Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-14
THE CREAMERY A CO.
AN INDUSTRY THAT WILL DO MORE
TO HELP OUR COUNTY AND CITY
THAN ANYTHING ELSE.
The Elements Of Success all In
Our overwhelming Lacking
But Concert OF Action, and
That Ia Bound to Follow.
THE CREAMERY MEETING.

THE CREAMERY MEETING.
- On FRIDAY afternoon,
YXdE@N the 9th inst.' a meeting
<AAG of business men and
farmers was held at the Grand Central
hotel to discuss the matter of cream
cry and cheese factory. }. w. Brown
was made chairman of the meeting and
w. E. Stoke secretary.
Mr.. Lewis Jones, representing the
Davis & Rankin Co., of Chicago, Ills,
presented plans and specifications of
the proposed plant, which were ex-
amined with interest, and the more
minute details explained by Mr.. Jones.
He stated the way of gathering the
milk; the average price paid for milk
and obtained for the creamery products,
etc.
G. e. Sowle gave some of his views on
the benefits of the business, to the farm
ing community especially. He thought
the manufacture of cheese would
be the most paying business, but as the
plant OF factory in contemplation
would comprise machinery and facili-
ties for making beth butter and cheese
the article for which the best market
could be found would be the thing to
manufacture.
Geo. N. Moses moved that an earnest
{. .effOrt be made to raise the required
amount of money to put in the plant
and that a committee be appointed to
assist Mr.. Jones in obtaining subscrip-
tions to the capital stock of the COM
pany. The motion prevailed, and
Messrs. C. E. Sowle and Geo. II. Elan
ley were appointed as such committee.
The meeting then adjourned.
j. w. BROWN, Chm'n.
w. E. STOKE, Sec'y.
AS result of the above meeting we
believe business will soon be under
way in this city that will be of
greater benefit to the farming COM
munity than anything we could estab-
lish in Great Bend. All that is needed
to assure it's success, is for every man
who has dollars worth of interest in
Great Bend and the surrounding coun-
try to do his share towards making it so.
COST AND SIZE OF THE PLANT.
The plant will cost 81 500, or So 200.
with the grounds and water furnished,
all complete and ready for work. The
buildings will be of frame with brick
or stone foundation; dimensions, 36xe6
feet, 1S feet high, with engine and
boiler house 16x16, II feet high; all to
be built of first class material, sided
with drop siding, and shingle roof.
The factory building will be two
stories high and will comprise seven
rooms, viz: milk receiving room, office,
manufacturing room, ice room, cold
storage room, cheese room and store
room. A ten-horse power engine with
twelve-horse power boiler will furnish
power and heat. The capacity of the
factory will be 10000 to $4,000 pounds
of milk per day. After the adjourn
ment of the meeting Friday three gen.
tlemen present put themselves down
as three of twenty men to take the
entire stock in the business.
ESTIMATED MILK RESOURCES.
Gentlemen interested in the estab-
liShment OF creamery at Great Bend
have canvassed the surrounding terri
tory within radius of six miles and as
certained that there are at least 1000
milch COWS within the limits at the
present time; of this number 1T was
thought safe to count on getting the
product of at least 500 COWS to start
with. Twenty pounds of milk to the
cow. per day, is low average, which
from 500 cows would give 10000 pounds
per day; and it is well understood that
if the business proves a paying one to
the farmers the product of double or
thribble that number of COWS would
soon be obtained; besides the farmers
would learn that it was to their advan-
tage to procure better grades of cows
or by feeding and more careful atten-
tiOn obtain greater average than
20lbs per day per cow.
PLAN OF GATHERING THE MILK.
The most economical way to gather
the milk will be for sufficient num-
ber of men to get each a route which
they could make with the greatest
facility and thus save the time it would
take each farmer to bring his milk to
town. The nights milk would be SET