Use as contemporary evidence of a production-byproduct link between distilleries and the livestock economy. The visually verified cattle figure is 50,000; do not copy the OCR error.
The passage follows the report’s statement that Peoria produced more proof-gallons of spirits than any other U.S. city, then gives 1879 stockyard throughput of 300,000 hogs and 50,000 cattle.
“As a natural outcome of the distilleries, the stock-yards have become a necessity, as a way of disposing of the swill”
printed p. 526 (PDF p. 15)
Peoria / industries
Quotation, punctuation, and context checked against printed p. 526 at high resolution.
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Evidence
A 21-word direct quotation records the Census Office’s explicit causal connection between distilleries, swill disposal, and stockyards.
Location and context
Printed p. 526 / PDF p. 15. The preceding sentence gives Peoria’s contemporary production ranking; the following clause records 1879 throughput of 300,000 hogs and 50,000 cattle.
Annotation
Use for the distillery-byproduct and livestock-market connection. The page image, not OCR, controls the 50,000-cattle figure.