Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-04-26
CITY AFFAIRS.

FINE FAMILY HAMs.-A juicy, well-favoured ham,
is delicious accession to dinner table, it one we
venture to say, highly appreciated by Virgnians,
than by any portion of the great Anglo Saxon family
The Old Dominion has been long and Justly celebrated
tor the production of good bacon "Smithfeld hams
heretofore occupied the place in the estimation of
American epicures, which the famed "Westphalia
hams" enjoys in that OF the Englishman 1t is not an
unusual thing encounter Smthield ham at the tables
OF the crack" hoelsn the Northern and Eastern Cities
80 highly are they esteemed even out of Virginia
In this city, we have several extensive curing houses
where most excellent bacon is cured. Our CITY cured
hams have measurably superseded the Smithfeld and
Baltimore cured But friends are about encounter
ing competitor, to whom, fear they will be COM
PEELED to yield the palm. This asprant for popular
! favour, halls from "Porkopos' itself
The virgin forests of the West-her broad and fertile
pralres, her rich alluvaI bottom lands all point her
out as the great pork raising section of the Union Gin
cmnatl from her central and commanding position has
become the centre of the pork trade the West There
we believe more porkers annually slaughtered cured
and packed than in all the other cities of the Union COM
bned; and there operations in this line of business are
conducted on scale of magnitude absolutely ason,b-
ing 10 enable the reader to form some idea of the ex-
tent OF these operations, copy from late number of
the Cincinnati Daily Commercial the following descrip-
ton OF an establishment in that city which has recently
commenced operations,
Since last October, Messrs ScHooLEY g. HousH have
erected ON East Court street, large establishment: we
believe the largest but one, the largest in the cy
| exclusively Tor curing Fancy Hams. We may afford
gratlcation to distant readers who have heard
somewhat OF " POrkopohS," by giving the few items we
picked up while at the above establishment one day last
week. Having casually passed that way on business
we saw building some 60 feet by 10O three or four
stores high, back OF which range of three build
ings under roof The range of buildings back We're
three smoke houses joining yet all separate SO that the
hams can be put up or taken in one while smokno
goes on in the others. The three houses are capable
smoking 100000 lbs at one time Hams are brought to
cellar underneath the main building green from the
block and there undergo sailing process then thew are
DRIED, then smoked then taken to the paperpg DEPART
ment and papered then covered over by canvass then
branded, and then baeled and shipped The Honse Of
Sehooley d Hough s capable of curing at one season
or course, over one hundred thousand hams. The
smoking is all done with dry hickory The arrange
mens are all complete for the work which goes on with
regularity approaching clock work! Is it to be won
dered at, then, that the "Queen City Hams" have an
| extensive popularity at home and abroadl
we take pleasure in mparting an interesting item of
information to the ham-loving citizens of Richmond
We were fortunate enough to uxuriate day or two
since, on one of Schooley & Houghs Queen CITY
HAMS, and can with sincerity declare that for ucness
flavor, and all the elements which make up a choice
ham, Schooley & Hough's cannot be exceled We
were indebted for this treat the poteness of Messrs
WILLIAMS g. CLAIBORNE, Cary street, who have on sale
lot OF these hams, which they anxious to introduce
in III wiz