Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-12-04
PACKING COMPANY
A GREAT INDUSTRY
North Tazewell Has An Enter
prise That Means Much to the
County.

Situated at North Tazewell in n few
hundred yards of Tazewell station in
the midst of the finest section of
grazing and farming lands of the
Southwest, the Tazewell Packing
Company have erected plant and
established an enterprise which is hav-
ing salutary influence on business
throughout a wide territory.
After less than year of operation
the plant is fitted throughout with up
to-date machinery, and by frequent
additions, with buildings of every
kind required for the successful prose
cution of the business in all its many
branches.
The capital stock of the company
is at present $125,000, of which about
$4,000 has been called in. The COM
pany is under the management of
John ID. Peery, young man accus-
toned to big business and trained in
business methods, assisted by com
petent clerical force with j. c. Nelson
and Jos. Rosenbaum as secretary and
bookkeeper,-with skilled operatives
in charge of each department., it goes
without saying, if it had not already
been demonstrated that the business
will be profitable to the people in in
terest and the country at large.
Following the same policy that in
duced the management to select the
best location and erect the best style
OF buildings, they have taken pains to
secure the very best and most modern
machinery, for all stages of the mani
fold operations demanded in convert
ing beeves, hogs and sheep into neat
ly tagged portions suitable for the re-
tail market.
DIR. o. j. Houth, the u. S. Govern
ment Inspector, in charge must give
his O. X. to every quarter or loin, of
beef, every shoulder, ham or middling
of pork or bacon,-in fact every pack
age sent to market must have been
pronounced within the rigid require
ments of the government.
Up to date about 1000 beeves, TO-
600 hogs, many sheep and several
thousand turkeys have been slaught-
cred, for which the company is find
ing sale in an ever widening market.
and so much is this in evidence that
MIR. Jno. f. lreson, consulting archi-
tect of the company, is already talk
ing as if the company may soon have
to enlarge its floor space.
The company has a payroll of
eighteen or twenty men of whom sew
eral are skilled foreman, command.
ing good wages. | mention three of
these, Messrs. Conrad, Lauinest and
Geissel, all of whom have served ap-
prenticeships in big establishments
and are accomplished in their several
Everything being up to date, il is
hardly necessary to say that cleanli-
ness is cardinal rule and sanitary
conditions compulsory. So much is
this the case that an outsider expect
ing to find the offensive evidences of
butchery, sees every part of the great
establishment as neat and immaculate
as a good house wife's kitchen, and
nothing is wasted; every scrap of
meat and bone not fit for market finds
its way into the fertilizer watts or the
hair bags.
So far as this establishment Is con-
cerned there has never been n oues-
tion of adverse competition" for
with supply which has been, and will
continue to be less than the demand,
with facilities and conditions equal to
the best there is, no thought of re-
sstrictcd market, so long as equality"
is maintained, and the company pro
poses to spare no effort to make its
product equal to the best.
So far about $4,000 feet of floor
space is occupied, by the many ma
chimes, and diverse operations mot in
clWling. fertilizer plant and stables),
and this will doubtless be supple
mented from time to time as the bust
ness expands, and when we consider
that here is "home market" for the
principal productions of the section,--
a. "home depot of meat supplies for
the great population of the coal fields
and cities of the two Virginias, the
enterprise assumes possibilities that
amply justify the far-sighted and pro-
gressive aspiration of its projectors.