Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-02-12

Ino poultry, anu explain MS methods
OF business but at the same time he
does 1t with manner which Is in.
tended to impress one with the idea
of what man can do in the state,
and not to impress one with the
idea Of what he himself has done
mere. He is man who is chuck-full
Of North Dakota, and especially of
Wilton Is he proud. He is an ener-
getlc fellow. clear, open and frank,
with a quick decision and as quick
action. One OF his friends said of
him that he would drive all day to
get a fat hog If he saw it. He is
just as persistent in other matters as
In this and this accounts for the pc.
sitton he holds in this community.
And It also accounts for his success,
when we remark that back of this
persistence there Is judgment.
At the present tim in one of the
storage rooms adjoining his large ice
house Schmid has more than fifty
dressed beeves, the carcarcasses av.
eraging about five hundred pounds.
or a total of $4,000 pounds Of beef In
one room for local use. In anothe:
room there are more than twenty-five
dressed calves ready to be divided
and served out over the counter to
customers. In the same room with
the calves We find four thousand
three hundred pounds "f fresh pork,
besides much dresse poultry. The
question is almost called forth az to
What he can do with all th,s meat in
a town the size Of Wilton, but that
he sells it is eviderced by the FRESH
ness Of the stock, and the fact that
he has been in the business here :r
some time. \ large country trade
Is dine in his shop, the farmers sell
Ing the live stock :, Mr.. Schmidt and
buying from him the dressed meat.
Many Of the men in the surrounding
country buy quarter of beef or a
half Of hog and haul it home to eat
And Schmidt expresses it too, 1--WE
have been fortunate enough to secure
all country pork, and consequently
do not have to ship in any pork, and
the people know they are getting all
fresh meat"
The shop itself Is well equipped in
the most modern manner. A five
horsepower electric motor has been
installed to drive the meat grinder
the power mixer, the grind stone. and
any other appliances or machinery
such power in an up to
date meat shop. There is a large
Enterprise meat grinder in the shop,
with the capacity of $50 pounds in
twenty minutes and power mixer
with like capacity of one hundred
and fifty pounds.
Back of the shop is the ice house,
and adjoining the ice house is the
beef storage room. To one side of
the ice house is another building for
the keeping of pork and poultry. Ad.
Joining the shop is a smoke house. a
building constructed along purely SCI
entific lines with the construction of
steel and granite.
Aside from operating the meat mar.
ket Mr.. Schmid spends much Of his
time and money buying stock, as ne
Is the only stock buyer between Bis
marck and Washburn. If any man in
the country has any stock to sell he
knows where to go to sell it. Mr..
Schmid's trade as stock buyer ex-
tends over quite large territory.
often taking him to South Dakota and
iowa where some Of his best deals
have been made. Much of the stock
IS bought and sold at once, while
much more Of it is taken to his large
stock farm where it is fed and fat.
ened for the market. While we are
speaking Of this it might be well to
MENTION the large feed barn which
le has in town, located but block or
wo from his meat market. During
he winter months the native cattle