Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-06-20
THE FORMATION OF 4 COMPANY
FOR SLAUGHTERING CATTLE.

I
most distinctly and directly for the benefit
of the farmers, was that discussed at the
Courthouse, Saturday morning, by men
representing these avocations-cattle
buyers, cattle raisers, and cattle butchers.
On it's face it proposes only to establish
stock yards, slaughter houses, and refriger-
ators here, but ifit is successful it will bring
many manufactures with it. The plan of the
originators is to form a joint-stOck COM
pany with capital of $500, 900, of which
sufficient will be issued and used in build
ings, machinery, and refrigerating cars,
and the residue will remain i'll the Treasury
of the company. To those who have looked
into this project, it is one of the most feas-
ible, beneficial, and pecuniarily profitable to
the farmers that has been proposed. Armour
& Co. Of Chicago, whose investment in
Chicago has, in just this work, paid them
anywhere from one thousand to ten thou
sand for one, are stretching out for the
West and are about establishing stock
yards in San Francisco. The same reason
that exists for them on the Pacific coast
exists for them on the Atlantic coast.
Staunton is the centre of the great cattle
region of Virginia, and it is from here with
competing railroads to every quarter that
refrigerated meat could best be shipped.
To this point, we have heard it stated, a
hundred thousand head of cattle can be
driven without even touching railroad
car and thereby escape heavy freight
charge. Nowhere on the Atlantic coast,
this side of Texas, is there such cattle
growing region, and nowhere can cattle be
turned into meat after SO short a drive.
From here are two roads open to the sea by
which refrigerated meat can be put on
shipboard for England, and the fact has
long been apparent that this form is fast
supplanting the shipment of live cattle
across the water. The large profits in the
business are attracting English capital to
this country, and we see that an English
company has paid twenty-five millions of
dollars for the Union Stock Yards at Chi
cage, and will take possession ON the first of
next month. The great advance made in
the preservation and transportation of meat
has created revolution in the old meth
DDS, and new people and new capital are
going into field that science and enterprise
have suddenly opened. The proposed Staun-
ton company appears just in time to enter
the field under the very best conditions,
and there seems to us hardly question of
it's success. 1t is simply whether we of
Virginia should do this for ourselves, OF
wait till some English company shall locate
stock yards in Baltimore. Here, where the
cattle abound, is the natural location, just
as the cotton fields of the South have proved
the natural location for cotton mills.
To the farmer and cattle raiser, the en-
terprise will secure better prices for his
produce and for his cattle.
To Staunton, its benefits come indirectly
but bountifuly, for the various manu-
features that follow slaughter houses-fer-
tilizers, glue, buttons, tanneries, leather,
horn goods-will certainly be located in the
town.
1t is good omen Of success when the
men familiar with the business to be done
are willing to invest in such an enterprise
as this, and we understand that all who
have yet been approached have promised
their hearty cooperation.
HELPING HOME.
The now established fact that there is to
be permanent and rapid growth in this
section should redouble the efforts of its
peoples4to develop the splendid posi-
bilities that are before Staunton, the metro
polls Of the Valley of Virginia. 1t can
be only an objectionable slowth to permit
this city, which is ahead of all it's Compel
tors in size, in the improvements of civil
cations, In railroad facilities, in education
al facilities, in everything that makes a
city, to fall behind in the racef for great and
permanent prosperity now going on at the
South. 1t will be money in every farmer S
pocket in this section to have Staunton a
large manufacturing city, for it is his
market and the more thrift that attends it
the better prices for his produce, 1t will
be p1 ofitable to every property holder in
Staunton to aid it's growth, for every addi-
tional inhabitant that is attracted here
gives that much more value to his proper
ty. Let our people push the interests Of
the Staunton Development Co., the only
great project yet undertaken for the gener-
al good of the community. The greater
the effort the people Of Staunton make in
this direction, the sooner will the smoke
stacks of new Industries be seen around the
city.
No money in raising cattle. This is the cry
on every side. Yet at. the same time our far
mers persist in this species OF farming when
they know certainly that when their three
and four-year-olds are ready for market. they
will not realize one cent over and above the
actual cost of grazing, and a great many fail
to do even that.-HsghLand Recorder.
If the Highland people will give their
Sunnort tho asta h]ishmenf of stock wards