The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-03-27
GET TOGETHER:
BUY At HOME
Yakima Valley Business Mem.
Home Excursion Luncheon Of
Yakima Valley Products
EIGHT AUTOMOBILES
CARRY THE VISITORS


Trip Was an Education, the Oc-
casion and the Date Marking an
Epoch in the Business Life Of
City and Valley
Thursday, March 81, 1912, was an
epoch in the business life of North
Yakima and the entire Yakima valley
1t marked the beginning OF what will
be known as the get-together and buy
at home era. The visible manifesto
ton of the new order Of things was
shown in the attendance at the lunch
con at the Yakima hotel at IL O'clock
of about 80 members of the Yakima
valley Business Mems association and
their friends. The menu included
home grown green onions from the
Nakmure gardens, Yakima dill pickles,
celebrated wye Gee CO. brand to-
mato soup, alfalfa fed Columbia mar
ket cured ham with homegrown spin
ach, worldfamous dish: the Yakima
baked apple with Yakima City cream
cry cream, Yakima City creamery but
termilk. Yakima Fruit Products grape
juice. ana water from the fountain of
youth, Yakima artesian well. The
viands, which will compare favorably
with those grown anywhere on the
face of the earth, were enjoyed and
put the bunch in good humor for the
proper appreciation of the rest Of the
program.
AS means of getting better ac-
quainted, President j. v. Payne, at
the head of the banquet board, an
nounced that he would like to have
each man present introduce the man
at his right to the assemblage He
first introduced the man sitting at his
right, and so it went all round the
table. At the conclusion of that little
feature there were those present who
knew each other by face and name
who heretofore had only known Of
each other by reputation.
Eight Autos in Line
Following the lunch came the bust
ness of the afternoon, an excursion
to the different manufacturing estab-
lishments and places where labor is
employed and the products of the
Yakima valley prepared for the mar
e..
Valley Business Mems association was
organized for the purpose of aiding
and furthering the growth and devel-
opment of the Yakima valley by en-
couraging the patronage Of industries
and institutions of this district and
the buying of goods manufactured at
home. to arouse public interest in sup
porting home manufacturing and bus
mess concerns, and to familiarize the
Inhabitants of this section with its in
dustries and with the importance of
using their products.
1t required eight automobiles to take
the party of so business men on their
trip.
Following are the names Of the
firms or companies visited together
with the number of employees of each:
S. Grant Smith Co., to 20 Yakima
Creamery, IA; Cascade Bottling works,
to Z; Artesian Spring Co., 2: Mid
land Engineering Co. works, 80 to IS;
Twin Bakery, 8; Western Auto Co..
2; Yakima Steam Laundry %; French
Dye Works, A; Yakima Valley Trans
portation Co., Is; Mott Candy Co., IL;
Yakima gas works, 10; Yakima Fruit
Products Co.. to 10; O.-W. r. &
n Co., 1876; Crab Creek Lum-
Der Co, s; Yakima Valley Lumber Co.
to 5 st. Paul & Tacoma Lumber
Co., ID; Smudge Fuel Factory, .;
Yakima Rex Spray Co., Z to s. Yak
ina Grocery Co., IL; Mueller Cigar
Factory 5; Schorn Paint Co.. 81 Yak
ina iron works, 10; c. F. Meyers ma
chine shops, to 8; Yakima iron
works, 8 to s.; Model u. S. laundry.
so; Central Auto & Supply Co.. 81;
Yakima Sash & Door Co. 23 to As;
Yakima Auto & Supply Co. 49,
The trip was an education for every
man who made the trip. The magni-
tude of the different enterprises had
not been known, and there was some
swelling up with pride when facts
were stated, causing a feeling of sat-
isfaction on the fact that they lived
in such country. With the tempera-
ture at So bright sunshine and no
necessity for overcoats even while
automobiling, the climatic features
were not the least OF the enjoym ents
of the day.
Some of the establishments visited
caused the business men to open their
eyes with establishment at the magni-
tude of the work being carried or
right here in North Yakima.
The Yakima City creamery has 250l
patrons living in the valleys from Sun
nysde to the Nile, who sell their
cream here, the monthly payroll for
which is $4,000; is making 1,100l
pounds of butter daily; has capacity
of 1000 gallons Of ice cream daily; |
immense ice manufacturing plant from
artesian water |
The payroll of the O.-W. r. & n.
Co, for the 78 men in its employ
who reside in this city. was announced
to be s11,105 monthly; the machine |
shop was pronounced to be the best i
equipped for it's size of any in the
entire Hartman system: stacked upl
for inspection by all who wished was
the material for the construction of
the electric lines to the Mckee and to |
the Selah, even to the spikes to be |
used
The yakima Valley transportation
company, now a part of the Hartman
system. gave out that it had So mem
in its employ. the monthly PAYROLL
being s4,260.
The Midland Engineering company. |