Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-09-27

Is That for Making Fertilizer at
Fulton.
Something of the Big improvements
There Made by the Butchers AS
ISOLATION, at a Cost of Many
Thousand Of Dollars.

The fertiliZing establishment OF the
Wheeling Butchers Association, at tui-
ton, has been completed and are the
best quipped works for fertilizing pur-
poses in the country.
A party of guests and the Directors
of the Association, under the direction
of President Charles Hoffman, and
Vice President Christian Kalbitzer,
made tour of inspection Of the entire
plant, which was formerly owned and
operated by Mr.. Louis Ortiz, and is Sit
uated on one and one-haif acres OF
ground. On the 18th Gay Of January,
1896, the Orth property was sold at
public auction in compliance with
decree of the Circuit Court and was bid
up to $500 and purchased by the
Wheeling Butchers Association, IN
Guiding one and one-half acres OF land
and the residence and fertilizinG estaD-
lishment. The capacity of this plant at
the time OF its purchase was from four
TO six tons daily, which, since the new
improvements have been completed,
has been increased to fourteen and
twenty tons daily, selling at 80 pr
ton. The price is reduced TO farmers i
purchased in large quantities. The out
put of the works is filed in sacks made
10 hold 200 pounds, showing the analy-
sis of Prof. Myers, OF the State Uni
versity at Morgantown, containing Zl.S'
degrees phosphoric acid and 1872 de-
grees nitrogen. The Association has
put Two wagons with two horse teams
in the local fed, which call at the
various slaughtr houses daily and col
lect all offal and refuse meats and bones
and convey it to the works, where the
contents of the wagons are conveyed,
by means OF the elevator, TO the th-Id
floor and dumped into two large air
tight boilers, where it is boiled ior
eight hours and then transferred into the
pressing machine for three hours. Inc
drying machines are filled and empn5d
every half hour, which by the former
method occupied from ten 10 fifteen Gays,
according 10 the weather. The dried
offal is then transferred to the crusner,
where it is ground, and then
emptied into bags preparatory for snip
ment. During the operations IN the
pressing machines the fat is extracted
and sod to soap factories IN canton,
GAINESVILLE, Pittsburg, Chicago ana Cin-
cinnati, at three cents per pound, MAX
ing a very important financial figure for
the Association.
The purchase and remodeling Of this
plant was a very large undertaking for
the Wheeling Butchers Association,
and caused an outlay of $4,000. TIA
cid boiler, engine and other power ap-
pliances were unfit for further use under
improved machinery. and wsre thrown
out and sold to junk dealers. Water IS
furnished to this plant by the city of
Wheeling. and is used TO great ad-
vantage in raising steam and cleaning
purposes on the FIRST floor
The new addition and slate roof was
also an important item in the eXpe4se
Improvement account The feTtilzng
works and The Wheeling Hide and Tai
low Association, at the corner Of SIX
teenth and McCullOch streets, both own
cd by the Wheeling Butchers Assocja-
ton, Teprese Mt q value of $4,000, and
are operated by the following Directors:
President, Charles Hoffman,; Vice
President. Christian Kalbitzer; Scre-
tary. William Neiber; Treasurer, BoDi-
face Gardner; and Messrs. Charles HoiT-
mann, c. Kalbitzer, Charles ROhrig,
Fred. Wsimer, Fred. Neininger, William
p. Meyers, John Dunkel and John c.
Medick.
Everything is in readiness for a steady
run at this plant, as the new machinery
works Ike a charm. The establishing
of this plant, with its enormous capacity,
will relieve the local butchers greatly, as
they were heretofore comp lied 10 re-
move their offal or slaughter outside Of
tn city limits The wagons Of this
company calling and collecting all re-
fuse will make it possible TO slaughter
in the city limits.
From present indications and judging
from the ground which lies unOccupied
near the new fertilizing works, il is
very probable that within a few years
the local Association will establish an
abatoir or slaughter house with cold
storage. II such a plant can be estab-
lished all killing will be done in this
city and very little Chicago beef Will
find market here. The Wheeling
butchers several years ago discussed
plan Of locating such a plant at Glen
dale. on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
but it was finally abandoned. as the nee
essary support was lacking at the time.
The Fulton location would be adm.ra-
bly, adapted for such a purpose, as the
Wheeling and Elm Grove road could
without much trouble make connections
with the Baltimore and Ohio, and the
plantitself would, under such favorable
circumstances. prove success.