The Saint Paul globe., 1897-11-05
A GREAT ENTERPRISE.

A GREAT ENTERPRISE.
A formal announcement is made in
our columns this morning of the ac
tual Inauguration of a great enter
prise at South ST. Paul, with whose
general plans the public has already
been made familiar. On Monday next
the great packing plant at the stock
yards will be formally opened for bust
ness, and from that time forward st.
Paurs position will be established as
the central stock market for the en-
tire Northwest. No event of recent
years gives cause for greater congrat-
Ulation among our people, or sheds a
light of brighter promise upon our fu-
ture
The packing industry of the United
States, controlled, as it is, by a COM
paratively small number of strong con-
Germs, has stood the test of hard times,
is established upon the strongest foun-
datiOn, and has contributed immensely
to the business resources and prosper
ity of every city that has been selected
as a place of operation. 1t is well
known that, during the years of de-
preston, it was the great stOckyards
and the packing interests that sustain
ed such cities as Omaha and Kansas
City, and carried them through the
crash that followed the collapse of real
estate booms. st. Paul was less for
tunate, in that it's plant was original
ly, perhaps, in advance of the times,
and that it had been so recently put
in operation that it went down with
other great industrial enterprises in the
years of national calamity. Our city
thrOve and grew strong notWithstand-
ing, and by it's own vitality and the
natural advantages which rise superior
to all misfortune wrought out its own
future. Now, when the skies are clear
and great era of prosperous develop
ment is before us, there is added to all
the other forces making for municipal
progress, for the increase of popua-
ton, the demand for labor and the
multiplication of wealth, the revivify-
ing of this great industry.
The leasing of the plant at South St
Paul by Swift & CO. was an earnest Of
what we might expect One of the
very largest concerns in the world, it
is also actuated in its business opera
tions everywhere by a large and lib
eral spirit, and by a policy of building
up local markets which is as far
sighted on the part of its managers as
ii is fortunate for the cities that share
the benefits of the enterprise. The an
nouncement, which is made without
limit or reservation, that there will be
henceforth a market at South st. Paul
for all the live stock of every descrip-
ton that can be sent there, at full
Chicago prices, with only the allow
ance Of difference for freight, fixes the
policy and the Importance of st. Paul
as a packing center and market for
CATTLE sheep and hogs. The largest
visions of those who have hoped to see
centered here mighty industry, built
and the live stock produced by our own
farmers, are 70 be realized Hence
forth, in this particular, Chicago has
no advantage over us. To move the
maintain it there. In this day of econ
omies in transportation it is evident
that the live stock of the Northwest
will not be carried Indefinitely on the
hoof several hundred miles beyond the
point where they can be sold to equal
advantage and transformed by the best
modern appliances into commercial
products.
The stockyards at South St Paul
and their accompanying interests are
entering upon a new and solid era of
development With a single exception
they are fortunately placed, and that
exception is condition easily rem
edied Access should be given without
extra cost to every railroad line enter
ing ST. Paul from any direction. Ac-
cess and egress must be ample Ar
rangements should be, and we have no
doubt will be made, to transfer to
South St Paul every carload Of stock
coming over any line from south, west
or northwest without extra switching
or other charges. To place South st.
Paul on absolutely equal terms with
every other point in these two cities as
to railroad facilities is as much condi-
ton of success as splendid plants, am
merely that the hum of industry is
about to rise once more from great
buildings long silent and deserted; it is
not only that several hundred men will