The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-15
Swift & Co., Meat Packers,

with the following:
This company has issued a lit
tie pamphlet of about twenty
pages, giving a short schedule OF
the work which Swift & company
are doing-where they are doing
it and what the aggregate Of
their doing reaches.
Among other things which
this pamphlet contains is a syn.
opsis of the development sof the
distribution of meats through.
out the Nation, and which become
possible thorough the construct
ton and use of refrigerator cars.
1t says
THE gradual development of
beef houses, as they were Or
iginally designated, into splendid
Wholesale Distributing Markets
has, next to refrigeration, work
ed a greater revolution in the
distribution of meat foods and
produce than any other agency.
The old fashioned beef house
was contemporary with the orig
inal refrigerator car, and it is
chief, almost sole, function was
to supply beef, mutton and pork
to local dealers. Today our branch
houses are wholesale Distribut-
ing Markets. They supply the
retailer with beef, mutton, veal,
pork, provisions, poultry, butter,
eggs, pcheese and many other
food products requiring refrig-
Grafton. Each new market shows
some improvement over it's latest
model, the constant aim being
to perfect the facilities for the
receiving, storing and selling of
supplies.
Swift & Company's business
has been brought to a very high
state of perfection through the
aid of these wholesale distribut-
ing markets. They form the i'm
portant and necessary connect
ing link between the packing
plant and the retail dealer in
meats, provisions and produce"
Upon another page is to be
found the branch offices of the
great home plant, which of
course, is located in Chicago, and
from which we gained the in
formation that besides the home
office and plant, there are six
other plants distributed widely
through the Central West and one
in the extreme south.
These are located at Kansas
City, where the plant occupies
nearly nine acres of buildings,
and "a acres for the whole, in
Guiding yards: Another one is
located at Ohama, where the
buildings occupy six acres and
the plant % acres: Still another
at st. Louis, where the buildings
occupyaeight acres and the plant
"a. Still another at St. Joseph,
with buildings occupying eleven
acres and the plant SO acres. A
fifth at st. Paul, where the build
ings occupy eight acres and the
plant twenty one and finally the
sixth, at Fort Worth, Texas, the
buildings occupying five acres
and the plant twenty-five.
The plant in Chicago occupies
40 acres of land, with buildings
covering As acres-and the floor
space of those buildings through
out the seven packing houses ag-
gregates 237 acres.
Swift & Company claim that
their products are now used in
almost every civilized country of
the earth, and they enumerate
more than 80 different countries.
They give us the information,
also, that there are 735 packing
houses in the United States all
told but call attention that Swift
& Company are international,
serving not only the United
States, but the other countries
indicated.
This Company was re-organi-
zed a few years ago with a cap
ital stock of $50, 900, 900, of which
1874 employees Of Swift & Com
pany are holders.
1t is also stated that the total
sales of Swift & Company for the