Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-02
BIS ENTERPRISE OF
 PACKING COMPANY
(Cananea Heraldl

Forty thousand square feet of floor | space, an investment to date of over
 $lOO,0O0 gold, employment for over 100 men a day when operations are
 commenced and output daily of $1O,- GOO worth of meat products at pre- vasiing prices are a few facts in con nection with the Sonora Packing com pany, now being crowded to comple- ton by force of over 15O men,
 which will give Cananea people bet ter idea than more than Q very few
 of them have had of the immensity of ! th.s new enterprise which is being
 made for on fifty acres of ground be-
 low the Greene Caranea ,lmber yard
 at the lower end of the Mesa.
 Twenty-Five cars of machinery for the plant are now enroute to the city and should begin arriving within the next week or two. It is all of the most modern and will give to Cana nea one of the finest packing plant buildings in the country.
 In all there are four floors Slaugh- tering will be done on the fourth 1 floor, the cattle being driven there to killing pens over a gangway from the feed pens. From the fourth floor disposal of all parts of the animal is made to the various departments on the floors below through chutes and by means of an elevator operating in the center of the building. The lat ter is of reinforced cement blocks throughout. These blocks have been made on the ground under the direc- ton of experts. Mixing and forming machines have been operated on the ground steadily in the production of
  for the building were commenced in April. The walls are now up to the floor of the fourth story and are go- ing up to the roof as fast as possible. Delivery of materials to the upper floors has all been made by machin- cry and things have moved speedily An idea of the amount of material going into the structure can be gath cred in some degree from the fact that pretty near 5000 barrels of ce- ment have been used to this time in making of the concrete blocks
 The big battery of boilers, wh oh will furnish power for the plant, has been installed. It has capacity of 300 horsepower and is ready to go to work whenever called upon. While the maximum of power will probably not be required immediately the growth in business and equipment of the plant which can be expected and certainly will call out the best the boiler room can give in the lapse of great deal of time.
 The boiler room was made com modious and the battery now there can be added to if need be with ease. 1 This plant is going to ship all over Sonora, will export meat products of all kinds and turn out by-products of all sort. Vincluding soap, etc. Sonora | will not be it's only field, either. It | will get pretty much ali over Mexico | with the excellent goods its manage ment knows how to produce and will | give the market. Merit, too, will car " these goods into the United States,
 Present expectation s that slaugh- | tering of cattle and the operation of the new plant will coumence about the midde of October. The slaugh- tering will be in charge of Walter Fife, who has for some time had charge of this important end of the company at the plant south from the city. MT. Fife is now killing for the Cananea trade from forty to fifty beeyes a day Besides this product there are killed at the present pen a good many hogs, sheep and goats in the course of 8 week. All this output is consumed in Cananea camp.
 Directly associated with MT. Tov. req in the management of the big work which is going on in the erec- ton of the packing plant are Ben Sneed and George E. Talcott. They have splendid accomplishments to their credit as the building now stands. Beside the attention they | have given this they have also been busy with preparation of operating plans and arrangements for the con duct of the business affairs of the great enterprise they will have in full swing before the coming of the win ' ter For the operating end they are all prepared as soon as the machin- cry now enroute arrives and is put in motion For the unloading of this at the plant they are provided with excellent facilities, while foundations are ready for every piece as it enters the building. Delivery to the latter will be made over the spur from the C. R. Y. and P. track. This spur runs along side receiving and delivery plat forms which have been constructedI along side the building.
 As has been stated the packing company has fifty acres of ground about it's plant. This ground extends across the arroyo to the south onto the mesa beyond. Here the company Aill erect houses for its employees, where they can have comfortable homes convenient to their work. Streets will be made and conyen- fences provided in the way Of water and electric light service. The set tlement that w:ll be built up will be by no means unimportant and VIII create a new quarter of the city on the lower side which will be of value to property owners and business men along Chihuahua avenue and Railroad street.