366 LESLIE M. SHAW 



The product of packing houses west of the Missouri 

 river sells on the market for an amount in excess of the postal 

 receipts of the United States, while a single institution, en- 

 gaged in the preparation of animal products, whose parent 

 plant is in Chicago, produced in one year more than 10,000 car- 

 loads, 900 tons per day, of manufactured products, in addi- 

 tion to its meats. The packing houses represented in Chicago 

 yield a larger gross income than all the customs houses and 

 internal revenue collectors of the United States, while the 

 live animals sold on a square mile of ground within the limits 

 of that city is only 15 per cent less than the gross earnings of 

 all the railroads that enter it. Either of two packers 

 within this territory pays more for live animals to the enrich- 

 ment of the ranchman and the farmer than is paid in divi- 

 dends and officers' salaries by all the railroads in the United 

 States, operating more than 200,000 miles, transporting more 

 than 500 million passengers, and moving a half billion tons 

 of freight, and capitalized at five and a half billions. 



California is known as a gold producing state, and she 

 well deserves her most enviable reputation, for her mines have 

 yielded in excess of $1,250,000,000, but her orchards and 

 vineyards are now a close second. California produces an- 

 nually 250 million pounds of cured fruits, and 7,000,000 cases 

 of lemons and oranges. Her farms responded with 32,000,000 

 bushels of wheat, 25,000,000 pounds of butter, 5,000,000 

 pounds of cheese, and 11,000,000 pounds of hops. She manu- 

 factured 65,000,000 pounds of sugar, and sent through the 

 Golden Gate more than 1,000,000 barrels of flour, and ex- 

 ported 15,000,000 dollars worth of other agricultural prod- 

 ucts, while her forests yielded 500,000,000 feet of lumber. 



Washington has a fame world wide for her fisheries; and 

 her forests cut 1,000,000,000 feet of lumber, and 3,000,000,000 

 shingles. The fisheries of Oregon yield $3,000,000, her mines 

 $4,000,000, and her farms and orchards $50,000,000. Her 

 manufactures, including lumber, are worth $60,000,000. Cali- 

 fornia, Oregon, and Washington estimate more than 400,000,- 

 000,000 feet of lumber yet standing in their forests, 100,000,- 

 000,000 more than government experts estimate in all the 



