The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-01-23
some Los ANGELES INDUSTRIES.
III Burning a Great Boon to
Manufacturers.
Cudahy Packing Company Going
to Kill Uattle.
, Southern California Packing Compa-
1y's Big Fruit Cannery-General
Financial Ncws


j .propos to the suggestion in these columns
4 es.erday that Los Angeles afforded good field
4 Tor the investment OF capital in manufacturing
Enterprises, it may ba stated that a number of
Industries recently Established here. are not
only paying dividends on the capital invested.
but s.e affo.ding employment for great many
% % and putting good deal of money in cir
ION in the community, Especially since
d introduction of oil as fuel are the results
alisfactory to the manufactures, as the saving
\ ir INNING large plant with crude oil instead
OF coal, amounts to u considerable sum in the
course OF year.
OIL AS FUEL.
Take the Cudohy Packing company.
+ instance. Superintendent Roberts esti-
mates that by the substitution of Oil
for coal, as fuel, the company saves Ia cents on
each hog slaughtered. On the basis OF 200
hogs per day, which is about the minimum
number killed. the saving is 1913 per day, and,
counting 800 days to the year, the saving to
the company Per annum is $s400-a nice little
net income in itself for a small plant
THE cuDAHY COMPANY.
The Cudahy Packing company by the way, Is
sauchirg out. 1t Is handling about $50 hogs
,day and rejects offers of as many more. The
farmers up about Bakersfield all seem to look
to Los Angeles for Market and are rushing
their hogs in here faster than they are wanted.
Last Friday the record for receipts was broken
by tie arrival of 100. These were all accept
ed and speedily converted into pork. The
heavy receipts have tended to depress the m ar
ket, So. so per cat being The ruling price at
present The quality OF the hogs has greatly
improved since year ago. superintendent
Roberts says Southern California now produces
as good pork as any OF the western states The
Cudahy company disburses between $4,000 and
$1,000 per month, aud gives employ ment to
about 70 men.
NEW DEPARTURE
Since Mr.. Roberts, an experienced meat
z packer, took charge of the Cndahy plant few
months ago, tho company has made great
gtrdes in the line of Improvements. Cattle
pens have been erected, and machinery Is on
the way from San Francisco. which, when set
Up. Wilt find the factory fully equipped
II canning beef, in addition to turning
u pork products 1t will not be more
than few weeks at the farthest till cattle as
well as hogs will be slaughtered at the packing
house.
at present the San Francisco and eastern
pac King houses are supplying this market
with all the canned beef consumed here and
the amount Is considerable. Cattle from Ari
IONA are hauled through Los Angeles to San
Francisco, slaughtered there and the canned
neat meat brought back here and sold to local
N1sumers. The Cudahy Packing company
opposes to put stop to that and supply Gil
ae canned meat there is demand for in
southern California, Arizona and the adjacent
portions Of Mexico. Nor does it expec. to limit
itself to this market. It will bid for transpacifc
trade. Superintendent Roberts says If the
company had boon prepared for canning beef
last fall, it could easily have secured some of
the contracts for supplying beef TO the Japan
ese army. Not being prepared, the contracts
vent to eastern firms.
BIG FRUIT cANNERY.
yust across the rive. from the Cudahy pack
house is the fruit csnnery OF the Southern
mia Packing company. one of The largest
Jnoerns of the kind in the state This was the
fst large manufacturing plant in the city TO
Institute oil for coal as fuel 1t uses power
My few months in the year and saves
1900 to $4,000 per season in its fuel bill since
rude oil has become SO cheap. This company
avs out about $4,000 year for
lbor, to say nothing Of the large y dis dis
he manager, says the profits OF the business
we're small this year on account OF close mar
rims fruit had to be sold on in order to find a
market. Hard times in the east and many idle
\ workingmen made it bad year for fruit can
ners. The working classes are the largest con
| sumers of Canned goods, and when they
are idle and have no money to buy
\ with, the trade suffers accordingly. The
Southern California Packing company. how.
| ever, had most of its reasons pack contracted
far In advance, and therefore has little of the
stock left on its hands
/ MI. Welsh says the high wages paid to can
\ 7ery labor here, as compared with the wages
| laid for similar labor at the east makes it diff
! icult for California canned goods to compete
with eastern wares
His company, however, has been doing a sue
cessful business, in spite of the disparity in
II labor and the high railroad rates. Three dol.
L lars per week is considered good wages for q
| female country hand at the east, while girls
who work in the Los Angeles creameries make
IS much as SO, $40 and $l2 per week during
the buy sc ason.