The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1905-04-20
DIPPING VAT AND YARDS.
Construction Work Is Progressing
Rapidly and Within a Short Time
Vat VIII Be In Operation.

Work on the dipping vat and
stock yards of the San Angelo
Dipping Vat and Stock Yards Co.
is progressing nicely. Through
the courtesy of Mr.. J. B. Murrah,
of the board of directors of the
company, representative of The
Press was shown through the
yards last Friday afternoon, in
fact he was taken bodily away
from the hum and buzz Of busy
San Angelo, transported to the
scene of operations and told to
behold.
August PAIL was overseeing the
work. Ten or twelve men were
employed digging post holes for
the hugh cedar posts which are to
surround the yards Ballasting was
going on as the flint rock founda-
tions to the soil at the stock pens
render the use of crowbar and pick
impossible. Strata after strata
of this hard stone is found under
the soil and the men who were
digging the vat proper could only
do 80 by means of drill and dyna-
mite. Teams and scrapers were
at work, men were tamping posts,
and everything was energy.
The vat is being constructed at
4 hn aaut l. uout pnr,ar ,,f tha Gnnt N
Fe Stock pens. Infected cattle
will first be driven into the old
pens. A few will, he cut out into
a pen closely ad jacent to the vat,
Then one at a time they will go
down II narrow passage through
the vat filled WITHHOLD and out into
another pen. The vat is barely
3 #, wide when completed and at
its side is storage tank which
will contain n car of oil. This
oil will be fed into the tank from
cars on the side track by means
of iron pipes. After the cattle
have emerged from the vat they
will be held for u short while in n
pen, the floor of which is com.
posed of concrete. This floor is
so constructed that all waste oil
will be conveyed to n small tank
at one corner of the pen and
thence pumped back into the
storage tank for further use. So
that there will be practically no
waste as the oil which remains
with the COW cannot be termed
as waste. After passing through
what might be termed the dip
ping pen the cattle will then be
turned into another series of pens
where they will be held the time
necessary to comply with the reg
ulatlons and from there loaded
into cars for shipment
With the dipping vat thus es-
tablished the next thing is to
make San Angelo u cattle mark
ct. 1t can be done despite the
belief of some of the doubling
lnomaseS IN the contrary. Inc
cattle buyer can be induced to
come here to get what he wants
just as easily as the stocknan can
take his stock to market and not
get what he wants. There is a
tendency among some of the
stockmen to "cut out" the terri
tory feature of their business and
sell here, This tendency seems to
be growing and should it do 80
the making of San Angelo cat
tie market will be only n matter
of short time.
At any rate help along the idea.
1t will do San Angelo good and
whatever does your city good will
do you good. It's not altogether
philanthropy, or civic pride either
for that matter, which should
prompt a small effort upon your
part in this direction. 1t may
bring few dollars into your cash
drawer in the long run. So help
push it along,-it's a good thing.