Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1908-01-17
CREAMERY WOULD PAY.
Could Ship in Cream for 100 Miles
On the Railroad

When the Journal published the
article few weeks aga announcing the
FEASIBILITY of a creamery at gGooding,
it was looked on as more or less of an
irridescent dteam. There were not
enough cows within seeing distance of
Gooding, it was said, even if you were
to count the Sawtooth mountain peaks
a hundred miles north. The cows that
were there were not trained up in the
dairy business. and they wouldn't all
together give enough milk te fill one
churn. These and other valid reasons
were brought forward to prove that the
idea belonged in the dream class.
But it doesn't. There is no creamery
nearer than Nampa, on the Ewest, and
goodness only knows how far on the
east; probably none this side of Utah.
The railroad touches most Of the farm
ing country all this distance, the rail-
road could haul the cream, and would
he tickled to death to turn. az shenest
penny by so doing. It is as cheap to
haul 80 miles by rail as to haul ten
miles by wagon; what could not be
supplied within easy and profitable
wagon distance of the creamery could
be shipped in by rail, and the creamery
would be within reach of 1000 cows or
more.
And there are some real dairy cows
in this part Of the state. Frank Mill
saps. the Shoshone dairyman, has
herd of Jerseys that would pass as
top-notchers anywhere. He has one
cow that has produced p pounds of
butter in seven days; there are dozens
of Jersey breeding farms that do not
have one COW that canI equal that re-
cord. This hasn't been much Of a
dairy country, it is true, but it could
be, easy enough, and dairying would
offer golden returns for the careful
farmer who is not too proud te get up
n the morning and to do chores at
night.
Whatever might be said of Gooding
as a good site for a creamery would
apply with equal force to Shoshone.
There are not enough good dairy cows
within reach of either town to keep a
good creamery running. But the cream
,ould be shipped from up and down
he road until enough would be secured.
Shoshone ships in large quantities of
)utter every year; indeed, it is rare
hat ono can find a roll of Lincoln
county butter in the stores, so that
practically the whole market supply is
imported. If the money that is sent
'ut for butter were kept in circulation
lere at home it would keep times good,
md panics would lose their place on
he calendar
Twin Falls viii soon have two cream
ries, one of them is already for op-
'eration The Twin Falls people are
-oing to take in some of the loose
money that has been floating eartward,
7estward, everywhere there was
reamefy tnat cared to sell butter to
daho people at high price. They
idn't wait down there until there were
alf a dozen cows on every acre, aristo-
ratio cows with wilk records as long
5 the moral law. but they put in the
and the hustlers down on
ne tract will do the rest. A creamery
, be successful must have live people :
round it, live enough at any rate to G
ct up in the morning and pail the COW,
nd to get back frcm town in time at S
ght to do the same thing again, on :
ock schedule. The Twin FalleTs viii G
} it, for they have hot grown up in an r
of range cattle. no chores G
I'd a winter wsth nothing to do but s.
,end their summers gains. If the II
'eameries are net successful there is s.
,thing but bull luck in business; judge $
ent, safe, high-priced market, no n
ose competition, and good facilities
= production are no good in figuring 81
what you can do with business
'portunity. >