Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-06


and the butchers nom selling II wa.
re sorted TO. but under the heroic efforts
and Vigilance of Osgood h Pagan, ths
New Orleans agents, the beef was IN
troduced and has been planted there
| forever. Suffice to say that up 10 gate
New Orleans has conumed fifteen tnou'
sand cattle. len thousand sheep ana TWO
thousand calves, all slaughtered a,
| Victoria and shipped in Refrigerator
cars 10 New Orleans. 1t became eVl'
dent to the Victoria manager Una. III
order To increase their business they
must 90 further north where heavier
cattle and corn-fed beef could be nae,
and n committee visited the Panhandie
Int found no suitable place, ana on
their return home they passed through
Fort Worth, where they were mace
welcome by several of our cltizehs,
Messrs. Maddox Smith, Burlington ana
Kemper urging them to locate q
Slaughter house mt Fort worth.
They became so much impressed with
Fort Worth that they asked that a
committees come to Victoria and see
the works there. In August, 1883,
Messrs. Edrington, Maddox and KEN
per visited Victoria and finding mat
ters satisfactory, they returned to Fort
Worth and urged upon their friends TO
ioin the Victorians and have slaugn-
ter house built here. The Foit worth
pcople subscribed all that was asked
to the stock Of the company ana the
directors being increased to embrace
six citizens of Fort Worth, work was
ordered commenced and Capt. Higgs
rs president and general mana
ger, and Mr.. II. c. Warncke
as foreman, broke ground on the
property on the Trinity east of the
Union depot. From September 10th
till Yesterday work was pushed for
ward, and though much remains yet
to be done the building is certainly a
monument to the designers and build
ers.
THE FORT WORTH WORKS
cover ground two hundred and eighty
feet by two hundred and sixty feet
and are divided up into thirteen kill
ing beds where the cattle are skinned,
two sheep beds for similar purpose,
eight chill rooms holding one
hundred and twenty-five cat
tie each, tank house,
gut and paunch room and an engine
room holding two mamoth Boyle ice
and refrigerating engines capable of
cooling off five hundred cattle day,
and making twenty tons of ice per
twenty-four hours. The office of the
works adjoins the main building and
is presided over by Mr.. 4. w. John
son, a gentleman long in the dressed
beef business, having served an APP
premiership with Swift in Boston.
Passing from the office we come to the
large killing room where
can be seen carcasses of
beef suspended by hooks on rails
awaiting to be wheeled or run into the
chill rooms where the temperature
down TO 40' will speedily cool the beef
Off sufficient to have it placed in the
refrigerator cars for shipment. Be
hind the beds are what is called close
pens, in each of which is one bullock
who, speared in the neck from above,
falls to the floor; chain is then put
around his horns and he is drawn by
a horse on TO the beds where he is
skinned decapilated and hung
up by the hind quarters
and suspended from the rail
at the further end of the killing room.
The sheep are laid on their sides, their
Threats cut and then the pelt is re-
moved and they are suspended await
ing their turn to enter the chill room.
Next we come to the floor containing
the tanks where the oflal is selected
and cared for, and as stated before Is
the engine and boiler rooms adjoining.
When beef is to be shipped the cars
are iced and cooled off, the beef run
out of the chill rooms over scale and
ribbed or cut in two and
the hind quarters loaded in one
end of the car and the fores in the 9th
er, until forty-fve cattle are put in,
when the car is shut up air-tight and
the railroad takes it to New Orleans,
Pittsburg or Savannah, wherever il is
destined TO go True to its name and
character, we noticed flying from the
flagstaff of the works the dear old flag
of the republic of Texas, which was n
present from Chicago gentleman to
Captain Higgs, and we can in no way
more fifty close this arti-
Gle than by pointing to il
as 1t waves aloft and say to all true
Texans, as you or your fathers stood by
that flag in days gone by, so should ali
OF us stand by this great company who
have lavished their means and their
energies to place the Strengthening and
shipping of refrigerator beef out of
Texas on n firm and lasting basis.
Yet we hope no one will forget the
gentleman who for years have strup-
gled manfully to bring about the
event of the day, Captain
A. +. Hiegs, the president of the
Texas Continental Meat company.
In conclusion we give Il list of the
officers and management of the COM
pany:
A. f. Higgs. president and general
manager. J. NJ, Mathis, vice president;
q. A. Lin, secretary and treasurer,
IL. g. Burlington, local secretary and
treasurer; Geo. Turner, foreman in
chief; II. c. Warncke, foreman; ]. c.
Richardson, live stock PURCHASING
agent; A. w. Johnson, cashier and
chief clerk; r. Il. Maddox, j. p.
Smith, III. Q. Burlington, w. S. Young.
lobe Odom, executive committed
Fort Worth. w. j. Boaz, II. %. Mad
dox, J. p. Smith, finance committee.
Fort Worth.
THIRD AND FOURTH WARDS.