The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1904-01-22
Men WILL
GO into PACKING
Steps Taken by Convention to
Start Independent Pack
ing Houses.
WILL FIGHT BEEF TRUST
Company With $5,ooO,0oO Capital Au-
thorized to Go Ahead With It's
Plans to Assure a Competi-
tive Market.

Portland, Ore, JAM. l6.-Ihe pfopoSl
lion to incorporate a company OF live
stock men fol the purpose OF establish
ing independent packing houses in the
stock centers of the country to COM
pete With the packers combine II re-
store prices on live stock was the all
absorbing topic of discussion IN the Ma
tional Live Stock associations conVen
lion. BY unanimous vote the V
ton Endorsed a resolution faVorinG the
Incorporation of UGH a company with
i capital of S., 900, 900 and the establish
ment Of the independent houses.
Resolutions We're passed faVorlng an
amendment to the interstate
act giving the commission power to ad-
Just shipping rates when unfair ones
are put in force by the railroad COM
panies on stock ship ments, opposing the
repeal of the act placing a duty on
hides, and favoring passage of a bill
calling for a classified census of live
stock and Of the a~nti-shoddy bill.
A resolution was adopted and direct
ed to the Traffic Managers association
at Chicago asking that it's action IN
denying transportation to stock ship
pers be r~escinded, else h stockmen
would be forced to ship their stock as
p%eriShable freight. A resolution was
adopted opposing he bill creating a
national humane association on the
ground that it would mean an unWar-
ranted interference with stock shipping
Seek to Aid Consumer.
Prominent raisers of cattle declared
the prices of live stock were exceed
lngly low, but that the or
beef and pork had to pay more for the
product than ever before. The fault
was laid at the door of the packers
trust and laws were demanded by
Which the consumer might enjoy the
advantages of low prices for animals
on the EoOf.
The great live stock interests of
America must not be harneSsed and de-
liVered at the doOr of the meat trust,
said G. e. Adams of Nebraska. 'Ihe
profits must be equally distributed ne
tween the producer and the packer, ana
the profits must b. reasonable enough
so that the great third party, the con-
sumner, can enjoy h benefits.
IF the Il is not open through the
regular course of business it becomes
necessary for the producer to take the
means which seem to be the only rem
ady in his hand and build independent
packing houses, to be operated on an
economical and conservative basis
such as will give to the producer a fail
profit, and to the consumer a product
which he can afford to enjoy.
The ruin already wrought by the
present system calls for Independent
action for your protection, as II
calls on the lawmakers to place re-
strictive measures on all combinations
the management of which is inimica
to the best interests of the country
Complains Of Forest Reserves.
'The stock men," Secretary Martin
said, while not opposed to the protec'
ton of the forests, have a decided ant
pronounced objection to the polio.
which has been adopted by the interio
department regarding forest reserves
particularly to the segregation of vas
4 areas of grazing n agricultural lam
MS a portion of these reserves and tn
Issue of orders excluding live Stoci
from grazing thereon.
This matter has grown to such pro
portions that if something Is not don
very soon the industry in several o
the western states and territories viii
be completely destroyed. If our re
quest to have the division of fores
reserves transferred to the agriculture
department is acceded to the stock
men, as a rule, will have no furthe
cause for complaint.
1T is an u~ndisputed act that the de
cline in the value Of beef animals dur
ing the last eighteen months amount
to more than SO a hundred hogs, al
average of IS an animal, and sheel
from IS cents to 81 a head. Consumers
however, are paying the same price 70
their meats as during the time maxi
mum prices were realized by the grow
erS.'
Charles E. Stubs of Denver advo
Gated the raising of more horses an
William e. Skinner of Chicago spok'
on the benefits of live toe eXpositions