Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-11-30
sLAUGHTER ROUSE.
The rorI> rnckinE EstabIish,nsni -, We.
Daniel a Go.


Yesterday afternoon No looked through the
above establishment, and viewed tho entire pro-
cess, from tho pen where the hogs are ksp., %
the dry sailing room. Mr. Mcdaniel has on
countered many obstacles in tho way of making
this ENTERPRISE success but we are glad that
he has overcome them, and that the Knoxville
Pork House Is now ono ~ tho Institutions or tho
city
About seven hundred hogs have been slsught-
crod there this season, three hundred Of them
being killed yesterday. Between fifty and sixty
hands are employed though the establishment Is
not worked up 90 its full capacity who each
have their proportion Of wor' 20 a.
The hogs are driven into pens, knocked down
and stuck, and when dead, thrown into q LARGO
vat when the cry Of hog OUT, attcsts the
speed of fourteen hands employed In scrapiugoN
the hair, and the plunge Of hog in keeps the
two detailed for that business very busy. When
'crupcd the hogs are turned over 20 six men
WIG insert tho gammoning stick hang them up
and take out the 'nterstiucs, iotl'ns = 5 81; remain
for twenty-four hours when they are taken
down 70 the arst story, cut up and sailed down
A number OF women are employed IN remoy-
ing fat from the oAal, which is carefully washed
and taken to the rendering department and
thrown into huge kettles, as is also tho leaf ;at
and trimmings from the ditforOHt i0intsvhcu cut
UP, where 1t Is made into lard.
The refueo portion are placed a huge boiler.
dried ont and used il the manUlaCtUra p -oap
OfWLigh large QuautitiCs w. u.ade
The backbcnes, head. sparc-,ihs, c,c.. lind
ready sale at the poyl, House OF from three 60
pix cents per pound. Nothing j. wasted but the
blood which flows ir & rivulet to the river im-
parting am onsanguiucd tingc 60 ito wstsrs
The establishment is run by steam, the water
being forced 10y q large pump from the river
through pipe Everything IS carefully wash
cdR 1in the afternoon and kept clean and fresh
1t was 4 sight good for the eyes Of lovers of pro-
Spectivc bacon to see the long rows of dressed
hogs hanging ready for tho cuttcr-up. The
pretticpt specimens were Of the White Chester
breed, which looked 40 white SIS it /, poa-ibe to
conceive. Mr.. Mcdaniel Informed Us that the
bost lot Of hogs received this season had come
from Blouut county, which -pcolC- wcll for the
pork rni-crs of that section
II is the general opinion OF leading dealers
TINT pork and bacon will rule low the costing
season. and obviously thosN getting So market
first will obtain the highest price,. Indeed such
will probably be the haste Of Qealors to get the
earliest market, that "a great portion Of that
killed Will not even be hung. but sent to mar
ket in bulk. in view of this fact we would
commend our friend ~ the country TO sell
their hogs in Knoxville and realize their money
now, in preference 70 curing bacon themselves
to sell, for when the market is stocked the price
will get lower and they viii in the end lose
money
There ia no reason Why twenty thousand hogs
should not be slaughtered here every winter.
BY doing that the money would he retained
here, where Us by driving them South 1t is fire.
quently losing game, to say nothing of the
immense waste Of time Strengthening has grown
TO he business of vast proportions in Cincin-
reason why it should not become equally profit
able hero. We confidently believe that such
will be the case within very few years and
the man who engages in il viii amass fortune.