Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1916-03-02
PLANT
COMMITTEE HERE
Visit Jamestown With View Of
Locating Equity Plant.

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advantages Of various cities in this
state desirous of securing the packing
plant to be established by the Ameri-
can Society of Equity of North Da-
kota spent Wednesday in Jam estown,
Wis ted the proposed site at the Da-
kota Meat company stock yards on
the Midland railroad, and heard the
views of the committee of the James
town Commercial club and other cit
liens upon the particular superiority
Of jamestown for the plant. In the
Equity committee are C. J. Lee. VAL
ley City; anthony Walton, Minot; E.
NJ. Casey, Lisbon. The Com
mercial club committee, with whom
they met, included President H. c.
Flint, A. C. Maxwell and d. R. Brock
man. The committees dined togeth-
er at the Gladstone and visit to the
asylum farm was planned.
The site at jamestown shown the
Equity visitors was considered an
excellent one for packing plant and
stock yards, centrally located with
fine shipping facilities. water, ETC.,
and accessible to all parts of the
state.
The Equity committee reports
eleven North Dakota cities to be con-
sidered by them and all will have
been visited within a few days.
Each city will also submit a brief ar
guing it's special inducements for
the selection. The choice will not be
made until after May /, and then
work will be commenced upon the
plant which should be in operation
by the fall of 1917. The Equity peo-
pie are going carefully into the mat
ter and do not wish to make any
blunders. To start with, they will
handle hogs only, it was stated, and
work up a business in that line. Cat
tie may be taken on later. Among
the points considered are transporta-
ton and railroad facilities, the suit
ability of grounds, the supply of hogs
land attle at hand and certainty Of a
continuous supply and also many
other features.
The cooperative packing plant is
but one of the cooperative projects
of the society, whose asserted OBJ
| ject is to give to the farmer-producer
a larger and more fair profit upon his
product. They say that Carl Vroo-
man, assistant secretary of agricul-
ture, finds from authoritative inves-
tigation that farmers should receive
at least 12h cents pound instead
of 5 cents for their hogs without the
consumer paying any more for his
meat upon the table than at present.
The same spread they believe can be
saved to the farmer and hence to the
agricultural states by cooperation
in other fields.
Some of tho Requirements for Estab-
lishment of Packing Plant.
Land for plant and yards, ETC.,
about 200 acres with good drainage,
and what price same will be turned
over to the organization.
| Water mains to plant, approximate
cost of laying mains and price to be
charged for water.
| Electric line to plant and price of
current.
Trackage to plant and what
charge, if any, in levying same and
connecting with all railroads enter
ing city.
Switching charges, if any, and how
much If a charge is made.
| About how much stock will your
city and territory to city subscribe
towards the establishment of pack
ing plant If located in your city.
About how much stock will your
city and territory to the city sub
scribe towards the esta ablishing Of a
packing plant If not located in your
city.
What Equity Propose to Do in Build
ing Packing Plant.
Proposed plant to cost 100000,
same to be built as soon after suffi-
cient stock is subscribed to warrant
the commencement of same, the
plant to be organized on strictly CO.
operative principles for the benefit
of both producer and consumer and
for the benefit of the whole state,
and to assist and promote diversified
farming in the state.
Among the cities seeking the plant
are jamestown, Dickinson, Mandan,
Bismarck, Valley City, New Rock
ford, Minot, Williston, Grand Forks,
Fargo, Wahpeton and Darlington.
Munitions Ship Damaged.