Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-11-27
PORK PACKING.
One Of the Great Needs Of
the City That will BE
Supplied.
chrittlan County Has the Hogs
That Should Be Slaugh.
tered at Home.

are done with for while, the excite
ment has commenced to cool down
and all are beginning TO realize that
while man does not live by bread
: alone, The fact is beginning TO force
itself upon sensible people that they
cannot exist altogether on election
news and its attendant excitement,
but the question naturally arises,
What shall eat and wherewithal
shall | be clothed? With the man of
ample means this is not vital ques-
ton, as all he has to do is TO receive
his interest and pay his bills as they
fall due; but with the man whose
only capital is his labor, and whose
wife and children are dependent up
, on him for their food and raiment, il
is a question of supreme importance
lie begins to feel the pinching fin
gers of winter and secs that his lard
err is running low and must be re-
plenished. But just as the city is ON
the eve of a grand and lasting boom
he sees that he must act HoC The
early building of two railroads does
not help just at this time, and if he
would keep the wolf from his home
he must begin now TO guard against
his approach. lie starts out 10 find
something 10 do, but the boom is not
on yet and he returs to his home dis
couraged because he has found no
work. Starts out again the next day,
but meets with no better success
lie can not sleep at night for study |
ing and study ing about where he will |
apply next day for work. There are
plenty of men who know that this is
true, and though they know that the
outlook for the future of the city l.
bright and promising, present wants
must be fupplied, but how TO do it is
the question.
No one will deny the statement
that there is at the present time but
little demand for labor, no matter
Row roseate the future may seem.
We have been revolving in our mind,
since the voting Of the railroad prop
ositions, some of the enterprises that
might soon be put on foot, but the
need of pork packing establishment
never presented itself until the fol
lowing item, from the Bowling Green
Times, caught our eye:
1.-TWO hundred and fifty hogs were cut up
this morning and between so and 400 were
slaughtered this afternoon at the pork house
Of Claypool Rsgland."
The question at one presented it.
self, Why should not such an item
appear in the Hopkinsville papers
The hog crop of Christian county this
year will number probably 10000
head. This, we think is a low esti-
mate. What will be done with all
these hogs? All not slaughtered by
the farmers and meat men of this
city will be shipped TO the Louisville
and other markets. Car load after
car load are shipped away from here
every year. If Hopkinsville had
pork packing establishment the sur
plus of the hog crop would lie slaugh-
tered at home, thus giving employ
ment to large number of men
True it is that Mr.. w. j. Withers
does large business, but a larse
establishment is needed. We are IN
need of an enterprise of this kind,
and Bowling Green is just that much
in advance of us. 1t would do equal
ly as much business as Bowling
Green. 1t is one of the businesses of
the future there Is no doubt on that
point, but there is no necessity for it
being in The distant future. All that
can be done towards starting the
many enterprises that are to be put
on foot should be done without I'M
necessary delay. The meat packed
by Mr.. Withers for spring and sum-
mer use is equal to, and we believe
better, than that put up by Armour
s. Co, of Chicago, and shipped TO all
parts of the world. We 10 not see
why a company shouldnot be formed
and a large establishment put in ope-
ration at an early day. There is
more sure money in it than any 9TH
er business we can conceive Of A
large dividend is as certain as the
rising of the sun. 1t is an invest
ment that the most cautious are
bound to acknowledge as being per-
fectly safe. There is nothing Quix-
otic aboutit. All that is needed is
for the men who have the money TO |
organize and go to work. When we |
have our additional railroad facilities |
hogs from all parts of this section |
win find their way here by reason Of
reduced freights. Our people know
well enough that great part of the
Surplus" shipped away from here
finds its way back again. There Is
not a grocer in Hopkinsyille, and
probably not one in the county, who
does not buy meats of all kinds in
Louisvillc,i Evansville and other
places. Why should not we sell
packed aud cured to.ihe country deal
ers aud even to Louisville ami Evans
ville2 Our money will buy AS good
hogs as theirs. Meat properly cured
here will keep as well as in those
cities. Then why should we allow a
place like Bowling Green to bs so
far ahead Of us? 1t won't be long