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Show A BIG MEAT TRUST. The Union Stock Yards, Armour, .iwift. Mo-ris and the Other Packers Work Togrther. JfciisaT Cm', March 1. A special meeting meet-ing preparatory to the annual meeting of the Chicago Junction railway and Union Stockyards company, was held this afternoon after-noon in this city. It is proposed to change the nature of the company's business by establishing and maintaining and operating near the stock yards of the company in Chicago, Chi-cago, warehouses, ditcks and other improvements improve-ments and to acquire and establish for said purposes land and warehouses and other improvements im-provements in or in proximity to Chicago or elsewhere. The proposal was adopted by a larg ; majority. The meeting also ratified the proposed agreement with Armour, Swift, Morris and other meat packers, to last for fifteen years, which virtually establishes a trust consolidating the various interests, by a similar vote. |