Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-13
A PACKING CENTER.
What RefrigeratorS and Packeries will
do for Fort Worth.
Phil Armour says a Great Packing Center will
be Established in the South
west

4u0 p6Opl0 VI rOIE w OELu I0du Will
infinite pleasure that a packing house
and refrigerator had been secured for
this city, for they see that such indus
tries will place Fort Worth on such a
basis tina her future cannot be ques-
toned. The history of the packing in
dustry of this country is very interest
ing, and shows thai the NOV ement of
packing houses has been steadily to the
southwest. The first packing houses in
the countr were established at Buffalo,
N. Y. Previous to that time the people
of this country had been importing their
hams from European countries. AS the
country developed and corn was grown
in the West the raising of hogs followed
as a natural consequence, n where the
hogs were the packeries went. 1t vas
soon found that the profitable way
to handle hogs was to slaughter them as
near as possible where they were found,
and the packeries sought such places.
Immense establishments were placed at
Chicago, and here the slaughtering of
beeves was added to that of hogs. Then
the packeries branohed out from Chicago
to ST. Louis, Kansas City, Sioux City,
Omaha, Wichita and other places.
Wherever they have gone the business
has prospered and the cities IN which
they are have grown rapidly.
ARMoUR's PREDICTION.
For several years after the great pack
ing and refrigerating establishments had
been in operation at Kansas City Mr..
Phil Armour gave it as his opinion that
they would never be found southwest of
that point. But in the light of recent
developments Mr.. Armour has changed
his mind n now saws that somewhere
in the great Southwest thousands and
thousands Of hogs and tens of thousands
of cattle will be killed and prepared for
market. He intlmated strongly that this
center would be in Texas, basing his
opinion on good grounds. In Texas the
cattle to feed the people of the country
were grown and could be grown. She
had the corn n the grass and the finest
hogs in the country were multiplying
rapidly. 1t was not natural that they
should be carried hundreds of miles to
be slaughtered and hence in Texas where
more cattle were raised than in any state
in the Union, and where the increase in
the numbefsef hogs was greater thsn else
where, wou1ae great packinaseenter be
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Mr.. Armour. - ~
FORT WORRIES OPPORTUNITY.
The golden ophogtuaits is now pre-
sented to the peopiapG6rt Worth. Will
she make such effoEsE as will make her
the packing oentsry she has the rail-
roads, the cattleafe nSar her, she is in
the corn belt, los is only city that
has great unioasstockyaIas n pastur-
age near at ttAnd. WITH from 500 to
1000 head of cutie killed ateefrigerators
in Fort WoEth, with 5009:4o 5000 hogs
slaughtered Nnd packed hetsdsily, who
can estimatesSVhat Fort WorsHawill come
to be. Thesarst steps have been taken,
the c~ontraeEhas been let TO M Thomas
of Kansas City to build a frst-class
packerAssnRg which at least S2005 900 will
be INFESTED. EThe main building will be
4faAsfek, three stories n a basement.
s&HFthe other buildings, large and COM
modious, will be of brick. A refrigerator
with a capacity of 500 head of beeves q
day is to be built and the Texas packing
and refrlgerating company Will oper-
ate it.