The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-11
THE PASSING THRONa.


the Occidental He IL the representative OF the
6. Il Hammond Packing Company, whose es-
Adjustments are located at Hammond, Ind,
twenty miles east Of Chicago, and South Omaha,
Neh Mr.. Porter came here to erect . smoke
house and warehouse for his company, which
will make an effort to capture . share Of the
trade of the Puget sound country. ''The meat
packing business in this country has grown to
immense proportions during the past few year,"
said he. ''The nrst CARCASS Of dressed beef was
shipped East from Chicago In 1863, BY George H.
Hammond, the founder Of our house The sue
cess Of that experiment has revolutionixed the
meat supply business OF this country, and IL
rapidly doing the same in England.
At the Same time IL has enabled the
OF few men. the meat kings of the world
are the big four, Armour, Swift, Morris and
Hammond, and there are Ave other smaller
packing establishments, who are called Outsid.
ers, besides . large number Of pork packing
establishments In Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois and
other Western statea The arm Of Armour 4
Co. with packing houses at Chicago and Kansas
City, do business Of $65,0O0, 900 annually. The
three others Of the big four do about So, co.,.
600 business J. r. swift 4 Co has houses at
Chicago, South Omaha and Kansas City. Nelson
Norris has one house ct Chicago, and We have
houses at Hammond. Ind, and South Omaha,
Neh OF the ouuiders the Cudahy Packing Com.
=
$25.00 900; the International Company, at Chi.
cago. does about the same; the Jacob bold Com.
pany. at Buffalo, does 10000, 600 business; the
Armour Packing Company, OF Kansas City, does
900 600 business, aud Chris Klinch, OF Buffalo,
does . Is, 600 005 businesa George II. Hammond,
who founded our house. died about ten years
ago. and syndicate of English capitalists are
now Its principal owners, the general manage
ment OF the business being directed by J. r.
Lyman. Of Boston, who II only IS years Of age,
but has been remarkably successful. AL the
leading packers have branch houses in the prin.
cipal cities OF the country. and our aim In o..
tablishinga smOkehouse here 70 because the
people OF this section demand froshsmoked.
bright clean meata whereas If they were to b
shipped here from Omaha in bags they would In
short time become mouldy in this damp eli.
mate"
T. NJ. Gibson. . real estate and mining broker
from Butte. Mont. is stopping 1t the Rainier.
'The senatorial contest in our state IL q very
bitter one, and will very likely result in the
legislature adjourning without selecting . sue.
cessor to Senator Sanders. On the part OF the
minority the fight against A. w. Clark II being
engineered by Marcus DAILY, who il . political
power in Western Montana, and who has sworn
to defeat Clarke ambition at all hasards. The
enmity between these men 10 of long Sanding,
They were both common lsborers in Butte's
their onward march to great wealth they locked
horns in several legal battles, aud the wounds
there received have never healed. CLARK has &C.
quired larger personal fortune, but DAILY. a.
manager Of the Anaconda properties controls q
greater capital. ~ we'll a. the votes OF the vast
number of men employed by Il. At present
the Anaconda mines are not producing, although
q large force Of men are still employed blocking
out new bodies OF ore The vast quantities of
ore taken out Of the mines in Butte can not be
estimated. 1t has been estimated that the
amount OF lumber required to timber up the
empty parts OF the mines is many times greater
than has been put into the buildings OF the city.
! see that the people here arc expecting the
coming of the Burlington road In this connec-
ton perhaps II may be of interest to you to state
that a few days ago local company Of shrewd
capitalists was organized In Butte to build q
railroad eastward from that city to connection
with the Burlington. From Butte . good routa
to this country can b obtained by parailslinr
the Union Pacific tweuty-six miles south from
Butte to the Big Hole river. Going ND that
river good pass leads over to the north fork of
is all down hill to the Columbia in the vicinity
OF Walia Walla and thence here BY routes Won
know better than L"
J. r. Wardner, of Fairhaven, was In the CITY
yesterday. He has Just returned from the Slo-
can country and says the weather has been very
cold up there. "There will 30 Q stamrede for
The LArdeaux country next season, - soon a
the snow IL of the ground. By the way.
though, up In that Same region-I WON'T say
how lar from the SLOGAN district-thers are soma
wonderful gold quarts dspoaits which may
cause . second Black Hills excitement A
soon - the snow is on, OF the way a few OF ma
who are on to the location Of this stun will SEQ
what there 10 in it The country was gone ovsr
for placers in the early day, butt has never
been prospecsed for quartz"
NJ A. MacLean. ex-mayor OF Vancouver. r.
c., is in the city visiting his brothers, pous G.
an Lachlan MacLean. Ho Il Connected Nth
the immigration department. OF the dominion
government, and VIII make tour OF Washiuo
ton aud Oregon in search Of immigrants Tor
British Columbia and the Northwest territories.