Producing Department
—The abattoir is made the center of distribution, with the refrigerated buildings and departments directly communicative, situated nearby. The rendering and manufacturing departments—users of steam and power—are grouped near to the abattoir and to the power plant, while the buildings requiring refrigeration are grouped together and isolated from the manufacturing buildings. The stock pens connected with the plant are to the left of the manufacturing groups, but are not shown on the plan.
Abattoir Building
—This building, six stories high, is given over to the following uses: Fourth floor, slaughtering; third floor, treatment, separation and cooking of by-products and manufacture of casings; second floor, oleo oil manufacturing; first floor, oleo oil storage, and shipping purposes; basement and sub-basement, storage of tallow and curing of hides.
FIG. 6.—EXTERIOR VIEW BEEF, SHEEP AND PORK PLANT.
Rendering Building
—Divided into two sections and separated by partitions, one side is used for the refining of cotton seed oil and the manufacture of edible tallows; the other side for cooking blood and rendering inedible tallows. The floors are used as follows: Second floor, level with viscera separating floor in abattoir, from whence raw stock is trucked to the filling floor without requiring use of elevators for filling of tanks; first floor, tank bodies and receptacles for collection of tallow. The skimming vats to which the tank residue, after drawing off the tallows, is passed, are level with this floor, enabling the separation and floating of the tallow and its collection; basement for press room, and sub-basement for drying tankage. The tank water to be evaporated is collected and passed to a separate building for treatment and evaporation.
Live Stock
—The live stock pens are situated to the left of the rendering department extending north of the oil storage tanks from which position leads an incline, delivering the live stock into an elevated storage pen covering the area between the rendering house and the abattoir, and over the dressing room.