The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1905-06-15
PACkITG PLANT
bee IS BUzzING
Sioux Fails Is Making Deter.
mined Effort to Launch
Big Industry There.
ARMoURS CONSIDERING IT
But the Sioux Falls Psopis Seem =,
See the Greatest Hope, and That
Remote One, in indepsnd.
ent New York Butchers.

New York. June li.-Enorts To Sc
tablish another northwestern live stock
and packing center, this time at Sioux
Falls. are afoot. and the movers In tn.
matter include former Senator u. r.
Pettigrew. representatives Of s.rmour
& Co. ard the Independent Butchers
Organization 81 this city.
The utmost secrecy has been OBJ
served by the Sioux Falls people who
are conducting the negotiations They
are working with several strings To
their bow. but the basis OF ,eir plan
II the big packing house that eastern
capitalists built in Sioux Falls about
fifteen years ago. and that practically
was never operated.
This plant was one Of the largest In
the west when built. though later ones
are much larger. II IL big enough.
however. To be made the basis OF "A good
live stock business II u could be turned
over TO one OF the great packing con-
Germs and operated at Its full possible
capacity.
The imminence OF developments Mt
this time IN due To- the fact that the lit
igation which for many years has tied
up the property Is about to b. settled.
The fall term of federal court In Sioux
Falls viii dispose OF the last OF the
pending cases. ani a clear title to the
property viii thereafter be possible.
Exactly what interest will take over
the plant IL still unknown even by the
Sioux Falls people who are on the In
side.
Senator Pettlgrrw recently stated that
negotiations were aioot with the New
York Butchers association. which II
powerful and rich. ana more than will
Ing To try Its strength with the trust
firms. The butchers IL they should
take over the plant. would operate IL
for the purpose OF supplying part OF
their own demands lor meat. Their off,
GERS have been seriously interested In
the project, bat II Is said that no con-
tract has yet been made. one objection
cited by them 10 establishing their
western packing headquarters nj Sioux
Falls Is that IN" town is so far north
that. while II would probably be- pos
siblc 20 secur. the necessary supply 81
hogs. Il Is doubted n fat cattle would
be- AZ hand Moreover. there " also fear
that the hog supply would not D" large
enough TO operate n larger house. or
second one II T. should ever be wanted.
The butchers n.soriBtipn has back ~
II the tremendous market represented
By the retail concerns ~ the metropolis.
and could keep TWO or thre" big packing
plants In operation II u should take the
final determination - slaughter its own
meat instead ~ buying from the trust
firms.
In addition 10 IN. New York butch
ers. Armour * co. have negotiated
with the Sioux Falls people with n
I view to taking over and operating the
plant II Is understood that Pettigrew.
u. II. Lien and other capitalists ~
Sioux Fails are interested and viii try
/ To secure control OF III" plant after the
| litigation Is concluded. and use 1; as
an induCement 10 SON" packing Inter
| est. Secrecy has b"en observed because
OF fcrr that ~. Paul. Sioux city and
Omaha might use their influence TO
prevent carrying out the scheme.
There r. considerable" difference Of
I opinion as 90 the condition OF the Sioux
I Falls plant. II wlg built a long time
1 ago and has stood lille. ON one hand u
. IN alleged 20 u" old fashioned and to
/ require rol.pleling and rrfittiug at
great cot before II can compete with
modern plants. on the other hand
/ the interested Sioux Falls people tn
/ sist that II II n good establishment; and
| can at small expense b" made equal To-
any ua ia" Missouri river.
Questions affecting railroad rates are
also understood to enter into the negD-
D tiatiOns at The present stage. Whether
. the railroads wit make the conditions
such aS Ia encourage development %
I Sioux Falls ns q packing center IL not
known, but u u certain that repre-
I sensations have been made 80 some %
them IN the interest of the project.