The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-14
As TO MEAT INSPECTION.


The following letter, drawn out by
The Herald editorial on Meat Inspec-
ton, expresses the views of large
number Of reasonable people in this city
and elsewhere. We trust that the mu-
niciDal authorities will consult the pub
lie interest and the convenience of the
stock owners and meat dealers, in
preference to those of one company or
firm. The suggestions in this letter are
worthy of consideration:
To the Editor of The Herald:
My attention has been called today to
the fact that the late Legislature passed
law compelling the ante-mortem in
sDection of all animals intended for
slaughter While this law is necessary
and proper, its enforcement should not
| be made TO work q hardship on the
honest farmer who may have from one
to half dozen pigs and two or three
beeves during the entire year. For, in
case they are all compelled to take
their small lots of meat cattle and hogs
to the Union stock yards for inspec-
ton, say from five to ten miles, and
! then take them back again to their
ranches or farms for slaughter, it
would entail vast amount of trouble
and expense upon the poor man and do
a great amount of injury to the ami
mails just prior to their slaughter.
The question may be asked, why not
have them slaughtered at the Union
stock yards? The answer is, because
the times are hard and the stock-raise,
of few hogs or cattle, in some cases
not more than one or two, cannot af-
ford to drive to the yards above-named
and then add to that expense that of
Slaughtering also.
Would it not be proper to suggest
that the justice of the peace of each
precinct, or some such responsible per-
son. be appointed by the county courts
as inspector of live cattle and hogs in
tended for the market, and allow him
to charge a srrlNll fee for each animal
inspected in all parts of his district,
say from ten to twenty-five cents per
head, according to the distance he
would have to travel to see the ami
mails?
Please let these matters be brought
under the advice of your useful paper
and help to maintain the farmer and
small stock growers, and encourage
1 them to help diffuSe and strengthen all
home producers. OF course the post
mortem inspection of all slaughtered
animals brought into the city is under
control of the proper officer of the CITY
or town where the animal is marketed.
Very truly yours, a friend of the poor
man, S. B. YOUNG.
We expected some response from the
stock yards side of the question, al
though we had given space to a very
full account of the purposes and advan-
tages of these yards in recent issue
of The Herald. But that it might not
be truthfully said that we were op-
posed to the enterprise,which is covert
~ intimated in the following lengthy
communication. we give space to it.
promising that our views remain I'M
changed as to the wrong of compell-
ing farmers and stock sellers to go to
the trouble and expense which would
be involved in making place six or
seven miles north, the sole and only
place of stock ana meat inspection.
The folly of calling the Jordan stock
farm and the other places referred to
where slaughtering is carried on, "a
danger to the health of this city,
must be apparent to all who know of
their location. And the request that