, 1863-11-12

Tte dral hearing WAS put of uutu Two O'Clock
to-dbJ-the comme1c'ale d.tor-shyst1z beirg held
under $500 bAii.
a Model Packing HOUSE.
Everybody living In Chicago, OF within several
hundred milea Of IL, understands that pork Aad
bcefpackipg, wE1ch fewyears ago WIS 4 secondary
Interest to several others, Is now one Of the gzeat
tpcclalttes. Last year about 1000, 900 hogs were
packed worth 1oT cay SO o0o Gu, and tho prospect
to-day is that The number will be greatly Increased
during the present winter, and the ralue Of the
product nearly II not quite doubled. Twenty mil.
Hons Of dollars ia large Bum to barrel up in one
a,tcle Of consumption, but It viii be done, aud
our city will be much the richer for It. There are
row over thirty packing establishments In this
city, Hom the capacity Of two hundred to two
thousand hogs ptr d1en+ During the past season,
Gridh Brothers, who have been engaged In the
same business At Freeport for SONS yea,s past,
concluded to change their quarters to this city,
seeing that this waA to be The great centre for this
claus Of busineee. In carrying out their design,
they hare finished q new edftce which was COM
menced last winter by another party. This has
been done under the immediate eye of the Measrs.
GfitHp, and, with theIr experience In the bueI-
nefs. has enabled them to take Advantage of such
new Improvements - experience and skul may
have suggested. As very few Of our readers have
probably cTer been inside and Witnessed the
operations Of one Of these establishments when
In full blatt, VIC viii endeavor to give IN interior
view. The building the Mcesrs Griffin hare thus
prepared for nes is 150 BY 60 feet, with lard and
tel1ow house SO By 40, and an engine room Is By
30 three stories high, built Of brick and 7e1y sub
e'anlaL H1e ooandeo oy Afenef Road. Bsainard
enp' Ano1 aoo o. Lonas hoad and SAT- street. In
Inc 1aoous Pteelact oI bfaogepo1f. 1t has capA-
catJ 1os slaughte11ng, PACKING a9d tauking 1,500
10 2'ooo hogs and when the cattle department is
eomplcteo' Sto ea11te per cay. The establishment
mas plentf ol YARD room 1of storage and holding
eatIe ano hoes- II WILL hold easily 1900 Of the
'ane1' ise45tains IL oone " ysleam and machine
f5, enn great care has been exercised to econo-
m1ze lAoo1 apd time. We WILL endeayor to detail
tIe n'oaHs eoe+dhds Of
eLAuGH7E11so.
At The east end Of the building Ii gangway
3eadine ron the hog.pen On the ground TO the
thisd eEotf oi the building, "he1e slkughteEing Ia
done. Up this gaogwaJ the hogs are driven and
into email PIN capable Of holding SIX Or eight.
Inside Of this pen stands ufld-mannered man,
Who, Is the logs eIter the pon, walks around
among them, in very quiet wsy, tapping one
after another On The head with IN iron maui.
cavtng-in their aku1ls. From this pen they are
passed to m adjoining pen. where equally mild
looktn citizen cuts their throats. Two ether
men then selze them and plunge them into the
tank OF boiling water. Here they are taken In
charge by two more mer, who, with ehort poles,
gently move the hogs to the other end Of the tank,
come ten feet long. employing Just twenty seconds
in the operation. Again they are seized by a ma.
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