The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-03

supply for this citv is only about $50 or 500
c,ttle a day. But maintain that the Baden
affair is real estate proposition pure and
simple.
1T rerresents to my mind a plant worth
say $4,000 and land bought for $500. COO.
the price of which has already raised to
something like S2.000,000.
II merely give you my ideas about OF
course l cannot say anything OF my own
knowledge.
'But look at it in another way. Look at
the R0deo enterprise. How is that TO sue
coed If Baden prospers? Baden can raise
and slaughter daily enough cattle to supply
the whole State. The proposition seems to
be to force the Butchertown people to bny
:be Baden lots and abattoirs, and that's the
whole business"
George Katz Of the firm Of Katz
& Sons, California Market. gave a number
of reasons why, in his opinion. the retail
butchers of the city look with disfav0r on
the new enterprise.
Speaking for our frm," he said. II can
only say that we do not like refrigerator
beef. That is good reason in itself. is it
not?
I'VE have been selling beef in this market
over twenty-five years and we always keep
our customers. We lind that there is moth
ing like slaughter-house beef.
Refrigerator beef is all right enough in
any other climate than that of San Francis
co. l have nothing to say against it. But
1t can't be hung up in the stalls like slaugh-
er-house beef. 1t gets 'muggy.' You have
to keep it in icechests or refrigeratOrs from
the time you get it,
ut is perfectly true that Butchertown
will have to go eventually. Things are not
what they ought TO be down there, but that
is no reason why we should have to buy
what we do not want and what our GUS
toners do not want either.
There is nothing like slaughter-honse
beef. We know exactly what we are buy
ing and what we are selling. We have dealt
with the same rartieS for years; they value
our custom and we value our customers.
Nearly all the slaughter houses in Butcher
town have been run for years by the same
men, and we are naturally unwilling to
make experiments. Besides, as / said be-
fore, refrigerator beef cannot be hung up
for sale. That is the great objection to ii. !"
NJ. b. Monaghan, who has kept res
taurant in the California Market Tor a num-
Der Of years and is large buyer Of meat,
was appealed to as an impartial authority.
He said:
This struggle between Baden and Butch
ertown is bound to come to an end. There
will have to be a change. Butchertown
must be done away with, anyhow. / am
not complaining of the slaughtermeu of
Butchertown, but OF the place itself. 1t has
had its day.
II do not own a cent of stock in the Ba-
den concern, Their as to the abattors or
the land in the neighborhood. My oyster
beds are three miles away. But Butcher
town, as it stands to-day, is right in the way
OF the progress OF the city, the same as the
grayeyards are. The slaughter ouses will
have to be moved further out and they may
as well be at Baden as anywhere else. If
these people have come down here and es.
tabllshed plant for Strengthening cattle and
refrigerating house. there is no reason
why 1t should be any injury to any Califor-
MA industry.
mind you, don't wish to be understood
that buy Of them or am going to change
my custom. All l say is give them fair
play:
1--WE want people with means to come
here and invest.
st doesn't matter whether it is Phil Ar
mour or the Butehertown people who kill
the cattle. The cattle have 10 be raised In
California by California men; brought here
on railroads that support an immense num-
Der of men with families who spend their
money IN California; the killing and cut
ting up is done by men who spend their
money here; the teamsters spend their
money Eere, and don't see how it can be
figured out that the Baden abattiors are
going to be an injury to any one.
"As TO the quality of sthe refrigerator
beef | don't know anything about il. but if
it is as good as other beet and we can get
rid Of Butchertown, let US have it by all
means.
Beef is never going to be any lower than
1t Is now. On the contrary, it is going to
rise In price from the fact that all the large
tracts OF land In the State, formerly used
for grazing purposes, are being turned int
farms. vineyards. orchards and so on.
The cattle men are being driven back
Into Nevada and Oregon, and you can
readily see how the price is bound to RISE
To-day you can buy prime beef cheaper in
the California market than in any other
market in the world, and perhaps it is this
which has made customers so particular.
"Tliey all want the best cuts for the low
est prices, and 1t is no wonder that what
the butchers here call "a foreign element has
come and threatened competition. But let
us look ahead and get rid Of Butchertown
anyhow"