The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 30, 1917, Page 2

Mention Leader when writing advertisers PAGE TWO PR . ADVERTISEMENTS "HISTORY of the PACKING INDUSTRY . THE FIRST PLANT The first packing plant built, according to history of the packing industry, was at Portland, Maine, 1680. This plant was operated on a small scale and considered more or less of an exgenment_. In 1720, Philadelphia built a small plant. The name of this firm is still being used by a Philadelphia packer. Shortly after the introduction of the first plant at Philadelphia, several more were built and people were under the impression that Philadelphia would some day be the leading packing center of the world for the reason that it had the best railroad facilities and was well located for a distributing center. But in the early eighties, Cincinnati became the head of the stock raising center, having direct lines to eastern markets. Several plants were built and their businness was in later years a great deal more than that of Philadelphia. But gradually the railroads built through lines to Chicago and west, which naturally brought the farmer into this territory. They raised abundant crops of various grains and with the large grazing fields the livestock supply was by far greater than that raised in Ohio. 'CHICAGO ENTERS THE FIELD This was in the early days of G. F. Swift, Phil Armour and Nelson Morris, whose firm names are still carried today by the largest packers in the country. These men were far sighted enough to take advantage of the situation and built their first plants on a small scale in Chicago, but they operated everything in a thorough business-like manner and in later years adopted methods to utilize all by- products of the packing business, which made their firms grow faster than the average small packers for the reason that the profits made from these hy-products were practically clear money over and above other packers’ profits. As their business grew, they increased the size of plants and as the coun- try west of Chicago along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers developed, the raising of livestock became so large that it became impessible for Chicago to handle the entire supply. The Chicago packers built plants in Omaha, Kansas City, St. Joseph, St. Louis, Fort Worth, Oklahoma City, Sioux City and St. Paul, taking advantage of the best livestock centers as fast as the conditions would allow them to do so. At the present date they are known as the largest packers in the world for no other reason but that they took advantage of the situation in due time, which naturally is the case with them today. They are still building plants in every territory that shows any development. It is a known fact that several packers have expressed their opinion that they could not see how it happened that the Northwest territory had not been taken yp by some of the larger packers so as to prevent the small packers or the farmers from getting into this territory, which had been at the merey of St. Paul for many years. FARGO LOGGICAL POINT FOR THE FUTURE Fargo, located in the center of the stock raising locality, and its abundant railroad facilities, there will not be any better location in the entire Northwest for a packing center. These railroads give the farmer a splendid opportunity to deliver livestock to the plant without delay, causing excessive shrinkage and also gives the Equity Co-operative Packing Company the advantage_ over all other packers in delivery of the finished products throughout the Northwest. THE CO-OPERATIVE IDEA Under the present system, the Co-operative ideas of the Equity Co-operative Packing Company at Fargo operating at capacity, will be able to save for the stockholders on commissions and yardage alone a total amount of $75,000 per year. This saving would in less than six years’ time pay for the entire plant or, in other words, the entire stock raised in North Dalkota alone in one year would produce a saving on commissions and yardage an amount sufficient to pay for the entire plant in less than one year’s time, not mentioning anything about preventing excessive shrinkage on long distance hauls. =’ We will leave it to the farmers or stock raisers just what profits they have been giving away to middlemen that should really belong to the people who rightfully earn this margin—the producers. VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY As evidence to show what packing centers will do for the development of livestock in any state, there are now located in the following states of ILLINOIS . i iieivanin 9 cities Operating 37 P. Plants IOWA iy nons . 10 cities Operating 13 P, Plants MISSOURI AND KANSAS 10 cities Operating 29 P. Plants NEBRASKA ..... R 4 cities Operating 10 P. Plants WISCONSIN ............. 6 cities Operating 13 P, Plants Three of these Wisconsin plants are operated on a Co-operative basis and are making progress regardless of all the criticism given by UNFRIENDLY parties-of CO-OPERATIVE movements. These plants are all of modern construetion and so arranged to operate economically and ntilize all by-products the same as the large packeér. Many packing plants are ine dependent of the large packers. Throughout the United States there are mearly 1,000 packing plants of various sizeg, but the large packers control only about 55 per cent of the entire meat supply. This leaves still and co-operative packing plants. THE WORK HAS STARTED TO PUT NORTH DAKOTA IN THE LIST ~OE PACKING HOUSE STATES: SUCCESS IS IN SIGHT, YOU CAN HELP. The Equity Co-operative Packing Co. wants to start without debt, and with $1,000,000 of resources, $250,000 more of stock sales will reach the goal. Every person is invited to become identified with this great industry, Shares, $30.00 each Limit, 40 shares to a stockholder. Stockholders have but one vote. . 2 - The Equity Co-Operative Packing Co. AUTHORIZED CAPITAL $1,000,000.00 M idn - Fargo, North Dakota e P. M. CASEY, Pres., Fargo, N. D. L. C. HOOPMAN, Mgr., and Sec’y. WM. OLSON, Treas,, 'Valley Gity, N. D, : EXECUTIVE: P. M. Casey, Fargo, N. D.; J. C. Leum, Mayville, N. D.; O. C. Lindvig, Fargo, N. D. DIRECTORS: Anthony Walton, Minot, N. D.; Lewis Altenbernd, Sabin, Minn.; J. C. Bergh, Hendrum, Minn,; A, H. Walley, Vi N. D¥ C. D. King, Menoken, N, D.; Wm. Olson, Valley City, N. D. d"’". A a large field for independent -