OCR Text |
Show This Will Be a Scries of Snort Sketches of . Men Pictures ofUtak's Biglen "? WLo Built Up tne State I . ...... . . ' 1 ..: . . ; "-" : -. ,. . ... ,. . y . , . . " ,;. ' ' :-.V" x AUGUST ROLAND - . . . a The subject of this sketch, Mr. August Roland, is the president and treasurer of the Murray Meat and Live Stock company. . Mr. Roland simply followed fol-lowed his father's footsteps in .this line of business, and it is doubtful if there is a more practical or better informed man in this line in the intermountain" intermoun-tain" country. He was born and educated in Germany Ger-many and emigrated to - this country in 1871. He first settled in Grand . Rapids, Mien., engagine in the wholesale meat business, and remained there until '1881. He next furnished the Denver & Rio Grande and Colorado Midland railroads with beef during the completion of their contracts for construction, con-struction, which kept him engaged until 1899. .He then came to Salt Lake City, secured a partner and started in the wholesale meat business under the firm name of Roland & Sampson. This enterprise lasted about two years.' In the meantime Mr. Roland Ro-land held a flock of sheep on the Utah range, also on the Colorado range, near Grand Junction, and, on ' account of President Cleveland taking the tariff off of wool, causing a loss of about $2 a head, Mr. Roland was obliged to return to. the range and dispose dis-pose of the herd, consisting of about 32,000 sheep, and in this transaction he lost a fortune. Nothing daunted, however, he , returned to this city and started the Murray Meat and Live Stock company in 1893. The company's plant, which is located on South State street, shows . equipment and sanitary conditions unsurpassed ' by any of the bipr packing houses of the East: speaking, of course, comparatively compara-tively as to size. It has a capacity of serving 100 . cattle and 100 sheep a day, and includes ice ponds occupying fourteen acres, and the Oregon Short Line Railroad company has a switch running in direct. The company does its own slaughtering and secures the cattle from Idaho and Nevada. Every animal bought is inspected both before and after slaugh- . ter in accordance with the strictest inspection regulations, reg-ulations, and every animal or carcass that does not pass this rigid inspection is condemned ' and disposed dis-posed of. The recent packing-house investigations ' surely cannot reflect in any wav on the methods and equipment of this faultless and progressive establishment. estab-lishment. There has never been any secret about the methods and the plant is alwavs wide open to the public. Inspection has always been invited and cheerfully encouraged. Mr. Roland in a marked decree de-cree is a man of " Indomitable courage, pluck and perseverance, and earnest and determined in all his business endeavors. In his methods there is nothing noth-ing of a haphazard character. He is a man. of practical ideas, not a visionary in any sense of the , word. Through his business experience, travel. and observation he has become a man of. broad general information and of progressive views, and has made an untarnished record and an unspotted reputation as a business man. Socially he has the happy fac- ulty of making friends, of "keeping them and enjoying enjoy-ing their sincere respect and esteem. |