The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1906-08-03
GONE BACK TO THE PEOPLE

Besides reducing by half the sales of
the big packers, the recent exposures
of packing house methods will tend to
revive "local butchering' in hundreds
of towns which have long depended
upon supplies of dressed beef, mutton
and pork from Chicago, Omaha and
other packing centers 1t may be said,
and often has been said, that it is only
small part of the output of the Beef
Trust that is brought under suspicion
even by the disclosures. But there is
no arguing with queasy stomach.
The result of the disclosures is that all
the products Of the Trust are brought
under suspicion. The consuming pub
lie will, in many cases, insist upon trac-
ing not only its canned goods, but
its dressed beef, from ranch to table. ;"
Naturally this will bring about re-
vival of local slaughtering.
The depression in the packing indus
try that has followed the exposures will
affect thousands Of persons. In the
Chicago stockyards district alone there
are 5000 persons employed, upon
whom are dependent probably 30, 900
relatives, not to speak of shopkeepers
and others who will feel the pinch
when a large portion of these workers
are thrown into idlencss.
The daily capacity of the Union Stock
Yards in Chicago is -, 600 cattle. 800. =
900 hogs and 80 900 sheep. Within the
square mile occupied by the stock
yards. says tho Washington Post. arc
300 acres Of pens, % miles of streets,
20 miles of watering troughs, ~ miles
of drainage and water pipes and 80
miles Of railroad tracks The stock
yards were founded in 1865. With &C
cessoric5 they represent invested CAPT
tai of $67 900, 600
Chicago literally supplies the world
with meats. The armies of England,
France, Germany, Russia subsist upon
fare prepared here. as do a great part
of the population of those countries.
The Union Stock Yards received last
year ISIS go head of cattle. or 1929,
923 more than st. Louis. 1903, 36S more
than Omaha and 767. 397 more than
Kansas City. Nearly twice the num-
Der of sheep slaughtered in Kansas
City, Omaha and st. Louis are killed
annually in Chicago, while much of the
-tnpi- colJ -, Iih l. Il
tination in Chicago.
Since the establishment Of The Union
Stock Yards 352, 900, 900 live animals
have been received, of which %, 80, OOC
We're shipped away alive, leaving a
total of 800. $50, 900 animals killed and
packed in forty wears at this chief cen
ter of the meat industry.
In the east great many ''fnicky'
persons are now experimenting with a
nut and cereal diet, to avoid odious
packing house meats. They have found
model up in the Ber., shires, in the
town of Dalton, in the person of John
A. Eddy. Though he is /. Civil War
veteran, G7 years old, and lives on SIC
worth Of food year, he is said by the
St. Louis Republic to be physical
marvel.
He has not taken Il bath for five
years. Instead he messages himself
from head to foot every morning with
a horse brush. In winter and summer
he spends an hour or more every day
out doors, with his feet bare.
He is pronounced one-mealer At
10 O'Clock every morning he eats his
single repast of uncooked nuts or rolled
oats and dates, topping off with water
or sour milk. His food costs barely
$40 year. He now offers to wager
500 with any man or woman living
that he can exist on raw food of his
own choosing for 100 days under test
that will prove that the cost of the
food will not exceed So. So He express
ly stipulates that nothing of the nature
of..meat or cooked food shall be used,
but that he shall be allowed to smoke
and exercise as he chooses.
If the examples of Mr.. Eddy multi
ply there will be no more packing house
scandals.