The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-06-14
lETTETS FROM A SELF
MADE PACKER TO
HIS SON
Paris, June IA, 1906.

While | am not on the ground
ard cannot size up the present sit
uation with every confidence in my
Judgment. | think it would be wise
TO clean up the yards and all the
houses, so as to be ready for any
inspectors or reporters who may
ask to be shown through the plant
This is only a suggestion, under
stand, and not an order which
expect you to obey to the letter,
for you are on the scene and prob
ably know better than |, several
thousand miles away, whether or
not the situation demands drastic
action. l may be wrong, but prob
ably it wouldn't hurt anything If
you were to do a little cleaning up.
You can get Thos. jefferson Jack
son to do a weeks whitewas hing
He can daub up enough fences in
that time to make the cattle and
hog pens look fairly clean, and pos
sibly he could finish in time to
whiten up the interior of some of
the rooms of the plant. Hire Mrs.
Jackson to wash some of the win
dows.
AS think it over, l guess it
would be a good idea to clean the
floors in all the rooms. Naturally
a great deal of grease will fall on
the floors in 10 or IL years, and
much Of it will be ground into the
wood and saved. Pieces of pork
beef, mutton and rind and a great
deal of lard. no doubt, cover the
floors to a depth of six or seven
inches in places. This should be
scraped up carefully and turned
over to the olive oil department,
where it can be placed in the watts
with oxalic acid and formaldehyde.
1t can be bottled as "LaPicha Olive
Oil. Quality Guaranteed by the
Italian Government" The sedi-
ment can be used in the homeless
chicken department.
Put up few signs saying, "The
use of tobacco prohibited. A vio-
lation of this rule means dis
charge OF course, such a non
sensical rule can't be enforced, and
you can give the men to under
stand as much.
Here is another thing you can
do: Send for reporters from every
paper in the city and give them a
little talk on food purity and SINH
lar rot, tell them what efforts we
have made to kill germs, and tell
how for years we have sprayed the
walls, floors, tables, wagons and
tools with formaldehyde in order to
be certain of absolute cleanliness.
In profit of the statement show
them our formaldehyde bills for
the last five or six years. Thatll
convince 'em.
How is the egg business coming
along? l met a famous French
chemist yesterday who showed me
a thing or two about eggs. and
: had always supposed | knew about
everything worth knowing. | think
We can revolutionize the egg bust
ness. This fellow has a secret pre-
paration that preserves eggs for
as long as seven years. It's some
thing wonderful Best of all, this
stuff is cheap, costs only s cents
gallon, and gallon is enough to
preserve nearly a million eggs.
You need only one drop of the stuff
and great care must be observed
not TO use more than one. as two
drops cause the stomach to rebel
and three cause serious illness and
sometimes death. However. we
must all take chances in this world
This Frenchman has invented an
instrument with which the egg is
punctured, the preservative inject
ed and the hole sealed.
l have offered him $4,000 for his
formula and instrument, to become
my exclusive property, and | think
ne Will accept. That seems like a
large amount of money, and 1t is,
but think how soon 1t will come
back. We will save thousands and
thousands Of dollars in ice. And
when he perfects it so it can be U.S.
ed On meat-well, inside of a few
years the phrase cold storage"
will be deader than Chauncey NJ.
Depew. Your affectionate father
JOHN BEEFHAM.