Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-11
New Creamery and Ice Factory.

surrounding it, within radius of
several miles, is being vastly bene-
fitted by the establishment of the
Arcadia Valley Creamery and Ice
Co.'s plant, which is now in sue
cessful operation at Arcadia. For
many weeks our prominent citi-
zens and farmers have been striv-
ing to establish this industry on
successful lines, and their efforts
have met with unqualified success.
The dairy industry can never be
successfully conducted without the
aid of an up-to-date creamery ca
pable of producing the finest Elgin
fancy creamery butter, which
brings the top price in every mar
ket, and pays the farmers from
two to three times as much for his
butter fat than if he made the but
himself. Everybody knows that
every farmers wife works hard
over the churning and. washing
and care of the dairy; and every
one knows that the results of her
efforts have been meager indeed,
compared with the amount of la
Dor; and after she has produced a
good article of farm butter she
cannot realize one-half for the
same as the price of Elgin cream
cry butter. The Arcadia Creamery
and Ice Co. have solved the prob
lem for her by installing a plant
to take the cream or milk and
make it up into butter for her and
sell it at the top price of the Elgin
butter prices, and to pay it alto
her, less three cents per pound for
manufacturing the same for her.
All that the farmer has to do is
to set his milk or cream out on the
main road, where the company's
route wagon picks it up and re-
turns to him the skim milk for feed
to calves and hogs. Any farmer
patronizing the factory can make
81 to Sc per month on each cows
milk, and the company pays for
the same on the first of each
month. Thus the farmer may at
last produce a cash product for
which he can get cash money
monthly. Experts have pro-
nounced the Arcadia Valley to be
particularly adapted to the dairy
industry, being surrounded with
fine grazing sections and running
streams, and many of the farmers
have cold springs to enable them
to properly care for the milk. The
company have established four
routes at this issue, and the haul
ers will commence to bring in the
milk this week. More are to be
established.
All should endeavor to extend a
helping hand and warm welcome
to enable the officers of the COM
pany to extend the influence of the
industry into our farming sections,
as it is contemplated establishing
skimming stations in the outlay
ing districts and to expand the
work largely.
The artificial ice plant is in
stalled on the can system, which
entirely debars the introduction of
amonia fumes into the ice, as has
been so often noticed in the old
system of plate ice. The ice manu-
factured by the company is from
water which has been produced
from condensed steam, thereby
purifying it SO that any physician
will pronounce it devoid of germs
or bacteria. Many cases of ty-
phoid malaria and other fever all
ments have been traced to the use
of creek ice, especially in infants,
who are more susceptible to germ
diseases than adults. Mr.. George
johnson is handling the COM
pany's pure ice in the Arcadia
Valley. The plant has a tele-
phone Gust instal]ed) No. 1874, sc
that orders may sent by phone.
The company is doing a fine
business already, and the outlook
for the future is bright. The con.
sensus of opinion is that it should
be permanent success under the
management OF the officers anc
board of directors, elected as fol
lows: Louis Miller, president
August Schwab, vice-president
Love Carty, secretary; VIM. Gay
treasurer; 9. R. Russell, genera
manager; VIM. Fletcher, G. 0
Codding.
The Chicago Building and Manu-
featuring Company, of Chicago
installed this plant, and it is up t.
date and frst-class in every re
spect. x.