The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-02-25
MAKING OF BUTTER.
Phenomenal Growth of the
States Dairy Interests.
OVER ONE MILLION POUNDS
Produced I'm 1895. and the business
Is Only in Its fnfaney-Ihe
First Creamery.

The manufacture Of batter and the cree
ton Of crsanmergss 81 this state during the
past three years has been rhenoEnsI la8
Five years ago there vas not more Tfi=n
one creamery in Washington OF cap11tty
10 deserve the name. while today there
are Gfts-tlve in active operation Yet Iaey
10 not supply the home market. nor =
there any Washington butter shipped
abroad, except the output Of one crs-s iflsssy
which goes 70 Portland and the OCCASIONAL
shipments TO ALASKA and TO British Co
Iaulbiz-
In the meantime with tire enormous IN
crease In the manufacture % Washington
butter. its quality has attained a sfanaArd
superior 10 any IN America. The business
therefore has some Of the essential lea
lures OF a newly discovered mine OF
wealth, from which there is bound 10
come forth an industry that viii oBt-eIass
any Of its kind IN the country
The First Creamery.
The residents OF Cheney claim that enc
of their creameries was the nrst one IN
the stale Ii began operation about i've
years ago. Then came the Bourbon cream
cry OF Eilens5urg. which started doing
business on d large scale Win the - 5
tenn OF separatorS for removing the cream.
which the Bourbon creamery added, tame
the novel feature cf establishing skim
ming stations AT intervals over the whole
OF the Kittitas valley. The creamery
simply erected small station houses con-
tanning limited space for storage OF the
cans from the wagons. aad a separator 10
remove the butter fat, or cream. That re-
moved. the product minus the great
extra oulk and weight would be taken TO
the central creamery al Ellensbarg. This
system worked very well indeed, bat con-
sequent upon several changes IL manage
ment the farmers became dissatisfied. ana
control OF the fifteen or twenty Swimming
stations. With these as small beginnings
the farmers have created fully a dozen
fali-fedged creameTies. which have made
the hittitas valley famous and at the same
time prosperous.
Output of Kfttitas.
The output of creamery butter for that
valley alone last year probably exceeded
$4,000 pounds. Other sections OF the state
have followed Eliensburgs lead. and
springing up on all sides is an industry
that bids fair 20 become one OF the most
important IN the state.
At the last session Of the legislature the
present dairy law was enacted In sub
stance Il provides that .oleonargarine must
not contain coioTing matter that cheeses
Of different grades must be labeled 10 show
their composition. and for a dairy com
mission consisting OF a state dairy COM
cultural college, and the secretary of
state. Before the enactment OF this law
nothing was known in a statistical way
OF the amount of butter made here or OF
the amount shipped in or out. but the
establishment OF creanaeries, which Is the
only means Of production on anything Ike
a respectable scale. Is in reality of only
years growth. Gor last summer the major
lty of the creameTics came into existence.
The law requires that the commission
shall make statistical report biennialiy
the first 70 be next December. but State
Dairy Commissioner +. j. Smith, upon a
request from Secretary OF State j. II.
Price Is just now preparing a partial re-
port.
Creamery statistics.
From the information already collected
the Post-Inrelligencer Is permitted 10 pub
llsh the following table showing the names
OF creameries. the postoifice addresses, and
the number Of pounds Of butter and of