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and will be increased from time to time to any extent required, 
as the railroad company own a large tract of land adjoining 
the present yards. Already it is found that more room is 
wanted, and important extensions of the pens will be made the 
coming spring. The present area covered by that portion of 
the yards that is completed is between four and five acres. 
The pens (completed and under way) will hold two thousand 
head of cattle or about twenty thousand hogs. Fourteen cars 
can be unloaded or loaded at the same time. At the old yards 
but one car at a time could unload. Two wide passages or 
streets extend the whole length of the yards, intersected by 
shorter avenues, dividing the pens into sections which are 
designated as ‘Section A,’ ‘Section B,’ and so on. The pens, 
of which sixty-two are now in use, are numbered in regular 
order and the number of each conspicuously inscribed upon 
its entrance. The arrangements for weighing, watering and 
feeding stock are very complete. The yards are supplied with 
an abundance of pure water from a large reservoir on an ad¬ 
jacent eminence, which is fed from the Menomonee river by 
means of a pump worked by a wind-mill. 
“ One of the canals in process of being dug out through the 
Menomonee bottom reaches these yards so that stock can be 
shipped either by rail or water with equal convenience. The 
company are constructing a broad planked avenue par¬ 
allel with the line of the railroad track leading from the yards 
to the slaughter houses, about half a mile distant. These 
yards, so perfect in all of their arrangements, have been con¬ 
structed with great economy, the whole of the expense of the 
work thus far done amounting to only about $28,000. 
“ By an arrangement between the railway companies, live 
stock may now be shipped from any poini on the lines of the 
Chicago and Northwestern Kailway to this market, and if not 
sold here may be re-shipped to Chicago without any additional 
expense. Parties shipping live stock from any points west or 
north of this city to Chicago have the privilege of unloading, 
feeding and resting here with no additional expense except for 
fodder consumed. 
