El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-05-19
CAMERON STOCK
PENS WILL NOT
Be MOVED
Council Agrees They Are
Not a Nuisance; Sweeney
Represents Company.

You can keep your stockyards there
as long as you like so far as we ars
concerned" said mayor W. F. Robin
son to J. c. Cameron Wednesday af-
ternoon. and then alderman Clayton
corrected him, saying: "As long as
they are kept in . sanitary condition"
These statements followed the adoption
by the city council of a motion made
by alderman Hewitt that the stock
yards be permitted to remain.
s. P. Weisiger. representing the
signers of a petition to abolish the
stockyards, addressed the council.
These yards are a menace to the
health Of the pOpulace; they are dis
ease breeders in that they will cause
the congregation Of flies and tend TO
distribute diyease and Infection" he
said. He contended that If dairies were
compelled to remove outside the city
limits then the stockyards should not
be permitted inside.
Sweeney for Defendant.
Former mayor Jos. U. Sweeney, who
represented Cameron, contended that
some of the signers to the petition
lived as far away as FL Paso street.
which is more than a mile distant
council should not force this stock
yard out of the city when others were
permitted to remain inside. Further.
he said that the city charter required
that all dairies be outside the city linn
It's and that some Of the people who
signed the petition had no desire to
have these yards moved, il being a very
easy thing to get American citizens
to sign any kind of a petition. Why"
he said. eff you were to go out with a
petition to have this city hall removed
beca use It was in the way. or for some
other reason. you could get 1000 sig
natures in 90 minutes. Fort Worth.
Dallas. Kansas City and Chicago have
stockyards within their city limits, but
require the dairies to move out be-
cause there is danger that cows may
get typhoid fever No one ever heard
of stockyards creating typhoid fever
At the time the smelter was built there
was a great howl made because it was
contended that the arsenic might prove
dangerous to the city's health.
or Edge of Eternity.
"These stockpans are virtually on
the edge of eternity; they are on the
border between the United States and
Mexico. If you drive out the stock
pens and smelters and factories, the
Mexicans living down in that section
would starve to death
"The T. P. stockyards are right in
their midst. but they do not protest
against them
.Mr. Cameron received p permit from
this council and went down ana eN-
pended $4,000 or $4,000, and now
these people want you to turn him
out"
SDeu5s eS0O a Day,
CLAYTON then asked: ''Mr. Cameron.
how much money do you expend?' and
Cameron replied 81 eXpend between
$500 and $500 day for food and labor
I estimate that from so to 100 stock
men come to FL Paso each day from
January to July and spend on an av-
erage SO to SIS per day Yesterday
one man who came here from Mex
leo received $4,000 from me for cattle
and deposited it in the bank. Another,
who had never left any money in the
banks here before got $4,000. and he
left all but $4,000 in the bank here.
Until 1908 the value Of Mexican
steer was not known in the eastern
markets Then I shipped 10000 head
during that year and I have been in
creasing the number each year: yes
terday I shipped 1000 head to Montana
for fattening before sending them to
the Chicago market"
Threats Are Made.
Then iBiumenthal asked: WAS any
protest ever made TO you in Derson?"
mo. they have not" said Cameron.
"Have there been any efforts to buy
you out or any threats made?" asked
Blumenthal
mo sir" replied Cameron. though
a threat was made that they would
burn down my warehouse and 1 told