Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-17
ROUND-UPS.
The History Of Packing Fl ouses Show
Nothing but Progress and Success.
Cattle In the United States Decreasing in Mum
bers-1he Markets ImprovIng-GeneraI
Stock Items and Notes.

time superintendent CT the Jacob Doe
packing house company at Wichita,
KAN, has been secured for the same
| position by the Fort Worth packing
house company and has arrived in the
city. Mr.. Barnum Is reputed to be one
OF the most efficient men in his line of
business in his state, and after q careful
examination Of the packing house now
being built here states that that il will
be more perfect in all its details than any
establishment of the kind in the West.
| Inc people in Texas do not seem to appre-
| ciate the importance of such q concern
| as is now being built at the Union stock
yards of this city, but when they see
them In full operation-hundreds of hogs
| being slaughtered daily and converted
INTO bacon and lard they will KIN ow what
this packing house will be to the sto ok
interests of Texas. The history of
OF packing houses wherever built is a rec
ora OF continued success and prosperity
rake those of Kansas City, for instance.
They have never stopped growing from |
the time the first plant was put in OPERA |
ton on the banks of the Missouri, more |
than decade back; there has been a |
steady increase in the volume of business, |
until now the output is simply enormous.
Inc one little establishment has spread
ous, and more than half dozen others
have sprung up by the side of it. OF
these the great Armour company leads in
the number of hands employed and VOL
ume of business done. Then comes Swift
y Co.. almost exclusively cattle handlers;
Fowler q Co., hogs and cattle; Klngan s.
Co.. hogs and cattle: Jacob Dold Co.
hogs and cattle; Kansas City packing
company, cattle exclusively; AlIcutt,
hogs and cattle; Morris, Butt s. Co..
hogs and cattle. Not one of these houses
has experienced a falling off in business
since the day it began operations. Not
only this, but all of them have enjoyed
remarkable prosperity, and each month
ana year has been a better one than Its
predecessor. AS an illustration of the
character of the packing industry Its i'm
mensity and its growth, some figures will
be given from the books of the Armour
The Armours have packed since March
and up TO September l of this year
436, 667 hogs, ITO, 725 cattle, 25 ,65s sheep {
and 1851 calves. That is the record for I
SIX months. The summer season begins
March l and ends November l. The 6
record 80 lar this season surpasses that of ,
any summer season in the packing house .
record of Kansas City. This does not !
speak in mean terms of Kansas City's E
material prosperity. The Armour COM
PAW employs every day from 1900 TO
ZOO people. This army of workers is !.
'ald literally and every cent 1t gets is
pent or invested there in the two Kansas +,
Jitys. b
These hundreds of the Armour company
hone are more operatives than all of the
MinOaQnn1 mil | u
Employment. There is an approximate
4 5000 people employed in the packing fl
ouses there. Each empioye safely rep p
esents three persons, total of "a 900 81
nhabitants supported through the oper- 10
ting department of the packing houses IN
lone. These figures, as remarkable as al
ney may seem, are constantly on the 10
lerease-the army is growing every day. is
The Armour works are composed of al
wenty-two distinct brick houses, cover
IL ground area of eight acres, and ca
icluding thirty-one acres of floor space. | be
esides these, there are dozens of frame bu
.ructures whose floor measurement is re
OF reckoned in the company's calcula- d.
ons. An acre of these brick buildings tn
as been added this year. There ars BIZ
neteen acres OF storage and eight acres tn
the refrgerating department Aside tn
ON all the buildings and tack room oe
lere are four acres of cattle and hog by
Ems. The buildings are all lettered, and TO,
ow the company is alarmed because it
within four letters OF the end of the -,
phabet. Building n. being the great do
rtilizing department, burned to the -
ound less than year ago. The debris
as cleared while yet smouldering, and
three weeks another building was COZ
ady for occupancy where the old one Dig
pod. That is the way business is oar
ed on in Kansas City, and the same Of
ing can be duplicated in Fort Worth IL eve
sfockmen and farmers of Texas will
to work and raise the hogs that our
cking house will demand.