Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-10-20

used the meat. Those who used the
meat did not consider it as healthy as
the beef in the days of the old time
drovers. Let us now see what the
people thought of the beef shipped
alive to market in cattle cars and
what the stockmen who raised the
beef thought of their losses. The fol.
lowing extracts of congress and food
experts and growers show what they
thought of the matter:
Testimony Of Authorities.
We have first the testimony OF a
man who has made the subject spe
cial study, and is an admitted high
authority-Henry Bergh. He says:
THE people are compelled to con
sumo flesh charged with fever and dis
ease, flesh of sick and dying animals
starved and pounded during journey
OF several days. On arrival they are
al once driven into the slaughter hous.
es, almost frantic from the conse.
quences OF their treatment, burning
with fever, lame and covered with
deep-sunken ulcers, and they are killed
and dressed for the markets. The fet-
id meat is perhaps on the next day
placed upon the tables and restaur.
ants OF the city, and eaten by unsus.
pecting customers. ! have seen car
casses suspended in the abattoirs in
and around New York, awaiting trans.
p0rtation to the market, which eXhib
tied revolving sores and ulcers, some
times foot in diameter!"
says:
With an experience and observa.
ton second to none in this country,
declare that the livestock traffic Is
one long interrupted line of suffering
from the west to the east. If the peo-
pie could but have glimpse of the
scenes which have witnessed, they
would demand of congress a law so
stringent that such horros would be
impossible. Thousands of consumers
of diseased flesh call for protection at
our hands"
Smaiiey's Statement. ...
Eugene " Smalley. OF ST. Paul.
Mimi. employed as an expert in con-
nection with government researches.
reported in May, 1855, as follows: .
ut is evident that the only import
ant practicable Improvement in the
beef transportation system lies in the
direction Of shipping the carcass In.
stead of the live animal, thus saving
the expense of hauling the waste ma.
terial in the street, and bringing the
neat to consumers in as good D. con.
ditiOn as when the creature is driven
from the range. A noteworthy begin
ming has been made. This enterprise
has got beyond the experimental
stage, and is evidently destined for
further development"
In the latter seventies or the early
eighties. The refrigerator car was in
vented, which was followed by the
cold storage house and abattoir. Then
beef was slaughtered in Chicago and
the meat shipped east with success.
1t now occurred to many that this
process could be done on the range.
1t will be seen from the foregoiu.
that the slaughtering OF cat.
lie on the range was far from a vision.
airy scene of De Mores, but that it was
being considered all over the west
In fact, as soon as the refrigerator car
and cold storage came into use, the
shipping of beef from range to table
had been advocated and slaughter
house had been erected at Victoria,
also at Columbus, Texas. This being
so why not have the same in our
great northwest, just opened to the
ranchmen, many were asking:
De Mores took the first step.
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