The Wichita daily eagle., 1901-06-16
CURES WEAK MEN FREE WILL EXPORT MEAT.
Wichita Packing Products
viii Go TO Europe.
SHIPMENT EACH WEEK
Big Improvements In the
Local House.

The people Of Glasgow. Scotland, Bel
fast. Ireland. and Of Liverpool and Lon
don. England, viii now be able TO get
pork products direct from the great west
ern packing center, wichita The John
Cudahy Company have made arrange
ments to make weekly shipments to those
markets.
Every week there viii be loaded In the
cars from the Cudahy house such cuts Of
meat as are in demand on these foreign
markets and shipped direct. The company
viii ship ten TO zen car loads each
week. Arrangements have been made to
connect weekly with the ocean lines Of
steamers and the meat VIII be loadd from
tn cars to the steamers. This VIII nee
essitste shipments TO different points on
the seaboard in oroer to be able to make
the weekly shipments. The points at
which the products Of the Wichita plant
viii be loaded on the ocean steamers are
New York. Boston, Philadelphia and
Montreal.
John Cudahy is pleased with his ex-
pertinent in this city and he has no fears
OF failing to find a good market for his
products in Europe. The Cudahy people
claim that this is the first time that ar
rangements have ever been made for
regular shipments Of meat direct from
Wichita 20 Europe. The shipments are
not made as an experiment, but Mr..
! Cudahy knows exactly what he can Go
and the house is being supplied with
necessary stationery for these regular
foreign shipments
There is great activity at the Cudahy
plant. New railroad switches are being
built and by this time next year people
VIII not be aole to recognize the old
Whitaker packing mouse. 1t VIII have
TO be made larger a furnish the products
for the foreign and the local market The
cuts of meat shipped in some cases are
different TO those sold here. In this ship
ment 10 Europe this week viii be Cum
berlands, Wntsnires. A. c. Hams, L. G.
Hams, Long Clears, Skinned Hams,
Square Shoulders and laru in twenty
pound pals.
c. A. Morrison, the master mechanic at
the Cudahy house. said last night that
John Cudahy intended to keep right along
enlarging the plant and that by next fail
they would be 4Ailling $500 hogs day.
They now have the foundation completed
for a hundreu ton capacity ice machine
and the foundation for the ice house VIII
be commenced next week. The house
viii make fifty tons a day for the trade.
A generator OF two hundred horse power
viii be put in ana all the machinery win
be run by electricity even to the stuff
flng of the sausage. Mr.. Cudahy has
purchased a fifty horse air compressor
and compressed afr will be used in the
refining of the lard and all the lifting viii
be done by means of this compressed air.
In addition to the generator there VIII be
seven electric motors having capacity
Of FIVE to fifty horse power,
The new lard refinery building is all en-
closed and the new machinery for Il is on
the ground. There are Two lard rollers,
two hashers, four a,gitators, four pumps.
one clay kettle, two purifyers, one Grim
per and one picker There is also a
complete outfit for the sausage depart
ment which Wiz be in the third story OF
the new lard refinery.
Men were at work yesterday digging for
the foundation for the new smoke house
and when II is finished excavation for the
new cooler win be commenced. It used
10 be said that this house had the best
cooler in lie west, but it Is too small for
the John Cudahy company and a new
building viii be erected that viii more
than double the present cooling capacity
Of the plant. There is no doubt that
John Cudahy intends to do his big hog
packing al Wichita. Here are the hogs
and here is the salt and lastly here is the
best climate for curing meat in America
Another improvement which the CUda
by company is adding TO its already
SplenQlO pant IS a steam ColueLlStt Win
oil tap and rebOiler with sand and char
coal filters. The steam win all be con-
densed and there wiz not be any Of it es-
cape. This machinery VIII be used -
furnish pure condensed water for the ice
machine. The Cudahy people have faith
in Wichita and they are not afraid 10 in
vest their money in one of the best pack
ing houses in the west a this point. Ihey
are not doing any blowing Of horns or
beating OF tom toms, but going right
ahead with the work and Wichita VIII
soon be recognized as the great packing
center west OF the Missouri.