukea 
brick, 27 by 60 feet on Washington street, for D. 
S. Lake; cost $14,000; Carter & Bauer, archi- 
tects; Walbaum & Deakling, masons; Green- 
baum & Bro., plumbers; J. Sollit, carpenter; 
Wallworth & Co., steam. 

In this Division Carter & Bauer have made 
plans for about $6000 worth of buildings of which 
they have not had the oversight. 

A two story brick residence, with basement, 
on Reuben street, 46 by 44 feet, with a wing, for 
H. Honore; cost $16,000; Van Osdel & Bmman, 
architects; Clark, mason; Stephens, carpenter; 
Heath & Hurd, painters; Fanning & Co., stone 
cutters. 

Two three story frame dwellings on stone 
foundation, on Lake street, 40 by 46 feet, for Jas. 
Wilson ; cost $4,500. 

A two story brick residence with a basement, 
on Sangamon street, 26 by 44 feet, for A. G. 
Throop; cost $12,000; Van Osdel & Bauman, 
architects; Heald & Waterhouse masons; John 
Sollit, carpenter; Deakman, stone cutter. 

A two story frame residence, 26 by 40 feet, for 
G. Marsh ; cost $9,000 ; Van Osdel & Bauman, 
arc ects; S. Johnson, carpenter. 

Recapitulation. 

South Division— 

Business Biocks. Residences. Total. 
$1,625,500 ♦733.300 42,359.800 
Nobth Division— 

Business Blocks. Residence?. Total. 

$103,000 $2,1,390 $3-11.393 
West Division— 

Business Blocks. Residencee. Total. 

$33,400 $13J,500 $242,9u0 

Hotels. 4c. in different parts of the city $31 ; ,000 

Churches, Seminaries Academies, etc 311.700 

Improvements by Water and Gas Works 207,000 

1500 buildings in various parts of the c ty, not 

reported, averaging $1,000 each (estimated). 1,500,003 
Improvements reported by the City Superin- 
tendent 271,434 

Othercity improvements 156.400 

Total cost of improvements for 1856 $5 708,624 

Cost of improvements in 1855 3,735,254 

Increase of improvements over 1855 $1,973,370 



Outside Improvements. 

We mention the following buildings for which 
plans have been furnished by resident archi- 
tects, which of course are not included with the 
improvements of this city : 

By P. A. Nicholson — Knox Female College, 

at Galesburg, 60 feet in height, 164 by 70 feet. 

$30,000. 
Brick and Stone Residence at Ottawa, for 

Wm. Reddick. Height 50 feet, 64 by [55 feet. 

$25,000. 
A Brick and Stone Residence at Madison, 

Wis., for Julius White. Height 36 feet, 36 by 

49 feet. $10,500. 

A Brick Residence at Burlington, Io., for Dr. 

J. Tallant. Height 31 feet, 40 by 36 feet. $3,700. 



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Botington & Wheelock.— Newhall House at 
Milwaukee. $135,000. 

Brewster House at Freeport. $2S,000. 

Dwelling for 0. Taylor, Freeport. $5,000. 

Lombard University, Galesburg. $25,000. 

Residence for B. Loutard, Galesburg. $12,- 
000. 

Universalist Church, Joliet. $20,000. 

Episcopalian Church, Joliet. $5,000. 

Residence for H. Fish, Joliet, $4,000. 

Residence for S. P. Skinner, Wineika. $2,000. 

Residence for R. B. Mason, Winetka. $1,500. 

Baptist Church at Quincy. $25,000. 



?mprovements Contracted For. 

BY W. B. OLMSTED. 

A large first class hotel on State street, corner 
of Madison. To be built ot stone, ISO by ISO 
feet, six stories high. Cost, $300,000. B. S. 
Morris, proprietor. The contracts for this build- 
ing will be let within a few days, and it will re- 
quire two years in which to complete it. 

A two and a half story brick residence, 42 by 
52 jeet, at Cottage Grove, for J. Cowles. Cost, 
$10,000. 

Market Hall, South Division — a two story 
stone building, 60 by 180 feet. Cost, $45,000. 

Insane Asylum — te be looated thirty-four 
miles south of the city— a three story brick 
building, 40 by 212 feet. Cost, $50,000. 

Carrol County Court House. Cost, $22,000. 

Presbyterian Church at Belvidere. Cost, $10,- 
000. 

A residence for G. Williams, at Davenport. 
Cost, $S,00n. 

Custom House. — This edifice will be located 
on Dearborn street. It will be built of stone, 
three stories high, and SO by 120 feet. Cost, 
$175,000. W. B. Olmsted, architect; Jones, 
contractor. 

S. L. Baker and Dr. Graham have contracted 
to be built on the corner of West Lake and Jef- 
ferson streets, 14 stores, to cost $40,000, 

CONCLUSION. 

We have thus traced the improvements of 
Chicago through the year now closing. It will 
be seen that, unparalleled as was the progress of 
the previous year, and fabulous as it doubtless 
appeared to distant spectators, it lags Mlf its 
length behind that of eighteen hundred and 
fifty-six. 

The length of this article, and the wealth of the 
materials have compelled us to the most chast- 
ened style of description. Of a large majority 
of the most elegant business blocks and resi- 
dences, we give only the sharp and angular out- 
lines of dimensions, material and cost. No one 
can appreciate either their beauty or their ampli- 
tude without a personal and detailed examina- 
tion. 

A resident of our city who should now return 
after a year's absence, would share in the bewil- 
derment of the renowned sleeper of the Hud- 
son. Standing at the head of one of our princi- 
pal business streets, and looking down the busy 
thoroughfare, he would see on either side noble 
marble and iron fronts, alternating in stately 
succession, blending in their architecture feud il 
strength with modern grace, in grand and lofty 
keeping with the deep and world-wide traffic 
which surges unceasingly between them. 

Passing into the resident portions, princely 
dwellings, with costly and tasteful grounds, 
would surprise him at every step, while the 
confused masses of building material which 
Strew and encumber those thoroughfares would 
add their sober and intelligible prophecy of a 
future growth, before whose splendor even that 
of the past will pale. With such accelerated 



speed, and with so firm and assured a tread, 
does Chicago move up to the rank of the sec- 
ond city of the continent. 

• 

[From Daily Democratic Press, Dec. 9.] 
Loss or Property on the Lakes in 185G. 

The loss of property is immense— altogether 
beyond what had been anticipated. We have 
no means of ascertaining accurately the loss ; 
but from a statement made in the Buffalo papers, 
it appears that Capt. Dobbin, Secretary of the 
Lake Association of Underwriters, estimates the 
loss at over four millions of dollars. In 1848 
the losses were $404,830 ; in'lS49, $341,250 ; in 
1S50, $544,440; in 1851, $730,515; in 1852, 
$991,015 ; in 1853, $854,350 ; in 1S54, $2,187,825: 
in 1855, $2,797,839. Here is a tax upon the 
commercial interests of the West with a ven- 
geance ; and one, too, we fear, if it continues, 
that will^materially damage them. In nine years 
we have paid the penalty of imperfect harbors to 
the tune of about thirteen million dollars —and 
increasing every year, not to speak of the iosa 
of some thousands of human lives. 

A glance at the record we have made will show 
that nine-tenths of the disasters of the present 
year have occurred from the want of harbors 
on the Lakes.or from imperfect harbors, obstruc- 
ted rivers, and sand bars. In vain has the com- 
mercial public appealed to the Federal Govern- 
ment for aid to improve our rivers and harbors. It 
has been too keenly following the scent of 
Southern popularity to attend to the legitimate 
interests of the young and vigorous West. Our 
richly freighted vessels have been > ashed to 
pieces, and our seaman hurried into watery 
graves, before the very eyes of statesmen who 
have been criminally indifferent to the fate of 
both, and in close league with those who 
have taken every opportunity to record their 
votes and raise their voices against on- dollar 
being appropriated to protect that commerce 
and those lives. 

Take our own harbor as an example. Not a 
storm occurs but thousands of dollars are sunk 
at our bars, or dashed to pieces against our pit rs 
and breakwaters. The loss tnis year alone ex- 
ceeds sixfold what was wrung from Congress at 
the last session over the President's veto. 
The sum received from Congress is altogether 
insufficient to secure a harbor for our commerce 
wortuy of the name. If Congress refuses to add 
to that sum, the city and the mercantile public 
will be required to do so. Harbors we musth-ive, 
or proclaim to the world that our commerce has 
reached its highest point. 

Lives Lost on the Lakes in 1856. 
Date. Vessel. Lives lost. How lest. 

June 7, Brig Oxford 5 Wrecked. 

May 1, Bark Morgan 1 Overboard. 

May 8, SchrJ.Burch 1 " 

June 11, SchrAugusta 1 Fell from mast. 

July 23, 8tmr Northern Indiana. ...40 Burned. 
Aug. 1, BrigCuyahoga 5 Capsized. 

.. PchrOsoray 1 Fel Into hold. 

12, SchrWilliam 1 Overboard. 

... Schr Cincinnati 1 

26. 8chr Storm Spirit 1 

Sept. 13, Schr Kash ion 1 

23, Scnr Caledonia 8 

24, Schr Ohio 1 Foundered 

.., StmrNiagara : 50 Burned. 

Oct. 1, Schr Caledonia 1 Overboard. 

14, Schr Happj-Go-Lucky 1 _ 

27 Prop Toledo »0 Foundered. 

Nov.12! Schr Ellen Gillmore 5 Wreced. 

.. Prop J. W. Brooks 27 FouD^ered, 

14, SchrS.V.Ayer i5 " 

.. Prop Wisconsin I Burst stm pipe. 

.. Stmr Superior 35 Wrecked. 

19, Prop B. L. Webb 1 Frozen. 

25, SchrCol. Cook 1 Overboard. 

27, Schr Cherokee 14 Foundered. 

29, Yacht 3 Cips>zed. 

Dec. 8, fatmr Golden Gate 1 Wrecked. 

Lives lost 274 



ANNUAL REVIEW 



OF THE 



COMMERCE OF CHICAGO FOR 1856. 



The history of the world for the last twelve 
months, commercially considered, has been in 
most respects one of reaction. The great dis- 
turbing causes which for the two or three years 
past have combined to unduly influence, through 
arbitrary and ruinous interruptions in some 
cases, and temporary over-sfuiulus in others, 
the natural and healthy conditions of trade, and 
its relations to manufacturing and producing 
industry have been in a great measure removed. 
The results, destructive to inordinate profits in 
the one case, are in the other, and by far to the 
larger extent, a guarantee of returning protec- 
tion and encouragement most welcome to the 
general welfare and to the greatest possible 
good. In the late belligerent attitude of the 
great nations of Europe, the United States found 
a source of increased profit in the improved de- 
mand for ber breadstuff's and provisions, and 
while producers were thus especially benefited, 
numerous other branches of business were in- 
directly more or less unfavorably affected. With 
the return of peace came that inevitable change 
in the relations of the world which has con- 
spired, in this country at least, to mark the year 
that has just expired as one of comparative re- 
trogradation and decline. 

At the centre and head of a territory pre-emi- 
nently agricultural, and whose resources are as 
yet mainly dependent upon the productions of 
the soil, Chicago has been regarded as especial- 
ly liable to be seriously afiected by the changed 
condition of the times. Many serious forebod- 
ings have been entertained at her expense, and 
numerous prophecies of her unhappy embar- 
rassment recorded. It is not of course to be de- 
nied that the income of the country, and to a 
certain extent of the city which sits its queen, 
has been vastly reduced from what it might 
have been bad the extreme prices of the previ- 
ous season been realized for her millions of 
bushels of grain. It is nevertheless equally 
true, that the conditions of her permanent pros- 
perity do not depend upon the existence of a 
continually inflated market, inordinate and ex- 



treme prices of produce, or upon any element of 
vitality which can only be nourished at the ex- 
pense of other communities, foreign or domes- 
tic. Her position is happily such that it induces 
and secures a reciprocity of benefits, and con- 
tains within itself, to an unlimited extent, the 
essential requisites to progress and prosperity. 
We are happy in being able to present to our 
readers, in the facts and figures which follow, 
ample evidence that the claims of our city to 
commercial supremacy are built upon no idle 
pretensions or baseless foundations, but that 
they are at this moment more confident and in- 
controvertible than ever before. 

Our last Yearly Review found us at the close 
of a most prosperous season. The crops of the 
country had been liberal both in quality and 
quantity, and prices had be?n the mostrenumer- 
ative ever experienced. Health and prosperity 
reigned throughout the land, the pecuni ry em- 
barrassments of previous seasons had been al- 
most entirely recovered from, and the general 
condition of the whole country was most flourish- 
ing. The happy consequences of such a condi- 
tion of things is not soon lost or dissipated, and 
while in some respects the season just closed 
has afforded a contrast to the one preceding, 
yet the reverse has been less felt and easily sus- 
tained. In prices, last year closed at an ex- 
treme range far above what can be safely or 
reasonably anticipated in the average market. 
The movement of the season just closed has 
been gradually aud steadily downwatd. Of 
course a heavy loss has been sustained, and that 
portion of it which has accrued in transitu be- 
tween producer and consumer falls heavily 
upon the business community. Operators and 
dealers have been forced iuto close margins, and 
those most frequently upon the losiug side. 
The selling policy has generally proved most 
successful, though of course the gain to one 
party has been but an equal loss to the other. 
High views or faith in old prices, whether en- 
tertained by farmers or merchants, have inevita- 
bly resulted in loss, and the more obstinately 



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persisted in the more expensive haa proved the 
indulgence. 

While our city has thus been compelled to 
share in the general loss, it is believed that it is 
to a moderate exteut only, and certainly not to 
a degree that disastrously, or if we credit the 
evidences about us, even sensibly affects her 
prosperity. Among our business men but few 
failures have occurred, and as a general thing 
engagements have been promptly met or pro- 
vided for. While we are proud in the posse 3- 
sion of a community of young, ambitious and 
honorable merchants, whose equal cannot be 
challenged from any city in the Union, the man- 
ner in which they have met and passed the or- 
deal of the last season cannot but be regarded 
as conclusive evidence of thek 1 talent and stand- 
ing as merchants and as men. 

Meanwhile, there are not wanting abundant 
and satisfactory proofs that our city has notonly 
escaped ; ny real or even temporary embarrass- 
ment, but that on the other hand she has made 
a positive and most wonderful progression in 
wealth, power and prosperity, and it is to a few 
of the vouchers for these facts that we wish 
presently to call attention. In these respects 
the most sanguine expectations of her friends 
have been more than realized. It ia not pro- 
posed to enter into a detailed argument to prove 
that the prosperity of Chicago is not of that 
mushroom and inflated character which is liable 
to collapse at a moment's warning, and involve 
its friends and enemies in a common ruin, nor 
to combat the honestly entertained opinions of 
those who see in the rush and hurry of business, 
the enormous rents, the extensive outlay in 
buildings and improvements, and the apparent 
headlong pace at which everything moves, only 
the sure precursor to final and speedy annihila- 
tion. We have before advanced the position 
hat the c ountry tributary to Chicago is in all 
the elements of permanent and progressive 
prosperity comparatively far ahead of the 
city itself, and the figures which we pre- 
sent to-day may be regarded as so many 
evidences ol the truth of the statement. 
And if this indeed be true, as we doubt not it 
is the conviction of every well-informed man 
familiar with the relative position of city and 
country, then there is at least no present danger 
to be apprehended, and the wonderful growth of 
which we are daily witnessing may be safely re- 
garded as healthy and permanent as it is rapid 
and unprecedented. But it is not our intention 
to waste words upon theories or speculations. 
Within our borders no actual eye witness can fail 
to observe the numerous signs of prosperity 
which arrest the attention on every corner, and 
as to the character of the basis which serves as a 
foundation for all this life and animation, argu- 
ment is quite unnecessary ; facts and figures 
will speak for themselves. 



It will hardly be deemed necessary to review 
the superior position of Chicago as a commercial 
centre, or to dilate upon the already intimate 
and r pidly augmenting relations which she 
bears to the surrounding country, nor to descant 
upon the magnificent extent and capacity of all 
that region of which she is undoubtedly destined 
to be the chief emporium. The obscurity which 
shrouded her earlier years has long since van- 
ished, and she now stands the acknowledged 
rival of the proudest cities on the globe. Every 
year adds to her material wealth and impor- 
tance, to the extent and perfection of her com- 
munications, and to the facilities for the trans- 
action of business, and the accommodation of 
trade. Her population is annually increased by 
many thousands, her manufactories, stores and 
palaces are reared at the investment of yearly 
millions of dollars, and her receipts of produce 
are annually swelled by millions of bushels. 

Dnring the year but just closed not a little 
progress has been made in the inception of new 
enterprises or in the advancement and completion 
of those previously undertaken, whose influence 
upon the present and prospective business of 
our city is most flattering. To the North our 
iron arms have been still further elongated to- 
ward the mineral deposites of Lake Superior 
and the country tributary thereto. The com- 
panies here established for the manufacture of 
iron, alluded to in our last review, have been 
steadily progressing with their preparations for 
active business, and have a large share of their 
machinery in readiness for erection and em- 
ployment early in the coming spring. To the 
south new coal-beds of superior quality and 
within easy reach have been opened, and prom- 
ise to afford a plentiful and cheap supply of the 
all-needful fuel, .further on our railroad con- 
nections have been more nearly completed which 
arc soon to place us in short and rapid commu- 
nicatiou with New Orleans and the Gulf of Mex- 
ico. To the West the iron horse has left behind 
the Mississippi, and is urging his way further 
onward toward the Rocky Mountains and the 
Pacific Ocean. To the East an entirely new iron 
highway of a thousand miles in length has con- 
tributed another and most important link in the 
chain of our connections with the old Atlantic 
and over the broad bosom itself of that Atlantic, 
our restless city, spurning further restraint, has 
sent the first white sail of an interior com- 
merce which knows no rival, laden from her own 
pert with the earnest of that golden produce 
which 's yet to prove a reality more tempting 
than the wildest dream of the wildest Argonaut. 

It would doubtless be a severe tax upon the 
credulity of a great portion of the world who 
know not Chicago, to ask them to believe one- 
half of what her intimate acquaintances are rea- 
dy to claim in her behalf. We are far from 
wishing to trespass upon the patience of this 



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class of persons, yet it is due to those who for 
themselves or for their children would know 
something of this land of promise, that a few 
hints should be given them, hints which though 
possibly subjecting the giver, as in case of the 
bearer of unappreciated intelligence in the 
olden time, to the imputation of being "be- 
side" himself, are nevertheless the "words 
of truth and soberness." In this age of 
steam it is difficult to set a reasonable bound 
to what may not be the future of Chicago. 
A country so rich in mineral and cereal produc- 
tion as the Valley of the Mississippi, will, and 
must have, at whatever cost, an easy and unin- 
terrupted communication with the rest of man- 
kind. Less cannot be dispensed with ; more is 
not required. The completion of the Pacific 
Railroad can be regarded but as a matter of 
time. One of its principal branches, if not the 
trunk itself, will terminate at this city. Numer- 
ous routes to all points North and South are 
even now nearly completed. Direct navigable 
communication with the Atlantic, and with all 
the seaports of the world, will be the next and 
only remaining necessity, a necessity which 
must sooner or later, at whatever cost, be sat- 
isfied. The shadow of coming events points 
more and more plainly to a grand Northern 
route of egress as indispensable to the existence 
of this great, growing, grain-producing North- 
West. The Grand Trunk Canadian Railway is 
a creation of this necessity. It is a movement 
in the required direction, a pioneer in the great 
crowning work, which will at no very distant 
day be undertaken and carried to successful 
completion by the combined energies of the 
Nations. When tne Pacific shall hive been 
opened to our doors on the West, and the At- 
lantic on the East, when the trade of the In- 
dies on the one hand and of Europe on the other, 
shall be enab'ed to meet and flow in successful 
competition through this the most fertile region 
on the globe, then we leave to each for himself 
the solution of the problem of the commercial 
future of Chicago. 

We have not the data in our possession from 
which to attempt an exposition of the general 
business of the city. To do this would require 
more time and labor than we have at present 
command, and although the details might be of 
some considerable value and interest, they could 
afford no proof of our commercial vitality and 
progress stronger or more conclusive than is set 
forth by the figures representing our trade in 
Breadstuffs and Provisions. In Dry Goods, 
Groceries, and in all the principal branches the 
utmost activity has prevailed, and the aggregate 
business of the year may be set down at an ad- 
vance of from thirty to fifty per cent, over that 
of any previous season. In a country like this, 
where every interest traces its life and depend- 
ence to that single great source, the production 



of the soil, the figures which represent the one, 
are the surest index to the condition of the oth- 
ers. The increase which is shown to h.ve taken 
place in the Grain trade of ChicagD L-), in its le- 
gitimate proportion, true of every other branch 
of business. 

It is proper to remark that the tabular state- 
ments given in this review are necessarily more 
or less incomplete. In the hurry of compila- 
tion for an early publication, it has been impos- 
sible to arrive at that exac'ness which might 
otherwise have been desirable. The total re- 
turns of the freight moved over some of the 
routes are not as yet fully made out, atd cannot 
of course be exactly stated. The aggregate of 
the year's business is probably more or less in 
excess of our statement. To the officers and em- 
ployees in the Custom House, Canal Office, and 
Freight Departments of the various Railroads, to 
all of whom we are largely indebted for valuable 
assistance, we return both for ourselves and on 
behalf of the public most sincere thanks. Trust- 
ing that any errors, which it is believed will gen- 
erally be found on the sife side, will be kindly 
overlooked, we present the following as the near- 
est approach to a correct and reliable statement 
which we are able to furnish : 



FLOUR. 

The Flour trade of Chicago, although yearly 
increasing, does not as yet keep pace with the 
growth of the traffic in the unmanufactured 
berry. The number of country Flouring Mills 
is comparatively limited, and, with the rapid in- 
crease in population, the majority of those in 
operation find a ready demand for nearly all 
they can do at their own doors. The extreme 
drouth of the last summer was instrumental in 
largely reducing the manufacture, as very many 
of the mills driven by witer were under the ne- 
cessity ©f suspending operations for the want of 
power. In some portions of the country the 
mills were quite unable to supply their home 
customers, and shipments B considerable 

amount were made from the city to supply the 
deficiency. It cannot be doubted that the quan- 
tity and quality of Flour seeking a market in 
Chicago must continue to largely increase for 
years to come. The enormous quantity of 
Wheat produced, and the superior facilities af- 
forded to millers for making choice selections, 
and being thereby enabled to manufacture a su- 
perior article of Flour and one which will com- 
mand a premium in market, will have a contin- 
ual tendency to encourage the investment ot 
more and more capital in the business. 

In 1852 the total receipts of Flour exclusive 
of that manufactured in the city was 53,337 bbls. 
in 1853 48,247 bbls., in 1854 158,375 bbls., and 
in 1855 240.GG2 bbls. For 1S5G we have a fur- 
ther increase of 84,257, or a total of 824,921 bbls., 



20 



being a little larger than the ratio of increase 
lor the year of 1855. 

MONTHLY RECEIPTS AKD SHIPMENTS OF FLOUR FOB TWO 
YEARS. 

185G. 
Rec'ts. Shi-p'ts. 



185 



Rec'ts. iShip'ts. 

lr.Mil 

6,802 
13 092 
17,223 

16,377 
10,92 i 
8,835 
8,425 
24,426 
15,160 
19,245 
! 7,048 

103,419 



14,112 
12,811 
10,930 
22,5u3 
21,110 
16, 20 
12,029 
32,785 
67,399 
64822 
27,200 
12,700 

324,921 

86,068 



4,257 

2,763 

2,494 

1,461 

21,095 

14.346 

.'Xl,:;7M 

11,465 

36,733 

55,896 

20,261 

6,250 

216,389 



156,893 



194,609 



January bbis. 16.229 

February JJ.gjg 

March W.626 

April 15.^8 

M ftv 13,i93 

ffiSfc...... 22,905 

July $383 

August W,52o 

September 81459 

O ctober 28, v? 

November o'\-, 

December 18, /oU 

240,662 
Manufactured by City 

Mills 79,650 

On hand and consumed 

in the city 

Total 320,312 320,312 410,989 410.989 

The sources of the supply for the last year are 
shown in the table below. By Lake, Canal and 
Galena Railroad, there is a slight falling off. By 
Michigan Southern and Michigan Central Rail- 
roads a considerable increase for those sources 
from which the supply is always moderate, con- 
sisting principally of favorite Michigan brands 
floured from wheat obtained in this market and 
returned here for city consumption. By Rock 
Island Railroad we have an increase of 31,937 
bbls., an exhibit anticipated in our last review, 
the natural supply for this road having been in 
1855 considerably reduced by the unusual South- 
ern demand, which drew off a larger than 
ordinary shipment down the Mississippi River. 
The Illinois Central Railroad, which brought its 
first barrel of flour in 1855, only yetvr before last, 
now gives us 13,212 bbls., and promises a large 
increase. By the Chicago, St. Paul and Fond 
du Lac, and by the Chicago, Alton and St. Louis 
Railroads our figures are but a matter of esti- 
mate, and are in all probability more or less 
within the real receipts of those roads. We give 
the comparative receipts and sources for Ave 
years 



RECEIPTS OF FLOUR FOR F VB /YEARS. 



1852. 

By Lake.... bbls. 2,875 

" Canal 1.846 

" Galena R. K. 44,316 

" Mich S. '• l . ™ 

" MichC. 5 

'• Hock Is. ' 

" 111. Cent." 

" O.S:. »A P..1 .... 

" C a<s StLauisS — 

Manufd in city. 70,979 



1853. 

2,265 

7,223 

30,702 

7,411 



1854. 

5,158 

17,623 

62,915 

963 

2,036 

68,751 



1,129 

66,990 



1855. 
4,885 
13,239 

129 843 

1,031 

1,657 

78.343 

11,3d8 

356 



1856 

4,781 

10.597 

122,976 

4,716 

4,110 

110,280 

13 212 

54,249 

86,068 



82,883 66,990 79,650 

Total 124316 131,130 234,575 320,312 410,989 

The principal export routes for Flour are by 
Lake a, d Michigan Southern and Central Rail- 
roads. That taken away by other roads is com- 
paratively limited in quantity, and is in most 
cases iucluded in the figures representing city 
consumption. 

SHIPMENTS OF FLOUR FOR THREE YEARS. 





1*53. 


1854. 


1855. 


1856. 


Hy Lake, >bl- 


70,9-4 


08,573 


77,0*2 


169,516 




1,107 
445 


520 
3,394 


372 
2,825 


34-1 


Galena Ilailroad... 




Mich. S. >\ ". ...» 
Mich. C. K. K....J 


661 


27,365 


31,335 


36.04 


15,476 


51.041 


9,608 






457 


604 


881 


111. Cent. *. K 


988 


1,736 






111. & Wis. .K.... 




96 


160 




C. v AS;. L. K. K". 




10 






City consumption 










<i balance on h'd. 


5G 940 


116,918 
224. " 


156.893 


194,600 




131.130 


320,312 


410.9S9 



Here are the exports of Flour from this port 
by Lake for the last thirteen years: 

SHIPMENTS OF FLOUR BY LAKE FOR THIRTEEN YEARS. 

Year. fiMx. 

1851 72,406 

1852 61.196 

1853 70,884 

1854 58,573 

1855 77.082 



Year. 

1814.... 

1845.... 

1846..., 

1847..., 

1848..., 

1849. 



Bbls. 
.. 6,320 
..13,752 
..28,045 
. .32,538 
. .45,200 

.51.309 



.b56 



....169,516 



1850 100,8711 

During the whole season of 1855 the Flour 
market ruled extremely high. In May and June 
of that year prices reached a level never be- 
fore known in this city. In September and Oc- 
tober, immediately after harvest, prices fell off 
somewhat, but again improved in November 
and December, and the year closed firm at high 
figures. The year 1858 has witnessed a gradual 
and steady decline throughout. This downward 
movement has been submitted to with a poor 
grace by manufacturers and dealers, who, find- 
ing it difficult to obtain concessions on the part 
offarmers, still clinging to famine prices for their 
wheat, have found it difficult to pass a working 
stock through their han'is without loss. The 
market has therefore been continually dull, and 
every movement clogged by an unrelenting 
drag. The decline for the year is fuliy two dol- 
lars per barrel. Just at the close there is a it- 
tie firmness, but merely for the city supply 
trade, buyers for export being extremely back- 
ward and indisposed to venture at present into 
market. We give the highest prices for No. 1 
Superfine, and for the best brands of Spring 
Wheat Extras ruling on the first of each month 
for the last year, and as compared with the three 
years previous. 

PRICES OF FLOUR FOR FOUR YEARS. 

1853. 1854. 1S55. 1856. 




August 3.75@4. 

September. 3.50fe;5.00 
October.... 5.25®6.25 
November. 4.75@5.75 
December. 4.50@5.50 



7.75(§i8.25 
7.75@8.25 
7.25® 7.75 
7.25@7.75 



6.25<«.7 25 
6 00(57.25 
7.75@9.05 
7.25@8.00 



4,00<a.G,00 
4,50® 6,25 
3,75(a5,25 
3,75(2)5,50 



WHEAT. 
No better evidence need be required of the 
growth and prosperity of the country tributary 
to Chicago, than the rapidly increasing quantity 
of Wheat which it pours into this market, In 
1852 the total receipts were less than 1,000,000 
bushels. In 1856 they are nearly 9,000,000 bush- 
els. When it is remembered that this is the 
contribution not of an old and thoroughly tilled 
province, but of a comparatively new, and yet 
thinly settled country, it may certainly be quite 
excusable to anticipate the most bountiful re- 
turns for the future. The receipts of last year 
average over 28,000 bushels for each week day, 
and the shipments over 26,000 bushels per day, 
or an aggregate movement of 54,000 bushels per 
day. At an average price of say $1.25 per bushel, 



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this movement involves the use of $67,500 per 
day, for the year an aggregate of §21.127.500. 

MONTHLY RECEIPTS AND SHJHMENTS OF WHEAT FOR TWO 
YEARS. 

1855, 185G. 



JifC'pU. Ship'ts. Jiec'jilx. Shij/'tx. 

January, bush 201,473 88,362 91,646 4,689 

February 113.121 19,687 15467' 8.544 

March 190,237 43.006 115.nl I 3,4 7 

April 159,995 200,980 270,145 38,532 

May 155.441 393,434 307,541 41 ',080 

June 208,429 180,343 441.882 457,0 3 

July 125,003 178,109 402.031 249 0;9 

August 1,035.183 412.260 1,870.68. 1.303,911 

September 1,081,004 1,028,006 2.15-.711 2.123,382 

October 2,303,530 1,854.514 2,468,159 2,022.205 

November 1,010,882 1,248,794 495,028 1.0-6/4S 

December 90,193 50,000 '.2,500 20,000 



Total 7.335,097 6,298,155 8,507,760 8,837,420 

By Teams say 200,000 200,000 

Floured in City 398,250 430,340 

On hand, consum'd, 
shipp'd and unac- 
counted for 838,692 



Total 7,535,097 7,535,097 8,767,700 8,767,7c0 

The Galena Railroad with its branches Btill 
leads all other routes in the quantity of Wheat 
brought to this market. In 1852 it brought 
half a million of bushels. In 1855 it brought 
four and a h .If million bushels, and nearly the 
Bame quantity in 1856. The comparative receipts 
by other routes will be shown by the table given 
below. The total receipts for the year show an 
increase of 1,232,663 bushels. 

RECEIPTS OF WHEAT FOR FOUR TEARS. 

1853. 1854. 1855. 

By Lake, bush 02,031 12,279 4,946 

Canal 352,103 1,060.194 923,021 

" Galena R. R 901,306 1.391,103 4,513 202 4,379.302 

" Mich. S. R.R...J 3,835 2,270 29,175 

" Mich. U. R. R..J 15,081 4,300 

•' Rock Is. K. K.... 44,115 ,293,270 

" III. Cent. It. R.... 14,789 30,352 

" O. & & . P. It. R 36.123 124,379 5 

" C. &StL. R. It 1,379 ....(1,570,279 

"Teams 297,980 200,000 200,000 200,000 



1855. 

*::7 
830,326 



30,264 



4.939 
990.089 1,100,598 
771,051 020,979 



Total 1,687,465 3,038,955 7,535,097 8.767,760 

The shipments of Wheat for the year reach 
8,337,420 bashels, an increase over the last of 
2,039.265 bushels. The principal share is ex- 
ported by water, the shipments by Lake increas- 
ing over those of the previous season by 2,395,- 
185 bushels. 

SHIPMENTS OF WHEAT FOR FOUR YEARS. 

1863. 1854. 1855. 185G. 

By Lake, bush 1,200,103 1,050.489 5,719,108 8,114,353 



k " Canal 1,018 

" Galena R. R 

" .Mich. S, R. R..J 

" Mich. 0. K. R..J 102,207 

•' RocldslandR.K 

"III. Cent. R. B 

"0.4S. I..R. R 

Floured by C. Mills 372.748 
Used by distillers... 3,000 
Shipied, consumed, 
on band and un- 
accounted for 



863 


59,888 


3,358 




125,127 


.176,533 


325,976 


342,288 


248 


286 


44 




020 




830,000 


898,250 



4,808 

68*360 
158,026 

1,814 



430.340 



402,2:50 838,692 



Total 1,685,796 3,038,955 7,535,097 8,707,700 

The following figures represent the export of 
Wheat Irom this port by Lake for the last fifteen 
years, an aggregate of 23,872,563 bushels. The 
export of the first seven years is now equalled 
in one. The exports of the next fifteen years 
will reach 200,000,000 bushels. In ten years 
from this time Chicago will export more Flour 
and Grain in one year than New York City has 
ever exported in five. 



SHIPMENTS BY LAKE OF WHEAT FOR FIFTEEN YEARS. 

Yeort. £mk l Years. Busk, 

1842 686,907 I I860 883,644 

1843 08*. 907 | 1*51 437,660 

1M4 891,894 I 1*52 035,490 

1*15 920,80(1 1 1*53 1.206,163 

[846 1,459,594 1 1*54 1.050,4*9 

1847 1.974 3041 1855 5,719,168 

1848 2. 100,800 I 1856 8,114,353 

1849 1,930,2611 

The market for Wheat has not of course ex- 
hibited that nervous activity whicb prevailed 
during the season of 1S55. The return from 
high prices to lower ones, no matter how liberal 
even the Jatter may be, is always a distasteful 
process. The unprecedented high rates of the 
last two seasons, t.nd more especially of 1855, 
entirely unsettled the market, and so contributed 
to the establishment of extreme views that when 
the inevitable decline succeeded the whole coun- 
try at once rebelled, and declared lheir intention 
of starving the world into a perpetual mainte- 
nance of the recent order of things with which 
they had so deeply fallen in love. For a time it 
seemed as if this horrible threat was really to 
be carried into execution, lor during the 
winter months of the present year the 
poor local consumers were obliged to 
advance their bids in order to secure enough for 
daily use, and until the first of March even high- 
er prices were paid than during the Fall before. 
But the foundation of all this firmness continued 
nevertheless, gradually, to settle, and the heap- 
ing granaries of the country began to be more or 
less undermiued as prospects grew more dis- 
couraging, and currency more in demand. Coun- 
try dealers who had bought at high prices, be- 
came satisfied to sell out even, or at a small loss 
rather than not at all, and farmers who, finding 
a lack of nerve in the couutry dealer, had brave- 
ly shipped on their own account, or held in store 
"subject to advances and charges," began to 
own that discretion was the better part of valor, 
and so by slow and painful degrees the market 
came down to a legitimate level, and when, after 
a new and plentiful harvest, spring wheat was 
once more current at $1.00 per bushel, it really 
seemed as though business was once more in a 
fair way to proceed in a safe and sufficiently libe- 
ral channel. On the first of January last spring, 
wheat ranged from $1.30 to $1.35, and red and 
white winter from $1 65 a $1.75 per bushel. On 
the first of December spring was 77 a 7Sc, 
and red and white 90 a 100c. " What a fall was 
there, my countrymen I" 

Since the harvest there has been a steady 
brisk demand at good fair prices, and with what 
results the figures already given sufficiently 
show. The quality of the Wheat shipped from 
this market has already gained a fa curable repu- 
tation abroad, and with proper care in harvest- 
ing and marketing it should continue to com- 
mand premium prices the world over. Samples 
of Illinois Wheat, exhibited on the London Corn 
Exchange, have received the most unqualified 



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recommendation of the best judges. From Iowa, 
Wisconsin, and all the country from which our 
supply is derived, we have good reason to ex- 
pect Wheat of a decidedly superior quality. Dur- 
ing the last season we have sent a sample cargo 
of our Wheat in ore of our own vessels, owned, 
manned and navigated by our own citizens, and 
which crossed the Atlantic and landed her 
freight at the Queen's dock in less time from Chi- 
cago to Liverpool than ever cargo of Wheat was 
transported before. The voyage of the Dean 
Richmond is an era in our history. Her example 
will not fail to inaugurate the direct export of 
Wheal and other grain which shall eventually 
be told in millions. Again we congratulate our 
farmers and producers upon the flattering pros- 
pects which promise them a market so liberal 
and convenient. 

The following prices are those ruling on tbe 
first day of each month : 



PRICES OF WHEAT FOR THREE TEARS. 



185-1. 



1855. 



18.&5. 



Spring, Winter. Spring, Winter. Spring, Winte 



Jan.. 
Feb.. 
Mar.. 

April. 
May. 
June. 
July. 
Aug. , 
Sept.. 
Oct... 
Nov.. 
Dec. 



92® 95 
11 7® 120 

mi,,, lmi 

ll)U@100 
125® 130 
128® 1 30 
95® 100 
. 95@110 
100® 120 
lti0@105 
120® 125 
100® 110 



106®115 

l:;o<-/ Mil 
12o@130 
H2w 120 
Mow 150 
Mm,» 150 
115@120 
140® 150 
130® 140 
I3i)wl40 
13ow Mo 
112® 125 



lns(,vi20 
113@118 
113<„122 
135<o 145 
Mow loll 
lOow 17n 
150® 155 
lour,. 11(1 
107® 110 
129® 130 
Mow MU 
125(o.l35 



112@140 

12iiw 150 
120® loo 

Mow loo 
l'.'OwO I, 

175®200 
160@185 
135® 150 
115@145 
13*®166 
155® 175 
150® 165 



130@135 

l:>w l:;o 

IOOot 05 

115@120 

I12@114 

105® 106 

100 

108@ll0 

98 

Hi2w lo:; 

77® 78 

77® 78 



1150175 
145® 165 
120® 140 
140@160 
140@100 
120® 135 
106@115 
123® 133 
How 126 
lllw 128 
90® 100 
92® 100 



CORN. 

Large as is the production of Wheat in the 
Western States, it is greatly exceeded by that 
of Corn. The crop of Illinois alone for 1855 
was estimated at 180,000,000 bushels. It was a 
larger crop than ever before raised in the State, 
and was generally well ripened and harvested 
in good condition. From that crop has been re- 
ceived the supply of the last twelve months. 
Our last review anticipated a large increase of 
receipts at this point for the year 185(3. That 
increase now proves to have reached 3,S56,021 
bushels, or a total of 11,888,398 bushels. This 
gives us an average receipt for ech business 
day of the year of within a fraction of 38.000 
bushels. The daily shipments average over 
35,500 bushels, making an aggregate movement 
of 73,500 bushels, requiring, at 40 cents per 
bushel, a daily investment of $39,400} and for 
the year of $9,202,200. The crop of 1S56 was 
very much retarded by the dry weather which 
prevailed during the earlier part of the season. 
As a consequence it came forward slowly and 
ripened late. A large proportion of it was over- 
taken by the first frosts, and the general crop is 
not therefore in so good a condition as was that 
of 1855. What will be the effect upon the re- 
ceipt of the current year remains to be seen. 
Here are the figures for the last two seasons: 



MONTHLT R3'KIPT3 AUD SHIPMENTS CF C03N FOR 1WO 
TEARS. 

1855. 1855. 



Reqp'ts Shipts. 



Jan. bush 31,600 

February 95.572 

March , 283,003 

April 560.:;:;:, 

M*y 988.352 

June 1,890,169 

July 1,795.615 

AunU't 1,158,048 

September 1,062,373 

October 333,104 

November II 9 ! 36 

December 29,610 

8.332,377 

By teams, pay.. 200,000 

Gr'rt'J by c. mi is 

Use'5 by dist.'rs 

Consume* , t n 
hand, and un- 
accounted for 



4,343 
6,440 

18,541 
162,627 

1.27\.>'il 
1. 601.1117 
1,546,434 

1,135,813 

340.4-4 

70, ! 

6,636 



JReep tx. Shwts 

123.077 1 ,197 

146,570 10,695 

189, 93 8.631 

723,130 60,241 

1.705 813 2,288,011 

1, 21,201 1.5; 

2,134,669 1,880,267 

2,355,3 10 2,180,599 

1,7S7;668 1,736,101 

745.72S 688,474 

284.70,3 70-1.307 

21 000 5000 



7,517,625 11,688.398 11,120,668 
200,000 
30,370 27.000 

200,00 200,000 



784 382 



531,730 

8,532,377 8,532,377 11,888,368 11,888,398 
Until the season of 1855 the Illinois and Michi- 
gan Canal had always been the principal Corn 
importer of Chicago. That year, owing to the 
short supply South, caused by the drouth of the 
previous season, the resources of the Canal were 
materially lessened, and the Galena Railroad 
became for tbe time a successful rival. The 
large crop of 1855 again reinstated the Canal in 
all its former glory, and now in 1856 it has re- 
covered its old position, bringing to market 
5,377,825 bushels of Corn, and leading the Ga- 
lena railroad by an excess of 1,790,457 bushels. 
By the Rock Island and Illinois Central Rail- 
roads we have also a large increase. 



RECEIPTS OF CORN FOR FOUR YEARS. 

1853. 1854. 1855. 

By Lake, bush... 1,808 

" Canal 2,481,334 4,396.995 3,701.441 

" Galena It. K.. 228,505 2.038.743 3,761,619 



Mich.f.K.R.f 
J.K.K.1 



1,823 

17.862 

3,595 



Mich.C 

" Koek Is. R. K. 
-' 111. Cent. R. R 
" ■ -. &di, f. R.R 

"C. &-I.LR.R 

" Teams 136,220 



328 

56,4,757 

229,566 

56.574 

1,982 

200,000 



Total. 



.2,869,339 



8,918 
350.128 
472.654 ) 

37,622 \ 

20C\Q06 

8,532,377 



1856. 

5,377' 825 

3,587,368 

650 

218 

1,114.397 

1,087.684 

520,256 
200,000 



11,688,398 



7,490,753 

The principal export of Corn continues, as it 
always must, to be by Lake. Herewith are given 
the shipments by all routes for the last four 
years : 

SHIPMENTS OF CORN FOR FODR TEARS. 

1853. 1854. 1855. 1856. 

