El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-11-06
HIGHT IS MADE
ON ST0CKYARD5
Local Cattlemen Oppose the
Union Yards at Special
Session of Council.

I AAAebNAC bg CdlllGIutu ana LutlI IC pL GoOiL-
EtatlVes Thursday afternoon at the spec
| lal session of the city council. 1t was
neId Tor the purpose of hearing pro-
tests against an ordinance filed october
| ~, by Thomas Rudy, seeking to re-
Slrain stockyardS from being built IN
/ the city limits of FL PasO.
This ordinance is styled: ITO fur
! lner define and suppress nuisanceS IN
/ the city of Ell PasO and within five
| miles of the city limits" If passed
! would prevent Morris & company, Of
/ chicago, from building their stockyards
! on the As acres of ground they have
! acquired in the Cotton addition. It
J would compel this company to abandon
! tne idea of opening a big cattle ship
| ping business in this city, according to
| their attorneys, by reason of the fact
| that they would be unable to acquire
4 land five miles outside Of the city limits
for this purpose.
| Charges Are Made.
| The Morris company and its asso-
/ crates are bitterly fighting the passage
/ OF this ordinance. Thomas Rudy, who
! introduced the ordinance and his assO-
GATES, including John T Cameron and
oLher cattlemen, allege that the entry
| OF the Morris company into Ell PaSO
will result in their getting a monopoly
on the cattle business and will drive
out all Independent catUlemen. While
Iestlfylng Cameron made charges
against c. NJ. Newman in Connection
with the purchase of the 80 acres in the
cotton addition. Newman denied the
charges before the council and it is
claimed that the lie was passed be-
tween the two men.
John l. Dyer, representing the Ell
Paso Union StOckyards company, said
Lnat the ordinance was introduced by
L. X Rud for the purpose of prevent
ing his company from building their
S5.ockyards on the As acres of land they
nave acquired in the Cotton addition
If the ordinance is passed we will
De unable to build the StOCkyards which
are contemplated" Mr.. Dyer said. '"The
Ilrm intends expanding $25O,OOO for
IheSe yards. If they are not built it
VIII be step backward in the upbuild-
ing and developing of Ell Paso and the
surrounding country"
"Beef Trust Behind IT,
Capt W. B. Brack, representing
Messrs. Rudy and Cameron and their
associates who are protesting against
me ordnance, charged that if the Nor
us Packlng company was allowed to
establish its stOckyards here it would
mean the death kneu to the open cattle
market and would give the beef trust
control of the southwestern market
throughout the hearing there We-R
clashes between attorneys, witnesses
and those interested in the hearing.
In his address to council before the
examining of witnesses Capt Brack
said: Thirty acres will not make q
1000 acres in Chicago and something
like 1900 acres in Kansas City The
Morris company does not build up the
community in which it has interests
Neither does it build up a trade. The
beef trust let the independent stock
yards build up the country and the
business, and then they come in and
crush out all opposition, gaining a
monopoly. The corporation has a
monopoly on As percent of the cattle
industry Of the United States and it
wants more. It has crushed out oppo-
sitton in the east and is now entering
Texas and New Mexico and to the coast
the finest cattle country in the world.
To Pacify PopIe.
1.-THE motive of the Morris Packing
company is, I believe, to pacify the peo-
pie for few months by buying 80 acres
OF land, and eventually to build up an
Independent little city with its own
government police force and taxation,
completely governed by the corporation.
We have seen what it has done in
chicago and Kansas City. VIII we al
low 1t to crush Ell PasO. which is des-
tined to become an even greater cattle
center than Chicago. All that We ask
is that the council set aside a district
for everyone to use for stockyards.
butcheries and kindred business. If
this is done the Morris Packing com
pany cannot get monopoly and cannot
live here. because the company never
Why should they fight US in our re-
quest? This is the fourth time the Nor
ris company has fought individual en-
terprises in this city"
Thomas p. Rudy, who introduced the
ordinance. was questioned. He said
that he has been in the stockyards bust
ness for 20 years He testified that he
was in the stOckyard business in Kan
sas City and driven out because the
Morris company IS months ago
eliminated the Independents by securing
a monopoly on the driveways. This has
been protested, the witness said. but ii
will take five years to secure a decision.
He said the Norris company also Sc
! cured a monopoly in Chicago and Okla
| hOma.
Rudy Testifies.
Mr.. Rudy, on being cross examined
by Mr.. Dyer, said that it was not his
purpose TO keep the Morris company
out but to prevent them from securing
monopoly of the cattle business of
the southwest. The witness said that
| 20 years ago there were so or so open
| buyers and that today there are but two
or three.
He said it was not his intention nor
| the. people he is associated with. to
| drive out competition but that the Nor
| ris company can only exist where they
| can secure a monopoly.
John 7. Cameron was the last witness
examined. He said that he was fight
| ing for the interest of the city and the
1 cattlemen.. Mr.. Cameron testified that
1 during the past 80 days his company
\ has handled 2125 carloads of stock from
| Ell PasO and the Morris company some
! thing like SO cars. In 1913 Mr.. Cameron
/ said his firm handled SI3,OOO.OO worth
! of cattle from Ell Paso and the Morris
! company did not handle more than five
| percent of the business. q offered the
I Norris company $50 900 for their wards
| and they offered me $4,000 for mine" he
! said. Morris & company will not come
| here II my friends and L can keep them
! out and we are going to keep them
( out"
The meeting adjourned until 7:3O this
! evening.