Show PLAIT TO SAVE MiLLIONS dS ELY a ATES mS SHRi fik K A E I I Cudahy Company to Tap Huge Field 17 Cars Live v St Stock k A Available Before Belore reaching a decision to estaba establish I lish a branch o of their packing house busin business Rs in Salt Lake Cudahy Packing Pack- Pack I ing hig corrip company company y made an el elaborate borate survey surI survey sur sur- stock conditions in the teri territory territory ter ter- I ve vey of or live stock c adjacent to Salt to-Salt Salt Lake Included in fn the the- tt territory is all al that I area alta from from which ci the pl plant nt would WO be bei bej i j i expected draw to draw its live ll stock for fori i slaughtering r This survey sh showed wed in 1915 Were there Were part i at- at cattle shipped ped from tills this d district with ith head ead I I available I There were 32 0 a cars of lor or head available j 1 Q PC sheep tl titers ere were shipped 9 07 cars carp or head that could coul l be I had I. I The total of live stock that drat coup be I depended ed upon by the packers last year was therefore cars or I head of ot all classes in this territory Hogs Shipped I About 1 he head ld of of hogs were shipped from flOm this this territory last year r and on prevailing prices it tt Is expected that the packing plant will do do- doa a business business business busi busi- ness of between bet and 16 15 annually within trio n next five years year While th the plant will find It Its greatest volume of trade in supplying San Francisco Fran Fran- Ii cisco Los Ang Angeles lf's Portland S Seattle attle Spokane and Butte Butta and the territories adjacent to tb these cities Dent Denv et o 1 J d will be given a part Some meats will be sent to Denver With a a. strong probability of opening up tip the coast market to foreign trade Just as quickly as ships can be had to handle the traffic The economic con mic waste that t will be elim eliminated by the establishment of the plant in Salt SaIt Lake Lake Lake-is is enormous fan tal I gr greater than Ulan is imagined by liy the la lal layman lay lay- man I Big Saying j g M Made de Th- Th There The e fa is shortage a. a meat of meat supply i in th the United States Slates and much meat leat is 18 1 I being shipped to th this s country cou P t rY from I South oli h America- America to make malte up pp i for tor this this shortage I A m map i rr prepared p r recently nu l 1 by y L hi E B B. Cal Calvin In preside president f of the Un Union Union Pacific on Pacific ad shows shows- that thit that there le are are I hogs within a radius radios radi s of 4 O t ml of ot Salt Lake Jake each hog Figuring on on n the the- basis that averages averages pounds live po i l m weight there is an an average v r ge ro loss Ions s of ot ten p pounds iron from them then alive to each tach animal In shipping In-shipping the East st. This loss of tissue through shrinkage isan is-an ab absolute loss There is no economic salvage Taking pork on a 3 basis o of 8 cents a a. I pound live weight the loss is 18 B 80 cents animal in shipping shrinkage oran or oran oran I per an actual loss of or AI A- A in in tood food in in shipment F Freight eight Loss Loss I Figuring the freight rate at 10 cents a head the further loss on thi score not take does would be This into consideration the loss caus caused by II deaths d of hogs in transit for ten The Interest On this money ney days would he be about 1 t total It is estimated that there 1 A a total money Continued tim ed- ed on page 8 1 0 i- i J PLANT TO SAVE Continued from page 6 loss los of in the shipping of these hogs a away way from this territory and A total meat loss from shrinkage of 6 6 or enough to supply four fifty-four pounds of pork per year to each man woman and child living In Salt Lake In the same territory there are about sheep On these shipments there would be an average loss of two pounds per head or a total loss of 28 pounds The loss is about 16 cents per head making an aggregate of There are head of cattle shipped to Denver and further East Th The average shrinkage in cattle is fifty pounds per head making a total shrinkage of at pounds valued at O per head or It Is contended by the stock yards people that this shrinkage will be al almost almost almost al- al most wholly eliminated b by the handling handlin of the live stock at Salt Lake near the that hat produce the animals ranges range |