ByLake.bush 2,739 552 6,626.054 7,430.259 11,079,490 

Canal 1,725 



13.305 
12,812 

184,003 
1S.500 
100,000 



4,189 

74,177 

30.370 

20U.000 



2,500 

2,540 

45,138 

27,000 

200,000 



534,354 784.382 5]1,730 



Galena Railroad. 

BBfcfcfcfc:! 40 ' 676 

Gr'd at City Mills 

Used by Distillers 81.000 
On h'd, consumed 
A unacc'ted for 8.111 

Total 2.869.339 7,490,753 8.532,377 11,8:8,398 

Here also are the shipments of Corn by Lake 

for a series of years : 

SHIPMENTS OF CORN BT LAKE FOR TEN TEARS. 

Years. Bush. 

1847 67,315 

1848 550,460 

1*49 644,848 

1850 262,013 

1851 3,221,317 

The market for oorn was in common with 
that for everything else fated to a decline. In 
June of 1856 prices were just one-half what 
they were in the same month of 1855. On the 
first of January, 1856, the market stood at 50c, 



Years. 


l>ush. 


1852 


2.757,011 


1853 


2.729,552 


1854 


6,626,054 


1855 


7.439,258 


18.6 


11,079,490 



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with some little fluctuation, but seldom getting 
above 40c; it stood on the first of December at 
35@3Gc. The following table will show the 
prices current on the first ot each month for the 
last five years : 

PBICES OF COIN F'R FIVE YEAR-'. 



1852. 

Jan'y 26fa28 

February... 31@34 

March 33@34 

Auril 33@34 

May 33<gt;i4 

J.iti 36@37 

Juiy 

Auxu<t 42@43 

September. . 

Oeu i er 50®53 

NnvemVr..48@5fl 
December... 50 @ 58 



Per bushel o/RO lbs. 



1833. 


18.54. 


1855. 


49(.. 55 


33® 40 


43@44 


3v„ 11 


43iiB46 


-@51 


■in,,,.-!.-, 


49@50 


506.51 


36@40 


4:@44 


54@55 


40(*46 


43@45 


67@69 


4o@50 


45@4S 


t -■ ■ 7.; 


47c./ 50 


50® 1 


-ca73 


58(5.65 


54('i 55 


71@72 


56@60 


60@61 


0-, , on 


54@55 


54@55 


i .;;,,, 0! 




50@52 


70® 72 


•I7fc is 


4G@47 


-@50 



1856. 
-(,i50 

4 12 

— (g 40 
40@4l 
;;Gc<.:;7 
32@33 
40@4I 

la 15 
37@38 

:■ 3i 

35@36 



OATS. 

Receipts of Oats have fallen off for the two 
past years. The deficit in 1855 was 1,247,197 
bushels, and was in part occasioned by the ex- 
tremely light crop of the previous season. In 
1856 the receipt is 727,291 bushels less than for 
1855. The Oat crop of 1356, in Ohio and other 
Eastern States, was unusually good, and from 
this cause there has been less demand iu this 
market for export, while in this State generally 
the crop was cut short by drouth. There seems 
to be also a growing indisposition among pro- 
ducers to give much attention to the cultivation 
of Oats, and many are contented with raising 
barely enough for their own use. To these causes 
must be mainly attributed the decrease in the 
receipts of this grain : 



MOKTHLY RECEIPTS 



AND SHIPMENTS OF OATS FOR FOUR 
TEARS. 



1855. 



185S. 



/.', op ts. Ship'ts. 

January, bush 24,l"t> 1,070 

February 47,"34 3.290 

Marc 1 : 88,904 2 713 

April 332,203 37,397 

May 555,-37 4-7.4(38 

.Tune 470.323 566,478 

July 138.819 288,7-5 

August 205.230 128.800 

September J3<,9"4 120,030 

October 327.H25 111,830 

November 169,734 12«,787 

December 52,097 11,300 

2.547.18S 1,^)89,538 
By Teams, say... 400,000 
Oi'.v cousumoiioD, 

on hand andua- 

cccounted for I,05jp50 1,205,350 

Total 2,947,188 2,947,188 2,219,897 2,219,897 

The following are the sources of the supply 
for the last four years. By all the routes there 
is more or less falling off from the receipts of 
previous seasons: 



Peep ts. 


Shi/p'ts. 


47,70-s 


1,041 


54.4K4 


8,408 


30,057 


-1 


94,736 


15.752 


267,429 


191,385 


178,728 


153,4 9 


189,161 


115,819 


:., 7,375 


1I0,-'.'1 


327, '41 


218,005 


02,71)0 


11 7,04 i 


135,098 


89,400 


49,000 


2,000 


1,819,897 


1,014,547 


4(0,000 





SHIPMENTS OF OATS BY LAKE FJIi TKK YEARS. 



KKCEIPIS OF "ATS FOR »0UR YBARS, 



By Lake- bush.. 
Canal 

Galena it. R 
Mich S. " . 
Mich O . '• . 
Rock Is. '• . 
111. Cent. " . 
0.48t. V " . 
C& *t 1 , " . 
Teams 



:::::! 



1853 

97i!350 
172,829 

273 
11.810 
16,779 



402,729 



1854. 
66 

1,772,659 



259,371 
118,012 

77,792 

400,000 



1853, 



1,020.360 

1,107,268 

211 

3.064 

146.323 

223,386 ( 

40,570 ( 

400',6o6 



1856 

67l',<J40 

777.322 

689 

11-1,083 
167,631 
86,516 
100,000 



Tot-.! 1,875,770 4, 94,385 2,947,188 2,219,987 



fcHIPilEAT-' OF OATS FOR FOUR YE*RS. 



1853. 1834. 

By Lake bn s b .1,633.842 2.959,715 

" C-.n:.l 483 1,003 

" M.ch.S.B.B. > ,,,„.,. 39.733 

" Mini •: " J jh.ojj gg fl |g» 

" R.Mand " 

" in. Cenf, " 67 

Consumed, &■ 127,270 964,398 



v ■■:,. 
1,8 1,436 

i no 

1,566 

65,2>8 
139 



I 



1856. 
949,413 
31.946 

26,923 



Total 



.1.875,770 4 194 3S5 2 947188 2.219 697 



lears. Bush. 

1847 38.89. 

1848 65 " 

1849 26 849 

1850 158.i'84 



Tears. Push. 

1852 2.030,317 

18 3 1,6 

1854 2.959. 715 

1855 1,821 



1851 i;h:,,v'7 1850 919,113 

The market for O its has ruled tolerably 
with a fair demand for city trade and a moderate 
inquiry for export ai 25 a 30c per bushel. Her - 
with are the prices for five years : 

PR CE3 OF OATS FOR FIVE YEARS. 





1852, 


1853. 


Jin'v.. 


..I6cai7 


33@35 


Keb'v 


.,19(5,20 


34 -33 


March 


19<a20 


33@34 


Aonl.. 


.18c. 19 


80@34 




.18@20 


31-,- [0 


June... 


. 22c 2 1 


37@40 




. .•-)<•< 25 


30@32 


*UJU9' 


.27r.,28 


34@37 






29(,i:33 


October 


.30@32 


26® 27 




.28@30 


2G(„;28 






27fei28 



1814. 


1855. 


1856. 


20 


16 


26® 27 


26®30 


80 


(.31 


1 


29(g (1 


27 


<§ 28 '-i 






20H 


(.-..27 


@34 


24@ ■:; 


30 


(,,■31 


41'„ 10 


25<§ 26 


30 


<«,31« 


<g is 


27C/28 


31 


" : 


•!■■■., 16 


25@26 


29 


@30 


•ll,„ 13 


30@31 


32 


(333 


25c, 20 


S0@31 


33 


*34 


25<§ 26 


26@27 


32 


(,:;.'. 


28@30 


25r„ 20 


28 


@28 


28@30 





RYE. 
Receipts of Rye, never very heavy, have been 
gradually decreasing for several years. There 
is not the same attention paid to raising this 
grain as to the other kinds, and the moderate 
quantity produced is to a great extent marketed 
near home for distilling and other purposes. 

RECEIPTS OF RYE FOR FOUR YEARS. 

1853. 1854. 1853. 185G. 

BvLake bush. 22 

"Can.l 3,948 5,129 5.139 5,081 

' Galena Railroad 70,676 69,083 39,827 14.789 

" Rick 1?. " 517 5,7-il 12,900 9,923 

" 111 Cent. " 635 432 4,603 8,200 

"CstP&F " 080 1,657 4,114 

B" reams 4,304 4,000 4,000 4,000 

Total 86,162 85,691 68,086 45,707 

Shipments of Rye have fallen off to almost 

nothing — the greater part received here being 

taken up by city distillers. 

SHIPMENTS OF RYE FOR FIVE YEinS. 

1852. 1853, 1854. 1855. 1856. 

By Lake, bush 17,015 81,594 39,175 18 521 379 

ByCana! 1,380 797 212 

By Mich, On, RK 5ti8 568 570 

By Rock Island do 22 

Distillers 4,000 44,538 48,700 45,117 

Total 17,015 86,162 85,691 68,086 45,707 

The market has been tolerably good, owing to 
the ready demand fur distilling, and has been 
more firmly sustained than would probably have 
been the case with a more liberal supply. Prices 
have declined from 95 a 100 at the commence- 
ment of the year to 60 a 65c on the 1st December. 
For much of the time the market has been en- 
tirely bare, and the prices given below for 1856 
are in part only nominal. At this moment smail 
parcels are picked up in the street at 75 a 80c. 

BBI3Eii OF BY3 FOR FJCR YKAB9, 

1853. 1854. 1855. 1856. 

January 58® 60 55 70<B 75 P5@1.00 

February 59@60 70(0,75 70® 75 95(.sl.00 

March 59®60 75o*78 75<w 85 @ 9o 

April 55®58 65®70 8® 90 85® 90 

May 55®60 7m. -.75 ■ ,1.00 '■'■ - 

June 59@60 70®75 1.10(31.20 75(,4 80 

Ju'y 58(8.60 v @1.00 @ 60 

Auxust 5N./.59 55(a 60 70® 80 @ 

September G2®63 65®70 70, a 75 80(it Kj 

October t;2„»(.0 80@85 83® 85 60® 65 

Novembr 5"(<ifiO 8(>®81 f0@ 93 55® GO 

December 54®55 C5@70 63<tfl.W OOca) 65 



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BARLEY. 

In Barley we have also to notice a limited sup- 
ply and a very firm market. The growing popu- 
larity of *' Lager Bier" has undoubtedly consid- 
erable to do with the facts in this case. Ship- 
ments are constantly growing less, the home de- 
mand consuming nearly all the supply. I i ports 
from the East are substituted in the place of ex- 
ports to that quarter, and higher prices are free- 
ly offered and obtained for home consumption. 
The new and fashionable style of lager beer mug 
is decidedly less capacious than formerly, and 
there are numerous signs of the accumulating 
expensiveness of this inexpensive luxury. St. 
Louis, Milwaukee and Chicago are the great 
rival candidates for the honor of drinking the 
most "bier." 

BECSIPrS OF BARLKY FOR FJVS YEaKS. 

1852. 1853. 1854. 1855. 1856. 

"yLake.busn 1,687 1.576 26,103 55,587 25,592 

ByOanal 8,785 25,610 641 204 634 

By Galena ill'; . . . .95,243 135,429 143,340 93,976 37,489 

By Mich, Sou do 293 224 1,598 

uy M.ch.Ceii.lo 219 5,250 10,660 

By Ko-k I, do 972 958 5,931 602 

By 111, Cent, do 94 250 1,025 

By*,. St. P, AF 296 10,473 20,946 

Teams 21,313 28,800 30,000 30,0u0 30,000 



Total 127,028 192,387 261,764 201,835 128,457 

SHIPMENTS OF BAULKY FOR FIVE TEAR:. 

1852. 1853. 1854 1855 1856 
ByLakp, bush 79,818 79,689 33,6S3 1,315 1,315 



By Caual... 

By Mich Soh..RR 



51 53,7 1 60,413 1,056 



40,527 



9,913 9,671 10,677 



u..RR{ 

«y Mich Cent, do} •••« '*"' y ' i ' 39,586 14^15 B;506 

By Rock I. do 1,472 16,208 3,582 

Bi C. St. P. &F 10,046 

Uused by brewers. 56,210 72,120 53,353 109813 109,406 



Total ,127,.02? 192,387 201.764 201,895 128,457 

PRICES OF BAR1EY FOR FOUR YEARS. 

1853. 1854. 1855. 1856. 

January 5 @51 43® 47 90@1.00 1.10@1.20 

February 42®52 45® 50 1.10@1.20 1.2.i®1.30 

M'rch 40@50 56® 58 1.00®1.12 1.20®1 25 

April 47@50 50® 56 1.15<»1.20 1.00@1.30 

May 48@50 65® 70 1.15®1.25 1.35@1.50 

June 44*50 50® 60 75@1.00 1.35@1.50 

July 38®40 50® 55 ®1.00 @ 90 

Aunust 35@40 45© 50 80® 85 @ 

September.... 50@52 50® 60 80® 90 95®1.00 

October 45@48 85® 90 1.0o@1.10 1.25@1.30 

November.... 43@46 90@1.00 1.15@1.30 1.20®1.30 

December.... 44@47 75® 85 1.30@1.35 1.00®1.20 



CHICAGO THE GREATEST PRIMARY 
GRAIN PORT IN THE WORLD. 

Chicago is the Greatest Primary Grain Port 
in ;he entire World. This fact was abundantly 
established and announced by the Democratic 
Press two years ago, and first published in its 
Annual Review for 1854. For ample proof; we 
again refer to the following statement of 

MUI RfcCE-PM CF FLOUR AND GRAIN' /OH THREE YEARS. 



'1854. 

"'V'heja, bus 8.038,955 

Corn 7,490,753 

Oatx 4,193,386 

Rye 85.961 

Barley 201,764 

Total 15,011,540 

Flour into wheat 793,878 



1855. 

7,535,097 

S.532,:;77 

2,947,187 

68,086 

301,805 

17,284,648 
1,203,310 



1856. 

8.767,760 

11,888,398 

3,219,897 

45,707 
128,457 

33,050,319 

1,624,605 



Total 15,804,423 20,487,953 24,674,824 

In the same mauner may be presented the 
shipments for three seasons, viz: 



1854. 1855. 18-6. 

Whs&t, bush 2,206,725 6,208.155 8,337,430 

Corn 6,837,899 7,517,625 11.129.06S 

Oats 3,229,987 1,889,538 1,014,547 

Rye 41,153 19,318 590 

Barley 14^.421 92,(82 19,051 

Total 12,364,185 15.81R.718 20,501.276 

Flour iato Woeat 538,135 817,09) 1,081,945 

Total 12,902,320 16,633,8.3 21,583,221 

For the sake of reference, and as showing the 
comparison, we repub'ish the following table o 
average exports from the principal grain ports 
of the world for a series of years, together with 
those of Chicago for the list three years respec- 
tively: 

EXPORTS OF THE PRINC PAL <^RAIN PORTS OF THE WORLD 
COMP4RRD WITH CHICAGO. 

Wheat Ind Com. OaU Rye Toted. 

bush. buxh. & Barley. bUfh. 

Odessa 5,600,000 1,440.000 7,040,000 

Galatz A IbrelU.. 2,400,000 5,60 i,000 320,000 8,320,000 

Danfzic 3,080,000 1,328,000 4,408,000 

St. Pctersbure.... alUiuds 7,200,000 

Archangel " 9,528,000 

Riga " 4.000,000 

ChioaGj (1854i ....2,644.060 6,837.-99 3,419,55112,902,310 

Chioago (1856) ....6,115.250 7,517,025 2.oiiu.9:i8 16,6:11,813 

Chicago 1856) ....8.337.420 11.129.668 1.034.1S8 21,583,221 



GRASS SEEDS. 



The quantity of Grass Seeds yearly brought 
to this market does not vary much from 3,000,- 
000 lbs. It is generally of good quality, remars- 
able for its purity, and is always in good de- 
mand for shipment to the Eastern States. A 
considerable quantity of Flax Seed is yearly 
consumed in the manufacture of oil in this city. 

The majority of the whole received is Timothy 
Seed, which generally commands from $ 2@2.50 
per bushel. Clover Seed sells readily at $6@7 
per bushel. 

MOSTHLY RECEIPTS JF GRASS SEcDS FOR.THtlEE YEAR?. 

1854. 1855. 1856. 

January 21,144 62,116 212,579 

February 148,692 198,799 308,748 

Mirca 209,!<5t 207,25 319,637 

April 67,931 137,794 151,5i3 

May 53,285 7-v-65 77,100 

June 8, 10 8,519 07,4vi 

July 35,060 18,300 66,560 

August "6,195 247,410 143,385 

September 4k 755,544 1,0 t ,262 1,054,253 

Oct ber W 947,699 5311,40'.' 35>,908 

November 575,i'5a 367,939 M.514 

December lu»,079 272, i.O 2 .0.0 



To'.al , 3,047,945 3,024,238 2.813,2.2 



RECEIPTS OF GRASS SEEDS FOR FuOR YEARS. 



1853. 

By Lake, lbs 54,6i>u 

Caual 1,027.368 

l+iieni Railroad. 1, 105,298 

Mich. P. " > 

Mich. C. " J 

Rock Is. 

111. C. 

C. St. P. & F. 

Chi. & Miss. 



1C.726 



1854. 

232.290 

889,749 

1,187,5 2 

1 ,2:14 

7,976 

5i 6,4 S 

73,433 

234,415 

3,918 



1855. 

7,5 " 

21",2 

1,965.776 

10,6-21 

5,150 

411,621 

30,950 

37;,400 



l c 56. 

96,0 

52 l, 23 

1,735,98') 

12,877 

5,262 

81,600 

28,4oO 

863,010 



Total 3,197,987 3,147,945 3,034,238 2,843,802 



SHIPMENTS OF GRASS SEEDS FOR FOCR YEARE. 



By Lake, lbs 

Canal 

Galena 11 i-ond 
Vich. S. R K...> 
Mich. C. R.R...J 
Rock Is. R. R.... 
111. Central R. R. 

C. A. & St. 1 

Conumed and 
on hand 



1853. 
1,399.350 

29,341 

756,578 



1-51. 

1,015,132 

550 

3.300 

51 2, 442 

557,559 

16,363 

2.365 

1,181 



12,713 939,113 



1855. 

737 873 

15.630 

4,212 

539,052 

1,187,120 

126 



540.225 



1856. 
469,500 

,48"!7 : 5 

868.424 

5. 00 



19,413 



Total 2.197.9S7 3,047,945 3,024,23g .2,843.202 



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The shipments from this port by Lake were 

for: 

1*52 rt>5. 864,630 

1853 1.399. on 

1854 1,015,132 

1855 73',873 

1856 469,500 



BUTTER. 

The supply of good Butter is here never equal 
to the demand. There is always a sufficiency of 
a villainous compound, that for want of a better 
article generally sells for more than it is worth ; 
but a good, sweet, solid and well made article is 
among the scarcer luxuries of the place. This 
is not the result of a want of material in aland 
literally flowing with milk and honey, but in 
the comparatively small attention paid to its 
proper manufacture and marketing. The ener- 
gies of the "rural districts" are all absorbed in 
the raising of Grain or the herding of Cattle. 
All minor considerations are wofully neglected. 

It is impossible to give the exact quantity of 
Butter brought to this market, as it is frequently 
included in the weights of sundry tons of pro- 
visions in such a manner that it is impossible to 
be separately accounted for. The following fig- 
ures show the partial amount received and dis- 
p ised of, for which the figures could be obtain- 
ed: 

RECEIPTS OP BUTTER FOR FOU3 YEABS, 

1853. 1854. 1855. 1856. 

By Lake ft- 25,600 3,500 96.900 

Oanal 77,849 190,064 102,714 34,544 

Galena Hailroad. 665,900 1,186,321 1,713,341 1,618,351 

Mich. S u. do 27,763 42.020 311522 

Mich, OeD, do 24,810 65,174 82,966 93,119 

Ro-t Island d" ... 3 7,081 177,614 279,292 

111, Ont, do 43,871 184,662 250,123 ( , onn 

Ch.AStP. do .... 75,1338 106,704 \ 5 - 200 

C, & Bfc 1... do .... 1,591 .... 230,000 



Total 812,430 2,143,509 2,473,981 2,668,928 

SHIPMENTS OF BUTTER FOR FOUR TEARS. 

185!. 1854. 1855. 1856. 

By take, lbs 424,080 262.883 386,381 249,850 



Canal 
Mich. -. K. K 
Mich. ". " 
Rock I . " 
Jll.Ceni. " 
C. A. ft Bt. L 



4,8 

56,4 "2 

558,637 

1,080 

1,684 

25,899 



131.300 3,840 

53*,920 37, 58 
7,500 



71,588 

Cuysupjy ! 808^977 l,5~4,T.O 1,417,381 2,"-70i68 

Total 8 2.430 2,143,569 2.473jJ83 2.66-,9.S 

PRICE3 OF BUTTER FOR FOUR YEARS. 



l^v:. 1854. 

January 14 @16 11 ©15 

lehrutry 12 ©15 11 ©15 

March 12 ©14 10 ©15 

Api-1 12 ©16 9 @14 

Maj 13 ©7 9 @16 

June 10 @ 1 9 @i4 

July 12 ©12X II ©13 

Auku -i. il ©12>£ 12 @14 

September ... 11>£©1. 12><@i5 

Ocrooer 15 ©18 17 ©25 

Nov-mher ,4 @17 12 @15 

December 13 ®.6 13 @30 



1855. 1856. 

13©I6 20@25 

12@13 20@22 

12©I4 I8@i0 

12<g II 2l/@22 

12@ll 2 @22 

12@13 )3®14 

12@13 i 
12w 14 4 

14@16 15® 1 7 

1 I'" 5 15®17 

15© 6 U 

I i0@25 



LARD. 



Lard is generally included in Bills of Lading, 
under the head of Pork and Provisions, and it is 
consequently ire possible to give any separate 
account of its receipt and shipment. The follow- 
ing table shows the prices ruling on the 1st of 
each month for lour years. 



PRICKS OF LA!<D FOR FOU* IEARP. 

1853. 1*?4. 1855. 1856. 

January 11 ©11% 8K@ 9 8%@ 9 H>K©U 

February 10^@11 f-y.® 9 8 ® 6% 9 @lu 

March 9 ®li) 9 @10 8 © 8>5 9 

April 9 fr.10 8M'<<» 9 8 ® 8K »K© 9 

May 9 ®10 ^@ 9 9 © 9% 6^@ 9 

Jane 9 ©10 8M@ 9 9 @ 9)i 9M« 9X 

July 9 ©Hi 8K® 9 lo In © OK 

Aiijjusi 9%@ 0^ 8H@ 9 10 ®(<4 II ©12 

September 9H@lU>$ 9K®10 10K@ll 12 ®13 

Oc-o'ier 9K@lj^lO ©10 11 ©1-2 12 ©13 

November 12 ©12 9K©1' 11K©12^ H fal2 

December 10 ®10K 9 ®10 11 ©12 92T@10 



HOGS AND PORK. 
It is impossible to give at present any approx- 
imation to the result of the present pork pack- 
ing season, of which we are now just in the 
midst. The business has thus far been tolerably 
active, wi:h a rather high and firm market, and 
just at the present with a scarce supply aud up- 
ward tendency in prices. The number packed 
thus far is understood to be considerably in ex- 
cess of the business of last season up to ihe same 
date, but the product on hand is not propoi tion- 
ably large, as unusually heavy shipments were 
made during the fall y and before ihe close of 
navigation. 

The last pork packing season, viz: 1S55-6, 
closed about the first of April. The total num- 
ber of Hogs packed in this city reached 80,380, 
an increase o: 6,696 over the number packed the 
previous season of 1854-5. The season opened 
somewhat dull and backward, notwithstanding 
the high prices offered, and the supply came 
forward at first very slowly, packers complain- 
ing of a want of stock, and prospects favoring a 
very inadquate supply of but middling quality 
and at exorbitant rates. Speculation ran high, 
and Eastern shippers bought largely and at high 
prices, without much regard to quality, and 
dealers everywhere took up all that could be ob- 
tained from first hands, in expectation of realiz- 
ing a handsome advance ere the close of the sea- 
son. For the first month there was very little 
done, and it was not until January that the bulk 
of the supply was received. Packers, who were 
driven out of the market by high prices early in 
the season, came in for their share at a later pe- 
riod, and thus the packing houses were kept 
busy until nearly or quite through the month of 
March. 

Prior to the commencement of the packing 
season, a large deficit in the Hog crop was indus- 
triously rumored, and many honest fears were 
no doubt entertained, that notwithstanding the 
extremely liberal supply of corn, the want of a 
feeding basis was about to more than offset this 
advantage, and thus a real scarcity of pork was 
to be experienced. The falsity of these premises 
is, however, fully proved by the result given 
below, and which establishes that other great 
fact, viz: that the question of supply in this 
country is becoming, as a general thing, one of 
dollars and cents, not one of resources — the 
supply is to depend upon the price. The total 
number of Hogs received in this market during 



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the packing season of 1855-6, reaches 308,559, 
vastly larger than ever before, and an increase 
over last season of 169,974. The following ta- 
ble will show the comparative receipts for each 
of the five packing months: 

RECEIPTS OF HOGS FOR TIE FIVU PACKI"Q M ''Stvs. 





Live 
,No. 


Dressed 
No. 

0,613 
36,583 
64,672 

34,977 
10,654 

146.499 


W't Dressed 
lbs. 

2.200.P20 
6,190,364 

15,1 11,7-21 






8,169 186 


March 


6,275 


2,489,483 




162,040 


34 161 974 



To'al live and dressed 308,539 

Total last seas-n 138,565 

Increase for 1855-6 169 974 

The shipments of the season show a corre- 
sponding increase being a gain over those of the 
season before by 116,725. 

COMPARATIVE SBIPMEHT OF HOGS FOE TWO iEASOHS. 

1854-5. 

Live Dress'd 
No. No. 

November 2,f>31 36 

December 1,946 2,578 

January 1,968 0,141 

t ebi uary 3,377 21,579 

March 4,000 7,000 



1856-6. 


7./T. 


D: ■ SS ;■ 


No. 


No. 


14,638 


8,516 


2 ,064 


14,322 


21,557 


47,083 


2,113 


21,968 


10,409 


5.211 


73,771 


07.110 




170, -8 1 




116 725 



13,822 40,334 

Total live and Pressed 54,156 

Increase for 1855-6 

Herewith are the resources from which the 
supply has been derived for the last four sea- 
sons: 

RECEIPTS OF DRESSED HOGS FOR FOUR PACKING SEASONS. 

1852-8 1853-1 1854-5 1855 6 

Nik No, No. No. 

By Lake 000 

Canal 413 

" Galena Kailroad 51,845 45,779 86,409 112,721 

" Rock Island It. K 14,225 9,115 15,867 

" 111. Central R. K 1,242 1415 15,032 

" By C, St. e. & f. b. R. K .... 387 1,372 2,879 



58,158 61,633 98,4"1 116,400 
Live, all sources 12,000 12,347 40,164 162,040 



Total 65,158 73,980 148,565 308.539 

The packing for the season was done by the 
following Houses: 

Messrs. R. M. & O. S. Hough & Ga., Gragin & 
Co., G. S. Hubbard & Co., Tobey & Booth, Rey- 
nolds & Hayward, B. &. G. B. Carpenter, George 
Steel, Andrew Brown and P. Curtis. 

Subjoined are the total disposals for four sea- 
sons, including live and dressed : 

SEGMENTS OF HCGJ FCR FOUR PAOc ING fE>SON3. 

1852-3 1*53-4 1.854 5 1855-6 





No. 


No. 


No. 


No. 








135 


1,016 


" Mich.«euUl. K. K... 




846 


17,464 


r.7.ss5 


" Mich. Cent. K. K.... 


...,10,000 


9,782 


35.282 


125,K62 


" Chi. 4 Mil. K. R.... 





10,628 


.... 


3,000 




10,000 


52,881 


187,763 


Packed in Chicago 


....48,156 


52,849 


73,684 


Nl.>(l 






10,503 


12,000 


40,306 



Tola! 65,158 73,980 13S,565 308,539 

The increase in the number packed as above 
given, .s, owing to the falling off in weight, but a 
trifling actual gain, aud the total product is very 
little if anything over that of the previous sea- 
son. The following is a comparative statement 
of the business oi the last live seasons : 



1851-2 ... 
1852-3.... 

is:.:; 4.... 


IToos Out. 

22,036 

48,156 

F2.849 


Ac. Weig't. 
23834 
21 1& 
240 * 
246 1 10 
233X 


Total W.igt. 
5,247,278 

10.102.072 
13.188,815 

18,133,632 




80,380 


18,782,126 



The market for Pork opened high — nearly 
double the opening rates of the season previous 
— but before the lapse of a month it became evi- 
dent that the commencement had been made at 
quite unwarrantable figures, and from that time 
to the close, notwithstanding every effort to the 
contrary, the market gradually and steadily de- 
clined, th- final rates settling at $1.50@2.00 per 
100 lbs. lower than at the opening, and at figures 
but very little above those of the two seasons 
previous at the same dates. Of course the sea- 
son proved a disastrous one to those largely in- 
terested at the opening high rates, and was more 
or less unprofitable to nearly all concerned. 
Not a few pork settlements left the parlies there- 
to in an extremely unfortunate position. The 
following table shows the prices of Dressed 
Hogs in this market for the last three years: 

PRXE3 OF DRESSED HOGS FOR THREE fcEASONS. 

1853-4. 1854-5. 1855-6. 

Nov 1st * — @5 00 $—@350 

" loih 500®on0 350® .00 $6 00@7.00 

Dec. 1st 4.>8@52> 3 00@3.50 5.50@6 00 

" 15. h 3.50@400 3 24*3 75 5.?0«s5.75 

Jaa. 1st 3. 5® i.OO 3.00a3-7i 6.003550 

" 15 h 40U@1.5 3 -i @3 75 4, 5@5.25 

Fcb.ls'. •>. 5@4 50 350(3)38-1 •f.SOS-i.OO 

'• 5,h 4.44 500 4"('0@1.25 5.0 ®5 25 

March Is 4.5u@4.7o 4.25@4.50 4.5j®5.00 

The receipts of Dressed Hogs for the calender 
year 1856 do not vary much from those of the 
year before. The following table will give the 
numbers and weights for the past two years: 

RECEIPTS OF D..ESSED H^GS FOR TWO YEAR?. 

1855. 1856. 

Ivb. Weight! No. Weight? 

ByOalenaR R 100,957 24,718,309 37,623 20,41 ,3' 10 

Michigan?." — - 1 15 

Micbig*nO. " 118 23,7-0 ,7 1.7o7 

Roc island" 10,14 2,464,294 14,506 3.3,0,, 43 

III C'i r«l " 980 -.24,016 12.473 2,906,387 

O.St. Paul** 2,6 8 523783 5 4 496 j 047,576 

slississippi — < 

lotal .123,637 27,955,007 119,110 27,753 081 

The number of Live Hogs received in addi- 
tion to the above is 174,515, making a total live 
and dressed of 293,625, against 302,187 tor the 
year before. This does not include the number 
arriving on foot, and which would probably 
swell the total by some few thousands. 

SHIPMENTS OF DRESSED HOGS FOR TWO YEARS. 

1855. 1556. 

No. Weight.' No. WeightT' 

By Lake 1,016 203,200 

Michigan S. K. 11... .17.453 4,150,251 40,844 ° 16,711 

Michigan C." 42,335 9,997,515 46,740 10,89u,50B 

111. Central " •••• 

Rock Island " •■•• 3_ l '_^0 

Total 60.S04 14,350,066 87,618 20,415,116 

PRICES OF MESS PORK FOR THREE YEARS. 

1851. 1855. 185^. 

Tanvarv 12,50® 13.00 S10.Oiii.Ml.00 *16.00 

february... ...1250@12.50 10.00@11.00 $l'.00@M.5!l 

March 13 00® 10.50®U,50 13.75al4.00 

**;i 13.00® 12.50®13.00 14.00@1'.50 

i,A 13 00®12.50 15.75@16.00 15.50@16.U0 

TunV 12.00@12.50 16.00® 1H.25 16.00® 7.00 

,"L 12,00® 17.50@18.00 18.00 

AiutuAt ..12.00® 18.00® 19.00 J0.00@21. 

«eDtember....... 13.00® 13.50 20.00@21.00 19.00@20.00 

October...... ..13.00® 21.00@22.00 20.00® 1.00 

Novenib-r 11.50® 13.00 19.00@20.00 10.00® 2 M 

December 11.00® 12.00 17.50@18.00 ll.OO^la.OO 



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BEEF. 

The quantity of Beef packed this last fall, 
is less than for any previous season since 1850. 
In 1355 the number of cat*. h- slaughtered reached 
28,972, a larger number than ever before. They 
were purchased at high prices, and owing to the 
decline in the market which subsequently en- 
sued, the result of the season's business proved 
very unsatisfactory to packers. At the com- 
mencement of the packing season of 1S56 the 
views of cattle-raisers and stock-dealers being 
still held at the high rates of the previous sea- 
son, packers found it both impolitic and impos- 
sible to meet their demands. Buyers and sel- 
lers thus failing to come to an agreement, the lat- 
ter retorted to shipment in hopes of being more 
successful in other markets, ai.d at the time 
when usually in all previous seasons a large 
number of bargains had ;iriived at maturity, not 
u single beeve was under contract. The num- 
ber of cattle slaughtered reaches oniy 14,977, 
compared with 28,972 for the year be!o.-e. The 
number of bbls. packed is 33,058 against 62,687. 
The season's business has been conducted by 
the following houses: 

Cragin &, Co., John Hay ward, Moore, Seav- 
erns & Co., G. S. Hubbard & Co., Andrew 
Brown, B. & G. B. Carpenter, Hough & Co. 

Herewith is the comparative business of the 
last six packing seasons: 

No Cattle. Av.w'ght. To'ltcgM,v>3. Bblsp'ked 

1851 21 806 

1832.... 24,663 54-2 18,367,346 46,395 

1853 25,431 503 14, 19,905 57,50;) 

1854.... 23,691 5-5 13.402,223 54.108 

18'5.... 28.972 57234 16,932,137 62,(587 

1856 14,977 543 8,130,496 33,U58 

NBr PRICES OF BEKF ROB F„UR YBARS. 

1853. 1854. 1855. 1856. 

Sept $4.75@5.50 *6.00@6.50 *6.50&7 60 $5.50<s6.S0 

Uctouer. 5 i 0fei6 00 5.50 6.25 5.50@6.25 5.50@6.7i 

Nov 5.00@0.00 5.50@6.i0 6.0"<g,6.60 5.50@6.50 

Deo.... 5.00@5.75 4.50(g6'00 6.50@7.00 5 00@6.75 

The value of the Beef packed in 1856 may be 

nearly represented by the figures below, and 

which are based upon the market prices at the 

close : 

VALUE OK BBEF PACKED IN 1856. 

Beef 33,058 bWs at $10 $420.754 00 

Tallow 711,407 IM ar llo 78,254.77 

Hi. Its 1,198,160 " " 7c ki.-71.-ju 

Offal 14,977 Lead at 75e 11,232.75 

Tolal H603.112.72 

Totdl in 1855 1,152,42", 'JO 

Decrees e in IS 56 $5 !9,3ox.2-l 

VALUE I F BEEF PACKED FOR FIVE SEASON?. 

J??2 W60.6S1.00 

iK 865,949.85 

}&?4 865,773.11 

If?? 1,152,420.96 

2So*> 603,112.72 



LUMBER. 
As a Lumber mnket Chicago stands pre-emi 
nent. Her trade in this respect takes the lead 
of any other city in the United States. Every 
year adds to the extent of her resources and to 
the magnitude of the demand to be supplied. 
Receipts for the last year have increased by 
over 150,000,000 feet. In 1847 the total receipts 



were but 32,000,000 feet. In 1856 they are near- 
ly 500,000,000 feet. 

MONTHLY RECEIPTS OF LUMBER, LATR AND EHISOLFS. 

Lumber. Lath. Siting? ex. 

January -;.l ; .... 50,000 

February 1,150,072 224.275 

March 2,191,822 345,896 210.01 o 

April 16,123,967 2,719,950 80,890, 

May 7x.WM.441 11,957,000 34,756 

June ...,87.965,337 13,214.000 19.861 

July 73,619,250 12,966,000 11.-jiim.iihi; 

Aueust 59,831.870 11,437,000 7,947.000 

Spt.-mber 47,274.451 10,4 7,91 

October 44,048,856 9.10UO00 12.666,000 

Hoveao'.T 43,858,000 6,774,000 10,290.000 

December. 90,000 .... 200,000 

Tota.1 456,673.169 79,235,120 135,876.000 

Total id 1855 306,553,467 46,487,550 168,770,860 

Increas- in K50 150,119.702 32,747.570 

Decrease in 1S56 .... .... 22 894,860 

The sources of the supply for the lost three 

years is shown in the following table: 

RECEIPTS OF LUMBER-FOB TIIR?K YEARS. 

1854. 1855. Km, 

By Lake, feet 217,124,120 297,567,669 411,961.900 

By Canal 5,700 28.132 11,938 

By^alpna Kviroad... 369.406 9.590 

By Mlcb. Son. do 4.004.483 2,707,758 5,538,446 

By do Cer. dr.. .. 6,752,988 6,197,369 9,051,077 

B" Rock Island do 48,000 18,000 

By 111. Central do 32,086 41,940 91,808 

Total feet 228,336,783 306,553,467 456,673,169 

It has been usually estimated that some 20,- 
000,000 feet are annually received which escape 
entry at the Custom House, and if this be added 
to the quantity given as above it increases the to- 
tal receipt of the yeir to 476, 673, 16 ^ feet. 

SHIPMENTS CF LUMBER FOU THREE TEAR?. 

,1854. 1855. 1856. 

By Lake, feet 4.000 5,500 17.800 

By Canal 65.398,740 81.040,328 73.033,99n 

*y C-Ulena Railroad... 47,573,460 111,081,351 135,709,150 

By Mich. fou. do 149,2-6 216,335 152.014 

By do Oen. do 453,110 287,983 149,705 

Hy Ro^k Island <*o 10,373,346 18,207,723 24,232,705 

By 111. Cent. do 7.281,258 

By C. 4 Hi. P. do 1,720.142 4.746,184 5 ro , no oca 

ByC. A.SSt.L. do 178,530 JIJ.49-.3b8 

City tup. andcniand. 95,204,911 90,968,113 203,285,437 

Total feet 228,336,783 306,553.467 456.673,169 

RECEIPT OF LUMBER, LATH AND SHINQ'ES F')R TEN THAR?. 

Lumber. Shingles. Lath. 

1847 32.118.225 12,148,500 5,655,700 

1848 60,009,250 2M.00M.MIK) 10,025,109 

1849 73,259,553 39,057,750 19,281,733 

1850. 1011.364,779 55,423,750 19,809,700 

1x51 125,056,437 60,338,250 27,583,475 

1X52 147.816,232 77.080.5M0 19.759,070 

1853 202,101.098 98.483,784 39,138,116 

1854 228,336,783 28,061,250 32,431,550 

1855 3li6.55-l.4ti7 158,770,860 46,4X7,550 

1856 456,673,169 79,235,120 135.876,000 

WOOL. 

The active demand and high prices paid for 
Wool during the season of 1855, called out near- 
ly or quite the whole stock in the country, and 
increased the receipts of the year by over 600,- 
000 lbs. For the last season the market has been 
more quiet, and as naturally to be expected, re- 
ceipts show a moderate decrease, amounting to 
something over 300,000 lbs. 

RECEIPTS OF WOOL FOR T'REE YEARS. 

1854. 1855. 1856. 

ByLaKMbs 3,400 13,000 8,400 

By Oai,al 249,023 160,748 42.372 

ftv GaI^d. Railroad 317,918 8-17.123 679,550 

By ,vi h. Southern B. R 42.590 1,463 

By Mich. Ce tr«l F. R 4.493 1,189 

By Ri.-k Island Ft. K 114,045 109.126 43,815 

Kv III. Central R. K 22,884 140,009 1,015,182 

Hvf.M.. fit. P. 4 V. (lu I. R. K. 1.110 51,691 62,000 

By Ch\, Alfn *S».L. K. K.... 43,458 

By other sourcs 574.876 .... 

Balance from last reason 215,047 .... 

Total 751,838 2"jJs,462 1,853,920 



_ O 



1856 
4,500 



SHIPMENTS OF WOOL FOR THaSB TEARS. 

1854. 1855 

By Lake, lbs 301600 834 800 

ByCana! 1125 

By Mich. Southern R R 84 094 93 940 93,188 

By Mich. Central RR 149972 1,229,722 478,120 

Balance unaccounted for 215,047 1,278,012 



Total 751,838 2.158,42 1853.920 

Shipments, of course, show a correspondiag 
decrease. 

SHIPMENTS OF WOOL FOR FIFTEEN TEARS. 



Year, )Lbs. 

1842 1 500 

1843 22 050 

1844 96,035 

1845 216.616 

1846 281.222 

1847 311.888 

1848 500.000 

1849 520,2421 



Tear. Urn. 

1850 913,682 

1851 1,088 553 

1852 920.113 

1853 953.100 

1854 536.791 

1855 2,158 462 

1856 575,808 



PRICES OF WOOL FOR F VE TEARS. 



1852. 

.Tune....l8@29 

July 25® 36 

August..25@37K 



1853. 

40r.j.45 

35@45 



1854. 
20@30 
23@31 
20@30 



1855. 
2oc<;::4 
35@36 
25@38 



1856 
20v 37 
20@37 
20® 37 



LEAD. 

la 1S55, our receipts of Lead more than 
doubled. This was owing to the completion of 
new railroads to the mining districts aud im- 
proved facilities for reaching market. For the 
year just closed the receipt of this article, its 
manufacture here, and other disposition is not 
materially different from that of 1855. 

RECE.PTS OF LEAH FOR FOUR TEAR?, 



1853. 


1854. 


1855 


1856. 


By Lake, fts ln8,150 


140,000 








35,463 


1,250 


1,250 


By Galena KK. 1,859,009 


4,051,346 


6,071,653 


3,436,880 


By R'ckl. d> 


14.455 






By I l.Cciidc 




3,893,047 


3,189,376 




5,864 




3,000,000 


Total 3.253 763 


4,247,12$ 


9,965,950 


9,527,506 



1856. 



SHIPMENTS CF 1E4D FIR FOUR TEARfc, 

1853. 1854. 1855. 

By Lake, fts.... 3.100,990 2,591.033 1,117,840 3,980,720 

«y Mich. u o.K. R) 127,015 22,120 287,236 

ByMih. C. " ) 151.650 

By Rock Is. " 1,810 .... 6,510 

By 111. Ont. " 85 

Consumed and on 

hand 1,123 1,027,195 6,825,990 5,253,040 



Total 3,253,763 4.247,128 9.965.950 9,527,506 

TOTAL RSCEIPTS CF L T AD FOB FIVE TEARS. 

