Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-10
,,uo Hundred Thousand Dollars
Raised and Project Be-
comes a Reality.
OFFICERS ELECTED TODAY.
faultal Comes Principally From
The Livestock Men Of Utah
And Southern Idaho.
Plant is to be Erected Near the Hot
Springs and Salt Lake Stock Yards
VIII be Moved There.

In Salt Lake city this afternoon the
r,tsb Packing company will elect Of
Aeers. preparatory to erecting mn I'M
mense packing house nor,h of salt
rske The corporation has a capital"
,zation of 100000, sl65,0O0 of which is
already subscribed. It's capacity when
completed viii be 800 cattle, 1000 sheep
and 1000 hogs per day and 1t plans TO
draw wholly from the western market
Cor animals. and to supply the same
marke, with the finished product
The probability Is that George G.
Vhitmore of Nephi viii be elected
president; INLAND knight OF Salt Lake.
vice president, ]. w, West, treasurer
and general manager; Richard Pap
worth, assistant treasurer and G, l..
Lang. secretary. For the board OF d.
rectors the probable list is as follows;
D. L. Evans, Malad. Idaho; James ii.
Movie, salt Lake; j. A. Eldre'ige,
Woods Cross; j. C. Leary, salt Lake.
Richard Papworth, salt Lake; w. g.
Crawford, Mantl, j. w. West, Salt
Lake; John L. Austin, Heber, and M.
Knight, Salt Lake.
Within five miles of Salt Lake City
big packing plant is soon TO be erected.
It will mean a great deal for the west
IN general and Idaho and Utah In par
ticular, since their valleys will both
feed its adjacent stockyards with home
grown cattle.
For Salt Lake incidentally 1t will
mean the growing up Of a stockyard
town out beyond the northern suburbs.
and the putting Of choice meats into, her
market without the necessity Of
frsightng home grown cattle on the
hOot to Omaha, or Chicago, and then
the freightng back OF the choicer cuts,
after the animals are slaughtered.
WILL HELP LOCAL MARKET.
The result on the local market will
be helpful as the packing house will be
able 10 practise a great deal more econ
omy in killing beef, by the utilization
OF byproducts, and by selling their
meats TO graded market, a careful
distinction in price being made. I'm
accordance with the expense of fatten-
Ing and buying animals, II Is well
known In Salt Lake that prices at re-
tail have remained the same approx
mately when cattle were high on the
noof, and low on the hoof and the same
100 for COW, slaughtered at the shop
o. cost OF possibly 3 cents per pound,
as Tor the choicest corn fattened steers
shipped In for the fancy trade.
SIGN OF BETTER TIMES.
The establishment OF a big packing
mouse In Utah Is a sign of the times.
ana comes as the result OF progress to-
WARDS populated and independent
west Time was when all the cattle
we're IN the west, and most OF the peo-
we were In the east, 40 that the herds
we're driven down 10 Chicago and Oma-
"a ana Kansas city. where great pack
Ms pants were built up, and great In
uusules became established, making a
""'ral market for good beef.
CAPACITY OF PLANT.
During this era, local butcher shops
we west either killed their beef,
SOssht from the nelghbors, or IL they
tal tahcy trade. shipped II from the
rs packing houses. The packing house
proposed to build intends to use
s s"roS entirely Utah and Idaho ami
s,r anu 10 sell Its product to a west
t ,n market exclusively. The effect on
H.. IN growing will consequently be
. II A
Ss,, y WIN feel the pressure OF a sharp
~ nu ana ready market In capacity
IS pSnSnhg plant viii handle 800 cat
A. tvVV sheep and 1000 hogs a day.
az slndll farmer will thus find ready
ma aor an The animals he can feed
worL su'cH cash returns for his farm
s,, tne definite movement towards the
DurIras OF this house is a growth.
hsvs recent years slaughter houses
,Ide,sto wn up and they now do con-.
psd ~ EMIL hillins'Dut they are not equIp-
iry ,. t.ulAe byproducts, and to prop-
yards a't ~ cattle In adjacent stock
stock s outside Of these places the
bet s. ..o"ers have had to find a mar
snlmaI, ana nave shipped out their
fye caro "a sinall lots, Of from two TO
NJ ssrIoads to the cast. W
hr sas, ulese shlpments have gone as
sn,, MAS, as the Missouri river ma has 90
,ss s, cost In freight and shr,ni,-
Me- ca.,v,uhIihg to cent pound On
snt 30 or two cents I'm their eo,,va.
=" VI beef or mutton. ''''' eq'''a-
CAPITAL STOCK is 5000 600
nIt nv ., present movement is no, rho ,o
lion q, exploitation, but is a comh,n w.
rers @' NJ existing packers and shi,,-
t000oo ne company is INCORPORATED a.
subscrt,a ana OF this stock sis5 600 is non,
Of nao'oe In shares OF the nor 'un
Per cept nn payments amounting 10 "a
ihesav p.l me subscribed stock having
he n,s. 1een paid In. This sf,nrnanns
when n Tor organization occvrs
tecre,s,,' president, a general nanagar
BE- nanSt anu board Of directors vii
The sai"u' An encouraging ,ea,,r WI
offered IN sstock' Is that after II was
sas No, salt Lake a year ago anS
warmth taken up with anv desroo ans
tate snd 1ae stockmen up and down ~
have % entough Idaho took II nm ana
stock ~ 'loed Ia a great deal ~, IN
.,ockmen urge and they are activs
The cornr COM. SO That their connection r,,t
one l IN ps,y Is to he a vital ona WI ann
interest. "''en they VIII take an ao, i've
ORIGIN OF THE MOVE
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