The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-31

say tnat under all these circumstances re
ceivcr is to be asked for, for $4,000, is an in
jury to the company whose extent canno
be well measured. In the next place it i
positively denied that there was any con
sutation of the "heaviest' or any othe
creditors, and the resident officials of thi
line in Dallas are naturally indignant ovel
the dispatch.
Something About Cold Storage and Refrig.
orator Cars
The preservation of perishable goods, such
as meats, vegetables, fruits, ETC., has for a
number of years engaged the attention Of
scientific men, and various have been the
devices and plans for its accomplishment.
| For us in the South, nothing OF more i'm
porance for comfort, health and profit
could engage the attention of the scientific
and inventive genius. Steadily, from year
to year improvements have been made, UNI
til now it seems that scienca has solved the
problem, and We are now furnished with a
plan by which the products Of Ill seasons
can be safely preserved throughout the
wear, or even years, ana the products Of
all sections can be transported suundly ana
safely to all parts OF the world, where
railroads run cars, or vessels navigate. We
2ludeto the system representation by the use
| of cold, dry affair cooled aruticially,
down to temperature Of 400 or As and
thoroughly rid of moisture. The most sue
cessiul plan now in use, we believe, is what
is known as the "IIiggs'' process, as
adopted in the cars of the American
Refrigerator Transit company" that run
over the Gould system of roads, and is APP
piled in the co0ling.houses already erected
i'll Texas by that company. WEI pleased
to learn that one or more of these houses
are to be erected Immediately in Dallas, by
citizens of Dallas, and used in conjunction
with the Gould cars. Meeting, to-day,
Captain n. 7. Turner, the agent for Texas
ofthe American Transit company" Il re-
porter OF the HERALD learned from him
many very interesting facts as TO the man
ner of doing business by his company, in
the operation Of the cars, transporting of
ireights and the amount and nature of the
business done.
! lThe cars are now engaged in bringing geo Is
from the north to Texas and other southern
points, butter. and cheese from Ohio, Hi
nols and Iowa. beer from st. Louis and Mil
waukee, apples from Michigan, and pota.
toes and ol.ions from all the northwestern
states. The company also do fine busi-
fresh meats, sausages etc from st. Louis TO
Texas points. As yet but little produce
has been sent out of Texasto the north. A
few carloads of dressed beef and mutton,
from San Antonio, had been sent to New
York, arriving there in splendid condition.
AS soon us the arrangement for slaughter
ing on large scale eau be made, ship
ments will be made every day of
iust as many carloads as can
be disposed Of "There is no
more risk" said Captain Turner,
"in our sending from Texas to any point
our cars run to. carload of dressed meats
than there is in sending carload of flour.
We can carry n carload to the centre of
Africa perfectly sweet, only give us rails to
run on and our icing stations. We not only
preserve meat but cure it, as the packers
say, and we do it by producing, artilicially,
lust such dry air us nature produces al
Leadville or Silver Cliff, in Colorado, or on
the dry slopes of the Sierra Nevada noun
lains in California. Our cooling houses
are built after the plan of the cars and
only differ from the cars in the size of room
and the material used for the walls In
these houses we prepare all goods before
they are put in the cars, by relieving them of
all latent heat, or rather, we place the stuff
in the cooling houses until the goods are of
~
usual from i09 to459. The cars in transit
are iced at our regular stations where needed,
so us TO maintain that temperature and SO
long us the temperature is maintained the
goods will keep, The success of our COM
pany in preserving property intrusted to its
cars is without precedent in the history of
railroads | will show you letter | have
now, from the superintendent, of the 18th
instant, in which he states to me that, since
August last, when our cars first started, we
have transported more than 100000
pounds of perishable freight, and only lost
three barrels Of dressed turkeys. All we
ask of the railroad companies Is to keep our
cars ON the track, and we will take care of
the freight, We expect to transport a large
amount OF vegetables and fruits from Texas
north and east this year. In many points
IN southern Texas large acreage In vegeta.
bles is being planted. In north and central
Texas at u number of points the farmers
are planting, AT Denison, Tyler, Marshall
aud Palestine Il large planting is being
made OF fruits and vegetables, One party
near Galveston has out now over 100000
cabbage plants, besides other produce. At
Palestine one farmer is preparing and will
plant ~ acres in vegetables. Next wear we
look tor u production that will tax the car
rying capacity ct our cars, but not the
capacity of the north to consume
In answer to the inquiry rs to whether
his company would build cooling houses in
Dallas, Captain Turner said that w. X,
! Whcclock and his associates had made A
mutually advantageous contract with the
American Refrigerator company to build
such houses, and that they would begin
their erection soon enough to do the bust
ness of this year. They will control
thr Hugs" patent for this city, and
With the facilities they now possess, pro.
pose 10 make Dallas the great distributing
noint for perishablc goods for north Texas,
To do that will require several buildings
but, to Negin with, one will be erected with
a capaci to store ten carloads. II Is Ger.
tain that before the summer is half over the
business will require three or four more
buildings. These houses will be used for
general cold storage, at q rate of charges
mat will induce every one 10 use them
All sorts Of Fruit, vegetables, meats. butter,
cheese, fish. and IN iact, all sorts Of perish.
able goods can he kept through our hottest
weather MS nice and fresh as during the
winter and articles that have disappeared
irSm our markets with the advent of hot
weather can be obtained as we'll In August
as IN January. ""''
Some folks will "go Il on their own hoo,r
anl aiterward bewail their own fate, despite
the constant warnin IA Of the Press. Notso.
however,. with Mr. |. w. Stellwar. OF
springfield, Mo-, who IN speaking with our
rpnres, observed | had occasion to