1752. 1853. 1-54. 1855. 1856. 

1,357,327 3,253,702 4,247.128 9,96^,950 9,527,506 



RECEIPTS OF FLEL FOR TWO TEARS. 

1855. 1856. 



FUEL. 
A plentiful and cheap supply of Fuel is one 
of the most important requisites to the prosperi- 
ty of a large city. In this respect we are yet 
laboring under some disadvantages, which, it is 
highly probable, will soon be removed. The 
most extensive beds of Coal exist within a 6bort 
distance connected with the city by both rail- 
road and canal, and discoveries have been made 
within the past year which lead to the confident 
belief that they include an inexhaustible supply 
of fuel of the best quality and description. Ex- 
tensive preparations are making for the pioper 
opening of these new mines, and will, no doubt, 
be attended with the most flattering success. 
We give the receipts and consumption of Wood 
and Coal for two years : 



Wood.cds. 


( 'Hil.tns. 


Wood.cds. 


Coa/.tn*. 


By Lake 41.673 




61,631 




By C-vnsl 30,739 


4,655 


22.707 


3,899 


By GaleDaK. R 








By Mich P. " 640 


1 


3,486 


41 


By Mich C. " 1,758 


52 


250 


12 


By Ro.Vlf.-. " .... 


5,348 


.... 


5.030 


Rvlll. Cent. " 


11 


492 


317 


By C A Si. P." .... 




.... 




By C. ftJBt. L." .... 


.... 


.... 


.... 


Total 74,810 


110,075 


88,566 


93,020 


Shipments 


12,154 


88.566 


93.020 


Un haDii A c<~n 






17.161 


eumed in city. .74,810 


97,921 
110,075 


88,566 
88,566 


75.859 


Total 74.810 


93,020 



LAKE COMMERCE. 

Chicago is of course largely interested in the 
navigation of the Northwestern Lakes. Al- 
though subjected to every possible discourage- 
ment from the apathy and criminal neglect of 
the General Government to provide suitable 
harbors for the accommodation of commerce, 
and for the protection of property and of life, 
necessity, ambition and enterprise equally com 
bine to yearly strengthen this important arm of 
her prosperity and to sustain its struggles 
agaist numerous and what would in most cases 
prove ruinous embarrassments. The day can- 
not be far distant when the voice of the West 
will be heard in reference to this matter of Lake 
navigation improvement in tones which will 
command respect and attention. 

HUMDER AND TONSAG* OF VESSELS ARRIVING AT THE PORT 
OF CBICAGO FiB THE SEASON OF 1856. 

Stm'rs. Props. Sail. Total. Ton ace Ko. Men 



Aprl. 

M.y.. 

June . 

July.. 

Aug.. 

Sept... 

Oct... 

Nov... 



2) 
48 
48 
51 
50 
46 
33 
18 



Total.. 324 474 5,330 
Arrivals unreported 



Props. Sail. 

16 276 317 60.392 2,201 

48 793 889 207,600 8,390 

76 912 1,036 242,818 9/87 
69 1-40 960 243,397 8,640 
79 812 941 331,284 8.565 

77 f-* 711 102,344 7.017 
62 6*5 755 98,243 6,522 
47 454 519 76,501 7,210 

£l28 .1,252,579 58,332 

1,200 292,800 7,200 

7,328 1545,379 05,532 

Total in 1855 6,610 1,608.845 

Total in 1854 5,021 1,092,044 

There are now laid up in winter quarters in 
the harbor of Chicago 3 Steamers, 11 Propellers, 
12 Steam Tugs, 24 Barques, 26 Brigs, and 169 
Schooners — total 245. 

Herewith is a statement of the duties on im- 
ported and bonded goods collected at the Cus- 
t, m House in Chicago for the last three years. 
The decrease in this revenue is due to the ope- 
ration of the Canadian reciprocity treaty, and 
to the lesser import of railroad iron, the duty 
on which in 1854 • mounted to a considerable 
sum : 

DUTIES ON IMPORTS AND BONDED GOODS RECEIVED AT THE 
CUSTOM HOUSE DURING THE TEARS 1854. 1855 AND 1856, 

1854. 

January 19.021.95 

February , 6.949.20 

March 80.372.38 

April 24,273.00 

May 32155.26 

June 40,248.12 

July 52.091.30 

August 112.299.31 

S-ptember 43,138.50 

October 78.928.95 

November... 53, 485.01 

December 102,839.87 



1855. 


1856. 


$26,400.19 


S 5,648.94 


9.099.90 


472.90 


4.972.27 


806.10 


40,212.17 


3.762.65 


33.036.15 


12,064.15 


l7.:;.-.s.io 


16,762.75 


51.051.80 


21,720.00 


21,301,60 


41,908.65 


25,830,40 


19.73i.36 


22.ill7.40 


K964.45 


27.400.15 


17.326 00 


18 084.62 


2,280.44 



Total $575 S02.85 296,824.75 

Total received in 1853... 200.071.17 



162,994.31 



Increase for 1854 *375.131.68 — 

Decrease for 1855 $278,978.10 

Decrease for 1856 133.S30.44 



29 



Below is the amount of Hospital money col- 
lected for two years : 

AMOUNT OF HOSPITAL MONET COLLECTED AT THH CUSTOM 
HOUSE FOR TWO TEARS. 

1655. 1856. 

January $ 21.20 

February W7.72 

March 34.27 77.16 

April 385.18 630.50 

May 353.88 223.14 

June 294.61 203.93 

July 144.10 182.57 

August 190.27 195.59 

September 189.40 - 15 

October 68.45 3i.l4 

November 49.30 58.67 

December 12.00 82.17 

Total $1,742.60 1,951.35 

Increase for 1856 208.75 

We append a table showing the steam and sail 
tonnage of the District of Chicago, which in- 
cludes the ports of Michigan City and Wauke- 
gan. The great majority is owned in this city. 
Canal tonnage is not included : 

LAKE TONNAGE OF I/ISTBICT OF CHICAGO. 

Tannage of Chicago. Steam. Sail. Total 

District, JdD.l, 1)555 3,02156 41,579-68 45,601-29 

Jan. 1,1856 4,421-04 52,249-16 56,670-20 

Ssyt.30, 1855 5,223-33 55,828-8-1 61.052-22 

Less papers surrendered 5,000-00 

Total balance Sept. 30. 1856. 56.052-22 

Estimated total Jan. 1, 1857.. 56,385-09 



TOTAL RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS. 

In the following statement we present, as far 
as it is possible to do so, the total receipts and 
shipments of the season. We cc:n only repeat 
that the exhibit is at the best but a very imper- 
fect one. This is owing to that prevailing want 
of system which still exists in reference to the 
proper classification and returns of freight 
moved upon our lakes, rivers and railroads. In 
some cases the utmost care and correctness is 
exercised, while in others confusion reigns su- 
preme. From the Canal and most of the rail- 
roads perfect and reliable statistics are obtain- 
able. But through the Custom House, except 
in the case of a few of the principal articles, it 
is quite impossible to arrive at anything like 
exactness. While the Custom House entries 
are thus open to complaint, we do not wish to 
be understood that the Custom House at Chicago 
is specially censurable. On the other hand, we 
believe that more than usual pains are here 
taken to secure the correct entry and clearance 
of produce, goods and merchandise. It is the 
system which can alone be complained of, and 
thai upon th<} whole chain of lakes, from Buf- 
falo to Chicago, is seriously defective. 

STATEMENT 

Showing th« comparative Total Receipts and Ship 
mentiby Lake, Canal and Railroads for 1856. 

RECEIPTS. 

Description. Lake. Carnal. Railroads. Total 

Ag. Imp'ts, tbs... 1,600,000 5,650 1,606 

Ag'l Products 2,968.596 2,96? 

Ale <fc Beer, bbls. 21,235 533 21,767 

Apples 3.315 |. .... 73.860 77,175 

Bark, eds 2.918 2 917 

Barley, bu 25,502 634 72,321 98,457 

Barrels. No 24,759 342 .... 25,101 

Beans, bush .... 76 3,243 3,319 



Beef, bbls 






220 


Bran. lbs 




361.968 


6.071,277 


Brick, No 


22,798,068 


929,999 


3,105,153 


Broom Corn. lb?. 




202,965 




Buggies & Wag's 


558,400 


20,660 




Butter, tts 


96,900 


34,554 


2,537,484 




24,200 


16,375 






107,800 


4,496 


1,521,609 




K 1.721 


3,899 


5,400 




60,610 


35.978 








5,377.825 


6,310,573 




462,8>-0 


150 


3,895,161 


Fish, bbls 


15,688 


27 






4,781 


1(1,597 


309,543 


Furniture, tbs... 




43,247 13.923.201 




5,000 


288 


19,601 




96,000 


520,023 


2,227,179 


Grindstones, tns 


3,643 






Ham? & Ba'n, fts 


21,900 


1,754,803 


30,433 




a 


226 








50,5113 






17.280 


143,996 


8,366.716 


H. Wines bbls.. 


735 


1,659 


27,612 


Iron, bars& bd!s 


38,839 






Iron & Nails, tns 


11,258 


4 


3,940 




78.501*000 


797.827 


24 OOU 


Lath, No 


934,120 






1,250 


6,626,256 




398.000 


300 






721,000 


4.723 


861.128 




866 


46 


1.264 


Lumber, ft 441,961,900 


11,938 1461 






35,800 


337,301 


Meal 




11,760 


19,095 




309,968 








76,263 


60 


72.196 


Milk, gals 






2os,.;;.; 


Molasses, lbs 


73,200 


1,142,625 


705. 600 






671.040 


1.148.857 


•nl, bbls 


479 


441 




Pickets, No .... 


214.871 






Pig Iron, tons.. 


9,236 


327 


727 


Plaster, bbls.... 


h,616 




318 


Pork, bbls 


1,583 


5,435 


6,280 


Pork in hog. No. 






119.110 


Pork in do., lbs.. 




g 


27,753,081 


Posts, No... 


590,251 






Potatoes, bu.... 


22,373 


1.710 


198.487 


Provisions, Bis.. 




167,938 


8.348.3S9 




19,800 


8,552 




It. K. Iron, tons. 


51,149 






Furnls'ng. 


296 










5,'-l 


36,026 


Salt, bbls 


175,646 




41 


" sacks, lbs... 


2,421,323 


22,800 




Smd 




4,089,100 




Shingles, no 134,225,001 




1,651,000 




5,270 










13,200 






127,140 

G.855.SKI 


138,954 




Staves 


4,385,549 




2,9:34 


207,572 


16 


Stoves & h. ware. 


5.272 




279 




C7G.7U0 


1,174,885 


2,921,900 


Tallow 




33,757 




Tar, &c, bbls.... 


226 


28 




T e .no 


25.304 

2,(. -,791 


51,054 




Timber, ft 








101.877 




w ater Lime, bbls 


11.589 


6.477 


[,655 


"^hnat. bu 


837 


830.326 


7.737,197 


White Lead. tb.s.. 


501,200 


167.538 




Wi od, eds 


61,631 


22,707 


4,228 




8,400 


42,372 


1.803,148 


Other artu Ts, p'^. 


401,013 


207 




' tons. 


17,009 


171 


10,703 


Cattle.no 






21,950 




030 




14,204 








171.515 




19,521 



225 

6,483,240 

26,883.230 

202.965 

579,060 

2,668.988 

30.575 

1,633.8 

83.1 20 

90.0U 

ll.>'-v':<- 
4,358,11] 

15.715 

324.92] 

13,666.1!- 
24,889 

8,633 
1.807,136 

231 

3,527,992 

50,00:; 

38,839 

15,208 

821,827 

79,435,120 

6,027,501, 

398,300 

1,586,851 

2,176 

456,673,169 

373,101 

30,855 

802.968 

148.519 

• 

1,969,42a 

1,819,897 

920 

214.871 

10.290 

10,934 

13.29* 

119,110 

27.753,081 

590,251 

217.570 

8,516,327 

28.352 

51, 149 

i 

41,707 

175.687 

3,444,123 

4.08(1,11X1 

135,876.000 

5,270 

13.200 

200.091 

11.241,54.1 

210,522 

5.551 

4,473,485 

33,757 

254 

25,304 

2,139,845 

101,877 

19,721 

8,568.360 

66»,738 

X8.506 

1,851 ,920 

401,220 

27.*>3 

21.950 

14.840 

174,515 

19.52J 



SHIPMENTS. 



Descriptions. 
Ag. Imp'ts, lbs... 
Ag. Products .... 
Ale andBeer.bbls 

Apples 

Ashes, lbs 

Bark 

Barley, bu 

Barrels, no 

lief, bbls 

Beans, bu 

Bran, tbs 

Brick, no 

Broom Corn, bal's 
Bug's, « Vvag's.lbs 

Butter 

Cheese 

Coal, tons 

Coffee, lbs 

Corn bu 11 

Cranberries, lbs. 
Doors A Sash, lbs 

Dried Fruit 

Eggs, doz 

Fish, bbls 



Lake. 
467,000 



Canal. Railroads. 
688,435 



1,454 



13 



230 

590 

23,461 

230"300 
69,61 I 

38-VI'io 
55.1.00 

249 850 
49,88 i 

,079,490 



4,560 
206 



1,146.088 

1.0.56 

8,956 

89 

4'.566 

952,167 

93,'tKJO 

'500 
901 

950 
2.5U0 

56,055 
19,420 

'L'j 



2,748,664 

217 

5.1.54 

66,717 

17*765 



211 

296 

7.015 

657,649 1 



48.1 - 
167,497 

16,c93 

47°678 11 

j 



61,111 



Total. 

.155.015 

6,608 

66,717 
,146.088 

19,051 

341.845 
,679,611 

388,41 
128.886 
298.24* 
217.»77 

16.16! 

24,470 

4.560 



30 





109,516 


344 

106,574 


46,529 
763,818 


216,389 


Furniture, lbs.... 


870.392 




3t£666 

409,500 





358.448 
2,354,250 


670.448 


Grass Seeds 


2,823,759 


Grindstones, t ns 


22 


"t>i 


8 


91 


Han>8& Bacon,5>s 


12,327,400 


• . . . 


1,397.492 


13,624,892 




562 


126 


• . . . 


688 




101,200 
8,197.800 


'idd 


l,192"""i 


101.200 


Hides, as 


9,390.211 


Ilighwines. bbls.. 


2,200 


131 


3.935 


6,266 


Iron & Nails, tons 


566 


251 


10,983 


11.800 


Lard, lbs 


3,908,700 


• > • . 


.... 


3.008,700 




4.500 11,847,210 17,487,637 
3 980,720 .... 293,746 


29,339.347 




4.274,466 




2,3!'6>il 


.... 


.... 


2,396, 60 




87,500 
200 


3',990 


47,017 
7.068 


135,M7 




11,258 




17,800 7 


3,633.990 169,735,742 


243,387.732 


Machinery, lbs... 




78,633 


2,101.310 


2,170.948 


Meal, tts 


5,708,200 




1,445 


5,769.645 




17,957 


.... 


.... 


17.957 




i;;,:-,53 


851 


174,796 


180,000 


Molases, lbs 


910,800 


.... 


>• • . 


910,800 




949,413 

533 

1,681 


31,946 
13 
98 


33,188 
"787 


1,014,5.7 


1, hbl 


546 


Pig Iron, tons.... 


2,575 




54 


.... 


211 


295 


Pork 


46,782 


11 


5,311 


52104 


Pork in hog, no... 


> • • > 


.... 


87,567 


87,567 


B>>... 


.... 




20,405.116 


20,404,116 




2!<357 


'28",802 
1,733 


452,200 
1,279 


48 ,002 




8,769 


Provisions, lbs... 


10,500 






10,500 


Rags, tbs 


5,696,000 


• ■> > 


.... 


5,696,' 00 


R. R. Iron, tons.. 


836 


519 


153 


1,508 




378 
1,962 


212 
14.3 


64^93 


590 


Bait, bbls 


81.003 


Salt in sacks, fts.. 


293.300 


186.002 




470,302 




62,000 23.196, 


tj BoitS, " T -i... 




346 


• . • • 


346 




50,000 


1,233,313 


11,983 


1,284,301 




2,681 


.... 


.... 


2,681 


Stvs. & H. Ware.. 




260 


36 


506 


Sugar, lbs 


1,705*600 


8,176 


.... 


1,713,677 


Tallow, lbs 


5,077,500 


.... 


... * 


5,077, --00 




• * < > 


39,891 


■ . . . 


39,891 


Water Lime.bbis. 


. . . 


759 


4,723 


5,482 


Wheat, bu 


8,114,353 


4,866 


218,199 


8.3-i7,420 


White Lead.Ibi... 


3lN8i'0 


3,126 




321,926 




4,500 




B7I,308 


575,808 


Other articles ofcs 


5.035 


"iso 




5,166 


" tons 


7,215 


154 


224 


7,593 


Cattle, No 


579 


.... 


21,923 


22, 02 




" 323 
43 


.... 


1,669 
193,930 


1,992 




193. 073 




.... 




1,504 


1,504 



Population of Chicago. 

We present the following taole showing the 
population of Chicago at different periods : 



1840 4,470 

1843 7,580 

1845 12,088 

1846 ]4,16M 

1847 16,859 

1848 20,035 

1S49 23,047 j 



1*50. 



f 8,269 



1862 38,733 



1853. 

1854 

1855. 



6 ,652 

65,872 
1,500 



1856 110,000 



From the Democratic Press, Jan, 1. 
DusineM Statistics. 
In accordance with our invariable custom, we 
present the readers of the Democratic Press, 
this morning, with a general review of the Com- 
merce of Chicago for the year just closed. The 
aggregate in the enumerated branches will be 
found to be of the most gratifying character, and 
to indicate a rapid and healthy increase in the 
business of our city. It is in view of the indis- 
putable facts which these annuil statements 
briug to light that we realize how far the reality 
transcends all past predictions respecting the 
future of Chicago. Year by year, since our con- 
nection with the press of this city — an event 
which dates back to 184S — have we essayed to 
foretell what might reasonably be expected both 
as to the growth in population aud the increase 
in business, and year by year have we seen our 
estimates dwarfed into insignificance by the actual 
facts. Four years ago we entered into an elabo- 



rate aigument, showing by the areas that would 
be reached by our line3 of railroad, by the capa- 
cities of the soil, and by the known euergy and 
industry of our western population, that within 
five years from that time the annual receipt of 
grain at this place would reach twenty millions 
of bushels. Our less hopeful friends were as- 
tounded beyond measure at the temerity mani- 
fested in risking our reputatiou on so "extrava- 
gant and absurd" an estimate. " Why," said 
they, "the quantity could not be stored in the 
city, the laborers could not be secured to handle 
it, the money to purchase it, nor the vessels to 
transport it to an ultimate market." The five 
years have not yet elapsed, and our figures this 
morning show the amount received in the fourth 
year after the prediction to be only a fraction 
under twenty-five millions of bushels— or twenty- 
five per cent, over the estimate. The warehouses 
have been found ready for the increased supply 
the laborers were here (and it required but 
comparatively few, since steam did most 
of the work) to handle it, the money 
to buy it, and the vessels to convey it 
away. So, also, in regard to the growth of 
the lumber business. When in 1849 we pub- 
lished the receipts for the year at 73,000,000 
feet, some of our friends engaged in that 
business insisted that the amount was larger 
*han the facts warranted, and some of them en- 
tered into elaborate figures to prove to us that 
the wants of the country could never call for so 
large a quantity of lumber in a single year. 
Seven years have passed away, and each year 
has witnessed a large increase in this article 
over the business of 1840, and now, at the close 
of 1856, we find the amount brought to this 
market during the year exceeding that brought 
here in 1S49 by about 400,000,000 feet! 

The fact is, the country which is commercially 
tributary to Chicago, and which by a decree of 
nature must remain so for all time to come, is of 
such extent, of such illimitable resources, aud 
is withal being so rapidly developed under the 
stimulus of free government, railroads and im- 
proved labor-saving machinery, that the history 
of the world furnishes no parallel to it, and hence 
all estimates,based upon past experience, respect- 
ing the results that are here to be worked out. 
must necessarily fall far short of the actual fact. 
This is the reason why the wonderful growth of 
Chicago has so far outstripped all the predictions 
of the most sanguine of its citizens. This is the 
reason why the annual commerce of these north- 
western lakes has within a quarter of a century 
risen from a mere nominal value to far exceed 
that of the total foreign commerce of the whole 
Union. 

It will be seen that many of the different 
branches of commerce pursued in our city, are 
only represented in the imperfect aggregates of 
the table of Imports and Exports. It is there- 



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fore proper (or us to say that every department 
of trade has shared in the common impulse, and 
that large accessions— larger than those of any 
previous year — have been made during the year 
just closed to the business capital of the city. 
In dry goods, in groceries, in boots and shoes, 
in hardware, &c, &c, maDy new and extensive 
wholesale houses have been opened since the 
date of our las' annual review, and without ex- 
ception, so far as we are advised, with results 
entirely satisfactory to their respective proprie- 
tors. Many of our wholesale dealers are im- 
porters, and soma of them manufacturers, and 
hence their ability to supply country nerchants 
on better terms than can be had in the cities of 
the seaboard; and when, as will undoubtedly ere 
loDg be the case, these importations shall be 
made direct, via the St. Lawrence and the Lakes, 
Chicago will present still greater inducements 
for the trade of western merchants, and her posi- 
tion in this regard will be beyond the reach of 
competition. 

As regards the future, we will no longer ven- 
ture upon specific predictions and estimates. In 
all such undertakings heretofore we have fallen 
so far behind the reality that we do not care to 
try our hand again. Every indication, however, 
warrants us in saying that the future progress 
of Chicago will in no respect fall short of its past 
history. In population she i3 now advincing 
more rapidly that at any previous period. The 
eyes of the young, the active, the enterprising, 
turn toward her from all parts of the world, and 
not a breeze that blows, a ship that sails, or a 
railroad train that moves, that <s not instrumen- 
tal in making accessions to her numbers. 

Nor is it only on account of her material pro- 
gress that we have reason to congratulate our- 
selves as citizens of Chicago. In all that pertains 
to intellectual culture and to the moral and reli- 
gious training of the people, she is coming rap- 
idly into the possession of agencies which pro- 
mise to be commensurate to her wants in this 
regard. Our system of free common and high 
schools, our private academies and seminaries, 
our endowed Universities springing up all 
around the city, our Theological schools repre- 
senting almost every phase of Protestantism, our 
numerous church edifices— all these are so many 
evidences that the temporal and material are not 
permitted to overshadow the eternal and the 
spiritual, and that however costly and magnifi- 
cent may be the courts of Mammon in our midst, 
the learning, the refinements, the graces and the 
Tirtues of a Christian civilization are destined to 
become, more than ever, leading characteristics 
of our people. 

In conclusion, we tender hearty congratula- 
tions to our fellow-citizens of Chicago in view of 
the wonderful prosperity and progress which 

have marked the past year, and of the brilliant 
f uture which is in store for her. 



ILLINOIS AND MICHIGAN CANAL. 

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Extent and Itcsourccs oi' tlic North 
West-—Trndc ivitlt Canada, Arc. 

Remarks of Win. Bross, Esq., nt the Great Railway Cel- 
ebration :it Montreal, Wednesday, Nov. 12th, ls.">(i,in 
response to the toast "The City '>f Chicago" us re- 

I .< i i-t < •< i in tin- Montreal Ca/.rttr, Nuv. 10. 

Wit. BROSS, ESQ., Editor of the Chicago Democratic 
Press, responded. He thanked the last speaker (v>r the 
Battering mention that had been made of Chicago, and 
said: This is eminently, Sir, a practical age. And 

while this is true, it is not wanting in thos 

which appeal to and arouse the nobler and mure gener- 
ous emotions of the sonl. The farts and tl 
which represent the onward pro if our CI istian 



82 



civilization, so far from being dry and uninteresting, 
are themselves eloquent and absorbing, and even the 
most exalted genius has not disdained to embody them 
In our literature, and to celebrate their benign influence 
upon the happiness of mankind in the magic numbers 
of poetry. Next to Christianity itself, commerce has the 
most direct and powerful influence to bind together, in 
a community of interest and feeling, all the families of 
our race, and to cultivate those kindlier sympathies 
which teach man to recognize a brother in his fellow- 
man in whatever land or clime he may be found. 

This celebration is intended to honor the opening of 
another great thoroughfare from the teeming prairies 
of the West to the Atlantic seaboard. While others 
have enjoyed the pleasing task of dwelling on the social 
themes suggested by this event, and believing as I do 
in the eloquence of facts and figures, will you permit 
rae, Sir, to notice its great commercial importance. — 
Canadian enterprise was never more wisely employed 
than when it devoted its energies to complete another 
highway from the Mississippi to Montreal and Quebec, 
and to Portland in Maine, the most eastern, as she cer- 
tainly is one of the fairest stars in our glorious galaxy 
of States. Permit me, in this connection, to notice 
briefly the extent and rapidity of settlement, and the 
resources of the magnificent country of which Chicago 
is the commercial centre, and which you have bound 
to your city by iron bands by the completion of the 
Grand Trunk Railway. Let any one study carefully 
the map of the Northwest, and he will find within the 
bounds of the United States, lying between Lake Mich- 
igan and the Rocky Mountains, and within the reach of 
the trade of the lakes south, say the latitude of Alton, 
700,000 square miles of territory — enough to form four- 
teen states as large as Ohio. It is very easy to repeat 
these figures, but let us make some comparisons in order 
that we may form some just and definite conception of 
their magnitude. All the States east of the Mississippi, 
except Wisconsin, Illinois and Florida, contain only 
about 700,000 square miles. Again, England, Ireland, 
"Wales and Scotland, constituting the British Empire, 
leading as her position is in civilization, wealth and 
power of the world, contain only 115,000 square miles, 
and yet they have a population of 26,000.000. Turkey, 
Austria and France contain in the aggregate 361,000 
square miles, and sustain a population of 84,000,000. 

The climate of the region under consideration is ex- 
actly fitted to produce a hardy and enterprising people. 
Its mineral deposits of iron, lead, copper and coal are 
unsurpassed in extent and richness, and unbroken by 
mountains, its agricultural resources are exhaustless 
and truly amazing. It is said by competent authority 
that every acre will maintain its man; but giving ten 
to each, within the next half dozen centuries, if peace 
and prosperity crown the land, it is destined to contain 
450,000,000 of people. Such is the vast and magnificent 
country with which you have become socially and com- 
mercially connected at all times and in all seasons by 
the Grand Trunk, the Great Western, and the Michigan 
Central Railways. 

The rapidity with which the borders of this immense 
region — for at least five-sevenths of it is still the home 
of the panther, the buffalo and the savage — is one of 
the most astonishing wonders of the age. Within half 
the lifetime of many who hear me, there were not ten 
thousand white inhabitants in all this territory; their 
number now will range from one and a half to two mil- 
lions. Twenty years ago Chicago was a small town at 
the southern end of Lake Michigan, and at night the 
howl of the prairie wolf might be heard from all its 
dwellings; now it is a city of more than a hundred 
thousand inhabitants. Twenty years ago Chicago im- 
ported nearly all her pork, beef and flour; this year 
she will export 20,000,000 bushels of grain, and' her 
beef, both in quantity and quality, leads the markets of 
the world. Five years ago the State of Illinois had 
complet 1 95 miles of railways ; now she has more than 
2,400. At that time there was but one railway, forty 
miles long, entering Chicago ; there are now ten trunk 
and a great number of branch lines, and counting in 
most cases but a single State beyond our own, tl 
are now more than three thousand miles of railway 
centering in the city, and on these more than a hundred 
trains of cars arrive and depart daily. The earnings 
• it these roads last year reached the enormous sum of 
$13,300,0110. and this year they will amount to from 17 



to 20,000,000 of dollars. What is a matter of special 
pride is that some of these lines are among the best 
paying roads in the Union. But the country is in- 
creasing, if possible, much faster than Chicago, its 
commercial metropolis. Only some seven or eight years 
ago, Minnesota was organized into a territory, and 
her white inhabitants were told by a few hundreds: 
imw .-he ha- at lea-t IMo.OOU, and will knock at the 
door of Congress at the next session for admission as a 
sovereign state. 

But, sir, it may be interesting to you to know what 
the extent of the trade between the ports of Canada 
and Chicago is. And here let me acknowledge my in- 
debtedness for these figures to J. Edward Wilkins, Esq., 
the very able and excellent Consul of Her Britannic- 
Majesty at Chicago : 

IMPORTS. 

Vessels. Tons. 

1854 5 1,193 £5,17826 $24,855 

1855 77 16,017 28,856 6 8 138,520 

1856, to Nov. 1, 95 22,0(54 40,892 8 4 194,MS 

EXPORTS. 

Vessels. Tons. 

1854 6 1,482 £16,429 7 6 $79,101 

1S55 61 13,010 173,922 18 S34,826 

1856, to Nov. 1, 97 23,377 174,838 5 9 829,228 

These figures, it should be borne in mind, represent 
the trade in British vessels alone. The exports from 
Chicago to Canadian ports are much larger than the 
figures here given, as produce is shipped largely by the 
Collingwood and the Michigan Central lines, by Ogdens- 
burgh and by independent American vessels. The total 
amount of sales this year at Chicago to Canadian mer- 
chants is estimated by Mr. Wilkins at about $2,500,000. 
This large trade has sprung up mainly within the last two 
years, and owes its success to the enlightened statesman- 
ship of those who framed and secured the passage of the 
reciprocity treaty. But,sir, we, of Chicago,hope that this 
trade is but in its infancy. The Creator when he form- 
ed the great Lakes ami the St. Lawrence, intended that 
the commerce of the mighty and teeming West should be 
borne on their broad bosom to the ocean, and I think, 
Sir, it requires no great amount of geographical and 
philosophical sagacity to discover that while Chicago 
is to be the great central commercial city of the North 
American continent, Montreal is to be one of the great- 
commercial emporiums of the seaboard. That is vir- 
tually your position. It needs but the enlarging of the 
Welland Canal and the construction of another great 
work, the Georgian Bay and Ontario Ship Canal, to 
secure for Montreal this proud position beyond a per- 
adventure. We have an earnest of what can be done. 
Only a few weeks ago the Dean Richmond was loaded 
at Chicago and Milwaukee, passed out through your 
magnificent river and canals, and landed her cargo of 
wheat on the docks of Liverpool. This, sir, I regard 
as one of the greatest triumphs of commercial enter- 
prise. But let not the merchants of Montreal fear that, 
if the Georgian Bay Canal be built, and the Welland 
enlarged, the rich trade of the West will go by her. So 
far from that, it will make one of its chief depots here. 
Lines of propellers will bring the produce of the West 
here, and from them it will be transhipped in Ocean- 
going steamers. May we notfhope, Sir, that Montreal 
merchants will give us such a line next year on the open- 
ing of navigation ? Let it be understood that Chicago 
merchants can import speedily and surely goods from 
Europe by this line, and our word for it, it will not be 
three years before Montreal will secure the lion's share 
of the trade of the West. I am well aware, Sir, that 
these remarks may be condemned, and perchance excite 
the ridicule of my friends on the other side of the line. 
The far-seeing sagacity of DeWitt Clinton planned, and 
New York enterprise built the Erie Canal, thus securing 
for a time for the great American metropolis the vast 
trade of the mighty West. But, Sir, there is enough 
for them and for you. Commerce knows no national 
lines. Protect her, and she blesses alike the loyal Sub- 
jects of the British Queen and those who recline proudly 
beneath the Stars and Stripes of our own glorious 
Union. Ave, Sir, she has bound us, and may she con- 
tinue to hind us together in a community of interest 
and feeling, and accursed be the hand that would sever 
these bonds, so productive of everything that promotes 
the onward progress of Christian civilization. I give 
you, Sir, in conclusion — 

" Montreal and Chicago— England. Canada, and the 
American Union ; in all efforts to promote the arts of 
peace, and to secure the advancement of our race in 
intelligence and Christian civilization, may they be 

• NOW AND POREVHE, ONE AND INSEPERAELK.' " 



ANNUAL REVIEW 



OP TIIE 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO, 



For the Year 1856. 



Review of the Manufactures of Chicago for 
185G. 

We herewith present to the readers of the 
Democratic Pbess our fifth Annual Review of 
the Manufactures of Chicago, and are happy to 
say, that the result of our labors shows this de- 
partment of our city's business to be in a satis- 
factory and vigorous condition, having achieved 
a growth during thepa3t year entirely commen- 
surate with that of the city and the country com- 
mercially connected with it. The aggregate foot- 
ings show that capital thus invested in our city 
at the end of 1856 reaches the very respectable 
amount of $7,759,400, being an increase over the 
preceding year of $1,464,400. The value of the 
manufactures for the past year will be found to 
be $15,515,063, which is an increase of $4,483,572 
over those of 1855. The number of hands em- 
ployed in manufacturing in 1856 is 10,573, being 
an increase of 1,833 over the number thus en- 
gaged in 1855. The following table gives the 
manufacturing statistics of our city for the past 
three years : 

1854. 1855. 1856. 

Capital invested $4,220,000 $6,295,000 $7,759,400 

Hand j employed. No. 5.000 8,740 10 563 

Tal.oi manufactures.$7,870,000 $11,031,491 $15,515,063 

These figures indicate a very gratifying pro- 
gress, and we point to them as furnishing an un- 
impeachable testimonial to the energy, enter- 
prise and sagaciy of our citizens who have been 
instrumental in creating the facts for which they 
stand. The statistics which follow have been 
collected by our corps of Reporters with much 
care, and with not a little labor and expense. 
They embrace the principal manufacturing estab- 
lishments of the city. These establishments 
which are not embraced have been repeatedly 
visited, and their proprietors have been invited 
both verbally and through our columns to for- 
ward a statement of their operations, but either 
through unwillingness or alack of interest on 
their part, our repeated solicitations have not 
been complied with. 

Iron Worli-.StenmEnslnes, 8aw and firlst Mills, 
Castings, Kailroad Cars, Bridges, etc., elc. 

In no department of industry has Chicago 
shown herself to greater advantage than in her 

3 



iron manufactures; her steam engines, saw-mil!s, 
railroad cars, bridges, etc. During the past year 
not only have many of our iron works doubled 
their business, but a large number of new shops 
and foundries have been established, and are 
now carrying on an extensive business. The 
great demand for machinery of all kinds 
throughout the West and Northwest, as well as 
the high estimation in which Chicago iron manu- 
factures are held, has so crowded our foundries 
and machine-shops with orders, that they have 
had to employ all the available force that could 
be obtained, and to extend their limits as fast as 
it was possible to erect the necessary buildings. 
By the recapitulation to found at the end of this 
chapter, it will be seen that the capital invested 
in iron works has increased during the past 
year, $661,900; manufactures have increased 
$976,584; workmen employed, increased 921. 
407 steam engines have been built ; 250 saw- 
mills, 576 boilers, 700 railroad cars, besides shin- 
gle mills, grist mills, and wood-working ma- 
chinery of all kinds. During the year there have 
been consumed by the manufactories which are 
rcorded below, 8,025 tons wrought iron, 14,569 
tons cist iron, — 12,768 tons coal, and 2000 cords 
of wood. Of course the above figures do 
do not include the large number of blacksmith 
shops that are scattered over our ciiy, and in 
which there are probably employed over 1000 
men. The figures of these shops it was not pos- 
sible to obtain. 

Stone, Boomer & Bouton, Railroad Car and 
Bridge Builders. — This establishment was 
located at the American Works at Carville, 
about four miles south of the Post Office. It 
was established in this city by Stone & Boomer 
in February, 1S52, who devoted their attention 
to the construction of wooden bridges on the 
Howe principle. In November, 1852, they built 
the old Union Car Works, on South Clark 
street, which were destroyed by fire in Septem- 
ber, 1855. Immediately afterwards they pur- 
chased the American Car Works, which cover 
upwards of twelve acres of ground, which they 
occupied along with the foundry on Clark street 



34 



up to the end of last month, when they sold the 
Car Works to the Illinois Central Railroad 
Company. 

During the past year they have finished the 
Mississippi River Bridge at Rock Island, and 
and several other bridges— iniong others one 
across the Chicago River at Randolph street. 
They are now engaged in erecting a bridge across 
the Mississippi River at St. Paul. They have 
also built several turn-tables for railroads during 
the past year. The value of the bridges built 
in 1856 is $500,000. They have also a a branch 
firm at Davenport, Iowa, under the name ot 
Stone, Boomer & Boyington, and one also, we 
believe at St. Louis. 

The following are their figures for the year 

1856: 

Capital invested $450,000 

Cost of building and machinery lot) 000 

Value of rannu'ac.ures 1,273,000 

Wagespaid 31o.000 

Hands employed b50 

Goal used, tons r,' 

Iron wrought, tons 3.000 

Irencast. ■' 7,000 

Lumber, feet 11,000,000 

Harper & Tweedale, Iron and Wood Bridge 
Builders, office, Young Men's Association Build- 
ing, Washington street. 

This firm has built during the past year the 
pivot wood bridge at Wells street, across the 
Chicago River, and the railroad bridge at Peo- 
ria, across the Illinois River. They are now 
building an iron bridge across the Chicago Riv- 
er at Rush street, and two wood bridges at Ra- 
cine, W:s. Their work for the past year is val- 
ued at $34,000. Their work now under contract 
amounts to $71,000. 

Eagle Works.— Gates, Warner, Chalmers & 
Fraser, General Iron Manufacturing, Steam 
Engine and Car Builders, &c, &c; corner of 
Washington, Canal, West Water, Clinton, and 
Jefferson streets. 

This establishment, during the past year, has 
erected several large additions to its works, and 
it is now spread over several blocks. The build- 
ing alone now occupy two acres of ground, and 
there is every reason to believe that that in an- 
other year more extension will be necessary. 

The following are their figures for 1856 : 



Va'ue of manfic's. .9023,000 Hindi emploved. . 
[6 paid 2oo.i:oo R. £. cars built.. 



400 
133 



Dost of buildings... 30,000 Staamcngines r-uilt.... 235 

RAW MATERIAL CO*SWM*D, 

Coal, bituminous, tns. 1,000 iron, pig. tns 1,500 

Coal, Leh:gh 200 Iron, wroagh: 1,023 

The above works were established in 1848, 
during which year the work did not exceed 
$10,000 

Excelsior Iron Works. — Mason, McArthcr 
& Co., Steam Engine and Boiler Builders and 
Manufacturers, corner of Canal and Carroll 
streets. These works are quita exteus'.ve, the 
buildings and machinery covering a lot 150 by 
feet, threo stories high, with outhouses, &c. 
They were established in 1852 in a small wood- 
en shed on West Randolph street, si rice which 



they have progressed with our city. At present 
they are extensively engaged in the manufac- 
ture of all kinds of sheet iron work, repairing 
Steam engines and machinery in steam boats, 
propellers, mills, &c. The following are their 
figures for 1856 : 



Hands employsd, No. 70 
Steam engines built... 5 
Boi.ersmade 62 



Va). of Manufactr's.«84,5i;S 
Cost of raw material. 41, H50 

Wasespaid 24,018 

Cost of buildings 8,000 i 

RAW MATERIAL CONSUMED. 

IroD, boiler, bir, and | Iron, cast, tons 57 

sheet, tons 215 I ooat, tons 4U0 

This shows an increase of absu'. 35 per cent. 

over the manufactures of 1855. 

Ciias. Reissig, Steam Engine acd Boiler 
Builder, West Jackson street, near the River. 
This factory was established in 1851, and con- 
sists of a brick s'nop, 80 by 80 feet, two stories, 
with blacksmith shop, 29 by 70 leet, and boiler 
shop, 20 by 50 feet. The proprietor commenced 
business in a small wooden building at the cor- 
ner of Canal and Jackson strets with but three 
hands. The business of the year 1850, figures 
as follows : 

Capital invested. ...$48,000 Steam ecgines built. 

Cost of buildings... 8.600 No IS 

Val. of manuf'tures$100,843 Boilers made, No... 195 

Wages paia 29,000 No. of hands emp.'yd 86 



Coal, tons. 



RAW MATERIAL CONSDMS", 

500 Iron wrought,. 

" cast 



300 



Granger Iron Works. — Granger Brothers, 
Manufacturers of Castings, Machinery, and Iron 
Works of ail kinds, corner of Franklin and In- 
diana streets. This establishment consists of a 
foundry, 40 by 102 feet, and a machine shop 60 
by 80 feet, 2 stories. The following are their 

figures for 1856 : 

Capital invested $60,000 

Costof building 18,000 

Value of manufactures 205,000 

Wagespaid 55,990 

Costof raw material 133,000 

No. of hands employed 130 

Steam engines built, No 30 

raw material consumed. 

Coal, hard tons. .430 Iron 2,500 

" Bituminus.. tons.. 400 

During the past year the above works hav^ 
been largely engaged in the manufacture of Wa- 
ter and Gas pipes, Architectural Iron Work, 
&c, &c. 

Vulcan Foundry — H. Warrington, West 

Water street. — This establishment during the 

past year has manufactured as follows: 

Value of manufactures $50,000 

Wages paid, about 18,000 

Hands e moloy erl ;jo 

Steam Engines built 8 

RAW MATKRIAL CONSUMED. 

Pig Iron, tons 3!)0| Ooal, Lehigh, tons 75 

Bar Iron 501 Ooal, .Erie 150 

These works have been largely engaged in 

the erection of saw mills, &c. 

Chicago Steam Engine Works— H. P. Moses, 
west end of Polk street Bridge, West Division. 
This is one of the oldest and most extensive es- 
tablishments in the city. New and commodious 
buildings have just been finished, 210 by 100 



35 



feet, with several other buildings. The follow- 
ing are the figures of the establishment for 1856 : 
Cost of raw mater'l 69,500 



Capital invested. ..$100,000 
Oostof building"... 15,000 
Value of manufac- 
tures 150,000 

Wr.ges paid 52,000 



Hands employed. 
Coal used, tons... 

Iron, tons 

Wood.cds 



'/& 

300 

800 

50 



Wages paid $7,000 

Cost of raw material. 5,000 
Coai used, Itons 150 



.$10,000 No. of hands 8 

. 8,000 Wages paid $4,300 

Chicago U. R. R. Machine 



Sherman, Bat & Co., Manufacturers of En- 
gines and Steam Dredges, 61 and 63 Canal st. 

Capital invested $10,000 

,! ost of bu'lding.... 2,600 
Value of manufac's. 40,000 
Hands employed.... 20 

Size of factory 40x70. Established Dec, 1855. 
They have manufactured two Dredges and eight 
Engines. They are working two dredges on the 
Chicago River. Their earnings would amount 
to about $15,000 for the season of eight months. 

Jos. Johnston— Johnston's Buildings, near 
State street, manufacturer of Smut-Machines 
and Bran-dusters. 

