The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-11-16
CREAMERY KING.
J. E. Nissley Who Seeks to Es-
tablish the Creamery Here
Is the Father of the Creamery
Business of Kansas.
HAS GROWN WEALTHY
And Now Wants to Make TOpe-
ka Center Of the Industry.
Last Year He Paid Out $780,
600 at Abilene Alone.
HAS GROWN WEALTHY

= e Nissley the creamery KING nl
Kansas was in Topeka Saturday after
noon trying to look up a location loI
the plant which his company proposes
10 start in Topeka providing they re-
ceive the proper degree of encourage
ment from the citizens of Topeka The
indications are that the deal viii go
through and the creamery will be built
here. but Mr. Nissley says that no de-
cfsive steps have vet been taken.
lit was 10 years ago that Mr Nissley
first entered the creamery business u e
started a little plant at Abilene he
had been in the business Dul snort
time when he found that it would be as
profitable as he hoped and commenced
TO enlarge his plant The extensions
have continued and Mr.. Nlssley says
that last year he paid farmers in the
vicinity of Abilene 100000 for milk.
During the past ten years creamefles
have sprung up all over Dickinson
county and none have proved failures.
Mr.. Nissleys company found that IT
had in its control almost the enIlre
creamery product Of Kansas and he be-
gan to think of new worlds to conquer
Dickinson county was not large
enough
1T was then that he turned his eyes
toward Topeka and he has been work
ing for several weeks to get Topeka
people Interested in the creamery pro-
ject The company wants a central To-
cation from which the business may be
conducted for all the creameries and it
was the most natural thing that To
peka should have been selected Mr.
Nissley eventually hopes to have cream
cries all over Kansas and ii is proposed
that they schall all be subsidiary to the
central esrab abIShmenr at Topeka
That is what Mr.. Nissley told a Jour
nal reporter before he left Topeka. He
seemed in earnest and he did not eX-
plot the fact that he has made big
fortune out of the creamery business. 4
He said that he expected some encour-
agement from the people of Topeka and
he believed they would awake to the
proper appreciation of the motives OF
his company
II have little to say about our inten-
tions.' said AIr Nissley I'VE would
like to come to Topeka and viii do so
II we receive the proper degree of en-
cOuragemenL- We do not ask for a
bonus and we are ready to build the
site can be made
I'VE expect to build the Topeka plant
this fall but of course + cannot tell vet
whether viii build 1T at all or NOT
Tt is our intention to make This a central
point and the head office which is now
at Kansas City would be moved here
and al business would be transacted
from this point
we have insisted on having a plant
near First and Kansas avenues because
we must be near q railroad and at the
same time We want to be as near the
center OE the business part of the city
as possible We would expect to build
our Office i'm connection with the plant
for it would not be convenient to have
another
II do not know how much we
would spend on the Topeka plant but
We would expect to extend and enlarge
our business as it would grow 1T is
impossible to tell now just what would
be done We can not tell until we close
the arrangements for site.
We have just built a creamery at
L1EAlGNLllE
and we hope to extend our business a
we are able to do SOL"
MT u b Case who accompanied Mr.
Nlssley is one of the Wealthiest resi-
dents of Abilene. He is a banker but
he has also been Interested in the
creamery business for several years. Mr.
case besides. owns string of race
horses and he has always attended the
Topeka races He has made up his
mind to move to Topeka and viii do SO
whether the creamery is estab blished
here or not
II do not feel that we have asked
anything unreasonable from Topeka r.
said MT Case We would like to have
a central plant here and we viii come
If We can make the required arra nae-
ments with the people. I know that
Iopeka people have been bitten with
cotton mill and woolen mill schemes but
WnaF we offer now is something practi-
cable There is no experiment about it,
IL has been thoroughly tried in Kansas
ana we know il is success and so does
iness
int is difficult to estimate the value
or such an institution to the farmers
around Topeka and in benehttfng them
IL viii naturally help the city also We
are not doing much talking now We
nave a proposition to make and that
ends it, We VIII build plant here if
Topeka wants it and if it does not we
viii go somewhere else"
Mr. Nissley and Mr. Case examined
properties at First and Kansas avenues
and at First and Jackson streets and
said that either place would be a satis-
factory site but they did not make anv
decision about a site
Col O. X Holiday has submitted a
proposition to the Commercial club. He
proposes to furnish the creamery com
pany free of cost a lease of the strip of
ground along the Santa Fe tracks from
t1tth to Tenth streets or any part of it,
RMS IS generous offer but the cream
cry company insist upon a location in
the vicinity of First and Kansas ave
nues and SO nothing was done about it,
4Aey also insist upon the purchase of a
site outright They have been offered
any kind of a lease they might stipulate
put they Insist upon owning the ground
themselves without any limitations
assistant Secretary Max Defglmavr
80 ol .ls SoInInefcla1 club showed the visi-
-9Is around and discussed the various
sites with them but they left Tonalza
saturday evening in company with Mr.
Marple who was in Topeka nearly All
last Week 1t IS proba BILE that the Com
mercial club viii have a snacia1 v,.es+
ing TO further consider the ouesffay,
There is disposition among the
members Of the Commercial cIub thai
this project shall not be allowed rs as-
cape and there is little doubt that some
satisfactory arrangement viii be made
within a week or two that viii insure