A RANCHMAN'S RECOLLECTIONS 



& Texas Railroad was completed to Denison, Tex., 

 where pens for 2,000 cattle were built; also that the 

 Atlantic and Texas Refrigerator Car Co. had con- 

 structed 100 new cars, adapted to shipping fresh 

 beef and local capacity for killing 500 cattle per day. 

 I have been unable to ascertain the fate of the Deni- 

 son enterprise, but hope to before my story is 

 finished. The reference to cars can hardly mean 

 refrigerators, since all records seem to point to 1875 

 and 1876, with Chicago taking the initiative. 



Callahan records 1876 as the year in which the 

 first killing was done in Kansas City for local butcher 

 trade. He also comments on beef hams as going In 

 large quantity In tierces to William Windsor, Liver- 

 pool, England, contracted for In advance, and to 

 Jacob Dold, Buffalo, N. Y., who later established 

 a large plant in Kansas City. Procter & Gamble of 

 Cincinnati bought the tallow, Buffalo, N. Y., took 

 the hides, and a Massachusetts concern the horns. 

 Callahan makes another comment which explains In 

 a way why the packing business moved rapidly be- 

 tween 1870 and 1880. He says: "It was usually 

 considered that If a packer either owned or could 

 rent a packinghouse, and had money enough to 

 accumulate a suitable stock of cooperage, salt and 

 saltpeter, and had a fair line with a good bank, he 

 was ready to run the business." 



The first record of refrigeration, still using natural 

 Ice, Is given by Joseph Nicholson of Chicago as 



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