East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-12-20
100000 FOR
PACKING PLANT
SWIFT COMPANY NOW READY
TO BEGIN IN PORTLAND
Site OF the Immense Plant Covers g.
900 Acres-Capaclty of the Plant
When Completed VIII Be 2OOO Cat
tie, 1000 Sheep and 1000 Hogs
VIII Employ 1000 People-Win
Furnish Market for Umatilla Coun-
~ Stock.

The construction OF the $4,000, 900
packing plant of the Swift company,
in Portland, is of more than ordinary
importance to Umatilla county stock
men. After the plant is in operation
II will consume more fat stock than
are now produced in the inland en-
pire and will stimulate the feeding of
cattle, hogs and sheep on a large
scale all over eastern Oregon. At
present the local markets of the large
cities are the only demand for fat
stock, while the packing plant will
reach into Alaska, the orient all over
Canada and will find market for more
stuff than can be produced with the
present facilities in the entire inland
empire district.
The Oregon Daily Journal says of
the construction of the Swift plant
and its scope:
Construction work will be COM
menced within a few days on the
great packing plant to be built by the
Swifts at Orefon slough, on the main
land, opposite Haydn island. Captain
-.
of the work, has arrived in the city,
and is at the Portland hotel. Con-
tracts have been let to Joseph Supple
for g dredge, barges and pontoons, for
deepening the slough and filling ad-
jacent lowlands.
The Swift packing plant here will
be the largest on the western side of
the continent, and the only complete
packing plant in the world having the
perfection of transportation facilities
the Portland plant will possess. Be-
sides three transcontinental railroads
running their cars into it, the plant
vii! have docks at which ocean-going
ships may load cargoes of cured
meats, and all the by-products of n
packing plant, for shipment to the
orient, Alaska, Hawaii and South
America. The site acquired comprises
1000 acres. and has five miles of deep
water frontage.
Captain Fox, whose residence has
been in Kansas City, will, with west
ern Manager Good, become a perma-
nent resident of Portland. He is eX-
pected from this time forward to
rush preparations for the long, pains
taking task that is ahead of him.
The company's operations here will
be on very large scale, and much
time and money will have to be eX-
pended before it is ready to begin
killing and shipping meat.
The plant vii cost more than s2,-
900 900, and its construction will prob
ably require the greater part of the
new year. 1t is possible that the COM
ing autumn will witness the begin
ming of operations, although months
more will be necessary for carrying
out all the improvements that are
contemplated on the site, such as fill
ing lowlands, dredging waterways
completing the drainage system, and
railroad yards.
Ultimately the plant will have II
daily capacity of 1000 cattle. 1000
sheep and 1000 hogs, and will give
work for between 1000 and 5000 en-
p!oyes. 1t will include, besides the
killing and packing departments,
great stock yards and feeding pens a
tannery, n soap factory, a glue fac
tory, fertilizing factory. department
of canned meats, and facilities for op-
Grating refrigerator ships and cars.