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Show office rooms which will banitedfor commission offices. f Stock Yard Hotel. Another important building is the hotel, which will bo large enough to accommodate the handa working in the yards, who have no dwelling of their own. It also will be the headquarters of storkmon when they come to the city while doing business at the yards. A large stable with eighty-four stalls is provided by the plans where the farmers, stock grower and men with business to transact at North Salt Lake can store their horses. Tim yards, it will he noticed, are divided di-vided into twelve divisions subdivided for the convenient handling of the horses, cattle, sheep ami nogs, by the different railway lines. The cattle coming in train lots are unloaded into the main pens where they are graded for halo and shipment. There are feeding and watering troughs in all the pens. Tit. Tacking: Houne. An important adjunct to the. stock yards is the immense packing house which White Sons & Company will erect and which includes a cold storage plant and artificial ice factory. The cost of the (lacking house plant will be from $U,"i,0U0 to !r0,000 exclusive of the land. It will have the capacity for slaughtering 4(10 cattle and 2000 sheep and hogs daily. The great advantage of the Union Stock yards and packing house will be the building up of a local market and making this city the center cen-ter for all dealers in livestock in the inter-mountain country. Mr. Kodofnr Iirs been greatly assisted as-sisted in his labors in putting on foot this great enterprise by W. C. H. Allen, who has been the moving spirit in a great many other projects that promise great things for Salt Lake. " UNION STOCK. YARDS. The Plans Completed and Work on the ' Tracks and Buildings to Begin at Once. THE LARGE PACKING HOUSE. The Buildings and Trucks Will Cover at Least Twenty-Five Acres of Ground. The biggest enterprise put on foot during the past year was the Union stock yards and packing house. It means the acquisition to this city a new industry and one that will gradually develop ane expand, and it is difficult to predict a limit to the possibilities of these enterprises. The gain to the ag ricultural interest! of the territory by the secu ring of the stock yards and the sugar beet works can net be computed in money as they will stimulate other industries of a like nature. J. W. Kodefcr of Omaha spent many months in the city Inst summer and on the 17th day of October succeeded in organizing the stock yards company with 120 incorporators, including the leading bankers and business men of this city, together with a large number of the live stock men of this territory and surrounding states. The grounds selected for the location of the stock yards is located 1J miles north of Beck's Hot snriugs lying west of the tracks of the Lnion Pacific and Kio Grande Western railways. These grounds were selected on account of being on the diroct lines of the two great railways, the Uuioo Pacilic and Kio Grande Western, and for their accessibility. ac-cessibility. The capital stock of the company is $250,000. Mr. Kodefer also interested a syndicate of eastern capitalists, cap-italists, including prominent railway fficials, in the enterprise. The board of directors is composed of the following named gentleman: Messrs. D. C. Dodge, manager of the Kio Grande Western railroad: John W. Kodefer, of Omaha; and of Salt Lake City, George A. Lowe, John K. Doolv, John II. W hite, W. P. Noble, K. C. Chambers, II. F. Saunders, H. M. Wells, Fred Simon, M. K. Parsons, W. H. Remington, Charles Crane, and of which W. C. B. Allen is acting secretary. The plans for the stockyards were piepared by H. P. Childs, superintendent superintend-ent of the Union stockyards at Kansas City, and a man of twenty years' experience ex-perience in the business. Great care has been taken to insure perfect sanitary sani-tary facilities by laying out a sewerage system and ample water supply. The plans cover twenty-live acres of ground and more land has been reserved for an extension of the yards as soon as the business will demand it. In the center of the yards is an immense im-mense scale large enough to -weigh a car load of stock at one time. The smaller pens are intended for hogs and sheep while the larger ones are for cattle. Th. Exchange Bnllding;. The most important building outside of the yards proper is the exchange, a two-story structure 50x100 feet. The ' first floor will bo litted up for the offi ces of the company which will include a branch bank, of one of the Salt Lake institutions to facilitate the sale and consignment of stock without requiring the parties to come to the city to transact tran-sact their business. The second story contaius eighteen |