Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-12-04
ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY PASSING

COuubIy UHG NOHUEClLCI OdCdmGIJ 10 having
trouble securing enough cream to make
the business profitable.
Although the farmers who have tried
the producing of butter fat report that it is
the most profitable thing they can engage
in on their farms the people of Bear Lake
county still refuse to enter in any number
into this business and the butter fat pro-
duced is less than one-fifth of what should
be expected.
Although Montpelier now has a
Thoroughly up-to-date creamery and is
paying the highest cash price for butter fat
there are still those who insist upon send
ing their cream away, and still others who
insist upon making their own butter and
selling it.
There is something materially wrong
about this condition. Either the people do
not inform themselves as to conditions, or
they are stubborn and place sentiment
above business thrift and community de-
velopment
a visit among the merchants of the
city brings out generally expressed
opinion that the creamery already has done
a great good to the community. The pay
checks which are distributed every month
in this community aggregate something
over $500 now. This money is placed
directly in the hands of the patrons of the
Montpelier stores, and is spent with the
Montpelier stores, increasing their cash
receipts approximately that amount. The
business would be much larger if every one
who had butter fat would take it to the
creamery. which after all is the most profit
oble thing they could do with it.
It is generally understood, that if the
farmers do not get back of the creamery
business more generally the firm of Leve-
rich and Burrell may relinqush their lease
upon the plant next month. Tn that case
it would be back in the hands of the cream
cry company and new arrangements would
have TO be made for its maintenance. This
would seriously retard the growth of the
business, if it did not mean closing down
of the creamery and loss to the many
stock holders who have put up their good
money to see this industry start.
The trouble experienced by the manage
ment is not in selling their product They
lind an ever increasing market for all the
butter they can turn out at such prices as
enable them to pay very high price for
butter fat. Their trouble is that they can
not buy the cream with which to make their
butter and this all lies with the farmer
The experience of the creamery will be
a repetition of host of failures that have
been marked down to the credit of this COM
unity in the last year, if the people do not
Immediately arise to the occasion and take
some steps to insure larger patronage to
the institution and the casue will be the
same old lack of spirit and determination
that has sounded the death knell of so many
promising enterprises.
Montpelier was to have a commercial
club. She has it but in name only. Every
one was interested at first but as soon as it
was fairly started everyone dropped interest
and the many advantages to have been
realized are allowed to pass to other places
unsaught and UNDECIDED. Montpelier was
to have a Merchants Protective Association.
The entire business interests of the city
turned out to launch the movement. It
was launched and set adrift without pilot
or engineer and wrecked upon the rocks of
listless lack of interest. Montpelier was
to have race track and many other good
things. Everybody wanted them, every
body promised to work for them but no
body did.
Everybody wished there was cream
cry in Montpelier and figured out what
great benefit it would be to the community.
"A travelling salesman heard their plea He