North Fork meat packing plant questions

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Attached is the original siding agreement  for the S&S packing house dated
June 12, 1905 (Contracts and Agreements Book 40 page 238). The location
appears similar to that which Grant described for the Swift plant. S&S had
moved from that location by 1915.



Also attached is a partial undated picture of Northfork which shows a chute
for roadside unloading of animals next to the Wilson plant.



Related scans are from Eastern Regional Coal Archives.



Alex Schust



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*From:* NW-Mailing-List [mailto:nw-mailing-list-bounces at nwhs.org] *On
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*Sent:* Sunday, December 10, 2017 2:41 PM
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*Subject:CORSAIR:* Re: North Fork meat packing plant questions



Dr. Greer,

The other two were Wilson and Swift, which made for a curious concentration
of packing plants in Northfork. A facing-point spur off of the eastbound
main ran behind the station parallel to Elkhorn Creek. Across the spur from
the station was Wilson, built as S&S, Schwarzchild and Sulzberger, next to
the creek. Next door to Wilson was Armour, near the end of the spur. Across
the spur from Armour, Flat Top Ice and Cold Storage was strategically
located between the spur and the main line at the end of the station
platform.

I ran across an early map of Northfork in Division archives that indicated
cattle pens on the lot between S&S and Armour. I haven't looked up the
owner(s), but apparently, product still on the hoof was first shipped in
before widespread adoption of the Swift business model of shipping
refrigerated carcasses. Swift built later nearby on a trailing-point spur
off of and adjacent to the eastbound main just west of the North Fork
Hollow Road crossing.

Later, anyway, each plant received one car of meat every Monday morning,
plus the occasional load of sausage. LCL outbound shipments to distributors
and retailers would have been easy, given the close proximity of the
packing plants, the station and the ice house. Eventually, trucks would
handle all outbound shipments.

Grant Carpenter

On 12/9/2017 2:37 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:

The recent discussions on the operations on the North Fork branch have been
fascinating and particularly the sidebar about meat reefers. I've been
digging through print references, newspaper articles, and online searches
to attempt to learn more about the meat industries there.  I've found
reference to the presence of 3 different meat packing plants in North Fork,
but so far I've only been able to learn the name of one of them (Armour).
Can anyone here tell me the names of the other 2?

Also, I would like to know how many carloads they typically might have
received each week.

Sincere Thanks!
Brent

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Dr. J. Brent Greer
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