The Red Cloud chief., 1894-03-09
MOOnshinc and Cream.

Bro. Hosmer OF THE CHIEF takes ex-
ception to our remarks of a couple Of
weeks z on the subject Of the Red
Cloud creamery. He says our talk about
there not being cream enough tributary
to Red Cloud to keep Tire creamery &c.
ing sounds like moonshine." MAY be
IL does, as We never heard moonshine we
are not competent to judge To substan.
tiate his assertion that there is plenty
Of cream in the vicinity. he cites the fact
that j. II. Smith once upon q time raj a
creamery there for Shraeder & McShane
Of Omaha that tlourished like a green
bay tree. In view Of the fact that any
legitimate business that proves a sue.
cess, financially, is usually continued; we
would like to ask, what has become OF
that creamery and who has retired to
enjoy the fortune accumulated in it's
operation? 1t is greatly to be feared
that investigation would prove our
brothers remark to be another case of
'm%oonshine'. Again our brother blows
hot and cold with the same breath when
he says that he understands that it
would be an easy matter TO secure the
milk OF 500 o wi and adds, Of course, it
would take an effort, perhaps to get
them. Our remarks. we're intended as a
defense OF Messrs Parker 4 Fulton, who
ran the creamery during the summer Of
1892 to the best Of their ability and had
but little, IL anything, left TO pay them
for their labor. The CHIEF says they
have determined to run it again this
summer and the Leader hopes they may
find plenty OF cream, even IL they are
compelled to go outside Of tho country
naturally tributary to Red Cloud to get
it.-Blue Hill Leader.
Bro. Greenlee is still laboriug under .
"horrible nightmare" in regard to the
creamery business in this city. re he
would stop and refresh his mind. he
would renNmber that adjacent to Web
ster county, on the south there is Smith
and Jewell counties, Kansas, besides the
north half Of Webster, together with the
east half and west half and all Of the
south part Of the county, which lies
tributary"to Red Cloud, and on each
quarter section thereof Tor nearly col
there are from two to a dozen COWS, the
cream Of which could in nine cases out
Of ten, be secured for a creamery. or
course the Red Cloud creamery could
not expect to get all Of the cream, but
by dilligent effort could secure at least
the cream Of 1000 cows. McShane and
Shraeder sold their creamery to a man
by the name OF Plumb who did not un.
derstand the creamery business, and Tin.
ally failed, and the property was sold to
pay the debts Of the concern. McShane
ans Shraeder made money out OF the
creamery, and when they sold it they had
1000 cow on their list, and it was one OF
the best institutions that Red Cloud ever
had. Bro. Greenlee says his remarks
were intended US Il defense of Parker &
Fulton. They do not necessarily need
any defense. The first year they ran the
factory there was a shortage in the
cream crop owing to a dry season, and
every fair minded person will grant them
that point, but last year the creamery
was leased to q Blue Hill party, who
made a pretense OF churning here, but
the principal portion of the cream was
shipped to Blue Hill to DO churned, that
is what our people are kicking on. II
Ed. Mcbride Of Blue Hill could make
money out of a creamery situated at
Blue Hill, where there is not near as
many cows as there is in this vicinity,
why can't the same thing be done here
where the bovine iiourishes in greater
numbers and the lactea. production il
considerably paramount to that which is
to be obtained in our neighboring city?
Hence there is no substantial argument
to our brothers literary effort that ia
compatible with the acts in the case
that would particularly iittheRed Cloud
situation.