Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-02-26
LARGE FOOD HOARD
VALUE OF FOOD In STORAGE
is $4,000, 100000
Chicago Packing Trust Investigation
Results in Exposure Of Tremendous
Storage of Products-Food Enough
to Fill Market Baskets of 10000, 900
Families for Months.

Chicago, Feb. 7.-While the Ameri-
can people are engaged in the mighty
meat strike to force down the increased
cost of living, there is locked up in
the beef trust Is cold storage plants
enough food to feed every man, woman
and child in the United States for
months.
This tremendous food hoard is valued
at $3,000,0 100000. Tons of meat and
other necessaries have been accumulat-
ing in the strongholds of the robber
food barons for two, sometimes three
years.
The Chicago packing trust and its
affiliated trusts in every corner of the
country have amassed this frozen noun
tain of food in order that the people
may pay increased tribute to monopoly
and extortion; at the same time its
leaders are deploring the appetities of
those they refrain from feeding that
their own greed may be gratifed.
The facts in the cold storage situation
are amazing. The figures that follow
are not guesses, but the estimates of
the packing interests themselves, which
have been obtained from inside sources.
The surprising thing is that they have
leaked out at this time, when the fed
eral grand jury in this city is investi-
eating the great national food con
spiracy and seeking to indict and i'm
prison the rich and powerful ring
leaders.
These figures from the books Of the
food trust, showing the amount of food
stuffs now in cold storage, constitute
the only needed proof TO show the cause
of the higher cost of living. They show
the beef trust and its affiliations to be
protected in their misery course by
the knowledge that the tariff will not
permit the foreign producer to come
into the United States and undersell
them. Under lock and key the food
hoard is being held until the day comes
when prices are raised still higher. But
here are the astounding figures. There
are l4,000,0O0 cattle earcasses in cold
storage. Other stored meat in these
great cold warehouses the country over
includes 100000 calves, $4,000 900
sheep and lambs and 50,000,000 hogs
not counting the human ones engaged
la the packing industry.
In rs fish freezing plants there are
dsh valued al $4,000, 900. They viii be
liberated on the market al Lent. 10
other cold storage plants controlled by
the beef barons there are held 100000
egg, lSo,o0o,o0o pounds of poultry aud
ffuiif and miseellaneous articles of
perishable food worth s5oo0oOoo
There aTe millions Of pounds Of pota-
toes. turtles. eelf. cases ~ canned goods
and milk, butter and cheese. This lasf
item alone y being boarded A. iAe 49,.
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