The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-04
EXPLANATIONS ON
CONDEMNED MEATS
City Council Talks Much, but
Gets Nowhere on the
Subject.
TUBERCULIN CATTLE SOLD
VETERINARIAN SAYS SOME MEAT
is GOOD DESPITE THE TEST.

A discussion which ran the ganlut Of
inspecting and slsughtering condemned
cattle and resulted in nothing furnished
DIT or amusement out of the ordinary
at the meeting of the council committees
last night. The talk was before the san
itary committee, but most of the council
men Joined in, opposing the fight of
George W. Meyer TO insist that either all
dairy COWS which react to tuberculin
test be destroyed as whole, or that the
meat placed upon the market. taken from
these carcasses be marked taken from
diseased cattle"
The contention of Mr. Meyer was that
it was not fair for men to go out through
the country and buy condemned cattle
at few cents pound, have them slaugh-
tered and then sell the meat to the public
as coming from healthy animals for Is
cents pound. Collision between these men
ana the city inspectors was practically
charged by Mr.. Meyer. He pointed to
the fact that these men bought the con-
demned cattle and then took their
chances. But, he said, about nine out
suit OF the tuberculin test were passed,
almost as a whole, by the city inspectors.
Not All Diseased.
Mr.. Meyer was checked for a moment
in his attack upon the system in Salt
Lake and elsewhere to allow DR.. J. w.
fireman, city veterinarian, to explain it.
Dr. fireman said that in the cattle which
reacted to tuberculin tests there were
many parts. as rule, which were in no
way harmed by the tuberculosis in the
cattle, and that the meat was good for
human consumption. He gave the coun-
ell a lecture on the parts of an animal
which might become infected and cause
the whole carcass to be destroyed, which
told the council nothing, but confirmed
their opinion that the veterinarian knew
a whole lot of names that they didn' t
know belonged to parts of any animal.
The committee discussed the matters for
more than an hour, but did nothing, and
the ordinance still remains as 1t was.
The council, at special meeting. grant
ed The petition of the Jones Construction
company for an extension of five feet
more into Main street between First
South and Second South, for the fence In
front of the Kearns property, where an
other skyscrapeF is TO be erected
Payrolls amounting to SlS,27236 for the
last half of February were passed.
Warden Arthur Pratt of the state prison
was before the waterworks committee,
and explained how it was that less wa
ter is used now than in 1907.
City Finances Bad.
That the city's finances are in bad con-
!
Improvement work will not be tried this
year was shown last night through the
fact that the finance committee filed six
petitions asking for curbs, grading and
paving, upon which the city's portion
would be about 100000. The petitions
filed were as follows: J. Z. LangfoTd
and others, for curb, grading and gutter
ing X street from First to Third avenues;
c. S. Patterson and others, for curb and
gutter in the district bounded by B street
on the west, Ninth avenue on the north,
n street on the east and South Temple
on the south; Libbie A. Miller and others.
for asphalt paving of f street from South
| Temple TO Second avenue: George Douber
and others, for curb and guttering of
Second avenue from Alta street to West
street, and on Alta street from Second
avenue to Third avenue: T. G. WINNER,
jr., for the paving of S street from South
Temple street to Fourth avenue; the Uni
versity of Utah, for the grading, curbins
and guttering of University street from
First South TO Fourth South streets. The
petitions were filed on recommendation
of the board of estimate and apportion-
ment that the city could not pay its por-
ton of the work.
The public grounds committee will rec
ommend to the council that a pump be
installed at the JORDAN river and First
South street TO relieve the condition of
the residents near there, the pump being
used to pump the water from the street
into the river.