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Show .AG.iCd.ilS PROFITS LAME Gross Business of Four Big Concerns Nearly $800,000,000 Chicago, 'May 2S. The four big packers. Swift." Armour, Morris and Cudahy and their associate, the National Na-tional Packing company, do an annual groes business of nearly $800,000,000, a total greater than that of the steel corporation in its biggest year. 1907, when groBs sales reached $757,000,000. It Is now possible, owing to Massachusetts Massa-chusetts laws requiring full statements, state-ments, for the first time in the history his-tory of the packing Industry, to get a close idea of the exact proportions of the business, the sales of the different companies for the last year being as follows: Swift, $250,000,000; Armour. $240.-000,000; $240.-000,000; Morris. .$110,000,000; Cudahy, $80,000,000; .National Packing, $100.-000.000; $100.-000.000; total, $780,000,00. Figures of National Packing sales are not official, as in the case of the other companies. They are, however, conservative, so that, based on tho present volume of business handled by the big four. It is possible that the gross total will be found to exceed $800,000,000. |