The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-10-20
PACKING PLANT IS
ABOUT READY TO
BEGIN OPERATION
Two Million Dollar Cooper
alive Project Nearly Com
pIeted-J. L. MCCabe AS
SumeS General Managership

With construction work rapidly
nearing completion and the personnel
of the executive staff about decided
on, the Memphis Packing corpora
ton is laying plans, under the d.
rection of it's general manager. J. L..
McCabe, to begin operating it's two.
million dollar enterprise within the
next few weeks.
In the opinion of Joseph Newburg-
err president of the corporation, the
company has in Mr.. McCabe one OF
the most expert packing plant oper-
ators in the country For % years
Mr.. McCabe has been identified with
the meat packing industry in which
business he enjoys reputation that
is national in its scope. Most OF his
experience has been with Wilson and
company, being first identified with
that big corporation when it was one
of the big five" under the name of
Sulzberger & Sons Co. Just prior
to coming to Memphis and by the
way officers of the company figured
with him a long time before he final
ly accepted responsibility for the To-
cal venture Mr. McCabe was in en-
tire charge of Wilson & Co.'S
Eastern business, which included the
is branches operated in the city Of
New York alone.
Originally launched as a packing
plant only the company met with
such hearty cooperation from bank
ers, merchants and live stock raisers
in the Memphis territory that it had
no difficulty in financing additional
projects of companion nature,
namely an immense cold storage
plant and a. compound lard refinery.
in wit
ern concrete and sanitary stock yards
adjacent to and a part of the pack
ing plant, are contemplated to make
the local project one of the biggest
of it's kind in the South.
ITO my mind, and I've seen a
great many plants of large and small
extent, never was a packing project
the magnitude of the Memphis pack
ing plants scheme launched under
more favorable conditions or a more
promising future" said Mr.. McCabe,
Situated as it is smack in the heart
of fast growing live stock produc-
ing center with its admirable labor
and transportation facilities the
Memphis packing plant is destined to
high rank in the meat packing and
attendant Industries. ...
, There is no disputing the fact
long been needed in the local terri
tory-a necessary link between
Southern, Western and Eastern
points and the st. Louis market.
Doesn't it stand to reason that from
an economic standpoint alone If for
none other, locally raised live stock
should be killed and prepared and
sold right at home rather than to be
shipped North only to have the
dressed product reshipped back for
local consumption? The saving in
transportation and weight loss that
transportation always precipitates
are alone items of tremendous i'm
portance in the establishment of a
successful live stock market and
naturally they figure prominently in
our operation calculations"
Mr.. McCabe and his family al
ready are much at home here. As
he says: Nowhere in all my travels
have | met finer people or more
courteous treatment from everybody.
| had heard of Memphis hospitality
before coming to this city, but !
never fully realized it's generous pro.
portions"