El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-11-16
'I5ELPAS0 TOBE
M0RRISVILLE" =?
Opposition to Chicago Com
pany Insists that It Is;
Want Open Market.

1 are gathered for shipment TO the MOA
ris packing houses in Oklahoma CITY,
Kansas City and Chicago, or Is II 10
| remain FL Paso and be built up by
means Of the application of the open
market principle, as a rival to Okla
| homa City, Kansas City and chicago DIS
| a packing house center?
Must Act Quickly.
This is the question now before the
people of Ell Paso, whether interested
/ in the cattle business or not They
| must decide quickly and act quickly,
| because the Morris people are lettlnS
| no grass grow under their rect IN
the way of securing monopoly OF the
! stockyards business of this great cat
| tie shipping point, thereby making II
| hard, if not impossible, for anyone, no
| matter how mucn money he may nave,
! to build packing house in or near
| this city
VIII Morris Build Packing Housed
Friends Of the Morris interests are
/ actively circulating vague rumors that
! that concern will erect a packing house
/ in Ell Paso, even if they do get con-
/ troll of the stockyards interests. That
/ Morris & Co. will build packing house
\ in or near Ell Paso, or have any inten-
| ton Of so doing, is not believed by
| those who are striving for the main
| tenance of the open market in FL Paso.
Packing houses cannot be built on
| "shOestrings" They require the in
I vestment of large capital. So far as
I Morris & Co. are concerned they now
have all the packing house room, in
Oklahoma Kansas City and Chicago,
/ they will require for many years to
| come 1t is believed they simply want
4 control of the FL PasO market to ena-
/ Bile them to buy cattle at their own
| prices to be slaughtered in their pack
| ing houses already erected.
What Packing Houses Mean.
Cattlemen already know, and in or
der that the general public may have
information upon the subject, let it be
stated that with packing house in FL
| Paso, at the present prices of cattle
| on the hOOf or of carcass beef in the
Oklahoma City market every beef
"critter" which now passes through FL
Paso would be worth approximately Sc
per mead more to FL PasO than il now
is, even though we would be compelled
to seek our beef market in the east.
To illustrate: The freight on an ami
nal weighing 1000 pounds. Ell Paso to
Oklahoma City. at the present rate is
$3.50. The same animal, slaughtered in
Ell Paso, would yiel0 $50 pounds of
carcass beef, which does not take a
higher freight rate than beef on the
hoof, and so far as that is concerned,
to some points in the east it is carried
at lower rate. The freight on the
carcass viii be $2,12, or a saving on
that particular animal Of S1.68 in
freight alone. In addition to this,
mere IS shTlnkaSe on live animals,
caused by worry, bruises and the
natural abuses which cannot be avoid
ed IN shipping by freight, of five per-
cent, while there is no shrinkage on
dressed beef.
Great Saving for CaftIemen.
Figuring the beef at its lowest mar
ket price Of eight cents per pound,
/ mere would be a saving Of 81 on that
alone, which, with the saving OF
IIelghts would make a total of $3.50 on
every 1O00 1frra
shipped out of Ell Paso. Besides. with
a packing house there will be saving
Oh all OF the byprOducts, which can be
manufactured from the Offal, the prof
this calculation.
Packing houses will be financed for
FL Paso, If the open market is main
tanned, and if Morris & Co, with great
packing mouse interests in other cities.
are not permitted to dominate the
That Exclusive Franchise.
ne representatives of Morris & Co.
uHuouDIeuIy VIII say that they are not
ASKING Tor an exclusive franchise. AS
matter OF fact, they have not vet
asked for franchise of auy kind Tbe
city government may say that if viii
IeIuse an exclusive franchise shouId
one be asked, and that it will insist
mat IN no exclusive franchise be granted
Morris & Co. are going ahead with
the construction of their yards within
the city limits in a key position and
win contracts with the railroads, if
thelr attorneys written statement can
be taken al its face value which will
give them exclusive control Of +ba
stockyards industry of Ell Paso, and
make competition impossible.
Should Prevent 1t.
The city government cant tal-a
refuge behind the statement that II aid
NOT authorlze Norris & Co. to do this
The city government has it in its
power to prevent the. establisbpoa1+ -
a monopoltsttc stOckyards by Morris q
Co, or by any other concern. ana nv
failure to exercise that power to ali
tntents and purposes, give their fuII
1ree endorsement to Morris &, Co and
sense at least, by the cattlemen of the
southwest for any bad times which
may ran upon them as a result of mo-
nopolistic control by Morris & Co.
Should Define 1t Now.
The city government may saw that
up TO this time stockyards have mt
been specifically defined as nuisancee
and that therefore, the city government
has no right to say to Morris Co. thar
II shall not locate its yards at anv
point in the city where it sees fit 70
do so. But few years ago the CITY
council did declare 0airies to he mi
sances and ordered them removed
outside the city limits Many cornDefeT,t
lawyers say that the ordinance is broad
enough to include stockyards, even
though they were not specifically men
toned in it. To say that stockvards
are not in the same category win
diaries as nuisances would be a mere
bubble.
They Are Nuisances.
With their smells, dead animals
bawling Of cattle at night and the driy,.
ing of cattle through the city streets
from one yard to another, oftentimes
done to facilitate loading without the
payment of switching charges, would
clearly bring them under the head of
nuisances, dangerous to health and de-
tructive of comfort, and if they are
not now so defined it Will be but a short
time when the citizens will demand thar
they be so defined
The time to make the definition is
now. To do it later after Morris & Co.
or any other concern, has invested from
$3.50 to $4,000 in yards, would not
be a crime, but it would be a mistake
which those who made it would regret.
Open Market Big Question.
But after all the great big question
is the question of the open market and
its preservation. 1t is not believed bv.
those on this side of the controversy
that Morris & Co. have any desire or
intent to preserve the open market.
notwith standing the protestations of
Mr.. Tapee, the personal representative