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Show PICKING PLAIT OPEiS H BUG FOR KILLING OF HOGS Although several departments of the Ogden Packing fc Provision company have been operating in the immense new addition to that corporation's plant forv several months, tho final transfer of departmental work was not completed until today, when the first killing and dressing of hogs was started. start-ed. In the future the entire pork packing pack-ing division of the company will be, concentrated in this large building, which contains the killing floor, dressing dress-ing floor, cooling rooms, cutting rooms, lard refinery, sausage room, smoke houses, cold storage rooms and many other sections necessary for pork packing. Cattle and sheep will be handled in the older buildings, tho main section of which is only about two years old. With the completion of the pork packing pack-ing building, the Ogden Packing & Provision company is now operating the largest meat packing house west of Omaha with a capacity for handling 1,250 hogs, 1,500 sheep and 300 cattle. cat-tle. The new pork packing section has 130,000 square feet of floor space and a cubic capacity of 1,500,000 cubic feet, exclusive of tho tank house, boiler boil-er and engine rooms. |