The herald., 1893-06-03
THEY ARE PIG KILLING.
THE CUDAHY COMPANY HAS COM
MENCED OPERATIONS.
A Most Important Business Concern
Commences Operations-A Scarcity
of Hogs-How the Build
IS ing Is Constructed.

Operations commenced yesterday at
the packing house of the Cudahy Pack
ing company on the river front near
Macy street. This is the first advance
movement that has been made on this
coast in an enterprise OF this character.
1t is the first move made by the great
eastern syndicates in the line of
slaughtering, dressing and curing hogs
for the trade west OF the Rocky
mountains.
1t WAS some months ago that the
Cudahy Packing company conceived the
idea OF putting packing house on the
coast for the purpose of better handling
the coast business. Later Los Angeles
was selected as the point where the
packing plant should be established,
A site was selected, as has been be-
fore stated, on the river front just off OF
Macy street. Here it was designed that
the buildings and yards should occupy
the space of an acre Of ground. The
main structure is five-etory brick,
112x64 feet, and rests on concrete foun-
dations eight feet deep. The walls are
21 inches thick and are machine-made
brick. The girders are 2x14 inches,
spiked and bolted, and the joiets 3xl2,
in 16-foot sections and double bridged.
The floors are 2x6 inch dressed lumber,
and calked with TWO threads of oakum,
filled with North Carolina pitch, go as to
make them absolutely water tight. All
the floors incline from ends to center.
and the water runs from there to one
sewers thence to O .sariee. al Catch lRasi9s
very limited amount) ia caught and
refined for use, SO that nothing OF value
gets. away from the plant into thesewer.
It Is stated that less grease gets into the
city sewerage from euch works in 80
days time than goes from large hotel
in "a houre. W a
For hogs, cents per pound ON foot is
paid, provided that they are grain fed.
They are weighed and driven into the
yard pens, IL in number, each of which
have a capacity of 100 animals. They
are then washed and fed for "a hours.
They are then ready for the sticker' "a
knife.
Slowly the unsuspecting animals are
directed up shute into the slaughter
rooms. Here they are shackled by the
right hind foot, passed along in close file
with heads hanging down to the man
with the butcher knife.
He does the work deftly. With every
stroke he cuts the throat of porker and
sends him into oblivion.
One swat is all that is necessary.
Then the lifeless body of the hog falls
into a scalding vat. From this it is
drawn out and scraped.
Z Then, the bodies are quickly vivisected
and the different portions are sent to the
different departments to be handled as
required.
4. All parts of the animal are used and
none 60 10 waste. Part is used as fer
tilizer and brings $50 per tom
The branch which the Cudahy COM
pany has established in this city has a
capacity of about 800 hogs per day. Yes
terday only 200 were killed, and today it
is not probable that more than 800 will
becut at the throat. 1t will be some
time before the Los Angeles branch will
be running to its full capacity.
AS near as can be judged at present
the management has arranged for about
5000 hogs. They must have more, and
there is evidently money in the hog
raising industry.