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TRIBUTARY TERRITORY, AND OF BENEFIT
We are now working on the eighth floor of the Skinner Pack
ing Company plant, the most modern and efficient packing plant in
the United States. This is the last floor and the roof will be on!
the plant within 15 days. Machinery is now coming in and being
erected. The outstanding features of the plant, which is located
just south and west of Swift's on the South Side, Omaha, are at
follows:
1. A most complete modern packing house under one
roof without the familiar packing house ODOR. Sanitary and
fire-proof construction throughout, equipped to condense and
burn all obnoxious vapors and gases. Could be placed in the
downtown district without objection or annoyance. .All depart
ments are logically arranged to secure maximum efficiency at min
imum operating cost.
thi! United Stale. The
high level of our building site above the South Side drainage system made this pos
sible, requiring very little refrigeration and providing storage space for four million
pounds of cured meats on the ground floor. This is pronounced by packing house men
as a distinctive feature and very desirable.
3. Enclosed concrete and brick refrigerated ear loading docks for sixteen
refrigerator cars with overhead car icing facilities. The finest wagon and auto truck
loading dock and court in the United States.
4. Large steel tanks in cold storage for carrying lard in bulk from a period
of large production to a period of small production and large demand.
5. Beautiful monotone exterior design, most modern ami appropriate for in
dustrial plants engaged in food production. Red matt face brick exterior with pilas
ter and panel effect and white enamel terra cotta trim and coping. Killing floor and
food producing departments finished with white enamel brick and quarry tile.
6. Located on our forty-acre tract outside of the congested South Side adjoining
the Union Stock Yards to the south. Union Pacific, Rock Island, and Union Stock
Yards railroads and driving chute connections. Six-foot sewer running through our
property connecting with the sixteen-foot South Side trunk sewer.
ROBERT GILMORE.
Secretary of tha Skinner Packing
Company, alae Secretary f the
Skinner Manufacturing Company,
the world's largest distributors and
manufacturers of Macaroni Products
PAUL F. SKINNER
Chairman of Board, Skinner Pack
ing Company, also President of
the Skinner Manufacturing Com
pany, the world's largest distribu
tors and manufacturers of Maca
roni Products. President Skinner
Baking Company, wholesale bakers.
CHARLES P. KAMRATH
Vice-President and Manager Skin
ner Packing Company. Twenty
fire years' experience in Packing
business. Formerly, Manager Ar
mour A Company's present plant,
Spokane, Washington.
7. Plant occupies over eleven acres of floor space, has eight floors which includes
basement and sub-basement Over 430 feet long and 236 feet wide including enclosed
loading docks and in addition, garage and dining room for men and women, three
stories, size 53x60. Also general office three stories and basement, top floor to be oc
cupies! by government inspectors, size 53x60. Entire plant built to double without los
ing any efficiency and preparations made for doubling.
8. The Vice-President and Manager of the Skinner Packing Company is Mr.
Charles F. Kamrath. He has had twenty-five years experience in the packing busi
ness; was formerly manager of Armour & Cos plant at Spokane, Washington.
He is financially interested and permanently located wth the Skinner Packing Company
One of the strongest endorsements of the Skinner plant is the following interview that ap
peared in The Omaha Bee, Thursday,' April 24, 1919, given by Dr. Frank P. St. Clair, traveling
inspector of packing industries for the Bureau of Animal Industry, Washington, D. C., and Dr.
Herman Busman, U. S. government inspector in charge of the South Omaha station, who has
165 men in his department Dr. St Clair had this to sayt "I have been in close touch with the
Skinner plans from the time excavation started and everything that is done is in perfect ac
cord with government regulation and with the idea of maintaining the best sanitary conditions
and economic carrying on of the business. .Without a doubt the new Skinner plant, when com
pleted, will be the most modem and best designed plant I have ever visited, and it will be
pointed to as a model of design and construction."
Dr. Busman had this to say: "From the slaughtering floor through ali the various process
ing departments, economical operation, light and sanitation have been given first consideration
and in this they have been successful. -1 want to point to the employes' welfare department.
