Show s sIn mU e eIn In Order That the Readers eade of o This Th Paper May Know the Fc Fac History of the Ogden Packing Provision Company Plant The rho Ogden Packing and Provision company was Incorporated in 1901 with a paid paM up capital of We at that time owned no buildings kind and it was not until or oX r real al estate of any 1906 that we built a small packing plant the first t of its kind in the state Our investment wa was more or less hazardous and we were were ere taking bl big bis chances in developing the packing business At that time the hog supply in the intermountain tain country was very small We purchased all the hogs that we could locally and when when we we c could uld not secure h hogs gs locally to operate o our r plant we went to Nebraska for hogs The rate from Nebraska to Utah was 81 cents per hundred pounds We applied to the railroad company for a reduction in rates as the railroad company carried hogs from the same point to Portland Ore almost double the distance for for 85 86 cents But they refused to grant us any concession whatever as they claimed they were making more money out of handling the cured meats from the East into Utah than what th they y would be getting if the hogs were raised locally Our only salvation was to encourage the hog raising throughout the territory tributary to our plant which included Utah and Idaho in particular We did th this s In many cases loaning money to some of the hog raisers It was US very slow Elow work to interest anyone In raising hogs aa as they felt It could be done cheaper in the East and that because of the lack Jack of ot corn om in this country It was not adapted to hog raising But Butas Butas as es the hog raisers gradually found a steady y market whenever they had any hogs ready and found it remunerative to raise hogs they gradually grad grad- nally worked into It more and more so th that lt our lat latest st government statistics show a hog S supply of hogs in Utah and Idaho on January 1 DIG 1316 During our our first year of operation we handled han han- handled considerably I less s than head of ot hogs hogg for the tho entire year We gradually Increased this as the hogs bogs were produced produce When finally our plant WaS wan too small email to handle the amount of of hogs hogs hogs' raised we made additions from time to to time so BO as to keep pace with the hog i industry During Daring this season we h have havo o ma made le further additions addi- addi addi additions to our plant and from now on will be able to handle hogs per annum To get to this point has b been n a very very seve severe severe and hard struggle Our Investment Is s close on onto onto onto to and yet the returns on the investment Investment investment invest invest- Invest invest- ment have been only comparatively small It has only been upon the faith raUh in the hog production production pro pro- in the future and the packing possibilities ties in the intermountain country that the stockholders of our company have been induced from time to time to increase the capital so as asto as asto s sto to make our our- buildings and plant ban handle le the the increase S in business While this development has been going on close on on to a a. score of 01 other Utah companies have sta started ed up and failed for hundreds ds of thousands of ot dollars Protective and Defensive Measures of This Utah Industry Being familiar with the tactics of or big packers packers in destroying smaller independent plants we found round it necessary in order not to be put out of business to operate our business over a great great many states including the Pacific coast so that should any measures be appi applied ed against us by bythe bythe bythe the big packers It would be necessary for them to ge get at us at a a. great many many points and such sucha such sucha a fight tight might be detrimental to their own interest in- in terest Notwithstanding this meats were shipped by bythe bythe bythe the meat combine into Ogden and Salt SnIt Lake City as well as other places and sold for less money than It cost at shipping point for the specific purpose of oi hampering our development dm and injuring our business It was necessary for foras foras foras as at many times to sell meats for materially less than cost in order to hold our business In entering the Los Angeles and San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco markets the meat combine fought us all they possibly could even to the extent of threatening ing to put us out of business and when we did not submit counter proposals of divisions of ot markets were suggested We declined and end other steps were therefore necessary on their part in order to further impede our ress Ho How High Financing Works When You When You Know How Although lt ough the Cudahy company have millions of dollars behind them they apparently did not j have enough nough faith in the future of the packing business of this intermountain 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 to the commercial organizations o of oR Pocatello OgdEn Og Og- den dEn denand and Salt Lake City proposing to erect a plant and asking each what it h had hd d to offer otter apparently endeavoring to make one city outbid the other and am add to the coffers of the million million- dollar