Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-08-11
A GRAND SCHEME.
GIGANTIC POSSIBILITIES OF THE
BEEF RErRIGERATING
BUSINESS.
what the Continental Reef Company IL
Doiog--A Branch Concern Wanted
Ia Port worth Mr.. Ed
rington Interviewed.

Few days ago III was announced
ia the GAZETTE that M,ssfs. II. &.
Edriugton, II. r. Maddox aud ID. G..
Keinper wonld yi-it Victoria as com
mitiee from this city 10 examine the
work, progress and success of the Texas
Continental Beef Company located at
that place. These gentleman have
been there and returned. Mr.. Edring-
ton OF the Traders National bank was
interviewed on the subject yesterday
by GAZETTE reporter, aud gave him
all the Important Information wanted.
What do you think of the beef re-
frigera,ing business and its prospects,
asked the reporter.
81 think IL presents the grandest
plan for revolution OF the beef
business ever conceived of or suggested.
The establishment If this concern in
Fort Worth, together with the one IN
Victoria, will work new era ia the
cattle raising and Strengthening bust
ness
TEL me something about the work
ing and success Of the concern in Vic.
toria.V
the Texas Continental Beef Com
pany has had great many obstacles
To overcome and IL has surmounted
them all. In the first place, as SOON as
the the company began shipping beef
into New Orleans, it was enjoined by
the New Orle rs Slaughter House
Company, one of the most gigantic
munopolies In the South. After u long
struggle and heavy cast by lawsuit the
injunction was dissolved, and then
came II cutting OF prices In
dressed be,f. The competition
which Texas dressed beef brought
about reduced the price of beef at one
time To six cents pound. This
struggle began on the 10th of last
March. and now the Victoria company
Is shipping carload Of dressed beef
| daily To New Orleans and one car
every two days t. Galveston
What is the process OF dressing and
refrigeruting the beei?'
"lhe beevts are slaughtered in the
large plant ut Victoria just as they are
everywhere, but after being killed and
dressed the beef is placed int what is
called "chill houses wh,re the tenn
perature Is brought down by the use
of Ice to thirty-eigbt degrees. They
have three of these chill houses and il
requires about thirty-six hours to bring
the beef from its natural temperature
when butchered, say ninety
degrees, down to the point
at which it will resist
decomposition. They are filed and
euptied successfully every three DAYS.
The ears in which this beef is packed
for shipment are also arranged so ~ 10
chill the beef or keep it at the required
/ temperature. In each end of the car
! there Is space for ice, and the beef is
4 placed between the two immense ice
| chests, and never comes in contact
with the ice. There are stations along
the lines OF r. ads over which the beef
is shipped, where ice Ii kept for the
purpose of replenishing the refrigera-
ting cars. They are replenished once
every twenty-four hours, consequently
the beef arrives ut its destination in
just as good condition ms when IL left
the chill houses at the slaughter.
house,
"a great deal of ice il required for
this purpose, is there not?o
"Oh, yes: but the company has Its
own Ice factory and manufactures all
the Ice IL consumes, so the cost OF
transmission aud the immense profits
on 1t are saved.
What ~ the capacity of the Cont
mental Company"
Its capacity Is about one hundred
and twenty-five beeves per day, but
1t Is not running AT its fullest capacity
because the demand ut present does
not Justify it,"
What was the intent of your visit
to Victorian
1--WE were invited TO 90 there and
inspect the working of the company
by the gentlemen who compose it
The Victoria Company is going I,
establish another Strengthening and re
migrating concern somewhere la
North Texas and greatly prefer For
Worth toany other place. That com
pany want 10 interest our people and
get them Ia take some stock in III,
business. Both institutions are to be
long To the same company, but iii,
: Intention is to make the Fort Wortl
branch much the largest and to Civ,
! II much greater capacity Than TIL,
!, one at Victoria. Other places hav,
also been invited To send
committee there To inspect its work
lngs ana see the success Ii is destine,
To attain.N
What are your impressions Of IT
: value toa city, and do you think on
, people should be encouraged TO take M
interest in it?'i
~ Fpit NpTln pFls TIE branch
which the e mpany Is determined /,
locate I'm North Texas, it will he tn.
longest stride She has ever tax, n /,
prosperity and rapid growth and de
vei"puett Here are some facts an,
figures: The establishment of til,
, branch plant here, would cause To h,
sold in this market annually, as ,0ot
head of cattle, for which the sum o
81 O0O,0 would be paid. The sale q
thi number of cattle here wo, Id neces
state the building OF large stockyar,.,
and such appliance, as ale neces
sary To a large cattle market. 1t woul,
cause the establishment also of feriiliz
ing manufactures, for everythin,
IN the anatomy of the beef i
saved. There Is no waste whatever
) The horns, hide, hair, hoofs, entails
, tallow, blood and every thing Is util
, lied. Ii would also cause the estab
: lishment of an oleomargarine factor,
and perhaps an Immense taunery :,
! you see IL leads tothe development o
many other industries which we vii
never have without IL. IL will stinm
, late tanners fo raise gain On which
thy can fat N their eeves and drive
them iuto market and get good prices
for them. II will bring thousands 81
people Ia the city, fur large number
J Al Ia. 4. L., "A.