This is a department in which the bureau is especially interested in that1 we are constantly de
manding better working conditions, dressing room and toilet facilities. The" Skinner Packing
Company is not only complying generously with our suggestions, but is going farther to pro
tect the health of their employes and the public than we could legitimately demand.
The government requires that no person afflicted with a contagious disease be permitted
to handle food products. The management proposes to go one step farther, by having every
employe examined and treated by the company physician and nurse; provide lunch and rest
rooms for female and male help; well appointed and comfortable dressing and toilet rooms
with maximum light and ventilation. A modern laundry will be installed where all the outer
garments of employes will be laundered free of charge every day."
New Wholesale Market and Produce Department.
The Skinner Packing Company established their Produce Department in their own build
ing at Twelfth and Douglas Streets in July, 1918. The business has met with phenomenal suc
cess and we are doing a large and profitable volume of business, but as yet have merely
scratched the surface as to this department.
The Produce' Department is under the management of Jules H. Rosenbaum, a man of
years of experience in the Produce business.
On June 1st, we will move our produce department temporarily to the old KirchbrauA
Creamery building on Howard Street where it will be conducted while we are erecting our new
wholesale market and produce building. All the tenants in the Metropolitan Hotel will move
on June 1st. We will at once start wrecking this building and will erect on this corner a new
modern eight-story and basement, re-inforced concrete building, 99x132 feet with trackage.
First floor, which is 22 feet high, will house our wholesale market and produce department of
fice. The basement will be used for dry storage; the next five floors will be cold storage and
the two top floors will be used for handling egg, chicken picking, and chicken feeding. This
building and the Produce Department are owned by the Skinner Packing Company.
This up-to-date branch house will give the Skinner Packing Company an inevitable
standing and an opportunity to give the local retailers of Omaha and Council Bluffs real serv
ice. There is a shortage of cold storage space in Omaha and if the Skinner Packing Company
desires to lease any space it already has been spoken for.
Omaha, Nab., March 17, 1919.
Paul F. Slrinnar, Chairman of Board,
Skinnsr Packing Company, City.
Gantlameni Was quit agraaabljr surprised to Warn that you ara contemplating a cold storage warehouse
to he erected on 12th and Douglas streets. This only goes to show that you are familiar with the needs in this
locality. For the last two or three years we have found it a difficult matter to secure the necessary storage
space.
For your information we have paid out the round sum of $25,000.00' last year for cold storage charges.
Practically all of this was paid to cold storage houses located in other states.
Might also add that location selected by you is an ideal one; it is situated in the produce center and whole
sale district where it. is easy to get to and from, and have every reason to believe that you will have your house)
full thirty days after you have opened for business.
Trust this enterprise contemplated by you will be p ushed through at early date as possible, assuring you of
our hearty co-operation. Yours very truly,
THE JERPE COMMISSION COMPANY,
By C. A. Swanson, Secretary and Treasurer.
The Men Behind the Skinner Packing Company
Paul F and Lloyd M. Skinner have built up and operate the Skinner Packing Com
pany. They have also established the Skinner Manufacturing Company, the world's largest
manufacturers and distributors of macaroni products; and the Skinner Baking Company, one
of the most modern wholesale bakeries in this territory. These companies have combined as
sets of over $7,000,000 and the securities of these companies are all on a staple basis and have
never passed a dividend.
No Investor Has Ever Lost a Dollar, Neither Interest Nor Principal,
Through An Investment Made In These Companies.
Paul F and Lloyd M. Skinner have associated with them the following men who are leaders and successful
In their special work:
Charles F. Kamrath, Vice-President and Manager, Skinner Packing Company.
J. D. Kennedy, Vice-President and Manager, Skinner Manufacturing Company.
A Louie, Secretary and Manager, Skinner Baking Company.
Jules H. Rosenbaum, Manager Produce Department, Skinner Packing Company.
