The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-05-16
EAST SOUND AHEAD
First Creamery In San Juan County
Established There
TEMPLlN FAIR PROMOTER.
First Manager OF the Whatcom Creamery
Engaged to Run It" Temporarily.
Good Water supply = Many Buying
Separators

Good Water supply : Many Buying
scparators
The East Sound creamery project is
no pipe dream. Ed Templin was in
town Monday en- route home from Sc.
attic and says the plant will be in
operation in about ten days and that it
will be first-class in every respect, with
sufficient capacity at. the outset for a
daily output of over half a ton of but
ter, which amount is of course greatly
in excess of the probable product for
long time. The creamery will be in
the Sutherland store building, near the
East Sound hotel, and the water sup.
ply will be obtained from springs on
the high land belonging to ex-County
Commissioner Nichols. The water will
be conducted from reservoir to the
creamery and to the hotel through 1900
feet of pipe, and 1t is expected that the
supply will be ample at all seasons.
The creamery will be started under the
direction of /. A. Gilmore, of What.
com, who was manager of the fine F
street creamery previous to its pur-
chase by John B. Agen, of Seattle.
Mr.. Gilmore subsequently, established
another creamery there which he sold
and which, according to the Fairhaven
Herald, made a record of nearly 10000
pounds of butter during the month of
April. The Messrs. Templin are to be
congratulated upon securing the ser.
vices of a first-class butter maker to
inaugurate their enterprise.
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Although they are not asking any
guarantees of any kind from the farm.
ers from whom they expect to obtain
their milk supply, they are not going
into the project blindly. They have
quite dairy herd themselves and for
the past year or more have been ship.
ping the cream product of eleven cows,
on an average, to the Whatcom cream.
cries, and the net returns to them, de.
Quoting all transportation and wharf
age charges. have averaged over $62
cash each month, and many other pa
irons of the same creameries who have
first-class dairy cows have been and
are now doing much better. One man
over in WhatcOm county who pur-
chased q separator not long ago has
been realizing $27 month from three
cows, selling his cream at Smiths
which Mr.. Gilmore started
i'm a small way and which is said to
have made 1900 pounds in one day re-
Gently. Commenting on the April out
put of this creamery the Fairhaven
Herald says "it is a source of surprise
to those not knowing the vast number
of farmers who have gone into the
dairy business, and found it both profit
able and lasting source of income"
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The ISLANDER is advised that the
East Sound creamery will be conducted
OH the usual plan on this coast, buying
for cash the butter product of each pa
irons cream at two cents per pound
less than the wholesale market price.
When the milk is separated at the
creamery higher charge will, of
course, be made. 1t Is estimated that
there are at least 200 mich COWS OH
Orcas island, and if that is true it is
not improbable that the creamery will
begin operations with considerably
larger milk supply than that with
which either of the WhatcOm cream
cries started. The promoters and pro-
prietOrs are encouraging dairymen to
purchase hand separatOrs and they re-
port that they have already sold six
and expect to place quite number
more within few weeks. A National
separator with capacity of $50 pounds
of milk per hour can be purchased for
$85, payable in easy installments, and
a De Laval, capacity $50 pounds per
hour, for $50 cash. 1t IS believed that
the use of separators of this class-the
best in the market-will soon become
general among dairymen, as much
preferable to taking milk to the cream
cry or to Swimming station
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It would seem that dairying ought to
furnish most reliable and profitable
adjunct to fruit raising on Orcas island.
No two branches of agricultural in.
dustry can be more pleasantly or profit
ably combined, and few localities are
better adapted to such combination
than rugged and picturesque Orcas, the
best watered of all the islands of the
San Juan group, with its fertile little
valleys and sunny, sheltered slopes
where fruits abound, and its large area
OF high land of little value except for
pasturage. The establishment OF a
creamery at East Sound is certainly
step In the right direction, and another
which would likewise fill long felt
want would be the establishment OF q
fruit cannery.
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AS regards the creamery project here,
a partial canvass Of San Juan, Lopez
and Shaw islands leaves little room for
ll4 49, n .,,&43 Giant ennnlxr of milk