Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-02
HOG AND HOMINY.
The Packing House Company
Keeps a Promise Made.
A Public E1h bitiOn of Hog Killing at
tie Packing House Yesterday
Afternoon.
Ten Hogs In Twelve Minutes, and Trxts will
now Make Her Own facun-How 1t was
Done by Exp 'rlencsd Men.

the promise made months ago 10 Kill
hogs and begin the work of curing Tsxa
bacon on November /, 1890. The i'm
menss packing house plant is not quit
complete, few finishing touches re
mining 10 bs put On; but for the pur
pose of killing hogs it is complete enough
| aud yesterday afternoon at 4:3
o'"lo the promise made Wa
Kept, and new era was in.
nusurate'i i'll Fort Worth. Early in tn,
Afternoon THE GAZETTE was notified tia
trial killing would be made, and Re.
porter was sent 10 the packing house IC
| uote the proceedings.
Quite number of citizens were on
baud, ana Ii little after o clock Prcsi-
dent NJ. u. Ellis, accompanied by tol.
John Il. Hozie, the founder of this
great establishment; Vice President A .
| I. Byers, E. b. Harold, one OF The
directors, and others arrived. This was
the signal for operations to begin. The
black smoke had been pouring from the
tnii stucks all the afternoon; the water
! in the sraIdng tubs had long been
heated up TO the proper temperature,
and ten sleek-lookiug Berkshire hogs
lives Tor the good of the country.
Superintendent George Nj Barnum
was here, there and everywhere get
ting his men i'll position. (9Il Of Them
were experienced hands, aud when tine
time To Kill came, he stepped up TO Mr..
+. Il. Harold and said that the honor
of sticking The first hog killed in u Texas
packing house had been reserved for
him, and o keen biuded butcher knife
was put III his hands. rubber apron
which reached from neck TO belt was
next placed on MIR. Harold and he was
ready for work.
AT given signal q man in the pen
caught hog with hook by the hind
leg, and before he had time 10 soupal he
was holsted over the heads of all present
to the iron rail that runs throughout the
building, and hurried along II to whpre
Mr.. Harold stood. The chain was low
cred which brought the suspended hog
down TO the proper level, and the next
Instant Mr.. Harold had plunged the
knife into ais throat, striking the heart
Us an old hand could. The hog was next
dumped into tbs scnlding tub, then lifted
oY an iron grab to the cleaning board
where two scrupers took him in hand and
in less time tan it takes to tell
the tale had every vestIgs of hair
off of him. The hog was mex,
passed to two other scraprrs who
gave the finishing outside touches, and
he was then passed to two NEIL vino
again hoisted him to the rail and spread
him on TO the gutter.
Harry Ray, who in three ticks Quilted
and took every entral from the carcass,
passing the entrals to a man behind him.
who stripped them in short order. From
Roy the carcass was passed to Jack
Hughes, who stripped from it in less
than half n minute all the leaf lard and
other fat, aud then it was passed on to
the splitter, who separated the carcnss
into two parts with an immense cleaver
almost IN an instant, ana then passed 1t
on 10 the next man, who severed the |
head from the body. The process was eur
r:ed no farther on this occasion, the di- |
vided carcasses being left hanging as they |
were The ten hogs in the pen all went |
through the same process, and at the !
expiration of twelve minutes from the
fsfps the first ore was stuck by Mr.. E.
b. HaFrold the last one had reached the
he end OF the rail and was ready for the
smoke house. Ten hogs killed, scalded,
rraped, Quilted, the leaf ard taken from
hem, their carcasses split aud their
l5uds taken off was the record made
yesterday. This is u sample OF what will
70 done when the work starts up in
arrest. Superintendent Bsrnum has
uli force of experienced men, and he
handles them like an experienced gen.
raj.
As souvenir OF this trial killing Col.
ohm R. Hoxie, the man who started
his great industry in Fort Worth,
laimed the bladder of the first hog
illed, blew it up, as he used to when
Oy himself, and took IL home with him,
living THE GAZETTE reporter the priyiI-
80 of cutting off the tail of the same
og. which he did and will keep as long
8 il can he kept.
1t was oil served by all present that the
IMMENSE machinery of this great plant
orked like charm. There was not q
Itch anywhere, and It moved Us If il
nd been in operation. This Is due to the
act that this pack ing house was built
nder the immediate supervision OF Mr.
Ohm Thomas, the architect, who has 10
iprrior In the United States III his line |
business. He has made u speciaitv of
lckinH-house building, aud In no in
ance has he done better work than he
as on this one. The trial Yesterday WIS
'VatH'i III MS tttp, anu tDb manner IN
hirh everything went of sh WED that in
II tetintendent George NJ. Baruum the
ackinG House company had got the !.
ght nan.
On account of the non arrival OF the
nmon!a pipes it will he lew days be-
re regular slaughiering begins, but
hen II does THE GAZETTE will have more ;
say on the subject, aud will give O
ore coinprehensiyewrite-u of the i'm
pnse ptant,i's capacity aud what it will
for Texas.'I I
Cattle In the Panhandle. 4
Capt. } D. Jeffrips, superintendent +,
the Tongue river ranch In Motley n
unity, arrived in the city from the u
yesterday afternoon. A GA ,,
TIE reporter had a short talk with him :,
the condition of cattle in his section, >.
"a Capt. Jefries stated that everything :,
Is looking well at prrsent-well enough =
make catilpnen feel easy SO fur as the ;,
inter outlook was concerned.
''Cattle are not as fat us they Nigh, :,
- he said, ''but they are in good
nditlon aud are improving rapidly. IT
e grass Is splendid, and / believe that !,
, season will be such as to enable il to ;,
re up before freezing weather comes. .,