Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-02 | Page 26 | Packing House Has Big Trade

PACKING HOUSE HASBIGTRADE Ocjden Packing & Provision Co. Continues to Expand Under New Management 'gden's importanco as I meat pin k-Ing k-Ing center has become one of the notable no-table factors of the city. With the great plant of the Ogden Packing & Provision company constantly nlatg-Ing nlatg-Ing Its output ami, through this Increase In-crease absorbing larger and larger shipments of livestock from all parts of the west. Ogden has become known as one of the roal meat producing centers of the west I'nder the direction of J. Rrennan, selected last nprlng as general manager mana-ger of tho 1 ig.len I'. it king A: Provision Co. business, the company haa continued con-tinued Its extension of business. The plant has been operated nt even greaS er capacity thsn ever before. Manager Man-ager Brennan was formsrly with swift & Co. and Just prior to coming to Ogdon WSS located In Denver. Colo., where he was manager of a large plant. sllIP K) M sI VII v distribution of the tigden Packing A- Provision company's products Is not purely local, the great establishment has branch houses throughout the western states and makes frequent shipments to the southeastern Mates and also to foreign markets by way of Boston. New York and .Montreal. In 1901 the business Inter. 1 ol Lars Hansen and the Ogden Packing j Company were consolidated a ii' I the 1 igden Packing company was UCOI porntcd with a capital of ffSOO. The company had no buildings and did no meat packing it simply rented a slaughter house and did a froah meat I business. 1 ue uuoiiiess itrew. in i:iti 1 1 11.01 grown to such a slxc that a reorganization reorganiza-tion was warranted, the capital was in-' in-' creased. 'a two-story building SO by 1 100 feet win erected, and the packing :of hogs was commenced. It was then fhnt the problem of getting encugh I hogs developed. There were only a 1 few hogs In the local country available land hogs had to be shipped In from iNsbrasks rorularly. This was unprofitable unprof-itable business, however, for hogs cost 'S"l cents per hundred pounds from Nebraska Ne-braska to Ogden. although they could be sent from the same place clear to Portland. Oregon, for cents I IRGER 51 Pl'i Y OP HOGS j In order to overcome this advent 1 condition the company found It neces-jsnry neces-jsnry to enrry on h regulur campaign of I hog production In the Intermountain country. Money hud to be supplied t., the farmers even, that thev might en- j gnge In the business lUCOeesfully. Orndually a larger supply of hogs became be-came available. As these aupplles Increased the ogden og-den Packing Provision company, as the company wna known after the reorganization, re-organization, enlarged Ita plant. In 1907 less than 5000 hogs w.n handled han-dled during the entire year and a tnn-porlty tnn-porlty of these animals were shipped from Nebraaku The company In 191." was handling len times un many hogs as In 1907. The Increase that came with the building build-ing of the new plant for pork packing, however, was even greater for the Immense Im-mense structure Is now uble to handle 1250 head of hoga each doy placing the Ogden Packing & Provision company com-pany ,ls on of tho lare;sr packing companies com-panies of tho country. In fact. It is the largest packing house west of the Missouri river points.