The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-13
GOV. SPRY COULD
MAKE A BIC HIT
II He We're to Look Diligently
Into Stories About Dis
eased Meat.
TUBBRCULAR COWS 60 on
BUTCHERS BLOCKS HERE
Horse Flesh and Bad Meat De-
Yelop Into Fifty-Cents.a-
Pound Trout.
By MAC.

BY MAC.
II Governor Spry wishes to render
distinguished service to the people of
Salt Lake and few of the surrounding
counties, he will order an investigation
Of the question of diseased meat.
Government inspectors havo been
eondemning cattle that nave been pur.
chased by butchers, placed on tbeir
blocks and sold for firstclass beef. Or
nave worked off this tubercular meal
into sausage and other bv-products of
the slaughter houses aud butchershops
The farmers have been robbed To q
fragile. And from the secrecy main
tanned IN certain official quarters there
Is grave suspicion that there has been
collusion, though so far as is now :
known there is only circumstantial eyi-
dence pointing this way. Almost herds
have been condemned only TO be, in 2
class beef, \ considerable amount OF
this beef reached some of the Sail
Lake butchers, and large amount of
! it went to Bingham and Murray
Maybe it was good for food, but it
is remarkably strange that the gov
ernment should condemn cattle as being
infected with tuberculosis and then,
this beef be worked 10 10 slaughfer
houses and onto the market as whole
some,
The proprietor OF the most promi-
nent retail meat market in Salt Lake
City has admitted that some Of the
beef that he purchased at one and a
half cents pound was made into
bologna.
Maybe | am wrong about it, but l
-,
oo bologna, Even if it. does go into Il
picking vat aud is subjected to a So
called chemical purifying process.
There is going to be a whole lot sand
about this meat scandal before VeIr
long, aud no man better than the gov
crDor can take the matter IN hand. pro
iect the farmer from the over.Eealous
inspectors. and when once an animal Is
condemned, see to il that all The pro
visions of the law pertaining TO such
things shall be complied with TO the
letter There have been some outr3ees
committed and those who are guilty
should be brought TO punishment aud the
patrons of tho meat markets guaran-
teed that their butcher docs not buy
nor sell officially condemned meat Of
any kind.
Some Of this meat--in fact, n large
quantity of ii. according To the records
and TO the statements NJ health Off.
cials--was bought by fish raIsers for
food for trout.
Investigation has disclosed The fact
that tbe principal food for trout that
sells in the market for soc a pound.
was purchased at from one TO two aud
onc-half cents per pound. And some
over.Gealous ''hurrv 10 get rich trout
raisers have been killing broken down
old horses aud cooking the flesh TO
feed their fish.
Healthy horse flesh is rePutcdly not
unwholesomec, and | have heard mcg
properly cooked, Yet one naturally re
volts at the idea of old Darby slain
and served TO the fish TO be eaten.
much less over the block as they do IN
countries OF the old world
Horse flesh may be good for fish, hui
il Will be difficult TO convince anyone
that tubercular beef is good for any.
thing. Aud the trout raiser who resorts
to the use of such meat has the su
premest gall TO place the product Of
such feeding on the market at soc PEE
pound. when a fine black bass. tish
that is dainty chooser of the things
no eats, is sold for SOC pound.
Speaking of this thing TO a friend
him that trout which are caught IN the
mountain streams, feed on flies aud
other insects, and that even tubercu-
lar meat, when cooked, Is less likely
to communicate disease than do in
sects that furnish the food for the
trout In those streams
Suppose the trout IN bis native ele-
mont does live upon t!les. What IS
there about fly that is uuwholesome!
It is admitted that If d common house
fly is served To YOU by your Scapdl-
hooviau cook. unplucked and undrawn,
that is most disagreeable morsel- But
scieutists say f*the poison OF the fly
is in the eye" And if this is so aud
it were properly prepared for human
food, ms are the beasts of the teld apc
fowls Of the aiT there might be no OBJ
lection TO il being served with our din
ners,
Suppose man were able to swallow
Q buil-froc or Chinese pheasant or i
iuicy spring fly undresscd and undrawn,
ism I there great likelihood that Que
stomach would revolt as Nlolentiy
against such dainries as these as toe
stomach does against the desPlsed m
sect which the womau in the back
room of your house sometimes persists
in serving with your meals!
1t all depends in the preparation oi
our food.
l'll make my choice OF the tiF-le'
-rout in the running brook TO is tu
beef or the spawned morse
led relative in the pools of the "catcb
'em alive trout raiser,
Anyhow, all insects are, not poison
,us nor unwhoIesome, and there IS
yery stroug probability that the meou
II the trout in the native streams
loesu t comprise the revolving. ana ln'
lioestible insect that is sometimes I'M
served Mt the boarding
louses and fashionable cafes.
The entire question of the tuhsrcu'
in test and The coudemnipg and ois'
,osal of animals, whether over the