Capital invested. 
Cost of building. 

Galena and 

Works. — These work3 are devoted to the repair- 
ing of engines, cars, and other machinery. They 
are situated on Kinzie street, and occupy a 
whole block between Union and Halsted streets. 
Their work for 1856 figures as follows: 

Capital invested...* 80,000 Cost of raw ma'.eri'l. $55,000 

Value of work 175,000 Hands employed.... 140 

Wages paid 58,000 

RAW MATERIAL COSSUMKD. 

Coal, soft, tons 2,000 Iron, cast, tons 125 

Coal, hard 166 Wood.cds 400 

Iron, wrought, tons... 220 

Chicago and Rock Island Railroad Machine 

Works. — These woiks are situated on Buffalo 

street, between Twelfth and Liberty streets. 

They consist of car, machine, and blacksmith 

shops, constructed of brick, and covering three 

acres of grouni. It is devoted to the repairing 

of cars, locomotives, etc. The following figures 

Bhow their work for 1856: 



Cap'l itiv'd, about.. $110,000 
Val of work about. 175,000 

Wages paid 110,000 

Cost of raw mater'l 96,0U0 



Hand s employed 200 

Coat used, tons 300 

IroD, wr'c, consumed... 125 



Illinois Central Railroad Machine Works. 
— These works are situated on the Lake Shore, 
near Twelfth street, and consist of several large 
and substantial stone erections, consisting of 
a machine shop, 150 by 175 feet, two stories; 
blacksmith shop, 150 by 75 feet, car shop, 300 
by 75 feet, engine house, 150 feet diameter, etc. 
The master mechanic, S. F. Hayes, furniihe3 the 
following as the operations during 1856 : 
Capital invested. ..♦175,000 Coat of raw mater'l.$70,000 



Hands employed.... 300 

Ooal used, tons 1,200 

Iron, wr'c. tons 200 

We 



Oost ofbuilnings.. 8-5.000 
Val. of manufact'a. 190,0011 
Wages paid 120,000 

The above is only expended in repairing, 
understand the Company have purchased the 
American Car Works, at Carviile, and will soon 
commence to manufacture and build their own 
cars, engines, etc. 

Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail- 
road Machine Works. — These works are in 
the West Division of the city. — No returns. 

CnicAGO, St. Paul and Fond du Lac Rail- 
road Machine Shops. — No returns. 



CniCAGO and Milwaukee Railroad Machine 
Shops. — No returns. 

John Clark & Son, Machinists, Blacksmiths, 

&c, west side of North Market. This shop is 

24 by 50 feet, thrte stories high, and is devoted 

to the manufacture of all kinds of machinery. 

The following figures denote the work turned 

out in 1S56 : 

Capital invested $5,000 No. hands employed 14 

Cost of building 950 Coal used tons 41 

Val. of manafactores. 11,675 Iron " 32 

Wages paid 2 557 

Clark & Smith, Steam Engine and Boiler 

Works, North Water street. The following: are 

the figures of this establishment for 1856 : 

Capital invested $4,000 No. of boilers made 6 

Val.ofmanufactures.15,000 Coal consumed tons 45 

Wages paid 6,000 Iron, wrought " 20 

No, of engines built.. 5 Iron, cast " 4 

Evarts & Butler, manufactures of Shingle 
Machines, Steam Engines, Ac, North Water 
street. This shop is 40 by 80 feet, three stories. 
It is principally devoted to the manufacture of 
Evarts & Butler's Shingle Machines. The fol- 
lowing are their figures for 1856 : 

Capital invested. ...$10 000 flteam engines built 3 

Val. of manut'tures 25.0CO Coal consumed.... tons 300 

Wages paid 7,500 Iron, cast " 50 

Hand3 employed.... 12 Iron, wrought " 25 

bhingle machir es made 100 

Russel & Angel, Iron Founders and Car 

Wheel Factory, corner of Halsted and Kinzie. 

This foundry is 100 by 43 feet. Its figures for 

1856 are as follows : 

Capital invested $6,00o 

Cost of building 1,0C0 

Value of manufactures 80.0P0 

Wages paid 6.600 

Hands employed, no 15 

Castings manufactured, tons 1,000 

Coal consumed, tons 200 

Iron, pig and scrap, ton3 1.000 

Wood cords 50 

James Campbell & Co., Boiler Manufac 

turers, Jefferson street, near Kinzie street. This 

shop commenced bnsiness six months ago. Iti; 

manufactures since then figure as follows: 

Oapital invested $ 400 Coal consumed, tons 4 

Val. of manufactures 3,000 Iron, wrought, tons 25 

Wages paid 700 Boilers made.no 6 

Hands employed, no 2 

John Cornelius & Co., Railroad Frog and 
Snitch Manufacturer, Michigan street, between 
Wells and Franklin streets. Their figures for 
1856 are : 

Capital invested $2,000 Hands employed, no. ...16 

Val. of manufactures. 12,000 Coal consumed, tons 80 

Wages paid 6,240 Iron wrought, tons < 

Jenkins & Lee, Machine Makers, corner of 
West Randolph and Jefferson streets. Estab- 
lished about two months, since which they bare 
manufactured as follows : 

Capital invested $7,000 Wages piid $1,000 

Val. of manufactures 3,000 Handsempliyed.no. 15 

W. M. Horton k Co., Iron Founders, corner 

of Canal and Adams streets. This Foundry ha;; 

only been in operation four months. The fol 

lowing are the figures since commencement: 

Capital invested $8,000 Wages paid $2,00.! 

Value manufactures .$4,000 No. hands employed. 14 

T. W. Baxter & Co., Manufacturers of 

Brown's Portable Grinding Mills, West Water 



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street, between Randolph and Madison streets, 
The following are their figures for 185G : 
Capital invested. ...$20.0"0 Wages r>aid — .....#4.800 
Cost of buildings.... 25,0 i0 No. mills manufac'd. 100 
Value manufactures. 35,100 No. hands employed. 12 

Geo. W. Chapmak & Co., Manufacturers of 
Fox's Patent Self-setting Circular Saw JMills, 
955 Canal street : 

Capital $35,000 No. hands 20 

Host of build'ng 800 Wages paid $10,01)0 

Vo. mills manu'ao'd 10 » Raw material SS.OO'I 

Value manufactures $60,000 Tons coal It0 

Chicago Iron Works— F. Letz, Manufactur- 
er of Ornamental Railings and Castings, Bank- 
Vaults and Doors, Gratings, Shutters, &c. &c. 

Capital invested $36,000 Wagespaid $29,000 

Cost of buildings.... 18,000 No. hands employed 75 
Value manufactures. 95.000 

BAW MATEBIiX OONEUMBD. 

216 tons wro'ht iron. $17,280 525 tons coal $3,953 

380 " cast " . 15,20) 40 cords wood 200 

Lead.Ac 800 

N. Schneider, Boiler Maker, Blacksmith, &c, 
Canal street, between Adams and Jackson 

streets : 

Capital invested. ...$15,000 No. Boilers made 72 

Value manufactures. 43 200 No. Hands employed — 32 
Wages paid 13,000 

Perkins & Kradse, Manufacturers of Steam 

Engines, Flour and SawJMills, corner of Canal 

and Washington streets: 

Capital invested.... $7,000 Wagespaid $10,000 

Cost of building 1.200 Tons coal used 150 

Value manufacture3.$35,000 Tonsironused 50 

No. hands 20 Size of factory 80x80 

This Manufactory was established in April, 
1855, with a small engine, one lathe and wood- 
en machinery. It now has seven lathes — iron 
planes— a blacksmith shop, &c, and 13 capable 
of doing a ten-fold larger business than last 
year. 

Garden City Machine Works — Warren Al- 
drich, Manufacturer of Wood-working Machine- 
ry, &c. No returns. 

R. S. Potter & Co., Founders and Machinists, 
corner of Canal and Adams streets. 

Capital invested $1,500 Wages paid $4,500 

Value of mauufac's. .25,000 Hands employed 10 

Cost of raw material. 12,000 

W. Babagwanath, Boiler Maker, Blacksmith, 
&c, Market st., near Van Buren street bridge. 
Returns refused. 

A. Baird & Co., Blacksmith, 157 Canal street. 

Hands employed 16 Tons coal used 300 

Wagespaid $5,000 Tonsironused, 150 

J. W. Cobb, Manufacturer of Steam Engines, 

Mill Gearing, &c, Jefferson street. Figures 

refused. 

Thos. HEZMAHALcn, Iron Founders, corner of 

Carroll and Halsted streets. No returns. 
RECAPITULATION. 

CAPITAL. 

Capital invested in 1856 $l,5 ; fc.900 

Unreported (estimated) I 75,000 

Total capital in 1856 $t 763 900 

Capital invested in 1855 1,102,000 

Increaseln 1856 $661,900 

VALUE OP MANUFACTURES, 

Value of manufactures in 1855 $3,637,084 

Unreported (estimated) i50,UOO 



COST OF BUILDINGS. 

Cost of buildings used in manufactures $573,000 

Unreported (tstimated) 100,000 

Total $673 000 

ENUMERATION OF MANUFACTURES. 

Boilers manufactured... 576 Railroad cars 700 

Steam engines 407 Steam dredges 2 

Saw mills 250 Shingle machines 100 

Portable flouring mills. .100 

WORKMEN EM PLOTRD, WAGES, 4C. 

Workmen employed in 1856 2,366 

Unreported (estimated 500 



Total 2,866 

Workmen employed in 1855 1,945 

Increase in 1856: 921 

Wages paid in 1856 (estimated) $1 393 765 

RAW MATERIAL CONSUMED. 

Wrought iron, tons.. 8.025 Coal, tons 12.768 

Cast " ...14,569 Wood.cords 2 000 



Stoves. 

Vincent, Himeod & Co., Stove Manufacturers, 

South Branch, near Adams street. Sales Rooms, 

Lake street. 

Capital invested... $150,000 No. stoves ma nuf'd 10 500 

Cost of bu lding. Hands employed... 40 

(with lot) 50,000 Coal used, tons 300 

Value manufactu's. 145 000 Iron cast, " 600 

Wagespaid 24,000 Wood used. cord?... 500 

Besides the above, Vincent, Himrod & Co. 
manufacture largely at Erie, Pa., and dispose of 
their products here. Their factory here is SO by 
120 feet, three stories high. 

Johnston, Farnsworth & Co., Stove Manu- 
facturers, corner of Van Buren and Jefferson 
streets. 



Capital invested.... $35,000 
Cost of buildings.... 10.000 
Value manufactures. 93,000 
Wagespaid 15,000 



Value raw material. $42,000 
Cast iron used, tons. 600 
Coal " " . 1,200 
Wood, cords 50 



RECAPITULATION. 

Capital invested... $185,000 Hands employed... 70 

Cost o» buildings.... 63,000 Coal used, tons 1,500 

Value manufactu's. 238.000 Iron " " .... 1,200 

Wagespaid 39,000 Wood.cords 550 



Total $3,887,084 

Value of Manufactures in 1855 2 910,500 

Increase in 1956 $976,584 



Agricultural Implements. 

The manufacture of Agricultural Implements 
in our city is a branch of industry that keeps 
pace with the development of the resources of 
the great Northwest. 

The demand for improved agricultural imple- 
ments by the farmers of the West, and especi- 
ally of Illinois, is only equalled by the amount 
of land that is being brought under subjection 
by the immigrants that pour in on us from the 
East. It is but a few years since the sight of a 
reaper was a sufficient wonder to call together 
old and young for twenty miles. Now, no one 
pretends to farm on our prairies without one. 
So is it with threshing machines, corn shellers, 
&c. This is the age of machinery, and no one 
employs it to greater ^advantage and profit 
than th8 farmers of the Northwest. 

It is needless to state that the agricultural im- 
plements of Chicago manufacture have a world- 
wide reputation. The exhibitions in London, 
Paris, and New York — wherever they have been 
tried — have tested and proven their superiority, 
and it is not to be wondered that the demand 
for them should be beyond the capacity of 
the manufacturer 8 . 



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By the recapitulation at the end of this branch 
of manufactures, it will be seen that the business 
of the four agricultural implement factories in 
our city has increased over that of 1855, $484,- 
510; the capital invested has been increBsed $143,- 
000, and the number of workmen employed has 
increased from 484 to 575. In 1854 there were 
manufactured in Chicago 1S00 reapers and mow- 
ers; in 1855, 3268; and it will be found that 
in 1856 the number has increased to 5,860. 

M'Cormick's Reaper and Mower Factory. — 
Thi3 establishment covers about four acres of 
ground on the main branch of the river, near its 
entrance, on which are several substantial build- 
ings. The main buildiDg is 40 by 240 feet, 
four stories, besides a foundry, blacksmith 
shop, and other buildings of similar capacity. 
It was established in 1847, and has grown with 
the increasing demand for M'Cormick's renown- 
ed reapers, to its present size and capacity. 

In 1854, the number of reapers manufactured 
was 1,550— valued at $232,500; the number of 
hands employed, 140; aDd the value of raw ma- 
terial consumed, $73,000. In 1855, there were 
2,568 reapers manufactured — valued at $398,040; 
number of hands employed, 250 ; cost of raw 
material consumed, $103,786. The following are 
the figures for the manufactures, &c, of 1856: 

Capital invested... 3357,0HO Reapers manf.ict'rd 4,000 

Cost of buildings... 20,000 Hands employed... 250 

Val. of manufact'rs. 020,300 Goal consum'd, tns. 850 

Wastes paid 09,000 Iron, pie, tons 1,000 

Cost raw mater'ls .. 157.0UO Iron, bar 094 

H. A. Pitts, Manufacturer of Threshing Ma- 
chines and Horse Powers, corner of West Ran- 
dolph and Jefferson streets. 

This factory was burned down in September, 
1855, s'.nce which time it has beeu rebuilt and 
greatly extended. The main building is 35 by 
150 feet, 3}4 stories high, with a wing 20 by 75 
feet, 3 stories, and a blacksmith shop, 75 by 30 
feet. Operations commenced in the new build- 
ings in March, 1856, since which, up to the first 
of November— eight months — their manufac- 
tures figure as follows : 

Capital invested ....$05 000 ,-epara era a d horse- 
Cost of bui.diDRS.... 15 000 powers manufact'rd 200 

Val. of manufact'rs.. 75 OUO Hands employed 65 

Wages paid 18 720 Coal consumed, tons . 200 

Iron 218 

Three hundred machines are now iu course of 
manufacture far next season's demand. 

John S. Wright & Co , Manufacturers of At- 
kins' Self-raking Reaper and Mower,corner Mich- 
igan and Peyton streets. 

Capital $175000 No. hands 200 

Costof buildings... 40.00U Wages paid 175,000 

Val. raw mater'ls.. 123,000 

360 

815 



No. machines man- 
ufactured 1.SP0 Coil, tons 

Val. of manufac'rj.$3t;u 000 Iron , 



Wemple Kline & Co., Manufacturers of 

Threshing Machines and Com Shellers, corner 

Washington and Canal. 

Capital... $30,000 W a gei paid $43,800 

No. mnchinesmanu- Timber, ft lluinio 

factured 341 Co<vl,tons 150 

Val. oi manufact'rs. $70,000 IroD °U0 

Wo. hands 60 



RECAPITULATION. 

(CAPITAL. 

Capital invested in 1856/^ Agricultural Imple- 

nient Factories $5517 000 

Capital invested in 1S55 464,000 

Increase.of capital in.1856' $143,000 

'MiHUFACTUKE'. 

Total value ofSinanufactures in 1856. • $1,134 300 

1855 649.790 

Increase in 1856 $484,510 

BSUMERATION OF MANCPAOTUoUH. 



1854, 1855. 

No. reapers and mowers 1 800 3,268 

No. jthreshing machines 175 240 



1855. 
480 



WORKMEN EMPLOYED 

1854. 
No. of men employed 300 

^BAW MATERIAL CONSUMED. 

1854. 1855. 

Pig iron, tons 920 1,430 

WrougLt iroD 400 654 

Coal, tons 650 1,370 



1866. 

5,m;o 
541 



1856 
575 

1850. 
1833 
1,094 
1,550 



Brass Founders, Tin and Copper Smith*, Plumb 
ers, 4c. 

Thomas George & Co., Brass Founders, Cop- 
per Smiths, Manufacturers of Tiu-ware, and 
fitters-up and Manufacturers of Steam Heating 
Apparatus, &c, &c, 118 Franklin street and 201 
Lake street. 

This establishment has two shops — one 25 by 
100 feet, four stories, on Lake, and another 25 by 
100 feet at 118 Franklin street It is probably 
the largest establishment of the kind in the 
Northwest, and is so varied in its character 
that railroads, factories, breweries, &c, are ena- 
bled to get all their brass, copper and iron work 
done at this establishment. During the present 
winter they have fitted up heating apparatus in 
R. K. Swift's Bank, Metropolitan Hotel, and a 
lirge number of private dwellings. Their fire- 
men's trumpets manufactured here, are used all 
over the West, and are the neatest shaped to be 
found anywhere. They have an enviable repu- 
tation for the manufacture of brass, croton and 
steamwork for plumbers and steam engine build- 
ers, which is pronounced by good judges to be 
heavy and durable. 

The following are their figures for 1856 : 

Val. of manufact'rs .$75,000 Hands employed 70 

WaKespaid f25 0U0 Coal consumed, tns 350 

All kinds of zinc, copper, tin, brass and irou 
manufactures are included* in the above figures 

R. T. Crane & Brc, Brass Foundry, 

Finishing and Steam-fitting, 102 West Lake 

street. 

Capita' invested ....$10,000 Wages pai' $20,000 

Cant of building ,2.000 Coal used, tins 36 

Val. of marjufact're?. 30.000 Brass, tons 75 

Hands employed.... [35 

C. Metz, Manufacturer of Tin and Hardware, 

Dealers in Stove.-, 50 and 52 State street. 

Capital invested $1 • 000 Wages paid $12,250 

Hands employed.... 36 Sheet Iron used, tonB 246 

Greenbaum Sons, Plumbers, Tinners, and 

Hardware : 

Cost of building $10,000 W»ge3 paid $15,600 

No. hands 26 

Factory and store, five stories, 20 by 161 feet 

Martin Wise, Tin Ware Manufacturers, 220 
Randolph street: 



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a uemanufactures.$10,000 No.h&nds 50 

Edwin Hunt, Manufacturer of Hardware Fin- 
ishings, 79 Lake street: 

Value manufactures.. $5 00a Wages paid $3,500 

No. hand3 7 Tonscoalued 12 

Walworth, Hubbard & Co., Manufacturers 
of every description of heating, cooking and dry- 
ing apparatus, &c, 233 Lake street. Figures 
not given. 

The following are engaged in Plumbiuer, and 
in some instances, tin, coDDer and brass ware : 

< 



Name'ot firm. 



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SS ■ 

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i P 
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A. Raffen & Son $3,000 8 7,000 8 ¥0,500 

T. Gavey.... 1,000 .... 2 

H. W.Hamilton 4 Co .. 2,000 .... 6 
Schendel&Hausworth.. 2U0 3.000 

M Nelson 2 

O.P. Sehultz 300 

S. H. Parish 3.C0J 10,0 4 1,5 

Leonard, Bros 5,' 00 10,000 6 2,200 

Gibson* White 6,000 -:5,000 8 4,000 

Tlaken ft Barker 3,000 4,000 4 1,000 

Poison ft Arentz .... 10 5,475 

RECAPITULATION. 

CAPITAL. 

Capital invested in 1856 $132,000 

Enreported-(est.) 125,000 

Total 257,000 

Oapital invested in 1855 142,000 



Increase in 1856 $115,000 

VALUB OF MANUFAOIUaf.S. 

Value of manufactures in 1856 $327,000 

Unreported-^.) 250 LOO 

Total $477,0 

Value of manufactures in 1855 $377,290 



Inciease in 1856 % 99,710 

MEN EMPLOYED. 

Hands employed in 1856 221 

Unreported, (est.) 150 

Total 371 

Ha nds employed in 1855 1S8 

Increase in 1856 163 

WAGES PAID. 

Amount of wages paid hands in 1856 $94,025 

Unreporte :, (est.) 67,500 

Total $161,525 



Carriages, Baggies, Omnibuses, Wagons, <&c. 

The manufactures of carriages and wagons in 
this city progresses in about the same ratio as 
other branches of industry. The rage for "East 
em work" is fast wearing away; and "Chicago 
carriages" in the West and Northwest have a 
reputation about equal to those of Hartford. 
Especially is this true of wagons. A " Chicago 
wagon" will at any place in the West, bring a 
much higher price than those of Ohio or Mich- 
igan. 

J. F. Mbndsen's (form.rly Welch & Mendsen) 
Carriage and Omnibus Factory. This is the 
largest and most extensive carriage factory in 
the West, and is situated on the corner of West 
Randolph and Ann streets. It consists of a 
large three story brick building, 40 by 90 feet, 
and a wing of two stories, 30 by 100 feet. It 
was established in 184G, and has acquired an eu- 
vlable reputation for its carriages, omnibuses, 



&c. The following are the figures of this estab- 
lishment lor 1856 : 

Cip'tal invested $45,' 00 

Cost of buildings 10 5 

Value of manu fact urea 63,000 

Wages p. id hands 23.174 

Cost of raw material 23,418 

Wandi employed 70 

No. of Carriage , Busgies and Omn buses manu- 
factured 229 

BAW MATERIAL CaNeUMED. 

Ironand steel, tons 45 Wood, cords 4" 

Coal, " 96 

A. C. Ellithorpe, Carriage Manufacturer, 
corner of Randolph and Morgan streets. This 
establishmant turns out all kinds of carriages, 
buggies, sleighs, &c, of a very superior shape 
and workmanship. The following are their fig- 
ures for 1S56 : 

Capital invested.... $50,00) Cost of raw material 

Value manufac'res. 1 O.OjO used $50000 

No. hands 60 No. Carriages and 

Wagespaid $20,000 Buggies manuia'd. 300 

Forst & Bradley, Manufacturers of Wagons, 

Buggies, Carriages, &c, &c, 73 and 75 West 

Randolph street. The following are the figures 

of this establishment during 1856 : 

Capital invested.... $12 000 Wages paid hand?... $15,000 



15,000 
45 



()'<8t of buildings 3.000 Cost raw material. 

Value manufactures. 40,0 No. hands employed 

BAW MATERIAL OON3DMSD. 

Iron, tons 60 Coal, tons 100 

Bteel, " 20 Word, cds 25 

This factory consists of one buildiDg, 25 by 90 
feet, one 18 by 38 feet, and one 22 by 35 feet— all 
two stories high. The machinery is driven by 
one six horse power steam engine. 

W. Steinhads, Carriage and Wagon Manufac- 
turer. This factory is situated at the village of 
Holstein, about three miles out on Milwaukee 
avenue. The Repository and Sales Rooms are 
on C ;nal street, between Lake and Randolph 
streets. This factory was built about three years 
since, and is 430 feet long by 40 wide, two sto- 
ries high. The following figures show the manu- 
factures, &c, cf 1S56 : 

Capital ir vested. ...$3\0 Wagons and carriages 

Oostofbuild'ngs.... 2,000 made 1,000 

Vaiuemauufaciures. 75,000 Hand* employed 75 

Wages paid hands.. 25,000 

BAW MATERIAL C0N8CMBD. 

Wrought iron and steel. Coal, toDs 250 

tons 100 Wood. cd_' 80 

John H. Kline, Carriage Manufacturer, Jef- 
ferson street, between Lake and Randolph 
streets. This factory was established in Sep- 
tember last. The manufactures since then are 
as follows : 

Capital invested $3,0'0 «ost of raw material.... 700 

Cust of building 1,000 Carriages made 15 

Value manufactures.. 2,300 Hands employed 9 

Wages paid 1050 

It is intended in the spring to erect other 
buildingo, so as to accommodate thirty hands. 

Bohannon, M'Phersox & Co., Carriage Man- 
ufacturers, Halsted street, near Lake. This es- 
tablishment only commenced business in August 
last. Its figures are as follows: 

Hapital invested »2,000 Value maoufactures..$3 000 

Ccst of building 800 Hands employed 8 

BAW MATERIAL COXSUMED. 

Coa', tons 6 Iron aDd steel, ton? 4 

Peter Schottler, Wagon Maker, 7S Franklin 

street ; 



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Capital invested. ...$50,000 Hands employed 100 

Cost ofbu ldine 20 000 Tons coal used 150 

Wagons manufac'd. 1.800 Tons iron used 300 

Value manufactures.KO.OOO 

H. Witbeck & Co., manufacturers of Wagons, 
Buggies and Plows, coiner Jefferson and Ran- 
dolph streets. — This is one of the largest facto- 
ries in the city. It consists of one building 40 
by 107, four stories ; one 60 by 28, two stories ; 
and one 40 by 60 feet, one story. Its figures for 
1856 are: 



Buggies do.. 
Sleighs do.... 

Lumberyard carts 



1,000 

1,000 

50 

50 

100 



.100 



Capital invested.. $ 30,000 Wagons manufac'd 
Cost of cuildingB.. 15,00) Plows do.. 

Value of manuta's. 100,000 

Wages paid 12,000 

Cost raw material.. 50,000 
Hands employed... 80 

BAW MATERIAL CONSUMED. 

CoaMons 200 Wood, cords. 

Iron, wrought, tons.... 50 

J. C. Outiiet, Wagon manufacturer, 167-169 
West Randolph street. — This factory wis estab- 
lished in 1S37, Its manufactures, &c, for 1S56, 
are as follows : 

Capital invested. ...$ 6,000 Wages paid 1,552 

Cost ef building 1,000 Wagons manulast'd. 200 

Value of manufacl's. 16,560 



Coal, tons. 



SAW MATERIAL CONSUMED. 

20 Iron, wrought, tons 40 



Pentecost & Daymont, Wagou and Carriage 
manufacturers, 111-113 West Randolph street. — 
The following are the figures of this establish- 
ment for 1856 : 

Capital invested. ...$ 7,500 Biggies do 55 

Valueof manuf&c's. 25 400 Coal uaed, tons 25 

Wage< paid 7.5 Irjn, wrought, tons 30 

tVagons manufact'd 200 

Wright & Willets, Carriage Manufacturers, 
73 and 75 State street. — This establishment 
commenced manufacturing in 1853. Its factory 
consists of a building 160 by 30 feet. The fol- 
lowing are their figures for 1856 : 

Capital Invested.... $ 6,000 OarrUges matiufd. 75 

Cost of building 3.500 S'eigha do.... 30 

Value of manufact's 22 000 Coal consumed 50 

Wag-s paid 9,000 Iron.and s eel (;st.) 25 

Hand j employed.... 20 

P. Hicks, Wagon and Carriage Maker, 132, 
134, and 138 West Lake : 

Capital in vested.... $10,000 Wages p^id $14,400 

Cost of bui'dlng.... 5 000 Feet lumber used.. . 30,000 

Wasons and carri- Tons coal 25 

ages minufait'd.. 400 Tons iron to 

Value of manufa;'.-.$30,OOJ Cor.ls wood 15 

Hands employed.... 35 

J. Bowman, Wagon Maker, 81 and 89 Frank- 
lin street: 

Capital invested $10,000 Value.of manuf?.c's. 3,500 

Cost budding 12,000 Hands employed 30 

Wagons manufacl'd 500 

Reese & Co., Carriage Manufacturer?, 79 

Franklin street : 

fapi<al $8,000 Hands employed.... 38 

Cost of buildiDg 3.000 Wagespaid 20,440 

Carriages manufa'd. 400 Tons coal usia 60 

Value of man ufact'. $30,000 Iron, (valu.) $ 8,900 

Burgess & Wilson, Carriage Manufacturers, 

S7 Franklin street: 

Oipital $3,000 Hands employed.... 12 

Carriages manufc'd. 30 Wages paid $6,500 

Value of manufac's. $10,000 

The followidg is a list of Wagon Makers, 
whose figures we place in tabular form: 



JNameEof Firm. 
H.Weber 


9 -■< n' z 

W a =■ V ■ 

— • *— C p 

» g™ Co 

~ 8 2. r 

< a ,., c 53 
S. P«" : g 

$5,C00 $12,51)0 200 

■1 C00 20,001) 4 
l,2'i" 4,000 2". 
3 000 28,000 400 

1,000 4,000 14 

2 500 3 000 35 

1,000 5 000 6 

1,000 6.000 15 

, 400 350 4 

«00 200 .. 

400 1.00 1 1U 

600 6 000 12 

400 800 2 

1,000 1,0c0 2 

2,000 50,000 100 

4.000 11000 16J 

APITULATION. 

CAPITAL. 


55 

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2° 

n> _. 

. to 

. a 

• a, 

' GO 

' n 

• B 
10 
12 

4 
34 
4 
4 
3 
5 
8 
4 
o 

3 

3 
6 
3 

11 
12 


t?o o 

m co 

°2, 9 

B 3j S. 

c «n o 

DO o 

-B a 
aw " 
• a- <£ 

36" 30 

20 35 

4 6 




75 70 

5 10 

6 9 

7 8 
6 7 


E. D. Hanlon 

M. Kits 


8 24 
2 3 




'2 ':'; 

7 6 
2 3 








10 20 
20 30 


EEC 


.$3(6,400 












50 000 














Total 


.$356,400 


VALUE OP MANUFACTURES. 




.$798160 



Unreported, (est.) 150,0u0 

Total $948,160 

W0RKME.1 EMPLOYED AND WAOTS PAID. 

No. of hands employed 731 

U nreported, (est.) 150 

Total 8S1 

Wag^s paH $159,566 

Unreporied, (est.) 60,000 

Total $219,566 

ENUMERATION OP MASUFACTCRE3. 

Wagons manufactured, no 6,400 

Carriages " " 1,099 

RAW .'MATERIAL CONSUMED. 

Coal, tons 1,346 

Iron and Steel, tons 1,069 

Wood, cords 285 

oosr op buildings. 
Cost of Buildings $207,000 



High Wines, Ale, Beer, &c. 

Chas. H. Curtiss, Distiller, Lake Shore, south 
of Twelfth street : 

Capital invested... $50,i00 Hands emplojei... 23 

Cost 1 f building.... 20.0W) Wagtspaid $ K.60U 

Pbls highwines 10.060 IUw material 130.000 

Va!. manufactures. 150,000 Coal used, tons 1,600 

A. & W. H. Crosby & Co., Distillers, North 
Branch : 

Capital invested.... $7o,i CO V.-.l manufactures. $310,000 

Co3t of building o0,0U0 Hand* employrd... 50 

Highwines manu- Bu»h. grainused... 300,000 

facturod. pals.. .1,050,000 Tons coal 3,000 

Chicago Brewery.— Lill & Diversey, Breiv- 
ers of Ale, Porter and Bavarian Lager Be) 
corner Pine street and Chicago aveuue. 

This is the most extensive brewery in the 

West. It covers a whole block— its principal 

brewing house being a large brick structure 430 

by 100 feet. It was established in 1835, and has 

grown gradually up to its present dimensions, 

as the demand for its manufactures increased. 

There are fed at the brewery ISO head of milk 

cows, and 24 horse3 are used for teaming, Ac. 

The following figures show their manufactures 

during 185(1 

Capital invested in business $220,000 

Cost of buildings and fl turej I2",008 

Value of manufacture 312,160 

Wage, rad 21.888 

Alo manufactured, bb a 39,780 



40 



Vinegar " " 2,170 

Milk sold, quarts 160.70 ' 

Barley used and on hand, bu 182,700 

Hops, lbs 69,576 

No. of bands employed 57 

Early in the spring a large addition will be 

made to the brewery, for the sole purpose of 

manufacturing Bavarian Lager Beer, of which 

article they intend to brew 30,000 barrels during 

1857. The new addition will be 100 by 70 feet, 

and will cost over $40,000. The lower part of 

the addition will be made in vaults to hold 15,000 

barrels of beer for summer. 

The machinery is at present driven by a steam 
engine of twenty horse power. In the brewery 
there is an ice house capable of holding 10,000 
barrels of English stock ale, which they fill 
every winter for the following summer's use. 

Columbian Brewery.— J. J. Sands, Manufac- 
turer of " Cream Ale," corner of Pine and Pier 
son streets. 

This brewery was built in 1855, and consists 
of a building, 54 by 45 feet, two stories, with 
cellar. The following figures show the manu- 
factures, Ac, of the brewery for 1856 . 

Capital invested $5 000 Coal consumed, tns.. 125 

Cost of building 2 5no Barley, bu, about.... 9,000 

Val.ofmanufactur«s.48 000 Wood, cords 20 

Wagespaid 2,500 Hops, lbs 

Coat of raw materls. .28,000 Ale manfactured.bbls 6*666 



Beer Brewers. 



Names of Firm. 



Q 






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at *7T 



23 2 

c 5 5*" 

So £g 

p"b : - 



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a" 



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CO j 



B 



Conrad Seipp 18,000 

Geo. Metz 15,000 

Braham& Co 8 000 

V. Busch 6000 

•1. P. Rodermeyer... 8,000 

BucherACo 5.000 

BlattnerA Co 1,000 

8. Irwin 3,000 

— Spriggs 3,u00 



: » 

o 



6e 

aes 

tn — 

£ on 

B 



8,900 6 1,120 2,240 2 000 

19,200 6 2 400 4,800 4,000 

8,000 2 1,000 3,000 2,400 

25,600 4 3,200 6,400 600 

40,000 6 5,000 8,750 8 000 

11,200 2 1,400 2.800 832 

2,000 2 250 700 700 

8,000 2 1,000 2,000 2.000 

7,200 3 900 1,800 900 



Tot a' 67.0J0 130,160 33 16,270 32,490* 21,432 

Besides the above there are a large number of 
Rectifiers, and some Brewers and Vinegar Man- 
ufacturers, whose figures we have not received. 
Their manufactures would probably exceed 
$250,000. 

RECAPITULATION. 

CAPITAL. 
Capital invested 40O7 ruyi 

Unreported, (est) ......".......'.'.'..'.'J^O.'OOO 

$497,000 

397,500 



Total ^ 

Capital invested in 1855. 

Increase in 1856 



.$'.i»,N"> 



VALUE OF MANUFACTURES. 

Value of manulactures 

Unreported, (est) ..'. 



. $950,320 
. 200,000 



Total »] j.-q^ a 

Value of manulacturts in I86&\\\\\\\" ".'""*'.. '826,'i>i5 

Increase in 1856 1323,675 

ENUMERATION OF MANUFACTURES. 

High wines, gals.. 1,567,241 Ale, bbls 45780 

Beer, bbls 16,870 Vinegar, bbls 2J70 

RAW MATERIAL CONSUMED, 

w™. n, iK Usb 7 $$2 Coal, tons 6,010 

H °PS, lbs 97,008 Wood, cords 400 

HANDS EMPLOYBX. 

Hands employed ...165 



Soap, Candles, Lard Oil, etc. 

The manufacture of Soap, Candles, and Lard 
Oil has increased much during the past year. 
Great difficulty, however, has been experienced 
in collecting the figures of small and widely 
scattered factories. We append those obtained : 

Charles Cleaver, Soap, Candle, and Lard 
Oil manufacturer, Cleaverville, Lake Shore.— 
This factory covers about twelve acres of ground, 
and is on the Lake shore, having a pier for ves- 
sels. The track of the Illinois Central and Mi- 
chigan Central Railroads also are right in front 
of it. The following are their figures for 1856 : 

Capi'al invested. ..$100,000 Hasds tmploved.. 30 

Jal. 01 manufact's. 175,000 Oil manufae'd gals!. 40,000 
Wagespaid 15,000 Soap and Candle»,tns 600 

Hugh Ritchie, Soap and Candle works, cor- 
ner Wolcott and Grand Haven Slip. The fol- 
lowing are the figures of this factory for 1856 : 

Capital invested.... $9,400 Family & Palm Soap 

Cost ofbuilding.... 3,600 manufact'd, bxs 5,712 

Vaiue of manufsct's. 21,511 Soft Soap, bbls 3,500 

Wagespaid. 2,160 Coal consum.d, tons.. 55 

Cost of raw mater'. 17,604 Wood, eds 42 

Raw mat'l sold 2,460 

City trade for pure soaps increasing very fast. 

Thomas Dougall, Soap and Candle manufac- 
turer, Cedar street, on Lake Shore. The follow- 
ing are the figures of this establishment for 

1856: 

Capital invested.. ..$10,000 Candles manu'd, tts.141,000 

Oost of building 1,500 Soap manufae'd, lbs. 280,000 

Value of manufact's 31,500 Wood consumed, eds 70 
Hands employed... 5 

Crosby & Wendt, manufacturers of Soap 

Candles and Lard Oil. This factory is situated 

on the North Branch of the River, West side. 

The following are its figures for 1856 : 

Capital invested. ...$15,000 Hands employed 10 

Coatof buildings.... 4,000 uoal consumed, tons. ..100 

Value ot manufact's 50,000 Wood, eds 50 

Wages paid 7,100 

Ball & Sears, manufacturers of Lard Oil and 

Stearine Candles, State street, near Twelfth: 

Capital invested.. ..$30,000 No. hands 5 

Cost of building 3,000 Wagespaid 42,000 

Value of manufact's 45,000 Wood used, eds 30 

Value raw material. 40,000 

Scammon & Haven, manufacturers of Linseed 

Oil, South Branch of River, West Side. The 

following figures denote the manufactures of 

1856 : 

Capital invested.... $30,000 Linseed Oil man ,gls 40,000 
Value of manufact's 54,000 Butty, tta 200,000 

H. Gardner & Co., manufacturers of Soap, 
corner Sherman and Taylor streets : 

Capital invested $600 No. hands 4 

No. lbs. manufacu'd. 5,000 Waxes pa-d ".$290 

Value of manufact's. $1,000 Coal, tons 25 

Besides these, there are in the business Jo- 
seph Johnston, Eisendrath & Hugo, H. D.Wil- 
lard, and a few others, whose figures were not 
received. 

RECAPITULATION. 

CAPITAL. 

Gaoital Invested $196,000 

Unreported (est.) 100,000 

Total $296,000 

VALUS OF MANUFACTURES. 

Value of manufactures $378,011 

Uureported (.estimated) 150,000 



Total. 



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ENl'MEBATION OF MANUFACTURES. 

Soap manufa'e, as. 1,170,000 Cost of buildings. ..$75,000 

Candle " tts. 891,000 Wages paid 28,000 

Lard Oil" tela. 68,000 Hands employed.... 100 

Linseed Oil, gls. 40,000 ' Coal used, tons 300 

Patty. n>3. 200,000 V Wood, cds 275 



Furniture, Desks, Chairs, Bedsteads, Ac. 

There are a vast legion of furniture manufac- 
turers in our city. The following are the figures 
of the principal factories. 

U. Morgan, Furniture Manufacturer, l'JU Lake 

street. 

Capital invested. ...$60 000 "-'sginpa'd .$11 i 

Cost of bui:d:8g 12 000 C031 of raw niater'ls. 6,000 

Val. of manufactures 55,000 Coal uud, tins 20 

Hands employed. ... 25 

Willard, Peek & Co., Furniture Factory, 
Lumber street, near Twelfth street, Warehouse 
155 Rando.lph street. This factory consists of 
two buildings 130 by 36, three stories, and ano- 
ther 100 by 24. The machinery i3 driven by 
steam-power. The following figures denote the 
manufactures of 1856 : 

Capital invested $40,000 Co3t of raw materls. $26,000 

Cost of building .... 3 000 Coal consumed, tns. 50 

Val. of manufaot'r.s. 70 000 Wood, cords 1.500 

Wages paid 32,000 

Chapman & ATWOOD,]Bedstead Manufacturers 
State street, corner of Taylor. This factory was 
built in June 1856, but did not commence opera- 
tions till August, since whhh their manu- 
factures, &c, figure as follows : 

Capital inves'ed.... $25 000 Wages paid $7,000 

Cost of building 5.000 Hands em Bloyed ... 52 

Val. of manufactrs. 20.000 

Hanson & Porter, Furniture Manufacturers, 
corner of Lake and Union streets. 

Capital invested.... $10,000 Wagespaid $17,000 

Cost of building.... 3.2' Baw material 15,000 

Val. of manufact'rs . 40 000 Coal used, tons 100 

Hands employed 35 Engine and mach'ry. $4,000 

Size of factory 23 by 110, three stories. Es- 
tablished in 1855. 

Adams <s Co., Bedstead Manufacturers, corner 
Fuhon and Gr p ene streets. This factory con- 
sists of several buildings, 24 by 40 feet, 3 stories. 
The machinery consists of ten turning lathes, 
four circular saws, and one steam engine. The 
manufactures of 1856 figure as follows : 

Oap'tal invested $15,000 Bedsteads made, No. 18,000 

Cost of building 2.500 Hands employed.... 60 

Val. ofmanufac.'res 50,000 Lumber used, ft.... 1.0:0,000 

Wages piid 18,000 

Charles W. Patten, Chair and Bedstead Fac- 
tory, corner of North and Clark street. This 
factory is driven by steam r ower, and was built 
in May last, since which their manufactures, &c, 
figure as follows : 

Capital invested ....$18,000 Hands emp'oyed.... 20 

Building & machnry 8 000 Lumber used, ft 200,000 

Val. of manuiact'rs.. 10 000 Coal tons 50 

Wages paic 6 000 

John Phillips, Chair Manufacturer, corner 
Green and Third streets. This fac:ory covers 
about half an acre of ground, ana its machinery 
is driven by a powerful steam engine. Its manu- 
factures for 1856, figure as follows: 

Capital in vested.... $25 000 Varnish and paint.. $7,000 

Val. of manufact'rs.. 60,000 Lumber, ft 700 000 

Wagespaid 22,000 

Wm. Tooht's Counting House Desk and Fur- 
niture Factory, 194 North Clark street. This 
establishment is almost exclusively devoted to 



the manufacture of counting house desks, bank- 
ers' counters, &c, &c, of which we seen several 
excellent specimens. The manufactures of 1856, 
figure as follows : 

Capital invested $2,000 Wagespaid *5,ono 

Val. of manufact'rs... 12,000 Hands employed 14 

The following are general furniture manufac- 
turers : 





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to 

2. 


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a 


4 

a 
M 

a 

BB 


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p. 


Name of Firm. 




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m 
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2. 


B 

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<< 


Wlggers & Paschec. . 


. $ 3 •" 1 

1,1 

2,000 
... 10 000 


$ 9 000 
4 000 

6 ooo 

20 000 
20 000 
5,0110 
CM wo 
45.000 
15.000 


6,000 

2 000 
900 

6 000 

.1,70(1 

1C00 

20,000 

12,000 

3 500 


10 
6 
3 

«0 




. . . 7,000 


8 


G. B. Walsh 


. . . 2,000 


4 


Lebeastein & Co 


... 30 000 


40 




.. 20 000 


35 




... 20.100 


9 


RECAPITULATION 








CAPITA! . 









