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Show 0 - TO6 PMV FOOT In Order That the 4 Th OGDEN PACKING & PROVISION CO. Proriilon Oomputj Ogden Peeking ow with apald of This Paper May Know the Facts tfeffiblne we having waged a tie for the people? PLANT-19- 16 SHOWING STOCK YARDS DfPtOYXMZNTS UNDER WAY. Has a Daily Capacity of ItSO Hogs, 1500 Sheep, 300 Cattle, A JVoTlelo. . e-t- ato ' derel-opto- rallrpad-compa- g ' . , v, S T , " 'v i X. i . : Iff s ' J, - - .if- - o .'5 , I ll ny from-fc-sam- J . yl' l L 1 v r - d iij AuSis -'- r f : e 4, J - We do not object to the entrance of any packing company into the intermonntain field on a fair competitive basis, one that will bnild up the livestock industry and the manufacturing enterprises of Utah and Idaho; we do not object to the entrance of the CudaWr. y intoTJtah as a Salt Lake City and Ogden contention; we do not consider these are factors to be considered, hut we do object to and contend that the Salt THIS IS NOT AN OGDEN AND SALT LAKE ISSUE country to Invest their capital, as we have had in building up the hog industry and the packing business from Its foundation. They sent their representatives the Capacity, 75 Hog3, ICO Sheep, 25 Cattle wvpw4wwiiia9 , thou-sand- h , one-quart- Protective anJ Defensive Metu pres of This Utah Indnstry. Unfairpesg of ' the matter. . -- hun-dred- be the money spent-bthe employees, the taxes paid by the company and the purchases of material other than livestock, but bear fa mind that the Intermountain Packing companys plant is located in Davis county, not in Salt Lake county, so the taxes will be paid fa Davis county. It ib also & question whether any large proportion of the employee's money will be spent in Salt Lake City, as they will be much nearer Bountiful and Woods Cross. . We do know for a fact that the purchases of all the y Cudahy ,jv! X: fspfc. h -- ilJciu-JHutousio- nrx ; one-quart- ' . - - . ft. aw afre1 7 they-wo- uld . , - sulta-ra8klngou- Unlb-pertinent- r . de : i- , - f . . U - the Food Output of the United States. , . The large packers fa the United States control the meat situation. These same Interest are also gradual working into all other food products. Including eggs, butter, cheese, fish canning, fruit tomato canning, pork andcanning, bean cawing, even to the grains, cereals ana many other food products. The government for years has been confronted with a serious problem in curbing and controlling these and it appears to (is that It to the utah wt to cause by giving Jarge millionaire packersapproximately of a million dollars. this. mnv another industry in. Utah Is today growing w,th the 8am( hope fa the ZLhav' and with the same hope for fair play, but If an act of this xarrfoff xindcanbejuccefuHy Through here that a Utah - com pany must pay for every dollar they Invest in their and an eastern company have plant a plant, plus cash, given to them It makes competition on the pari cf Utah com-- ! an'es impossible, and it will hin de. tie development of other Utah industries, as .they may feaf the same fate as that which is being suffered to overtake the packing business in Utah. It must be kept in mind that this does not to our company alone, butapply to smaller Salt Lake City meat packers as well, and may some day apply to the canning industry, the milling and cereal industry, the candy and butter Industry. ..We. enedavored to enlighten, the Utah- public through the Salt Lake City papers of what was - taking form, but some of the heads of the Commercial club have already tied up every paper In the city, so these papers, against their desires were, not able to publish our articles. Letters were circulate! to the business men and a great many replies' were received, vigorously voicing their opposition to the. Cudahy plan.-Thscheme would have failed had publicity been given, and the heads of the Salt ; Lake.-CiCommercial club realized ' this ; . - Any sound proposition will not suffer ' from publicity. We believe that the handicapping of a Utah Industry. fa this manner' will' be resented by . the Utah people. We solicit expressions from manufacturers, Jobbers, retailers and of Utph as to otherbasteess-Jue- n their views regarding this battle betweenjhe lndependent ccmpanfes . . and the meat combine. What would you do If auch condi- tiong confronted your Industry? of We anticipate many" pledges support in this battle to prevent the final consummation of this vwtrxr - one-qpart- . 