The Saint Paul globe., 1897-11-05
AN OLD ADAGE IS BEING EXEMPII-
FLED IN PROSPEROUS SOUTH
ST. PAUL.
ONE MORE PACKING HOUSE
TO BE BUILT TO ACCOMMODATE,
THE GROWING TRADE IN
LIVE STOCK.
ST. PAUL PEOPLE BEHIND THIS.
Latest scheme which Promises to
Make the suburb n Thriving
City in Itself.

South st. Paul is to have another
new packing house Industry. The re-
gotiations have all been completed and
the terms agreed upon by which one of
the most extensive dealers i'm fresh
meat in st. Paul will construct and
equip new and thoroughly up-to-date
slaughter and packing house. The an
nouncement of the name of the per
son will be made when the papers.
which are now being drawn. are sign
ed, which will be in a couple of days.
The new plant will cost between $25.-
O0G and $4,000, will occupy an acre of
ground just north of the railway sta
ton. and will consist Of a packing
mouse of brick and necessary ice houses
and other structures 1t will have q
capacity of 300 head of beeves, 500 hogs
and 800 sheep per day, and will employ
d large force of men. The business
VIII largely be of fresh meat at whole
SAFE work on the plant will be COM
menced Immediately and pushed for
ward to an early completion.
There is an undeniable air of acti,--
lty and business energy at the stock
yards and a small army of men is
employed there Dale & Baumgartner
of West st, Paul, who were recentIv
awarded the contract for constructing
the levee extension, have already com
Inehced work. This Ievee is around the
river front of the property so as to pre-
vent the high water from overflow
ing the grounds as it did last spring
The work will probably be completed
during the winter. The contract is for
$4,000, and includes also the filing i'm
OF additional ground below the wards
equal in area to the lands at present
occupied by the stock yards comDanv
Next year this new ground will be oc-
cupied by buildings. sheds. barns. cat
lle hog and sheep pens. The railway
tracks Will also be extended and the
stockyards company expects to eypend
next year for these improvements be-
tween $4,000 and $75, 900. During the
past summer the company added to its
storage capacity for live stock by new
pens, enough to accommodate 100 cars
or stock, and this work is progressing
still, but the business has increased so
that the aforementioned extensions to
be undertaken next season are abso-
lutely necessary.
ing their entire plant for beef. DorI5.
mutton, and the manufacture of lard
and ether products next Tuesday.
Since they took possession Swift &,
co. have had about 100 me
chanics-carpenters, machinists and
engaged in a thorough over
hauling, refitting, changing and al
tellng OF the premises and the facil-
tues for doing business and the ca
q
Their new machinery and other in
Nestments already represent many
thousands of dollars. They have al
ready commenced the slaughtering OF
beef, to the extent Of 200 to 300 head
per day, and this will now be in
creased to 500.
All Of the barn and shed capacitv Of
the yards devoted to sheep feeding is
now occupied, and about $4,000 sheen
are being fed and fattened therein.
This installment will be moved out
and marketed in January and Feb
ruary and the barns will be refflled
with an equal number In addition to
this, from 10000 to $4,000 sheep are be-
ing fed in open space.
There are at present located at
South st. Paul some extensive deal
ers in livestock, who buy cattle. hogs
and sheep for feeding purposes and
shipping to other states for feeding
especially to Iowa. Missouri, Kansas
and Nebraska. Most Of these BUYERS
have investments in granarles, barns
and accommodations for the handling
and accumulation of stock for ship
ping purposes, thus making them per-
manent dealers in the market.
The new live stock exchange is now
in active operation and the new bank
is doing a very thriving business.
The future looks bright for South
st. Paul. The coming Of the Swifts
and the following Of other concerns.
the large number OF buyers who recog-
nize that it is a market unsurpassed
west Of Chicago; the extensive inn
prOvements undertaken and the hun
dreds of WOrkmen employed all con-
tribute to its prosperity. Real estate
has had a marked advance i'm value
and there has been considerable trad
ing in lots for the purpose of erecting
residences and other buildings i'm the
immediate future
A movement is being organized for
the construction Of an electric light
system for lighting the city and the
stockyards, and arrangements are
also being made for the extension OF
the water works through the city.
An electric street car line to St. Paul
is among the possibilities If not the
probabilities of next summer.
The management of the Union
Stockyards company is fully alive to
the situation and its energy and pro-
gressiveness, which accomplished so
much the past summer, viii be i'm
pOrtant factors in the future pros
perity of the place.