The Arizona sentinel., 1900-06-13
THE YUMA MEAT MARKET.

The Yuma Meat Market is one of the
 most enterprising and progressive bus mess institutions in the southwest and is one that the citizens of Yuma point
 to with commendable pride. The busi-
 n5s ss during the present prOprietorshiL
 came under it's present efficient man. | agement about four years ago, al-
 though the proprietor has had over seven years experience. The premises occupied for business purposes consist of an eligibly located store room 20x5E | feet in dimensions, used as a sales room and located in the GandOlfO block, the best block in town, and two slaughter houses.
 A branch establishment is conducted at the King of Arizona mine.
 The Yuma business is one that would
 creditably grace any city both ir point of equipment and in the method of conduct. It is wholesale and retail business. butcher business and ir | addition a line of preserves, pickles produce, cheese, delicacies, etc.
 The counters are marble topped, anC
 heretofore a Gurney refrigerator has
 been in use. Although this would be considered first-class equipment by most butchers, yet MT. Hodges thought it obsolete and to further his ideas em- plOyed MT. Geo. Giesler, of Los Angeles tOinstall one of his anhydrous ammonia cold storage systems. in furth5rance of this project the Gurney refrigerator
 was remOdeled by placing above and below one foot of sifted cinders for ad- ditional insolation and by adding to the sides and top on the interior two thick | nssses of sugar pine matched lumber and parafine (P. & B) building paper alternately laid with joints overlapping The exterior of the box remains as
 originally constructed with four glass top compartments. and sixteen plate glass mirrors. A large compartment in
 the rear of the four compartments.
 It has a capacity of ten or twelve
 cattle In the rear of the refrigerator
 are the cOmpressors and condensers
 and in the rear of the building is a
 six-hOrse power Witte gasoline engine.
 This plant is the thirty-siXth installed
 by MT. Giesler, every one of which has
 been a success. This is additionally creGitabie wren it is known that small plants other than this system. are al- most invariably failures. The store room is also cooled by fans run by the engine which also pumps water to a tank and affords fire protection.
 Yuma is to be cOngra tulated on pos sessing a plant of this character and also on having a citizen sufficiently public-spirited to invest his money in something that will materially bene- fit every resident and visitor by mak- ing it possible to always secure health full meats. Meat cooled by ice is always liable to miIdew, mod, or as some times incidentally called, microbe or bacteria. All animalculae life is destroyed and eliminated by the dry cold produced by cold storage The plant is insured for 8, O0O
 MT. P. B. Hodges the proprietor is a native of Tucson. Arizona, and has lived in or contagious to Yuma since 1875, where for the most of the time he has been engaged in the cattle and butcher business.
 As additional evidence of his faith in and advantage to Yuma it may be men tioned that he is now also constructing a residence, one and half stories high and 4OX4S feet ground dimensions, on Orange avenue.