Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-22

| q long rail high above the head of q
| person standing on the floor. On stands
| ranged along the rail are men prepared
| to put the hog through Its various pro-
cesses. The first man cuts down the
| front and jerks out the entrails, which
are thrown TO another man, who strips
| them of ali useful fat substance. On
runs the hog TO the lard man. who with
swift and praciiced stroke jerks out the
leaf lard aud throws il into vat near
by, where it is cleauSed. On runs the
hog TO an Their msu, who, by the appli-
cation of hose and scraping knife, thor
oughiy cleans the carcass, when hardly
stops for the process, but rushes out to
where a man with couple of strokes of
an immense cieayer, separates the car
cass into halves; nor stops the
body there, but proceeds TO
where man cuts off the
head, which up 10 this time has been
clinging by q slender piece of flesh. This
man lays the head on a table and cuts
out the tongue. The hog Is ready for
the dripping or drying room, and thIther
it is Conveyed, distance of 200 feet. in
the next building by means of the same
raIl on which it left the scalding watts.
The process requires less time TO oper-
ate than it does 20 describe.
One hundred and sixty hogs were
made into pork and hung nicely in the
drying room III l45 minutes yesterday
afternoon.
More than hog q minute.
See?
To-day 500 or 600 hogs will be killed.
On Monday and on every day thereafter
1000 head W Ill be killed.
ia mil Joh n
HoxIe, ''that we will be in the market
on and after Monday next for 1000 hogs
per day, of every kind, aud We will pay
the highest cash price for them.
"What quality are the hogs you have
got so far in Texas?'' asked the re-
porter.
"It YOU will notice the quotations
from the Northern markets you viii see
they can't average alongside our stock.
IN guarantee the six worst hogs we
killed to-day will Average up with what
are on the Chicago markets -
"What about the slaughter Of beef at
this plan;?''
Don't get excited about that. We
will be in the procession. For the last
two weeks We have been engaged doub-
ling our capacity for killing beef. We
are having 1000 boxes for shipping
made. -
"where is your market for all these
goods?''
''Our market is all oyer this country
We have orders in now from every place
OF Importance in Texas, and a great
many from outside the state. -
This will be great thing for the
farmer and hog raiser suggested the
reporter.
81 should say it would. And we
want them TO know about it. We want
them TO come and see what we have. On
Friday, December 3, we are going to
give Farmers Alliance barbecue at the
stocayards and packery, and we want
every member of that body, and every
one else who can, TO be present, look
over the plant, make inquiries, learn all
about it, aud be entertained III the best
stYie we know how
:The starting of work here will create
a demand for property - the reporter
ventured.
"It will DO that. - agreed Mr.. Hoxie.
"In a short time we will have 10 900
people in that neighborhood as the result
of the refrigerator and the big Denver
shops. We alpea1y have an application
at Washington to be given pos;oifice,
to be called The Union Stockyards of
Tarrant County.