Saint Paul Union Stockyards Company (South Saint Paul, Minn.).

The Saint Paul Union Stockyards Company was incorporated in 1886 for the primary purpose of developing land for the feeding and yarding of livestock en route to slaughterers, as well as providing adjacent lands for the operations of private packing houses and for the offices of livestock commission firms.

The chief organizers were apparently Alpheus B. Stickney, president of the Chicago Great Western Railroad, and Constantine W. Benson, the head of C. W. Benson and Company, a St. Paul foreign investment firm. The stockyards company issued $1 million in capital stock and $2 million in mortagage bonds, much of which was purchased for English investors by Robert H. Benson and Company of London, which firm appeared to be quite active in the corporation's affairs.

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