The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1883-03-29
TIVE WICHITA CREAMERY.


The Wichita Creamery Company was Or
ganixed about the first Of February, 1888,
and the buildings put under contract. were
completed and all the machinery put In and
in operation by the 18th OF March, 1888.
At meeting OF the stockholders the follow.
ing board of officers and directors were
elected:
President-K T.. Lawrence,
Vice Presilent-O. c. Daisy,
Secretary-Ray Oliver,
Treasurer-L. ID. skinner,
superintendent. S. Eichholtz,
Directorf-Frank Williams and II. II.
Butter.
The creamery buildings are composed OF
an ice house 36x6O, 10 feet high; machinery
building 5sx44, 10 feet high, divided into an
engine-room containing one lO-horse power
engine of the latest and most approved pat
tern, and pumps to force water all through
the bull ting and in tanks. Adjoining this
Is large room 2sxss, containing two large
cream watts holding 30 gallons each, and
two large power-churns with a capacity OF
Next is the room for making and packing
butter, with one large power butter-worker
and one hand butter-worker. Opening into
this room IL the drainipg-room for placing
the packed butter until the drippings are
all OF; then it Is slowed away In the cooler,
3 room large enough TO hold about $1,000
pounds OF butter and built In the Ice house
where IL Is almost impossible for any warm
air to get to 1t. The next is coy little
office for doing the business and entertaing
visitors.
The ice house is now filed with over 600
tons Of As good ice As was ever put up In
this city, being enough TO run the creamery
two years. This building was built under
CONT act OF by Messrs. Holt 4 Hall, Of De-
ceola, Iowa, who have built some % cream
cries In the West. The contrast was made
by Mr.. Lewis Jones and the buildings put
up under his supervision, and judging from
the way the building is put up, the material
used IN Its construction, the work done by
his men, the kind and quality Of the ma
chInery, the manner in which Il has been
put In, shows that Mr.. Jones has given to
the people In Wichita one OF the best build
ings OF the Kind that could be constructed.
and much better building than the firm
have been accustomed to build. The build
ings are go constructed that there are two
dead.air spaces all around and through the
building, being composed OF three separate
walls or divisions, the middle division being
covered with heavy building paper, the
windows are all doubled. and all the doors
opening into the working rooms are the
same, thus making one Of the most com.
plete buildings OF the kind in the West.
Mr.. Holt, of Osceola, Iowa, on examining
the building, pronounced II one OF the best
built, arranged and equipped ereameries he
ever saw in any State.
Since the creamery has been accepted aud
turned over to the Wichita Creamery Com
pany the superintendent, C.. Eichholtz,
has been at work looking up cream routes.
getting refrigerators and cans made and
other business necessary to commence
work
The board of directors have secured the
services OF Mr.. John J. Ikner to assist the
superintendent in working up the cream
routes and TO manufacture butter. lie has
followed the business of cheese making and
the manufacture of butter for the last 81
years, and is said by butter men to be one
of the best creamery butter-makers in the
United States. lie says IL there is not good
butter turned out from the Wichita Cream
cry 1t will be because the farmers do not
follow his instructions in handling their
milk.
All the refrigeratOrs and cans that are or.
dered made by the superintendent, and by
contract, will he inspected by the butter
maker, Mr.. Ikner, and those that are not
made Of good material, and made to order.
will not be received. Mr.. Eichholtz says
there shall not De poor can or refrigerator
20 out to the farmers IL he can avoid it.
The process by which the cream is to be
gathered will be by leaving a refrigerator
and as many cans as they may need, at each
house where the parties may wish to sell
their cream. Alter fifteen or thirty days, if
the persons wish, when the cans are LEFT,
they can purchase them at cost price, and
the route men will visit them once day
and get their cream. The cream is then
brought to the creamery when it will be
manufactured into butter. The buttermilk.
Of which there will be quite a quantity,
will be sold to the citizens In the city at
nominal price.