Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-08-25
hN99RX h99ReX FOR WAUSAIpS PACKING Plant
What the Proposed Packing Plant Will Do
For WauSau

| rive from the establishing of this en-
terprise are obvious. Wausau is rap
idly becoming manufacturing center
and any addition to its manufacture
| ing industries means the employment
| of more labor. With 8. complement
of at least 100 laborers, many of them
receiving high wages, the pay roll
will amount to a good figure, all of
which will go to enrich the field of
labor. Our merchants will profit by
increased trade, not only from this
source, but because farmers within a
radius of twenty miles or more who
now ship from nearby stations, will
bring their stock to this city, and
consequently, the influx Of trade will
be increased considerably, as likewise
from those that come to buy the pro-
ducts of the plant Within very
short time we will daily see people on
our street, who probably never visited
us before, and they will all have the
price of their sales with which to
make purchases of goods from he
merchants. Under these circum-
stances the enterprise should not oaly
have the full merit of the most en-
thuslastic support of the merchants,
but they should be ready to further
give it their support by the purchase
of stock and aid in its establishment
as participating stockholders.
AS an illustration of what a plant
of this character can accomplish,
reference need only to be made to
the CO. operative packing plant at La
Crosse, the cnly enc OF its kind at
the present time. and in operation
since last June, where the support
given has been of such a character as
to lead to the killing at present of
about 300 hogs, so to Is head of cattle,
100 sheep and 100 calves per week,
without experiencing any difficulty in
disposing of the product. All of this
stock comes from within radius of
about fifty miles from Lacrosse, the
greater part being delivered by the
growers direct, while the products
are sold to dealers living within a.
radius of $50 miles from the city.
On all the stock thus delivered by
the growers, expenses such as men,
toned in this article and comprising
dealers, commission men, freight
charges, yardage and feeding are
avoided, and the prices paid to
the growers include all these items,
certainly great gain to the farmer
in the larger amount OF money re-
ceived.
The cooperative law of our state
limits the amount of stock any one
person may carry to ten shares, of a
total value of 100000, the dividend
that can be paid on the above to 6 per
cent, yet it aids the stakeholder by
making this stock nom n-assessable.
I 1t must not be forgotten that stock
feeding is a growing industry and is
highly developed in the vicinity of
the large packing plants where land
is worth $4,000 per acre, and exper-
fenced farmers and feeders will well
come this opanrtunity OF coming into
this CO ) where more natural for
age lows than anywhere else, and
take advantage of the cut over, medi-
um priced lands to develop this in
dustry, and our home farmers will
benefit by these lessons and keep and
prepare stock properly for market.
The general benefits accruing to
our citizens by reduced meat prices
and the increase of business TO all our
merchants, and better prices TO farm
ers, should be an incentive for all to
join in a unified slogan reading,
"WORK FOR WAUSAU'S PACK
ING PLANT"