The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-09-09
WICHITA PLANT
NOT IN MERGER
Said A. W. DoId in Talking
About the Big Combination.
ECONOMY OF OPERATION
Is Thing the Eastern Packers
Are After.
ECONOMY OF OPERATION

THE packing house merger is a go
and next January the public will know
all about it, and just what the powerful
combination intends TO do. It may cause
+ consumers to get meat a little cheaper,
but I do not think anybody viii be in
jureu by it"
+ That was what A. ". Dold Of Buffalo
said yesterday when talking about the
packing interests of Wichita. He had
come out here to visit his brother Fred
and to inspect the new Dold plant in this
city.
Who wiz be in the continuation was
asked OF Mr.. Dold.
armour, Swift, Morris, Hammond, the
S 5. Packing company. and guess, the
--ansas City Cudahys, and they will alb
so-b a number of smaller packing houses
These big houses will all be brought IN
der one management and will probably
go under the name of the American Pack
ing company.
AS 1 understand it, the whole thing
will be managed by one advisory board.
There will not be a manager for each
house as now, but each of the houses
Will be run by a superintendent as now.
and this advisory board will dispose of
all the products"
Then, will this big combination try to
run all of the smaller packing houses
out of business?'
IN l do not think that. I think the
object is economy of operation The
Standard Oil company and the steel trust
have not run every body else out of bus
mess and I think the people are getting
steel and oil cheaper than they would
have been able TO do without these two
big combinations Just as big mill can
grind -four cheaper than a small mill,
so these big companies can make a good
deal more money doing a large amount
of business by reducing expenses"
DO you think any of the Wichita pack
ing houses viii be in this big combina-
tien?'
II hardly think so, but, of course. do
not know that. ] do know, however. that
we are not making any calculations to
go into it. It is now fifty yeaxs since
my father first went into the packing
business and we have put the benefits Of
our fifty years experience in this Wich-
tia plant, and for economy Of operation
think we have the best plant in this
country. If there is anything in any
packing house better than we have here,
it is because We have never learned
of IT,
Il am not afraid that the big combina-
ton will try to run US out of business.
BY means of it's larger operations it may
be able to sell meat a little bit cheaper
and compel the smaller concerns to work
on a smaller margin, but if the rail-
roads give us an even show we will do
some business. We have good arrange
ment for killing cattle and we want TO
engage in that line a good deal more ex-
tensively than we have ever done before
TT is my opinion that Wichita need
not have any fears of this big packing
combination. The men who are doing
it are all practical business men and
they will run the business to make a
reasonable per cent on the immense capt. +
tai invested. and the people who raise
the cattle, hogs and sheep viii not be
injured and l will be surprised II con-
sumers have to pay any more for meat /
on account Of this packing house merger"
A BOYS WILD RIDE FOR LIFE.
With family around expecting him to +
die. and a son riding for life. eighteen
miles 70 -e+ Dr Kings New Discovery /