Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-11
r,SEyTAL NEAT C0MPANY,
the slaughtering and Refriger-
ling Works Commenced.

the Strengthening and Refriger-
4 ing Works Commenced
+o,er on December 1sth--Ister-
with Captain A. n. Higgs,
A. L. Higgs, the president
raj manager of the meat CONF
rived home last Friday from
meeting of the executive
be of his company was imme-
convened and the plan of OPP
for the future as regards the
ion of the works entered into.
~ n call on the gentleman to
I'M him anything of interest to
ers regarding his company.
living IS what we heard;
re ready, then, to go ahead
slaughter house?
sir, aud the gentlemen in the
directors instruct me to lose
and if we have good weather
soon be able to see what we
n. OF course there isn't any
pry grand in the appearance of
ter house, but there is some
lander than looks in this thing
feeling OF enterprise and pub
- and interest shown by the
ders in this company. Why,
n& know when l was up north
Iudest thing / could say was,
~ a dollar is in this company
longs to the cattle interests,
= e only time / felt like
L and having the big-head was
the stock yards in Chicago
be- the cattle punchers and
at the bruises on the poor
and the dead and down in the
Nib, my friend, it amt business
eentiment, possibly but one Of
hest and best men i'm the state
Hthcre was anything that would
him go in with me it was. that
IA, i'll measure, put a stop to
clty to the animals when sent
&l<et on the cars. F"
IA YOU give me a brief statement
You are going to run this bust
Ill, to hear the remarks on the
81 | should think it necessary for
1tiea to be given of what we are
ii Some call it "a canning works,
BALL it a refrigerating machine,
MI sorts of names. Now, we
texpect to can beef; such Il bust
ID this county never Will pay. L
twhy, but it is too long to relate.
Dwn on the coast and look at the
aments there. presume, though,
1--WE get started lots will pitch in
b, or try to can beef. i won't say
|pcople havn't perfect right to
alp their money if they want to,
be remark will solve the ques-
81 When they can move Chicago
30. Louis down here to eat up the
Ind bones, then, and then only,
y the canning of beef be
y to pay in this county. Now, !
h care if cattle are twenty-five dol
y head, they can't make go of it;
4 havn't told all yet. You would
Hug such people great favor to
hem when they get ready to com.
20 canning to come to ne and ]
Rive them n piece of advice gratis
may save them lots of money"
ID then ship the bullock entire?
Hes, sir; he is driven in a pen
fed in the neck from above, then
I'D in the beds, his throat cut ant
He is then skinned, hung up
BIS quick as possible showed RICH
the cooling room, which stands a
y-siy to forty degrees. HI
left in that cooler twenty
$ hours mt that temperature
len is subjected to a temperature
degrees and left there two days
then cut down and quartered
d and fore-quarters) weighed anc
INTO n refrigerator car, owned anc
by the TeXas-Continental Trans
alton Company, and built express
# our business. This car is theT
to any point in the United State
hoose, as we have agents all over
where we haven't the Refrigerator
have, and if we choose we ear
it to Houston, or we can send /
Portland, Maine. Now the onl,
that don't seem to be understood
he cooling Off of the meat. W.
e building forty feet from tin
ghter house in which is
nty-ton ice machine, which make
or the cars and to sell to the pub
and pumps cold pickle through
IS which line the roof of the coole
re the beef hangs up. As | SAT-
re, these coolers are right Off TIL
, where the cattle are killed an
med, and are made air tight an
, cold, and Of course when tn
t is hung up there it gets as col
ost rs ice, but we never freeze 1t.
q you kill sheep and veal?
cs, sir, we shall want all the shee
calves we can get. All our mea
for now, and we can sc
ry pound of it as soon as shipped
shall, of course, have oppositio
n the old shell-back slaughterers i
cities we pull beef into. The usu,
entering ring will be formed, an
Y will resolve to crush us out an
p up the monopoly. Now, "
IT wish a fight, but it Will be til
story which has been enacted dow
in Boston aud New York. The
die hard, but when they give ul
ich they are bound to do in the enc
I'd Wish they hadn't. The can'
the railroad, steam and hor'
h--that's the comparison.
on seem to be confident of succe
ak this way.
A doubling Thomas OH the ga
| to me, how do you know you a
ng TO succeed" | replied: ~
EVE this engine is pulling the
), don you? Well
man should come TO "
tell you he would furnish you 8
zine Just like that, that would pr
'ain, you'd believe him? Well, IN
'iness ii the same TO me. ! pull'
f out of Colorado and New MeNi
years ago. 1t didn't pay hecau
slaughtcrers and live stock COZ
;sion men fought 1t. Kansas CIT
It Dodge and Chicago don't own q
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