Multnomah County OR Archives News.....Swift & Company 1928
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History Of The Columbia River Valley From The Dalles To The Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Page 655 1928
     SWIFT & COMPANY.  One of the most important enterprises of this city, and 
one which has to an immeasurable degree contributed to the city's advancement 
and prosperity is the business of Swift & Company. The company first became 
identified with Portland in 1907, when it bought the Union Meat Company from 
James O'Shea. It ran the O'Shea plant until 1910, when the present plant in 
North Portland was constructed. Here the company has fourteen hundred acres of 
land, about fourteen acres of which are devoted to the packing plant, the 
buildings covering about seven acres of ground, with a total floor space of 
approximately four hundred thousand square feet.

     The company is engaged in the killing of cattle, sheep and hogs, of which 
it has a weekly capacity of fifteen hundred cattle, eight thousand hogs and 
four thousand sheep. The products are shipped throughout the west and 
northwest, as well as to Alaska and the Philippine Islands. About eight 
hundred people are employed by the Company at Portland.

     The company also has a separate plant at Fourth and Hoyt streets, which 
is devoted to the manufacture of butter and cheese, poultry feeding and 
dressing, and the handling of eggs.

     Swift & Company has operated in a big way — in fact, was the pioneer 
corporation here to do things on a large scale.

     The Portland Union Stock Yards in North Portland occupies fifty acres. 
This company handles between seven thousand and eight thousand carloads of 
live stock yearly. This public market serves the live stock industry of the 
northwest. A cash competitive market is provided daily. Mr. Louis F. Swift and 
his brothers are among the principal stockholders.

     Swift & Company has shown an active and effective interest in the great 
Live Stock Show, for which Portland is famous, having been largely responsible 
for securing and improving the grounds on which the show is held. It is hard 
to estimate the advantage to a city of such a concern as Swift & Company, for 
in many and various ways it contributes to the city's welfare, and it has long 
been recognized as one of Portland's biggest assets.

     B. C. Darnall has been manager of the Swift & Company, North Portland 
plant, since 1919.

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