The Officers are: Robert Allerton, President; Jas. S. 
McFadyen, Vice-President; John Anderson, Treasurer and 
General Manager; Geo. N. McDonald, Secretary. . 
SWIFT & COMPANY 
Although Swift & Company was not incorporated until 
1885, the business out of which it grew was founded by 
Gustavus F. Swift in 1868. From the time Mr. Swift made 
the first successful refrigerated shipments of dressed meats to 
the East, during the seventies, Swift products have been 
regularly sold in Pittsburgh. 
Swift & Company is an Illinois corporation, owned by 
more than 47,000 stockholders, and capitalized at $150,000,- 
000. The growth of the company, from a modest beginning 
has been made possible largely because a portion of the 
profits has been re-invested in the business year after year 
since its founding. To-day it is one of the largest American 
packing companies, with a nation-wide organization, and has 
more than 50,000 employes. Last year the company’s sales 
amounted to $775,000,000. 
This company slaughters cattle, sheep, and hogs, and 
markets the resulting meat and by-products in various stages 
of manufacture. The company also assembles and distributes 
produce, (butter, eggs, poultry, and cheese), manufactures 
oleomargarine, soap, gelatin, glue, fertilizer, etc., and refines 
and markets cottonseed oil and other vegetable shortenings. 
Swift & Company has 26 meat packing plants located in 
various parts of the United States. Most of these are located 
in the principal livestock producing regions. The company 
also operates produce plants where eggs are sorted and 
prepared for market, where poultry is milk fed and standard- 
ized according to weight and quality, and where butter is 
manufactured in modern and sanitary creameries. 
Swift products are distributed through more than 400 
branch houses and a large number of ‘““car routes” in this 
country and through numerous branches and agencies abroad. 
The branch house is a wholesale marketing establishment 
located in the larger towns and cities, from which Swift pro- 
ducts are sold to retailers. Carloads of meat, produce, and