Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-12-11
~AFLOURISHlhC INDUSTRY
Something Of the Creamery Plant
at GardnerviIle

Of visiting a town in Nevada which is
being rapidly built up by following the
home Industry plan. The town was Gard
n~ervitle in Douglas county, and the f"Un-
daliou of the towns growth is the con
slant operation OF a w~ell-managed and
successful
The plant was erected about five years
ago and cost over $2O.000. 1t WAS looked
upon as something of an undertaking
then and many shook their heads. a. one
creamery started in the same vicinity
had gOuc to the wall. The old one how
ever was not specially well handled and
ON way it seemed to lack business
management. The rev one hoWeNe was
ran on the cooperative plan ard nearly
all OF the farmers in the viclnny took
stock in it.
Five years has rolled by, it d;dn't Sem
any time at all. and one fine morning the
stockholders of the creamery woke up
to find that the whole thing was paid for
and didn't owe a dollar. Stock all paid
up, concern ont Of debt and the divi-
dends rolling in.
The paying off Of the debt of the
creamery amounting to s2I 600 was a very
simple thing. The managers deducted
Eve cents from the price OF every 100 lbs
of milk that came in from the ranchers'
just dropped 4 nickel III the kitty, AS you
might say, and these little nickels drop
ping in ali day long wiped ont the debt
in five wears and the concern has over
$1,000 in bank, There are ~ ~tork-hold-
ers in the company all Hting IN Douglas
county.
Each year the sales of butter. most of
which is shipped to san Francisco, turns
in about $4,000 to the little town of Gard
ncryilie. The result Is that improve
ments are going on all the time. The
houses are new with a modern style of
architecture, the stores are up to date and
the main street is a broad and inviting
tho -oughfare. All this where "A few years
q there Was nothing but sagehru>h.
There don't seem to be any poor people
up there in G~ardnervllle for they all
have the ready cash from the creamery
and the ranchers Whereabouts have
enough money to dress their families
well. own fine stock, drive good horses
and can come in and paint the town oc-
~ca>i0nally and not feel it-that is as far as
their pockets go-and each year their
little bank aocoun swells.
The creamery is All interesting thing TO
visit. All along the road one sees little
elevated platforms in front of the tidy
farm houses and they hold big cans of
milk. Wagons go along the road and
gather up these cans Of milk, the plat
, forms being level with the wagon beds
and the milk is taken to the creamery
by the ton.
: The horses are driven up an incline to
7 a platform and there the milk is turned
over to the creamery. Each can OF it is
dumped into a small square tank and
while it remains i'll the tank a few sec
t Onds it is weighed and as the cans are
tagged the weight is checked to the seller
and about a thimbletul AIKEN out and
I dropped into a jar. At the end of the
week the milk in these jars is tested for
butter fat and the quality OF the milk
being estimated from the percentage o.
the butter fat and the weight known, it is
easy to estimate what is coming to the
seller and he gets his cash once ID week.
The seller who desires to put water in
his milk can do so if he chooses but the
creamery does not pay him for ii. 1t is
claimed that the old failed be-
cause it had no Babcock tester and lost a
d lot of money trying to make giit-edged
t butter out of milk carrying 20 per cent OF
Carson river water.
The milk is mingled in an immense
e tank which feeds the cream separators-
n five of them run at "a high velocity and
all day long the cream pours Out of one
spout of the separators aud goes to large
n TN trOughs where the temperature Is
controlled by a cooling apparatus in SUM
V mer and a heating apparatus III winter
Il The temperature is manage To d nicely
for much of the success of butter-lnaking
depends upon this. After the tempera.
lure is right it flows into a ehurn Ina
makes 800 lbs of butter 1t u time anC
after the churning, which is done by
> steam power, the big yellow mass Is ma
nipuiated into cakes OF butter that is ii
Tor the mlilionaIreS Of New 1Ork IL
spread on their morning rolls or slap
E. jacks.
re The milk that leaves the separator
4 runs oil III a t1uine to be Tapped up b,
&, about three hundred hogs that are KEEP
at in correction with the creamery. .
ia course they get plenty OF 0ittc TODD Gu
they n,the Way with The refuse milk an'
seem very fond OF il.
The creamery turns II HOO lbs of blu
ter daily aud has a capacity oI tire
times as much. Each year the rancheI
are adding to their acreage ana gettin
more and better stock and preparing t
make more money. The butter is tas
getting q reputation all over the Coas
and even III the East and is taken AS las
as it is shipped and more called ior. Som