The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-14
LONG LAKE Stock YARDS.
Promoters of the Scheme Push Ii
Vigorously.

1t seems from the resume of the
negotiations for the reNivifieation OF
New Brighton, published by the Min
nesota Transfer Reporter, that the
Minneapolis capitalists behind the
Long lake concern are determined to
carry the project through. The Re
porter says:
The officials of the South St Paul stock
yards view the prospective purchase Of the
New Brighton stockyard plant by the Mime
sGta Transfer with alarm, and have already
carried their case to the chamber OF com
merce and jobhers union of that city, which
bodies are to~appoint committees to see what
can be done in the matter of heading aft any
such deal. The representatives of the South
ST Paul plant are evidently much alarmed
over the matter and think that at least the
railroads should remain neutral in the mat
ter.
This is the very esEence of the whole prop
Gsftion, this matter of having the railroads
! interested in the proposition to build I'D a
permanent and lasting packing industry at
Che Twin Cities. The trouble all along has
been that the railroad interests could never
be harmonized with the ultimate establish
ment of a packing industry at the Twin
Cities.
1t is well known that the South St Paul
industry has long since proved It's incapacfty
to handle the rapidly increasing live stock in
dustry of the Northwest. No great business
enterprise that is not the commercial hub"
of the industry it represents can hope to
succeed.. South st. Paul is the child and
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trolled and foStered in a manner that does
not c0nduce to the permanent development of
the live stock industry of the Northwest
One particular railroad was interested in its
inception and is interested in it's prosperity
1t is true that business men of St Paul are
interested in the enterprise. which is legit-
innate enough as FAR as it goes, but it is handi-
capped by commercial selfishness and the
manner in which the business at that point
today is conducted is enough to Justify the
statement that if the two cities are ever to
Sf3hIiSh a nermanpnt and
and packing plant it must be through the
agency of commercial unity and this win
only come by having all the Northwestern
railroads unite in the endeaxor. So 1t seems
that the present proposition that the various
railroads OF the Minnesota Transfer unite in
purchasing the New Brighton plant is a
most feasible one, and one that will bear
out "a most critical Investigation of the PROD
qstion in all its details. 1t is with no dis
arrangement to South ST. Paul interests when
the statement is made that the ultimate fes-
tiny Of the live stock and packing Interests
of these two cities is the Capitalization of
comm mercial. interests, central location and
the cooperation of all railroads canterinp in
these two cities This can never be done
at South ST. Paul and If ever a packing
industry is established on a lasting and paving
basis it must be done elsewhere
The reporter also calls attention to the
Midway banquet held several years ago gat
which all the speakers advocated building nm
ithe interurhan district and deprecated the
tendency of The cities to grow apart 1t
continues:
With all the railroads OF the Northwest
interested In the establishment OF an ent1ur-
ling live stock market and packing center
great benefit would accrue to the entire live
lsstock industry of the Northwest and to the
commercial prosperity of the Twin Cities
The chamber of commerce and jobbers' union
of St Paul may be sincere in its Opposition
but 1t must be evident to the business men
VINO compose those commercial bodies .thst
with ten railroads tapping the great stock
sproducing sections TO the north, the south and
the west ard scenyerging to one central mar
I;ket, the commercial development of tbest
!two cities would be very marked. On the
iother hand, 1t must also be self-evidenf to
|these business ibedfes fiIat If one concern
handle and control the live stock Industry
and manipulate the market, IT must sooner
|sor later fall.
The manner In which South st. PauI.s mar