The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1893-04-22
THE DAIRY BUSINESS.


ing of careful thought by those who
have the future prosperity of the State
at heart:
EDITOR GAZETTE: But few people
who have not had occasion to investi-
gate the subject have but slight con-
ception of the Importance of the dairy
ing industry to this State. During
the year just passed enough creamery
plants have been established to prove
conclusively that as butter and cheese
producing State Nevade has but few
equals and no superiors, and that the
industry is as yet in it's infancy, SO far
as this State is concerned.
W. III. Gould has demonstrated be-
yond the shadow of doubt that butter
making is success in Washoe by the
establishment of his creamery about
one mile from the Courthouse in Reno
and the California n evada Creamery
Company has clearly proven the fact
in other portions of the State. The
latter company is differed by the Hon.
Evan Williams of Ormsby as President;
Governor R. K. Colcord, Vice Presi-
dent, and T. r. Hofer Secretary, and
has plants in Mason and Smiths Val
ley, Lyon county, on the Vail ranch
in Churchill county, and two a few
miles above Genoa, in Douglas county,
and is making and shipping large
quantities of gilt edge butter and cheese
weekly. The transportation compan-
les namely: The Southern Pacific,
Virginia & Truckee, Carson & Color
ado, and Wells, Fargo & Co.. realizing
the importance Of the industry have
given living rates on the product and
stand ready to encourage the new in
dustry in every was in their power.
It is but necessary to call attention to
what the California Nevada Creamery
Co. did last year to prove that it is no
longer venture, but an assured sue
cess. They manufactured last year
about 500, 900 lbs. of butter, and fully
as much cheese; they used over H.
600, 900 pounds of milk, which was
paid for every 80 days. This consum-
ed the milk of between 5000 and 1000
COWS. The butter made by this COM
pany brought all the way from II to
% cents per pound, and they paid for
the milk from 80 cents to 81 10 per
hundred pounds. In fact an object
lesson may be learned all through the
northwest of the importance of the
dairy business when we take into con-
sideration the vast amount of money
invested in the different States in but
ter, cheese-making, evaporated cream
and condensed milk establishments;
more than any other one industry,
and that the products from the dairy
business alone is over one million per
annum, we can begin to realize the
importance of the subject treated
The sooner our farmers begin to turn
their attention to legitimate pursuits
and less to politics, the sooner the
question of State development will be
solved. We have the world for a
market, and it is only necessary to
manufacture an article that the world
wants to create demand for in excess
of our possibilities.
The transportation question will
solve itself when we become fore
handed enough to show that we have
possibilities beyond raising horned
toads and rattlesnakes. But all this
cannot be brought about without the
hearty cooperation of every interest
in the State, and above all the farm
ers and the transportation companies.
The sooner we come to understand
that the wealth producing element of
all nations on the face of the globe is
the soil and devote ourselves to the in
telligent cultivation of it, the sooner
poverty will be put under the heel of
prosperity. Let us not hang on to the
"bonanza days" any longer, but go to
work with determination to develop
our landed estates, and we would be
far happier as community and more
prosperous than if hundred bonanzas
should be uncovered to morrow, only
to be worked out, the money spent in
building up other sections, with only
hole in the ground left in this State
to be pointed to with pride to show
the millions poor little old Nevada has