The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-01
PROPOSE TO SELL
PURE MILK ONLY
PLANS COMPLETE FOR ERECTION
OF BIG PLANT.
Local Capitalists Investigate What Has
Been Done in Other Cities and Think
It Possible to Make a Success Of the
Business in Minneapolis Care in
Handling Milk.

BUSINESS IN Mlnneapolis-Care IN |
Handling Milk.
Minneapolis is to have a pure milk
plant. Local capital, much of it fur
nished from philanthropic motives, will
finance the venture. A modern building,
equipped, for the scientific handling Of
milk milk and cream, will be erected from
trust idea, the promoters say, in the
mind OF the hackers of the plan. The
plant will have a total capacity of less
than one-third of the milk consumption
OF the city at the present time. The
company vii lgo into the market in
open competition with the present dis
trlbutors OF milk and cream. 1t would
pc impossible, they point out, to corner
the milk supply of Minneapolis, as the
city is surrounded With a rich farming
and dairy country. supporting thou
sands of dairy animals.
Plant to Be Large.
The pure-milk plant will call for an
Investment of 100000, all of which
will be subscribed by local men. A
three story brick and stone building,
48 by l20 feet, will be erected in a
location convenient to the downtown
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The floors thruout will be Of smooth
white cement. The equipment will con-
sist Of two l0O-horsepower boilers, one
sixty horsepower Corliss engine, one
thirty five ton refrigerating plant, milk
purifying and bottling machines, large
cold-storage rooms and automatic bot
tie sterilizing machines, and will be
thoroly modern: The capacity will be
5000 gallons Of milk and cream daily.
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will be, complete laboratory for test
ing and examining all milk brought to
the plant. The company will make a
speciality of preparing modified milk
for infants and invalids. Modified
milk will be furnished on physicians
prescription only. In this way the milk
may be modified to suit each Individual
case. .->...
Contracts will be made with dairy
men to furnish per cent milk. The
state standard is but 31h per cent. The
cows from which the supply is secured
will be regularly inspected by an ex-
pert, and only milk from healthy stock
will be accepted. The company plans
to pay dairy farmers as much net for
their milk as they now receive, saving
them the trouble of distribution and
collections. The price to the consumer
is not to be increased.
Handling the Milk.
The milk will be received at the plant
in dead-air, cream-carrying cans, and
after weighing will be tested. 1t will
pass by gravity thru calarifers, and to
automatic continuous pasteurizers heat
ing the milk to 1855 degrees Fahrenheit.
1t will then pass thru water, cooling
it to 80 degrees, and thence thru brine
refrigerator, cooling to Sc degrees. From
the cooling process it will pass to the
automatic bottling machines. -..t
The process does not affect the milk
as to taste or nutritive value. It will,
on the other hand, show better cream
line than before, and will be free from
bacteria. This process of handling milk
is in universal use in the old country
and eastern Canada, and in all large
cities east of the Mississippi. Nathan
Strauss, the New York glhilanthropist
has eretced twelve isiWitar plants in
New York. PHILADELPHIA and Chicago,
nished free OF, at cost to the poor OF
the tenement districts. In these dis
tricts the infant mortality has been re.
duced from 20 to 30 per cent in six
years on account of the purity Of the
milk. 2,.i Ill " =
Question Of Competition.
The subject of pure milk was called
to the attention of the Commercial club
and committee visited Milwaukee
Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville tt
Investigate the manner in which the
milk supply Of those cities is handled
The committee recommended the organ
pure milk for Minneapolis. The plan is
to have the initial plant in the hands
of well-known, public-spirited men, who
are interested less in the money-mak
possibilities Of the business than in the
good that can be done.
The plan suggested by the report OF
the committee of the Commercial clut
! has been attacked by the milk distrib
utors at present in the field, who claim
that their milk Is as pure as needfu
and that any attempt to organize {
central distributing plant means a trust
Those interested in the new move SAY
that the plant will not care for thircc
OF the milk consumption Of the city
and that they cannot compel people tx
buy their product in preference to tina
Of others. The product of the sanitar,
plant will be offered at the same pric,,
to the public. 49,
Dairymen Oppose Move.
! Attic the dairymen oppose the pla1
the promoters say that they will no
suffer, inasmuch as the company will
give them as much, net, as they ar
receiving. On, the other hand they sa,
the dairymen s association, compose,
largely Of men living outside the cit,
limits, has controlled the situation here
tofore and has regulated the price O.
milk. For years the city paid fv
cents quart but at present six i
paid on account Of a raise ordere,
some time ago by the association
AS soon as the company is fully OF
ganized the stockholders, all Of whor
are well known, and the officials of til
company will be made public. Enougl
has already been done to insure sui
fcient custom to make it a fnancia
success. For distribution the city wi
be mapped out into districts which will
4 be covered by the company's wagons
specially equipped for the business. TIL
company will maintain it's own barn
and equipment, all of which will be sar
ltary and modern and open for inspec
tion.
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