, 1892-12-21
A BUTTER FACTORY.
Movement to Establish One in
Olympia.

ItWIII cost SIS 200 in Cash and VIII
be a Profitable Investment-A
General Mass Meeting is 10 be
Held.
A mass meeting of farmers Of Thurston
county and citizens Of Olympia will be held
in Columbia hall one week from next Sat
urday (Dec. 31) at 1 o'clock p. m, for the
purpose of discussing plans for the estab-
hshment of a creamery in Olympia. A, E..
Young, well known farmer living near
Little Rock, was IN town yesterday and
made arrangements for the general meeting
designated. There will no doubt be large
attendance of farmers and citizens.
MATTER OF GENERAL INTEREST.
This matter has been discussed all over
the county for the past six weeks, and
leading farmers are of the opinion that
such an enterprise could be started with a
comparatively small outlay Of cash capital
The conditions are ripe for an enterprise of
this kind. Aside from butter sold in
Olympia by Thurston county farmers, a
careful canvass of the grocery stores reveals
the interesting fact that the dealers of this
city send an aggregate of $4,000 per year
out of the town exclusively for butter.
This imported butter sells readily at an
average price of 80 cents a pound. If this
butter could be made in Olympia, this
$4,000 would be kept within the bounds of
the county, and thus contribute materially
toward the general prosperity of the COM
monwealth. 1t is generally conceded that
a first principle of domestic economy is
that all the members of any community,
town, county, state or nation shall buy
from one another, and thus contine the
circulating medium within certain limit.
WHY KEEP MONEY AT HoME2
Any enterprise, large orsmall, that tends
to keep money at home is in keeping with
this fundamental principal of prosperity.
Hence the creamery in question would help
Outin number of ways. Located in Olym-
pia it would be easily accessible from all
directions and would draw trade from a
number of points now tributary to other
towns.
THE COST.
1t is estimated that creamery that would
consume the product of 1000 COWS could be
started for a cash outlay of $4,000. This
would give employment to nearly 100 men
in taking care of the COWS. Three men
would be needed to operate the creamery,
one to make the butter, one to operate the
machinery and one to run the wagon car
rying milk cans to and from the train.
A STOCK COMPANY.
The proposition now under discussion is
to form a stock company, placing the
shares at price within easy reach of the
means of the farmers, so a large number
could come in. The company could be in
cOrporated, and operated upon exactly the
same basis as any other business enter
prise. All the butter would then be made
by an expert, and would be in ready de-
mand outside of Olympia, so that there
would be no trouble whatever in disposing
of all the butter the Olympia creamery
could produce
WOULD BENEFIT THE LAND.
Another feature worthy of special mem
ton is that the farmers can keep their
COWS on their own farms and supply them
with food of their own raising. The main
tenance of cows leads to the improvement
of the land and results in the production of
better crops. Farmers whose land has
been worked until it will no longer produce
good crops, willfully appreciate the value
OF a thoroughly reliable fertilizer. This
has been the experience of Geo. Cham bers,
living at Yelm, who milks forty COWS for
the Duwamish creamery at Seattle, an en-
terprise in which he is financially inter-
ested.
AT MoNTEsANo.
A creamery has been established at
MontesanO upon the stock company plan.
The amount of cash invested is 81, 4,5O0
Mr.. Young recently visited Montesano for
the purpose of learning all he could about
the creamery started there. He returned
highly elated over the enterprise and has
been talking up the matter ever since
among his friends both in the country and
in town.
WHAT OLYMPIA SHOULD DO.
There seems to be a general sentiment
among the farmers that Olympia should
donate the building site for the proposed
creamery, since it would be of commercial
value to have the creamery here.
THOSE INTERESTED.
Among the earnest workers in this move
ment residing in Olympia are J.. S. Dobbins
and A. H. Chambers. Mr.. DObbins has
discussed the matter considerably with the
farmers and is confident it will be a sue
cess. Mr.. Chambers has also heard con-
siderable about the movement, and says he
sees no reason why it should not be carried
through without any trouble whatever.
AN ADDRESS BY AN EXPERT.
The mass meeting announced will be
purely for the purpose of calling out gem
eral expression of opinion and for reaching
some definite conclusion. 1t is quite likely
an expert in the creamery business will be
present and address the mass meeting. An
effort will be made to secure the attendance
of T. NJ. Award, of the DuWamish dairy, a
gentleman quite we'll known in Thurston
county. Every citizen of Thurston county
is entitled to a seatin this convention.
Hard Times?
Do not waste your money then buying
knlcknacks and gim-cracks that neither you
orno one else has any earthly use for. Spend
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