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Show NEW JERSEY ILL HAVE IMMENSE STOCKYARDS WILL RIVAL IN CAPACITY THOSE OF THE WEST. Modern Slaughter Houses Are Designed De-signed to Supply Cheaper and Fresher Fresh-er Meat for Greater New York. Chicago. Jan. 1. According to plans which have been announced here, immense im-mense stockyards, rivalling In capacity those of the West, are to be constructed construct-ed on the Hackensack meadows In New Jersey. In connection with the yards there will be modern slaughter houses designed to supply cheaper and fresher meat for Greater New York and vicinity, as well as to compete with the world's trade. The organlzar tlon. it is said, will be capitalized for ?1 0.000,000. Plans for tho proposed packery have progressed so far that surveys for the yards are now being made by engineers. Fifteen hundred acres will be used. Not a dollar of Chicago or other western capital is to be used in the project, it is said, but it Is to bo backed back-ed by English and Canadian capitalists. capital-ists. Work on the buildings will begin this spring and It Is expected some of the plants will bo In operation by the fall of 1909. The new plant is to be situated between be-tween Secaucus and West New York. N. J., In direct lino with the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania railroad's tunnel connection with New York City, and connection with the Lackawanna. Lehigh Valley, Jersey Jer-sey Central, Baltimore & Ohio, Reading, Read-ing, Brio and other railroads. It will he comparatively an easy task to construct con-struct a belt line to the yards. Further transportation will be afforded by dredging the Ilackensack river and Newark bay to connect with a channel now under construction. |