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Show AT THE SLAUGHTER-HOUSES. magnificent Bovines Offered Up as a Sacrifice on the Christmas . - Altar. ' This being the time of year that gourmands anticipate a glorious Christmas Christ-mas feast, when the handsome steer and coquettish cow is sacrificed at the altar of our carniverous appetites, a Democrat reporter, in company with Mr. Joseph Jennings, behind a high-stepper, called at Jennings' slaughter yards, two miles north ' of the city, and witnessed the pieparations being made for their regular I Christmas display. Messrs. Jennings & Sons make their holiday display in the true style and spirit of old England, where roast beef and plum pudding rule the day. At the yards JUr. John .faul, in charge, and " George Guiver, the expert . manipulator of the knife, were found busily engaged in dressing some of the most elegant beef animals ever presented to any mancec, ana wnen they were deprived of their heads and feet they presented the symmetrical form amounting almost to absolute squareness, i and looking so plump, fat and juicy that the reporter felt as if he could have started in and enjoyed a square feast if he had been possessed of match and frying fry-ing pan. The enterprising firm will exhibit ex-hibit some thirty of the fatted kind at the Empire Market, corner of First South and Commercial streets, aggregating in their full holiday display sixty thousand pounds of meats. Ihe dispatch and . skill with which meats of all kinds are prepared for the market would prove interesting reading if time and space permitted the description, descrip-tion, and is well worth a visit by anyone at all interested in what may be rightly called the fine art of slaughter. The facilities fa-cilities provided at this place of activity are of the most modern and approved character, and consist of about forty acres of feed grounds, corrals, slaughter and storage accommodations, with ample steam power and appliances for the making mak-ing of tallow and reduction of all extras. Everything passes along in a systematic system-atic manner, and Guiver's (the head butcher) commands sound like military orders in their regularity and precision. To-day "Jumbo No. 2," a fine Durham j grass-fed yearling, was escorted to the yards and placed upon the altar. A finer specimen of beef would be hard to find. "Lady Blanche" a beautiful roan thoroughbred Durham cow was driven in from the Devereux farm at Centre-ville Centre-ville and placed upon the scales, which she balanced at 1,920 pounds. This hand some animal never had a pound of grain, and when dressed will be a sight among the extensive display. White & Sons, Glenfield, Amos and the other leading butchers of Salt Lake, are making equal endeavors to compete with the leading - holiday displays of the market. - - |