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FACTS
AND FIGURES about Libby, McNeill & Libby's PLANT.
Space occupied by plant, 6 acres; floor space, 25 1/2
acres. Capacity of cutting floor, 250 cattle per hour. Slaughtered
weekly, 15,000 cattle.
Our stables contain 75 teams
of a uniform bay color, many of them prize winners.
Eighteen boilers are in use
in our powerhouse and our refrigerating plant has a capacity of
750 tons per day.
We prepare numerous varieties of ready-to-eat
foods in this: also supply choice meats of all kinds
to hotels and restaurants in all parts of the United States. We
also produce large quantities of Smoked Beef, Hams, Bacon, Barrelled
Meats and Sausages of every variety.
OUR PRODUCTS ARE NOTED FOR THEIR "NATURAL FLAVOR."
Number of people employed in
Chicago Plant, 2,500. Annual payroll (about) $1,000,000.
We operate our own refrigerator car line.
Branch houses in all the large
cities of the United States and Canada, and in each of the principal
import centers of the world.
Monthly output, 5,000,000 cans.
Number boxes of tinplate used annually, 150,000.
Whenever exhibited, Libby's Canned Foods
have secured highest awards for purity and excellence, receiving
gold medals at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893;
Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition at Omaha, 1898 and
Paris Exposition of 1900.
Pan-American Exhibit-Manufacturers' and Liberal
Arts Building, Section 11.
Libby, McNeill & Libby, Chicago,
U. S. A.
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