The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-04-15
WHY BEEF TRUST
CONTROLS MARKETS
It Doesn't Permit Competition
in Any Branch Of Its
Business.
OWNS ITS OWN RANCHES
Generous Rebates Fro nthe Railroads
Go Far to Keep Out Competition
Said to Paint ]Sausages to
Make Them Look Fresh.

CT in New York wants to knnW some
lhinE about the beef trust, which has
put up the price of fresh meat from
one-quarter of a cent to 4 full cent a
pound. wholesale, leaving the butchers
10 take the advance out OF the GUS
toners.
The beef trust is the comno name
for a combination of packers Who act
together in fixing prices and regulating
supply. In the combine are Armour "
Co. the Armour Packing company, the
Gudahy Packing company, the Ham
mohd Packing company, Swift & Co.
SchWarZschild x Sulsherger Co.., and
The United Dressed Beef The
last TWO are New York concerns. The
others are i'll the west, principally in
Chicago.
The above named corporations. act
inE individually and collectively. now
control the cattle and hog and poultry
trade of the United States. With their
enormous capital they nave extended
and systematized their operations
following the general plan of the
Standard Oil company-until now they
control the markets for fresh meats and
their by-products, glue, etc, salt meats
and their ~by-products, cottolcne, etc,
poultry, butter and eggs,
Like the Standard Oil company, the
beef trust buys up all rivals as soon as
they grow big enough to be aggravat-
ing. The trust absorbs and assimi-
latsS everything in sight.
The corporations in the beef trust
have enormous ranches in the far west
where they grow their own cattle. They
have thousands OF cattle and refrisera-
tor cars for the transportation of their
liv" stock and manufactured products.
They AVE secret contracts With rail-
roads and other transportation compa
ines, Whereby they receive rebates from
the list rates IF ~freiShtage. They lave
agents III every state in the union buy
ing up live stock, poultry and produce.
BY carrying hutt@r, eggs and poultry
in the SAINT refrigerator ears in which
they transport fresh meat the beef
trust saves extra freight and is enabled
to undersell small competitors. Tlie
trust also carries salt meats and their
by-products in the refrigerator cars,
and thus can underSqll On+ull those ar
ticles.
The late Philip d. Armour II the
late G1lstaNus f. Swift We're the pio-
neers in the blessed beef industry.
They perceived the opportunity for
stocking the vast grazing plains of the
west with cattle n selling their meat
in the large cities. The plains-fcd cattle
did moi cost rs much to feed as the
cattle ON The smal farms throughout
the east To collect %, 900 cattle from
eastern farms would require 100 buyers
III 100 different localities, with 100 sepa-
rate shipments, 100 ~rehandlingS ana no
Shipment large enough for a rebate. On
the other hand, 25.000 cattle could be
collected from II ranch in the plains,
shipped in one lot, on one railroad.
without r~ehandilng. Here was quick
action, concentration. economy. re-
bates. Armour & Co, Swift & Co, Mel
son Morris & CO. II Hammond & Co.
developed the western cattle trade into
one OF the largest industries in the
world. Handling SO many cattle, the
packers had TO arTange to store them.
and also had 10 study out plans for
utilizing every Part OF the animal. from
the hoof to the ear. What they couldn't
sell as fresh meat they canned. They
Nollcd the boots for glue. They now
make extracts, ssenc and soups.
Nothing goes TO waste.
At Chicago. Kansas City. South
omaha and other western points the
trust has vast stock yards and cold
storage plants. These enable the trust
to take care of the live aud manufac-
tured products Indefinitely. If the de-
Mhnd is not equal to the supply the
trust puts its articles OF food i'm cold
storage.
The beef trust has so many sources
Of cattle supply that ii does not buy
ranch cattle except on it's own terms.
I'm other words Tho tr,,ct n,nt.,Ie ~
source of supply ana also regulates the
food output. Thus it rises superior to
the ordinary laws Of supply and de-
create an arbjtrory nm ar,ifinini , ky
for fresh or salt meat or nouirI, -,
butter and eggs IT can mi n,i,i;nHs ~
egGS In Old Storage and keep them
there six months. That is more than
the farmer can do. The beef trust buys
cries.
Gustavus T.. Swift was tho pra, I,
organizer Of the combine. 10 mn =
genius for the systematic GevpIournant
OF business. y. d. Armour stuck To-
cattle slaughtering ana grain sperlilat-
ing, but G. +. Swift and !. ogden Ar
| mour merely follow in the roo1stane nf
the two great pioneers.
In September. 1902, in the suit of the
state OF Missouri 10 smash thu beer
trust, it was testified at ST. Louis ,h,t
the rust. instead Of smoking meal,
dipped lit into Il chemical solution.
Sausages were painted to make then,
look fresh.
The SchWarzchild & Sulsbergel COM
pany and the United Dressed Beef com
pany of this city deny they are in the
beef trust. Thei" prices correspond With
those Of the trust, going up or down
in exact accordance with the trust
prices fixed i'll Chicago.
The directors of the Schwarzschild &
~Sulzberger Co. are Ferdinand and Max
j. SulzbeIger. +. j. Nathan and Sig
mund Grabenheimer, Cyrus S. Hopgood
and Samuel We'll.
The directors oi the United Dressed
Beef company arc Isaac Blumenthal,
Lewis and Jacob London. Lewis and
Samuel Sdnlu@lS, George Strauss, Jacob
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