The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-04
OKLAHOMA C|TY'S
BIG NEW INDUSTRY
FIRST DAYS KILL is 4,50o-EST J.
MATED THAT 5000 PEOPLE Wis.
TIED THE PLANT.

opening day, in plant and STOCK yards
alone, 1000 men.
Has killing capacity of $500 hogs,
800 cattle, and 900 sheep a day.
Represents capitalization Of 49,
OOO, 900 and an incidental capitalization
Of as much more.
Manufactures packed meats in all
forms, and all by-products-is the most
complete plant ever constructed as
one undertaking.
Creates in Oklahoma a new market;
this means the retention in the state
Of millions of dollars each year that
hitherto went to the north and to the
east.
Adds TO oklahoma City's payroll
about $1,000 daily. Meaning by this
the packing plant and stock yards
alone; not the side Industries which
will represent hundreds more.
Makes to the southwest Of Oklaho-
ma City. out of what once was
stretch of bare prairie and not very
valuable farming country, a new city,
known as Packingtown, which in yet
few years will be to the southwestern
metropolis what Packingtowns In Chi
cago, Kansas City, ST. Louis anG
Omaha are to those cities.
/ The total death rate at Packingtown
Monday the day of the official opening
of the Morris and company plants,
was 4,5OO. Apportioned, this NOR, al
ity represents the loss from the ami
NAL population of the universe Of 500
calves, 900 steers and $500 hogs.
/ And the assorted parts Of these var
| ous brutes lie now in the cooling
rooms of the great mandatory, cur
ried. cleansed, cut up and classified
and made ready for the carntvorous
teeth of hungry public.
And Oklahoma City, the packing
center, is born.
The important omens attendant
upon this birth appeared about the
hour of 10 a. m. The touching or an
electric button in New York; the toot
of the packing plants whistles; the
chug and roar of massive machinery,
breaking for the first time Into life;
the swish of sledge hammer; the
muffled groan from the great throat ol
a huge, sleek steer; the plunge of a
knife-and the industry was created
the first dumb brute was sacrificed on
the altar of a nations appetite.
In the course Of a half hour the new
lumber of the killing pens, the white
cement of their floors, the spotless
iron of the hitherto unused machinery
we're bloody, dirty, tainted with the
touch of the animals.
Attendant upon this opening were
at least fifteen thousand people. They
crowded into every conceivable corner
of the great killing rooms; they saw
the sQuealing hogs hooked by The legs
drawn swiftly upwards, stabbed, taken
down bloody, disappear, come out
minus hair, strung on endless chains
slashed and sorted, and finally taken
10 the end of their course, the cooling
rooms. They saw cattle likewise 80
their course TO dusty death.
They saw and they maryeled, and
the doubters among them who these
many months have shaken questioning
heads and shrugged unbeheying shoul'
ders at the idea of three-milliou-do!-
lar industry coming sure enough, were
convinced
During the day II is estimated that
at least 25.OOO people saw the plant
Oklahoman.
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which employs over 1000 people and
hundreds Of horses, elephants and
camels Thrills arc given in large
numbers by Desperate, French
man. who leaps from the dome cf
the tent 10 the ground and lights
upon mis- bare chest; the Adonis
brothers, who balance on the poin;
OF a swaying ship mast, and by Ju.
piter. the aeronaut horse, which
rides high in a balloon and shoots
off rockets and other fireworks y
young woman sits upon his back
during his dangerous trip. The per
formauce OF Charlie the First, q
chimpanzee acrobat and bicycle rider
is the marvel OF the age
The menagerie is beyond question
the greatest travelling 700 in the
world. \ baby colony is one OF its
interesting features. Here are display
cl various jungle and forest mothers
with their interesting families about
them. Among the many Youngsters
is Rumbeeno, the only giraffe baby
ever born or exhibited in America.
He is only three feet in height His