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Show m CHICAGO PACKING PLANTS RUNNING PAY AND NIGHT Activity Due to Large Orders for Canned Meats and Hide Received I as a Result of the War j Chicago, Oct. 20. For . tho first time in sixteen years the meat packers pack-ers at the C'hlcugo stock yards ore working night and day In the canned can-ned meat and hldo departments In o der to fill orders. Tho unusunl activity activ-ity has been caused by tho largo or ders lecelved as a result of tho European Eu-ropean wnr. In tho canning departments depart-ments alone 300 extra men havo been put to work within a week. Tho visible domestic supply of canning can-ning beef was depleted several weeks ago and tho packors began sending to foreign fle'ds for cattlo suitable for this purpose. As a result Cunuda, Mexico nnd southern states which never before shipped livestock to this market havo been sending their cat tie hero and receiving a good price for their product. Tho packers announce thut their entire stock of hides on hand bus been contracted for and that or ders hnvo been received which will exhaust tho normal supply fit No vcmber and December. |