D. C. Robertson, Treasurer, Skinner Packing Compa ny, formerly prominent Wisconsin Banker.
C. W. Francis, Manager Financial Department, Skinner Packing Company,
Robert Gilmore, Secretary, Skinner Packing Company, also Secretary of the Skinner Manufacturing Company.
Skinner Name Well and Favorably Known Over United States.
We will have the most modern and efficient packing plant in the United States and the
most modern branch house property, all owned by the Skinner Packing Company and the
SKINNER name is well and favorably known to millions of housewives throughout the United
States in connection with high quality food products as well as being known to every retailer
and wholesale grocer in the United States and therefore the Skinner Packing Company is in a
more favorable condition to merchandise its products than any packing plant that has ever
started in business. We will do a general packing business in beef, pork and mutton and by
products and also will manufacture a line of specialty food products such as is shown here
with. Outside of our fresh meat business, all of these products will be sold strictly through
wholesale grocers and we have received hundreds of letters from wholesale grocers through
out the United States favorable to our products and have received blanket orders through the
salesmen of the Skinner Manufacturing Company for over sixty carloads of these products and
as yet we have issued no price list nor made any attempt to sell the goods. The orders were given
in connection with our men calling on the wholesale grocers and selling macaroni products.
Here is an extract from two letters of the many we have received from wholesale grocers:
Morgan ton, N. C, April 28, 1919.
Skinner Packing Company, Omaha, Neb.
Gentlemen: I am in receipt of your favor of the 24th and have carefully noted what you say in regard
to the Meat Packing proposition. I. am favorably impressed with the proposition. My opinion is that the day
is not far distant when all the wholesale grocers will buy their supplies from independent packers that are not
in the grocery business. As to our part we have already quit buying from the Big Five, even the specials that
we used to buy from them in the way of cheese, and canned goodst we have cut this out and buy from strictly
Meat Packers only. I feel sure that the other grocery houses in this section will eventually follow the same policy
that we are following.
We would like 50 or 100 shares of your stock.
Thanking you for your letter, I am, Very truly yours,
MORGANTON GROCERY COMPANY,
C. A. Spencer, Owner.
Newport News, Va., May 8, 1919.
Skinner Packing Company, Omaha, U. S. A.
Gentlemen: Kindly advise if you are ready to ship cars of provisions to this city.
We have a storage plant well equipped and are handling from one to two cars of provisions each week.
Any information you can give will be appreciated. Yours truly,
WILKINS & ROBINSON COMPANY, Inc.,
' By J. E. Wilkins.
Can Sell Entire Output.
The following extract from Robinson, Batty & Co.'s letter, Liverpool, England, was writ
ten after Mr. Batty had visited Omaha personally and inspected our plant. This firm was man
ager of Armour & Co.'s business at their Liverpool address from the year 1906 to 1913 and did
millions of dollars worth of business in the packing line and the firm is high-grade: -
Liverpool, England, 19 Temple Street, March 27, 1919.
Skinner Packing Company, Omaha, Neb.
Gentlemen: After talking with your President, Mr. Lloyd M. Skinner and your Manager, Mr. Chas. F.
Kamrath, and after going over your building, I am convinced that you are going to have a real modern plant
and that you will turn out a high quality product such as is demanded by our trade. If you will take the trou
ble to look our firm up you will find that we are well established and reliable. We are in a position to sell the
entire output of your plant on English cuts. The writer will be glad to return to the States this coming fall and
co-operate with you in the opening up of your plant. Yours truly,
ROBINSON, BATTY & CO.,
By W. Batty.
19 Temple St.,
1 Liverpool, April 5, 1919.
Skinner Packing Company, Omaha, U. S. A.
Gentlemen:
Wa were very pleased and Interested to hear that our Mr. Batty paid a visit to you mb Omaha. He has knowl
edge and a great deal of experience in the Packing line.
As per the arrangement with Mr. Batty, we shall be pleased to put at your disposal our services and diitrih
ufring machinery for the disposal of all the products you wish to sell on this side of the Atlantic.
Assuring you of our wish to assist you in every way in the development of your interests o this side,
Yours truly,
ROBINSON, BATTY & CO.,
Per E. Robinson
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