Omaha daily bee., 1920-03-18
OPEN HOUSE.
FOR Big new
MEAT PLANT
ON THURSDAY
Mammoth Skinner Packing
House to Be Inspected by
Leading 0mahans-Aim
to Become Peers.

The new packing plant OF The
Skinner company at Twenty-sev-
enth and Y streets, South Side, will
be formally opened next Thursday.
Arrangements for the opening are
extensive and complete. There will
be music and refreshments for the
thousands of visitors who are ex-
pected to visit the plant on the
opening day. More than $500 en-
graved invitations have been issued.
Members of the Chamber of Com
merce and the Rotary club have
been invited to go through the great
plant on the opening day by R. {.
Howe, general manager, and the in
yitation has been accepted.
The management of the plant
plans to make the opening not only
entertaining but instructive for visi-
tors. Among the innumerable de-
partments through which visitors
will be conducted are the killing
floors, coolers, employees dressing
rooms, section of the power house,
curing cellars, canning room. sau-
sage department, lard refinery, frst
aid room, laboratory and cafeteria.
These departments and others
which will be thrown open on the
opening day are models in cleanli-
ness, efficient arrangements and
equipment, for no expense has been
spared to make the great plant the
last word in packing house ideals.
All Steel and Concrete.
The plant consists of an office
building, service building, power
house, cooler and refrigeration
building, slaughtering building and
manufacturing and by-products
buildings. All of these structures
are built of steel and concrete, are
plastered and painted with white
enamel and furnish floor space of
about 20 acres, They are equipped
With FIVE high-speed 5,000-pound
elevators for freight. and one 10000
pound capacity stock elevator.
The great cooler will contain
5000 hogs. 1000 cattle and 1000
sheep. The killing capacity7of the
plant IS 500 hogs an hour, 500 cattle
a day and 200 sheep an hour. The
capacity for production. of other de-
partments Of the plant is also enor-
NOUS. The lard refinery has ca
pacity of 500 tierces day; the sau-
sage department 10000 pounds a
day, the canning department $4,000
cans a day, the smoke house ca
.pacity is 200.00G pounds. the freezer
will hold 100000 pounds, 100000
pounds of meat is the capacity of
curing departments and 1000 hides
may be cured at one time.
The plant has fertilizer depart
ment which Wilt handle fertilizer.
stock food and poultry food. A 600
ton refrigerator system, using cross
compound York ice machines, and a
uniflow direct connected generator,
with 1900 horsepower boiler ca
pacity, with the most modern equip
ment ia the boiler room obtainable,
are features OF the power system.
Reduce Wasted Effort.
The spiral conveyors, loweators
and auto call pneumatic tube sys-
tenn, installed throughout the plant
are expected to reduce wasted effort
to a minimum.
Fortunate are the employees who
viii occupy the new thrce-story of
ice building. which will contain the
ales department, and executive Of
ices on the first floor; traffic and
purchasing departments, telephone
ind telegraph .and superintendent
Office on the second floor, and the
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