The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-06-15
INVASION OF THE CONDENSERY
TRUST

the Borden CONDENSED MILK TO- through llS new
factory at Auburn, and asks why that company,
if it wanted to engage in Legitimate" manufac-
ture did not seek out distnce location in an
other of the many dairy districts of this state?"
The argument appears misty. If the Ranch de-
sires the advantages that would go to the stock
raisers, this competition should give it, especially
as it points out that higher prices offered for
milk. If the first factory selected the best To-
cality for securing and increasing the supply,
is it not equally good business judgment for a
competitor to choose the same location? And will
not competition call for increased COWS as well
better prices for those the Ranch assumes to
represent? And will not the opening foreign mar
kets on the Pacific, as well as home demands, war
rant than factory. Sufficient reason
for the attack on increased manufacturing in this
state does not appear to us to have been given.
The Trade Register is we'll enough post
ed to know that what we have stated re-
garding this question is exactly true, and
that there is no more room for two cOndenS
ed milk factories in the White River valley
than for two commercial publications in
Seattle. The Ranch certainly does believe
in competition that will bring to the pro-
ducers the highest possible price, and the
dalrymen know that we have always advO-
Gated anything that would help to increase
the amount received therefor. If there was
River valley, we would greatly rejoice at
its establishment, but we do not see how,
with the limited area of land suitable for
dairy purposes, and the great and rapidly in
creasing consumption of milk by both Seat
tie and Tacoma, who are obliged to look
to that section for their principal supply,
the Borden company expects to find le
ultimate field for operation of its large fac
tory without simply killing off the Pacific
Coast cOndensery. That it's object is to
gain control of this field is evident for first
they endeavored to bluff the Pacific Coast
people into selling, and failing in doing so,
have gone deliberately to work to take the
field away from them
The Ranch is no wld-eyed enemy of CAPT
tai, but does not hesitate to say frankly that
it does not like the looks of the Borden COM
pany's layout. If the Borden company had
put its factory in some other section of
Puget Sound, it would have looked more
like it wanted to engage in the industry in
a legitimate way. There are other dairy
districts remote from the larger cities where
it would have been possible to get several
times the quantity of milk they can possibly
obtain at Auburn, and without paying the
extremely high prices either.
The Register seems to think the judgment
of the Borden company infallible. If there
was plenty of room for two cOndenseries in
that section, why did the Pacific Coast COM
pany in order to keep pace with the demand
Tor its goods, put up another factory at
Forest Grove, instead of doubling the size
of the Kent factory? But then Manager
Stuart did not consult the editor of the
Trade Register.
The Ranch may be little previous in
prognosticating that the Borden company