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In the late 1800s, cattle would be shipped alive to the Chicago Livestock Market. The development of the livestock industry, of course, is the stuff of legends hundreds of "Western" movies were made about the cattle drives from Texas up the railheads in Nebraska and Kansas. They could escape the manure but not the smell. Buyers and sellers could survey the herds from the comfort and safety of elevated walkways eight to 10 feet above the pens.

The livestock pens spread out over 250 acres much larger than most farms at the time dominating the landscape of South Omaha.

There was also an internal railroad system owned by the stockyard itself. In addition to trucks, the stockyard was serviced by at least six railroads the Union Pacific Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Missouri Pacific Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Chicago & North Western and the Wabash.Stockmen would have to serve as traffic cops to keep the trucks moving, and still it would take hours to unload. Some market days, the livestock trucks would be lined up from 36th and L Streets all the way west to 72nd Street.On any given market day in the mid-50s, over $2.5 million dollars worth of livestock was handled almost $18 million worth in today's dollars.Throughout the 50s, Omaha attracted livestock from around 30 states and Canada.In 1958, there was more than a million bushels of government grain stored at the stockyards to feed the livestock as they awaited sale.At its height, the stockyard itself employed 300 to 400 people with crews running 24/7.By 1957, the livestock industry that included the stockyard company, an astounding 19 different meatpacking companies, 40 commission firms, a special railroad just for livestock, and other companies employed half of Omaha's workforce.When Omaha took over as the number one livestock market, there were 6.7 million head processed.

In the next to last year of World War II, there were over 7.7 million head of livestock processed through the Omaha livestock market.

The numbers from the late 40s and 50s were staggering Everyday, thousands of cattle, hogs and sheep were shipped, first by rail and later by trucks, to Omaha's pens where they would be sold to packinghouses for slaughter or to other livestock producers for fattening or breeding stock. In 1955, Omaha's livestock market became the largest in the world.

M.E.A.T. CHICAGO MARKET DAYS HOW TO

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