Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1908-01-02

city for supplies and labor dur
Ing the year 1907.
$eeo,ooo was paid out in
wages to ottumWa employees OF
= the plant.
The hogs marketed in ottum-
wa during the year would make
single line 500 miles long. In
car load lots they would make
train load reaching from OF
tumWa to Burlington
SA&s $50 **
The packing interests in Ottumwa
represent the investment of several
million dollars and is tried and true
business proposition. Thirty years ago
the founders Of the Ottumwa plant
came from Canada, where they were
1hcAted for while after coming from
md and Ireland, having begun
ess over seventy years ago AIT
trial at Canada for awhile they
to look to America for a suit
location and decided upon Ottum-
IS the best place adapted to their
ness as packers because or II ne.
III the heart of 'Iowa's world
ed corn belt
was in 1877 that the founders OF
local packing concern came to OF
IVA and has since its beginning
ltinned to grow until now as a pork
Acking house it ranks near the top
If that industry in this country. AT
various stages of its existence 1t has
placed branch houses in the dlrerent
large cities until at present it has It's
own houses in New York Boston
Memphis, Des .Moines, Mobile. Seattle,
a
As the export of English meats is
one of the chief pursuits of the local
Arm. they have always had large es
tablishlnent in Liverpool, Eng, and
their foreign trade is supplied from
the plant in this city through the Liv
erpool house to all Of the important
markets OF the old world. Meats Of
the Ottunlwa Arm are, well known lr
markets OF Sweden. Norway. Den
mark, Germany, Holland Austria, Bel
gium. France, italy, Switzerland, Afri
ca and other foreign countries.
100000 For Wages.
It Is not generally known what
factor this institution Is to this city
but when one will acquaint hin
self with the facts as to the mum
Der Of hogs, cattle and sheep that arr
annually handled by this concern ht
will be able to form some idea as Z
It's magnitude. To handle the grea
volume Of hogs, cattle and sheep b.
this company for the past year there
has been spent in wages alone owe
$960,0O0. and that represents the worl
Of the plant in this city.
Enormous Output.
The number Of hogs, cattle AM
sheep handled during the past year b.
this Arm will reach the enormous to
tai OF 6SO,0OO head OF which $1,000
were hogs. the balance being cattl
hnd sheep. The average weekl
slaughtering Of hogs is 12,500 and a
army Of employees is necessary to d
this. The employees on the payroll TO
the whole year will vary from 100
to $50 at Ottumwa alone.
Spends $1o.ooo,o0o.
The amount paid By the local con
pany for supplies cattle. hogs an
sheep during the past year makes
total Of $4,000, 900 and the handlin
of all this business is done by the X
cal banks. This in itself is all ind
rect factor in the business of tn
city, for which the local packing con
pany Is responsible.
Some Figures.
If one will but see the magnitud
of the Importance Of such concern
to city, 1t is necessary to study tn
figures given above, or, to make tn
figures so plain that they who I'll
may read dust imagine the numbe
of hogs handled by this concern Il
the past year to be stood in a liz
single file and 1t will be found th'
the line will reach from Chicago
Council Bluffs, or nearly 500 miles.
they are but figured by the car loa
they will make train that will reat
within ten miles of Burlington. Goir
further IN the matter of calculatio
and estimating the sausage trimmin.
that number Of hogs will yield by co
verting the trimmings into the sui
Client frankfurter or link sausage.
will make chain Of that breakfa
delicacy reaching from Ottumwa
Lincoln, Neb.