Amount reported $314,200 

Unreported. <.e«) 40,000 

Total $354,200 

Capital in 1855 $300,000 

Increase $54,200 

MANUFACTURES. 

Value reported $443,000 

Unreported 100,000 

Total $543,000 

WORKMEN. 

No, reported 404 



Unreported, (es:.). 
Total. 



.100 



504 

WAGES. 

Amount reported $189,900 

Unreported, (est,) 60,000 

Total $249,900 

RAW MATE3IAL, 

Value reported $98,000 

Unreported, (est) 40,000 

Tota' $138,000 

.COAL. 

Tons reported 252 

Unreported 100 

Total 352 

WOOD. 

Cords .reported 1,500 

Unreported 1,500 

Total 3.0M 



Stone and Marble. 
The "Athens Marble," found in the quarries 
from ten to twelve miles south of our city is 
found to be among the most desirable material 
for building purposes in the United States. 
Almost all our splendid buildings are eithar 
built or faced with it, and the demand for it from 
our sister States, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Mich- 
igan is greatly on the increase, A few years 
ago, we imported stone from Lockport, N. Y.. 
with which to build a Court House, while this 
valuable "Marble"— as Prof. Hitchcock named 
it, was slumbering beneath our prairies but a 
flew miles distant. It would be no great marvel 
in this our age to see this same "marble" export- 
ed to eastern cities. The following are the 
figures of a few of the quarry men of the region; 



42 



Illinois Stone Dressing Company.— Yard 
and Office, corner Wells and Taylor streets. 

This company is engaged in dressing and 

sawing stone, and in the sale of Athen's Marble 

taken from Sherman's quarries at Lemont. The 

following are the figures for 1S56 : 

Capital invested •• ••• f^SS i 

Value of stone manufactured and quarned M^gS 

Wages paid o0,9jl 

Hands t mploy ed £* 

Coalused, tons 275 

Excelsior Stone Works. — Rofinot & Co., 
Wells street, new Harrison streets. 

This establishment has a quarry at Athens, 

from which the stone or " Athens marble" is 

taken. The following ?re the operations of the 

company for 185G: 

Capital invested J7 2-S29 

Obst of buildings o.OOO 

Tame or stone manufactured tw 000 

Ptene sold in the rough state 4b,oOO 

Wages paid 8a,000 

Hands • mp'ojed l°0 

Iron used, tons ij> 

Wood, cords *°0 

H. & 0. Wilson, corner of State and Wash- 
ington, Marble Works : 

Capital invested $55,000 Wages paid $1.3,350 

Cost of building 12 000 Marble used, ft 25,000 

Val. oi manufact'rs. 64,000 Uoa ; used, tons 50 

Hands employed.... 35 

Size of factory 25 by 60 feet and 40 by 61 feet. 
Established Sept. 5, 1851. 

This establishment has erected during the year 
a brick building three stories and 60 by 20 feet. 
It contains a steam engine of twenty horse pow- 
er, two gangs of saws of 100 blades, one rubbing 
wheel, two rip-saws, one circular saw, one dril- 
ling machine, and fmr polishing blocks, all of 
new and improved patents. 

Kerr & Lauerman, 313 [North Clark street, 
Marble Works. 

Capital invested $1,500 Hands employed 3 

Cost of building 150 Marble used, feet 1200 

Val. of manufact'rs... 3 000 

Schureman, Hofeman & Melick, Marble Man- 
ufacturers, 106 and 193 Clark street: 

Capital invested $14 000 Hands employed 30 

Val. of "manufact'rs. 60,000 Raw material. $30 000 

L. Sherman & Co., Marble Works, corner N. 

Clark and Chestnut streets. 

Capit al invested . . . .$30,000 Wages paid 10,000 

Va'ue of manufacl's 25,000 Hands employed.... 25 

Jos. Pfeiffer, 154 Randolph st., Marble and 

Limestone cutting. 

Cap'tal $1,800 No. hande 6 

Value 01 manufast's. 3,200 Wages paid $4,000 

W. & B. Cook & Co., Stone Cutters, corner 

Market and Quincy streets. 

Capital $8,00 No, hands 85 

Value of ma- ufact's. 30,000 

RECAPITULATION. 

Capital invested in stoneaod marble manuf $217,950 

Unreported (estimated) 400,000 

Total $617,9 - 

Total tor 18» 578,000 

Increase 39.950 

Value of manufactures $446,77 5 

Unreported (estimated) ... 450,000 

Total $896,775 

Total for 1855 588,900 

Increase $307,675 



Han <ls employed 393 

Unreported (estimated) 450 

Total 843 

Total for 1855 676 

Increase 167 

Planing, Snsh, Doors. Blinds, etc. 

Simeon Smith & Co.— Lumber and Planing 
Mill, corner of Ontario and Peyton streets. 
This establishment has in operation, driven by 
'an engine of 60 horse power: 

2 Woodworth Planers. 

2 Circular Saws 

1 Re-Sawing Mill: 

Its manufactures/or 1856, areas follows: 

Capital invested.... $12,000 Wages paid $4,680 

O^stof buiHing4 15,000 Lum'r planed, ft... 2,500,000 

Value of maiufac's. 25,000 

David Goodwillie, Planing, Sawing, Mould- 
ing, Shingle and Taming Mill, corner Franklin 
and Ohio streets. This mill is 100 feet square 
and has the following machinery, driven by an 
engine of 60 horse power; 

2 Wo id worth Planers. 
1 Farrar 

1 Moulding Mill. 
6 Turning Lathes. 

2 Evarts & Butler's Shingle Mills. 

2 Scroll Saws. 
1 Siding Saw. 

3 Circular Saws. 

Sash and door machinery. 

The following are its manufactures for 1856 : 

Capital invested.... $10,000 Wages paid $10,000 

Oostof buildings i 7,000 Hands employed.... 40 

Value of manuract's.k 50,000 

Besides the] above, there were half built, 14 
dwelling hoases and one hotel. 

M. C. Hatfield, Planing Mill, Jefferson St., 
near Hubbard.— This mill has a steam e-gine, 
35-horse power, one Norcross Planer, one Far- 
rer Planer, besides saws and moulding machines: 
Its figures for 1856 are : 

Caoital invested $5,000 Hands employed.. 8 

Value of manufact's. 8.000 Lurn'r maau'd, ft. .2,009,000 

Wages paid 3,000 

Merrill & Poinier, Plmiug, Sawing and 
Moulding Mill, Jefferson street, between Fulton 
and Carroll streets. This mill is driven by a. 
steam engine, 35-horse power. It has : 

One Farrer Planer, 

One Triumph Planer, 

Two Circular Saws, 

One Tenoning Machine. 

Its manufactures, etc., since March 1, 1858, are: 

Capital invested.... $15,000 Value of manufac's. $10,000 
Cost of building 2,000 Wages paid 3,600 

P. C. Healt, Sash, Door and Blind Factory, 

corner Carroll and Halsted streets : 

Capitai invested $15,000 Han is employe! 15 

Cost of building 1,500 Dial consumed, tons 52 

Value of manufac's. 24,000 Wood consumed cds....la 
Wages paid 9,000 

Machines driven by steam power. 

Baker & McEwen, Sash, Door, Blind and 
Moulding Mill, corner Pierson and Wells sts. — 
This mill is driven by steam power, has one 
Farrar planer, and sa3h, door and moulding ma- 
chinery of all k.nds. 

Cap'tal invested. ...$10,000 Wagei paid $28,000 

Cost of building.... 5,000 Hands employed... 50 
Value of manufac's. 80,000 



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Goss & Phillips, manufacturers of Sash, 
Door, Blinds, Window Frames, Mouldings, etc., 
corner Clark and Twelfth streets, and No. 189 
Randolph street: 

Capital invested. ..$."0,000 Wages paid, about. .127,000 
Bui!d'gs*Ma-h'y.. -10,000 Hunds employed.. 92 

Value of manufac's 108,397 Lum'r man 'd, ft... 1,500,000 

Owing to the above factory being consumed 
by fire in August last, with 100,000 feet of first 
clear lumber, operations ware suspended for six 
weeks. 

S. Barbour & Co., Planing and Lumber 
Dressing Mill, Canal street, between Adams and 
Jackson streets. 

This establishment has just commenced busi- 
ness with a capital of §7,500. It is driven by 
steam power. 

Abbott & Kingman, Sash, Door and Blind 
Manufacturer, corner of Clark and Stowell 
streets. 

This factory was established in 1S54, and is 
120 by 40 feet, three stories. It is propelled by 
steam power. *The following figures denote 
their manufactures, &c, for 185G : 

Oapital invested. ..$150,000 Wages paid. (est.).. 24,000 

Ocsf of buildings 5,000 Hands employed 80 

Value of manufact's.lOO.000 

Cobb & Gage, Planing Mill and Sash Factory, 

corner of Canal ?nd Adams streets : 

Capital invested. ...$15,000 Wages paid $15,000 

Valu« manufactures. 50,000 Raw material 20 0U0 

No. hands 45 

Geo. A. Flagg & Co., Planing Mill, Wells, 

near Polk street: 

Lumber planed. ft..3.000 000 No. hands 15 

Value manufac's... $75,000 Wagespaid $6,000 

This is the only mill which uses Beardsley's 
patent Planing Machines. 

Wm. E. Hull & Co., Planing and Sawing 

Mill, Johnston's Building, State street: 

Capital nvested ...$10,000 Cost of building and 

No hands 15 machinery , .15,000 

S. J. Cobb, Planing and Sawing Mill and Box 

Factory, Canal and Adams : 

Cost of building.... $5,000 Tons nails 15 

Value manufac'rs. .$136,1.00 

Foss & Bros., Planing Mill, corner of Canal 

and Monroe streets: 

Capital $25,000 No. hands 30 

Lumber, ft 3,000,000 Wages paid $10,500 

Mason & Lamb, Sawing and Planing Mill, 

corner of Jefferson and Fulton streets: 

Capiial $9,500 Lumber, ft 2,200,000 

Cost of building.....'. 1,000 No. hands 15to20. 

F. McFall, Sash, Doors, Blinds, Planing Mill, 
corner of Market and Tyler streets : 

Va'uemanufactures.$60,000 Wages paid $16,000 

No. hands 45 

One steam engine, 45 horse power, one Tri- 
umph planer. 

G. Herbert & Co., Planing and Box Making, 
corner of Polk and Wells streets : 

Oapital $25,00 Value manufactures. $46,000 

No feetmanufac'd.2,300.000 No. hands 35 

Machinery, one engine of 125 horse power, 
three Norcross planing machines, two match- 
ing machines, nine circular saws. 



Temple, Wright & Co., Pianing Mill, corner 
of Polk and Canal streets : 

Capital $10,000 Value manufactures.$28,00O 

Cost of building 1,000 No. hands 15 

Lumber manfd, ft. .1,400,000 Wages $8,000 

Machinery, one engine of 150 horse power, 
two of Woodworth's Planers, four circular saws, 
one boring machine. 

Rawson & Batkham, Shingle Manufacturers, 
Lake Shore, two miles south of the post office. 

This establishment has several shingle mills 
in operation, driven by steam power. The fol- 
lowing is an exhibit of its operations in 185G : 

Capita' invested. ...$18,000 Shingles made 8,000,000 

Cost of building 5,000 Hands employed... 20 

Value of MaDufact's 31.000 Timber used, cords. 1,800 

Wagespiid 8,500 

James L. Smith, Shingle Manufacturer and 
Timber Sawer, corner of Peyton and Ontario 
streets. 

This factory use two of Evart's & Butler's 
shingle mills, and one upright saw, all driven 
by steam power. The following figures show 
the operations of 1S56 : 

Capital invested.... $4,000 Timber sawed, feet.. 250 COO 

Value of manufact's 15,000 Hands employed 14 

Wagespaid 4,2-0 Shingle bolts used, cd's 518 

Shingles made 3,276,000 

Newaygo Lumber Co.'s Planing Mill. — 

Wood, Henderson & Co., Twelfth street, South 

Branch. 

This mill has two Wood worth machines, 1 set- 
ting saw, and one circular saw. 

Capital invested $10,000 Wagespaid 5.000 

Value of manufact's 15,000 Lum. manufac.'d,.. 3,000,000 

Besides these there are a large number of mills 

scattered all over the city, whose figures we 

could not obtain. 

RECAPITULATION. 

CAPITAL. 

Capital reported $295,000 

Unreported, (est) 150.000 

Total $445,000 

Capital invested in 1855 374,000 

Increase in 1856 $71,000 

valob of manufacture j 

Value of manufactures reported $912,397 

Unreported, (est) l&UWO 

Total «L092,'97 

Capital invested >n 1855 7 49.684 

Increase in 1856 $312,713 

WOlKMKN BMPL >YKD, WAGES, AC. 

No, or workmen employed illf/SS! 

Wagespaid $184,130 

• 

Musical Instruments. 

R. G. Greene, Melodeon Factory, corner of 
Washington and Market streets. This factory 
turns out some of the best instruments that 
adorn our churches or par'ors. They are con- 
sidered by competent judges to be much supe- 
rior to nine-tenths of the melodeons brought to 
this city from the East. Thej are now meeting 
with a rapid sale in the Northwest. The follow- 
ing are the figures of this establishment for 1856 : 
Capital invested.... $10,090 300 melodeons man. ,$25,000 
Hands employed... 20 

Knauer & Sons, Piano Manufacturer?, North 

Clark street: 

Capital invested $3,000 SO piano3 rouauf'J..$10,C0> 

Wagespaid 3,0.0 Hands employed 9 



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Pianos manufd 8 

No. hands 2 



H. Stone, Piano Manufacturer, corner of 

Clark and Water streets: 

Capital $ 200 

Value of raanuft's... 2,(00 
Wages 821 

Jonx Preston, Manufacturer of Piicos, 20 

Kinzie street. Figures not received. 

Recapitulation. 

Capital invested 

No. hands 

Pianos manufd. 



.$13,200 
91 
38 



Value of manur3....tS7,000 
Melodeons manuCd. 3.0 



Name of Firm. Brick manufactured. 
M. O. Walker, No. 3 00 '.000 



Brick. 

There is a largo number of brickyards scat- 
tered iii and around our City on each branch 
of the river and along the canal. This in con- 
nection with the fact that many of the proprietors 
are absent from the city during the winter sea- 
son, has prevented us from obtaining complete 
returns. We append a list of those received. 

IValue. 

$24.0.0 

t95,000 

183,009 

[32 000 

|16,000 

24.000 

8 000 

8,000 

32 000 

£.24,000 

; .-.2,1/00 

20,000 
20,000 
20 000 

.40,000 
16,000 

132,000 
32,000 
24,000 
12.i 00 
12,000 
.... 8,000 



Perry A Meacham 
Pearson A Dana... 

Speed* Fig , 

H. B. Livingston... 

Benedict 

Whitehead & Co.... 
McCullum A Co.... 

Wilson A Co 

John Weight 

S. G. Cooeiaml .... 

J. M. Blair 

Dunlap A Co 

RuDyon A Son 

F. r. A E.Sherman... 

Mitchell* Co j.2.000.000 

N.S. Watkins 4,000000 

J. Evans 4,000,000 

Dunlap A McClelland 3 000 000 

Henjamin & Lsignton 15/.0.000 

Wm. Taylor 1,500 000 

fii'MillanA Davis ' 1,000 000 



13 000 000 
3,60 ',0 
4 000 000 

2 000 000 
3,000 000 

1 000,000 
1.000,000 
4 000,000 

3 000,000 
4,000,000 
2,500,000 
2,500 000 

2 500,000 
[5.000,000 



$554,000 
160,000 



„ No 77.'00,000 

Unreported— (est,) 20,0ou,000 

Total 91,100.000 $714,000 

Worthy of note in this branch of manufactures 
is the introduction of machinery in the yard of 
M. O Walker, on the south branch of the river. 
Powerful machinery for grinding, mixing and 
tempering the clay, has been erected at great 
expense— the whole driven by a steam engine 
sixty horse power. During two months a single 
machine was in operation, 3,000,000 brick was 
manufactured ; but when in full blast the ensuing 
season, probably 20,000,000 will be turned out. 
We have no doubt but Mr, Walker's enterter- 
prise will urge other tranufacturers to follow his 
example. 

■* • 

Leather. 
Chicago Hide and Leather Co., Wells street, 
South of Polk: ! 

Capital invested.. .$125,000 Wages paid $ 25,0(0 

xP? i0 , ( building iO.otO Raw material u'eo. 132,000 

aides leather manu.. 50,010 Size of fact >ry, ft.. 250x60 
Kipand call skins. .i. 3,500 Organized in 1854. 
Hands employed... 70 ' 

Charles F. 

North Branch : 



Grey, Leather Manufacturer, 



Capital in vested.... $75. CO) 
Cost of buildings... 13 000 
Hides manufactured 11,000 
Sheepskins manu.. 15,1.00 



Lbs pulled woo'.... 35.000 
Va ue manufact's.. $127,000 

Wages paid 15,0i>0 

Raw material used. 85,000 
The two main factory buildings'are respective- 
ly 50 by 150 and 25 by r»o feet. Established in 
1850. 

C. C. Wallin &.Sons, Leather Manufacturers, 
No. 8 Lind Block, Market street. 



Capital invested.. ..$20,000 Hands employed.... H20 

Hides, leather and Wages paid $8,000 

skins manufacfed: 11.0)0 Raw material used., 25.000 
Value manufactures 50,000 

This factory, established in 1853, is located on 
the Kalamazoo River, Michigan, the proprie- 
tors residing in this city, where the stock is 
bought and gold. 

Perrottet & Sauvain, Leather Manufactu- 
rers, Water street: 
Capital invested $12,000 Hands employed 8 

Thi3 factory, established in October last, in 
Ganges, Mich., the proprietors residing in Chi- 
cago, where the stock is bought and sold. 

Kelly & Blackburn, Manufacturers of 

Leather and Leather Belting, 243 Lake street : 

Capital invested... .$100,000 Hands employed... 28 

Value manufattures 55,000 Wages paid $16.CO0 

RECAPITULATION. 
CAPITAL. 

Capital invested $332,000 

Value of manufactures, (reported) $332,000 

Uureporttd (estimated) 2OU.000 

$531 0C0 

Value of Buildings 33 000 

■WageBpaid ... 48,000 

Hides and Leather manufactured No. 61,000 

Sheep Skines " 15 Oon 

Hands employed " 186 

4 

Wooden Ware, Barrels, Turning, Brooms, etc. 

Rosseter, Pahlmam & Smith, Market s'reet, 

from Quincy to Jackson, Wooden Ware : 

Capital invested...* 95,000 Wages paid $23,600 

Cost of building 14.000 Value raw mater'l.. 52,000 

No. articles ma-Ai 290,000 Iron used, tons 50 

Value of manufac's,$106,000 Wood used, cds 500 

No. hands 65 

B. & G. B. Carpenter, North Wutc-r, near 
Lake street. Barrels manufactured by ma- 
chinery. 

Capital invested $10,000 Value of manufac's.. $6,250 

Cost of building, ea- No. hands 12 

gine, Ac 6,000 Wages paid $5,475 

Bbls manufactured Value raw material.. 2,400 

in 3 months 6,000 Wood used, cds 182 

These barrels secured for the manufacturers 
a diploma at the late Fair of the Mechanics' In- 
stitute. 

E. Adams & Co.'s Cooperage, corner Franklin 

and Ohio streets : 

Capital invested.... $10,000 Wage3 mid $3,000 

Cost of build. ng 2,000 No. obi* manufact'd. 15,000 

Value of manufict's .8,000 Hands employed 15 

■ Crosby & Co.'s Cooperage, corner of Kinzie 

and Curtis streets : 

Capital invested. ...$15,000 Wage3 paid $15,000 

30,000 bb'.s manufa'd. 40,000 Hands.employed.... 65 

E. W. Warner, No. 40 State street): ' 

Capital invested ...$ 8,000 Wages paid $ 5,000 

No. brooms man 'd.. 100,000 Value raw mat.-riat. 10.000 

Value o: manufac'.s$20,000 Tons coal used 8 

No. hands 12 , 

These brooms are made by machinery of a 
new patent, and are claimed to be superior to 
any in use. 

A. B. Monn, No. 157 Illinois street : 

Capital invested $ 1,600 No. hands employed C 

No brooms maoufd 14,400 Broom corn, tons 90 

Value of manufact's. $ 3,000 

Ernst Richner, Ontario street, near Lasalle, 
Turner: 
Capital invested $100 Value of manufact'i. $2,000 

There are scattered all over the city a large 
number of Coopers, Turnets, and Wooden 
Ware manufacturers, whose figures havs not 
been received. 



45 



RECAPITULATION. a£fl 

CapitaliJinvested $128,700 

Unreported (estimated) 50,000 

Value of manufactures, reported $257,250 

Unreported, (estimated) 100,000 



-$178,700 



-$357,250 



White Lead. 

The manufacture of White Lead in our city is 
an event worthy of note, and will doubtless be 
very gratifying to those engaged in the con- 
sumption of the article. 

L. Lyon & Co., have just built an extensive 

factory on Halsted street, corner of Fulton, 50 

by 80 feet, and are now in full blast, re tdy to 

fill all orders that may be sent to them. Their 

figures for the three months they have operated 
are as follows : 

Capital invested $50,000 Cost of building $13,000 

Valueof manufa... 7.2m Wages.paid 900 

No.handi 10 Coal consumed tons. 50 

White lead mant'd. tns 40 



Starch. 

M. L. Keith has an extensive Starch factory 
nt Cleaverville, but we have been unable to ob- 
tain the figures from the proprietor. We have 
heard the capital named at $15,000, and the 
year's manufactures at $75,000. 



Glue, jVeals Foot Oil, &o. 
The manufacture of Glue is a branch of manu- 
facture, that is destined to be important in the 
West. The cheapness and facility with which 
stock can be obtained, render it highly profita- 
ble, when properly and carefully managed. The 
prejudice against "eastern glue" is gradually 
wearing away, although that even yet cripples 
the business here. Mr. Wahl, one of the manu- 
facturers bere, informs us that hs has sold dur- 



no^t of buildings $20,000 Brooms manu'd, no. 114,440 

Waees paid 49,600 Bbls manufac'd 61.000 

Hands employed... 171 



Flour, 4c. 

Gaige & Haines, Flouring Mil's, South Water 

street. 

Capital invested. ..$150,000 Flour manurd, bbls.. 35,000 
VaL of manufactu'a 250,000 Hands employed, No.... 30 

Adams & Co., Flouring Mills, North Water 

street. 

Capital invested... $123,000 Fiour manufd, bbls. .38,000 
Val. of manufactu's 240.000 Hands employed, No.... 25 

Empire Mills, corner North and Lasalla 

streets. 

CapHal $10,000 Bbls.flour manufd. . . .6,000 

Value of manuf's.... 3M,000 No. H»nds 5 

Wa^espaid 2,281 Bush Wheat used 27,00'J 

Coal used tons 552 

N, A. Chase, Jr., 12 & 14 North Canal street. 

Capital invested $10,000 Value ofmanufact's.$57,569 

No. hands 7 Wages paid 1.746 

Coal used, tons 269 

Stevens, Lane & Co., 143 West Lake street. 

Capital invested $3,500 Cost of building $8,000 

Bbls. flour manufd.. 12 000 No. hands 6 

Wages paid 3,0.0 Coal used, tons 300 

Noveltt Mills, Jas. McNair, 53 and 32 State 
street : 
Capital invested $5,000 

RECAPITULATION. 

Capital invested $325,000 

Value of Manufactures 636,569 

Flour manufactured, bbls 89,000 

Hands employed 73 



it'g the year a large quantity of his glue in New 
York City, whence it has been shipped back to 
the western druggists and dealers. He has of- 
fered his glue to dealers here at a much lower 
rate than the New York prices ; but they refused 
—they could sell " eastern glue" only. This 
same glue he has afterwards sold to wholesale 
merchants at a few cents more per pound than 
he offered it here, and these merchants have 
again resold this glue to the same Chicago 
merchants who refused Mr. Wahl's glue, and 
would only sell "eastern glue." 

C. Wahl & Sons, Glue and ;Neats Foot Oil 
Factory, North Branch, near Chicago Avenue. 
This establishment is a branch of a Milwaukoa 
house, which was established here in August, 
1855. Next summer they will build an exten- 
sive factory at Bridgeport. The following are 
their figures for 1856. 

Capital invested $20,000 

Cost of building 2500 

Value or manufactures 25',000 

Wages paid 4,500 

Hands employed 15 

Glue manufactured, bbls 800 

NeatsFoot Oil, gls 7100 

islue Stock consumed, tons l'200 



Goal 
Wood 



cords. 



Saddle and Harness Makers. 



Name'of Firm. 



o 






Ooe, Stoughton A Co 

H. Oope $20,000 

W. Speight 4.000 

W. M. favage 2,500 

J.F.Mahler 1,000 

J. Divoraeck 500 

d. Wtlch 400 

J. A. Boerner 300 

A. Ortmayer 4,000 



„ $32,900 

Unreported (esi) 50,000 



I- 

8& 

CO 

UB 

OOP 

if- 
$9,000 

50,000 

30,000 

10.000 

6,000 

2,000 

1,000 

2,000 

10,000 

$121,000 
150,000 



W 

a 
c 



3 

■3 

cT 

*!_ 

a. 

5 

50 

14 

9 

4 

2 



4 
10 

100 
120 



250 
15 



3 






$2,500 

6,500 
3,250 

1,400 

600 

300 

1,000 

4,000 

$42,050 
50,000 



Total. 



..$82,900 $271,000 220 $92,050 



Engravers, Lithographers, «&c. 



Name of Firm. 



is 



'Mendel $ 5,000 

D. Ohilds.Jr 

F. Bacon 

.J.White G.000 



Total $11,000 



n C 
«". Q 

C 
-1 O 

a> -» 

D 50 

$14,500 
15,000 



I 

$29,500 



W 
s> 
a 

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a 
3 
2. 

0° 

<< 

12 

12 
6 



3 



T3 



I 3.840 

; 6,000 
2,000 



30 $16,840 



Cl;ar Manufacturers. 



Name of Firm. 



Q 



3 
-: 



John Houf $2,000 

><. F. LittenftCo.... 1,000 

W. H. Hush 2,000 

F. C. Seeman 250 

J.bnMeecch 800 

A.M'rche 

Brewer 4 Baust.... 1,000 



" 5 



£3 

»2,400 

2,300 
2.100 
•M 
3,200 
2,000 
4,000 



55 

3? 

S-Q 
°5 

150,000 

1860,000 

BO.000 

. 7o, 

200.11110 

100,000 

200.000 



W 
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a 



3 



2. (=• 
o : 

2 
4 

E 

■1 



1888 

800 
700 
600 
700 
800 
1,500 



To'al $8,050 $16800 1050.000 20 $6,036 



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Types, Printlns Materials, &e. 
Chicago Ttpb Foundrt, 43 Franklin street. 
D. S. Dodge, Agent. 

This is a branch of the old established New 
York Type Foundry of John T. White & Co. 
It was established one year ago. Owing to the 
rapid increase of their business, thc-y have erect- 
ed on lot No. 90, Washington street, a four-story 
brick building, with special reference to the 
wants of the business, and expect to occupy it 
immediately. They design introducing at once 
a large number of machines, together with the 
manufacture of brass rule, electrotyping, &c. 

This is the only type foundry in fhe North- 
western States west of Cincinnati, and the pro- 
prietors intend prosecuting their enterprise with 
vigor. They employ at preseat from 15 to 20 
hands. 



Chemicals. 

J. V. Z. Blaney's Chemical Works, North 
Branch, south of Chicago Avenue. 

This factory is engaged in the manufacture of 

all kinds of Chemicals, and is the only one of the 

kind in the West or Northwest. The following 

are the figures for the past year's operations: 

Capital invested... .$15,000 Wagss paid $ 4.C00 

Cost of building.... 4 010 Raw material (val ). 22,000 

Val. manufactures. 32,000 Tons o r coal used.... 200 

Haads employed... 15 Tons of iron used..., 8 



Sheet and Gar Lead Pijte. 
Collins & Blatchfoed, Lead Pipe and Sheet 
Lead Manufacturers, corner Fulton and Clinton 
streets. 

The following are all the figures we have re- 
ceived fro a this establishment: 



Cost of building.. 
Pigs of lead used. 



.$ 2.500 Tons of coal used. 

,. 25,000 



.200 



Hoots and Shoes, Tailoring, Ac. 

Shoemakers and tailors are scattered all over 
our city. Blanks were left at the large estab- 
lishments, but no attention has been paid to 
them by the proprietors. The capital invested 
in these businesses will probably exceed $500,- 
000, and the manufactures figure about $750,000 



Miscellaneous Manufactures. 



Name of Firm. Manufactures. 



Stearns * Co Lime 

Wm. Holmes Loo*'g <"-»la s,&c 

Jordan & Olcjtt Ship builders... 

WeeksABro 

Hnntson 4 Towner.. Coffee. Spi's.Ac. 

John C. GaTland Trunks, 4c 

W. AG Wright ' 

I. Speer Jewelry 

W. K. Hendrie •• 

n. A. Frost Silver Plater... 

A. S. B'-'Ckuith ^oldPens 

w.iE Uook Glass 8tainers., 

Held k 15ro Scales, e'c. ... 

E. Smalley Oistems , 



O 
so 



$80 000 

25,i Kl I 

80,000 

10,003 

8.000 

50 000 

l'ltai 

30.' 00 

20 (WO 

3,000 

2,00 1 

2,000 

1000 

200 



3 o 



: 2 

. & 

. a 

'. ? 
$87,'350 
150 000 

75 000 

20,000 
100,000 
100,000 

50.(ii;0 
5 000 



88 
10 
60 
50 
50 
50 
20 
4 
■i 



15,000 8 

2 

5 

2,000 4 

4.000 2 



Name of Firm. Manufactures. 



H. C. Rosii Patterns 

A.Hesler Daguerreans . 

FassettACook 

Aker A Downer Ma'ster , 

Geo Drake Painter 

F. Weigle Paper Boxes.. 

SundellACo Soda Water... 

E. Scanlan Confections... 

8imm A Co " 

PageAOo 

E. K. Bowen Gloves, Ac... 

C. Schilling 

Frazer A Forsy in ...Biking. Ac 

C.J. Wilder Crackers, etc. 

Worthing A Melville 

E.'Case " " . 

M. Guvies " " 

G. J. Sutter Bakers' Tools. , 

E.g. Wells Shoes, etc , 

Peareon ADana...., " " 

J. Kkby A Co Boxes 

Oul. Paga A Hoyne. . Ulank Books.et 

T . Asmus " " 

P. Fisser Caps, etc 



5" 



600 

22,110(1 

5,000 

3,0(0 

2,500 

500 

3 000 

5 000 

4,000 

7,000 

8 000 

2(,0 

4,610 

.5,500 

2,500 

1,000 

300 



. B,000 

. 20. i 

. 5,000 

12,000 

200 

400 



o c 
"•» 

c 

H O 
O —I 

m 

: g» 

: » 
. D 
: c 

300 

•JO (I u 

15 00) 
4 000 
8,300 
5,000 
10 000 
75.0 I 
25.750 

7 500 

500" 

15.000 

20,000 

15,000 

io'Mo 

500 
10,000 
17.000 
8.000 
44,247 

250 



n 



i 



2 

12 



7 
3 
G 

15 
5 

15 
i.5 
1 
8 
8 
8 



8 
20 
20 
27 

1 



Total 4439,700 1,844,697 502 



TOTAL RECAPITULATION. 
The subjoined recapitulation has been pre- 
pared from the figures furnished us and publish- 
ed in the foregoing columns, and from estimates 
made by competent judges, where the figures 
could not be obtained. Although the returns 
may notbs altogether accurate in every particu- 
lar, still our object in giving a fair exposition of 
the manufactures we consider attained. Our 
estimates have generally been moderate, and we 
are fully convinced that the totals are rather un- 
der than beyond the truth: 

Capital. Hands. Val. M'rs 

Iron works.steam e gines, !c.$l, 703,000 

Stoves 185 000 

Agrlcul ;ural implements 597.000 

Brass and tin ware Ac 257 000 

Carriages, waf?i ns, Ac 356 000 

Highwmes, beer, ale, Ac 497,000 

Sosp, candles, lard, Ac 296 000 

Furn ture 354,000 

Stone, marble, Ac 617 950 

Planing mills, sash, doors, Ac. 415,000 

Musical insttuments 13 200 

Leather 332,000 

Barrels, wooden #are, Ac 178 700 

Brick 300 000 

Flour 325 000 

Ohe aucals 15 000 

Harness, saddle?, Ac 82 900 

Sheet and bar lead 25 000 

Glue and neats foot t il 20 000 

Starch, est 15.000 

Daguerreotypes, ambrotyres. 75,000 

Engraving, Ac 11 000 

Cigars 8 050 

White lead 50.000 

Types Ac 

Boots, shoe?, clothing, and 

other manufastur. s. est.... 500,000 

Miscellaneous, (reported) 439 700 



2,866 


$3,887 084 


I vo 


238,000 


575 


1,134.300 


351 


471 000 


881 


948,160 


165 


1,150,320 


100 


528,021 


<504 


543 000 


843 


896 775 


554 


1,092 397 


31 


37 000 


126 


432,000 


171 


357 250 


500 


712.000 


73 


636 569 


15 


32.000 


220 


271000 


75 


100,000 


15 


25 000 


25 


75,000 


75 


100 000 


80 


29 500 


20 


16 800 


10 


7 200 


20 


.... 



1.750 
502 



750 000 
1 044,697 



Total $7,759,400 10 573 $15,515 063 

Recapitulation cf 1855 6295.000 8 740 11031491 

Increase in 1856 $1,464,400 1833 1*4.483 572 

MISCELLANEOUS ITBSfS. 

No. of establishments propelledby st am, (rep.)... 137 

Tons of cast iron consumed, (reported) 18,402 

Tons of wrought iron " 11 196 

Tonoofccal " " 38 516 

Oordsofwood ' " 3 000 



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FIFTH 



ANNUAL REVIEW 



OF THE 



PROSPECTS, CONDITION, TRAFFIC, ETC., 



OF THK 



RAILROADS CENTERING IN CHICAGO, 

WITH A GENERAL SUMMARY OF THE BUSINESS OF THE CITY, 

For the Year 1856. 



In couutries and cities long since "finished" 
the necessity for yearly statements of their busi- 
ness does not exist. A map of some portions of 
Europe, and indeed of some of the Eastern States, 
a hundred years old will answer nearly as well 
for all practical purposes as one published dur- 
ing the last month. The day when this will be 
true of the Northwest will not dawn within the 
lifetime of the present generation ; perhaps not 
within the next half-dozen centuries. The ex- 
tent of the country S'.ill to be occupied is so 
immense ; its mineral, egncultural and commer- 
cial resources so vast and exhaustiess ; its climate 
so inviting ; its swelling prairies and beautiful 
groves are so rich in all that can make home 
pleasant and exertion abundantly successful ; 
and withal these facts are becomiugso generally 
known throughout the civilized world, that the 
progress of the last few years affords but a mea- 
gre index to what the next score will accomplish. 

It was our fortune to commence noting down 
the facts in relation to that progress years ago, 
and while life lasts it ie our determination, if 
possible, to keep up with its onward march. 
With each returning year we have presented 
elaborate statements of the business of our 
city, and it is a source of gratification to our 
intelligent citizens, no less than to the editors, 
that the files of the Democratic Press contain a 
more minute, accurate and comprehensive his- 
tory of Chicago than is extant of any other city 
in existence. Our varied and extensive corres- 
pondence from every section of the Northwest, 
and the accuracy and promptness with which 
the extension of our different railway lines, and 

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the building and progress of Western towns and 
cities are noticed, make our columns a compre- 
hensive and unfailing source from which the 
future historian of the vast and fertile country 
west and north of us can draw facts and ma- 
terials of absorbing interest. With the growing 
intelligence of our people, and the devel- 
opment of the physical resources of the 
country, the dutes of the public journal have 
become much more comprehensive and its posi- 
tion more secure and independent. It must not, 
as in days gone by, merely chronicle a few insig- 
nificant dry details of the passing hour, or devote 
its powers blindly to promote the wily schemes 
of some ambitious selfish politician ; its mission 
is higher, nobler, more commanding. Let it ex- 
ert its mighty energies vigorously in the cause 
of truth and unyielding justice; let it seek to 
develop the resources of the country ; to secure 
thehappiness, prosperity, and the social, moral 
and religious welfare of the people; let it zeal- 
ously promote every scheme which tends to ele- 
vate and to bless our common humanity — these 
and such as these are objects worthy of the high- 
est efforts of those who minister at these altars 
of public opinion. Such are the motives by 
which we strive to be governed ; such the re- 
flections which force themselves upon us at the 
commencement of our task to sum up the busi- 
ness of Chicago for the p^ist year. 

Without further preface, we proceed to lay 
before our readers the statistics of our different 
railway lines for the year 1856. It will be seen 
that our plan embraces a greater variety of in- 
teresting facts than we have heretofore been 



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able to present. We give the names and resi- 
dence of the officers, and where the residence is 
not stated it may be understood that they reside 
in Chicago. The large increase of receipts — 
nearly thirty per cent. — forms a most interesting 
feature; while the movement of passengers af- 
fords a new and highly valuable subject of re- 
flection. We notice also the branch and exten- 
sion lines of the different railways leading into 
the city. Oar description of the section of coun- 
try through which they pass is more brief than 
formerly, except in the case of new or progress- 
ing lines, as that would be an unnecessary repe- 
tition to most of the readers of the Press. The 
names of the cities, towns and stations, aud 
their distance from each other, or from Chicago, 
along the lines of our railways, will be found 
valuable to our distant readers. It will afford 
travellers information, often greatly needed, as 
to which of our railways they should take in 
order to res.ch any given place. 

We commence, as formerly, with the roads 
runciug north, and take them in their order, 
sweeping round to our two great eastern lines. 
The first on the list is the 

Chicago au<l Milwaukee Railway. 

iion. Walter S. Gornee, President. 

H. A. Tucker, Vice President and Treasurer. 

A. S. Downs, Secretary. 

Walter S. Johnson, Superintendent. 

This road, as its name implies, connects Chi- 
cago with Milwaukee, and is one of the best roads 
leading from the city. It has a large and con- 
stantly increasing passenger business, aud it 
also has a line of elegant steamers plying be- 
tween the two cities. There are a large number 
of beautiful town sites aloDg the line of this road, 
which are growing rapidly, and will furnish 
quiet and most desirable retreats for our over- 
tasked and " substantial citizens." It passes 
through the flourishing cities of Waukegan, 
Kenosha and Racine, and has an unfailing source 
of profitable business. 

The following is a list of stations on this road, 
with their distances from Chicago : 

Miles. Miles. 

Chittenden 7>i Kenosha 51K 

Evanston \\% Racine Junction 

Wynetka IRK Racine 62 

Glencoe 18% Ives Station 

Highland fark 22^ County Line 70H 

Rockland 30 Oak Creek 75)4 

Waukegan 3o}£ Engine Station 

State Line 45 Milwaukee 85 

We are sorry that we cannot present an accu- 
rate statement of the earniugs of this road. From 
its increasing business we feel safe in estimating 
its receipts at $C50,000. We presume they were 
considerably beyond these figures ; but we wish 
in all cases where it is necessary to estimate, to 
keep within rather than to go beyond the mark. 
It is owned prineiyuily by a few of our " solid" 
citizens, who are abundantly able to hold its 
stock. 

This road, connecting at Milwaukee with the 



roads running west and northwest from that 
city, gives us a direct communication by rail 
with the interior of that prosperous, noble State. 

The first branch road running west from the 
Chicago aud Milwaukee is the 

Kenosha and Beloit Railway. 

josiah Bond, Kenosha, President. 

Ukvi Burnell, " Secretary. 

C. C. Jholk, " Treasurer. 

Wm. II. Noble, " Chief Engineer. 

The name of this road will doubtless be chang- 
ed to Kenosha and Rockford Railroad as, if we 
mistake not, it has been determined to run south 
of Beloit as nearly as possible direct to Rock- 
ford. Its leogth will be 69 miles. At Genoa 
23 miles from Kenosha, about a mile north of 
the Illinois State Line it intersects the Fox River 
Valley road and at ChemuDg, 43 miles west it 
forms a connection with the Chicago, St. Paul 
Paul and Fond du Lac Railway. The line for 
20 miles to Fox River is nearly all graded and 
bridged, and it is inteuaed to have it running to 
that point by the first of July; and to Chemung 
during the coming fall. A few miles of track 
west of Kenosha are already laid aud the direc- 
tors are determined to push it forward a3 last 
as possible as soon as spring opeus. The pro- 
spects of the road are good, and its friends are 
much encouraged as to the success of their im- 
portant enterprise. 

The rext road in order is the 

Racine and Mississippi Railway. 

H. S. Durand, Racine, President. 

A. J. Redburn, " Secretary. 

W. M. Perine, " Treasurer. 

L. Stanton, " Chief Engineer. 

This road is to run from Racine, Wis., to Sa- 
vanna, Illinois, on the Mississippi River, it 
crosses the Illinois State Line between Beloit and 
Rockton and passes through the city of Freeport 
the centre of Stephenson County. It will benefit 
mainly the enterprising city of Racine, whose 
citizens have been chiefly instrumental in build- 
ing it; but as it has formed running arrange- 
ments with all the roads that cross and connect 
with it, Chicago will be largely benefited by its 
construction. It is now completed and in ope- 
ration to Medina, 111., 86 miles west of Racine. 
The report of the directors, just issued, speaks 
With entire confidence of the early completion 
of the road. The entire length of the road will 
be about 150 miles. 

The next trunk line is the 

Chicago, St. Paul, and Fond du Lac Railroad. 

Hon. Wm. B. Ogden, President. 

S. F. Johnson, Chief Engineer and Sup't. 

G. L. Dunlap, Assistant Sup't. 

J. B. Redfield, Treasurer. 

The following table exhibits the receipts of the 
Southern division of this road for the past year. 
The times when it was opened to different points 



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should be noticed. It was finished to Janesville 
on the 15th of September last. 







RECEIPTS. 








Passen'rs. 


Fright. Mail A Ml?. 


Total. 


January*. 


..* 2,478.35 


41,798.41 


•60.32 


$4,337.03 


February. 


.. 1,497.10 


1,843.15 


60.39 


3,400.64 


March 


. . 2,525.30 


1.885.42 


1.029.M 


5,440.53 


April 


.. 2.909.00 


2.455.66 


801.14 


6,166.40 


May 


.. 3,213.03 


4,241.51 


466.S7 


7,921.41 


Jnnet 


. . 3,082.70 


4,770.79 


£ss so 


8,142.29 


July 


.. 3,464.15 


6,242.93 


1,105.48 


10,812.56 


August.... 


.. 3,283.30 


.7,538.29 


327.50 


11,149.011 


September 


. . 6,525.45 


10.264.97 


3>1.15 


17.174 57 


October ... 


