The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-09-17
BUTCHERS OPPOSE
WERSTLE|N
Say it Will be One-Man
Proposition-The Want
New Plant, However.
UP BEFORE THE
I T COUNCIL
Grand Forks Cannot Build a
Municipal Plant AL
though Needed.
UP BEFORE THE
I T COUNCIL

Grand Forks butchers favor a sani-
tary slaughter house and believe the
time is ripe for such a plant. but with
n or two exceptions they will OPP
pose the proposition of Peter F.
Werstlein, who says that he will erect
a modern plant provided the city
council will extend the sewer system
to the location selected for the plant
and grant free water for such time as
1t would take to determine whether
the plant would be self-supporting.
The proposition will come up for
consideration by the city council at a
special meeting tomorrow night, when
every butcher in town is expected to be
on hand to express his opinions in the
matter.
1t is not unexpected that propon
ents of a stock company proposition
will also be on hand to see forth their
plan and ask the city what can be
done for them.
Dealers Heard From.
We want to have a modern slaugh-
ter house for the use of the butchers
of the city. but we do not want to
have it owned and operated by one
particular butcher who would have
every opportunity in the world to
stick it into the rest of u.s." explained
one meat dealer this morning.
Another said:
Yes, we need a new Strengthening
plant, but I think it should be owned
by a private concern and not by one
particular butcher. If the city wants
to do the right thing let it take hold
of a proposition that will be as fair
to n as another. The Werstlein
proposition does not look good to me-"
From a third butcher:
I nloncfoy ~ xl,& --..--
not erect a plant as its hands are tied
in the matter. If it could the whole
! question would he solved at the out
set. However, | think 1t will be man.
lfestly unfair for the city to take up
the Wrestlein venture which is a one
man proposition pure and simple and
will not go with the butchers of the
town in general"
For n benefit of the butchers who
are of the opinion hat the city should
erect a plant for their use the follow
Ing is quoted from an opinion of City
Attorney Wnieman given when the
slaughter house proposition was up to
the city council before:
|, There is no question whatsoever
but that in order to provide for the
proper inspection of meats and to pre-
vent the sale of diseased meats to the
citizens of the city. it is essential and
necessary that a municipal slaughter
house be erected. and in my opinion,
the only way that this can be accom-
plished is to cur an act of the leg
%islature expressly authorizing the city
so to do.
Il am and always have been in favor
of municipal ownership of all public
service utilities. for l believe that the
public are entitled to a share Of the
profits made by these corporations.
ut may be that 1 am mistaken in
my Interpretation Of the law. 1 hope
l am. for I am strongly in favor Of
the immediate erection of such an in
stitution, but not finding any provision
of the law. either express or implied,
giving such power to the city. have
been governed by the rule that any
fair or seasonable doubt concerning
the existence of the power is resolved
against the corporation"