concern The offer on the part of certain Salt Sale Lake Lako CIt City bankers bankers' and business men of a apat pat packing king plant which cost over ver to build together with a cash bonus of and one one- fourth interest in the Salt Lake City stock stockyards stockyards stockyards yards all of which may be conservatively estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated at over quarter one-quarter of a million dollars was waS waS' e evidently the climax d desired sl ed Unfairness of the Cud Cudahy hy Matter v Wo We realize fully that if it any of the large packers packer desire to establish a plant here w we can- can OGDEN PACKING PROVISION CO 1916 SHOWING STO STOCK I YARDS IMPROVEMENTS UNDER WAY This Plant Has a Daily Capacity of 1250 Hogs 1500 Sheep 3 q Cattle P y e n t r 4 t. t J d r f 1 v a 0 i r i L L v r J lr r P Nv oaf r rs r. r rv o w 1 oR 4 o. o f R Y f f iY Y 3 v t If jr r o t ri N i Y n r 6 Y Sa rry r 0 6 t y v ry y rr y Y a r M N 1 a Y r d l t l lI l I f y rJ i i F r f V W S 3 v l w r 4 4 f 4 R r 1 f s t u err 4 i t 4 f tY i Battle for lor Food Independence The following article appeared in Feeding Marketing i published at Kansas City Mo under date of November r 15 1916 No movement in many a day lay is meeting with a more hearty approval and indorsement by the live stock producers of the the Southwest than the proposition to establish an an independent packinghouse packing packinghouse house at Kansas as City The agitation for fr free an and open competition tion among the pa packers ers furthered b by the several live stock organ organizations organizations in crystal crystallizing g in the practical l a actual al est establishment of such a packing plant The Thomas Ruddy company is receiving not only the hearty support and good wishes of the sto stockmen kmen but they are backing up the new proposition with their money Every mail brings subscriptions from the stockmen who have grown tired of being being- for forced d to to- hc accept ept for th their ir st stock ck just what the packers' packers combine chooses choos s to pay They f feel el that the establishment of a abig abig abig big independent packing house in Kansas City is certain to help the market prevent uncalled for slumps and market breaks They have noted the electrical effect that a a f few w order buyers sometimes have when the packers set et out to break the market The Thel Thomas Ruddy company owns ten acres of land the only available plot of ground suitable e for a p packing house use not owned or controlled by the packers' packers combine at any stock yards I I i in the entire C country and doubtless they would now give a mil mil- tH THIS SIS IS NOT AN OGDEN AND SALT LAKE LAK ISSUE ISSUE IT IS THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE TIlE PA PACKING KING INDUSTRY THAT IS AT I x I STAKE IN UTAH I i J not pre prevent elt them from orri d doing ing so but that our Utah citizens should give glye them approximately y quarter one of a million dollars to help them to come in here and the reap reap the fruits of our our efforts efforts- and putting us on an unfair basis of competition i tion does not appear to us to be fair play Think of a company with millions millions of do dollars dollars' ars' ars of capital coming into Utah apparently unwilling unwilling unwilling ing to build a plant but t to start out t a 8 sn small li plant which according to statements made by y Its officials will have not ov over r head of hogs in fact considerably as compared compared compared com- com pared with o our r plant started without any bonus and which now has a capacity of 1250 hogs a da day A t tWo We Wo have nO nA s statistics a available a ail 1 le to sho shoy the number of hogs in Utah and Idaho at th the tho time our plant was was bt built Ut in 1906 but the United States government nt statistics of 1910 showed showell these two states to contain hogs while the January 1 1916 statistics showed 4 H head of ot hogs in the same territory Upon the strength of this thia hog industry der de de- de- de r Upon the strength of pr previous fair fairplay fairplay play and with faith in Its Us continuance and the consistent support of both Utah and Idaho Idah for its home industries a slogan carried by both states we from year to year Increased our plant so that It will now handle head o of hogs per annum And with a comparatively small outlay for another er cold storage building all units are so arranged that tha we ultimately when the hogs are produced can h handle 1000 head of hogs bogs per a annum num In considering the government statistics it must b be remembered that a a. great man many of ot these hogs are stock hogs and are re not suitable not suitable for market Besides that these two states must also parti partially supply Portland nd San Francisco Los Los Angeles Angel s Butte Boise Bols' as well wen as various mining districts all of ot which materially reduces the number available ble for our plant thus resulting resulting resulting result result- ing In our being unable to operate our plant at anywhere near capacity lion dollars for this plot right now and methinks I see some of the members of the packers' packers combine blaming someone or other for slipping a cog and not gobbling up this valuable site die It is isnow