The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-11
CASH READY FOR
PACKING HOUSE
Plans Ready and Plant Will Soon Be
Erected in Salt Lake.
ADVANTAGE TO ST0CKMEN
BETTER PRICES FOR ANIMALS
AND LOW MEAT PRICES.
PACKING house i'm salt * -

a PACKING house in Salt Lake for
a Utah and its tributary territory
is now an assured thing. Accord
ing to the statement made by J. c.
Leary OF the Union stock wards las 4
night. He and others interested haveH
been pushing the project for almost n
year and have at last succeeded in perl
fectinE their plans and in disDOsing Oh
the major part Of the capital stock Thel
, plans for the building are now com
plete and have been submitted by thel
architect. 1t is hoped that ground viii
be broken within the month. Rates are
sufficiently favorable TO protect the To-
cal enterprise from any fierce cOmpeu-
ton by the big eastern houses.
While ii is the intention OF the COM
! pany to supply first of ali the meats forl
Salt Lakes consumption, il viii in timel
Z branch out into Idaho, the mining
camps which surround the city and
/ throughout all the neighbOring terri 1
tory. pacing many Of its products
/ on the coast and up in the Sound cOun-
/ try.
Cattlemen from every part of Utah
( have expressed their commentator on
J the work They realize that with facili 4
! ties provided at salt Lake, the cented
/ OF Utah's cattle industry. they carI
readily find a market for their stocl5
here at home. and il will no longer b1
/ necessary to sell TO buyers at their own
/ price. or TO ship back 10 the river" Cnl
/ high rates. an uncertain shrinkage and
! long chances Of a big slump In prices
! before the beeves can reach their des7
! tinatiOn.
/ Besides the fat stuff which the homo
( packers Will consume in their own Kill
/ ing. the growth of the plant Will mako
/ this city the meeting place for all th5
/ buyers who come TO this part Of thd
! country.
/ The site which has been secured fo1
/ the plant is near the stock yards. bud
/ closer in, and on the main line of all
/ the railroads, about four and a half
/ miles from the center OF the city. Thd
| location gradually will. as the killers
] cOngTegate about the new market rel
/ move from the resident district all thd
/ Objectionable features which usualiI
/ accompany the killing and packing OF
/ the animals.
Money in Sight
About 500 .OOs of the 5000. 600 capital
/ stock has already been disposed OF
I and the rest viii be placed during tho
I course of the next week. The biggest
/ subscribers so far secured and in pros
/ pect are Hon Thomas Kearns, J. w
/ West. INLAND Knight Richard Pap
/ worth, W H Mcintyre, w P Noble
| John Dern, E F. Saunders, J. II. Moyle
/ who acts as representative of the Des-
eret Livestock company; Samuel Nc
Intyre and H J. Armstrong There are
d number of lesser holders
J c. LeaTy said:
We have been working on this pro-
! ject now for some time Our object
was 10 go slow and not antagOnize any
/ body who is at all interested in the cat
tie or meat business I believe that We
have accomplished this and that every
/ one can see of what a material advali-
tage the packing house will be, not
only to themselves personally. but tC
| the city in general We have chosen Z
! site 4 little outside the city limits but
if everything works favOrabIy we vii
have a little city Of our own built AZ
out there in no time
NO considerable opposition has beer
shown to the scheme from the time O
its inception. once in while we me
a man who hung 10 the old idea. tha
cattle could not be raised ht to eal
unless they were cOrn-fed critters.
but - per cent of the cattle eaten her,
and % per cent of the sheep have neve1
seen 4 corn field nor tasted that sort "a
grain, which proves the faliacy of tina
idea One has only 10 take a trip III
| through northern Utah and southerr
! Idaho TO convince himself that plenty
of good fat cattle are being held by tn,
raisers or feeders There * an exces
! IF 5000 steers on feed at this momen
( over present local needs. Hogs are no
I being raised as extensively in this statl
as they viii be raised after we get I'M
! plant to killing There is money fI
I hogs and il doesn't take any amount o.
/ care or feed TO fatten them. The plan
! viii cost about $50 600. and viii be com
plete as TO equipment for the utiIizati-I
of materials now wasted
Great Chance For Salt Lake.
salt Lake. in my Judgment. has
better opportunity TO succeed in tht
business than Denver had. or many O.
the other centeTs which are big mar
kets- The territory from which tn
/ plant viii draw its supplies to Sal
Lake is nearer and therefore on a low
! er basis of rates than the packers a
Denver work on.
AS for the pecuniary advantages f,
Il city of a packing business. there Il
no need for me to say anything. VIVA
il has done for all the other elite.
/ where It has been started it viii q,
here The raisers who viii find here
sure market for the big end of thei
ranch and feed lot supplies know bet
ter than any one else what it will meal
for the state
The Salt Lake Real Estate assocfs
ton commended the project last fall
and it is the intention of the presen
/ promoters 10 present the enterprise [,
] the board OF managers of the CONNER
cial club next Tuesday evening in tn
hope that it may receive the indorse
! ment Of that body.
/ The proposed plant viii have a dali,
killing capacity Of 800 cattle 600 hog
: and loo sheep