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Show CITY ABATTOIR IS SflNWOSEO All the Meats Sold in Salt Lake City Would Pass Through It. CITY FOOD INSPECTOR " FRAZIER IS AT WORK City Abattoir, It Is Claimed. Will Minimize Expense of Inspection. There is a movement on foot, iu con-ncctiou con-ncctiou with the proposed inspection of meals, to establish a city abattoir through which all the meats not already subjected to inspection would have to pass beforo going to the market. City Food Inspector Walter ,7. Fra-zicr Fra-zicr is tho prime mover of tho establishment estab-lishment of a city abattoir, and Assistant Assist-ant Oiiy Attorney P. J. -Haly, who drafted' tho proposed meat, inspection bill, is a strong advocate ol! it, and it is likely that the matter will recoivo some consideration by the council sanitary san-itary commiftoo tonight. When federal inspection was suggested, sug-gested, one of the first stumbling blocks to prcseut itself was tho securing of inspectors in-spectors for the smaller slaughtor houses. It was found that out of tho seven slaughter pens scattered about the city, possibly only two had sufficient suffi-cient business to ".justify federal, inspection. inspec-tion. To secure federal inspection it would be necessary for tho rest of theso pens to establish a .-joint killing place, which might result iu bad combinations and possibly increase tho price of meat, it was feared, and to obviate this tho meat inspection ordinance was built, to provide federal inspection for places with a business to justify it and to create cre-ate a municipal system of inspection for the smaller butcheries. Tho establishment of a municipal system of inspection will create considerable consid-erable expense, it is said, which the abattoir, its advocal.es declare, will minimize. With tho establishment of a city abattoir tho smaller consumers would be compelled to do all their killing kill-ing there, under a S3stem of federal inspection, in-spection, too, as tho combined business would bo sufficient to justify the government gov-ernment in furnishing inspectors, aud tho abattoir would practically do away with much of the labor of tho municipal munici-pal system of inspection, as there would bo not so much use for it, and at the same time give the consumers the satisfaction sat-isfaction of kuowiug that they were getting pure mo'at. Some of the meat men, of course, arc opposed to the abattoir, a few going so far as to declare the establishing of ouo unconstitutional, but Mr. Daly says ho finds nothing in the statutes to that effect, ef-fect, although he has not made a thorough thor-ough search of them. "Other cities no larger than Salt Lake City have abattoirs that are not unconstitutional," unconstitution-al," said Mr. Frazier, Wednesday afternoon, after-noon, "why not this city?" |