The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-23
He Will Immediately Develop the Site
Lying in the Two Counties.
MIR. Armour's Signature Is
Attached to Citizens
Agreement.
Construction of the Plant Is
to Begin Early Next
Spring.

Armour Zoos twin city packing
plant and stockyards is an assured fact.
The citizens agreement by which
water, sewer and street railway connec-
ton with the plant was guaranteed,
and which was mailed to the head office
IN Chicago week ago, was returned to
Minneapolis! yesterday. with J; Ogden
for the site was purchased today, and
it is expected that Mr.. Armour will be-
gin construction Of the plant in the
spring. By. the purchase Of the land
= his part of the agreement has been full
The decision of the Armour company
on which it already has options will
result in the erection of other plants
Of the same nature, and it is confdent-
lly expected by citizens who are in
touch with the whole deal, that the
neighborhood will ultimately become
the center Of the greatest packing plant
Industry in the world.
All danger Of pollution Of water or
or refuse will be eliminated in the con-
struction Of the Armour plant. Even
the stockyards will be paved with
brick and cleaned daily, the refuse be-
ing used to the last degree, as will be
every other scrap of material that en-
tiers the yards.
Important Step Taken.
If the plans for establishment Of
stockyards and packing center between
Minneapolis and st. Paul, on the Belt
line, are contaminated along lines
which have been under discussion, the
Co. today will stand as one of the most
J important steps ever taken in connec-g
ton with the growth and Development
OF the twin cities and the entire north
| west. With the rapid development OF
agricultural and livestock growing
turnout the northwest, this new pack
ing center will proba bly, soon become
it's Importance to the general business
and industrial Importance of the twin
cities and the northwest goes far be-
You'd. ....
In connection with the plans the
belt line railroad has made plans for
increased facilities and concessions such
as free switching, that will inevitably
make this new packing center an i'm
pOrtant manufacturing and commercial
center in other. lines of business In
/ Chicago, for example, the trade in live
stock constitutes strictly cash bust
ness of 100000 a day for every
working day in the year.
Choosing a Location.
In choosing the location on the Belt
line, Armour & Co. have considered the
question from the practical business
| viewpoint. They have been concerned
to choose the location best in railroad
facilities, in accessibility to- the farm
it's relations to the twin cities from
every possible point Of view. The site
on the Belt line was selected after full
| consideration of every point that could
| be raised for or against the site select
ed. If the stockyards and packing cen
| ter is to fulfil its mission, it must pro-
mote development Of the livestock
growing business. The Belt line loca-
tion is believed to serve this purpose
| better than any other that could have
been chosen, -..s s.,.e--
p, No Menace in Plant.
7 The location on the Belt line is ex-
pected to be the most satisfactory even
| to those persons who have an indefna-
! BILE fear Of personal Inconvenience from
odors, sewage, or other incidents of the
packing industry. In the first place,
any packing house built at this loca-
ton will be the best that money can
build; it will be complete and up-to-
date in every particular, and as nearly
perfect, from the sanitary point Of
view, as money can buy. It is within
the truth to say that such packing
house could be built on Lowry Hill OF
St. Anthony Hill without disturbing
any property. owner, any more than
would cracker factory or fourmill.
"Talk of offensive odors and water
polluting, sewage and all that sort Of
j thing from modern packing house, -
says an expert, sis a bugbear that has
no foundation in this age except in
! the memories Of people who think Of
the early days Of the industry, when
the packing houses were little more
! plifed. New York has two packing
houses in the very heart of the city
In Kansas City the packing houses are
practically in the heart of the city,
considering the Kansas and the Mis-
souri, cities as one. The packing houses
at Kansas City are in the valley near
the river, and the business and resi-
dence sections are on the bluff above
them where they would naturally got
.any odors. Chicago, the largest stock
yards and packing center in the world,
! has the lowest death rate Of any large
city in the world. The twenty-ninth
1 ward of Chicago, in which the stock
yards and packing houses are located,
!; has AN annual death rate lower than
the general death rate of the city.
zs,ss Must Utilize All.
1.-THE large packer does business on
smaller margin than any other busi-
ness man. in the world. He sells the
dressed carcass of prime steer for
less than he pays for that steer on the
8 hoof. The 40 per cent of live weight
: that is dressed out in slaughterng
l \
allowed to be wasted But the packer
would go into bankruptcy if he per-
mitted any Of the animal matter to be