Arizona republican., 1908-04-01
THE MESA DAIRY
 AND ICE COMPANY.

Cooperative institutions have been established from time to time through out various parts Of the country. and have been successful in exactly the same proportion that the well managed proportion that the well managed cooperative institutions have borne to the whole number. A business organ izatiOn may be made along the most approved lines and yet fail for lack of good management And again busi- ness may be established along lines that would not ordinarily be adopted by shrewd business men, and in the course of its career make a splendid success. simply and solely because of good management. Whatever the lines adopted by a business organization along which to fight for success. it is the men at the helm upon whom the duty devolves to steer the craft into d safe harbor.
 h 1903. the Mesa Dairy and Ice Company was organized on the CO., operative plan; about 12O dairy men and business men banded themselves together for the purpose of manufac- turing ice and creamery products. At the time of the organization the dairy men throughout the Mesa coun- try were only realizing about fifty to seventy cents d hunured for milk that would yield four per cent butter fat. and the business men If the commu- nity were paving fancy price for ice. Under these conditions it was de- cided to get together and make the milk of the rancher yield more money to him. and the business mans refrig- eration cost less How well this org anization has served the purpose of its being. iS told in tine fact that today the rancher is realizing from S5 cents to a dollar and fifteen cents per hun dred for his milk. and ice is sold to consumers a a price that will allow all to avail themselves of this much need ed article during the heated term.
 In the organization of the company the dairymen protected their interests by the insertion of an article in the constitution prohibiting any one per son from holding or voting more than three shares of the stock
 The authorized capital is S25.0OO of which $1S,000 is paid up and is held by 120 holders who have issued to them stock the par value of S100 each.
 
 tons daily besides furnishing cold storage for the products of the cream cry. which has u capacity of 25.0O0 pounds of milk Der day. Besides the cold storage furnished the creamery department the company also furn- ishes cold storage to local merchants and ranchcrs.
 No creamery in the valley has made greater success than has this CO., operative concern at Mesa. The dairy men of this section have since the organization of this company realized a gross earning of from forty to eighty dollars per COW.
 The cost of the plant and buildings. machinery, etc. now represent an outlay of $35.OoO and their indebted ness at this time is but S500O.
 The plant is equipped with fifty H. P. engine double compressor two so H. P. boilers. and one Stilwell- open feed water heater The creamery has two Simplex Turbine separatOrs with a capacity each of $500 pounds of milk per hour. and one Sharpless separator of the same capacity. one Simplex combine churn and butter worker. capable of handling 900 pounds of butter at one churning
 The plant is also equipped with all the necessary machinery and appurt- enances for the making of about 1000 pounds of cheese per day. Besides furnishing the local market, the plant furnishes ice to all of the stations east of Mesa on the P. X F.. R. R.
 The management of the creamery is In the hands of Mir. Charles Peterson. c creamery man with years of eXperi-