The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-12

A Large Creamery to he Built Near Mont
peiier-To lie in Running Order in Sep
tember-Other Towns Anxious to Secur,
the Prize Ground to be Broken Mex
| Week
SO quietly have the negotiations pro-
ceeded, it is not generally known that a
creamery is to be established near Mont.
| peller, and that the work of putting up the
| building is to commence at once. A Boston
| firm with abundant capital has had agents
during the months of May and June look
ing over the advantages for such an enter
| prise in the towns on the line of the Central
Vermont railroad from Randolph to Bolton
| including Montpelier, Barre and Williams
town Strong inducements have been Of
| fered by some of these towns to secure the
industry, but Montpelier, because of its
geographical position, its railroad facilities
and the rich farming country tributary to it,
has been selected.
Capital for erecting and equipping the
building with the best machinery will be
furnished by Boston parties The building
will be erected just west of the stone-sheds
and nearly opposite the electric light sta
ton, i'll close proximity to the Central Yer
mont railroad. 1t is to be tifty-three by
seventytwO feet in dimensions, with two
LIS and a basement
The packing and churning room will be
in the basement. The equipment will con.
sist of an Erie mogul engine, two separa-
workers, five churns of four hundred gall
Ions capacity and receiving watts holding
four hundred gallons A chill room and
ice-house will also be connected. The en-
CINE will be Neutrality-suspicious., with a
twenty hye-horse- power, boiler.
Although the building will be equipped
to furnish its own power, that matter is not
yet fully decided, as negotiations have been
made with the Standard Light and Power
Company, and Mr.. Sibley, the manager, has
given the projectors figures at which he
will supply power for them. This matter
will be settled later.
The main plant will cost about $1,000,
and will be equipped to handle the milk
from 900 cows. The milk will be tested
daily. Every farmer and patron of the
creamery will be paid according to the val
uation, or butter fat, in his milk. In this
way the high-fed Jersey diaries will not be
obliged to take equal chances with those
kept expressly to produce large quantities
OF milk, regardless of quality. The man
ayers OF the concern confidently claim that
whether the milk that will be brought
to them is rich in butter fat or not, they
can increase the receipts of the products of
the diaries brought to them by at least ten
per cent.
The products of the creamery will be
shipped largely to the Boston and New
York markets, for the hotel trade of those
cities, although in the summer season con-
siderable will go to the hotels at the White
Mountains and Adirondacks
Ground will be broken next week. and it
is intended 10 have the creamery in run
ming order in September.
Montpelier offers unexceptionable facilities
for the location of such an industry which
fact is recognized by the parties engaged in
IT. Barre, Williamstown, the main line of
the Montpelier & Wells River railroad
Worcester, Calais, East Montpelier, and
towns on the main line of the Central Yer
mont as far south as West Randolph and
as far north as Bolton, will he tributary.
With characteristic liberality, the manage
ment of the Central Vermont railroad will
give the concern the benefit of rapid and
frequent train service, with every facility
for handling the milk and the product of
the creamery. The projectors of the enter
prise are confident of success, and the peo-
Pile of Montpelier will welcome the new in
dustry, sincerely hoping that the expecta-
lions of the owners will be realized