'a -- - v- rHI2 rBSCSDFNT STANDS AS A MENACE TO OTHER UTAH INFANT INDUSTRIES. "PFSTf- - :a . Pida fco.v; We realize fully, that if any of the lagre packers desire to estab-lisa plant here we cannot pre; vent them from doing so, but that our Utah' citizens rhould give them approximately of a million dollars' to help them to come fa here and reap the fruits of auch a fight might be detrimental our efforts, and put us on an unfair to their own Interests. basis of competition, does not apNotwithstanding this, meats ware .. u to be fair play. creased our plant, so that it will three, citleg. offered a bonus to the large . packers are generally made shipped by the meat combine into pear- to through the Chicago offices and not Think of a company with millions now - handle 400,000 head of Ogden and Salt Lake City, as well hogs Cudamy Packing company, three at the local offices of of any dollars of Into as other capital coming places, and sold for less -- Utah, apparently annum. And with a compara- - wrongs do not make- one right, of their plants. - Salt Lake City per to build nnwllllng money than It cost at shipping a plant, but to start out a small tively small outlay for another cold There should be no bonuses given banks may have the pleasure of point, for the specific purpose of the drafts of the which, according to plant, n ik. Cuaiir.cm. handling hampering our development and Inmenta made by Its officials, will ictnf .butvtheIr Fac,ker ultimately we when juring our business. It waa necesthat anJr ih . tne pack- - is done elsewhere. have a capacity of not over 200 sary far us at many times to sell un- are Produced, can handle tog buainesshere It is. therefore, a big question as bw fa head of fact, hogs, considerably meats for materially less than cost, : invest their fa to the benefits that will accrue to hesitatingly money of head 1,000,000 our annum, as with per hogs less, compared la order to hold our business. plant,, started without any ' bonus and standpoint of wuch Ci,ty fr0 In considering the government ;J .ptfnin" buA AU ab,a,a. In entering the Los 'Angeles and a.h.e fath. a possibilities 1250 a fact that Sait It Is PiantrhM of a :now has which Vemembered capacity San Francisco markets the meat, statisucs lt mUBt be of the packing business, that faith, Lake sill derive more benefit . City combine fought us all they possibly hogs a. day..', which we have had, that they, are from a packingplant llke ' oufs, We have no statistics available that a great many of these hogs could, even to the extent of threat-- ' OWBC,t,zenB Jor a bonus 'owned "exclusively by Utah people, and Utah-ar- e stock :are: of in not; hogs number the to show hogs snlng to put us out of business, and 0 nabl.e them to carry 0,1 tbe ex' doing their purchasing, as far as lt and Idaho: at Jhe s time, our r plant; ble for market." Besides that, theae hen we did mot ".submit counter-- ; can be done, fa Utah, than, what 1906. the In but was huildtn proposals divisions of markets . were ernment statistics of y PortiaraJa ed States Francisco, Los veTopll eylnd .suggested. We declined," and ' other on Steps were, therefore, necessary However, the packing industry of jah.0' rather contain their part. In order to furthet-lm--tethan to g,ve a bonus to foster n Utah, has been successfully - estab- Vh 456,- showed statistics uarv our "progress. developed, would It fished In Oeden,' because of natural OOO head qf hogs In the same terri- ter avana ' etter t0 w e a Ick'nig bouses townr. 25ble ,, f ::J this b0R r; lory: to How bring High Financing Works "dutry Into now- jt it right or Just for Utah '.the strength-oar at which has not yeVheen, startf ralfr..UF plaal When Yon Know. How. anynra5; r peopleta divert this 'tine from its ,t ed fa the state?. We are . .. and .. natural channels by attempting to ,, play of previous fair, strength mentally opposed to all kinds of pnt our company on an unfair ba- Although, the Cudahy : company -- with faith in its continuance and , T ,D ,ay them, they apparently did not have the consistent support of both Are Redons AoraIcgl jPF. Sa otcompetltlon with.a millionlblii..,1f-'8j -- deserved a bonus would 8 dollar concern,- when our fight for Sound? have millions of dollars behind nyone Citizens lt Indushome , for its Idaho LakeCity, Utah and be those who have developed the years has been to keep Utah and enough faith in- the future of. Jthe tries, slogancarrietf by"botb fa- Even though each one of tho, business from .nothing to Its pres- - Idaho out of the claws of the meat 'riransartionjjjPacking business of this fatermoun- gtates, we from year to year, ; -- I s i - I rroMMomi WESTERN AMFRTCAS GREAT INDEPENDENT MEAT PACK INQ ESTABLISHMENT. I To Control -- As - one-fourt- ent proporitlons. A certain amount of Salt Lake City and Ogden rivalry has been injected into this transaction, but it should be kept fa mind that, unlike many other lines of business, a packing plant cannot exist fa every town, it la not a proposition; it is of a large nature. The money paid out for hogs goes back to where the hogs were raised and then into the various banks, and it Is then distributed by the hog raisers wherever they do their: trading. if requires or nf hngti fOif a packing plan. hogs., are raised throughout Utah and Idaho and hot around any one city. The only, thing that might revert to the city in which the plant is located would bined. one-tow-n busi-nes- . ? to Lake hankers and business men who have given an immense amount of property and money to the Cudahy Packing company have given tne basis for unfair jeompetition against- a Utah company, financed ty Utah men, utilizing Utah products and Utah labor, with the general knowledge at the time that this companys, plant was being increased to such a capacity that it was beyond the output of the hog industry in the intermountain country. IT IS THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE PACKING INDUSTRY THAT IS AT STAKE IN UTAH. Utah's