Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-01
Railroads Entering Omaha Afford Splendid
Accommodations for the Steadily Growing
Volume of Business that Represents the
Commerce of the City

found able to produce more cream than is
needed for use at home
BY reason of its railway facilities Omaha
drains cream from territory for 300 miles
on every side, turning it into butter as
rapidly as improved appliances can do it.
Iowa is a thorough dairyng country and
eastern Nebraska is being rapidly devel-
oped in dairying. Within the last two or
three years the western part of Nebraska
has been stimulated into the business,
small stock men finding that they can we'll
afford to milk and thus realize a good add-
tional income. Northwestern Missouri Is
being developed for the Omaha creameries
and even northeastern Kansas is drawn on
heavily by Omaha.
Harding Cream CO., sth and Harvey
This company was incorporated Septem-
Der /, 1904 with Mr.. Charles Harding as
president; Mr. D. c. Eldredge vice president
and treasurer, and Mr.. p. T. Birchard, sec
rotary 1t succeeded the Hygea Creamery
company, which had been operated for the
previous four years by Mr.. Charles Hard
ing. Mr.. Harding came here from Norfolk,
where he had built up a prosperous cream
cry business, believing that Omaha, as a
natural railroad center of the state, offered
facilities for the development of the cream
cry business which were not to be found
in the smaller interior towns.
Mr.. Harding was the first to push the
sale of hand separators throughout the
state and to solicit the shipment of hand
separator cream direct from the farmers,
and the success which attended his efforts
in that direction attracted attention
throughout all the states devoted to dairy
ing until today a very large percentage of
the creamery butter of the country is made
in the cities in practically the same way as
IL is carried on by the Harding Cream COM
pany and others in Omaha today.
The building at Eighth and Harvey which
was built by Mr.. Harding in 1904 is one of
the most complete, up-to-date factories in
the United States, having a capacity of
10000 pounds of creamery butter per day.
5000 gallons of ice cream and facilities for
handling a large general butter and egg
business.
Mr.. Harding put down artesian well
and succeeded in getting a flow of the pur-
est and cleanest water, at depth of 100
feet, amounting to 1900 gallons per hour.
This was a great stroke of good fortune,
as there is nothing in the manufacture of
butter more absolutely necessary than pure,
cold water. A large amount of water has
to be used in every churning of butter to
wash the buttermilk out, and il impure
water is used. damage, of course, is done
| the butter.
The Harding Cream company has paid
| up capital of $500, 900 and enjoys a very ex-
| tensive trade both in their butter and ice
cream-not only in Omaha. but elsewhere.
Beatrice Creamery Co., 10th a Howard
The Beatrice Creamery company, with
capital of 100000. is now the largest
! creamery company in the world, owning
| and operating large plants all over the
middle west. These plants are located at
| Sioux City, Des Moines, Denver. Pueblo.
| Oklahoma City, Topeka, Beatrice, Lincoln.
Deadwood, Cheyenne, st. Louis and Omaha,
and at present they are erecting a very
| large and complete plant at Chicago, they
being AFFILIATED with the Meriden Creamery
company of Kansas City.
This company is owned principally by Ne
braska capital, having been started by
George q. Haskell. its president, and others.
at Beatrice, Neb., in 1896. 1t may be truth
| fully said that to the ability of Mr.. Haskell
and his associates is due the tremendous
| growth OF their company, as we'll as the
! immense proportions to which the dairy
| industry has grown in this state From
plant at Beatrice producing less than 100000
pounds of butter per annum, the company
has grown until in 1906 1t produced 100000
pounds.
| IN lSU4 IHe bedLIlCe STSdillcIy COihpohy
leased the business of the Nebraska-Iowa
Creamery company, which was the first
| large centralized creamery in Omaha, hav-
ing a capacity of 10000 pounds per day
During 1903 this plant produced 1.250Ooo
pounds of butter and in 1906 over 1000
pounds, which shows the immense growth
and development of the dairy industry in
Nebraska.
The Beatrice Creamery company makes
| a speciality of putting up butter in inter-
seal carton packages, their well-known
brands being Meadowgold and Idlewild.
Kirschbraun a Sons, 1909 Howard ST.
The firm of Kirschbraun & Sons is one Of
the Oldest and best known produce houses
in the west 1t is owned and managed by
Charles and Louis Kirschbraun. Fer years
large quantities of all kinds of farm and
dairy produce have been handled and for
a long time the Arm was the absolute mas
ter OF the egg business OF the west, its
operations extending as far away as the Pa
cifc coast. For some time the company had
manufactured process butter, but early In
1906 this was abandoned and modern
creamery plant, capable of producing the
finest grades Of butter was installed. Their
Ideal brand OF table butter has made a
, big market for itself in Omaha and else
where The firm has been very successful
In the new venture. Large cold storage
rooms are on their premises, capable OF
holding seventy-five or eighty cars of eggs
and butter and equipped with up-to-date
refrigerator machinery.
| Atlantic Sanitary Dairy Company,
2OO0 Farnam street.
This company is owned by Charles F,
! Schwager the active general manager
Clinton Briggs and w. Farnam Smith
Although the business has been established
less than FIVE years this company has alb
) sorbed a number of we'll known dairies and
Is Mt the present time operating twelve
wholesale and retail routes, from which
6-oent certified milk. wholesale milk and
cream and Atlantic butter are distributed.
A large model dairy farm is maintained
on Atlantic farm. seven miles west. where
certified milk is produced. this being sold
principally for baby feeding and invalids
Realizing that the majority OF the people
cannot AFFORD to pay SIS cents per quar-
: for certified milk the firm year ago de-
: cided to offer for sale superior quality Of
milk for cents per quart and met with
unparalleled success. This milk is obtained
from model farms near the city OF Omahs
5 and comes under the personal supervision
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