Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-01

on the growth and development of the
city h any other single industry. 1:
is the basis for a big city by itself. for
it furnishes employment for 1900. who are
the support for not less than 5000 people.
enough to make 4 thriving city alone.
The houses located in Kansas City are
as nearly up to date as can be round in
the country and big Improvements are
made each year in keeping them so. Every
convenience for the cheapest and most
rapid handling of the animal from the pens
to the cars in which the dressed product
goes to market has been provided and
is supplemented each year as improve
ments are made. Steam power is giving
way TO electric power and labor and time
saving devices unknown 4 few years 6
are added each year. An enlargement of
one OF the plants that will be made dur
ing the year at u cost of $4,000 Will be
operated wholly by electric power and the
motors Will be placed in other houses also.
With an aggregate output OF S-.t-o.0c1 an
nualIy and the business growing each year
as competition emphaS!ZeS the value OF
being located close TO the source of supply
OF live stock. Kansas City can continue TO
look upon the packing buSineSS as the
proudest industry in the city. The kansas
City product is eaten in every seaport, and
sold in every market of the world where
civilization has created 4 demand for cor
rect foods. II is the standard food IN every
army OF the world and is carried in the
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for the weary traveller over the wastes OF
Sahara, and it furnishes solace TO the
guards of the car in Siberian mines. II Is
the dependence of the gold hunter in klon-
dixie and in South Africa. and all over the
world elsewhere the goods from Kansas
City have won a splendid reputation
Enormous supplies for European armies
are sent from here, one order last sum
mer for England being 100000 pounds OF
meats We're sold to the war department of
this country during the summer and gave
perfect satisfaction
In no branch of commercial enterprise are
there more energy and enterprise shown
than in the packing trade. AT every point
it is run on Il scientific basis. Not u par
ticie of the animal slaughtered is lost.
Hoof. horns. hair. blood. bones. even the
cfal and refuse. are made 10 Yield a profit
by being turned into some article of COM
mercial use So the products of the pack
daintiest OF pOtted meats and soup eS-
tracts. down through fresh and cured
meats. lard, tallow. lard oil. and the
coarser grease products. TO the ordinary
fertilizer of varying grades. Nor is this
all. for as side lines a few hundred thous-
sand chickens are used annually in prepar-
ing soups and other preparations, while the
packing house tamales have become a
popular article of trade. and carloads of
them are sold each season all over the
country. They go largely 10 the South and
the Kansas City tamale is now sold steam
ing hot in temperature and roaring hot in
ingredients even in the City of Mexico
Butterine and other food products are also
made.
Everything done in the up-to-date pack
ing house now is under the direction of
an expert chemist. and every variety OF
the food product goes to the market at
an exact scientific standard. So close is
this chemical scrutiny and 30 great the
care exercised in the production of food
at the houses that. with S1.0e0.o00 worth
of the product scattered all over the
world for use. there has not been one
single case of food poisoning reported from
the millions of consumers. No greater
testimonial of the worth of the packing
house product could be secured. no strong
er Endorsement of the merit of the Kansas
City packing house management