A Butcher Builds a Slaughterhouse So Newport's Meat Money Stays Home
L. J. Kirchans of the Central Market has broken ground a mile west of town. His target isn't just local trade — it's the Spokane packers.
L. J. Kirchans, proprietor of the Central Market, has begun the construction of a slaughter house a mile west of town. The building is to be used temporarily until he can make arrangements to build a packing house. He will make an effort to supply the local market with meats from stock raised in this vicinity, and thus keep the Newport money at home. He expects to have a modern packing house in this locality before long, in order to compete with the Spokane packers.
Mr. Kirchans is one of the most enterprising of the new business men who have come to Newport to make their home. He is at present building a fine concrete business block on Washington avenue and will invest more money in Newport. He is also interested in securing another industry for this place.
“He will make an effort to supply the local market with meats from stock raised in this vicinity, and thus keep the Newport money at home.”
"Keep the Newport money at home" is a booster slogan from 1908 that would fit on a shop-local poster this afternoon. The question Kirchans was really asking — can a small rural town process and sell what its own countryside raises, instead of shipping both the livestock and the profit to a distant city — is the same one Pend Oreille County asks about food, timber and every other dollar that leaves the county.
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