Evening star., 1898-10-22
Options Being Obtained on the Dairy
Establishments Here.
ALL TO Be UNDER ONE MANAGEMENT
New York Capitalists Said to Be
Interested in the Enterprise.
7 H e Ms OU TLIN E D

For several weeks past visits have been
made to most of the principal daries and
dealers in milk in this city and proposition
submitted to each to purchase the business
The plans of those making this proposal,
as far as known. look to a consolidation of
the milk business in this city. 1t is pro-
posed to have a central station here, fur
nished with cold storage plant and the
various modern facilities, not only for keep
ing milk sweet and pure, but also for
handling it. The milk that is brought to
the city by producers and now sold to the
various dealers will be purchased as far as
practicable by this combination and then
distributed throughout the city over the
routes now managed by a large number of
local dealers. Economy of administration
is to be gained, it is claimed, when one
management instead of a number will con-
troll the distribution of this important ar
tice of food
Matter of Conjecture.
What progress has been made in secur-
ing the control Of the local business can
only be conjectured; but it is thought by
some dealers that the representative of the
syndicate has secured options from about
sixty dealers, while others declare that the
total now reaches one hundred. 1t is said
that there ar. some six hundred dealers in
milk in this City, by which is meant not
The dairy lunch rooms, but those who buy
and sell milk, either by delivery from house
to house or retailing it in their places of
business. The amount of business done by
these dealers varies all the way from a
daily sale of eight or nine hundred gall 1ns
to ten or twenty gallons.
Syndicate's Intention.
1t is not claimed to be the Intention of
ha TO 70 ,F
ness Of every dealer in the city So far
the principal dealers only have been ap-
preached, and 1t is said that the smaller
ones will not be asked for an option A
Mr.. Partridge has called on many of the
CLAIMS to represent capitalists in aNew Y York
city who are willing to put a half million
dollars into the enterprise 1t is said that
something similar has been done in New
York city and now the milk business there
Is mainly controlled by one concern.
In the blanks for options which are fur
nished to each dealer approached on this
subject he is asked to state she sprice he
would be willing to take for his property,
how much milk is sold wholesale and re-
tail daily and other questions of a similar
character. The option is for ninety days,
which time, it Is stated, will be required
in order to complete all the details of the
transaction.
1t is the understanding among some of
the dealers who have been approached on
the subject that the purpose of the syndi-
cate is to take one of the largest dairies
in this city and enlarge it and fit 1t up for
use AS central station, and one of the
dealers told a Star reporter this morning
that he had been told that the syndicate
regarded the place of business of Mr..
Thompson, on Az street, as we'll located and
suited for use as the main depot in this
city.
stations to Be Established.
There will be stations all through the
city where milk will be sold, and it is
thought that in most cases the places now
occupied for such purposes, and which
come under the control of the syndicate,
will be continued in use. The milk routes
that will be acquired will be consolidated,
and the city will be divided into small dis
tricts and served by wagons sent out from
the central station
Some OF the dealers who still have the
proposition under consideration are of the
opinion that the proposed consolidation of
the milk business of the city is practicable
for the son that at present there are not
several large concerns controlling the trade
but that it is divided up among a number
of small ones. Under these circumstances
they think that combination will be more
readily accomplished than if there were