CHAPTER II 



EARLY PACKING AND REFRIGERATION 



LJ. CALLAHAN In his reminiscences shows 

 , that Armour slaughtered the first beef, from 

 a packing standpoint, in Kansas City in 1869, using 

 the Nof singer House, but in 1870 the company Icilled 

 In Its own plant, and by the fall of 1871 thought It 

 remarkable to be killing 100 cattle In a ten-hour day. 

 McCoy records 68,000 cattle killed In 1871 and 

 1872 in Kansas City, Armour killing one-half, the 

 other one-half by others whom he does not mention; 

 also that in 1873 26,800 were killed, the volume 

 being reduced by the panic of that year. Callahan 

 says that In 1869 some cattle were slaughtered In 

 Houston, Tex., by Hancock & Cragin and some at 

 Junction City, Kans., by Patterson & Co. 



In 1869 Philip D. Armour sent P. C. Cole to 

 Texas with a view to selecting a killing point, but 

 after careful investigation Mr. Cole reported that 

 it was too early to go to Texas, and, placing his 

 finger on the map at Kansas City, said, "This is the 

 logical point." Mr. Cole was more or less with the 

 Armour Kansas City plant and was associated with 

 Geo. W. Tourtelotte in the early range buying. 



McCoy records that In 1873 the Missouri, Kansas 



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