The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-28
THE PACKING HOUSE
White & Sons & Company Show
the Plans.
HAVE A FRONTAGE OF 1913 FEET
10 Unload Eleven Cars at One Time-Cooliny
Rooms Hold 1856 Reeves and
l.036 Hogs

MOONS Hold 3Sb Reeves and
l.o36 Hogs
Early this year White & sons COMPANY
to build large packing house in
this city
To secure a plant with every modern de-
wee Mr.. John White devoted most OF this
summer IN che east, inspecting all the great
stock yards and packing houses in the
country, and went from Omaha to Kansas
City, 10 Chicago, and to Buffalo. East Lib
erty and New York city To embrace the
very best points of all the recent imroye-
ments in device and construction, the most
experienced architect in that line of con-
was secured to draw the plans.
e As result of this painstaking investiga
ton White & Sons have secured as perfect
plans as are 10 be found in
tile country. They at first thought of
erecting their building on their own
ground, which is nearly opposite that pur
chased by the stock yards company, but de-
Ierred so doing until the stock yards COM
pany was organized, that theotwo CONAN
les might work together 20"
The ground upon which th..-,r,,r,o,,,o
packing house viii be eric ted ;s in nc
northern part of the city, .,ri the tracks of
the Rio Grande West IN and TTn;on Dc
cific aailways o-
10 secure some 81 the details of the pack
ing mouse, - 1eRALD reporter called al the
residence IF Mr.. John White on
North ,econd West street where
ne was shown not only the plans.
put permitted to take glimpse at the
oeatuiul nome with its handsome furni.
re, al Indicating the refining power of
wealth. ana the many charming appoint
ments it commands The parIors fairly
guttered with gold trimmings, and on the
walls hung some very artistic oil paintings
q y Tan scenery from the brush of Il. L. A.
Gunner. There may be an affinity between
nogs and fine arts after all, the big pig
pacEers OF Chicago owning many of the
priced works of the old masters.
Iout as to the packing house.
Inc plans show frontage of 133 feet.
With two railway side tracks passing in
'front.' OF IT. A platform extends the entire
length ana at car length intervals there are
cnutes that lead into the corralls. This is
the STOCK wards part of the packing house,
not the Union stock yards. it being neces,
sary Tor every packing house to have
pens enough to hold the stock used during
the day. n
There are eleven of these chutes leading
I6et
Back OF the corrals passes an alley divid-
ing Them from tae pens for cattle, hogs and
sueep: Tnere are eight cattle pens, 4Sx4S
ieet, Tor cattle and eight pens S2x4s feet for
sneep ana hogs. Between the large and
small pens are the large scales, capable of
weighing two car loads OF cattle at one
time. ~ WV
PACKING HOUSE BUILDINGS.
The main building is l93xs2 feet. four
stories high. On the first floor of this is
1he slaughter house property. There are
wings winch will contain the boilers. en-
gines, brine pump, tanking room, tallow
r1nderlng room and lard refining room
All o. the basement will be used as a cur
ing department
Inc method OF Strengthening will be car
rleu on the same as it is done in the modern
houses In Kansas City and Chicago. The
cattle are driven into the sla1phtering
room through chute to the knocking
ooWn place-there being three OF them. AS
soon as they are dropped they roll over on
an incline to the sticking floor. WI ere one
iunge OF the knife suffiices to let out the
last drop of blood. They are immediately
snatched up by the hind leg and allowed
h1teen minutes TO drip. Then they are run
on on IRON rails to where the backing, split
-tlng and wlping up is done. The
bullock is now ready for the
cooling room, and is easily run
around on the iron rails to the cooling
room, which consists of three long narrow
rooms, each large enough to hold 1873 beeves
or 8 rs in ALL
The cooling is done by reducing brine to
low temperature and passing it through
the COOLING room, in coiled pipes. Brine is
used, as it can be reduced as low as 20 de-
grees below zero without freezing. The
temperature used, however, is from zero to
10 degrees above
The killing of hogs by the modern appli
ances is so rapid that nothing ex
presses 1t better than to say he is snatched
paid headed, quartered and smoked.
The hog no sooner enters the Strengthening
MOOR until lie IS picked up by the hind leg
and goes through the air Scarcely does
the poor brute have time to look the picl,
sticker in the face until & deft blow is
given. To save time he is carried to the
scaldlng tub while bleeding. Whether dead
or allve he is dropped into the scalding vat,
thrown out by machinery and scraped in
the twlnkiing of an eye. Again he is
hooked by the hind leg and finds his way to
the dressing rail and in few seconds is
reaay Tor the cooling room to be chilled.
either shipped from the coolinr
room or taken TO the cutting room. Every
thing TO be cured is sent to the cellar
Through chute All the rooms are insu.
lated SO that meat can be cured as we'll in
July as January.
There Is sausage room with four great
grinders. lard refining tanks, tallow tanks
and fertilizing machinery 10 use M the
bones and blood so that nothing shall 20 to
waste.
WHERE THE SUPPLIES WILL COME FROM.
The HERALD reporter seeing the groat
outlay the company are about to make, put
the question:
Where do you expect to get supplies
from to keep this plant going.''
Il want to say said Mr.. White, sthat
II shere We're no greater prospect of sup
not to put $4,000 to Sl50.0O0 into
a packing house. But am CON
WINGED that Utah is so located that she
may become one of the principal beef and
pork producers in the United States. II is
true that our surplus at the present TING
consists entirely of the range produced
S took, which, outside of local markets are
almost wholly bought by feeders. Up 10
the present time our cattlemen and farmers
have not felt that they were justified in
taking any extra pains to provide beef and
mutton or pork from the fact that il took
put little 10 glut the local market and we
were too lar away from an eastern marker
and would come into competition with fat
stock fed on cheap corn. Now, however.
the situation is changed The local market
has grown 10 be one that demands as
good goods all the year round as
any market in the United States
This is not only true Of Salt Lake city
but oil all the clties and towns in this inter
mountain country. And large market is
thus opened at home for prime fed stock AT
every season OF the year Therefore we
look 10 see it more profitable to cattle /
growers to provide to furnish the marlye.