The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-26
NO TRUST MEAT
IN STOCK HERE
SUPPLIES FROM INDEPENDENT
SOURCES ARE PLENTIFUL.
Farmers and Independent Packers
Are Sending In Meat Galore and
Prices Are Stable - Commission
Men Are Profiting Largely by the
Present Situation.

Minneapolis coolers Of all the big
houses are practically
cleaned out Of meats. There is not a
days supply of meats that can be fur
nished by the local agents of the big
packers.
But the cheerful news on top Of
this is, that local meat shops
are not suffering in the least;
that all the meat they want
is being supplied by com
mission men who in turn buy In large
quantities from the farmers and who
the two small packing companies that
are operating at South ST. Paul indie
pendent of the Swift plant and the
two at the Minnesota transfer, and of
the two other abattoirs at Golden
Valley, all Of which are now running
full capacity and reaping a harvest.
Some of the big meat packers to-
day were refusing to quote any prices
on meats at all for the reason that
they had none to sell. Among these
were the Hammond company, whose
manager asserted further that he had
no idea when they would get any
more. The Nelson-Morris company
managed to get one car today, the
Armours received one car yesterday,
and SO did the Cudahy company:
Swift & Co.'s agent was the envy OF.
all the men along the "meat row" this
III
tie meat that is coming in to the big
agencies however, is hardly drop
in the bucket compared to the de-
mand.
| Commission Trade Booming.
It is the commission meat men who
are enjoying the situation and doing
more business today than for many
years.
1--WE can get any amount of meat
L NM
today. "The only thing to complain
about is a lack of variety In grades.
But in another month the fine Mon
tana and North Dakota cattle will be
in and this complaint will disappear
Beef, hogs and sheep are plenty
! Calves are even more plentiful than
/ they were at this time a year ago.
'.Ill guarantee can go out and in
forty -eight hours purchase 1000 head
of good beef CATTLE" said a buyer OF
Drews & Erninger. And as for
pork, there's any amount of 1t. In
fact, meat on the hoof is so plentiful
In spite of the strike, that prices are
not going up at all.
| Inquiry among commission mer
handling paultry demonstrates tina
chickens and ducks are much more
! plentiful than a, week ago, and thu
supply is fully equal to the demand.
/ A visit to numerous local butcher
meats at retail are about the same II
Il price as they have been for a weel
: past. Sirloin sells from fifteen t
i twenty cents pound; porterhouse
twenty to twenty-five; round steak
twelve and one-half to fifteen; laml
$ chops, fifteen to twenty-fve; porl
chops, twelve and one-half to fifteen
Pork is little lower in price than I
few days ago, owing to the fact Their
is lot of frozen pork In the retail
shops, a cheaper grade of meat thai
the fresh pork, and to be had. at
: lower. price. ..t.ss
Il eve are not worrying much" sal
. one dealer to T h o u n a !. Nv
butchers used to do our own buyin
: and killing Of cattle some years ago be
i fore there were any Of these big mea
}. packinghouses, and If we can't ge
; meat from the big dealers, why W
can simply do it again"
: George Kissinger, Jr., president Q
q the Minneapolis Butchers union wa
: interviewed this morning.
"The South ST.. Paul strikers clair
= your union has offered financial ale
and even to go on a sympathetl
II strike if desired" said the reporter
!, lis this true?'
!, . Eyes, it is; vet I hope and believ
:, it will not come to point where
:. will ever be necessary to make de
Il mand for the Minneapolis butchers
. ever strike was the response.
/, Chicago in Bad Shape.
II Reports from Chicago indicate thu
= city to be much worse off than Mir
neapolis Practically all the. reserv
stocks in the storehouses are said
! have been exhausted and the reta
: markets are having difficulty in secu1
:, ing sufficient meat to accommoda
= customers. The resources Of the II
dependent packers and the countl
Z butchers are now being taxed to tt
Is utmost In some markets in Chicas
e today prices were cents per pour
e higher than those of Saturday.
=, Restaurant keepers were havir
It trouble getting full meat supplies f
patrons, who rebel at a vegetarls
n diet, Some markets had steaks, b
y no roasts, others had beef but