Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-12
Col. John f Hoyie, Pre- siGe-t,
!. l. Williams, N.ce-Pce>.Gort.
q. N H.ruum, General Manager

Rev. j. Morgan Wells conducted the Ger.
! emoay Of putting the stone in position, and
this done he addressed the company in Ian
guaEe betit ling the occasion.
REy. :. MORGAN WELLS,
! the first speaker, was in happy frame o!
7 mind. and was listened 70 with pleasure.
He said: We have met here this after
noon, my friends, 20 lay the second corner
stone Of he great packing house Of Texas.
Il Vas only u few months since that il b.
gan operations, and there We're some who
feared because OF the gigantic proportions
Of the concern that it could not be = sue
cess. But there were others who were full
OF hope because they knew the experience
OF the men who We're II the head ot tie
enterprise and also knew BY observation
the necessity Of the Institution and realized
the demand for its products And now It's
success seems assured beyond reasonable
doubt, because i IS based not OF WhinS or
speCulationS. but on the necessities Of the
people. For people must eat. they viii eat,
they cant get along without eating, and
they don't want 20 If they could. The
packing house has demonstrated its ftucSS
10 live by supplying the meat 70 the people
III better condition han before. Thus eat
erS of Texas and neiChbOring states rcCOg-
nize the service this institution has rem
dered them, and in doing this il has
created demand greater than the
supply, and 10 meet the in
creased demands OF the people Of the
Southwest this enlargement is taking place
to-day. While this institution IS here TO
supply demand, it at the same time creates
I demand for home products which may be
furnished at great profit by the farmers of
Texas and the states near US. The great
want OF Texas is to produce al home all the
bread and meat she eats, and this will be
done small lh Will find that
the best market for their corn is in the
pig pen. This Fort Worth packing house
represents an outlay of several hundreds of
thousands of dollars, and il requires vast
sums of money and many men 10 properly
conduct II. This money goes to the labor
ing man, TO the merchant, TO the farmer, to
the property holder, to the railroads and
the express companies, in fact 10 al,
directly or indirectly. 1t benefits every
body-but the preacher. While il is doing
all this, however il is making money. and
it is well that this is So, for 1t could not
run If it did not make money. II IS u bless
ing TO Fort Worth and all Texas and the
field of its good work will continue TO grow.
In the presence of all these Witnesses lay
this corner stone, in the name of
the Southwest, in the name of the
great empire state OF Texas, in
the name of the proud and peerless
city of Fort Worth, in the name of enter
prise, progress and prosperity, in the
name of past achievements ana present sue
cess, in the name OF hope that the star Of
its brightest future may always be in the
ascendent." IApplauseI.
COL. JOHN II. HOME
being called for took the stand amid ap-
plause. He said he would not make
speech, that was not in his line, bat he
would say that the packing house would
help the preacher as well IS erybody else.
His friend, Rev. J. Morgan Wells. should
this. The packing house would
kill FOR all that all might live. There need
be no doubt in any mans mind about the
success Of the packing house, the only
trouble would be, could the creIt demand
for the products be suppl If money
could furnish the CapaCIty and the country
would raise the hogs and the cattle, the
greatest demand for fine dressed meats
would be supplied if the hogs had to be
brought from Montana, Nebraska and Iowa,
but this would not be necessary, for Texas
farmers were III the hog business to stay,
and they were to-day raising the finest hogs
In the country. Col. IIoxie said
ne had Just received a telegram stating that
the United States government had awarded
the contract TO the Fort Worth packing
to supply all the meats the SOL
diers in Texas at the different military posts
Uncle Sam knew good thing
when he saw it. The speaker said it would
only be d few months until the new build
ingS were in use and then 1900 hogs, 800
cattle ana 1909 sheep would be slaughtered
and dressed every day.
COL. PETER SMITH.
Mayor Smith was the next speaker. He
said he had watched Fort Worth grow from
0 mere hamlet to its present proportions
aud he felt safe in saying that after the
railroads had been secured the greatest
thing in the upbuilding of Fort Worth I,
would be her packing house interests. \ |
home market for cattle and hogs was
needed and the packing house gave this. |
The Texas farmer would raise corn and |
hogs Il he knew that he could sell his hogs |
at Chicago prices whenever he was ready. !
Mayor Smith gave statistics that showed |
The number Of people naturally tributary to ,
The packing house. He felt sanguine that |
i would continue to grow from year to .
year.
CAPT. THOMAS F. WEST.
When Capt. West took the stand every
one knew that he would make a good speech |
and he did He said that it was charged |
against Texas that she sold cotton and !
bought bacon and everything else, but this
vas no longer the case, she made her bacon
md saved all she got for her cotton He
lad heard men say that packing house in
Texas could not succeed. These men didn't
NOW the Fort Worth spirit. and had never
net Col John r. Hoxie, man who when
lie put his hand to the plow never turned
pack. When he had heard that a packing
louse had been decided on, and heard that
ohn R. Hoxie had said it should go he
new it would go. The great packery that
TODD before them was an object lesson. 1t
old what energy and determination and en-
erprise could do. Years from now when
he quarter Of million people Of Fort
Worth saw the clouds of black smoke curl
from Of
ouse smokesracks they would remember
Iol. Hoxie and bless his name for the good
york he had done.
Il. C. HOLLOWAY
vas the last speaker. He told in a plain
ractical way Of the good work the packing
ouse had done and would do not only for
be city of Fort Worth but for the state.
Fort Worth in building the packery was on
ne right track, and if she obtained more Of
UGH enterprises the future was assured.
The Santa Fe Contingent.