Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-08-15
THE GAZETTE FORT WORTH, TEXAS WEDNESDAY AUGUST IS.

Is saved. In connection Win 'ne
Texas Continental Company's slsugn-
ter house at Victoria there Is an oieo.
margarine company that takes me 'n'
and works II into.oil; there y ier'ii-
King company which takes the horns
and hoofs, blood, and everything that
can be worked into fertilizer; there Is
sausage company that takes all the
rough meat, trimmings and makes II
all into sausage; there Is hide com
pany that takes the hides right OFF the
beds and cures them right there. This
ofial produces on the average more
than any butcher in Chicago gets out
of the ofiaI. hide and tallow of the bull
locks killed here. So that shows that
these critics are too "offally off.
HOW THE RAILROADS ARE INTER-
EsTED.
GLOW are the Texas railroads inter
ested in this business?'
''All the beef is pulled over what Is
called the Sunset route-the Hunting
ton-Pierce system. They are carrying
over 100000 pounds of dressed meat n
day, which is equal to nearly 100
head of cattle, bringing them ut
the rate of two cents ton u mile
against before our slaugh Penthouse
started
"How Is that?n
"Prior To the starting Of this
in the country of
Texas, some cattle of that section came
up to Rosenberg. and so north via
Fort Worth to Chicago, but the great
majority were taken to Indianola by
the Morgan line, and carried by steam
sr to Morgan City, and thence by rail
to New Orleans. giving that railroad
] - miles of hauling. but now the sun
set gets 500 miles. This is the benefit"
DO you fear that the dressed beef
system in Texas will be destroyed by
railroad discriminating in favor of live
mo, sir. Instead of that it will
develop
AGAINST DISCRfMINA-
TioN.
What protection have you against
such DISCRIMINATORY
First, the interests to the railroads,
as above stated, and second. growers
OF cattle, and men VINO are interested
in this slaughter-house. The losses
have been so great in shrinkage, tluc-
markets, and by damage done
in transit that it became question
with growers of that state whether
they could continue to raise cattle, or
must stop it, and they saw no way out
until this dressed beef business was
started down there in that state. They
it God send, and as stated
some of the cllief growers are inter-
asted in it. Every stock man in Texas
who is notiiimself live stock COM
mission man wants to see it grow to
a still greater business. Those
who are in the live stock and COM
mission business are going to get out
Of it, and 90 into the dressed beef bust
ness. In this connection / may say
that the boss eveners, Nelse butcher,
Eastman, Sam Allerton, Nelse Morris,
md the whole eveners' ring wanted
% go into the dressed beef business
over the Vanderbilt system a year ago,
with the brokendown National Stock
ards of East st. Louis and use the
st. Louis Canning Conpany's house to
kill their beef, and bluff Swift and |
1ammond out of New ENGLAND. After
/ few weeks experience with the man
'gery refrigerator line (all kinds OF
'arsi and having to to turn over their
'eef for Swift and Hammond's agents
o sell in New England, the buffers |
we're bluffed. Vanderbilt, butcher,
Eastman, and associates went out of
.he dressed beef business and fell back
Oh their friend, Mr.. Fink, to make
hem happy and he (F'inll) is wait
ng for the Erie, Grand Trunk, and
Baltimore and Ohio to do So"