The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-30
A BIG COLD STORAGE PLANT.
WESTERN MEAT PACKERS TO 4
BUILD ONE IN SAVANNAH.

/ Plans being Perfected 10 Locate "A
Central Southern Depot Here for
Cold Storage and to Pack Southern
/ Meats-st. Louis and Chicago Pack
ers to Visit savannah Next Month
and Complete the Plans Already
Begun-severaI sites for the Plant
in View-The Enterprise 10 Bring
100000 Here.
Negotiations are in progress for the
erection of an immense cold storage plant
in Savannah similar to those in st. Louis
and Chicago.
A party of western packers who are
building a packing house and refrigera-
ting establishment in Baltimore viii be
here about the middle OF next month to
look over the ground and fix upon 10
cation. Several sites have already been
considered. but no steps Will be taken un-
til the men who are back of the enterprise
come here. They are Amos Jackson, G.
NJ. Washbond, f. S. Smyth, c. A. En-
NETT, NJ. F. Martin, II. NJ. Squire, w. c.
Earnest, 3. F. Anthony and r. X. Bruce,
leading packers of Chicago and St. Louis.
1t has been known for some time that
Chicago packers have been talking of a
plant In the south as a central supply de-
pot and they are convinced that Savannah
is the plcae for it.
Mr.. Ivan T. Goodrich of Goodrich &
Co, commission men of this city, is in cor
respondence with Goodrich & Goodrich OF
Baltimore, architects for the plant in
course of erection there, and who prepar-
ed the plans for the Armour packing house
in Denver, Col, erected several years ago,
In reference to the establishment of the
southern plant. Goodrich & Goodrich have
in hand plans for the central plant which
it is proposed to erect in the south, and
for duplicate or very similar plants to be
established at convenient points, The
plan is to erect the main plant here. with
branches in Charleston. Jacksonville, Ma
con, Montgomery and Mobile and perhaps
other cities.
The plan of the company is to refrig-
crate butter, eggs, fruits, vegetables
cheese, furs and wines and liquors so
that dealers and consumers can have
ready place to obtain supplies at all
times. The freezing Of FISH for northern
consumption, in which there is a large
profit, viii be one of the features of the
business. The present plan is to supply
the meat department from the Baltimore
plant with western stock. In warm
weather the southern stock is not consid-
cred sufficient nor of the proper quality
but in cold weather southern cattle hogs
and sheep will be utilized, which means
the building of slaughter houses and the
bringing of thousands of head of beef
cattle and other stock to this market.
Mr.. Goodrich, who is a son of the
senior member of the firm of Goodrich
y Goodrich, and who established the
Dixie Produce Company, now Goodrich
q Co., here, will be the manager of the
new enterprise. The proposed plant is
OF me most improved kind being a du-
plicate or very nearly so of the Balti-
more plant, except being, of course. on
somewhat smaller scale. The Balti-
more plant includes a central building
three stories high and $50 by 125 feet
ground space. At the front and back
are wings 100 feet square. From the two
ing, are two-story buildings, each 800 feet
by 40 feet, extending to and
crossing a railroad track, which forms
a semi-circle. Between these extensions
from the main building are a series of
six 2-story buildings sixty feet apart and
each 100 by 40 feet The railroad track
runs through the center Of these buildings
ana IS covered by a 2-story building or
shed 20 feet wide. Into the six buildings
are TO be unloaded the cattle, which, after
having been slaughtered are raised on
elevators to the second floor of the build
ing and there transferred on a system of
tracks to the central building and the
fetrlgeratlng compartments. On the
ground floor is the refrgeratng machin-
cry, the packing machinery, ice plants,
About ten acres will be required for the
site of the Savannah plant Mr.
Goodrich says. He has several
sites in view which will be gone over by
the westerners when they visit Savan-
nah. They are now with plenty of capital
and know what the needs are for the
plant which they propose to erect. They
realize the value of a central depot at
some point in the south, which shall have
the location to command all branches of
the business which the company would
engage in, and they regard Savannah as
the place. being on the coast, with unex-
celed transportation facilities, and being
so located as to handle the fish and otheR
branches of the business for which am
interior point would not be suited
The establishment of the plant here
means an investment of 100000 to $3.50, 1000
the greater part of which, if not practi-
cally all. will be western and northern
money. The company which is building
the Baltimore plant was organized in ST.
Louis as the Eastern Shore Abbatoir Com
pany. A similar company. it is under
stood, will be organized by the same men
for the south