The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-01-30
SANITATION IS KEYNOTE
J. R. Daily Packing Plant
on West Front Street
Nearly Complete.

More than $4,000. the greater part
of which is devoted to insuring SAM
tation. Is being expended by j. r..
Daily in the, construction OF his new
meat packing plant on West Front
street. The work of construction
which is now nearing completion, is
under the supervision of John e. Car
len, head carpenter and architect.
Absolute proof against the ,inroads of
germs is the point uppermcst In the
plans of the structure. The walls OF
all the rooms are built of concrete
mortar with finish of white keen
cement, giving marble like surface
capable Of withstanding repeated
washngs with the hose Corners,
cracks, creases. holdings and other
dirt catchers are eliminated as much
Jas possible.
First Floor.
On the first floor of the building are
the retail and wholesale salesrooms
office and sausage kitchen. A part
Fof the first floor has been partitioned
off and will be rented out as store
room until the growth of business
warrants it's incorporation with the
rest of the plant. All of the furniture
and machinery of the plant will be
new. Back of the counter in the re-
tail room a large refrigerato tor cabinet
is being installed. This is fitted with
two rows of meat hooks and marble
shelf and is of sufficient size to con-
tain the supply of meat used in the
daily retail transactions. One corner
of the room is partitioned off with
plate glass for the office and in the
basement beneath is a storage room
for the office supplies.
Cork and Concrete.
Back of the retail salesroom is a
large refrigerator called the beef room.
This Is insulated with two layers of
cork and concrete. The two doors
leading into it. one Of which auto
matically covers the opening for an
over head track, cost about $780, The
finish of all the refrigerating rooms is
of white keen cement like that with
which the rest Of the building is fin
ished. In these rooms even the posts
are insulated with cork and cement in
order that any heat coming through
them by induction may not be allowed
to radiate. ..r
To the rear of the beef room is the
sausage kitchen and smoke room.
The remainder of the first floor is
given over to the wholesale salesroom.
On the second floor is a dressing room
for the employees together with another
smoke room and a large storage room.
In the Basement.
In the basement is the ammonia re-
frigerating plant, freezing room, pick
ling room. storage room for butter,
lard and eggs. hot water heating
storage room. The freezing room is
within the picking room. The tenn
perature of the pifkling room will be
kept at about SO degrees Fahrenheit,
while that Of the freezing room will
range between 20 and "a degrees. The
door of the freezer weighs 500 pounds
and cost $95. 1t is said that there is
absolutely no loss of refrigeration
through such a door. Chief Engineer
E. p. Hewitt of the Armstrong Machine
company of Spokane, who is installing
the refrigerating system, stated yes
terday that the construction of the
rooms was the best he had ever seen.
The storage room for the butter, lard
and eggs will be kept at a temperature
just above the freezing point.
Other features of the plant are the
two-ton freight elevator and the three
story smoke house. The fireplace for
the latter Is in the basement with
smoke houses on each of the other two
floors. The chicken houses are at
the back end of the abscment
Mr.. Daily plans to convert the stor-
age room in the basement into picklinE
and freezing rooms as the growth of
the business requires.