Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1899 — TO SUPPLANT OUR PORK. [ARTICLE]

TO SUPPLANT OUR PORK.

Powerful Foreign Company to Compete with American Exporters. A powerful company composed of French, German and Russian capitalists, with a capital of over <50,000,000, has been formed for the purpose of competing with the American pork exporters in Europe, particularly in England, Germany and Scandinavia. The plan is to raise hobgs on a large scale in Siberia. It is claimed that this can be done cheaper than in the United States. The hogs will be shipped alive over the Siberian Railroad to the northwestern frontiers of Russia, where immense slaughter houses, on the American plan, will be established. Thence the pork will be sent by water to English ports and by rail to Germany and Scandinavia. In spite of the enormous dis* tance, it Is asserted that such Siberian pork can be brought to Europe cheaper than American pork. This, it is pointed

out, is due to the low cost of production in Siberia and the cheapness of transportation on the railroads.