The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-10-17
HUGE NEAT REFRlGERAron
A New Enterprise which Caused some
CONFORMATION Among the
Butchers.

CONFORMATION Among the
Butchers.
There has been much guesswork
among the Washington Market butch
ers during three or four months past as
to the purpose to which a new building
on the bulkhead on tho waterfront of
the market, covering Nos. 10 to 81
| Devoe-avenue, was TO be put. Several
Of the old stands were purchased and
torn down, and in their place has been
erected q neat two-story building of
corrugated iron externally, nov bear
ing the sign of G. f. s. E. e. Swift,
dealers in Chicago dressed beef. Yes
terday morning the matter was ex-
planned, and the brokers and shippers
Of beeves and the wholesale slaughters
Of the city were greatly exercised by
the placing upon the New York market
of a large consignment Of dressed beef.
For some time the Messrs. Swift, of
Chicago, have been supplying the
principal cities of the New England
States with this description of meat,
and they have more recently opened
branch offices in Baltimore and WASH
ineton. For upward of three years
they have supplied the London and
Liverpool markets, with a constantly
increasing demand, and they are
sanguine that their efforts in New York
will be attended with the same success
full results as elsewhere. The dealers
upon the Jersey City market were
much disturbed yesterday mornii G
when the intelligence of this new de-
p~arture in the meat trade reached them.
In fact, almost u Panicky feeling seized
them, which, however, they resisted by
refusing to sell at less than the
regular market prices. They freely
admitted that the dressed meat
could be sold for 4 cents a pound
less on the net weight than it
could be purchased for in the live stock
markets, and also that the beef was ex-
cellent in quality.
Mr.. r. Abbott, the New York man.
ager for the Messrs. Swift, was found
at the refrigerators yesterday afternoon.
He stated that the Undertaking here
was meeting with much greater success
than was at first anticipated. The
meat was selling readily at from 6 cents.
to y cents. per pound, and another
consignment of 100 head was expected
last evening. He had no fear of the
result of this enterprise, as the firms
ventures elsewhere had met with un-
qualified success In other cities the
Introduction of this meat had led to Il
reduction in the market price of beef,
and he had no doubt the same r,sult
would be observed in New York. 1t
was proposed to make daily shipments
to New York corresponding with the
demand, which he estimated at first
would be about 200 head. Besides the
probable reduction in price. Mr..
Abbott thought that the bringing of
i've cattle from the Northwest, West,
and Southwest would also be affected.
The gross arrival of beeves on the hoof
for the week ending Oct. Z was IL, S21,
the greater proportion of which were
Western herds. A large part of the
Western cattle, except those for export,
would probably in the future be brought
here in the form of dressed meat, but
there was no apprehension Of the trade
in nhniaa urnou a,,l e. 100
being affected. Mr.. Abbott gave as
good reasons for the Strengthening OF
cattle in the West and their shipment
eastward as dressed meat that the hides
of animals killed in New York are after
being sailed here generally returned to
distant points to be tanned. Then the
rough offal of all kinds, comprising the
suet, tallow, hair, horn, bones, &c,
are all worth more in Chicago than
they are in New York.
The new building here is nothing but
a huge refrigerator, aud in its general
plan is like the forty or more storage
houses which, scattered throughout the
country, are owned by the same firm.
In his building the lower floor, leaving
out the two rooms for the receipt and
discharge of the meat, is divided into
two large compartments, made air-tight
by a padding, so to speak, of many
thicknesses of paper aud board, and
with triple windows. The temperature
necessary for preserving the meat is be-
tween 36o and 400, and this is main
tanned by the ice chests overhead
large rooms the siZo of the store.rooms
below, also made air-tighJ in the same
manner, and containing now about 300
tons of ice. Through openings at tie
sides, down into the rooms below, the
cool air descends, and thus keeps the
temperature just above the freezing
point. In the refrigerators yesterday
hung upon hooks depending from raj
way tracks attached TO the ceiling, were
long rows of meat, in quarters, looking
firm and white as though just from the
butcher, and not as thos.gh it had been
brought "a thousand miles, from the
slaughter house in Chicago. The cat
tie are killed and dressed thereto the
number of about 1,50O daily-at the
yards of the Messrs. Swift, packed into
refrigerator cars, where the tempera-
ture is the same as in the storage house
here, and ent 10 the selling place,
where eve that may be. The cars sent