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Show IOGDEN PACKING PLANT HAS GAINED NATIONAL REPUTE AS LARGEJOOD INDUSTRY Employs More Than 400 Men and Women, With Distribution Throughout West and Into Many-Other Many-Other States; More Hogs Needed From Western Farms to Bring Full Output of Firm Known throughout the United States ;is I ho largest ment packing JJplnnt between Missouri river cities and the Pacific ooasi ,the gnat estabflsh-'i'ment estabflsh-'i'ment of the gdon rack Ins I'rovi-,slon I'rovi-,slon company is one of the Industrie that ha-s been In constant operation during the past year. More than 400 Anion and women arc constantly em-ployed em-ployed In the packing plant and its general offices in gden. while the various branch houses add many others oth-ers to the payroll. Among these are branches located it Salt Lake City, Lofl Angeles and .JSan Francisco, three of the chief distributing dis-tributing points for the company's products In them large stocks of ! meats and provisions are constantly carried' and from their offices sales-jmen sales-jmen go to large areas of territory. These are the principal branches but It he company maintains others, including includ-ing one In Butte. Mont, and several others in the west, to which constant .-hlprncnts are made. Most of the cattle, sheep and hops ;bought for the packing wnnpany, are aubtalned in the intermountaln states, but because of scarcity in production, "it has been necessary to buy thousands of hogs in Nebraska and ship them westward. MOKE BOGS M I DEI) j "Utah and Idaho fanners ought to "raise more hogs," said Manager James Brcnnan of the packing company recently. re-cently. "First of all, hops are one of the most profitable crops that call bt "raised on a farm Second, they utilize Jmuch food material that would bo -wasted were they not raised Third "diversity In animal husbandry Is just as essential as diversity In agricultural. agricul-tural. The good farmer does not Want to raise one crop, neither should !) livestock raiser A few hogs on a warm bring an excellent income and a steady one, for they are always in do-Smand. do-Smand. They bring cash at times when pother sales are not possible. "From the standpoint of the farmer himself they are essential and from the standpoint of the meat packing -industry' they are also a j;reat need. 'This company would buy many more hogs than are produced In its tributary territory if they Wen- talked and our hope is that the number will Increase. LARGE, MODERN PLANT The Ogden Packing it- Provision company plant Is one of the largest and most modern in the mountain states. Its growth has been gradual, .unit after unit being added. '! he first unit is now largely devoted to storage stor-age arid freight handling facilities, the' second Is now the beef and mutton packing section. In these two, aiso, arc tho vast coolers where hundred! of sides of beef, veal, mutton and lamb arc held Cor the time necessary to prepare them tor market or to ship them, The third unit Is the pork packing division, tho largest of the plant. This modern steel, concrete and brick structure is absolutely fire-proof. Its machinery Is of the very latest type. Its force of workers Is one of the most efficient In the entire country. The production of salt and smoked" meats, of hams, bacons, bausages and othei pork products has become known as tho great factor In the plant s upbuilding. up-building. SARDS IN CONJUNCTION. In this building also are located the vellneries for lad. tallow and similar simi-lar products and also the large electrically elec-trically driven power plant, the heating heat-ing plant and the refrigerating machinery. ma-chinery. Some of the freezers used in the pork packing division are kept at temperature below zero, many others below the freezing point. Mile upon -mile of piping has been necessary to i accomplish this, all connected with jthe refrigerating pumps. There are two other unit to this establishment 4h plant in which fertiliser Is made as a byproduct and the livestock yards operated by tho company. These livestock ynrd.s are located across the Weber river from the packing pack-ing plant and arc connected with the establishment by a bridge Which has ' become known as "the brldgo of grunts," for over it pass the animals LO the packing plant. The yards adjoin ad-join those of the Ogden Union Stock V.i i .Is. being conveniently located for handling oj livestock from the raii-1 raii-1 road line through the yards to tho sheds and i . rials that form this unit Directed by experienced packing men. with a splendid force of workmen work-men with a large sales territory that absorbs the output rapidly, the packing pack-ing plant Ik one of Ogden'B most sub-statlal sub-statlal Institutions and one which th I citizens of igden expect to grow Into In-to even a. greater packing plant. |