Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-19
SECURED.
II the Business Men Of Fort Worth Act
Promptly.
This TO Be the Center of the Dressed Meat
Trade.

A number of our merchants, bank
ers and business men generally, were
in consultation yesterday with X. A.
Messervey, esq, who represents the
Seaboard and Western Transportation
Company of New York, the gentle
man being on his way North after
making IA tour throughout the state,
with view of making arrangements
for the operations of his company. Mr..
Messervey is the patentee of the fastest
improved and most economical system
of refrigeration without ice) now
known. and the company i'm which
Mr.. Messervey is u stock holder con-
trolls the patents. The chief business
of Mr.. NJ. was to look over the
state with q view OF selecting
or recommending for selection some
one suitable point at which to erect
proper buildings in which to slaughter
large numbers of cattle and prepare
them for shipment to Eastern and
Southern markets, and also TO contract
for transportation of the dressed meat
by way of Galveston.
Mr.. Messervey assured the gentle
men that rates will be as low and the
facilities better than from the great
markets to the Eastern seaboard.
With capital Of one million dollars,
owning their own ships and cars, with
cold weather storage mt all points, and
making Texas, the greatest cattle state
! in the Union, the base of operations,
this company will be most formula
BILE competitor for the profits TO be de-
rived from the already large and rap
idly increasing trade in dressed meats.
| AS stated above, while here, Mr..
| Messervey conversed with bankers,
| stockmen, merchants, and other infiu-
entail gentlemen of our city, with q
view of learning what encouragement
would be given by Fort Worth to the
establishment of the buildings In this
| city. and was well satisfied with the
result, not one of those spoken to but
assured him of their hearty support.
/ He stated that as the success of such an
enterprise depended largely upon local
| interests, and those the company be-
! ing identical, that if but small pro-
portion of the capital necessary to
erect the stock yards, cold storage and
! slaughter houses could be subscribed
by local stockmen and capitalists, he
had no doubt but Fort Worth
would be the point selected.
| Mr.. Messervey comes to our city
with letters of introduction from men
of high commercial standing and there
| is every probability that his report to
| the company will bring direct prop
osition 10 the citizens of Fort Worth,
and this the business men of our city
should be ready to receive.
! The president of the Seaboard and
Western Transportation Company is
Mr.. c. l.. Wright, ship owner of New
York; e-president, ID. Nj. Monjo,
esq.,, treasurer of the u. 5. Rolling
Stock Company; secretary, Mr. Chas.
| G. Niebuhr, late manager of Russell
Sage & Co. of New York, while the
directory is formed of New York cap
italists fully able to complete
arrangements and guarantee the
successful working of an en-
! terprise of such magnitude
The citizens of Galveston are already
! interested in the enterprise and have
promised material aid in the project,
! as shipments will be made from that
| port
There can be no question as to the
material benefits TO accrue to our city
from such an institution. Let it be es-
tablished here, and the thousands OF
dollars paid out in this city for cattle,
rs well as the wages paid to laborers,
will flow through the channels
of trade making our city build
up rs no one other thing
could do. Men of capital do
not lose sight of such advantages as
those possessed by our city in the way
of transportation, nor should our capt.
! talists and property holders forget the
benefits to Fort Worth.
The question is shall Fort Worth be
tho center of the stock trade in the
state of Texas or not? There can be
no doubt but the same enterprise, far
sightedness and liberality heretofore
characterizing our people, will again
be shown, and the answer be, ''she
shall ~
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