Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-07-25
SECURES PAT l N 7.
MARK H. GREELEY OF oTTuMwA
lNvENTs NEW PROCESS FOR
REFINING BUTTER.
Hopes to Establish Factory In This
City in Near Future-Butter Reno
waiting One Of Extensive Industries
of United States.

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Letters patent on new process for
refining butter have been granted to
Mark H. Greeley, III North Court
street, who hopes to establish fact
ory in this city in the near future.
Renovating butter is one of the extern
sive industries of the United States
and it is believed that Ottumwa would
make splendid location for such an
institution.
Most of the renovated butter man
ufacturers have been using the Camp
bell process but these patents were re-
Gently purchased by the American
Butter Refining company, capitalized
at $17,OOO,0O0, and the large packing
houses and hundreds of independent
refiners have been notified to stop u.s.
ing the process at once. Some of the
larger firms propose to take the mat
ter into the courts. Several represent
atives of manufacturers using the
Campbell process have called upon
Mr.. Greeley to learn just what his pro-
cess was. They have expressed them
selves as being of the opinion that the
process was superior to any now in
use and he has refused several lucra-
tive offers for the exclusive rights to
the invention as he is DESTROYS Of
starting plant in Cttumwa.
The Greeley Process.
The supply Of butter is somewhat
limited and large portion used in
the country homes, which is good
when fresh, becomes rancid or stale
| by being in stores and the price
makes first-class creamery butter pro-
hibitory to large per cent of the peo-
lple. The only means of increasing
| the supply of good palatable butter
| is by renovating the old store and
country butter, changing it into an ex-
cellent quality of sweet. wholesome
butter at price that places it within
the reach of everyone.
The Greeley process of refining. in
which no chemicals are used, will, it
is said, produce from the old butter a
sweet, healthful and in every way at
tractive variety of butter which will
grade with the highest.
Was Leading Industry.
Several years ago when butter was
worked by hand, over a hundred men
were employed in the butter business
In Ottumwa. Butter was shipped to
this city from all over Iowa. The bus
mess gradually decreased when the
new processes for renovation came in
to use. Those familiar with the in
dustry say that now hundreds Of
thousands of pounds Of butter are
4 shipped every year from Wapello
county and immediate vicinity to re-
4 ineries in this and other states to be
renovated and then shipped back to
the grocers for SALE
Mr.. Greeley believes that the butter
should be refined in this city and that
such a factory properly conducted
would do an immense business and be
an important addition to the industrial
enterprises of Ottumwa AS he has
nearly all of the machinery that would
be required at first, such a factory
could be established at little cost and
he says that with proper encourage
ment from the citizens it could be
placed in working order by the early
part of September in time for the fall
trade.
Many Years Experience.
Mr.. Greeley is butter maker of