.. 12,189.30 


17,884.04 


435.32 


80,508.66 


Novemh^r 


.. 10,927.40 


9.3T2.86 


37813 


20,678.39 


December. 


.. 6,284,75 


4,926.49 
$73,224.52 


360.81 
$5,698.72 


11.572.05 


Total... 


..J58.380.43 


$137,303.67 



* Opened to WoodstoeK 51 miles. 

t Opened to Harvard, 62}£ miles, on June 24th. 

The following table shows the 



MOVEMENT OF PASSEHGERS. 

West. 



East. 



Thro'. Wav. 

January 1,621 

February 973 

March 1,731 

April 2.021 

May 2,284 

June 1,989 

July 2,528 

August 2.049 

September 2,946 

October 918 3,516 

November.... 874 3 306 

December 425 1,882 



Total. 
1,621 
973 
1,731 
2,021 
2,284 
1,989 
2,528 
2,049 
2,946 
4,434 
4,180 
2,307 



Thro'. 



1.0C8 
874 
588 



895 
1,752 
1,865 
2,098 
2,042 
2,458 
2,145 
3,154 
3,515 
3,406 
1.732 



895 
1,752 

1,865 
2,098 
2,042 
2,458 
2,145 
3,154 
4,583 
4,280 
2,320 



Way. Total. 
1,517 1,517 



Total 2.219 26,846 29,063 2,530 26,579 29,109 

The following are the names of the towns and 

stations en this road, with their distances from 

Chicago : 

Miles. Miles. 

Junction 2>£ RidgeQeld 45% 

Plank Koad 9 Woodstock 51 

Oanfield 12 Harvard 62% 

Des Plaines 16% Lawrence 65 

ThintoD 22% Sharon 71 

Palatine 26 CliDton 78% 

Barrington 31% Shopiere 83 

Care» 38 Janesville 91 

Crystal Lake 43 

From Fond du Lac south the road is finished 
and in operation to the Junction of the Lacrosse 
and Milwaukee Railway, giving us a direct con- 
nection with the former city at the head of Lake 
Winnebago. The gr-diug is all finished and 
the road is nearly ready for the iron 16 miles 
north from Fond du Lac to Oshkosh, and it 
will be put in operation as soon as possible 
after the spring opens. 

The last Congress granted lands to the States 
of Wisconsin and Michigan to build a line of 
railway from Fond du Lac north to Marquette 
and Ontonagan, and another from Madison, if 
we mistake not, to LiCrosse and St. Paul. At 
an extra session of the Wisconsin Legislature 
last summer the lands on the north and eastern 
line were granted to a company named in the 
bill, and the franchises of this company were 
transferred to the Chicago, St. Paul and Fond 
Du Lac line, and we presume the same wise 
policy will be pursued in Michigau for the por- 
tion of the road in the Upper Peninsula. Hence 
we shall speak of them as one road. The 
amount of land secured will be something over 
1,000,000 of acres. 

The length of road still to be completed be- 
tween Janesville and the La r rosse Junction is 



56 miles. From Oshkosh to the Michigan State 
line is 140 miles, thence to Marquette 60 miles, 
and to Ontonagon CO miles. We give the length 
of the road as follows : Chicago to Marquette, 
393 miles; State line to Ontonagon, 60 miles; 
total, 453 miles. 

We need scarcely add that the road is in the 
hands of some our largest capitalists and most 
intelligent, far seeiDg busiuess men, and com- 
m mds the entire conddence of the public. It is 
to connect our city with the rich and inexhaust- 
able iron and copper mines of Lake Superior, 
and in such hands it cannot fail to be one of the 
best paying roads in the Union. 

The western divisions of two important Wis- 
consin railways will iorm with this road direct 
lines to this city, and will be so used by the 
public as soon as completed. They, therefore, 
properly belong to our railway system. They 
might with nearly equal propriety be mentioned 
in connection with the Beloit and Madison and 
the Galena roads. The first in order is the 
western division of the 

Milwaukee and Mississippi Railway. 

E. II. Beodhead, Milwaukee, President. 

Wm. Taintoe, Milwaukee, Secretary. 

A. Eldred, " Treasurer. 

E. H. Beodhead, " Superintendent. 

The Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac road 
will form a connection with this road probably 
a few miles from Janesville. The road is now 
completed and in operation from Milwaukee to 
Muscoday, twenty-five miles east of Prairie du 
Chien, on the Mississippi River, it will be com- 
pleted to that point as soon as possible after 
navigation opens. Tbe couutry through which 
it runs and the region opposite Prairie du 
Chien, in Iowa, is exceedingly rich and is filling 
very rapidly with an intelligent and enterprising 
population, and it will form a most valuable addi- 
tion to our railway system. The distance from 
the Junction, near Janesville, to Prairie du 
Chien is about 130 miles. 

The next road to be noticed is the western 
division of the 

Milwaukee and La Crosse Railway. 

Edwin F. Goodrich, Milwaukee, Sup't. 

The grant of lands made by Congress to aid 
in constructing a railway from Madison to St. 
Paul, Minnesota, was given by that State to 
this company. We are sorry that the report of 
the Directors, a copy of which is promised us, 
has not como to hand. This would have en- 
abled us to give more exact information in re- 
gard to its prospects. The grant of lands, how- 
ever, secures its construction beyond a contin- 
gency. It is now completed and in operation to 
Portage City, ninety-five miles west of Milwau- 
kee. A branch from the main line will connect 
with LaCrosse on the Mississippi, 130 miles 
above Galena. The total number of miles which 



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mis road will add to our Chicago system cannot 
fall much short of 350 miles. As a branch of 
this great line we notice the 

Hudson and Superior Railway. 

In the grant of lands heretofore noticed pro- 
vision was made for the construction of a rail- 
way frim Hudson, on Lake St. Croix, to Supe- 
rior on Lake Superior. At the extra session of 
the Wisconsin Legislature last summer a com- 
pany was chartered and the lands were given to 
it on condition that the road be constructed 
within a specified time. It was put under con- 
tract a few weeks after to an energetic and re- 
sponsible company, and is to be finished, if we 
mistake not, by the fourth of July, 1859. Su- 
perior is a thriving to^n at the head of Lake 
Superior, and it is thought it is destined to be 
one of the largest cities in the Northwest. The 
'ength of the road is 134 miles. 

The third main trunk line is the 

Galena and Chicago Union Railway. 

John B. Turner, President. 

Philip A. Hall, Superintendent. 

William M. Larrabeb, Secretary. 

Henry Tuck.br, Treasurer. 

Willard S. Pope, Chief Engineer. 

This road is the parent of our railroad system, 
and is regarded with just pride by every citizen 
of the State. For the annexed figures of its 
business we are indebted to A. W. Adams, Esq., 
one of the efficient and obliging agen's of the 
company ; 

The following table shows the 
monthly receipts. 
Pass'ee: 
Jan.... 
Feb.... 
March. 
April.. 
May... 
June. . 
July... 
Augus 
3 p*... 
Oct.... 
Nov... 
Dec... 

Total. $945,629.64 $1,465,982.14 $44,434.02 $2,456,045.80 
We call atteution to the following table, and 
shall have occasion to refer to it and others of 
the tame character more at length hereafter. 
The difference in the movement west and east 
should be specially noticed. The table shows 
tho monthly 

MOVEMENT OF PASSENGERS. 

Through Way 



Pass'gers. 


Freight. 


Mail * Mis. 


Total. 


.$ 42,430.35 


$55,722.43 


$2,548.47 


$100,701.25 


. 38,691.00 


48,699.41 


2,183.47 


89,573.88 


60,390.69 


64,903.83 


2,196.81 


127,491.33 


102,039.71 


87,103.76 


4,351.90 


193,495.37 


105.069.19 


118,169.88 


3,848.22 


227,087.29 


92,636.68 


119,136.68 


3 348.20 


215,121.56 


80,667.40 


140,993.39 


3,552.61 


225,213.40 


81,019.41 


169,482 01 


4,994.31 


255,485.73 


. 107,032.30 


223,533.25 


4,463.62 


335,029.17 


. 111,652.11 


237,085.17 


2,277.66 


353,014.94 


. 76.689.96 


137,317.98 


4,439.41 


218,447.35 


47,310.84 


63,834.35 


4,239.34 


115,384.53 



west. 
Jan.... 2.255 
Feb.... 2,127 
March. 4,813 
April.15,384 
M,y... 7.932 
June ..5,873 
Ju'y... 5,640 
Au*.... 5,338 
Sept.. .7,210 
(Jot... .7,672 
Nov.. .5,267 
Dec. ..3,199 



west. 
14,554 

13,126 
17,216 
20.959 
18,225 
16,195 
16,918 
15,052 
21,162 
2H.3II3 
15.832 
10,224 



Total 


Through 


Way 


Total 


west. 


east. 


ean. 


east. 


16,809 


1,910 


13,654 


157664 


15.253 


2,116 


12,269 


14,385 


82,039 


2,399 


17,000 


19,399 


36,340 


6.499 


16,399 


22,893 


26,157 


1,590 


17,609 


20.199 


22,068 


3.700 


13,058 


16,758 


22.558 


4.199 


13.174 


17,373 


20,390 


4.035 


12,788 


16,823 


28,372 


4,069 


18,277 


22.346 


27,975 


4,758 


16,173 


20,931 


21,099 


3.552 


13,592 


17,144 


13,423 


2,725 


5,914 


8,639 



Total. 72.707 199,766 272,473 42,552 169,907 212,459 

Ncts.— To the month of April the C. B. & Q. R. E. pas- 
sengers are included. 

The following table shows the monthly move- 



ment of several articles of freight on this line. 
It will give some definite idea of the vast busi 
ness of this great thoroughfare: 




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The table shows the stations on this road, and 
their distance from Chicago : 



Milea. 

ParkSMion 2 

Har!em 9 

Cottog* Hill 16 

^abcock's Grove 20 

Danby 22K 

Wheaton 25 

->Vinfie1d 27^ 

Junction 30 

Wayne 38 

Oiintonville 39 

^iRin 42 

Gilbert's 50 



Mile=. 

Huntley 55 

Union ..62 

Marengo 66 

Garden Prairie 72 

Belvidere 78 

Oherry Valley 8-1 

Rickford 92 

WinnebaK > 99 

Pe-atonica 106 

Nevada 114 

¥re?port 121 



The figures above given o.' course embrace, 
also, those of the Dixon Air Line, hereafter to 
be noticed. It is unnecessary to add rem-irks 
upon these figures. They furnish the best pos- 
sible index to the wealth and the resources of 
the magnificent country through which it runs. 
From Freeport passengers reach Galena and 
Dunleith by the Illinois Central. 

The first branch line west of Chicago, run- 
ning north from the Galena, is the 

Fox River Valley Railroad. 

13. W. Raymond, President. 

A. J. Waldron, Elgin, Secretary. 

M. C. Town, " Treasurer. 

G. H. Merrill, " Superintendent. 

This road extends from Elgin, on Fox River, 
north to Richmond, netir the State line, where 
it forms a connection with the Wisconsin Cen- 
tral. This latter road gives us a connection 
with Geneva, a fine growing town in Wiscon- 
sin. 

The names of the stations, with their distance 
from Elgin, are as follows : 



Miles. MilOF. 

Dundee 5 McHenry 5 

Alf?onqu>n 6 Itinawi'Od 4 

Crystal Lake 4 Richmond 7 

Nucda 3 Geneva 6 

We have no returns showing the business of 
the road. We think, however, it will be en- 
tirely safe to estimate them at $50,000. We 
should put them at a higher figure, did not we 
know that the road was blocked up by snow for 
several weeks during the last winter, ;ind some 
difficulty also occurred during the summer in 
running this road. 

The next road to be noticed as an extension of 
the above line is the 

AVisconsin Centrul Railway. 

Rcfus CnuNET, Jr., Whitewater, Wis., Presi- 
dent. 

Edwin Hodges, Elkhorn, Wis., Secretary. 

Edwin Hodges, " " Treasurer. 

Frederick J. Starin, Whitewater, Wis., Chief 
Engineer. 

This road is intended to run direct from Rich- 
mond near the Illinois State line, to Steven's 
Point on the Wise nsin River. It will pass 
through the heart of that State. Only six miles 
of the road, extending to Geneva, are in opera- 
tion. From Steven's Point we observe on the 
map before us two lines drawn, one directly 
north to Ontonagon, and one northwest to Su- 
perior. As it will be sometime before the road 
extends beyond Stevens' Point, we give its 
length as near as we can estimate to that city at 
150 miles. 

We notice next the 

Beloit Branch of the Galena and Chicago Union 
Railroad. 

This rjad runs from Belvidere, 78 miles west 
of Chicago, 20 miles northwest to the charming 
city of Beloit. Officers same as the Galena road. 
As an extension of this line we have the 
Beloit and Madison Railway. 

Hon. L. J. Farwkll, Madison, President. 

W. A. Ernst, " Secretary. 

Wm. M. Larrabbh, Chicago, Assistant Secre- 
tary and Treasurer. 

This road is completed and in operation from 
Beloit to Footville, 17 milea. The remaining SO 
miles it is intended to have done during the 
coming season. At Madison it will connect with 
the Milwaukee and Mississippi Road, running to 
Prairie du Chien. It will also be extended north 
to Portage City, and there it will connect with 
the La Crosse Railway, giving a choice of routes 
by these important thoroughfares to this city. 
The entire length of the line will be 85 miles. 

The next branch line is the 

Mineral I'oint Railway. 

Parley Eaton, Mineral Point, Wis., Pres't. 
Charles Temple, " " Sup't. 

William T. Henry, " " Sec'y. 

Francis Vivian, " " Treas. 

Chas. Temple, " " Ch.Eog 

This road was completed and put in operation 
to Darlington, seventeen miles from Warren, on 



54: 



the 17th of November last. It is nearly finished 
to Mineral Point, thirty-two miles, and will be 
opened as soon as the weather will permit. It 
will penetrate the heart of the lead region, and 
will be a most valu?ble auxiliary to the trade of 
the city. It is expected that it will be extended 
north to the Wisconsin River during the present 
year. The total length of the road to this point 
will be about fifty-six miles. It will doubtless 
be extended farther north, but we shall stop at 
the Wisconsin River. 

The nest road proposed in order is the 
Prairie du Chien and La Crosse Railway. 

S. D. Hastings, La Crosse, Secretary. 

J. M. Levy, " Treasurer. 

The name of this road indicates its location. 
It is pn jec'ed to run from Prairie du Chien, the 
terminus of the Milwaukee and Mississippi Rail- 
road, on the east back of the Mississippi, to La 
Crosse, "there to conned, with the Root River 
Valley and other roads running north and west. 
A charter has been procured and surveys made, 
but we are not informed as to the precise posi- 
tion of the road. It will doubtless ultimately be 
extended down the river to Dunleith, the termi- 
nus of the Illinois Central. Its length would 
be about 150 miles. 

A most important extension of the Galena and 
the Illinois Central roads is the 

Dubuque and Pacific Railway. 

J. P. Fabley, Dubuque, President. 

Platt Smith, " General Agent. 

H. P. Leech, " Secretary. 

C. H. Booth, " Treasurer. 

B. B. Provoost, " Chief Engineer. 

This road is one of those to which the State of 
Iowa has granted the lands appropriated by 
Congress for railroad purposes in the section of 
the State through which it runs. By this grant 
it receives 1,228,800 acres to aid in its construc- 
tion. This will secure its completion without 
unnecessary delay. It is to run from Dubuque 
to Sioux City on the Missour. and, with a branch 
to the mouth of Tetes des Morts, 10}£ miles long. 
The entire length of the line will be 330 miles. 
The road is to be opened to Dyersville (30 miles) 
on the 1st of March. The construction of this 
important thoroughfare will add largely io the 
business of the city, and will tend rapidly to de- 
velop the resources of the magnificent country 
through which it runs. 

There is a project for a road from Dubuque, or 
from some point on the line of this road west of 
Dubuque, northwest to the south bend of the 
Minnesota. It will unquestionably be built 
either from this road or the Iowa and Nebraska 
road hereafter to be noticed; but as the plans 
for its construction are not yet matured, we pass 
it by for the present. 

The next grand trunk road running out of Chi- 
cago is the 

Galena (Fulton) Air Line. 

Officers the same as the Galena road. It runs 
from the Junctiou nearly on an air liDe to Ful- 



ton on the Mississippi, and is one of our most 
important thoroughfares. Its earnings are in- 
cluded in those already given for the main line. 
The names of the stations on this road and their 
distance from Chicago are as follows*. 

Mi'es. Miles. 

Junstion 30 Ogle 83 

Geneva 35K Franklin 88 

Blackberry 44 Nachusa 93 

T,odi 50 Dixon 98 

Co-land 55 Sterling 110 

DeKalb 53 Como 113 

Malta ti4 Round Grove 119 

Dement 69K Morrison 124 

Lane 75 Fulton 136 

The banks of the Mississippi in the vicinity 
of Fulton afford a fine opportunity for bridging 
that river — an achievement which the necessi- 
ties of commerce will undoubtedly accomplish 
within a few year?. 

On the opposite side of the river there are 
two lines of road running near each other, both 
of which are aiming at the Missouri. We give 
the facts as furnished by the friends of each 
road, leaving to time to determine which will 
secure the supremacy. Although both may be 
built near each other west to the Cedar Valley, 
it is probable that beyond this point some com- 
promise will be effected, and only one line be 
built through to the Missouri. The most north- 
erly road is the 

Iowa Central Air Line Railway. 
S. S. Jones, St. Charles, 111., President. 
G. W. Bettesworth, Moquoketa, la., Sec'y- 
Jonas Clark, Maquoketa, Iowa, Treasurer. 
Geo. W. Waits, St. Charles, 111., Chief En- 
gineer. 

This road is to start from Sabula and Lyons, 
two points on the Mississippi, and uniting a few 
miles west of the river, proceed west to the Mis- 
souri River. The road from the Mississippi to 
Marion, Linn County, 96 miles, is ail under con- 
tract, and we are assured is beiog vigorously 
prosecuted, preparatory to the superstructure. 
The entire length of the road to the Missouri 
and branches will be about 350 miles. 

The following extracts from a circular from 
the President of the Company now before us, 
will (rive a definite idea of what its friends 
claim are the prospects of the road : 

This road is located through the richest and 
most densely settled part of Iowa. There is 
scarcely a section of waste land on the whole 
line. It is generally rich, gently undulating or 
rolling prairie, interspersed with fine groves of 
good timber, with fine streams at short inter- 
vals, and well supplied with beautiful sparkling 
springs of pure water, not excelled in any 
country. 

This Company, by their engineers, have al- 
ready made explorations in anticipation of an 
extension of their railroad into Nebraska, and 
fouud the country not only very similar to Iowa, 
but most eligible for an extension of this rail- 
road west on a line with the "South Pass" or 
middle route of the contemplated Pacific Rail- 
road. 

By act of Congress and the Legislature of the 
State of Iowa, this company is endowed with a 
munificent land grant, in alternate sections, for 



55 



six miles on each side o r ihe line for the whole 
length of the Railroad, from the Mississippi 
River to the Missouri River. 

This grant authorises the company to go a dis- 
tance of fifteen miles on each side of the track, to 
make up what would be equivalent to six miles 
on each side, where the lands have already been 
entered, or otherwise previously disposed of by 
government, thus giving the company a strip of 
band 30 miles wide clear across the State, to 
make their selections from. 

This company is now selecting their lands 
under the Land Grant. It is already certain 
that the Company will get S3S,4S0 acres of land, 
and it is confidently expected that that amount 
will be increased by lands where there is a con- 
flict of lines and titles with the Dubuque and Pa- 
cific Railrosd Company, and the Des Moines 
Navigation Company, to over one million of 
acres. These lands being generally of superior 
quality, will, when the Railroad is completed to 
the Missouri River, it is confidently believed, 
sell at an average sum of at least fifteen dollars 
per acre, taking the sales of the Illinois Central 
Railroad Company, as a criterion from which to 
judge. 

The other road to which we referred, is the 

Chicago, Iowa and Nebraska Railway. 

Chas. Walker, President. 

C. A. Lambaed, Clinton, Iowa, Sec. and Treas. 

Milo Smith, Clinton, Chief Engineer. 

The friends of this road claim for it an equal 
chance with the Iowa Central Air Line to reach 
the Missouri. We shall, however, in our list 
make it only eighty miles long/reaching to Ce- 
dar Rapids. It is proposed also, to extend it 
northwest up the rich valley of the Cedar River 
and across to the south bend of the Minnesota 
River, aDd thence to St. Paul, which will doubt- 
les be done at no distant day. 

The prospect for its early completion to Cedar 
Rapids is of the most flattering character. Thir- 
teen miles of track are already completed, and 
the road is ready for the superstructure the re- 
mainder of the distance from Clinton to De Witt. 
The company purchased the iron last season to 
complete the track to the latter place, but one 
cargo of it was caught by winter on Lake Hu- 
ron, which will, unless other arrangements are 
made by the officers of the company, delay the 
completion of the track to that place until after 
the opening of navigation in the spring. 

Beyond De Witt, the contractors are pushing 
fonvard the work on the various sections to 
Cedar Rapids with commendable energy. The 
first section west of De Witt is to be ready for 
the track by the first day of July next, and each 
of the three remaining sections on the first of the 
three following months respectively. This will 
complete the grading and bridging to Cedar 
Rapids by the first of October next, and we pre- 
sume the track will be completed and the road 
in operation from Clinton to Cedar Rapids, a dis- 
tance of eighty miles, by January, 1858. 

The company now have on the road two loco- 
motives, one passeDger car, one baggage car, ten 
box and eleven platform freight cars, besides the 
necessary construction equipment. The depot 



building at Clinton, 40 by 100 fest, and another 
at Low Moor, (the first station west of Clinton,) 
30 by 60 feet, are completed, while those forBro- 
phy's Creek and De Witt are framed ready for 
erection as soon as they are needed. 

The route of the Chicag), Iowa and Nebraska 
Railroad is one of the best in the West, whether 
regird be had to cheapness of grading or the 
productive capacity of the country through 
which it passes. David Dale Owen, the eminent 
geologist, has pronounced the valley of the Cedar 
River to be second to no other district in the 
United States for agricultural purposes. It is 
rapidly filling up with a hardy, intelligent <md 
industrious population, and by the time the road 
is completed, an immense business will pour in 
upon it. We hesitate not to give it as bur opin- 
ion ihat this road will in no respect fall behind 
the Galena and Chicago road in its dividends. 
It is conceded to be the best line of road in this 
respect in Iowa. 

The leading men in this enterprise are among 
the strongest capitalists of the country. The 
road has the entire confidence of the public, both 
in Iowa and abroad. It is but a little more than 
a year since the organization of the company. 
Twenty miles are nealy completed, and sixty 
more in a state of forwardness. Thi3 efficiency 
is unexampled in the history of railroad con 
struction. 

The next grand trunk line is the 

Chicago, Burlington and Qnincy Railroad. 

Jas. P. Jot, Detroit, President. 
C. G. Hammoxd, Chicago, Superintendent. 
Amos T. Hall, " Secretary and Treas 

Smith H. Mallort, Chicago, Engineer. 

This is one of the most important railways 
centering in Chicago. The country, now but 

partially developed, through which it runs, can- 
not be excelled on the American continent, as 

the following figures will show. The following 

table exhibits its 

MONTHLY RECEIPTS. 



Passer*. 
$24,«40.97 
, 21.730,00 
, 38,602.88 
. 41.701.74 
. 43,744,22 
, 41.485.19 
. 35,964.62 
. 38,250 15 
53.787.90 
61,366 23 
, 44,746.03 
. 39,689.38 



Freiaht.. 


MaHAMle 


. Total. 


$47,416.01 


$1,089,29 


$73,346.27 


32,264 91 


1,089,29 


55,084.20 


49,f50.57 


1,089.29 


89,242.74 


57,605.31 


2,077.46 


101.884.51 


71.759.17 


1,445.77 


116.949 16 


91,592.44 


1,208.26 


134.285.89 


107,999.81 


2,082.37 


146,046.80 


162,231.25 


1.311.45 


201,793.85 


174,707.41 


1,352.69 


229,848.00 


163,589 13 


1,439 11 


226.394.47 


98,532 88 


1,501.65 


144.780.56 


62,535 49 


5,649.29 


107,874.16 



January... 
February.. 

March 

Anril. ...... 

May 

June 

Ju'y 

August.... 
September. 
Octobsr.... 
November. 
December.. 

Total.. $485,909,31 $1,119,784.38 $21,335.92 $1,627,029.61 

The following figures show a movement of ten 

thousand passengers West more than returned, 

on this road alone. 

STATEMENT OF THROUGH ASD WAY PASSENGERS FOR 1S56. 

West. East 



January... 
February.. 

Mar;h 

Vori 

May 

Jane 

July 

Augu t 

September. 
October.... 
November. 
December . 



Thrn' 

1.168 
1,263 

2,950 

3.408 

3,054 

2,890 

. 1.836 

. 2,253 

, 3,615 

4,509 

, 2,810 

, 2,120 



Wav. 

6.101 
6.026 

K.272 
X.HI9 

'8,847 

7,980 
8,698 
8,013 
11.178 
10,733 
8,601 
8,282 



Total. 
7,269 
6,289 
11,222 
11.277 
11.901 
10,376 
lil.Vll 
10.266 
14.793 
16,283 
11.411 
10,402 



Thro' 


Wav. 


Tot a'. 


1,232 


6.148 


7.380 


1.142 


5,117 


6.259 


L,68S 


7,9(« 


9.671 


1.629 


7 761 


9.890 


3,135 


-.048 


10.K! 


2.773 


7.914 


10.6-7 


1,929 


\vM 


10,703 


2,121 


7,879 


Iil.iiiiu 


2.--M 


9.661 


12.660 


8,188 


8 932 




2.278 


8,126 


10,403 


2,541 


8.537 


11,078 


25,492 95.940 


121.431 


ked in 


1856... 


.105,124 



Total. ...31,433 100,540 131,973 
Number of pif ces of Bafr*aj?e checked in 1856. 

Business men will study the following table 
with much interest. It is a 



56 



ETATEME5T OF FREIGHT TBANSPOR'ED IN 

East. 

.116,417 
31.609 
53,126 

361,800 
42,000 



'Pounds 
Articles. West. 

Lumber, feet.. 69.139,263 206,301,372 



180 115 

45,216 

2 393 



Lath, bund's 
Shingles, M... 
Posts, cords... 
Hoop poles do. 
Sh'gle Bolts do 19 

Wag"n fels do 6 

do hubs sets. 300 
do spokes do 18.J69 

TUUies do 1,604 

Staves, cords. 192 

Timber, reel... 30,250 

Wagons 215 

Locomotives... 10 

'Fenders, extra. 4 

fiars 253 

flasks oil 38 

Cement, bbls.. 1.919 

J.ime, do 8 6823^ 

Salt, do '20,989 

Lard, do 8,429 

Liquor, do 8,245K 

Flour, dn 74150 

Wheat, bu.... 2.051.860 

Com. bu 2,769,272 

Oats, bu 467,450 



Rye, bu. 
Barley, bu... 
G. seeds, bu. . 
'<• lax seeds, bu 
Potatoes, bu. 
Horses. No... 
Cattle, No.... 
Sheep, No.... 
Live Hogs.No 

Sundries, 

Iron 

Co«l 

Stone 

Slate 

Brick 

Marble 

Hides 

Wool 

Mill stuffs.... 

Butter 

Pork 

Ice 

Provisions... 

Sand 

Powder and) 
Matches. ...5 
Machinery.,. 

Spikes 

Stone ware.. 

Stoves ,. 

Broom corn. 
Pruit bbls... 
Empty bbls.. 



5.732 

14,461 

21,937 

57 

19,434 

766 

8.868 

3,746 

240,148 



8,974,150 

11,250,875 

6 820.500 

3^,000 

57,000 

24,900 

15,000 

92,345 

160,400 

552,000 

258,"o'6d 

368.000 

40.000 

1,520,00.) 2. 

19,000 

671,650 

2.170,625 

62,967 000 

6 626 2 

280,480 2 

501,33-5 15 

1,425,542 121 

25,823 155 

236,315 14 

149*212 

11,730 

88,773 1 
577,000 
253,000 8 
4,600 



k305 

£.789 



70,678,588 

9,781,896 

16,115,553 

5,546,513 

14,000 

459,125 

19.000 

6.594 

7,512 

253,756 

24,463 

15,713 

60,000 

62,617 

78,300 

66,201 

24,000 

41,200 

437 275 

20,360 



24,000 
90,750 

92,000 

528,666 

649.500 
187,813 

518.756 
,358,080 
,515,06* 
,686,059 
0n3.438 
,722 087 
321,021 
514,888 
975,419 
3,195 
,077,223 
189,000 
615,000 
220.260 
,431,080 
,124,148 
186,192 
99S.418 
a,535,S86 

1,69*7.111 



50, 



11 



18 



915,604 
308,716 
,429,856 
376,373 
,961,976 

2,392,12<> 

903,750 



45,750 

,289,450 



200,180 
816,742 



61,350 



1856. 

Total 

Pounds. 

207,417,789 

9,005,750 

11.304,000 

7,182,000 

75,000 

57,000 

24.000 

15 000 

92 345 

160.100 

£7(5,000 

'J0.730 

258,000 

460.000 

40,000 

4.048 000 

19.000 

1,?21.1"0 

2.357.938 

62.967.000 

2,525.376 

2,638,560 

16,016 400 

123,111,601 

155,079,261 

14,958,403 

321,021 

694.100 

987,149 

3,195 

1,165,996 

766,000 

8.868,000 

224,760 

50.431.0S0 

78.802,736 

9,968,087 

28,113,971 

8.082.399 

14,000 

2,156,236 

Ift.O'iO 

922,198 

316,218 

3,683 612 

400,836 

18.977.6S9 

60 000 

2,4 "4.737 

982,050 

66,201 

24,000 
41.200 

437,275 
220.540 
816.742 
45.750 
350 800 



409 903,119 432,215,191 842,118,310 
1 j The following are the names of the towns and 
stations along the line of this road with their 
distances from Chicago. It will be observed 
that this road uses the track of the Galena Com- 
pany to the Junction, thirty miles west of Chi- 
cago. Arrangements will doubtless ere long be 
made to run in on a separate line. 

Miles, 

Park Station 

Harlem 9 



Cottage Hill 16 

Babnock's Grove 20 

Danby 22 J i 

Wheaton 25 

Wiofleld 27}| 

Junction 30 

Batavia 36 

Aurora 43 

West Aurora 44 

Oswego 47 

Bristol 51 

Piano 67 

Sandwich 61 

Somonauk 64 

Waverly 71 

Ear! 77 



Miles. 

Mtndcta 88 

Arlington 97 

Dover 104 

Princeton 109 

Wy&net 116 

rtuda 122 

Neconset 128 

Kewao ee 136 

Galva 144 

Allona 152 

Oneida Post Office.... 

Wataga 162 

Galesburg 168 

• 'ameron 177 

Monmouth 184 

Young America 191 

Oquawka Junction ..202 



East Burlington 210 

This road has very important extensions aDd 
connections, and first in order we notice the 

Burlington and Missouri Railway. 
W. F. Coolbaugij, Burlington, Iowa, Pres't. 
Wm. H. Backus, " " Sup't. 

Oliter Lock, " " Sec'y. 

J. G. Foot, " " Treas. 

H. Theilsok, " Chief Engiu'r. 

This is oDe of the roads to assist in the con- 



struction of which Congress granted alternate 
sections of land along its line. It is in the hands 
of able and most enterprising men, who have 
both the energy and the means to puib. it for- 
ward rapidly toward completion. It is now fin- 
ished and in operation to Mt. Pleasant, thirty 
miles west of Burlington. Seven miles more 
wil be opened a3 soon as possible after spring 
opens. It is under contract, and if we mis- 
take not is to be completed to Ottumwa, on the 
Des Moines River, during the coming summer. 
It runs nearly due west through the second tier 
of counties north of the south line of Iowa— a 
region of country which for beauty, salubrity of 
climate and richness of soil, has no superior in 
the Mississippi valley. It points directly at the 
mouth of the Platte River, and is sure to be one 
of the greatest thoroughfares of the Mississippi 
valley. It is in the hands of a company who 
have both the will and the means to complete it 
at an early day. 

An important line connecting with the Chica- 
go, Burlington and Quincy;road is the 

Northern Cross Railway. 

N. Bushxell, Quincy, President. 

W. G. Bullions, " Superintendent. 

John C. Cox, " Secretary. 

" Treasurer. 

The name of this road is not at all significant 
of its location. It connects with the BurliDgton 
and Quincy road at Galesburg, 163 miles from 
Chicago, and runs thence to Quincy on the Mis- 
sissippi River 100 miles. It passes through one 
of the finest sections of the State and cannot fail 
to do f* large business. It was opened in Feb- 
ruary for passenger traffic, but the figures fur- 
nished us commence with July. It must be 
remembered that this is a new road and conse- 
quently that its business wiil increase very ra- 
pidly. For the last six months of the year we 
have the following: 

MONTHLY RECEIPTS. 

Pas«'»rs. Treieht. Mail * Mis. Tot* 1 , 

July $10,678.53 $11,958.35 $1,034.79 $23,671.67 

August 10.665.42 25.037 43 1.052 83 36,755,68 

September.. 12,954 67 25,621.17 1,725.30 40,301.14 

October 15,262.37 27,966,44 1,117 09 44,346.90 

No'tmber.. 11.815.46 22,96155 1,133.75 35.610 76 

December.. 12 748.90 20,33318 1,155 56 34,237.64 

Total.... $74,125 35 $133 57812 $7,219 32 $215,222.79 
We are furnished with the following table 
showing the 

MOVEMENT OF PASSENGERS. 

Korth. South. 

Thro'. W»v. Total. Thro'. Wav. Total. 

July 276 5.262 5,538 483 4.962 5.445 

august 292 5.455 5,747 448 6,383 6,831 

September.... 445 5,929 6.374 602 6,345 6,947 

Octcber 652 7,456 8.108 563 6,059 6,622 

November.... 706 5,091 5.797 468 5.206 5,674 

December.... 524 5,722 6,246 703 6,339 7,042 

Total'.... 2i895 ' 34,915 37.810 SMI il294 37,561 
As our object in obtaining the movement of 
passengers was to show as near as possible how 
many more people the west actually received 
than it seut back east, and as this is a connect- 
ing line with the Chicago Burlington and Quin- 



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Miles. 

Saiuda 5 

Abingdon in 

St AugueMne 16 

AVTO.. 20 

Prarie Ci'y 23 

t-'u^hreli 

Bjrdo'oh 33 

M»c"mb 41 

Colchester 47 

Tennessee 49 



cy, and *hey may be included in those of that 

road, we omit them in our final table. 

The following table shows the names of the 

stations on this road with their distances from 

Galesburg. 

Mil.*. 

<"!olmar 55 

Plymouth...'. 59 

Aurus a 63 

l.aPr?. ; Me Ti » 

Damp 1'Mn 78 

Coatsbur*;... 83 

Pa-^^a 87 

Fowler 89 

Priola 91 

Qu ; ncy WO 

Quincy is one of the most beautiful and pros- 
perous cities in the State, and its connection 
with Chicago will be mutually and largely bene- 
ficial to both. 

An important extension of this road is the 
Hannibal and St. Joseph Railway. 

Robert M. Stewart, St. Joseph, Mo., Pres't. 

J. D. Dowling, " " Secretary 

and Treasurer. 

Josiah Huxt, St. Joseph, Mo,, Chief Engineer, 

This road is to run from Hannibal, on the 
Mississippi, to St. Joseph, on the Missouri 
River. Thirty miles of the road are already 
finished and in operation, and by the first of 
October it is thought thirty-five more will be 
opened. It will give us a direct connection by 
railway with Kansas, and will be a most impor- 
tant road to that State as well as Missouri and 
to our own city. A reliable correspondent 
speaks in glowing terms of the fertility of the 
soil :.nd the beauty of the country through 
which it passes, and adds : 

"It only requires the muscle and the will to 
develop the latent wealth of Northern Missouri 
and make it the richest section of the West. 
Emigrants from Kentucky and Virginia, with 
at least an equal number from the Northern 
States, are coming in rapidty. The steam 
whistle has broken the slumbers of some of the 
old fogies, who are just now in a brown-study 
whether it is best to sell out to a new-comer 
and go to Kansas, or to make an effort to keep 
pace with the improvements going on around 
them. One way or the other they must "Clear 
the track." 

The resources of the Company for buildir g 
and equipping the road are ample. They have 
a reliable stick subscription of two million 
dollars, three million of State bonds, and six 
hundred thousand acres of superior lands, with 
which to budd a road of 206 miles. When 
completed and equipped, without ballast, it will 
cost about £30,000 dollars per mile. 

The full amount of money requined has been 
secured, and the time of completion will be 
determined by the labor that can be brought to 
bear upon it. Judging from the past season, 
it is not pr>bable the road will be opened to St. 
Joseph before the close of 1853." 

Again we return from our long journey to the 
Missouri River to Chicago and notice the next 
grand trunk line leaving the city. It will be 
noticed, however, that these roads cross each 
other at Pond Creek, and the most important 
extensions and branches of the Ro :k Island road 
lie north of those of the Chicago, Burlington and 
Quincy. Next we have the 



Chicago and Bock Island Railway. 

Henrt Farnam, President. 

John F. Tracy, Superintendent. 

F. H. Tows, New York, Secretary. 

A. C. Flagg, " Treasurer. 

. The history of this road has been fully present- 
ed in former articles. It is now our more pleas- 
ing duty to show by the figures of its business 
that it is fully mteting the expectations of its 
most ardent friends. The following table shows 



us 



January... 
February., 

March 

April 

May 

June 

July 

August .... 
September, 
October.... 
November, 
Dec. (est).. 



MOSinrLT .RECEIPTS. 



Passe' 1 srers 

.$ 38,130 53 

. 33,18-2.06 

. 57,575 30 

. 76,033.55 

. 82,970 17 

. 74,637 09 

. 64,635 19 

. 03,001 41 

. 86,514.23 

. 93,293.20 

. 70 S05.17 

. 57,260 61 



Fr«0pbt. Mail 
«35,857 901 

30.01 1 62 I 

38,77'! 79 

50.007,07 I 

63.885 38 I 

66866 031 

90.682 54 f 
121,759.34 
136,694 96 
142 652.10 

89,374.40 

i 0,36t39j 



$21,200 



Total. 
$ 73,688.43 

96,352.09 
131,710.6a 
146,855.55 
141,003.22 

155,317 73 
185.420.75 
223.209.29 
235,945 30 
160,179.73 
117,624.91 



Total.. ..$798,699.11 $931,805,49 521,200 1751,704.60 
The following table shows the 

M07EME3T OF PASSKHGEKS. 

West. East. 

TntaK 
9,816* 
9,306* 
12,436* 
12,839 
14,802 
15,360* 
14,786 
13,966 
18,472 
17,893 
14,974}* 
14.803 





Tnro'. 


Way. 


Total. 


Tbro*. 


Way. 


Jan.. 


..2,074* 


7,202 


10,176* 


1,706* 


7,610 


Fei.. 


..2.824* 


6,840 


9,664* 


1,700* 


7,606 


Mar.. 


14,188 


10,146 


14,334 


2,270* 


10,106 


Aprii 


. .5,660 


13,712 


19,372 


2,344 


10.495 


May. 


..5.212 


15,649 


20,861 


1,234 


13,568 


June 


..5,160* 


12.918 


18,078* 


3,724* 


11,636 


July. 


..3,453 


14,994 


18.447 


2,030 


12,156 


Aug.. 


. .2,822 * 


15,290 


18,112* 


2,719 


11.247 


Sept. 


..5,232* 


16.129 


22,361* 


3,219 


15,250 


Oct.. 


..5,374* 


17,740 


23,114* 


3,540 


14,352 


Nov. 


..3,946 


14,638 


18,584 


2,817* 


12,157 


Dec. 


..2,130* 


11,920* 


14.051 


2,533* 


12,329* 



48,978* 157,178* 206,157 30,439 138,575* 169,014* 

The following are the names of the towns and 

stations on this road, with their distances from 

Chicago : 

Miles. 

Junction 6* 

Biue Island 15* 

Isrunen 23* 

Mokena 29* 

Jo'.iet 40* 

Minooka 51 

Morris 61 3£ 

Seneca 72 

Marseilles 76j¥ 

Ottawa 84* 

Ctici 94 

La Salle 98* 



Miles. 

Peru 100 

Trenton 109& 

Bureau 114 

Tisiilwa 122 

PondUreek 128* 

Sheffield 136* 

Annawan 145* 

Atkinson lol 

Meneseo 159 

Colona 109 

Molme 179* 

Rjck Island ...Wl* 

We have heretofore spoken at length of the 

splendid bridge spanning the Mississippi at Rock 

Island, which connects this road with the 

Mississippi and Missouri Railway. 

Gen. Jonx A. Dix, New York, President. 

E. Cook, Davenport, Vice President. 

Hiram Price, " Secretary. 

Hon. A. C. Flagg, New York, Treasurer. 

B. Bratton, Davenport, Chief Engineer. 

Addison Day, " Superintendent. 

This road consists of three divisions. The 
first extends from Davenport on the Mississippi 
to Council Bluffs on the Missouri, a distance of 
about 300 milis. Of this distance 55 miles to 
Iowa City are completed and in operation. The 
entire line is surveyed and located, and prepa- 
rations are being made to commence vigorous 
operations ia the spring. It is intended to have 



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the road completed to Fort Des Moines, 120 
miles from Iowa City, in two years. It is ex- 
pected that Council Bluffs will be reached in 
about five years. 

This road also participates in the grant of 
lands made by Congress to Iowa to assist in 
completing her main east and west lines of rail- 
way. By this grant, it receives nearly half a 
million of acres. It is in the hands of wealthy 
capitalists and mo.t enterprising, energetic men, 
and we regard its completion by or before the 
time specified as placed beyond any contin- 
gency. 

The names of the stations ou this road wilh 

their distances from Davenport, are as follows : 

Miles. Miles. 

Side Track 3 Mo?cow 28& 

Walcot 12£ Atalissa 33£ 

Fulton 17 West Liberty 39 

Durant 19& Downey 44 !4 

Muscatine Junction... 25 % Iowa City 64>$ 

Muscatine 38 

The second division 1 extends from Mnscatine 
to Oskaloos3, about 100 miles from Muscatine. 
Hertofore we spoke of this road as to run to the 
Missouri, but as it will not be extended beyond 
Oskaloosa for sjme time to come, we now rest 
our description there. Twenty miles of this 
road are nearly completed and will be opened 
for business early in the spring. Twenty more 
to Washington will be completed during the 
coming summer, and the balance within two 
years. 

