The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-03-05
UP To THE
PANHANDLE
Packing House Possibilities Re-
viewed by Business Men
in Meeting

IL the farmers and caiNemeh ul
tho Panhandle can show MI o, W.,
Butts that there is sufficient supply
Of finished hogs and cattle to keep
packing house occupied the year
round, packing house which VIII
insure cash market at all times
for cattle and hogs can be put in
operation this year. Friday night
Mr. 0. ". Butts will be in Amarillo
again after tour of inspection
through various Panhandle counties
and at that time he will state tho
packing house proposition from a
business standpoint
When II b. Sanborn, president Of
tho Chamber OF Commerce, called
The meeting to order last night ats
O'Clock the district court room was
we'll filled with representative citi.
zcns Mr. Sanborn in few words
explained the general purpose OF the
meeting and introduced Mr., Butts
Finished Cattle Necessary.
"a packcry to be successful" said
Mr. Butts, after explaining that he
had not expected 10 make a definite
proposition because he had not yet
canvassod the situation" must have
plenty Of cattle and plenty OF hoss,
and 1t must not only have hogs and
cattle but Il must have hogs and cat
tie OF particular kind, 1t must have
good cattle, matured for market,
am not fully advised whether this
country has cattle in sufficient guam
tity or not believe YOU have the
country that will produce them. You
must have a certain class Of cattle
for the best trade and other classes
for less eXactng customers who are
not so eXacting as they can be slaugh-
tered at any time and a market can
he found for any class of the pro-
duct You have location here
which should enable you to draw a
supply from large territory, You
have a population which will take
quite a large product, and with the
towns and villages in easy reach you
ought TO have market that can use
the product of a small packing
house from the start
you know that from 40 to 50 per
cent OF the animal Is by-product or
what we call drift" BY making
a more economical use of this here,
a packing house could effect a saw
Ing. The freights in and out of here
are certainly to the advantage OF the
packing house here, ! take 1t that
the freight alone would be enough
to make a profit.
Small PackericS Succeed.
"One thing in favor of the smaller
packery now that is we'll worth con.
sderlng is that the large packers
have no such advantages as they had
a few years ago. They have no diff.
ferential rates and no rebates. The
interstate commerce commission has
etfectually put an end to that. For
many years it has been difficult for
small Independent packery to get
a loothold unless 1t had a good deal
Of backbone and quite an amount
OF capital which it didn't mind
squandering while It was establish
ing itself and convincing the bigger
paCkeries that 1t was in the bust
ness to stay. Today | am glad to
say that nearly all the smaller pack
ing houses arc making money. That's
what We want to do here.
200 Hogs Day.
Sometimes it is better to start in a
very small way, and to expand as the
business proves to be worth it. I
might not make proposition as
large as many of YOU gentlemen ex-
pected and would ask you not to be
disappointed in that
As see 1t now, If the clrcum.
stances do justify the packing house
] would probably recommend one
that would kill about 25 to so cattle
4 day, and about 200 hogs. be-
lleve that with your adjacent towns,
YOUR market would take that pro-
duct without coming in direct COM
petition with the larger cities. Even
II we did, We would have the freight
in our favor,
7 had intended to reach Amarillo
several days ago and to get an idea