The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-01-20
A BIG ENTERPRISE.
GREAT TRACT SECURED IN
SOUTH FOR FEEDING
CATTLE.
Swift and Armour in it-Chicago
Packers Propose to Rid Them.
selves of the Expense cf
Shipping-The Corn
Products Trust Will
b Hit.

Products Trust Will
Be- Hit.
Chicago, Jan. 15.-Tne Swifts,
the Armours, Nelson M ,rris and
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger, "the
stockyard family" have purchased
100000 acres Of land in Southern
Alab ANA and Northern Florida.
The news of the purchase has start
led the stockyards, Lasalle ,strect
and the railway world. These in.
terests see behind the purchase q
move intended to revolution ize the
meat industry of America.
The great tract, 1t is declared,
was purchased from the Louisville
& Nashville Railway at an average
price of 3.75 an acre, making the
total money consideration So, $780,
900. It is declared that the great
Chicago packers intend to establish
on the reclaimed swamp land and
the pine lands Of Georgia and Flori-
da, the greatest cattle-feeding ground
in the world, and, ito escape from
rates and double hauls, ''the lecaf'
rates, between Montana and Chica-
go and Chicago and New York, in
short, to rid thems elves of the great
expense OF shipping, and to tatten
cattle on eas-ava. -. ts
1T is said, before the purchase
was consummated, an agreement
was reached by the agents of the
packers with the Alabama agricul.
tural commission in regard to lands
which were held by the Louisville
& Nashville railway on government
grants. The industrial commits.
sion, it is said aawx in thesmovb tie
opening of new era for the South
the quisit on of agreat part of the
cattle raising industry of the West.
The secret of the whole deal lies in
one word-cassava. The word cas-.
sava in connection with the deal
has startled the Las e le-street men
and shocked the corn-products
trust Cassava is shrubby plant.
1t has a flesh root which produces
dible starch. 1t is also called ma
nioc.
II was upon this plant that the
deal hinged, ard it is upon this
plant, 80 the authorities declare,
that the future of the South now
rests. The plant has been found to
flourish III the regions of Southern
Alabama. 1t is declared to be the
greatest tattening agent for cattle
yet discovered.
The Chicago packers have agreed
with the Alabama agricultural com.
mission, it is asserted, to plant the
,ooo, 900 acres in cassava, and to
feed cattle on it.
The corn-p1oducts trusts is inter.
ested, because it is said the packers
intend, in connection with their
feeding ground, to establish great
starch factories, and to manufac.
ture starch and other products of
the cassava root and put them in
the field in competition with the
coru products of the trust.
New York, Jan. 15.-Another
suit has been by formal service Of
papers, added 10 the list of actions
r su ting from the collapse of the
United States Shipbuilding compa-
ny. The latest is one brought by
the Commonwealth Trust Company
| of the republic, to determine its liza.
bility to some of its holders cf ad.
interim stock certificates distribut.
ed, it is alleged, by John w. Young
who promised the underwriting in
Paris. Some of the certificate hold
ers sllege that the trust company
of the republic promised to ex
changed their certificates for stocks
and bonds, but the Trust Company'i
successor, it has been asserted, re-
pudiated the alleged promise. and
desires the matter to be settled BY
the supreme court in blanket &C
ton.
Vienna, Jan. 15.-The Allge
meine Zaitung says that Duke Phil
ip of Orleans is seeking a divorce
and that he has petitioned the Gu
ria for dispsnsation to enable hin
to marry. the daughter of a grea
American noble. The Allgemein'
Zsitung asserts the duke consulted
the leading members of the royals
party last summer, and informed
them of his intention, giving as /,
reason that his present union wa