The third division of this road is to run from 
Muscatine north west to Cedar rapids, a distance 
of about 50 miles. Thirteen miles ot this road, 
from Muscatine to the Junction with the first 
division, are completed and in operation. 

There are several north and south roads pro- 
jected in Iowa; but as these do not come within 
the plan of this article we omit them. We have 
now completed the description of the roads in 
Iowa, and return to Illinois, to notice an impor- 
tant feeder of the Rock Island, the 

Peoria and Bureau Valley Railway. 

Hon. N. B. Judd, Chicago, President. 

John F. Tracy, " Superintendent. 

W. Cockle, Peoria, Secretary. 

Charles W. Durant, N Y., Treasurer. 

This road is leased by the Rock Island Com- 
pany and Is run in connection with that road. 
The rent is $125,000 per annum, yielding eight 
per cent, to the stockholders. It extends from 
Bureau station, 144 miles from Chicago to Pe- 
oria, a distance of 47 miles. 

The following are the names of the stations 

with their distance from Chicago : 

Miles. Miles. 

Snachwine 122 Rome 145K 

Henry 127 Mos sville 151 

Lacon 134!^ Peoria 100 % 

Chillicothe 142>i 

As an extension of this road we notice the 

Peoria and Hannibal Railway. 

Myron Phelps, Letviston, 111., President. 
F. J. Porter, CantoD, Secretary. 
George Phelps, Lewiston, Treasurer. 

Wm. G. Wheaton, Peoria, Chief Engineer. 

This road is to run from Peoria on the Illinois 
River to Hannibal on the Mississippi, 129 miles, 
connecting there with the Hannibal and St Jos- 
eph Railwaj. It will pass through a rich and 



well settled country universally admitted to be 

one of the best in the State. Stock subscriptions 

of $481,000 have been made to the road, and its 

friends are confident of success. It is a road in 

which our own citizens as well as the people 

along its line can well afford to take a deep in- 
terest. 

Next we notice the 

Peoria and Oquawka Railway. 

We are sorry that the officers of this road have 
failed to furnish us accurate data with reference 
to its condition and prospects. The west end of 
the line from Galesburgh to Burlington was 
completed some time since by the Chicago, Bur- 
lington and Quincy Railroad. From Galesburg 
east through Peoria to the junction of the Chi- 
cago, Alton and St. Louis Road, it is now all 
completed and in operation. It forms with that 
road another and a very direct route between 
Peoria and Chicago. Its length between these 
points is about 143 miles. 

The next main trunk line leading out of Chi- 
cago is the 

Chicago, Alton and St. Louis Railway. 

Ex-Gov. J. A. Matteson, Springtield, Presi- 
dent. 
A. H. Moore, Bloomington, Superintendent. 

L. Darling, Chicago, General Agent. 

This road has been in a transition state for 
the past year. Owing to the pecuniary embar- 
rassments of Mr. Dwight, the principal owner 
of the road, in the early stage of its construction 
it has suffered considerably, but, within the past 
few months it has passed into the hands of a 
new company with Ex-Gov. J. A. Matteson at 
its head ; and the public will confidently expect 
that now it will be conducted with energy and 
ability. For the above or some other reason we 
are not furnished with its figures for the past 
year. It has been doing a large and increasing 
business, however, and from conversations with 
those who are intimately acquainted with its 
affairs, we think it entirely safe to estimate its 
receipts at $1,000,000. It forms nearly an air 
line to St. Louis, and runs through one of the 
very finest parts of the State. 

The following table exhibits the names of the 

stations on this road with their distances from 

Chicago: 

Miles. 

Chicago 

Joliet 40 

Ellwood 48 

Wi'miDgton 55 

Stewards Grove 61 

Gardner 66 

Dwight 74 

Odell 82 

Livingston 88 

Pontiac 93 

Rook Creek.. 98 

Peoria Junction Iii4 

Lexington Ill 

To wanda 119 

I. C. R. R. Junction 126 

Bloomingi.on 128 

Funk's Grove 139 

McLean 144 

Atlanta 149 

Lawn Dale 1?3 

Lincoln 159 



Miles. 

Broadwell 165 

Elkhart 170 

WlUiamsville 176 

Sangamon 183 

gprngfield 188 

G. W. R. R. Junction. 19 > 

Woodsida 194 

Chatham 198 

Auburn 204 

Virden 210 

Girard 214 

Nilwood 217 

Carlinville 226 

Mac supiu 232 

Plainy iew v37 

Phipman 241 

Providence 246 

Brighton 249 

Mosticello 256 

Alton 260 

St. Louis 283 



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The next grand trunk line is the 

Illinois Central Railway. 

W. H. Osborn, President. 
Jas. C. Clarke, Master of Transportation. 
W. K. Ackerman, New York, Secretary. 
J. N. Perkins, " Treasurer. 

G. B. McClellan, Chief Engineer. 

In former articles we have dwelt at length on 
the magnitude and the history of this road, con- 
ceded on all hands to be one of the grandest en- 
terprises of the age. It extends from Dunleith 
through the heart of the State to Cairo, at the 
mouth of the Ohio. From Centralia, 112 miles 
north of Cairo, the Chicago branch connects our 
city with Cairo. The total length of the road is 
704 miles. 

Our readers know that a munificent grant of 
lands was made by Congress to aid in the con- 
struction of this road. For the following state- 
ment of the total amount, and the sales of th>t 
land, our readers are indebted to Hon. John 
Wilson, Land Commissioner of the Company: 



LANDS— NCMBKB OF AOBES. 

f) ranted. Sold. 

Construction 2,000,000 559,136.09 

Interest Fund 250,000 153,300.91 

Free 45.000 152,774.01 

Total 2,595,000 565,211,01 

Add sold 



Aggregate of grant. 



On hand. 

1,440,803 91 

96,099,09 

192,225.99 

1,729.78899 
865.211 01 

2,595,000 00 



BICEtVKD FOR LANDS IN 1856. 

Notes leceived for construction lands... $3,281,375.83 

do Interest Fund do ... 27»,009.48 

do Free do ... 1,168,071.85 

do Town lots to intst. fund 23,183.90 



Total of notes $4,746,640 06 

CASH RECEIVED ON 

Construction lands $ 9,288.52 

Advance interest on do 184,297,91 

Interest fur d Lands 76 088.62 

Advance interest on do 8,420.07 

On Free Lands 9,329.10 

Advance interest on do 64,609 85 

On Town Lots 14,709.85 

Advance interest on do 1,266.56 



Aggregate of notes and cath... 
Add agg. r.f receipts prior to '56, 
Total ot all tr> January 1, 1857.. 



Total of Cash 368,010.52 

♦5,114,650,58 

5,593.577.83 

*10,713,228,4l 

It will be seen that only a very small fraction 
over one-third of the lands have been sold; and 
if those on hand will average the value of those 
that have been sold, the receipts of the Compa- 
ny from lands will alone exceed $30,000,000. The 
country along the line of the road is surpassing- 
ly rich and beautiful, and is settling very rapid- 
ly with a highly intelligent population; and it is 
universally conceded that this Company must 
realize one of the most gigantic speculations of 
the age. 

The following table shows the 

MONTHLY RB0EIPT8. 

Pas*eneer?. Freight. 

January $59,387 50 $63.221157 

February '50,369,66 60,844.67 

March 65.18*13 62,848 05 

April 89,379 85 83,370.24 

May 96,15136 88,426.57 

June 99,326.43 79,077.21 

July 99,453.43 85.873.67 

August 96.448.34 137,030,85 

Seotemb.T 123,017.06 148,<'3042 

0:tober 135.749.92 152,396.08 

November 1(19.354 62 121648 59 

December 82,670.87 72,198.43 

Ex. baggage for '56. 5,9u3.68 



Mail & Mis. 

$12,533 53 
10,771.53 
13.667 25 
15,193.49 
16.04 1.55 
21.487.10 
20,207 64 
19,638,66 

[21,857.25 
17,599 24 
15.379.73 
17,795.55 



$1,112,101,78 $1,154,964.37 $202,167.52 



Total $2,409,533.67 



? The annexed table shows the total movement 
of passengers. "We are glad to be able to give 
it as it is, and hope hereafter that the different 
directions they go will be specified. It will be 
observed that the month of October shows a 
greater movement, by nearly ten thousand than 
any other month. 

MOVEMENT CF PA33KNQgBS— TOTAL NO. NORTHLAND SOOTH. 

January 35,055* July 153,977 

February 29,206* August 57 821* 

March 42,007 * September 68.676* 

April 59.888 October 79,106 

May 62,337>i November 56,9:33 

June 58,291 December 43,449* 

Total 651,749"* 

The following are the names of the stations on 
the Chicago Branch, and on the main line be- 
low Centralia, with their distances from Cairo 
north. 



Mil". 

Chicago 379M 

Engine Home - 

Cattle Track 

ILvdePark H 

Calumet 365* 

Thornton 355 X 

Ma'teson 351* 

R'chton 350* 

Monee 344V 

Peotone 338V 

Manteno 332* 

KankaK.ee 333V 

Chebanse 314* 

Ashium 305V 

Onarga 292* 

Spring Creek 290V 

L-)da 3792 

Pera 270* 

Rantoul 2H4V 

Urbana 250* 

Tolono 241* 

Pesotum 224* 

Okaw 209 

Mattoon 194>£ 

The following table shows the names of the 
stations on the main line, with their distances 
from Cairo north. 



Miles. 

NTeoga 183 

Effingham 168 

Edgewood 152 

Farna 142 

Kimraunday 136 

Tonti 126 

OdiD 120 

Centra ia 112}£ 

Richview 102 

Ashley 98* 

Coloma , 91* 

Tamaroa 85* 

Du Quoin 70>$ 

DeSoto 63 

Carbondale 56V 

Makanda 48V 

Jonesboro 36* 

Wetaug 24* 

Ullin 20* 

Pulaski 15V 

Villa Ridge 11 V 

Mounds S ■ 

Cairo 



Miles. 

Ontralia 112* 

Svndoval 118* 

Patoka 128 

i-hcbonier 136 

Vandalia 142* 

Ramsey 155 

Oconee 165 

Pana 172 

Tacusa 181 * 

Moawequa 189 

Macon 194V 

Decatur 204V 

Maroa 217V 

Ciiato i 226 

Wapflla 230,* 

Kej worih 

Rloomington 237 

Hudson 248 

Kaopa 257 

Junction 201V 

Panola 269* 

Minonk 277 V 

Wenona 287 V 



Miles. 

Tonica 298V 

La Salle 307V 

Homer 315V 

Mendota 323* 

Sublette 332 

Amboy 339* 

Dixon .351* 

Woosung 358* 

Polo 364V 

Ha'dane 

Forrrston 374* 

Freeport 387 

E.eroy 395 

■>ena 399* 

Nora 407* 

Warren 411 

Apple River 417 

Scales Mound 425* 

Council Hill 430* 

Galena 437* 

Menominee 44;>V 

Dunleith 454* 



With any recent map of Illinois before him 

the reader will see that this road is properly 
named the "Illinois Central," as it passes 
entirely through our noble State. Its future 
cannot fail to be alike profitable to the stock- 
holders, and in the highest degree beneficial to 
our State. 
The next trunk line is the 

Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway. 

Geo. W. Cass, Pittsburgh, President. 
J. H. Edgerton, " Vice President. 

T. D. Mbsslkr, " Secretary. 

Jas. II. Moore, " Superintendent. 

Geo. Darsie, " Treasurer. 

D. W. Boss, Chicago, General Agent. 



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Within the last year the different roads be- 
tween this city and Pittsburgh have been con- 
solidated, and it now forms one continuous line 
to that city. The ruad is completed from Pitts- 
burgh west to Plymouth, Indiana, 3S3 miles. 
From Plymouth to Chicago, eighty-two miles, 
the road is all under contract, and a consider- 
able portion of the grading is already d >ne. It 
is all to be completed during the coming season. 
We learn that contracts have just been made 
for twenty first-class engines, fifty two passen- 
ger and 9even hundred freight cars, with a num- 
ber of baggage cars to provide for the increased 
business of the road as soon as completed. 

For the present and till its own line is fin- 
ished this company has running arrange- 
ments with the Michigan Southern Railroad to 
La Porte and the Cincinnati, Peru and Chicago 
to Plymouth, so that we now have a direct line 
to Pittsburgh, and by the Pennsylvania Central 
to all the Eastern cities. The distance to Pitts- 
burgh by this line is 465 miles. This will form 
one of our most direct and important thorough- 
fares to the Atlantic seaboard. 

The next great Eastern line is (&£ 

Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana 
Railway. 

Hon. John Wilkinson, Syracuse, N. T., 
President. 

Sam Brown, Adrian, Mich., Superintendent. 

E. H. Hopkins, New York, Secretary. 

E. C. Litchfield, " Treasurer. 

Geo. M. Gray, Chicago, General Agent. 

This is one of our great Eastern thorough- 
fares, and one of our most successful western 
railway lines. The bridge at Toledo was com- 
pleted more than a year since, giving us, with 
the Lake Shore lines and others further east, 
unbroken connection by rail with all the Atlan- 
tic seaboard. 

We exceedingly regret thai the figures show- 
ing the business of this road have not been 
furnished us. We have already delayed publica- 
tion of this article several days with the hope 
of getting them, but up to the hour of going to 
press they had not reached our office. Of course 
our aggregates of figures are not strictly ac- 
curate; but well informed business men will 
agree with us that they are below rather 'han 
above the true amount. 

In our estimate therefore for its receipts we 
add twenty per cent, for increase over 1S55, giv- 
ing us $3,114,756.06. The public are well aware 
that the business of tois line was large, and we 
have full confidence that our estimate, corres- 
ponding mainly with the ratio of increase of 
other roads, will not vary materially from the ac- 
tual figures. 

As to the movement of passengers we are 
much more at a loss. At the hazard of incur- 
ring the displeasure both of the officers of this 
line and the Central we shall call them equal. 



We presume in the absence of the actual figures 
each would claim the supremacy. They will be 
found in the general table on thi9 subject. 

The following table shows the names of the 
stations on this road, with their distances from 
Toledo west: 



Miles, 

Toledo 

Air Line Junction 3 

Sylvasia 10 

Wood Station 19 

Kr.ight* 20 

Hlie:fie:d 23 

Pa'myra 27 

Adrian 82 

Ciavton 43 

Hudson 49 

1'ittsford 55 

Osseo 60 

Hillcdale (55 

Jonesville 70 

Aliens 77 

Qaincy 81 

Oo'dwater 88 

Bronson S3 

BurrOak 105 



Miles. 

Sturgis 112 

White Pigeon 123 

Midd'ebury 188 

Bristol 134 

Elkhart 142 

Mishawaka 153 

Boir.h Bend 157 

Terre Couple 169 

New Carlisle 170 

Rilling Prairie 177 

Liporte 184 

Holmesville 193 

Ca'.umet 202 

Bailey Town 206 

Millers 213 

fine Station 220 

Ainsworth 231 

Chicago Junction 237 

Chicago 243 



As a Branch of the Michigan Southern we no- 
tice the 

Cincinnati, Peru and Chicago Railway. 

W. J. Walker, Laporte, Indiana, President. 

N. Kendall, " " Sup't. 

This road is intended to connect several im- 
portant lines at Peru, Indiana, with the Mich- 
igan Southern at Laporte, and the Pittsburg 
road at Plymouth. It now forms a part of the 
line to Pittsburg as above stated. Its length 
between Peru and Laporte will be about se- 
venty miles. The distance now completed and 
in operation is twenty-eight miles. 

The next grand Eastern Trunk Line is the 

Michigan Central Railway. 
J. W. Brooks, Boston, President. 
R. N. Rice, Detroit, Superintendent. 
W. B. Fowls, Boston, Secretary. 
Isaac Livermore, Boston, Treasurer. 
J. M. Berrien, Detroit, Chief Engineer. 
The earnings of this road for the past year 
are as follows : 



MONTHLY receipts. 





Passen'rs. 


Freight. 




..$ 63,190.59 


$86,973.46 




65,168.76 


52,642.37 


March. 


.. 94,554.93 


89,876.60 


April .. 


.. 147,430.99 


125,837.32 


May... 


. 162,170.76 


140,453.69 




. 155,799.91 


104,764.25 




.. 139,596.68 


80,289.45 


August. 


.. 146.826 57 


112,021.45 




.. 197,471.16 


166,448 34 




.. 215,934,04 


185,254.76 


Nov 


.. 138,698.46 


174,951.46 


Dee.... 


95,989 85 


112,569.94 



Mail * Mis. 

$6,785.58 
6 724.75 
7,273.74 
7,538.70 
9,193.77 
6,833.96 
6,815.04 

i 6,801.87 
7,992.72 
3,273.31 
7,644 19 
7,255.68 



Total. 

$156,954.63 
114,535.83 
191,705.27 
280,807.01 
311,818.22 
207,398.12 
226,701.17 
265,649 89 
371,912.22 
403,562.11 
321,294.11 
215,815,47 



Total ..$1,611,932.70 $1,432,088 09 $84,133 31 $3,128,154.10 
The following table shows the movement of 
passengers. It will be seen, as in the case of 
the Illinois Central and some others, that Octo- 
ber is the month when "people travel." Sep- 
tember has the preference in a few of the roads : 
movement of passengers. 
West. East. 



Jan.... 
Feb ... 

March 

April. 

May.. 

June.. 

July.. 

Ausr... 

Sept. 

Oct... 

Nov., 

Dec 



■I hro'. 

2.583* 

2 717 

6,207 
12,721 
13,345 
11,617* 
W,425X 
11.061 
14,759 
17.326* 
,10,253 
. 4,645* 



W*y. 

11,819* 

10,191 * 

15,947* 

19,980 '-j 

18,265* 

17,113 

18,231 

19,143 

23,163 

28,391 

23,458* 

14,505 



Total. 

14,403 

12.908* 

22,154* 

32.701* 

31,610* 

28.730* 

23,656* 

30,204 

37,922 

45,627* 

28,711* 

19,150* 



Thro'. 


Way. 


To' si. 


2.139 


11,193* 


13,332* 


1.825* 


9,877* 


11,702* 


2 697 


13,767* 


16,464* 


3,813 


14.920* 


IS, 733* 


6,592 


15,203 


20.795 


7 607 


17.200 


24,807 


6.968 


17,752 


24.720 


6,897* 


17,234* 


24,130 


8.187 


20,220* 


£8,407* 


7.932 


25,197* 


33.129* 


6.794 


16 653 


22.447 


4,734* 


15,479* 


20,214 



117,661* 215,119 332,780* 64,186* 194,696* 25-3,883 



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The following is a statement of several arti- 
cles of freight moved on the Michigan Centr d 
Railroad during the year ending Dec. 3 
Flcur, Core, Oats, Wheat, Mdse 



Jan... 
Feb... 
March 
April 



bMs. 
.12.777X 
. 6,324 
.13,270)* 
.21.316 



May.. ..24,005)4 
June.. 25,204 
July.. ..17,035 
Aug.... 47,849 
tept.... 66.977)* 
Oct.... 73,731 
Nov.... 57,754 
Dec... 21,051 



bn. 

25.473 

17.524 

25,037 

15.294 

12,993 

9,216 

9,807 

9,843 

4,959 

29,551 

28,296 

63,619 



bn. 

3,913 

i::,:>d 
7,848 
6.151 

4,695 
8,691 
2.788 
2,715 
8,614 
8,487 
6,630 
44,846 



bn. 

3,712 
8.107 
4,521 

8,014 

40,343 

67,322 

36,563- 

148,023 

118,714 

139,839 

141,484 

32,582 



tons 
2,447 
1,530 
4,187 
6,056 
7,579 
5,137 
3,394 
5,029 
8,473 
9,567 
8,107 
7,275 



1, 1856 : 

lum'r. 

ft. 
1,012,065 
1,202.*:! I 
2,235,470 
2,271,77!! 
1,566,924 
1,474,672 
1,222,744 
1,168,623 
1,093,460 
1.184,434 
1,132,450 
1,707,887 



Total. 387,295 251,612 119.158 749.224 68,781 17,273,342 
The following are the towns and stations on 
this road, with their distances from Chicago: 



Miles. 

Merri k's 5 

Oalumet 15 

Gibson'j 24 

Porter 1 44 

Lake 36 

Michigan Ciy 57 

New Buffalo 66 

Chambers 74 

Terre Coupee 83 

Buchanan 87 

Niles 93 

Pokagon 100 

Dowagiac 106 

Decatur 117 

Paw Paw 125 

Mattawat 128 

O.t.-L.o 135 



Milfs. 

Kalamazso 141 

Galeeburg 150 

Battle Creek 164 

Marshall 177 

Albion 189 

Parma 198 

Jackson 208 

Grass Lake 219 

Chelsea 230 

Dexter 237 

Ann Arbor 247 

Yp-ilantj 254 

Denton's 259 

Wayne 267 

Dearoorn 274 

Half Way Station 279 

Detroit 284 



At Detroit the Michigan Central connects 
with the Canada Great Western Railway, and 
this with the New York Central and 
the New York and Erie Railway at Niagara 
Falls makes it one of our great thor- 
oughfares to the Atlantic seaboard. The wire 
suspension bridge at Niagara Falls is one of the 
gr atest triumphs of engineering — indeed it is in 
reality one of the " wonders of the world." At 
Hamilton, Canada, the Great Western connects 
with the Canadian Grand Trunk Railway,opened 
for travel in September last, giving us a direct 
railway communication with Toronto, Montreal, 
Quebec, and Portland in the State of Maine. 

As a connecting line with the Michigan Cen- 
tral, we notice the 

\ew Albany and Salem Railway. 

James Bhooks, New Albany, Ind., President. 

John B. Andebsox, New Albany, Ind., Super- 
intendent. 

Geoege Ltman, New Albany, Ind., Secretary 
and Treasurer. 

This road runs from Michigan City to New Al- 
bany on the Ohio River, and lies wholly in the 
State of Indiana ; but as it has trains running di- 
rectly to this city over the Michigan Central 
track, and intimate business relations exist be- 
tween most of the country through which it 
runs and our city, it may properly be regarded 
as an important part of the railway system which 
has Chicago for its centre. 

The following table shows the 

MOSTHLY SECE.PTS. 

Pass»n'r«. Freiaht. Mail A Mis. 

Jan « 21,705.23 $26,724.09 

Feb 17,97215 15,828.34 

March 29,994.74 27,623 00 

31,885.67 

86,480.00 

26.733 66 

20,612 30 

23,685 14 

25,051.25 

28,745.19 

24,411.67 

36,187.64 



April 30,878.87 

May £3.278.75 

June 32.W1.09 

July 28,625.66 

August 36,163.10 

Sept 46,012.81 

Oct 53,253.93 

November. 33,295.55 

December.. 28,539.70 

Total $392,711.58 $312,976.95 ""$37,800.00 $743,492.53 



$1,837.50 
l,s:.7.'i| 
1,k;7 5D 
3,587.50 
3.587.60 
8.687.80 
8,687.60 
8,687.60 
3,587.50 
3.587.50 
8,687.60 
3.587 50 



Total. 

$50,266.82 
35,637.99 
59,455.25 
66,352.04 
62,365.26 
63,312 25 
5J.825.46 
63,436.74 
74,651.56 
85,686w6S 
61,298.72 
08,314.84 



The following for the last six months in tbo 
year shows the 



MOVEME8T OP PASSENGERS. 

North, 



South. 





Thro' 


. Way. 


Total. 


TfTO' 


. Wav 


July 




9,186 


9,690 


156 


7,566 


August .... 


.. 519 


ln,:s:;u 


10,849 


1,020 


8.-7-! 


Peptember. 


. 1,122 


11,334 


12,457 


489 


9,798 




. 651 


10.951 


11,603 


441 


10,440 


November. 


.. 342 


. 8,174 


8.516 


333 


7.942 


December.. 


. 134 


6,711 


6,845 


106 


6,152 



Total 

7.722 
9,893 

li>.2>7 

10,881 

9,275 

6,253 

Total 3,272 57,686 59,959 2^543 51,770 54,315 

It will be seen that September has the great- 
est movement north and October south. Busi- 
ness men will not be at a loss to account for this 
difference. 

Other Railways in Illinois. 

We have space merely to notice briefly the 
railways running nearly east and west through 
the State. The first is the Juliet and Laporte or 
" Cut-off" road. Its name indicates its location. 
Its length in Illinois is about thirty miles. The 
Michigan Central have a lease of and operate 
this road. E. Knowlton, Esq., Joliet, is the 
Superintendent. The Peorii and Oquawka has 
already been noticed. At present it operates as 
a feeder to and is a part of the Chicago system. 
The next road south is the " Great Western," 
running from Naples, on the Illinois River, to 
the Indiana State line near Danville. It there 
connects with a direct line completed to Toledo. 
Thj length of road now completed in Illinois is 
about 200 miles. B. F. Poxd, Esq., Jacksonville, is 
the Superintendent. The next road is the Alton 
and Terre Haute. The name indicates its loca- 
tion, and its entire line is completed and in 
operation. Length in Illinois, 173 miles. The 
next road is the Belleville and Illinoistown, 
running between those two places. Distance, 14 
miles. Next we have the Ohio and Mississippi 
Railway. It runs entirely across the State, 
from St. Louis to Viccennes, Indiana, connect- 
ing there with roads to Cincinnati, Cleveland 
and cities further east. Length in Illinois, 147 
miles. We must not omit to mention the Illi- 
nois River Railway — R. S. Thomas, Esq., Vir- 
ginia, 111., President. This is a new and im- 
portant enterprise, and from the energy of the 
men who control it, the public entertain high 
hopes of its success. It is to run from Alton, 
on the east side of the Illinois River, most of the 
way some twenty miles from it, to Peoria. It 
will form an important addition to our railways, 
and we wish it abundant success. It is also in 
contemplation to build a road immediately be- 
tween this city and Joliet, to form the northern 
end of the Alton and St. Louis road. The cara 
now come in from Joliet on the Rock Island 
road. The road is in the hands of Ex-Governor 
Matteson, aud it will doubtless be completed at 
an early day. There is also a company formed 
to build a road from this city, through Amboy, 
nearly due west to the Mississippi ; but we are 
not aware that any work has yet been done. 



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fgPerhaps there are other projects and other 
roads ; but we fear that the length of our article 
■will weary our readers. Let us now condense 
the facts already before us, that we may see at a 
glance the magnificent results already achieved. 
The following list embraces the roads comple- 
ted, in process of construction, or projected with 
their different branch and extension lines, cen- 
tering in Chicago. Where roads extend beyond 
Illinois they are in most cases traced only through 
a single State beyond our own. The trunk lines 
are set near the left of the column ; the branch 

and extens ; on lines are indented. 

Iffleb 

Ohicago and Milwaukee §5 

Kenosha and Be olt b» 

Racine and Mississippi .....loO 

Chicago, St. ?aul and Fond du Lac, Ch'cagoto Mar- 
quette and Ontonagon on Lake Superior .4o3 

Milwaukee and Mississippi (Western Division) ioO 
Milwaukee and LaOrosse (Western Division). .3o0 
Hudson an d Superior }« 

QaleDa and Chicago Union 121 

Fox River Valley ,«» 

Wisconsin Central 150 

Beloit Bran ch 

Beloit and Maditon 

Mineral Point 

Prairie duOhien and LaOrosse 
Dubuque and Pacific 

Galena (Juiton) Air Line 

Iowa Central AirLinr 



20 

85 

66 

150 

330 

136 

,350 

Chi 'agoTiowa and Nebra§ka to Cedar Rapids.. 80 

Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 210 

Burlington and Missouri. f-u 

Northern Cross -100 

Hannibal and S'. Joseph 206 

Chics go and R«ck Island l°- 

Mississippi and Missouri 1st Division... oOU 

do do 2d do — 100 

do do 3i do .... 60 

Peoria and Bureau Valley 47 

Peoria and Hannibal }& 

Peoria and Oqnawka l|* 

Chicago, AHon and St. Louis •!*} 

Illinois Central ]U4 

Pittsburf, Fort Wayne and Chicago 4bj 

Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana. 242 

Monroe Branch j*o 

Cincinnati, Peru and Chicago vu 

Michigan Central......... 282 

New Albany and Salem 284 , 

Totil 11 trunk and 2S branch and extension l'.nes. .6,929 
It will be seea that each year this list is some- 
what changed. The names of some roads are 
changed, a few are omitted and some are added. 
Our object is to make our statements perfectly 
accurate at the time they are written. As to, the 
projected lines, those only are given which have 
at last a fair prospect of success. 

The following list embraces the trunk roads 
actually completed and in operation, with their 
branch and extension lines, centering in Chi- 
cago : 
6 Miles. 

Chicago and Milwaukee 85 

Racine and Mississippi 86 

Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac 121 

Milwaukee and Mississippi, Western Division. .10a 

Galena and Ceicago Onion 121 

Fox River Valley 33 

Wisconsin Central 6 

Beleit Branch 20 

Beloit and Madison 17 

Mineral Point \\ 

Galena (Fulton) Air Line 136 

Chicago. Iowa and Nebraska 13 

Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 210 

Burlington and Missouri 30 

Northern Cross 100 

Hannibsl and St. Joseph 30 

Chicaeo and Rock Island 182 

Mississippi and Missouri, 1st Division 55 

do do 3d do 13 

Peoria and Bureau Valley 47 

Peoria and Oquawka 143 

Chicago, Alton and St. Louis 283 

Illinois Central <0* 



Piltf burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago 383 

Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana 242 

Cincinnati, Peru and Chicago 28 

Michigan On tral 282 

New Alb.-ny and Salem 284 

11 Trunk and 17 Brarc'i and Extension lines.... 3,676 
Taking the portions of the above lines which 
lie in the State of Illinois, and adding the length 
of th8 different roads completed in the centri 
portions of the State, we find that Illinois now 
contains two thousand seven hundred and 

SIXTY-ONE MILKS OF COMPLETED RAILWAY. Five 

years ago we had only ninety-five miles. These 
facts show a most gratifying progress, of which 
every citizen of Illinois may well be proud. 

The total number of trains which now (mid- 
winter) arrive and depart from Chicago daily 
is 104. Adding 15 per cent, for the number as 
soon as navigation opens, and we have 120. The 
amount of freight, the number of passengers, 
and the wealth and the business which these 
trains daily pour into the lap of Chicago can 
only be appreciated by ihose who are on the 
ground and will take pains to examine the sub- 
ject for themselves. 

The earnings of our different railway lines 
during the pist year have been of the mo3t satis- 
factory character. We should like to see the re- 
ceipts of the different lines centering in other 
cities, that a comparison might be made. When 
it is remembered that five years ago we had but 
40 miles of railway, earning perhaps §40,000, 
the contrast is truly amazing. We present 

The following table, showing the earnings of Hit 
railroads centering in, Chicago, for the year 
1856. 

Passengers. Freight. Mails, Ac. Total. 

O. A M (our estimate) 650,000.00 

O. S. P. A F. $ 58.380.43 73.224 52 5,698 72 137.3t<3.67 
d. A O. U... 945,629 64 1,465.982,14 44,434.02 2,456 045.80 

F. R. V (our estimate) 50 000 00 

C B. * Q. ... 485.909.31 1,119.784 38 21.335 32 1,627 029.61 
N. 0..6m... 74,125.35 133 878.12 7,219 32 215,222.79 
C. 4 R. I. ... 798 699.11 931,805.49 21 200.00 1,751,704.60 
C. A.AStL (our estimate) 1000 000.01 

I.C. 112,401.78 1,154,964 37 202,167.52 2,469,5:6 67 

M. 8, A N.I. .... 3,114,75606 

M. C 1,611.932 70 1.432.0S8.09 84,133 31 3,128 154 10 

N.A.AS... 392,711,58 312.976.95 37,80000 7 43,49253 

Total ♦ItT43.242.83 

Movement of Passengers. 

The movement of passengers forms a new and 
interesting feature in our railway statistics. The 
returns of the four principal roads running west 
from the city show the following 



Results. 

West. 



But. 



Thro'. Way. Total. Thro'. Way. Total. 
0.8t.P.AF.. 2,217 26 846 29,063 2.530 26.579 29.109 
G. A C. H.... 72,707 199,766 272,473 42,552 169.9 17 212,4d9 

O. B.AQ 31433 100 540 131973 25,492 95,940 121,431 

C. A R. 1 48,978 157,178 206,157 30,439 138.575 169.014 

Total .155,335 484,330 639.666 101,013 431,0:1 532,013 

This table shows that these four railways alone 
have takan West 107,653 passengers more than 
they brought back— people enough to redeem 
another sovereign State from the dominion of 
the panther and the savage, and add another 
star to the banner of our glorious Union. Dur- 
ing the early part of the year a large emigratior 



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found its way to Kansas and Nebraska over the 
Chicago, Alton and St. Louis Railway, by land, 
und also on the Ohio and other tributaries of the 
Mississippi. Many also were landed from the 
lower lake and the Collingwood steamers at Mil- 
waukee and other cities north of us, so that there 
can scarcely be a doubt that at least 250,000 
people found tbeir way west of the meridian of 
Chicago and north of the southern line of Mis- 
souri during the past year. 

If the passenger movement on the Michigan 
Southern corresponds whh that on the Michi- 
gan Central, the above results agree with 
sufficient accuracy with those of the four lead- 
ing Western lines. They would be as follows : 
West. East. 

fhro'. Way. Total Thro' Way. Total? 
Mich. Cent... 117,662 215,119 332,781 64.187 194 697 258,884 
M.8.(estim'c) 117,662 215,119 332.781 64 187 194,697 257,884 



Total 235,324 530.238 665,562 123,374 389,394 517,768 

This table would show, on the above hypothe- 
sis, that these two lines b~ought 147,794 passen- 
gers west more thau they took back, leaving 
about 40,000 to remain in this city or to find 
their way west of us by other lines. If we 
make a fair estimate for the movement of pas- 
sengers on the Milwaukee and St. Louis roads, 
from which no returns were received, the total 
movement on the principal railway lines center- 
ing at Chicago would be about 3,350,000 passen- 
gers. 

This is the last of four leading statistical arti- 
cles published since the first of January last, 
and we now present at a single glance the main 
facts contained in all of them. We present, 
therefore, the following 

General Summary. 

Total number of miles of railway centering 
in Ohicago Feb 20,1852 40 

Total number of miles now completed and 
in operation 3,676 

Increase in 1856 915 

Total number to be completed in from five 
to eight years 6.929 

Total num ^er of miles of railway in the 
State of Il.inois now la operation 2,761 

Increase in 1856 351 

(Oaly 95 miles were completed five years 
ago.) 

Increase in the State in fire yearp, (over 5C0 
miles per year) 2,666 

Total earnings of all the railways centering 
'n Chicago for the year 1856 $17,343,2423) 

(Five years ago they were only $40,0t)0.) 

Increase in five years 17,303.24235 

Increase ef 1856 over 1855 4,045,041,74 

Total number of trains arriving and de- 
parting daily (midwinter) 104; adding 15 
per cent as soon as navigation opens 120 

Population of Chicago in 1852 38,783 

" Jan. 1, '57, estimate 
On June, '65, it was 83.509) 110,000 

Total receipts of grain in Onicago for the 
year 1855, bushels 20,487,953 

Total receipts of grain— beicg the largest 
primnry grain pirt in the world— for the 
year 1856 (increase in '56 over 20 per cent.) 
bushels 24.674,824 

Total shipments of grain from tha port of 
Chicago for the year 1856. bushels 21,583,221 

Total amount of corn ree'd In 1856 bushels. 11,888 398 
wheat . 9,392 365 

Total cumber of hogs alive and dressed 
Teceived i n Chicago for 1855-6 308,639 

Total number of shipments alive and 
dressed 170,831 

Averaging the weight at only 200 Bis and 
the price at $5 per hundred tte value of 
the hoes received would be #3,685,880 

Number of barnls of beef packed In 1856. 33,0:8 



Receipts of lumber at the po.t of Chicago '. 
for the year 1856-beina the largest lum-" 
ber marketinthe world feet 45fi,f73 169 

Receipts of lead for the year 1856 n>s 9,527,606 

Now lai J up in the port of Chicago, steam- 
ers and sail vessels 245 

Total number of vesselB arriving in Chi- 
cago for the year 1856 7 328 

Total tonnage of vessels arriving in this 
port for the year 1856 1,545,379 

Amount of imports received ai the Chica- 
go Custom Hcuse on foregn goods for 
thepaBt year $162,994.31 

Total amount of cipital invtstefl in man- 
ufactures during the year 1856— »howiDg 
an increase of $l,464,4C0 over 1855 $7,759,400 

Total number of hands employed— show- 
ing an increase over 1853 of 1,833 10,573 

Total value of manu'actured articles, show- 
ing an increase of #4,483 572 $15,515,063 

Total amount invested during the year 1856 
in improvement", stores.dwellings hotels 
Ac . showing an increase over 1855 of 
$1,973.370 $5,708,624 

Total number of passeegsrs carried west 
by four principal railways leading out of 
Chicago 639,666 

Total number remaining west above those 
who returned on these four ilnes 107,653 

Total number of passengers movod on all 
the roads centering in Chicago 3,350,000 

The above facts and figures will be regarded 
with special satisfaction by all our citizens, and 
by the people of the Northwest generally. They 
show a healthy, but rapid and most astonishing 
progress. It may be doubted whether the whole 
history of the civilized world can furnish a 
parallel to the vigorous growth and rapid de- 
velopment of the country which has Chicago 
for its commercial metropolis. When it is re- 
membered th it twenty years ago she was not 
an incorp >rated city, and less than a quarter of 
a century since, the Indians still had possession 
of the largest portion of this magnificent coun- 
try, these facts, stubborn and incontestable 
though they be, seem more like the dreams of 
some vagrant imagination than sober matters of 

reality, which scores of men still among us have 
themselves seen and realized. 

Twenty years ago Chicago was an insig- 
nificant town at the southern end of 
Lake Michigan, importing nearly all her pro- 
duce from Western New York and Northern 
Ohio. Last year she shipped 21,583,221 bush- 
els of grain, and her total receipts were 
over twenty-four and a-half millions. Half a 
dozen years ago she had only a single railroad 
some twenty miles long entering the city; now 
she has 3,676 miles completed and in operation, 
and the earnings of these lines for the last year 
amount to the enormous sum of $17,343,242.83. 
The increase of earnings during the past year is 
over four millions of dollars. More than a hun- 
dred trains of cars arrive and depart daily. Her 
trade in lumber exceeds by far that of any other 
city in the world, amounting to 456,673,169 feet. 
Ten years ago her manufactures were in their 
infancy and were scarcely worthy of commen- 
dation. Last year the capital invested amounted 
to $7,759,400, and the value of manufactured ar- 
ticles to more than fifteen millions and a- 
half of dollars. Half a dozen years ago Chi- 
cago was reproached as being a c ; ty of wooden 
shanties; last year she invested in magnificent 
stores, many of them with superb marble and 



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iron fronts, elegant palatial residences and 
other improvements, $5,708,024. And wonderful 
as has been the progress of the city, it has not 
been able to keep oace with the improvements 
of the country by which she is surrounded. 

The statistics of the movement of population 
westward show that people enough found their 
homes west of Chicago during the past year to 
form two entire States. Noris this a movement 
of mere human bone and muscle; it is a con- 
centration upon our rich rolling prairies and 
amid our beautiful groves of a vast host of ac- 
tive, vigorous, intelligent men, who plant schools 
and churches wherever they settle, and bring 
with them all the elements of an enterprising 
Christian civilization— a deep controlling, ever- 
abiding reverence for liberty and for law. They 
are laying the foundations for an empire of 
whose wealth, intelligence and power, ths sun 
in all his course has never seen the equal. Ere 
the next quarter of a century shall have rolled 
away,the beautiful valleys of the Upper Missouri, 
the Yellow Stone, the Platte, and the Kansas, 
aye, and even that of the Red River of the North, 
will all have been settled, and this ever-deepening 
current of emigration will meet an equally re- 
sistless stream from the Pacific coast, and roll 
back in mingling eddies from the summits of the 
Rocky Mountains. Fourteen States as large as 
Ohio, but ou an average more wealthy and popu- 
lous,will have grown up on the magnificent coun- 
try between the lakes and the Rocky Mountains, 
and how many will repose upon the "Pacific 
slope " we dare not attempt to predict. 

During the last year our steamers have run 
without interruption to the head of Lake Supe- 
rior, and our exports to the Atlantic seaboard 
have largely increased. Nor is this all. The 
Dean Richmond was loaded with wheat at the 
wharves of Chicago and Milwaukee and dis- 
charged her cargo into the warehouses of Liver- 
pool. The practicability, and the profit too, of 
direct trade with Europe have been demonstrat- 
ed ; and as soon as navigation opens other ves- 
sels will follow in the track of the Dean Rich- 
mond; and in the judgment of those who have 
most carefully studied this subject, 'a very few 
years will render the departure of vessels for 
the grain-consuming countries of Europe so 
common as scarcely to excite remark. Our 
Canadian neighbors are becoming fully con- 
vinced that their best interests require greater 
facilities for the transit of western produce to 
the Ocean— and the enlargement of the Welland 
Canal and the construction of the Georgian Bay 
or the Ottawa Ship Canal is now regarded as a 
prime necessity of commerce. Our railway 
lines are constantly being extended through 
the magnificent country west of us — a country 
whose mineral, agricultural and commercial re- 
sources no man has yet had the nerve to esti- 
mate. To the citizen of Chicago, who has at 



heart the material, social and neligious welfare 
of the millions who are to succeed us, every as- 
pect of the horizon east, west, north and south 
is full of promise and joyous hope. Presenting 
our congratulations to the readers of the Press, 
we offer to them, to all, the inspiring motto 
Courage ! Onward ! ! 



Additional Statistics. 

feince our railway article was published, we 
have received the following statistics. We have 
not altered the aggregates in our tables, though 
were the receipts of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne 
and Chicago Railway added to the results, they 
would show the receipts of our railways to be 
nearly $19,000,000. 

The following are the statistics of the 
Illinois Great Western Railway. 



MOXTHtY EECSIPTS. 



Pass'gers>. 

Jan $8,399.27 

Ptb 8.272 (56 

March... .11, H6.H0 
AT>ril.... 10.300.30 

May 10,164 59 

Jane 9,723.71 

July 10,550 47 

August. ..11,087 37 

sept 13,941.69 

Oct 15 55815 

Nov 12.97103 

Dec 16,585 87 



Freiah*. 

$6,895 70 

6,734 99 

9 317.63 

14.12d.69 

12 092 93 

11 604 31 

12 621.00 
24 006,80 
29 218.00 
24 737 44 
18.854 99 
17,000.03 



M'l A Mis. Total. 



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Total.. .$138,749 31 $186,403.38 $13,751.10 $338 906.79 
The following table shows the 



MOVEMENT OP PASS3NGEE3. 

West. 



East. 



Thro. Way. Total. Thre. 

