Arizona republican., 1895-08-10
AN ENTERPRISE That Means COnSidera-
 ble to Phoenix. Completion of HurIey's Packing House. The Only One in the Great
 Southwest.
It Was In Operation Yesterday Fol the First Time-Descrlption
 of the Concern.

Phoenix now has an enterprise that is but another instance in showing that it is the coming city of the great south. west.
 The enterprise referred to is the storoge rooms and packing house just erected by M. E. Hurley, three miles east of the city. Mir. Hurley is an en- terprising man and when he conceived the idea of packing house he recog. nized at once that it was good propo- sition and with him to think was to act and the result the only packing house west af Denver and east of Los Angeles is located near Phoenix.
 Yesterday REPUBLICAN representa- tive along with several other gentlemen visited the new packing house and it may be incidentally remarked that keg of refreshments and box of cigars went along for the boys at work on the building.
 The packing house is 50x50 feet in dimensions, with two storage rooms each 2Ox2O feet square. Only one of the storage rooms IS completed. These rooms are protected by two foot walls. Overhead in the rooms are the am monia pipes and it takes 4,0O0 feet of pipe for both the storage rooms and the condenser. Overhead in the rooms is a system of tracks operated by switches. When beef is killed in the slaughtering room it is showed through door into the cold storage and by the contrivance of switches it is sent 10 any part of the room. requiring very little handling.
 Adjoining the storage room is the en- zine room and in the latter room will also be placed the machinery, such as agitators, jacket kettles and lard coolers and all other machinery indispensable to first t.class packing house. The ma. cbinery has not arrived yet but is ex- pected in few days. The basement will be used as a storage room for smoked and pickled meats.
 A smoke house extending the height of the building is situated next the engine room and will be for the curing of hams and bacon. A thirty-five horse power boiler is placed outside the build ing adjacent to the engine room and it has more than ample capacity to run all the machinery in the building.
 One of the cold storage rooms will be used principally for the storage of pork and the other fer the beef. As said before both rooms are connected with the slaughtering room and it is but an easy matter to transfer the meats from one room to another by the system of overhead tracks.
 The plant was in operation yesterday for the first time, and in the cold stor. age room that is completed were hang. ing several sides of beef. The room was at 6 temperature of 60 degrees, but it will be kept at an even temperature of about 36 degrees.
 Adjoining the packing house is the stock yard and slaughtering pens, and one would think that slaughterinG pen is synonymous with odors that are not pleasant to the olfactory organs Such is not the case in this instance for everything about the place is in 6 remarkably clean condition and not an unpleasant odor can be detected.
 Now that the packing house is run ming, the slaugntsring of beef and hogs will increase, and the latter animals will be mostly sent to the smoking room to be made into hams and bscons
 MT. Hurley expects to control large valley trade in dressed meats and will also supply large territorial demand. His only competitors will be the Kan. sas City and Denver packers, but it is g certain proposition that the majority ot the merchants will patronize home industry and he will be able to place hit dressed meats on the markets about al cheap as the outside packers.
 The packing house means great dea for Phoenix and will do much towards it's advancement.
 Another enterprise owned and con trolled by MT. Hurley is the soap fac tory, situated only few yards from the packing house. There are two vats ir the soap factory, one is for the cheaper grades of soap and the other, a smaller one, is for the mixing of the ingredient of the toilet soaps. MT. Hurley turns out eight different kinds of soap, whlcf is not only disposed of in large qusnti ties to local merchants, but enjoys { large territorial sale.