Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-09-25
MEAT SHIPPING ASSOCIATION.


The Nevada Transcript says the California
Fruit and Meat Shipping Company will COM
mence operations ON the LIST of October. We
learn the following particulars in regard to it
from John Cashin, the President. For the
present the Company will ship their meats to
San Francisco, but will extend their business
as occasion demands. The stockholders, pos
sessing their own ranches and pastures, will
have the necessary amount of cattle always
on hand, ready to send in, by slow and easy
drives, to the Company's corrals at Reno. At
that place the Company have erected large
and convenient slaughter house, purposely de-
signed and fitted up for killing and preparing
cattle for the markets The slaughter house
and corrals are situated about three quarters
of a mile from Reno directly on the railroad,
and they run along and are adjacent to the
railroad for about one mile. These are be-
tween the railroad and the Truckee river-an
irrigating ditch which runs in front of the
slaughter house furnishing all abundance of
pure running water for the use of cattle The
slaughte house is so constructed as to allow
full-sized railroad car, called refrigerator,
to run into the building so that meats can be
loaded from either side. The floor of this car
stands on a level with the floor of the slaugh-
ter house, making thereby everything conven-
lent and insuring cleanliness in loading the
car with meat Thirty five neatly dressed
cattle are moved from the slaughter house
and are carefully hung up in the Refrigerator
car" This car, with it's contents, is immedi
ately forwarded to San Francisco, without dis
turbance of any kind The car is patented,
and has been thoroughly and repeatedly test
ed in the Atlantic States, which leaves no
doubts as to its successful results in landing
the meats perfectly fresh and matured enough
and just right for USE 1t is well to explain
the nature of this Refrigerator car, as most
people think that meat in it is frozen, which
is most decidedly not the case. By the use
of ice placed in remote part of the car with
the proper management of hot and cold air,
the thermometer is reduced and kept at an
average of, say, from forty to fifty degrees,
Fahrenheit, thus producing natural cold and
dry air, notwithstanding the thermometer, on
the outside of the car, may mark one hundred
or over. The meats placed in that car will be
warranted to keep fresh and perfectly sound
for thirty days.
SCARCITY OF PINE NUTs.-The Silver State
of Saturday says that the Piutes have been
very badly disappointed in regard to the pine
nut crop. They expected to find an abundent
supply of the oily and nutritious nuts in the
timbered regions of southern Humboldt, and
many of them went to that section to harvest
the crop. Naches informs us that they were
previously disappointed, and instead of find
ing the cones bursting with the palpatable
fruit, they were shriveled and barren, and the
harvesters could scarcely get sufficient tosub
sst on during their stay in the pinyon country.
The telephone has been introduced in Eng |
lamp for communication between a Cornwall |
mine and the surface, thus superceding the
unsafe card signals heretofore in vogue.
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