The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-20
CAMEL MEAT.
Can't Hold a Candle to Us.

Mr.. NJ. G. Thompson, travelling director
Of the Colonial Consignment and Dis
tributing company of London, makes this
statement:
Mr.. Thompson said he had left Aus
tralia eighteen months ago TO try and
find out the cause of the fall in value of
meat. He had ascertained that the cause
OF the fail in prices was due to the glut
IN Inc London market, and in trying to
iced 4O,OO0,0O0 people from one corner of
England. II would be much better to
nave The distribution at various points
' YIN nus Journey TO England via Nancou-
Yer, he had visited Canada and the Uni
ted States. Nature, he said, was against
Canada prospects Of growing stock
against Queensland on account of the
severe climate. He alluded TO the extern
siVe cattle trade done in the United
States, and especially in Kansas, and
then remarked that what he wanted was
a doctor, but the doctor we needed was
IN America, and not here. When he went
TO America he thought he knew some
lining about the meat business, but when
ne got there he found that he only knew
enough TO know that he knew little about
II. be told Mr. Armour of Kansas City
that he had been identified with a COM
pany winch froze 500 tons of meat and
put up 10000 pounds of canned meat a
month, and showed him figures, prices
and photographs of the works Mr. Ar
mour. when he had looked al the pinndo-
graphs, said: We'll, you don't know much
as for your output of canned meat. / turn
out about just as much glue every
month" Oaughter) Well glue was
made out of the refuse, which in A11sty-a-
liza was not thought of much value, Cine
was, after ALL an out-of-the-Way thing
but Mr.. Armour turned out 10O0OO0
pounds each of smoked and sailed meat
a day, and that was made of the store
bullocks which We're here sold at 30s
and 40s. mead. These were rejected
here, but in America even those that
were not mt for smoking or sailing We're
put into the tins. II they were not fit for
that they were converted into sauSeges
on extract. They would know what meat
had done for Kansas when he told them
II was a city of go, 600 people which had
risen out of waste country. and it was
still going ahead. The packing house in
America was practically a great whole
sale butchers shop. What has been
done there can be done here. Mr.. Ar
mour recognized that Australia was going
TO play great game in the markets of
the old country when we know how to
do the business and to handle the meat
better in England When in Boston he
looked into the live cattle shipments.
Cattle there was sold by the live weight,
and that was the proper system He
saw one consignment sold at Chicago at
$3.50 per cwt. arrive at Boston After
travelling 1000 miles the $50 head of cat
4 tie walked out of the trucks across the
ward the ship left They had been trv-
ing to send live cattle home from Aus
tralia- bat in doing so they were only en-
deavoring to do what they were not
ready Cor. They could not take cattle
out of a bush paddock. put them into the
hold of ships and expect them to thrive.
Cattle to be successfully shipped mus
be quiet The reason prices had gone
down was because London was over
stocked. When they had turned to Man
chester they had to fight the River Platte
men, who We're not going TO let the Aus
tralianE in If they could help IT. AT the
present time however the prices of ca
lie in the Argentine were about double
what they were in Queensland He de-
preciated the idea of the existence of
butchers rings, and said that he did not