The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1895-05-10
HORSES ARE DOOMED
SLAUGHTERED FOR PROFIT.
Six Thousand Have Been Purchased
as an Experiment. Meat to
Be Smoked and
Canned.

The Oregonian of May s, has the
following: "a number of enterprising
citizens Of this section, who have been
endeavorlng for year or more to de-
wise some scheme for disposing of the
immense number of horses now cum
bering the cattle ranges Of this state,
at profit, have at last solved the
problem, and soon the great American
horse will be kicking for admission to
the markets and stomachs of Europt
on an equality with the great .Ameri-
; can hog.
The great point which the promoters
of this scheme had to solve was whe-
ther they could find market for horse
flesh canned, or dried and smoked.
The hides, hair, oil and bones of the
horses would about come to enough 10
pay for the animal and for slaughter
ing him, and if the meat could be sold
there was a chance for some profit. 1t
is well known that horsemeat is eaten
In France and Germany by the poorer
! classes, but is is furnished to them in
fresh conditian, aud no one has tried
to put 1t on their markets in canned
or dried condition. A great deal of
trouble has been taken to find out
/ what the prospects would be for sell
ing horsefiesh canned and dried. Of
course, 1t was impossible to find out to
a certainty, without u practical test,
but the parties interested have been so
we'll convinced that the goods can be
sold, that they have decided to make u
practical test.
To this end articles of Incorporation
by the Oregon Packing & Fertilizer
I, company will be filed in the court
here today. The incorporators are: S.
kinsman, a stockman of Heppner; NJ i.
Sichel and Ben Selling, of this city.
The business in which the company
proposes TO engage is the buying and
slaughtering of horses, and the pre-
pairing of their flesh for food, utilizing
the OIL bones, hair ETC., and making a
fertilizer Of the offal and refuse. The
capital stock of the company is $40 900
and the principal place of business will
be this city,
+ The company has already purchased
about 5000 horses, and have many
more offered, ii their experiment
proves successful. The slanghtering
will begin as soon as the machinery
and canning plant necessary, and
which has been ordered, can be put
up. Just where the plant will be To-
Gated is not definitely settled, but will
be in few days, Thare Is good
slaughlering plant at Clarnie, which
may be secured If deemed advisable.
| At all events, Portland is bound to
have the first plant ever put up for
slaughtering and canning horses for
food. Ifany one of the crowned heads
of Europe is now anxious to trade his
kingdom for q horse Canned OF
smokecl, he can be accommodated.
There is no particular reason why
horsetiesh should not be considered as
good as that of beef cattle, except pre-.
judice, arising from the way in which
one has been brought up. The hors c
is as cleanly in his food and habits as
the OK, and more SO. His hoof is all in
one piece, and he does not find il
necessary, after having swallowed hi:
; dinner, to belch it up and chew it al
over again. But how should thls
make his flesh any the worse? Some
people have prejudice against tht
flesh of the hog, while other peopl,
find both palatable and wholesome,