Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-16 | Page 8 | Packers Break Meat Records

PUCKERS BREAK MEATJECORDS Large Exportation of Fresh Beef and Pork Products. CHICAGO, Dec. 35. E. A. Cudahy, president of the Cudahy Packing company, com-pany, In his annual statement to the stockholders, made public today, cites figures fig-ures showing that the packing industry broke all records in ten months of the current year in the exportation of fresh beef and pork products. The Cudahy companv's gross sales for the fiscal vear ended November 2, 191 S. were $2S6,660,-971.48. $2S6,660,-971.48. as against $184,811,423.34 for the preceding, year. "The largest exportation of fresh beef in any year prior to the war wfi 352,000,-000 352,000,-000 pounds, in the fiscal year 1901," said Mr. Cudahy, "then dwindling down year by year to only 6,000,000 pounds in the year immediately preceding the war, while the total for the ten months ended with October of the current year was 417.000.000 pounds. "Pork product? also show a new high record in quantities, as well as in values. The total quantity of bacon exported in tho ten months ended with October. 1 9 IS, was 906,000,000 pounds, against a former high record of 5?",0u0,000 pounds in jhe full fiscal year, 1916. Hams and shoulders shoul-ders in the same ten months were 478.-000.000 478.-000.000 pounds, against 287.000,000 pounds in the full fiscal year of 1916. "In 1913 our company paid to the fanners fann-ers of the United States some $75,000,000 for the animals purchased. This year, and for a volume and weight approximately approxi-mately 33 1-3 per cent greater, we have paid more than $l$O,O0'U.'0O. In 1913 we paid to our employees some ST. 000,000 for waes and salaries. This year we have paid them in excess of $15,500,000. Our net profits, as compared with 1913. are in about the same ratio to our turnover as in that year."