The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-29
MENAsE TO HEALTH
NEW BRIGHTON STOCK YARDS
SCHEME is THUS SEVERELY
DENOUNCED
AT A WARM MASS MEETING
OF THE BUSINESS MEN OF
SOUTH ST. PAUL AND
VICINITY.
T A WARM MASS MEETING
THEY SAY THEY WILL NOT MOVE
Whether the InchOate Deal Is Car
I rfed to Completion by the Rail-
roads or Not.

A meeting of the business men Of
South st. Paul was held in the Elk
change building, Saturday afternoon, to
consider the matter of the contemplate
ed purchase of the New Brighton yards
by the Minnesota Transfer company.
The following firms were represented:
The Union Stockyards company, C. L..
Haas Commission company, E. M
Prouty & Co., Rogers & Rogers, Tom
liEson, Bowles & Co., Mallory, Son &
zimmerman company. Thuet Bros, the
Union Stockyards bank, the ST. Paul
Distillery, the Daily Reporter, Staples
& King, w. E. Mccormick, the Mime
sofa Soap company. ]. B. Fitzgerald, J.
r. King, G. w. Wentworth, Simmer
& Evans, J. E. Bolton, Edgar & Long,
j. B. Long & Co.
Hankey Bros, T. J. Mouat, of SUIT
phin Packing company, Duluth; J. 2.
Nolan, city recorder.
}. j. Rogers was elected chairman,
and George Dart secretary, and the fol-
lowing resolutions were unanimously
adopted:
Whereas, 1t has been stated in the public
press that the Minnesota Transfer Railway
company, corporation owned and controlled
by eight of the prominent railway companies
centering at st. Paul and Minneapolis, is
apoHs stock yards, thus banding together for
the purpose of maintaining and promoting the
interests OF said stock yards as against those
at South st. Paul, thus endangering st. Pauls
commercial interests in general and those Of
South st. Paul in particular; therefore be it
Resolved, by the business men of South St.
Paul. including practically all of the live
stock dealers, feeders, butchers, live stock
commission merchants. meat wholesalers and
the citizens of South st. Paul generally, That
we contemplate the movement as unjusti1able
no Dir Cfo IL
for the following reasons:
First-That the present location of the St
Paul union stock yards at South St. Paul, on
the bank of the Mississippi river with its per-
location below the two great cities and
far enough from them to eliminate all OBJ
lection On account of sanitary conditions is
superior to any other locality in the imme-
date vicinity of said cities.
Second-That the large modern packing
houses already constructed at this point are
ample Tor the packing of all of the hogs
sheep and cattle now tributary to this mar
Ket, or Will be tributary to it for years to
come, and that it will be eXtravagant, waste
ful and useless to incur further large ex-
penditure for the construction of facilities
where those already existing are more than
ample, besides dividing the business, and
addlng TO the inconvenience and expense of
doing it, thus making it Improbable for all
concerns. c,ysFt9l,S2 - ~ al
Thrd-That the location of the st. Paul
YARDS IS reasonably convenient, and the
switching charges nominal and satisfactory to
Shippers and owners of live stock, and when
all Oh the railway lines are considered far
more accessible than those at Minneapolis.
Fourth-That the sewerage system and the
sanitary conditions at the MINNEAPOLIS wards
are abomnable, the sewage and offal being
deposited indirectly into Long lake the out
let of which leads to the Mississippi river
above. Minneapolis and st. Paul; that the
/ country IN and about Long lake is fiat and
more or less rnarshy, with sandy SOIL through
/ which the seepage of the slaughtering houses
may readily contaminate the St. Paul water
supply, all of which comes from the lakes
north of the city, that this is a menace TO
the health Of st. Paul (if this scheme is full
h!ledl is reasonably certain, for there is no
place to which a sewerage system may lead
If it goes west, it will dump into the Misss-
slppl river near Minneapolis; if it goes east
1t Will pollute the water supply of St Paul
There is no natural drainage, and the Ioca-
ton of extensive stock yards at this point
phat1c opposition of the public a-% ~.
i Fifth-It has been stated, we are informed
that in case this transfer deal is consum-
mated, that the live stock commission men,
the cattle feeders and buyers, the whole
salers of meats and others engaged in kim
dred business will remove from South St.
| Paul. This we wish to emphatically DENY
and we hereby pledge ourselves to continue
in business at the old stand without regard
to the proposed movement. 1t has also been
stated by persons interested in this scheme
that the management of the stock yards at
South st. Paul has been arbi.sery, unreason-
able and unjust to those doing business with
| the stock yards. This statement we pro-
nounce as unmitigatedly false. There is no
semblance of truth in any such statement,
hand, the management has been able, i'm
| partial and just, and every reasonable effort
| has at all times eXerted in the interest of
! those doing business at this market.