El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-11
JULREZ MEAT
CANNOT ENTER
THIS MARKET
Cattle Raisers' Associations
Put Kink in Free Trade"
Importation Over Border.
JUAREZINSPECTION NO
LONGER RECOGNIZED

- FFORTs on the part Of some Ell
Pasoans to cut the cost Of liv-
IL ina for a part Of the local popu-
lation and at the same time make some
money for themselves, have been
blocked. temporarily at least by the
action of the bureau of animal indus
+rv These men were importing fresh
meat from Juarez, and selling it to
+bo email store keepers in the lower
,or+ o4 town at three cents TO five
cents below the ruling local market
rates for home packed ana nome
eIsUerb tered stuff. The bureau OF AMI
SCI SCI siI5ustrv ruled that this meat was
Iot s116iected to competent inspection
in Juarez, and consequently refused 10
mass the meat in wholesale quanuUles-
Mo OnIv meat allowed 20 como IN
49, IL quantity of less than five
nOrnds in any one importation, this
5U1oI111t being deemed sufficient for
fba exclusive personal use OF the con-
s{erneeT under the terms OF regulation
20 order 2O2, of the bureau. OF
couTse This ruling breaks up the gen
eTsI trade and the small store keepers
cannot get their cheap meat from
Juarez any more.
Men who had been engaged in sup
plving the small stores until the bars
were put up have maintained IhaC the
inspection in Juarez recently has been
as GOOD as it has been any time during
the last five years, the inspector dur
ing all this time until very recently
being ROmulO EsCOboSa- inspector Es-
cobOsa is named in the Department.
January official list (the latesD of
approved veterinarians and official
meat inspectors. The importers nave
been asking why the United states gov
eminent bars meat of his inspection
~ At
fore. But it is now known that Es-
cabOsa's name has been removed from
the approved list within the last few
weeks
The Tariff Question.
There is quite lite story connected
with this matter. Under the new tariff
act, fresh meat is supposed to come in
duty free, provided it complies with
of agriculture imposed upon domestic
and imported food products. Large
quantities are required to be duly GER
titled by an approved inspector; small
quantities for personal use, If whole,
some, may be imported without formal
certificate.
Multiplying the aFree List.1
The removal of the duty stimulated
the wholesale impOrtations from Juarez
in fact, it was only the free list that
made the trade possible The i'm
porters sold the Juarez meat to
the small store keepers at a marked
prices. The importers, who have now
been stopped from continuing their
trade because of the ruling of the bu-
reau OF animal industry that the meat
imported was not properly inspected,
maintain that the American packers
and meat slaUghterers may have had
something to do with urging the bureau
to its present action. The net effect of
the action of the bureau, according to
the men who sought to build Up a local
import trade in meats is to- nullify
any benefit which the removal Of the
duty by the new tariff might have con-
ferred upon the poorer classes in this
city, by cutting down their meat bills
by Is to 50 percent
An @Insides View.
Local stOckmen on the inside" Of the
affair declare that it was not FL Paso
meat dealers or American packers who
blocked the game, but members Of the
Panhandle and Southwestern and the
Texas Cattle Raisers' associations, both
Of which organizations have been
the wholesale expectation Of
cattle by the rebels. This fight began
when Villas agents commenced selling
big lots Of cattle on the hOof from the
Terrazzas ranches in chihuahua to
cutting down the price of Texas and
New Mexico cattle and for a time
threatened to demOralize the business
Of cattle raisers on this side Of the
SO serious did the problem become
for the rebels were able and willing
to sell their stock, which cost them |
nothing, at absurdly low prices-that |
the cattlemen'S associations prepared /
to bar the importatiOns. Their attor- /
neys, It is said, watched every indivjd- |
ual shipment through Juarez closely /
and whenever the least opportunity I
arose to throw obstacles in the path of /
the rebel selling agents they took ad- /
Of it Several shipments were [
held up in FL Paso on legal TECHNICAL /
ties.
Junrez Inspection Below Par.
In casting about for other means to !
embarrass the insurgent trust bust !
srs" employees Of both stockmen's as /
sociations thought Of the slaughtered :
beef that was being imported from
Juarez and sold in FL Paso. They went {
after inspector EscObosa's scalo"
and his name was removed six or eight /
weeks ago from the list of meat inspec-
tors recognized by the bureau of ami
nal industry. Escobosa's inspection OF /
meat slaughtered in Juarez was not
thorough enough to comply with the
government standard regulating the /
Iuality Of imported meats, it was
Compared With Local Standards.
Agents Of the bureau Of animal in
1ustry here say that even though the (
beef from JuareZ was slaughtered IN
slaughter houses on this side, this was
not sufficient to secure the bureaus
stamp Of approval The local meat is
inspected only by city inspectors, and |
he test prescribed by the city is not
Is rigid as that imposed by the gov |
srnment on foreign meat.
Not enough meat to affect the local
retail or wholesale market to any ex- |
-ent had been imported from Juarez /
before EscObOsa's removal put a stop |
20 the Importation game altogether. /
say Ell Paso meat men. Some of the !
smaller shops supplying the American /
trade had begun to feel worried bv /
reason OF the Juarez competition, but /
lad taken no steps to stop the impor-
-ation, although the matter was being /