The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-21
HALF MILLION HOGS
Could Be Used Annually at the
Stock Yards.
EIGHT HUNDRED CARS
Of Packed Meat Shipped Out
From Wichita Last Year.

The Dold Packing house in this city
bought in the fiscal year closing October
3, ,096 hogs. The total weight as Dold
bought them was 80, 436,9lS pounds and
the money paid for them to the farmers
and shipper who brought them in was
n,067, 1894 These figures would have
been doubled if Mr.. Dold could have got
ten the hogs. Once in a great while there
will be a shipper go by Wichita to Kan
sas City in the belief that there is liable
to be more stuff on the Wichita market
than can be disposed of and the price
will be down in consequence.
When ii comes TO be generally known
that Dold could easily nave handled twice
the number he got in the year and that
the stock yards buyers for other mar
kets would have been glad to have had
10000 more, there will be no apprehension
of Cutting the market. Four packing
houses in the larger eastern cities have
standing orders for hogs in the Wichita
market to be filled when there is an oppor-
tunity.
Estimated by a weekly average the
humber of persons employed by Dold for
the year was 205. The average wages
paid these employees was SIS per day
and for the year the pay roll amounted
to SIS, 400 In addition to the number of
people employed directly by the packing
houses, there were 200 more engaged in
the resultant business.
In 1897 the Dold people shipped out 7S9
na Of ha o1a in
Wichita, and this, too, would have been
doubled if the hogs could have been Sc
cured. Most of this manufactured prod
uct went east and south. The last big
shipment from the house was six cars
to Georgia.
Five thousand tons of coal were used
in the preparation of this product, that
is, in the packing, rendering, etc, and
for that the coal men here got 100000 1t
took 2,056.OO pounds of salt. at a cost of
nearly four thousand dollars.
The average daily lumber of hogs for
the year used by the plant was 4S0. The
capacity is 1850, which gives shippers a
wide margin so far as any probability Of
Cutting the market is concerned. The
average number of porkers used so far in
five hundred, which shows that the ship
pers of Kansas and Oklahoma are COM
ing to realize the advantage of this mar
ket over Kansas City and the east.
The price per car charged by commits
sion men here is one dollar less than in
Kansas City and feed is twenty per cent
cheaper.
The price paid by Dold and the buyers
here is the Kansas City price less the
freight. The price paid for hogs here be-
fore the packing house was built was
about sixty cents per hundred less than
the Kansas City price. making a loss of
from one dollar and a half TO two dollars
on hog weighing as much as two hun
bred pounds. Now the difference is
eighteen cents per hundred. Before the
packing house was put in here a shipper
could make good money by taking his
stock to Kansas City. Now the net re
suits of sales in Kansas City are, to pu
a low figure, fifteen cents lower on the
hundred than the same sales could b.
made here for. In other words, the mar
who takes his hogs TO Kansas City viii
pay out in freight. commissions, etc.
from fifteen 10 eighteen cents per hun
bred more. outside of his personal ex
penses, than he would in Wichita. In 81
far as the profit is concerned, the in
ducements are all in favor of Wichita an'
when farmers and feeders in south Kan
sas and Oklahoma and northern Texa
get TO know this there ought TO be no
less than five thousand hogs unlOadet
here every day. The facilities are goo