Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-31
DRESSED BEEF.
More About the Article in New York
City.
Vigorous Comments from New York
and Chicago Papers.

Vigorous Comments from new iOr
and Chicago Papers.
We published few Gays in the ca
zETrE extracts from our Eastern es
changes and specials regarding Tn
move being made to shut out dresse
beef from New York and the East
We continue as matter of news I
give further information regarding
This insane movement on the part .
the New York butchers, us Fort Wor,l
intends very .oon through her TeXa
Continental Meat company To ente
the lists for feeding a portion of New
York with dressed beef He'd her
where II l. raised and iattened on th'
sweet, Juicy grasses Of her broad
lovely plains. Through the railroa'
and telegraph we are brought within
"a few days or hours to Fulton anf
Washington markets and from herr
Will start the rosy procession OF tat car
casses to full the hungry New Workers,
and surely after we have provided this
| bountiful feast, can IL be doubted that
Fort Worth will lack guests at her Ia
| bic, or the nerve to see them well pro-
vided for and protected? Therefore
! we beg our kindly friends In Gotham
| tlUI ~ NE ulSIuIUtu W llii liit bEith'iph
of her butchers to keep out Western
refrigerator beef Texas is arrayed in
its support, and from the days of San
Jacinto to this time her march has
been onward and forward.
WESTERN DRESSED BEEF.
"a number of butchers in this city,
already united in protective assocla-
lion, have recently formed central
union, and have decided to oppose the
Introduction of dressed beef from the
West. They hopeto get the support of
Others interested in tile importation OF
live cattle aud in preparing beef for
market in the old way, ana they pro-
pose TO lay certain facts before the peo-
pie at a MASS meeting.
This Is matter about which the
consumer will have something to say. |
The importation OF Western dressed !
beef into this great market will be OPP |
posed, in all probability, not only by
local butchers, but also 10y men inter.
ested In the great local
stock yards and by the railroad
companies in whose cars beef is brought |
to this city on the hoof. The butchers
are very naturally unwilling to allow
the work which they have been doing
TO be done in the West before ship
ment. The stock-yard men have large
sums of money invested in their plants,
where cattle brought from the West
are confined and fed until they are
taken to the slaughter houses. The
railroad companies have thousands ot
ears fitted for the transportation of
live cattle and very few refrigerator
ears fitted for the transportation of
dressed beef. Moreover, they receive
more money for carry ing IA living steer
than they would for the transportation
IF that part of the steer that
Il sold in the form of
oeef. The shipment of dressed
beef allows more than one-third of the
i've weight to be left at the place
where the animal IL killed. Tie butch
,rs, who say that if dressed beef shall
De introduced here, ms it has been i'm
smaller Eastern cities, their occupation
will be gone, have right TO work FIR
he re-ervatiOn of their trade by all
air and honorable means, and the
'tock-yard men will undoubtedly do
Nj they can TO maintain the value of
heir Investments. But the railroads =.
have no right to withhold from the
consumer in this city the advantages {
offered by the Western shipper of dress-
ID beef by establishing and enforcing
rates that discriminate in favor OF the
ocal butcher and local stock yard,
Consumers have rights. II will not
do To say that Western dressed beef Is
harmful or inferior to beef brought to
this city on the hoof. II Is notorious
that the cattle brought here from the
West arrive in bad condition, Their
on the road have awakened
the sympathy of men in and out of
public life. On the other hand, the
beef shipped eastward in refrigerator
cars is supplied 10y cattle that were In
good condition At the time of killing.
The long Journey on the hoof, so in
furious TO the animal, Is avoided. The
meat Is, or can be, perfectly preserved |
in the refrigerator car. Beef and |
mutton have been shipped in first.
class condition even from Australia to |
London.
"rhe consumer IN New York Is en-
Titled to the beneiil of this new way of
supplying the Eastern markets. 1t Is
Il cheaper way than the old one, and |
II ~ u better way, for the beef reaches |
him in better condition. 1t lisa more
economical way, because it requires
the transportation of no ptrt that Is |
not to be consumed here. 1.-THE butch. |
ers can prove that Western dressed |
beef is injurious to the consumer,
they may be sure that the |
consumer will not ask for il, but IL
does not appear that they can do this
They may unite for the purpose of
shutting il out, and may be assisted |
by stock-yard men and railroads, but
they will not be able to do more than
to postpone the day when prime
dressed beef will be sent in large |
quantities from the Western ranches
aud stock yards TO the markets of New
York.