The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-06-08
fBv GORDON sAUssY)

For fifty years the Southeast mas
been the dumping ground OF the pls
Meat Packers-theIr market Tor pu''s'
bellies. scrubs and seconds. The rea'
sons for this are perfectly OBVIOUS
Our large turpenttle and lumber op'
erations, and our larger farming lh'0i-
ests, heretofore and now, were ana "ie
based upon the colnmissary system u
foods and supplies for our labor we
have made Hog aid Hominy' cia'-
sic nv reiteration, but its equivalent IN
plain English is, that we nave taNeli
aud consumed meat products when no
other reople in the world occupying ap-
proximatcly similar social and ecoholn'0
conditions as we, would accept, pay lor
and eat.
The Southeast is naturally meal
producing section. Several Oh 'ho
larger railroad companies serving the
Southeastern territory, notably the Ceii-
trail of Georgia Railway, for nulhOer
NJ wears have been maintaining prop
uganda, having for its Objective Ilah'-
ing orr cut over lands to Lespeoe2a'
Dallas and Carpet grasses, eveh'u@lly
developing an almost all the year pas
ture These same companies nave
placed with the farmers OF, the 'o'ii =
tory served by them thoroughbred eau
tie and hogs.
The governments, Federal and
State have been pointing the way ana
ass;ssing-even sometimes against our
within the eradication Of the c@Utle
tick. and prevention Of cholera.
The farmers Of the great meat pro
duc;ng States of the West have their
chief markets at Chicago, ST. LOUIS
Omaha and Kansas City. The average
freight rate on packing house products
from those markets to Savannah, deor-
ola is from seventy nine (79c) to nlne-
ty (sOc) cents per hundred pounds.
The producers Of meat-cattie ana
hogs--in the Western States must feed
on an average of at least six 90
months in the year, with provisions
planted. raised and harvested, stored,
and from the barns fed to their cattle
and hogs.
Here, In the Southeast, in the last
ten (1O) years, there have been estab-
lished, and for a time operated by
local people and local capital, packing
plants as follows;
Moultrie Packing Company, Moui-
trie, Ga. Now owned by Swift e Com
pany. Operating
Andalusia Packing Company, Andar
lusia, Ala, owned by Swift & Company
Not operating.
Macon Packing Company, Macon,
Ga, owned by The Allied Packers, OF
Chicago and New York. Not operat-
ing.
Triton Packing Company, Triton,
Ga. owned by Armour & Company.
Not operating.
Waycross Packing Co, Waycrosss
Ga, and by New York interests. Not
operating.
Savannah Abbattoir G Packing Com
pany, Savannah, Ga, owned by local
interests. Operating; used by the City
of Savannah as slaughter house
Farris & Company, Jacksonville,
Fla, owned by Southern people. Op-
Grating.
Jones Chandler Company, Jackson
vile, Fla, owned by Southern people,
Operating.
Bulloch Packing Company, States
boro, Ga, owned by Southern people
Partly operating.
Orangeburg, S. c., and Carolina
Packing Company, Wilmington, ~ c.,
tied up by New York interests. Not
operating.
The Sea-Coast Packing Company,
Beaufort, s. c., owned by Southern
people. Not yet quite completed
The average freight rate from these
plants into Savannah, on packing
house products, IS from thirty-six (36)
to forty-four (44) cents per hundred
pounds. A difHerential in tho freight
rate In their faycr 10 deep water ct
q cents per hundred pounds, as against
&A@ Western markets.
ay one at all familiar with Our