The Imperial press., 1905-09-23
For New Creamery and Ice Plant

During the past week there has been more excitement and a greater stir iu creamery and dairymen circles than has ever been witnessed in this Valley before For some time there has been talk Of the farmers and dAirymen in the southern part of the Valley putting III cooperative creamery.
 This proposition cakrie to head last Monday when D. HI Chaplin, On behalf of the Fl Centro Town company, offered to give the dairy Yh' n lot and Ioa them the money to build their creamery if they would put 1t at El Centro. This opened the ball and caused the Im- perial business men E'sit up and talk notice" more than anything we have ever seen. A meeting "f the CIlambe' of Commerce was held Tuesday evening and the matter discussed with the. result that a business mems meeting was called for Wednesday, evening.
 At this meeting there was more spirit shown and more of a determination to get in and do something for the town than has been witnessed in this place for many long day. The meeting dis cussed the matter from several stand
 
 ilducements were offered elsewhere to encourage the building of cooperative, creamery, would be duplicated by Im- perial and whatever cut price or offer of rates on ice was offered bv anyone else must be met by Imperial. This brought up the question to the point of facts and figures and it was shown that it would take about $20,000 to build the creamery and ice plant that will be required to put the town in position to meet any offer from any other quarter to take its business away from it.
 A committee from the dairymen was present and stated their position, which is that they are going to put Ill co- operative creamery and were open for propositions, the best one to " sn. "And gentlemen" said the spokesman for the dairymen, ''you know it Is sbe man who comes to town every othel day with his milk cans i'll the back eud of his wagon who pays cash for his goods and supports your business The $5OOO month or more paid to the dairymen by the creamery nearly all passes over your counters and you know what that means to you, even now, when the industry isn't fairly started y Several of the business men spoke in like strain and Messrs. Stevenson, Var ney, Shaw and Banta were appointed a committee to meet the dairymen and find what inducements they would re quire and report at another bnsiness mems meeting to be held on Frida, night at the Imperial Land Company 's office.
 The business men of Imperial are fully aroused to the importance of hav- ing the new creamery located in their town and will see that no effort is lack ing or inducement wanting to bring it here. It is just such occasions as this has produced: which bring our people together and builds up the spirit oi loyalty to the town and devotion to it's interests which is so essential to the welfare of any place.
 By pulling together Imperial will continue to be the Hub City as Brother Lawrence puts it, the capital city of the Imperial Valley and county seat of the future Imperial County. Let no one lose confidence and let everyone hel, and support the business men ane Chamber of Commerce in their effort, for the city's pr0gress.