First Packing Piant commercial organizations of Pocatello,. OgJen and Salt Lake City, proposing to erect a plant, and asking each what It had to offer, apparently endeavoring to make one city outbid the other and add to the coffers of the million-dolla- r concern. The offer on the part of certain Salt Lake City bankers ands men Of a packing plant which COBt 0Ver 200i00() to build, together . Wltlt- a cash bonus of $25,000 and Interest fa :CRJrock yards, all of which, may be conservatively estimated at over of a million doiiare, was evidently the climax desired. : :4 for Food Independence a is further additions to our plant and from now on will be able to handle 400,000 lioga per annum. To get to this point has been a very severe and hard struggle. Our Investment is close oq to $1,000,000 and yet the returns on the Investment have been only comparatively small. It has only been upon the faith fa the hog production in the fuliure and the packing possibilities in the intermountain country that the stockholders of our company have been induced from time to time to increase the capital, so as to make our buildings and plant handle the increase fa business. While this development has been going on, close on to a score of other Utah companies have started s up and failed for hundreds of of dollars Being familiar with the tactics of big packers fa destroying smaller independent plants, we found It necessary, fa order not to be put ness over a great many, states. Including the Pacific coast, so that should any measures be applied against us by the big packers it would be necessary for them to get at ns at a great many points, and ..4- - - s i I' . hogs.--100,00- nun-mpne- 80 M tQ, to keep pace with the liog industry During this season we have made i.tt It mut not beforgotten that our present packing plant ia the largest packln plant on this side of Omaha, including the entire Pacific coast, and that the plant which will be operated by the Cudahy company is no larger than our. original plant, as built in 1 906. It is, therefore, not the sice of their plant in Utah, or the competition, v w men sireadf exlaU . through the -big meat packers branch house, hfch should prompt this article, the capital and power it and tbe of.in- fluenee on Utahs possibility prosper!ty,Xronj.- -j the Our packing nlant Is, therefore, to be reckoned with in the future An annual capacity of 40 no heaT of head of rntfle and 4jm,00 he& of fillip TYi'enna, a" packing plant of large proportions, even compared w4th anv ef the packing pfant units of the rhited" Stafps. and larger than some of the Cudahy plants. This plsnt Is built; it is in Oaen to stav; it was started first. Is it advisable to start another smaller plant in Salt Lake City through subsidy. If a plant s started in Salt Lake City, another mav be started in Pocatello, and we will then have three places In this Intermonntain country, none of which as a market will be of any importance, as compared .with the ,fir&e centers. It will be against the interest of the livestock raisers, as they, in order to benefit by the three markets, would have to ship from one market to another or take a chance of either of these markets being overstocked,., while, if they were located at one place the livestock raisers would get the benefit of the three markets com- ,rer . concession as whateer, the claimed they were making out of handling the meats from The east Into ciKei Utai than what they would be geUtini if the hogs were raised locally Our only salvation was to en courage the hog raising throughou the territory tributary to our plant which included Utah and Idaho tr particular. We did this, in' man-caseloaning money to some of th hog raisers. -- It was very slov work to Interest anyone fa raisin: hogs as they felt It could be don cheaper fa the east, and that b cause of the lick, of com fa thi county, it waa not adapted to ho But aa all the hog ralsert raising. gradually found a., steady market whenever they had any hogs ready, and found It remunerative to raise hogs, they gradually worked Into it more and more, so that our latest government statistics show g hog supply of 456,000 bogo In Utah and Idaho on January j, 19J6. During our first year of operation we handle considerably less than 5000 hogs for the entire year. We gradually Increased this aa the hogs were produced. When finally oar plant was too small to handle the amount of hogs raised we made Injury to the Livestock Industry, The Thb Plant tooorporated ta im np capital of t7iso We at the time own of any ktoTSSu! "small MW.WM that w built a packing plant, the kind ta theatate. Our K,2,eDt waa more or lee hazardous were taking big chances faand w, the packing business. that time the hog supply fa the country was small We purchased all the verj that we could locally, and whir w. could locally and when we could not secure hogs locally to od erate our plant, we went to for the hogs. The rate Nebraska' to Utah was 81 per hundred poundsr We aDnll to the for ductlon ln rates, as the raHroat company carried hogs , point to Portland. Ore., almost double jthe distance, for S', cento But th&y refused to grant us aiV bat- - STARTED WITHOUT ANY SUBSIDIES - e; ty - - --7 J -- : . |