Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1898 — Great Paeking Plant Opened. [ARTICLE]

Great Paeking Plant Opened.

Sioux City, ia., June 30.—The new $3,000,000 beef-packing plant of the Cudahy Packing company wag opened Wednesday. The new plant will have u capacity for killing and packing 800 .to 1,000 bead of cattle daily in summer, and from 1,000 to 1,300 In the winter. Its sheep-killing capacity will be 800 to 1,000 daily. The hog capacity is now from 2,000 to 2,500 daily aud will be from 2,500 to 3,000 head in winter time.