The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-08
PACKING HOUSE
PLANS ASSUMING
DEFINITE FORM
Million Dollar Project Has
Backing Of C. Of C. and No
Trouble Anticipated in Rails
inq Money.

The promoters of the million dollar
Memphis packing house project expect
to he able ito announce yithin 2 few
days that they have secured the char-
ter fer the large plant.
The project has the Endorsement oil
the Chamber of Commerce, and a num-
Der of Memphis biggest business men
are directly interested. They are WORK
lAoks now as If Memphis is TO nave
AZ thoroughly modern packing house
a plant financed for $1,000 600.
The need in this section OF loca!
packing house is so widely felt and
generally acknowledged by business
men that there is little need OF dis
cussion for the benefit of the present
ambitious project, but the average citi-
zen does not realize the extent to
which the raising of stock has grown
in this territory; nor has he any con-
ception of the sum of money spent To-.
caily each year in the importation OF
packing house products,
Much Stock Near Here.
The last year book of the United
States department OF agriculture SHOWS
that there were on hand on Jan l.
1918, in the states of Alabama, Arkan~
10, 900, 900 head Of stock raised for
slaughter In this connection, detail
figures tell the following story Of stock
on hand Jan. of last year: Alabama
Beef cattle 668000 hogs, 2,12SO0O
sheep, 1S1,OOO Tcnnessee--Beef cattle,
554 600; hogs, 100000; sheep, 6OS'OOO
2 900, 900; sheep, IA, 900 Arkansas--Beef
cattle, 6SS,0OO hogs, 100000; sheep
l49, 900. These figures total Beet cattle,
2,504 900 head; hogs, 7,32S,oOO head !
sheep, .06O, 600 head, in the four states
But this dry, statistical statement
does not undertake to show how much
stock is shipped in the course OF year
from this territory; II only shows the
amount on hand Jan 1 last in the four
states. 1t is said by men who have
made careful investigation that If the
latter figures could be secured they
would. make quite staItlng and diff
ferent showing
The TO- 900, 900 head OF stock shown
in these figures were not shipped TO
Memphis, but a large part of it passed
through here consigned to packing
plants In the North and West. to be
killed, packed and transported directly
back to Memphis and the. contiguous
section, the community footing the
freight bill both ways,
Some amazing figures, which have
compiled for the packing house COM
mittee by H. NJ. Cottrell. the former
director OF the farm development bu--
reau. By revealing the number OF
cattle, sheep and hogs shipped in
1917 within a radius of one to 10, so
to 100 and 100 to 15O miles of Court
square, to packing houses in cities far
distant, and the amount of money paid
out of the pockets Of the people of the
81 counties of the Memphis territory
in Mississippi Arkansas and Tennes-
see, these figures demonstrate the great
possibilities of packing house in Mem
phs. OF stock in the distance, one
to $50 miles, there were shipped 2S,455
cattle, 1920 hogs, $500 sheep, In the
distance 80 to 1850 miles there were
shipped 90,475 cattle S0,SS0 hogs, 104S00
sheep. In the distance 100 to 1850 miles,
5000 cattle, 12270O hogs, 1880 sheep.
These figures aggregate 19S,940 cattle,
135.S00 hogs and 26,750 sheep.
The imports of ham. bacon. beef and
lard per year into the 81 counties in
Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee
close to Memphis reach a monetary
aggregate of $13,S43, ,05S, according to
statistics complied as of 1916,