A meatpacking plant will be built at the border.

In an effort to salvage the dwindling cattle business in Arizona and Southern California, officials say Mexican investors, a U.S. distributing company and a cattle-feeder association have tentative plans to build a giant meatpacking plant across the border in Mexico. A site for the plant has not been chosen, but it will be built between Tucson and San Diego and will have the capacity to process more than 700,000 pounds of meat a year, said Len Mattice, senior vice president of the Arizona Cattlemen’s Assn. in Phoenix. The distributing company and the Mexican investors were not identified.