Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-01-27
PACKING PLANT IS.
IN OPERATION; FIRST.
LIVE STOCK KILLED
MACHINERY AT ILLINOIS COOP
ERATiVE SET IN MOTiON-PIGS
ARE SLAUGHTERED FORMAL
OPENING A MONTH HENCE.

The COOPERATIVE Packing Company
opened for business this morning al
s o'clock. when the first hog wa
slaughtered, and the process of cue
ing bacon and ham and making san
sage was started The formal open
ing of the plant will not be held for II
month, when some Of every produc
to be made will be completed and
ready for. exhibition
However 1000 people who knew
| The plant was to open today calle
| either yesterday or this morning tt
make an inspection and see just hop
1 packing house is constructed.
No cattle were killed today. and the
! total number Of hogs butchcred wa.
in the neighbOrhood Of fifty The ma
| chinery was new and stiff and needle
adjusting 20 suit the new plant, ant
the work went slower than it vii
| after few days.
Thirty-nine Men and Women at Work
There are now thirty-nine employee
Of the company working The down
town Offices, which have boen main
tanned in the Nortney building since
he organization OF the company last
wear, were moved to the main build
ing of the plant, which is located jus
west Of the Wedron SILICA plant, be
tween the Illinois and Michigan Cana
and the Rock Island Railroad. More
employees will be added from time t.
lime, until about sixty people are 81
| he companys payroll.
Wednesday of this week three
'alesmen will star. on the road, ano
he products Of the new Ottawa in
lustry viii be sold and shipped out
Immediately.
Lay Long Switch.
Yesterday the switch from the Roe
sland tracks to the cattle pens, a dis
lance of about 5000 feet, was put in
which Is almost record breaker fol
construction speed
There We're lbs hogs in the PEN
| yesterday and number of cattle
Hogs and cattle are to be shipped il
every day from THIS time on.
The opening was made in an Ell
| tirely businesslike manner, withou
| my Of The little Hourishes so often
| ,iyen to the opening OF IA new inlus
ry a regular employee of the plan
who has been assigned to the slaugh.
ger department killed the first hog il
the manner that will be used in kill
.ng the animals every day
To Increase Daily Output.
Tomorrow only about fifty hogs vii
De killed and few cattle The mum
GER slaughtered will gradually be in
,reased each day until the plant vii
re killing between 80 and 46o hog.
and from seyenty-Gye to 40 cattle il
day.
Every sort Of meat product viii b,
manufactured and there is large
cold storage space, as well as the ia
3ilities for handling the meat and
shipping it out as soon as it is ready
FOR the market. The cattle and hogs
used in the new plant are to secured
IS near OTTAWA as possible, and il
his manner transportation Charge
will be greatly reduced.
The Officers.
The new home of the company has
Just been completed at a cost Of $3.50,
600 The officers are
Il. II. Doud, president.
John l1ckhardt first vice president
Lyman Benton, second vice press
denr-
Henry KoeniG, treasurer.
G. w. r. Thelen manager.
Roy Wiley, secretary.
Directors-Henry County, Lyman
Benton, George Broman; Whiteside
and Lee counties, Ernest Toppert;
Bureau County, J, G. Dremann; Kan
kakee, Grundy and Kendall counties
Charles w Burkhardt; Rock Island,
Warren, Henderson and Mercer
counties, John Eckhardt; La Sale
County, F. S. Griyey; Knox, Putnam.
Marshall and Stark counties, Elmer
Quinn; iyiugton County Walter
Ski.
Directors at large-E. II. Doud and