Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-11
4 POKERFUL RECRUIT.

Under the caption of "Texas Beef Re.
frigeration, Shall it Lay Over Another
Year," the Texas Live Stock Journal,
the most influential cattlemen's paper in
the southwest, comes to the assistance of
The GAZETTE in the matter of securing
to Fort Worth the refrigeration of Texas
beef in the following editorial, which ap-
pears in this mornings Journal, an ed.
vsuce copy of which THE GAZETTE has
been kindly permitted to reproduce: "It
is now long time since the subject of
beef cattle refrigeration WAS first brought
before the stock interests OF Texas, and it
is now getting to be an old and sore sub
iect, IS all the seed sown has produced
no crop. There is no beef refrigeratlng
establishment or canning factory opera-
ring in Texas, and our principal market
is still at Chicago, q thousand miles away.
"Ii this style Of business is going to
continue the Texas gentlemen will have
to face continual tax against them in
freight charges, shrinkage and feed bills,
and the advantages OF cheaper grazing
fields and favorable climate will be coun-
teracted by the great expense Of market
ing cattle. AS cat:lemen Of Texas We
know that If 8 flrst-class market was
established in Texas and refrigerating
processes were in use right here amidst
our grass and corn-fed cattle, and the
economy Of the process, together with
proper home management and market
facilities, made 1t success, We know
very well that we would partske Of the
profits of the plant, first by saving OF
shrinkage in cattle in transit, amounting
to close on to So per hesd, and have some
additional advantage not now possessed
in selling on q market where the cattle
have an outlet to greater market cen
tiers.
ave know that not one Of US will ship
cattle OF. Of the regular line Of traffic for
chance sale, and that all the cattle, not
immediately within driving distance of
the future packing center, must be billed
to Chicago with St. Louis or Kansas
City privilege, besides the privilege Of IN
loading and selling to the Texas psckery.
"This indicates that Texas packing
houses must be on natural lines of traffic
and in the centers of production SO that
freight charges to the packing house may
be reduced to minimum, and the great
est possible number be driven from the
feed pens to The slaughter house.
"The Texas packery or psckeries must
make money by selling in southern cities,
and by the foreign markets, and it is only
reasonable to figure that If the cooling
process Is economical in ocean transport
tation it equally applies to transportation
to the coast. The idea is not to carry
them to the coast and kill them, but to
kill the cattle at home and economically
transport them to interior cities, the coast
and beyond.
"Agsin, no one will dispute that the
proper locality for packing house must
be at first class distributing point for
purpose of receiving and shipping. II is
no use locating on single line or ct E
second-clsss railroad center.
''lf refrigerating establishment is to
receive and kill Texas beef in the year
1883, there is no time TO build one of
large dimensions, and st present there is
only one available, and it is needless to
assert that It is located in Fort Worth.
The Journal is authorized to say in be-
half of the owner of these works, that he
will sell them st reasonable valuation to
the stockmen Of Texas.
"Second, that in connection with the