A Gigantic Commercial Enterprise.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 245, 10 March 1888, Page 5

A Gigantic Commercial Enterprise.

It is said that a gigantic AngloAmerican commercial scheme is being hatched in which several American: millionaires, the Bothchiids, the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke of Westminster and other wealthy men are concerned. According to what the London correspondent of the Glasgow Herald has gleaned the promoters intend to erect graneriea, stores, pork-curing establish* ments, and cheese and butter factories on ■ites convenient to the line of the Minnesota North- Western Railway, which wasformerly the Chicago, Kansas City, and St. Paul line. All kinds of American produce, such as flour, fruit, ham, bacon, cheese, and butter, as well as live cattle, are to be run along this line to Chicago, thence by the Baltimore and Ohio Railway to New York. ;A bridge is to be built connecting the mainland with Staten .Island, where large docks .will be constructed. From this port the products of the United States will be carried by steamers specially built for the company, 1 AndlandedatParrow-in-Furnessof which the "!|)uk%of Devonshire is tne principal proprietor*- besides } being president of th# Ffirnest Ttytilyray, At. Barrow, the company ' propose building alongside the docks abattoirs' ! fotf slaughtering the .cattle immediately after landing, tanneries ior preparing tb& hides, andfactories for making- margarine out • of toe talloiy. Large warehouses are also to be erteted at Barrow, , and thence /the food? products will be distributed .throughout Great Britain, by means? ol.Ketail»<BtoreB)l wbiph wi)i be, opened in all' theleadingl towbs, in picde^tppjuppjy: consumer direot^without incurring any middlemen's shares j