The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-11-02

THH KEoKUK PoaK Houss - Tho
new Pork Hoass q Nssss. Conplbjs 3
Smyth, and 0sdnau 4 Bro, i nov com.
pleted, and is. BY far, ons Of the largest
private improvements ever made in our
city, and We can say, without fear Of con-
tradiction, i one Of the largest, most
substaatisl md besta azrsogsds houses II
the United States.
The main packing house il thrss atories
high. aud built with the best lime stone.
$50 feet in length, by 100 feet in width;
thickness Of wall. FIRST story, 5 feet; Sea-
ond story, n feet; third story. 90 inches;
an adjacent warehouse built Of stone, and
will be connected with main building By
a bridge, is III feet long, by so feet
wide-two stories high, with seven feet
basement story. The slsughter-house
which adjoius main building is two stories
high. IS feet in length, by Is feet vide.
The lower story opening on level with
the second story of the main packing
house. is the beef house, and has three
rows of beef boxes. and will hang ESQ
head of cattle. The second story is on q
level with the third story of the packing
house, and is for slaughtering hogs-has
capacity to handle daily 1900 hogs,
which are taken from the cleaning bench
on to an iron railroad and run into the
hanging house. which is fitted up With
slides, and has capacity for hanging 1900
hogs.
The iard-house ID 40 feet in length, By
% feet 10 width contains four Of the
largest size Wilson's patent iron lard
tanks, and two Of the largest size wooden
tanks-making six tanks, sufficient to
render daily the lard from 500 hoge
besides two large iron steam re6ners with
steam worm in each for purifying and
drying the lard after il is cooked in The
tanks which process a superior quality
OF lard is made that will keep in any eli
mate. The tanks empty into six larp.
vsts, aud the watts empty into presses uu
derneath, where all the grease left in th,
offal is pressed out.
The engine-bouse adjoining lard house
contsins q sixteen horse power engine
two boilers % feet long. and ~ inches il
diameter. with separation wall between
the boilers Of three feel, and steam drum
for each boiler. connected with three
foot pipe with valves IN same, SO that on,
or both boilers can be used. This i'm
provemsnt is surrounded b, some 6v,
acres OF ground, which is used for pen,
for cattle and hogs, brire yards, s,ocl
scale, dc. The Keokuk Pork House ba,
now slaughtered upwards of one thou
sand head Of cattle, and is daily killins
one hundred head; has capacity 10 pacl
and lake care Of the product OF s, 900 head
of cattle and $4,000 hogs.
The packing brand of the house il
Goldman Il Bro. packers. Their reputs
ton a. packers needs no comments at GU,
hands, as their brand il we'll known in
every market in the Union. EVERYTHING
about the premises of this establishment,
Is entirely new, and the house has all the
modern Improvements for handling both
cattle and hogs, and is so arranged thatss
boy ten years old can run a hog on the
railroad, and slides TO any part of the
hanging room.
Our city is now the Porkopolis of the
State, and the fifth packing point lin
number) in the United States. and the
capacity of all of our packing houses com.
blned, i've in number, amounts to 94O.-
QUO hogs and 10, 900 head of cattle. and
will furnish labor during the packing sea.
son for at least 400 men. Success. to ali
engaged In that branch of business.