Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-04-02

Another Packing House
In Prospect.
THE PROSPERITY OF THE STOCK
YAnDs AND PACKING HOUSE
IS ASSURANCE THAT
Fl. WORTH MARKETS
WILL M THE CENTER FOR THE
GREAT SOUTHWEST.
Capital Can he Interested in More
New Establishments of
FIT. WORTH MARKETS
WILL M THE CENTER ron THE
GREAT SOUTHWEST.

Among the growing manufacturing
ana Industrial Institutions which Fort
Worth already has, and which she ex-
poets to secure In The future, the Fort
Worth stock yarus and Packing house
stand precautionary as the pride ana
hope OK all this country Their estab-
lishment and growth have been watched
with the keenest interest, and their
prosperity has been a cause for con-
graduation for many n day.
As duly reported in the Gazette,
Mondays receipts were nearly thou
sand head Of hogs and Ave cars OF cat
tie. showing that the steady How OF
trade that Inns set this way Is con-
stantly increasing In fact. the yards
and Packing house have built up solid
business during the past two years and
half proving that they are on solid
basis and that the conditions are right
for permanent prosperity In fact.
since the enterprise commenced opera
lions on the fourth day OF December,
1893, up to the present time, not day
has II been obliged to shut down on
working days. and the business has
constantly Increased, until now there Is
serious talk OF the establishment Of an
other packing house.
The situation has now passed be-
yond the experimental stage. 1t has
been demonstrated that the natural
market for all this southwest country
IS Fort Worth. OF course the beginning
or such vast trade as this section can
make must necessarily he small and
slow at ilrst I'm development The be-
ginning has been made and the enter
prise has proved Its right 10 exist.
Capital, all that is needed to put up
and operate another plant. can be in
terested for the purpose. People who
have the means or who can command
II have been carefully going over the
situation here and thoroughly invest-
eating the basis OF support for such
business, and the needfiil steps will be
soon taken to put the project on foot.
Such an addition to the present institu-
lions would conduce to the prosperity
OF all partles. IA II would materially
enlarge the receipts OF regular business
and draw trade from an extended terri
tory now altogether untouched The
feature OF greater competition being In
| troduced would give the producers-the
raisers OF both hogs and cattle--grcater
assurance that they would be able to
receive the fun market value OF their
animals, that they would not be obliged
TO reahip TO another market after hnv-
| ing brought them to Fort Worth That
being the case Fort Worth would draw
upon all the territory TO the east, south
| and west and would draw n line. per-
| haps, midway TO Kansas City as the
average limit OF her territory TO the
ncrthward.
Another packing house here means
4 the beginning of another era in the
Z forging to the front Of Fort Worth as
I the great central market OF the south
! west, for as the facilities for handling
! such products incrense in direct
! geometrical ratio viii the "rhw" prod
uct he. brought &c Fort Worth for con-
| sumption.