isnow isnow now forever too late for the live s stock ock raisers are e solidly back backof of bf and urging the Thomas Ruddy company to go out and battle this giant combine They are backing him with their money their influence and further lif if if legislation is necessary to enable him to secure a square deal and an an even chance they are behind him with their votes and woe be to the legislator who fails or betrays his trust This is not a contest of a days day's duration but it means the deliverance of the live stock producers and the consumers From the greedy grasp of the packers' packers combine It is a fight to the finish and never has any unlawful illegal megal autocratic combination combination combination combi combi- nation ever won won when the people and determinedly went to the mat for a final struggle and this will be no exception m. m The live stock men are in earnest Their fighting blood bloed is aroused They now have a means of breaking the str strangle gle hold of this packers' packers combine They have the money money and the power to do it If the packers are wise they will move move over and welcome the coming of this the cattlemen's plant They had better say that they like it for it is here and here to stay The live stock men are long suffering but once aroused they are not quitters They want peace e and prosperity and are re ready dy to 10 fight for it It is now I the packers' packers move Utah's Pest First Packing Plant Capacity Capacity 95 95 Hogs Sheep 25 Cattle fw fk i NV x Y Y h 1 t nd s 's Cb N ri ay a Y w rN t s ti Y YR ra R M n nY Y a s J L G k 5 t 0 1 f I r 4 dx S Sy y yv n Y v a Y 4 L S SY y tY N y y y Y o rt t r rye r ye I Are Reasons Advanced by Salt Lake t City Citizens Sound Even Een though each one of the three cities offered a bonus to the Cudahy Packing company company company com com- pany three wrongs does not rot make o one one right There should be no bonuses given ln in any wa way If the Cudahy Cudahy- company saw an any profits in the packing business here they would unhesitatingly unhesitating unhesitating- ly Iy Invest est their their- mone money in a plant but it is be because because because be- be cause of lack of faith In iii the financial possibilities ties of the packing lacking business ss that faith which we have had that that they are asking our our own citizens for a bonus to enable them to carry on the experiment The Tho packing business being developed beyond beyond beyond be be- yond the live stock production of or Utah an and l Idaho rather than to give a bon bonus s to foster an ani i industry fully developed would It no not be better betterto to use such money for bringing some Borne Q other er in ind in- in d into Utah which has not yet been started st. in tl the tho e state We are fundamentally opposed to all aU kinds of bonuses in any form while if anyone any any- one deserved a bonus it Would be those who have nave developed the business from nothing t to its Present A ce c certain tain amount of Salt Lake Cit City and Ogden rivalry has been injected j limo into to this t transaction transaction trans trans- action but hut it should be kept in mind that unlike unlike un- un like inco many other lines linos of ot business a packing plant cannot exist in every town to It is not a town one own Proposition it is of a large nature i The money paid out f for r h hogs go goes back to where the hogs are raised and then into the thes various s banks banks' and is then distributed by the thein h in- in hog og As r raisers wherever the they may do their trad- trad for for na it requires hundreds lof thousands thousands-of of hogs a a. a paCking UtA plant h hogs BS are raised throughout through- through out Utah pi and Idaho and not around arond any one city city in The ww which only nl thing that might revert re-ert to to the thebe be t e the the he packing packing- Plant is located would money spent by t the e the taxes paid by the company an and the purchases M and other than live stock but bear in info that the Intermountain Packing comp plant is located in Davis county not Lake county count so sp the taxes will be paid co county nty It is also a question whether any proportion of or the money wi wil spent in Salt Lake City as they will bell beliJ nearer Bountiful and Woods Cross Wi W know mow for a fact that the purchases of l large pack packers rs are generally made through Chicago offices and not through the offices at any of their plants Salt Lake Lak banks may have the pleasure of handling drafts of the large packers but their gel ages banking is done elsewhere It is therefore a big question as to th the b fits that will derive to a city from the thus the s of such a plant and It is a fact that Lake City will derive more benefit from froma alpl ing plant like ours owned exclusively byll people doing their purchasing as far be done in Utah than what they can can hop hop benefit by an Eastern plant JKr However the packing industry of U Utah h been s successfully established established- in Ogden be becj of its natural advantages as a i town Now is it right or just for to divert this line from its natural channel attempting to put our com company pan on an an tin un basis of competition with a a. million oua l dollar cern tern when our fight for years has been |