Arizona republican., 1912-11-29
IMPORTANT CHANCE
 IN MANAGEMENT
The Maricopa Creamery Go. to Take Charge of Dairy Department
 of Mesa Dairy and Ice Go.

December 1st there will be a change in the management of the M. D. and l. Co. of this place. During the present week B. C. Webster, manager of the Maricopa Creamery Co, Phoenix, closed a deal by which his company will on Monday take | charge of the dairy departments of the local company. The ice making plant and the handling of ice coal Iand wood will remain under the pres ent management. The new deal in cludes only the butter and sheese- making part of the business. The milk will be purchased by the Mari | copa Creamery Co, and the Mesa l Brand" of butter-which has be- come famOus-wilI be sold by the same company, orders to be sent to i Phoenix instead of to Mesa as here l tofore. In a signed statement to the
 public MT. Webster say:
 We shall advocate the delivery | of cream and milk to the creamery 1 by the farmers themselves, thereby
 cutting out the present costly meth | of handling, and the expense thus | saved to be paid to the farmer in the way of additional price for his 1 product. We shall urge the farmer
 to skim his own hilk and deliver only
 his cream to the plant, and this de- livery can be made every two days 1 Skimming at the creamery costs the creamery money, and the farmer can do this skimming at home much
 cheaper than the creamery can do
 it, but if done by the creamery
 somewhere along the line the farmer
 pays to have it done We shall urge
 the farmer to keep his skim milk at
 rome and feed the warm milk to
 hogs and calves, selling only his
 cream to the creamery"
 MT. Webster further says that the creamery company will assist the farmer financially, where possible. 1T
 getting more cows and cream sep , arators on favorable terms.
 The Mesa Dairy and Ice Co, is z l corporation, the stock held by tho
 farmers and a few of the bushes:
 men. The stock is guaranteed divi. 5 dend paying and semi-annual diyi. , dends have been paid every since t the plant began business. Unit
 within the past few months ther, , had been no complaint as to thu
 returns from the plant. However the lively competition for milk, tn,
 increased cost of delivery by mean of dairy wagons making daily trip through the farming districts fo
 the product, and other matters tha
 increased cost and cut down profits
 caused some dissatisfaction. Numer
 ous conferences of the men intereste = ended in decision to take the stel Z as stated above. This is believed t be for the best interest of all con
 cerned
 The ice making plant. which ha
 always been good dividend pro 1 ducer, will be continued, with MI e Fred C. Weekes in charge MI e Weekes has been the efficient man t ager for a long time past and it i r due to no fault of his that the dair - department did not keep up to tn e money making capacity. That wa !. was occasioned by conditions beyon : his control.
 n Mesa has always been very prou s of her dairy, the quality of butte f produced and the excellent chees S which has found so wide sal e throughout the country. It is a bio, t to her pride that a Phoenix firm wi = hereafter handle the business, bu e that is only in line with financia t conditions. The larger combination = of capital can carry on the bushes s of manufacturing so much economi l. tcally than the smaller concerns tha 1T the latter are eventually absorbe e by the greater