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- Hotel del Coronado Records, 1888-1995
Letter from E. S. Babcock to Messrs Swift & Co.
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V020-456
Letter from E. S. Babcock to Messrs Swift & Co.
Bound Correspondence; Volume 20, page 456
11/20/1891
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Babcock, Elijah S.
Babcock writes to Swift & Company requesting pricing regarding a possible shipment of provisions and cuts of meat.
Hotel del Coronado; Letters; Correspondence; Elijah S. Babcock; E. S. Babcock; Hotel industry; Swift & Company; Meats; Provisions; Pricing
1500 Orange Avenue
California - Coronado
- Hotel del Coronado Records, 1888-1995
Dining at the Del
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November 20, 1891 Messrs Swift & Co.,
Kansas City, Mo.,
Gentlemen:-
I have your favor of the 14th inst.
Though we have been warned by the parties with whom we have hitherto dealt, that their card cannot be used in the shipment of provisions by other parties, I take it for granted you would not quote us prices, unless you can deliver the material here, in good order, in refrigerator cars. If you can do this, and feel that you can do like Armour & Co., have done in the past, insure us that the material will reach us in good order, we paying the freight, you can load a car with the following articles, shipping between the first and fifth of Dec., if possible via the Santa Fe route, and consigning same to the Hotel del Coronado, Coronado, Cal.
100 prime short loins
125 prime short ribs
5 tierces best ham, average 14 lbs.
2 tierces best bacon
4 ½ bbbs pigs feet
1 ½ bbls honey comb tripe
2 bbls Cape Cod cranberries
1 bbl pickle beef tongue
2 cases Roquefort cheese
20 dozen cans New York Counts
1000 lbs pure leaf lard, 50 lb. tins
100 lbs fancy sausage
100 lbs sweet breads
100 lbs lbs pork tenderloins
100 lbs dried beef
250 turkeys
400 hens
200 broilers
200 spring chickens 15 calve's livers.
All poultry to be drawn, head and feet off, dry picked.
We shall not use very much during Dec. but during Jan., Feb., March and April our consumption will be large. If the first car turns out as good as the cars we have purchased heretofore in other quarters, we will continue to give you orders.
I have had hotel men in San Francisco and Los Angeles tell that they never have been able to get any one outside of Armour & Co., to out loins and ribs as short as that firm done. I mention this, because it may be that your cut is enough longer than Armour
Kansas City, Mo.,
Gentlemen:-
I have your favor of the 14th inst.
Though we have been warned by the parties with whom we have hitherto dealt, that their card cannot be used in the shipment of provisions by other parties, I take it for granted you would not quote us prices, unless you can deliver the material here, in good order, in refrigerator cars. If you can do this, and feel that you can do like Armour & Co., have done in the past, insure us that the material will reach us in good order, we paying the freight, you can load a car with the following articles, shipping between the first and fifth of Dec., if possible via the Santa Fe route, and consigning same to the Hotel del Coronado, Coronado, Cal.
100 prime short loins
125 prime short ribs
5 tierces best ham, average 14 lbs.
2 tierces best bacon
4 ½ bbbs pigs feet
1 ½ bbls honey comb tripe
2 bbls Cape Cod cranberries
1 bbl pickle beef tongue
2 cases Roquefort cheese
20 dozen cans New York Counts
1000 lbs pure leaf lard, 50 lb. tins
100 lbs fancy sausage
100 lbs sweet breads
100 lbs lbs pork tenderloins
100 lbs dried beef
250 turkeys
400 hens
200 broilers
200 spring chickens 15 calve's livers.
All poultry to be drawn, head and feet off, dry picked.
We shall not use very much during Dec. but during Jan., Feb., March and April our consumption will be large. If the first car turns out as good as the cars we have purchased heretofore in other quarters, we will continue to give you orders.
I have had hotel men in San Francisco and Los Angeles tell that they never have been able to get any one outside of Armour & Co., to out loins and ribs as short as that firm done. I mention this, because it may be that your cut is enough longer than Armour
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