Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-28
REFRIGERATED BEEF.
Galveston Moving in the Matter of
Erecting Cold Storage House.
An Enterprise Which If Ii rried Out win Put
the Fort Worth, victoria and Columbus Re-
frigerators at Work.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
GALVESTON, Tx, Feb. 26.-Last
night the prominent cattlemen and the
representatives of the refrigerator COM
panies of Fort Worth, Columbus and
Victoria held a lengthy conference with
Messrs. Adoue, Moody and Runge, who
were appointed to represent the business
men of Galveston. The conference was
confined alone to the project OF having a
cold storage room located here. The
cattlemen stated that they had consum-
mated all arrangements with syndicate
at London to receive stipulated shipments
of refrigerated beef from the state.
What was required now was convenient
place to store their beef. They
had selected this city because
of its great facilities for shipping, and
would prefer it to other places that had
been uxiously looking for a chance to
furthe- their desires. Speeches from
several of those present faYoring the plan
were made, and the meeting was dis
solved until further consultation could be
had with merchants interested in the
movement
This morning at the National Bank of
Texas Messrs. Adoue, Moody and Runge
met as per agreement a large number of
leading commercial representatives of the
city and submitted the following report:
Your committee recommend and urge
organization of cold storage company
in Galveston with capital of So, 900 for
the purpose of facilitating the export of
refrigerated or frozen meat from this
port. AS soon as the amount required
has been subscribed and all details in re-
gard to the business secured, tariff of
charges then to DE established and agreed
upon.
Your committee is not prepared to sub
nit proposition with complete details,
but we recommend to proceed without
delay, feeling assured and convinced that
parties interested in the refrigeration of
beef are willing to agree upon a fair
and equitable adjustment of tariff
We have Sc familiarized ourselves with
the terms of their contract and their in
tention as to warrant us i'll saying we are
fully assured of their earnestness, as well
as of the benefit to the interests of the
state and of this port to be derived from
the business.
It was then agreed that citizen IS
meeting should be held to make an eff
fort to raise the SIS 900 suggested in the
report of the committee. This meeting
was held at the Cotton exchange this
evening, and was well attended by solid
business men of the city. The report of
the special committee was taken up and
discussed in all its bearings, and finally
resulted in the adoption of the following
resolution, which if accepted by the re-
f,.icr tod
men, Galveston viii invest So, 600 in
cold storage warehouse:
This meeting authorizes the committee
to assure the gentlemen who represent
the 'tbeef refrigerating interest, that the
necessary funds viii be raised by Calves
ton to put up the required cooling house,
provided, the investors are guaranteed
80 cents per head of beef passing through
said cooling house. This 80 cents to be
understood to be clear profit over all
charges, and the investors to receive the
further guarantee that if the London par
ties should forfeit their contract that the
500 900 forfeiture which is to be paid to
the Texas parties, that is, the sellers of
the beef, $50 900 is TO go to the cooling
house establishment -
The citizen committee will be present
at their conference with refrigerated
beefmen = to- morrow as the basis upon
which the men of Galveston viii invest
SIS eco in a cooling warehouse for re-
ception OF their beef.
During the discussion Of the proposition
it was stated that the contract had been
signed by the London syndicate on Feb
ruary 10, by which the syn
dictate agrees 10 receive from
Texas refrigerating companies
located at Fort Worth, Columbus and
Victoria 5000 head monthly of dressed,
refrigerated beeves, delivered at Calves
ton i'll cold storage warehouse, beeves to
be frozen TO bone and in good condition
for transhipment. These shipments to
be made bi-monthly and to comprise
5000 carcasses each, syndicate to give
bond of 500 ZOO for faithful fulfllment
of contract; refrigerator companies to
give like bond for faithful performance
of their part of the contract, which is to
hold good for two years. Refrigerating
companies to kill and ship beef daily in
refrigerated cars to Galveston, where it
is TO be stored in the cold storage ware
house for shipment
The refrigerated beef men have offered
to allow Galveston 18c per pound for
handling and storage of their beef if they
viii put up cold storage rooms of
sufficient capacity to meet the require
ments of their contract. This, beefmen
hold, can be done for $50 900, and an
nually pay profit of so per cent. 1t is
thought that there will be no difficulty at
arriving at satisfactory understanding
and that the enterprise viii be success
fully carried OFT.