Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-11-09
THE DODGE CITY TIMES.
A BIG THING ON WHEELS.


ing in them new aud important cspa9ilitiss
of incalculab.s benef; 20 sbs country. IL Is
und.rstood that we Iorr over t70,0c0, 900
wear 81 the destruction O! perIshAbls ari-
oles in trantiiu, which might be saved witt
proper preparation for the sale shipment Of
such articles, and not only the railway
owners, but other oonpanies are at work
introducing The special eqaipmenls needed
The progress which has been made In the
shipment Of dressed beef j. at once operat-
ing ss demonstration Of what can be done,
and as a stinulsn, TO further great economic
changes in transportation.
When the business OF shipping dresred
beef WEE firrt begun ii had to contend against
The oppo.ition OF rail~sy mansgers, who
preferred 10 Handle the live cattle, and in-
sisted that the dead weight of the reirigera.
tor cars wac more costly TO carry than the
extra weight Of the besses on loot. Power
tul interests in the cattle trade were arrsyed
against the experiment, and exerted all their
innncSce 10 have IL fdltu 10 othh. o1s
he Grand Trunk Railway OF Canada, which
was deprived OF all shsIe in the live stock
bushes. BY d continuation OF the other roads
running from Chicago TO the East, went into
the business Of applying Bosom with dress
ed beef 10 refrigerator carr IRON Chicago.
Soon the entire population Of New England
discovered thai this reirig, ratof teef was
preferable to thai OF cattle shipped alive
from the Wes, to their own slaughter hou.e s.
The business grew and improved i,s fAcil-
tiles and methods till al last no other meat
could compete with refrigerator beef, and
now Chicago ships 30, 600 carcssses of il 10
New England every month.
II New Eoglsud could get her best and
cheapest meat thus from Chicago Why
should the cattle be shipped alive from
Texas to Chicago when IL Is found that u
thousand pound bullock loses LIS pounds on
the cars between Texus and Chicago. The
food and .hrinkage Of live steer shipped
from Texss to New York by rail costs $26,
and why not ship his dressed carcass in re-
irigerstor cars when ice can be manufactured
and sold for large profit a, SIS . ton in
Texas? This reasoning gave birth TO large
Texan slauehtering companies, in connec-
iion with another company organized With
abundant capital and called the Texas Con
tinentAi Transportation Company. Tbii
company ~ill, this winter, have q lnrg'
number of refrigerator cars running ovei
the various roads between Texas and the
East ior the purpose OF transporting dressed
mutton and beef to market and taking bach
to Texas creamery butter and other srsicle'
receiving cold storage. The intention is t,
equip and manage the business in such !
way al TO guarantee safe shipment OF butts
mesis, butter, etc. without injury from hea
in summer or frost in winter, and thus I,
market vast amount OF produce which
now coss 30 waste. Another branch Of thu
compspy's business will be the shipment o
California fruits TO the Ess', loading IL
cars hack with carsoss requiring its specis
equipment TO resch Pacific coast market
The apparently assured success Of the.
experiments promises cheap interchans
Of commodities between the various secti IN
,hst NUT make human lie on this con,inen
vss;ly richer IN creature coanforis aud en-
ioymsnts. II is the beginning OF sys,es
which viii ultimately maize oysters, frb
frui,s. dairy products snd the no-t perish
sbls deleseies h, retoiore confined TO local.