Arizona republican., 1905-01-06

meetings and are to hold another next Saturday at which permanent organ ization will probably be affected.
 The friction hinted at above, was mainly between the butter makers and the creamerie5. It was charged by the former that the creameries would keep their surplus summer but ter on ice and work it over in the win ter and it was also charged that they kept the price of winter butter below a legitimate competing point by giv- ing too small remuneration to milk sellers. intimating a juggling with the tests for butter fat and if necessary the importing of butter from elsewhere. Whether the charges are true or false
 is not the purpose of this story nor
 of special interest other than to show
 that there existed friction of one kind
 or another and that the small butter
 makers and private dairymen thought
 they were getting the worst of it.
 The thing that it is learned Is now
 proposed is an enterprise on much
 larger scale than even the butter makers contemplated at first, or many
 of them at least, and one that its back , CTS believe will result in great good for all concerned, both small dairy men and creameries. It is proposed 70 organize some sort of cooperation that more than likely some people will call a trust. though it is designed to be cooperative rather than anything else This corporation will be sufficiently capitalized to back an enterprise va Iued at $75.000 or $100,C00, the stock to be subscribed for in such quantities in the valley A sterilizing plant will then be put in at an expense of pos af decided upon. This creamery will buy all the milk that is offered and ster- iIiZe it. after which it can be kept sweet and wholesome for an indefinite time and made into butter as fast as ! desirable.
 The creamery will then make and market the butter and distribute all the milk in the city, except of course the product of such people as do not cooperate in the enterprise and II IS 1 claimed by those favOTing the enter | prise that there are few milk pro ! ducers who will not be among the stockholders They contend that the | scheme has these advantages: That the milk can all be distributed in day ] time. for it's age will not be of so much imporrance; that the dairymen who now work half the night or more ] and all day Sunday will be relieved; l that except in the summertime 1t will | not be necessary to bring the milk to l the creamery on Sundays; that the ! men who now make butter at home ! can be assured of a price for thelr butter fat that will quench any desire i they now have to make their own but ter.
 i It has been charged that the cream 1 aries now which find themselves over ! 10
 operate somewhat as follows; that 1 when the price of butter fat rises, they are forced to allow it but are much more exacting in their tests. thus re- turning the milk producer less money | and when he refuses to accept and : makes his own butter and brings 1t to 1 town. he finds the market "beared" to i an improbable figure by held over butter or some other systematic plan. | By cooperation through this propos-
 ed plan all will participate in whatever
 is done, and the managers of the cen l tralized factory will see to it that the market price whether up or down Will
 be at a point returning a fair profit
 to all concerned. It is claimed that 1 there is no question respecting the
 fact that milk properly steriltzed is
 not only unhurt but improved and |
 pure. all vegetable and microbic inn
 purities being eliminated.
 l It is also proposed that separate testing stations be maintained that any person dissatisfied with the creamery reports may have his milk tests check
 ed and fairly determined. In addition to these things there is set forth the decided improvement that will follow
 a thoroughly systematized milk and butter service and the business impor-
 tance of building up an enterprise that | will give employment to many in a l systematic manner instead of in a hap hazard manner as is now necessary
 through the varying facilities of diff
 ferent dairymen, and also the con
 struction or improvement of some plant to a value of many thousands o1
 dollars
 The above plan was outlined yester-
 day by one of the dairymen who is
 cooperating in the enterprise. He
 said he was not at liberty 10 give
 names yet but he felt sure the plan
 would be approved and that it had
 been sufficiently agitated among those interested to know that there would be ample stock subscriptions behind it to | ca,ry the DIa11 through successfully.