Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-12-25
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During alittle aleigh ride in Ottum-
wa on Monday, we were first shown
the oat meal mandatory. The mill
is doing q splendid business, and be.
sides supplying the great dcmand-for
their meal At home, large quantities
of it has been shipped TO different
parts of the State and out of it. The
mill will undoubtedly prove . valu-
able addition to the enterprise Of that
city, as well az will the starch factory
that is to be put in motion at an early
day. The water power 10 proving an
enterprise to be all that could be de-
sired, and is doing oil toward making
Ottumwa the foremost manufactur-
ing city in the State, or in the west.
Also Is the water works, now fur
nishing water throughout the city,
proving itself . valuable and paying
enterprise, and adds no little in show
ing the goaheadativeness ofthe people
of the place. The new pork packing
establishment is q mammoth brick
structure. The inside is furnished
with the very latest improved ma
chinery for the business, aud 1t. Is as
tonishing to see what an almost
incredible short time is occupied in
cleaning and hanging porker up to
cool. They are preparing meats for
nearly all parts of the world, and we
were shown the different ways the
meats had to be cut for each country
and county beyond the waters. If
not mistaken, it was told us that
about one hundred men were en-
ployed in and about the building.
At present they are slsughtering ON
an average of nine hundred hogs
per day, but have the capacity Of
killing twice that number if the rush
Of incoming hogs should demand it.
This pork house must eventually
prove great institution for Ottumwa
and the citizens cannot estimate its
addition too highly, which, in con-
nection with the Lsdd packing house
that is now Strengthening from 700
&c 800. hogs day, and has the capa-
city of killing twice that number
should necessity demand, and the
"Pony packing house" as it is called,
with nearly equal capacity to that Of
the Ladd house, must eventually
make Ottumwa, the hog market for
the western country. In fact, there
is no city west Of Chicago that can
show so flattering prospect for be-
coming q metropolis as Ottumwa
has got to-day, and her enterprising
citizens are showing full apprecia.
ton of the fact in the manner in
which they push forward all enter
prises that is to add in the least to the
present and future prosperity Of the
place. Being the end ofa division on
the c., B. & O.. the Des Moines Val.
ley, the Iowa Central and North
Missouri railroads. has made Ottum.
wa railroad center. giving its bust,
ness men every advantage in shipping
that any city west of Chicago can pos
sibly offer, and the city standing as i,
does, surrounded with ~ good and
productive country 40 can be fount
anywhere, gives to its citizens fu
ture prospect that they may well b,
, proud Of, and would be justifiable il
indulging in little Boosting. OF
tumwa also holds many additions
advantages over other western cities
among which can be mentioned tina
the city stands in the best coal field
of the west, and convenient to goo,
timber land that will furnish all tn
hard wood material that the city an,
, country will need for . century I,
come.-Mt. Pleasant Reporter.