Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01
LIVE STOCK AND GRAIN


Swift and Company.
The meat packing houses of Swift and
Company cover six acres. with twenty-six
acres of floor space and twenty-three acres
of land adjoining. In 1906 the production
filled 1850 freight cars and amounted in
value to s25,OOo,0Oo To fabricate this i'm.
mense quantity Of dressed and canned
meats and by-products 1900 persons were
employed. The field covered by the sales
is designated as the entire world, there
being no nation in which the wares of
Swift and Company cannot be found. One
of the big exports direct from South
Omaha during the last year was 10000
pounds of butter sent direct to London,
England.
Swift and Company operate plants at Chi
cage, Kansas City, Omaha, st. Louis, st.
Joseph, st. Paul and Fort Worth, employ
ing a total Of more than 5000 men and
women. Headquarters are at Chicago, E.
c. Swift being chairman of the board of d.
rectors; Edward F. Swift, vice president;
L. A Carton, treasurer; d. e. Hartwell,
secretary; l. A. Want, assistant treasurer,
and c. A. Peacock assistant secretary. Mr..
II. o. Edwards is manager Of the Omaha
plant and Mr. John Patterson is super
intendent. This house was Established in
1887 and has grown steadily ever since In
value and volume of products.
Meats fresh, dressed smoked and canned
of all varieties are produced by the firm.
Numerous specialties are made, such as
the following articles each having the
prefix of Swift" Premium ham, Pre-
MUM bacon, Premium sliced bacon, Win
chester ham, Winchester bacon, Brook
| field farm sausage, Premium lard, Silver
Leaf lard, Jewell lard compound. Coto-
suet, Jersey butterine, beef extract beef
fluid and Premium milk-fed chickens
Soaps are made in one Of the most COM
plete factories in the world, some of the
most famous brands including Wool soap,
scented toilet soaps, Swift's Pride Laun-
dry soap and Swlft's washing powder.
Swift and Company handle poultry, eggs,
cheese and butter on a very large scale,
having unusually good facilities for the
proper care Of produce while on hand
as we'll as in transit. They handle the
very best quality of goods in these, as in
| the other lines.
Armour & Co.
Armour & Co. manufactured at South
Omaha in 1906 5000 carloads of products,
valued at 1872, 100000. The average number
of men employed to bring about this i'm
mense output was 1000.
The plant of Armour & Co. at South
| Omaha is the last addition to the industry
! there. Ground was broken for excavation
| July 8, 1897 the first brick was laid No
vember I, 1897, and the first animal was
killed July 10, 1898.
| The establishment now occupies twenty
! two acres Of land, upon which are build
| ings covering sixteen acres and having
| eighty and one-fourth acres of floor space.
| Facilities are provided for the killing and
handling of a maximum of 1850 hogs, 1000
sheep and 1900 cattle daily.
Everything that the packer of today
turns out of his plant is made by Armours.
and it is possible that the mechanical,
sanitary and labor-saving devices of this
plant are ahead of all others. AS an illus
tration 1t may be cited that the machinery
throughout is operated exclusively by cleo
tricity. The plant is regarded as a model
of its kind, having been constructed as the
crux of twenty-five years experience in the
packing business and representing the best
and the newest ideas in economy, con-
venience and the science of preparing
meats and kindred products for the mar
kets of the world.
In the South Omaha plant two pieces OF
construction are unique, the first being
west This structure is 1S5x21O feet in size
and is eleven stories high. The entire
building is under refrigeration. The second
is a large brick smokestack, 225 feet high
which has been erected recently and which
carries the smoke from the furnaces away
above the city. This is the largest stacl
west of Chicago.
Armour & Co. operate packing plant.
at Chicago, Kansas City, South Omaha
East st. Louis. North Fort Worth anC
! Sioux City, the establishment in Chi
cago being the largest packing plant II
the world.
Omaha Packing Company.
The Omaha Packing company. which wal
the second plant of the kind to be estab
lished in South Omaha, has outgrown 1t:
old quarters, and arrangements are being
made for the occupation and use of tn,
larger structures of the Hammond Packing
company, which have been idle for abou
four years. AS the same interests now owl
both properties, the change will be mad,
without difficulty. Most of the old build
ings of the Omaha plant will be utilized
for storage purposes. With the additions
room and facilities the company will b.
prepared to cope with the large expansion
in business which necessitated the move.
Inc mouse began business packing mea
in South Omaha in 1886. Its development
: has been steady in every department. Il
1906 products to the value of $4,000 900 wer
sold, more than 1900 carloads of goods be
Ing shipped from South Omaha. Thes
! goods went all over the United States an
} Canada and large quantities into England
} Germany. Cuba and the Netherlands. TIL
: export trade was a feature. but the HON
| consumption also grew rapidly.
For its finished output OF fresh an
) dressed beef mutton and pork, smoke
meats, lard and sausage, canned goods, fer
: tilizers, etc, 900 hogs, $4,000 sheep an
: 100000 cattle were consumed by the plan
l during the last year. To handle the wor
force of 100 employees is employed. unde
. the direction OF Mr.. C. X. Urquhart, tn
Y general manager, who is the operating hea
! OF the Omaha Packing company's interest
: at South Omaha
e Among the well-known finer brands c
products of the company are Underwoo
: and Victor hams, bacon and canned meat
e and sausages and the Red Seal lard.
Every care is taken by this packing fri
r to assure absolute purity In everythin
that leaves bearing its name or label. PraG
$ ticallly all of the foodstuffs sold are II
e spected by officials OF the United State
n government and undergo a most rigid ea
K animation in this connection.