JanM 2i9 3.248 3,507 2'5 

Feb'y 269 t,645 2.915 617 

March 33a 5,5j1 6.840 628 

April 585 4.C82 4,667 553 

May 633 S.SJ7 4,480 491 

June 923 3,736 4,664 366 

July 1,689 4,278 5,967 394 

August 1.741 4357 6.188 613 

Sept 777 4554 6.331 1,253 

Oct 825 4 880 6,805 1.124 

Nov 1,671 3.124 4,795 344 

Dec 2,53a 4,58; 7,112 870 



Way. 

2 825 
2,536 
4.14S 
4,566 
3,594 
3,745 
4,391 
4.177 
4,767 
4 391 
2,967 
4151 



T«tal. 

3,200 
3.1S3 
4,676 
5.119 
4.185 
4,111 
4,785 
4790 
6,020 
6,514 
3,311 
5.021 

•85 



Total 12,348 48.813 61,161 7,428 46.357 53 

The location end direction of this road was 
briefly noticed in the body of our article. It 
was not opened east beyond Tolono till the 31st 
of December last. The business of the present 
year will doubtless far exceed that of the last. 
The following are the receipts of the 

Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad: 



■: 1S36. P'ngrs. 

January $41,030.42 

February 37.T66.85 

March 63.888.19 

Aprl 68.502 97 

May 65,155.66 

June 62.698 49 

July 54 620.80 

August 67 076.33 

September.... 84434,40 

October 86 221.25 

November 67,414.61 

December 62,907.50 



MONTHLY EARNINGS. 

SFreisht. M'l A Mis. 

$34 838 89 $3,644.44 

38 560 36 4,293.75 

62.415.94 4,601.64 

44 890.46 4 449.25 

32 706.50 4.331 18 

28.970 34 3 848 67 

42 061.24 3,716.20 

77,435.64 5,121.05 

83 360 53 3 883 54 

88 377.24 8 075 63 

72.44S 37 7,841.84 

68,476.85 8,561,75 



TotaL 
$79,513.75 

80 620 96 
120,905.77 
117.642.6S 
102.193.34 

96 417 50 
100 298.33 
149 633.02 
171 678.47 
182.674.12 
147.704 72 
129,946.60 



Total $701 517.56 $654.542 20 $62,368 94 $1,478,428.76 

Other facts in regard to this road will be found 
in the body of the article. 



65 



[From Hunt's Merchants Magazine.] 
WESTWARD MOVEMENT OF THE CENTER 
of Population, and of Industrial Power iu 
JVortli America. 

In the rapidly developing greatness of North America , 
it is interesting to look to the future, and speculate on 
the most probable points of centralization of its com- 
mercial and social power. I leave out the political ele- 
ment, becau-e, In the long run, it will not be very po- 
tential, and will wait upon industrial developments. I 
also omit Mexico, so poor, and so disconnected iu her 
relations to the great body of the continent. 

Including with our nation, as forming an important 
part of Its commercial community, the Canadas, and 
contiguous provinces, the center of population, white 
and black, is a little west of Pittsburgh. The movement 
of this center is north of west, about in the direction of 
Chicago. The center of productive power cannot be 
ascertain* i with any degree of precision. We know it 
must lie a c msiderable distance east, and north of the 
center of population. That center, too, is on its grand 
march westward. Both, in their regular progress, will 
reach Lake Michigan. The center of industrial power 
will touch Lake Erie, and possibly, but not probably, 
the center of population now move so far northward as 
to reach Lake Erie also. Their tendency will be to 
come together ; but a considerable time will be required 
to bring them into near proximity. Will the movement 
of these centers be arrested before they reach Lake 
Michigan? I think no one expects it to stop eastward 
of that lake; few will claim that it will go far beyond 
it. Is it not, then, as certain as anything in the future 
can be, that the central power of the continent Will 
move to, and become permanent on, the border of the 
great l^kes ? Around these pure waters will gather the 
densest population, and on their borders will grow up 
the best towns and cities. As the centers of population 
and wealth approach, and pass Cleveland, that city 
should swell to large size. Toledo will be still neater 
the lines of their movement, and should be more favor- 
ably affected by them, as the aggregate power of the 
continent will, by that time, be greatly increased. As 
these lines move westward towards Chicago, the influ- 
ence of their position will be divided between that city 
and Toledo, distributing benefits according to the de- 
gree of proximity. 

If we had no foreign commerce, and all other circum- 
stances were equal, the greatest cities would grow up 
along the line of the central industrial power, in its 
western progress, each new city becoming greater than 
its predecessor, by the amount of power accumulated 
on the continent, for concentration from point to point 
of its pr' grees. But as there are points from one rest- 
ing place to another, possessing greatly superior advan- 
tages for commerce over all others, and near enough 
the center line of industrial power to appropriate the 
commerce which it offers, to these points we must look 
for our future great cities. To become chief of these, 
there must be united in them the best facilities tor trans- 
port, by water and by land. It is to,, plain to need 
proof, that these positions are occupied by Cleveland, 
Toledo ami Chicago. 

But we have a foreign Commerce beyond the continent 
of North America, by means of the Atlantic Ocean, 
bearing t!i • proportion, we will allow, of one to twenty 
of the domestic commerce within the continent. This 
proportion will seem small, to persons who have not 
directed particular attention to the subject. It Is, 
nevertheless, within the truth. The proof of this is 

diflicult, only because we cannot get the figures that 
represent the numberless exchanges of equivalents 
ameng each other, in such a community as ours. 
******** 
It can scarcely admit of a doubt, thai the domestic 
commerce of North America bears a proportion as 1. 
as twenty to one of its foreign commerce, lias Inter- 
nal commerce a tendency to concentrate in few points, 
like foreign commerce? Is its tendency to cone, ntri- 
tion less than that of foreign commerci ''. No difference 
in this respect call be perceived. All commerce devel- 
ops that la ■■ of its nature, to the extent of its means. 
Foreign commerce concentrates ehielly at those ports 
where it meets the greatest internal commerce. The 
domestic commerce being the great body, draws to it 
the smaller body of foreign commerce. 'New fork, by 
her canals, her railroads, and her superior position for 



•vise navigation, lias drawn to herself most of our 
foreign commerce, because she has beci mst 

Convenient point for the- concentration of our do. i, 

trade. It Is absurd to suppose she can alwasrsyoi i 
for half a century, remain the best point for tie- con- 
centration of domestic trade ; and, as the foreign ci 
in, ice will every year hear a less and less proportli 
to the domestic commerce, it ean hardly he doubted, 
that before the end of one century from 'this time, the 
great center of commence of all kinds, for North Amer- 
ica, will he on a lake harbor. Supposing the centered 
population (now west of Pittsburgh) shall average a 
yearly movement westward, for the next fifty years, of 
twenty miles; this would carry It one thousand miles 

northwestward from Pittsburgh, and some live hunched 
or more miles beyond the-central point of the natural 
resources of the country; it would pass Cleveland in 

live years, and Toledo in eleven years, reaching Chica- 
go, or some point south of it, in less than twentv-five 
years! The geographical center of industrial power is 
prohahly now in northeastern Pennsylvania, having 
hut recently left the City of New York, where it par- 
tially now for a time remains. This cents? will move 
at a somewhat slower rate than the center of popula- 
tion. Supposing its movement to be fifteen miles a 
year, it will reach Cleveland in twenty years, Toledo in 
twenty-seven years, and Chicago in forty-five years. 
******** 
At the present rate of increase, the United States ttad 
the Canadas, fifty years from this time, will contain 
over one hundred and twenty millions of people, l! 
we suppose it to be one hundred ami five millions, and 
that these shall he distributed so that the Pacific f-'tates 
shall have ten millions, and the Atlantic border twenty- 
five millions, there will be left for the great interior 
plain, seventy millions. These seventy millions will 
have twenty times as much commercial intercoursi 
with each other, as witli all the world beside. It i.- 
ObviottB, then, that there must be built up in their midst 
the great city of the continent ; and not only so, but 
that they will sustain several cities greater than those 
which can be sustained on the ocean border. 

This is the era of great cities. London has nearh 
trebled in numbers and business since the commence- 
ment of the current century. The augmentation of her 
population in that time has been a million and a half. 
This increase is equal to the whole population of New 
York and Philadelphia; and yet, it is probable that 
New York will be as populous as London, in about fifty 
years. A liberal, but not improbable estimate of the 
period of duplication of the numbers of these great 
cities would be, for London, thirty years, and for Nov, 
York, fifteen years. At this rate, London will have 
four millions and seven hundred thousand, and New 
York three millions four hundred thousand, at the end 
of thirty years. At the end of the third duplication of 
New York— that is, iu forty -five years— she will have 
become more populous than London, ami number pearl] 
seven millions. This is beyond belief, but it shows the 
probability of New York overtaking London in abo 

fifty years. 

A similar comparison of New York and the leading 
interior city— Chicago— w ill show a like result in favor 
of Chicago. The census returns show the avi ragi 
period Of duplication to be fifteen years for New York, 
and less than four years for Chicago. Suppose that of 
New York for the future should In- sixteen years, ami 
that of Chicago eight years, and that New York now 
has, with her suburbs, nine hundred thousand, 
Chicago one hundred thousand people, In three dupli- 
cations, New Sort would contain six millions two hun- 
dred thousand, and Chicago, in six duplications, occu- 
pying the same length of time, would have six million.- 

four hundred thousand. It Is nut asserted, as probabli 

that either city will be swelled to such an extraordinary 
Size in forty-eight years, if ever ; but it is more tl 

probable that the leading Interior city will be greater 

than New York fifty years from this time. 

* * * * -]'] ie jr.-ii'-rnl mind is faithless of what 
goes much beyond its own experience. It refuses to 
receive, or it receives with distrust, conclusions, how- 
ever strongly sustained by facts and fair deductions, 

Which go much beyond its ordinary range of thought. 
* * * It does not comprehend them, ami therefore 
refuses to believe; but it sometimes goes further, and, 
without examination, scornfully rejects. To seek for 
the truth, is the proper pbject of those who, from the 
past and present, undertake to say what n ill l» in the 
future, and, when the truth Is found, to i \piv-- it with 
as little reference to what will be thought of It, as if 
putting forth the solution of a mathematical problem. 



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70 

WESTERN LAND AGENCY. 



J±. J. GALLOWAY & CO. 

Will sell over 300,000 Acres of 

CHOICE FARMING L A N 1) 8 ; 

I 1ST ILLINOIS, 

Upon reasonable terms, either for cash or on long credit at low rates of interest, to 

ACTUAL SETTLERS. 



WE WILL ACT AS AGENTS FOR THL TORCHASE OF 

ILLINOIS CENTRAL R. R. LANDS, 

And locate Warrants, or make Cash entries of Government Lands from Actual Surveys, and buy 
and sell on commission, Real Estate in 

Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota. 



We will obtain Bounty Land Warrants and Patents, establish Pension 
Rights, collect Back Pay due Soldiers, and prosecute all Claims against 
Government, for which purpose we have secured the co-operation and aid of a party whose 
knowledge has been acquired by a long experience in the Government department at Washington 
City, and who will give personal attention to such business entrusted to our care. 



We have corresponding Agencies throughout the West, and have, also, local Agents in the 
principal cities of the East and South, through whom applications can be made. For particular 
information, apply personally or by letter to 

A. J. GALLOWAY & CO. 

A. J. GALLOWAY, ) 

M. BRAYMAN. y No. 75 Lake St., Chicago, 111. 




WESTERN 




Janesville, Wis. 




WIAItD k COOK, Proprietors. 



IVI^.ISrXTF^-CTXJIiEPlS OIF 



PORTABLE, STATI0NJ1RYJHD iARINE STEAM ENGINES, 

Boilers, Mill Gearing, Iron & Brass Castings, 

HEAVY FORGING, FINISHING AND SCREW CUTTING. 
Gang, Gate, Muley and Rotary or Circular Saw Mills, 

With every variety of Gearing for Steam or Water. 
FURNISH 

FULTON « KRAUSE'S (Paces' pat.) & E, J. HOEUS' 

CIRCULAR SAWMILLS, PORTABLE GRIST & FLOURING 

Mills, French Burrs, and Mill Furnishing Generally. 

COPPER, LEAD & IRON PIPE AND FITTINGS, 

STEAM AND WATER GAUGES, 

Gauge Cock«, Oil Globes, Whistles, and Finished Brass Work, 
and every article in onr line of Business, promptly and 

on Reasonable Terms. 

Plans, Specifications and Estimates for every description of Machinery for Mill?, Machinery or 
Boats, and reliable advice and information given cheerfully to all who apply. 

Address Orders and Communications to 

WIARD & COOK, 

Drawer 23, Janesville, Wis. 



72 



353 !R.> s 




PHOTOGRAPH 



AND 



FINE mi GALLERY. 




HAS RECEIVED THE 

FIRST PRIZE IN EVERY FAIR 

Where his Pictures have been Exhibited. At the 

American Institute, N. Y., 1856., and at Massachusetts Charitable Institution, 

Boston, 1856. 

The First Prize for Photographs and Daguerreotypes. Also, the highest Compliments from the 
Judges. A new Style of Cabinet Photograph in Oil is here introduced, which i3 
deservedly Popular, and for Correct Likeness and Artistic Beauty is unsur- 
passed, and every style of Miniature and Portrait Art in a style of 

LIFE-LIKE BEAUTY -A^TSTID EXCELLENCE. 

No where else equaled. The gallery is the most Extensive in the world. Call 

and see 



22 Metropolitan Building, La Salle St. 



A. HESLER. 



STATIONERS' HALL! 

Wo. 81 LAKE STREET, CHICAGO. 

muRisory * bradley, 

DEALERS IX EVERT DESCRIPTION OF 

FOREIGN & DOMESTIC STATIONERY, 



AND MANUFACTURERS OF EVERT VARIETY OF 



Of any desired style of American or English Paper, Ruled, Printed, and Bound 

to any pattern or form. The attention of BANKERS, COUNTY 

CLERKS, REGISTERS, LAND AGENTS, RAILROAD, 

and all other BUSINESS MEN is respectfully solicited. 

SILVER MEDALS have been awarded to us, for the BEST WORK, 

by the AMERICAN INSTITUTE, of New York, and the 

CHICAGO MECHANICS INSTITUTE. 

WE CAN SAFELY CHALLENGE COMPETITION FOR GOOD WORK. 

UICNSOIY & BRADLEY. 

Manufacturing Stationers, 81 Lake Street, Chicago. 



73 



MACHINE BELTING UNO INDIA RUBBER GOODS. 

The subscribers would call the attention of Clothiers, Fancy Goods Dealers, Druggists, Country 
Merchants, Engineers, Machinists, and all who require articles in their line, to the large and varied 
assortment of Rubber Fabrics, which they will sell at the lowest cash price. The following are a 
few of the articles comprised in our stock : 

INDIA RUBBER CLOTHING, 

Common Vulcanized, Half Vulcanized and Silk, White and Black, such as 

Overalls, Coats, Pants, Leggings, Caps, Cloaks, etc., etc., 

The largest and most varied assortment west of New York. 

RUBBER BELTING, PACKING HOSE & FIRE BUCKETS, 

Oak-tanned Leather Belting, Druggists' & Surgical Articles. 

Surgeons and Physicians will find a great variety of the above, among which are Bandages, 
Pessaries, all kiuds of Splints, Truss pads, Syphons, I Jail and Pocket Syringes, Ice Caps, Nursing 
Bottles, Breast Pumps, Nursery Cloth, Hospital Cushions, Nipples, etc., etc. 

BOOTS AND SHOES, 

From the best Eastern Manufactories 

Rubber Combs, superior to any in use. All kinds of Toys, Air Balls, 

Dolls and Doll-heads, Drees and Stay Bones, India Rubber Gloves, Traveling Bags, Tubing, 

Wagon Covers, Air Beds, Pillows, Horse Covers, Hoods and Fenders, Cushions, 

Drinking Cups and Flasks, Gun Covers, Stationers' Rubber, etc. 

An examination of our Stock is respectfully solicited. 

JOHN B. IDESON & CO., 

(Late IDESON, JORDAN & BELLOWS,) 
AGENTS AND GENERAL DEALERS IN RLRBER GOODS. 

Nos. 89 South Water and 7 & 9 Dearborn Sts., 

CHICAGO. ILL. 



"WM. J±. BUTTERS & CO.. 



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A X I) 



REAL ESTATE AGENTS, 

No. 99 Dearborn Street, ----- Chicago, 111. 

Sales of Lands, Lots, Vessels, Cargoes, Furniture, Boots and Shoes, Dry Goods, etc., promptly 

made, at Office or any part of the Citv. 
CASH -A-ZDV^TsTOES IVTA-IDE OlST IVESE, CBT. A. NHDISE. 



R E F E R E NC E S 



Messrs. Bigelow & Lawrence, Bankers Chicago. 

A. B. Bartlett, Esq., Boston. 

Messrs. Anderson, Green & Hawes, Richmond, Y.i. 

Messrs. Stow & Jamison, New York. 



E. S. Smith, Attorney at Law Chicago. 

Messrs. Henrys, Smith & Townsend New York. 

Andrew Christy, Esq St. Louis. 

Charles J. Delmas, Esq Philadelphia. 



Messrs. A. J. Galloway & Co., Western Land Agents, Chicago. 



ERNST PETJSSING, 



t^E^L 



TAT 



GWKIK 



50 - - ClarJk Street, - - 50 

CITY PROPERTY, FARMS AND LANDS, BOUGHT AND SOLD. 

|y Particular attention given to the Subdivision of Blocks, Sale of Lots, Collection of 
Instalment-;, Payment of taxes, etc. Jgf lieing now a resident of Chicago for the last eight 
years, toy extensive actooaintance among the inhabitants, and especially the Foreign population, 
enables me to make QUICK SALES. 



Wm. B Ogden.Esq. 
James II. Rees. Esq. 



REFERENCES. 

Messrs. Ward, Doggett <i Co.. 
R. K. Swift, Brother k Johnston, 



Rev. William Barry 
Luther Haven, Esw 



74 

GENERAL WESTERN LAND OFFICE. 



BROOM, OSBORN & CO. 

36 CLARK STREET, CHICAGO. 

BROOM, HUSSEY & CO, FILLMORE, (JSBOfeN & CO., 

KEOKIK, IOWA. DrBlQlE, IOWA. 




HilM liTATi AulflTi« 



STOCK AND EXCHANGE BROKERS. 

Will give their prompt and personal attention to the Sale of Real Estate, Stocks and Bonds. 

LOANS NEGOTIATED. 

Locating and Entering Land Warrants & Paying Taxes for IVon-Residents. 



This firm, from its organization and location offer greater advantages than any other office in 
the west, to persons Buying and Selling Lands, and those seeking investment in Real Estate. 

Fillmore, Osporn & Co., of Dubuque, will give their personal attention to the Entry and 
Locating Land Warrants, on the opening of the Government land Offices, on 4th May next. 

C. BROOM. S. W. OSBORN. G. St. C. HUSSEY. 0. W. FILLMORE. 



SIMEON DOWNING & CO. 

REAL ESTATE AGENTS 

AND 

LAND REGISTRY OFFICE, 

lSTO_ 8 SOUTH CLABK STREET, 

CHICAGO, ILX. 



Will give prompt attention to the sale and negotiation of City and Country property ; Houses, Lots, 

Farms, Lands, inland-Town and Village property ; Leasing, Renting, etc. 

Also, negotiations of MONEY LOANS on Bond and Mortgage, and Auction Sales of Real Estate, 

Stocks, Yessels, Cargoes, etc. Jg^° A large list of valuable property, in the City and 

throughout the Western States, constantly registering for sale, at bargains. 



S. SALISBURY, 

Agency for Locating 

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT LANDS 

55 CLARK STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. 

Choice Lands Entered with Land Warrants or Cash. Land Warrants and Land Bought and Sold. 



Scripps, Bross & Spears, " Democratic Press." 
F. Granger Adams, Banker, Chicago. 
Wm. B. Rogers, Banker, Chicago. 
F. H. Benson & Co., Bankers, Chicago. 



Wm. H. Lyon & Co., Importers, New York. 
Luther Redfield, Commission Merchant, New York. 
J. C. Angel, Broker, New York. 
Charles S. DeZeng, Commission Merchant, N. Y. 



Wm. S. Trowbiidge, U. S. Surveyor, Milwaukee. 



75 




Chicago, Dec. 17, 1856. 



Dear Sir : 

Allow me to call your attention to 
the cut of my machine as above represented. 
The utility and superiority of the above 
method of driving the machine viz: — by the 
Short Band instead of gearing; has been es- 
tablished beyond all question by the manu- 
facture and sale of 275 of the machines in 
the past two years. In this time their ope- 
ration has convinced all who have used 
them or who have had grain threshed by 
them, that, for safely from "break-downs," 
ease for the team, speed and good clean 
work, they cannot be surpassed. We have 
also demonstrated the fact that as good 
machines can be made in Illinois as in Ohio 
or New York. We are making a large 
number of these machines for the next har- 
vest, which are now in a good state of 
forwardness. 

To suit those prefering a different kind 
of gearing to the above, we shall make a 
number of Buffalo gearing — also some with 
long 56 or 60 foot Belt. Thus none will 
fail of being suited if they call at my shop. 
Our terms will be made known to all who 
apply, by letter or otherwise, to the sub- 
scriber, at his shop, corner West Randolph 
and Jefferson !-trcets, Chicago Blinois, or 
to my agents in Springfield, Bloomington, 
Decatur, Atlanta Peoria, Quincy, Macomb, 
Galesburg, Princeton, Ottowa, Rock Island, 
Freeport, Fulton City, Lyndon, Whitesides 
Co., and various other places, in Illinois, 
and at the shop in Chicago, or at Burlington, 
Muscatine, Iowa City, Dubuque, in Iowa, 
Beloit, Madison, La Crosse, Wisconsin, Han- 
ibal Mo., etc. etc. 

N. B. — Application should be made as 
early as possible, as by delaying their or- 
ders many were disappointed last year. 
Repairs etc. promptly forwarded by express 
on receiving orders by mail or telegraph. 

H. J±. PITTS. 



T EC O 3ML" -£l S SIM, 

LAND AGENT, REAL ESTATE AND STOCK BROKER, 

OFFICE— No. 9 Metropolitan Block, Chicago, 111. 



E, E E E RE 3ST O E S 

R. K. Swift, Bro. & Johnston, Chicago. 
Swift, Ransom & Co., 31 Pine St., N. Y 
Wm. Gray, -40 Barclay St., N. Y. 
Bronson Peck, 78 William St.,N. Y. 



D. W. Yaughan & Co., Providence, R.I. 
Wm. Green, Esq., Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Jas. II Rees, Esq., Chicago. 
Geo. Steel, Esq., 



THOMAS SIM, will attend to the purchase and Sale of Keal Estate, payment of Taxes, examination of Lands, investigation 
of Titles, etc.. in Illinois and the adjoining States. Parties desiring information concerning Lots and Lands, win recede it 
promptly by mail or otherwise. Particular attention will be paid to the negotiations of Loans, to the Investment Oi nione) lor 
Capitalists, either in Real Estate, or in Loans for one or more years, secured on ample and undoubted Keal estate, won.i ai 
least double the amount, exclusive of improvements 



J. E. BOYD & CO. 

Land Agents of St. Lonis, Alton and Chicago Railroad Companj, 



AND 



REAL ESTATE BROKERS, 

No. 48 Dearborn Street, Chicago, 111. 



76 

CHICAGO TYPE FOUNDRY 



AND 



PRISFTSRS' WARSHOUSS, 

No. 90 Washington Street, 
CHICAGO, - - - - ILL. 



Type, Presses, Ink. Chases, Cases, etc., etc. Electrotyping ex- 
ecuted, and Brass Rule Manufactured in a superior 

manner. 

Having removed to our New Foundry Building, at the above location, which has 
been erected, and fitted up with special reference to Manufacturing Type, 
and other Printing Material, we are now prepared to supply at short 
notice, the wants of Printers throughout the West. 

OUR MACHINERY IS ENTIRELY NEW, 

And combines the latest improvements. We take pleasure in offering to the public 

TYPE OF OUR OWN MANUFACTURE, 

3VL^L333E3 r"]PLOM OUR SUFBRIOn TUEIEI'A.aLi. 



PRINTING PRESSES FROM 

The Celebrated Manufactories of R. Hoe & Co,, 

OF NEW YORK. AND FROM THE 

RUGGLES MANUFACTURING COMPANY 

OF BOSTON, ARE ALWAYS ON HAND 

All material furnished upon the same terms as by the 

Eastern Foundries. 

N. B. Our New Specimen Book will soon be completed, and will be sent to 
parties wishing to order, on application. 

D. L, DODGE, Treasurer. 



77 



OLDEST PIANO ESTABLISHMENT IN CHICAGO. 




I 




NEW YORK 



Wholesale Piano Forte Ware Rooms, 

No, 51 RANDOLPH STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. 

C. L. WATKINS, & CO., Proprietors. 



IB. :f. iDO^nsrusra- sz, co. 
REAL ESTATE AND MONEY BROKERS, 

100 Randolph Street, Chicago, III. 

Time Loans Nepotiated on First Class Keal Kstate Securities. Short Date Notes Discounted. Collection of Notes, Drafts 

Accounts, etc., promptly attended to. Choice Lots and Lands for sale in City and I'ountry. All transactions on 

Commission, Prompt and Confidential. Money invested for non-residents. 



J. HI. TROWBRIDGE, 

Government Land Locating Office, 

150 Lake Street, Chicago, up stairs. 

Lands entered and Warrants located at any I". S. Land Office 

in the West. 

Wild and improved lands for sale. Taxes paid. 



REFERENCES : 

Messrs. Scripps, Bross & Spears, Democratic Press, Chicago. 

F. G. Adams, Banker. Chicago. 

Dr. J. S. Vattier, Postmaster, Cincinnati, 0. 

Alf. McVeigh, Esq., Lancaster, 0. 

Dr. W. E. Ide, Columbus, O. 

Hart & Mapotlier, Louisville, Ky. 

Dan'l Griffin, Esq , Columbus, Ga. 

Dan'l B. Easley, Esq., Halifax Co., Va. 

James T. Sutton. Esq , Richmond, Va. 





EXCELSIOR IRONWORKS. 

MASON, McARTHUR & CO. 

Manufacturers of Steam Engines, Boilers, Sheet Iron Work, 

and all kinds of castings for Buildings. 

Works, corner of Canal and Carroll Streets, Chicago. 111. 



G. P. RANDALL, 

Elevations and Plans for Buildings, Furnished in Modern 

Style. 

Office, Room No. 21 in Bently's Building, 

No. 110 DEARBORN STREET, 

Terms Moderate. CHICAGO, ILL 









T 
I 






LAKE HOUSE. 



JOHN A. BROSS, 

ATTORNEY AND SOLICITOR, 

PROCTOR IN ADMIRALTY, 

UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER, 

For the Northern District of Illinois. 

NOTARY PUBLIC, COOK COUNTY. 
Office 123 Lake Street, Chicago, III. 



WM. F. D'WOLF. 



JAS. G. MACLAY. 



GEO. E, BOA ROWAN, - Proprietor. 



FRONTING ON 

Michigan, Kinzie & Rush Streets, Chicago, 111. 



D'WOLF & MACLAY, 

%ml (Estate fc Stork $ rotors, 

COLLECTION & TAX AGENTS, 

No. 98 Randolph Street, 2d Floor, - Chicago. 

Will attend to the Purchase and Sale of Real Estate, Pay- 
ment of Taxes. Investigation of Land Claims, and Collection 
of Notes, Drafts and Debts in the States of Illinois, Wis- 
consin, Indiana, Michigau and Iowa, lleliable information 
furnished in repar'l to value of Lands and City Property in 
any of these States. Chicago Paper, if Paid at Maturity, 
collected Free of Charge. 



78 



LAKE, BROWS & CO. 

Importers and Wholesale Dealer ■ In 

IRON, NAILS AND STEEL, 

BLACKSMITH TOOLS. 



D. J. Lake, 
O. B. Broivs, 



Noah Barnes, 

E. S. Canfield. 



N. SCHNEIDER, 
Boiler Making, Blacksmithing 

AND 

SHEET-IRON WORK 

Of all descriptions made to Order. 

Canal St., between Jackson & Adams, Chicago, 111. 

F. H. BENSON & CO'S 

BANKING, EXCHANGE 

AND 

REAL ESTATE OFFICE, 

46 CLARK, ST., - CHICAGO, ILX. 

Moneys received for investment in Real Estate Stocks, 
Bonds. Mortgages, and other Securities. 

LAND WARRANTS & EXCHANGE 

OX NEW YORK BOUGHT AND SOLD 

At Current Rates. 

COLLECTIONS MADK 

On all parts of the Country. 

Interest allowed on Special Deposits. 



n. WITBECK. 



A. E. BISHOP. 



J. T. WITBECK. 



F. & H. HI. HOOKER, 

APOTHECARIES AND DRUGGISTS, 

Dealers in Perfumeries, Fancy Articles. Paints, 
Oils, Glass, Etc., Etc. 

No. 56 West Randolph Street, Chicago, 

Prescriptions Carefully Prepared 

CHILDS, 



103i Randolph Street, Chicago. 

H. WITBECK & CO. 

Manufacturers of all Styles 

One, Two, & Four Horse Wagons, 

Lumber Yard Carts. Stone Wagons, Buggies Plows, etc. 

at Wholesale or Retail Have for sale all kinds of 

Wagon Material, Hubs. Spokes, Felloes, etc. 

COR. RANDOLPH AND JEFFERSON STS. 



E. G. L. FAXON, 

(LATE FAXON 4 CHOSBY.) 

Importer, Wholesale and Retail Dea 
FRENCH, ENGLISH & AMERICAN 

M£ll HAN&IM1, 

BORDERS, FIRE BOARD PRL\TS, 

Views, Stationary Ornaments, Moldings, and Decorations 
of ever}' description. Also, Manufacturer and Dea'.er in 

GOLD, TRANSPARENT AND OIL 

Hollands of all Widths and Colors, Paper Shades, 
Curtain Paper. Fixtures, Trimmings, etc., etc. 

53 lEt-A-ZTSTZDOILIPIH: ST., 

Four doors from State Street 

t^" Wholesale Rooms on the lower and third floors. 

Retail Show Room on the second floor. 



G-. "W. YERBY 3 
REAL ESTATE, STOCK, 

AND LOAN BROKER, 

No, 82 Dearborn Street, next door North P. 0., 
Chicago, Illinois. 

A large amount of City and Country Real Estate at all times 
for sale. Investments made for non-residents. 

REFERENCES : 

Hon. John Wilson, Commissioner, Illinois Central Railroad 

Land Department. 
Hon. C- B. Ficklen. Charleston, 111. 

W. N. Coler, Esq., Preset. Grand Prairie Bank, Urbana, 111. 
Col. M. Thompson, Washington City. 



EEYBURtf & AOTICK, 

Wholesale and Retail 

GROCERS & FLOUR, FRUIT 

AND PROVISION DEALERS. 

Keep constantly on hand a large and carefully selected stock 

in their line. The highest market prices paid for all 

kinds of Country Produce. 

WM C. LETBCRN. PLEASANT AXICK. 



31 . HAILOJT, 

Wholesale and Retail Dealer in 

TEAS, COFFEES, SUGARS, 

FAMILY GROCERIES, FRUIT, etc. 

141 Clark St., corner of Madison, Chicago, 111. 

P. O. Address. Box 1955. 

KING, SCOTT & WILLSON, 
Attorneys and Counselors at Law, 

No. 39 Clark Street, Chicago, 111. 



WM. H KING. 



IRA SCOTT. 



S. M. WILLSON. 



GEO. G. GRUBB, 

REAL ESTATE AGENT, 

Auction & Commission Merchant 

No. 121 Randolph St., 

MARBLE FRONT OPPOSITE THE COURT HOUSE. 



For the sale of Houses .Lots, Lauds.Vessels Cargoes, Stocks, 

Land Warrants, Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and 

Shoes, Household Furniture, and Merchandise 

of every description- 

OUT DOOR SALES OF ALL KINDS ATTENDED TO. 
Advances made and Notes Negotiated. 



N. B.— This is strictly a Commission Honse 



WILDEE'S 

SALAMANDER SAFES, 

Depot, 171 §©utli Water St., 

CHICAGO, ILL. 



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GEO. SMITH & CO. 
3S-A.3VT IES. E3 3FL S, 

ANO DEALERS IN 

Foreign and Domestic Exchange, 

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 

Collections made on all the principal cities in the United 
States, on the most favorable terms. 

CHICAGO BANK. 

I. El. BURCH & CO., 

BANKERS AND EXCHANGE BROKERS, 

124 Lake St., corner of Clark. 

Sight Drafts on New York, in sums to suit purchasers. 
Money received on deposit. 
I II. Knrch, ) 

Geo. Burch, i I. H. BURCH & CO. 

John R. Valentine. ) 

MORFORD BROTHERS, 

B A. N" K E R S , 

Corner Clark & Lake Sts., 
CHICAGO, ILL. 

RKrER TO 

C. A. Morford, Esq., Banker, New York. 
Carpenter 4 Vermilye. Bankers, " 
Merchants Exchange Bank, " 

STRONG 8c WILETIjROS; 
B Jk. KT IE5L ES 3FL S5, 

AND DEALERS IN 

Foreign and Domestic Exchange, 

141 RANDOLPH ST., CHICAGO, ILL. 

Make collections on all parts of the Union, and remit 
promptly at current rate of Exchange. 

D. 0. STRONG, C. T. WILEY, B. B. WILEY. 



COTES, DYIIRENFURTH & CO. 

BANKERS, 

135 RAMDOLPH STREET, 

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 

JOHN S. BUCHANAN, 

(Formerly Warden of the Co. of Middlesex. London, C. W.,) 

REAL ESTATE AGENT 

100 Randolph St., Cp Stairs, 

CHICAGO. 

City Lots and Lands for sale on the most reasonable terms 
Money Loaned or invested to good advantage, and on the 
best unencumbered Real Estate as security. By the laws of 
this State Aliens can legally hold and convey Real Estate. 

REFER TO 
Hon. L. D. Boone, Chicago. I Wm. H. Blake, Toronto, C.W. 
George Steel, Esq , Chicago. | M. Cameron, Toronto. C. W. 
R. S. Buchanan, Esq , N. Y. I A. C. Buchanan, Esq. .Quebec 
Wm. Elliot, Loudon, C. W. | Duncan Bell, Esq , Hamilton. 

SAWYER, PAIGE & CO., 



WHOLESALE DEALERS IN 



DRUGS & MEDICINES, 

DYE STUFFS, GLASS, OILS, ETC. 

No. 70 Lalto Street, 

Between Dearborn and State, 
CHICAGO, .... ILLINOIS. 



MARINE BANK, 

CHICAGO. 

Chicago Marine and Tire Insurance Company. 
CAPITAL $500,000. 

B. F. CARVER, Cashier and Secretary. 

J. YOUNCx SCAMMON, President, 

Collections made and drafts remitted to all parts of the 
Union. 

EXCHANGE BANIL 

H. A. TUCKER & CO., 

Bankers & Dealers in Exchange, 

CORNER CLARK AND LAKE STREETS, 
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 

Collections made in the different cities in the Union. Ex- 
change at t2e lowest current rateB. 



HOFFMANN & GELPCKE, 

BANKERS, Chicago. 

Deposits received and interest allowed on special deposits. 
Liberal accommodations granted to depositors independent 
of the state of the money market. Exchange and Letters of 
Credit in sums to suit on the principal cities of the United 
States and Europe. Exchange on Europe to importers at 
New York quotations. Time loans on private bonds and 
mortgages negotiated. Western State, County, City or Rail- 
road Loaus negotiated abroad. 

FRANCIS A. HOFFMANN, OTTO GELPCKE. 



W. STEINHAUS, 

Manufacturer of all kinks of 




^visrr> "w~.A.a-o:isrs 3 

Office and Repository, 10 Canal St. 

ALL WORK WARRANTED. 

THOMSON & ALSTON, 

AGENTS OF THE 

M\ W GLASS COMPANY. 

A. ORTMAYER, 
SADDLE k HARNESS MAKER, 

AND 

CARRIAGE TRIMMER, 
49 West Randolph St., Chicago, 111. 

0. F. LILLY. EOWIH LILLY. 

C. F. & E. LILLY, 

Importers of 

FRENCH CHINA AND CROCKERY, 

And Wholesale Dealers in 

Cutlery, Looking Glasses and Honse Furcishiog Goods, 

105 Lake Street, Chicago, 111. 



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LAND AND FINANCIAL OFFICE, 



CHICAGO, 

N. P. IGLEHART 



ILLINOIS. 
C. W. CLAYTON. A. VAIL. 

N. I>. IGLEHAET & CO., 



DEALERS IX 



LANDS, LOTS AND STOCKS. 

N. B.— Money received on Deposit for Investment in good Securities, and 
Interest guaranteed to be paid on the same at Chicago, New York or Boston. 

Taxes paid, and information given about Lands in any part of the West. 



P. S.— We have facilities for loaning money here, LEGALLY, at from 12 to 20 per cent, per annum ; secured 
amply by Trust Deeds on Real Estate ; and by the Laws of Illinois, the money can BE MADE on said Trust Deeds 
in from 10 to CO days after the maturity of the same ; thu3 offering a good and secure investment to those having 
funds to loan. Our charge for thus investing, to the party loaning, is ONE PER CENT. Details given to any 
par ty on application, by mail or otherwise. 

6^~ Also, on hand for sale, or the same made to order, 10 per cent. COUPON BONDS, having from three to ten 
years to run, in amounts of $300 and upwards. Interest payable semi-annually in New York. Secured on best 
Real Estate ia Chicago, fer double the value. 

A careful examination of the details of our Railroads and General Statisti cs, wi'l give dome idea of the im- 
mense business and Trade which now is, and must continue to be, concentrated at Chic* go. The natural increase 
of the laboring and other classes ef population incident to ihe various mechanical branches of business now be- 
ing conducted or projected, with a similar increase in other pursuits, must give Chicago an aggregate increase in 
population for the next few years fully equal to the p 'St, thus m-king us, during the Spring of 1857, 
A CITY OP ONE HUNDKED AND TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE! 

EF~ No one, we think, who looks at the present position of Chicago, and reflects that it is situated t the head 
of navigation on the Great Lakes, within reach of the Coal Fields ot Illinois, the Lead Mines of Galena, and the 
Iron and Copper of Lake Superior, and surrounded by the great Agricultural Fields of the West, m.king us now 

The greatest primary Grain Market of tlie "World, 

can doubt that she is destined to stand among the Great Cities of this Continent. With these facts so self-evident, 
and with the fact that but a tithe, as yet, of these advantages are practically developed, it is very clear that our 
ci'y has but just commenced to grow; fcnd we aBsert the fact to be, that in no city in the United States are there so 

GOOD CHANCES FOR PAYING INVESTMENTS 

whether it be in prosecuting some of the various mechanical or mercantile pursuits, loaning money, well secured, 
or the purchasing, judiciously, of Real Estate, as ;ire presented at this time, in the City of Chicago and its vicinity. 
The arrangements of our House, and our knowledge of the property in this city and vicinity, as well as of our 
acquaintance with the condition of the makers of the Bonds, Notes and Obligations offered for s'le, >re such as 
will result to the advantage of those desiring to invest here, whether the buyer visit? us in person, or gives orders 
per mail or otherwise. 



Parties (^ hether in the United States or beyond) desiring to remit us for investment, can do so by procuring 
Checks to our order on 

R. K. SWIFT & CO., GEORGE SMITH & CO., HOFFMANN & GELPCKE, 

or any of the Chicago Bankers ; or by Drafts on the Eastern cities, together with such instructions as will inform 
us of their wishes in the premises. 

We ask a calm reading of the facts and figures so amply set forth in the published history of our Commerce and 
Railroads, issued last spring in pamphlet form, as also that contained in pamphlet form just issued by "Demo- 
cratic Press," we calling special attention to the articles en R lilroads and Statistics of Populatiou, and merely to 
aid reflection, suggest six points : 

1st. That at ths time there are arriving and departing over one hundred and twenty trains of cars daily from 
this our "Garden City." 

2d. That all these Fourteen Railroads, and some Thirty Extension Branch Links, centering here, have 
been built so far, and will be completed entire, without one dollar of expense or liability to the city of Chicago, 
and giving s n aggregate of some eight thousand miles of Railroads. 

3d. That the increase of population for the year 1^53 w«s twenty-two thousand persons— equal to 57 per cent.; 
end the census completed July, 1855, shows an increase of 23,000 persons, and a total population of 83,00u, and will 
now exceed 110,000. 

4th. That the ^ ggreg'te amount of manufacture for 1856 isSla.515,063. 

5th. That the total value of Real and Personal property in 184') was $1,864 205, and in 1866 »17,348.242.83. 

6th. That the total receipts of Grain for 1856 was 24,674,824 Bushels! and of Lumber equal to Four Hundred 
and Fifty Millions Feet ! 

By Particulars about property, or general inquiries from non-residents, promptly answered by mail or 
otherwise. Address, without reserve, 

3ST. P. IGLEHART & CO., No. 56 La Salle St., 

CHICAGO, ILTINOIS. 

A LARGE AND VALUABLE LIST OF REAL ESTATE IN AND AROUND CHICAGO, 
Always to be found at our office, and a great portion of it on payments of one-quarter cash, and the balance on 
from one to five years' credit. Also, good Notes and Bonds secured by Trust Deeds, are usually on hand awaiting 
sale. 

Abstracts of Titles always furnished to Buyers. 

Of On money deposited with us, with a view to investment, 10 per cent, per annum Interest will be allowed, 
subject to fight check, at option of owner. 
N. B.— Office hours from S A. M. to 9 P. M. — and the best arranged Office In the AVest. 

'Maps of the City, and Railro d Maps, showing Roads centering at Chicago, furnished without charge. 





THE OLDEST AND LARGEST 

BLANK BOOK MANUFACTORY 

iisr am a .a. Go. 



GREAT WESTERN BOOK BINDER!!! 



CULVER, PAGE & HOYNE, 

Nos. 128 and 130 Lake Street, 

Corner of Clark Street, CHICAGO. 



C. P. & H. keep constantly on hand, and MANUFACTURE to order, to any 
pattern of Ruling, with or without Printed Headings, BLANK BOOKS of all 
sizes and descriptions, and would respectfully call the attention of 

BAEKIES, SHIPPERS, G01UU8810H MERCHANTS, 

CORPORATIONS, COUNTY AND OTHER OFFICERS, 

to their House, Stock, and Facilities. They also keep on hand and get up to order, 
LITHOGBAPHED NOTES, 

CHECKS, CERTIFCATES OF DEPOSIT, DRAFTS, 

Cards, [Bill and Letter Heads, 

TOGETHER WITH A 

FULL STOCK OF STATIONERY. 

CULVER, PAGE & HOYNE, 

Nos. 128 & 130 Lake Street. 



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