Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-05-14
SWIFT & C0.---MEAT PACKERS.

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This company has issued a little
pamphlet OF about twenty pages, Civ
ing a short schedule of the work which
Swift 81 Company are "
they are doing it and what the aggre-
gate Of their doing reaches.
Among other things which this lit
tie pamphlet contains is a synopsis of
the development of the distribution OF
meats throughout the Nation, and
which becomes possible through the
construction and use of refrigerator
cars. It says
'The gradual development of beef
houses as they were original de-
signated, into splendid Wholesale
Distributing Markets has, next to re-
frigeration, worked a greater revolu-
ton in the distribution of meat foods
and produce than any other agency.
The old fashioned beef house was con-
temporary with the original refrig-
orator car, and it's chief, almost sole
function, was to supply beef, mutton,
and pork to local dealers. Today our
branch houses are Wholesale Distri-
buting Markets. They supply the re-
taller with beef, veal, mutton, pork,
provisions. poultry, butter, cheese,
eggs and many other food products
requiring refrigeration. Each new
market shows some improvement over
it's latest model, the constant aim be-
ing to perfect the facilities for the re-
ceiving, storing, and selling of sup
plies.
"Swift & Company's business has
been prougnt to a very high state of
perfection through the aid OF these
Wholesale Distributing Markets. They
form the important and necessary con-
Meeting link between the packing plant
and the retail dealer in meats, pro-
visions and produce"
Upon another page is to be found
the branch Offices of the great home
Chicago, and from which we gained
the information 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, including yards: Another one
is located at Omaha, where the build
| inOa 000I1nU Six aoroS and the n1Qnt Or
acres: Still another at ST. Souls, where
the buildings occupy eight acres and
the plant thirty-four. Still another at
st. Joseph, with buildings occupying
eleven acres and the plant thirty-three
acres. A fifth at st. Paul, where the
plant twenty-one-and finally the 9Th,
at Fort Worth, Texas, the buildings
occupying five acres and the plant
twenty-five.
The plant in Chicago occupies forty
nine acres of land, with buildings COW
sring As acres-and the floor space OF
these buildings throughout the seven
packing houses aggregates 237 acres.
Swift and Company claim that their
products are now used in almost every
civilized country of the earth, and they
snumerate more than 30 different coun-
tries.
They give us the Information, also,
that there are 735 packing houses in
the United States all told-but call at
tention that Swift & Company are in
t~ernational, serving not only the
United States, but ether countries in
dictated.
This Company was reorganized a
few years g with a capital of $780,
900 900, Of which 1914 employees of
Swift d Company are holders.
! 1t is also stated that the total sales of
Swift & Company for the current year
Of 1907 aggregated the enormous sum
Of two hundred and fifty million dol
lars.