Arizona republican., 1909-05-21
To ABATE A
NUISANCE.
Also to Improve Conditions
For Everyone in Town
SLAuGHTERHOUsE QUESTION
Needs of Modern Phoenix
Have Furnished a Logical
Solution of 1t 80 Erection
of a Model Plant Is Plan
ned.

1t seems that in almost every hum
an state or condition, the good in it
rises to the surface only after the
bad in it has run its full course from
which it is deduced that badness -
more virulent than goodness, but 1t
don't last as long. On this philosophy
The Republican takes pleasure in an
nouncing that the 'slaughterhouse-
phobia" has almost run its coure and
it is believed that the cure is near
at hand. That the affection was -pal
and not imaginary is admitted in all
quarters. The slaughter house man
agement itself admits that the condi-
tions in the vicinity of it were, to say
the least, offensive, perhaps unsani-
tary, but like the people who live in
the shadow of the slaughterhouse
they were facing impossible conditions
also and were as anxious to relhve
them as the people were to be re-
lieved. The truth of the matter is
that a project was in process Of evo-
luton for doing away with old con-
ditions by the erection of a plant that
would not be Objectionable, but be-
fore il could be worked out the resi-
dents of the southwest part of town
became so apprehensive the existence
of a slaughterhouse there became a
public issue and the project of a
model plant was held up pending the
settlement of that issue.
The question now is where can a
slaughterhOuse be built so it will not
give offense, and it has been put up
to the city council to answer. Speak
in he T1x-
say that such slaughterhouses as this
valley has always had in the past,
under present and future conditions,
viii be undesirable anywhere within a
distance from the city, that it is
practicable to maintain them and
properly serve the local markets with
out spelling the meat in transfer
during hot weather. But Phoenix
must have markets and therefore
slaughterhouses somewhere. Logical
ly there is only one way out and that
is the right kind of a slaughter house,
one that will not be Objectionable
wherever it may be placed. 1t was
that conclusion the Phoenix Whole
sale Meat company had arrived at,
and was in the act of making effec-
tive when the present agitation began.
1t was planned to build a model plant
on the present site, or alongside of
it, one that would be no more often
sive to the neighbors than one of the
up town markets. In fact a cellar
had been excavated and cemented and
plans were being worked out that
would doubtless have satisfied every
body, but now that the agitation was
sprung the promoters have no notion
of doing anything until the city cOunr
Gil indicates where they may proceed
without fear of future persecution.
for when construction is undertaken
it is proposed to build something that
no reasonable complaint can be made
against, and thereafter refuse to be
pushed about to please this one or
that one.
The objection will be raised az
once that such a construction will not
be possible and the critic will doubt
less come to his belief by letting his
mind dwell on all past slaughter
houses in these parts with which he
has been acquainted. To him it is
said that such a construction as
planned cannot be Objectionable. for
they now exist in nearly ali the larger
cities; plants that have been put up
in recent years, modernly equipped for
utilizing every part of an animal ex-
cept its breath. for meat fertilizer or
some other useful purpose, perfectly
severed in a sanitary way so no
odor can escape and in fact so there
is nothing that can make an Odor
Los Angeles has at least four, and
perhaps more, just such plants, not
only in the city limits, but right in