The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1913-12-16

having learned that there are good
prospects of oreamrey being built
In this oity,s doing their best to
discredIt the enterprise
They are employing the usual
course of the special Interests IN try
ing to stltle all competition. Realiz-
ing that the easiest way to rid them
selves of the competition is to kill
the project before the factory is
built. they are flooding the city with
literature deroRatory to GO operative
creameries.
Every person In the city presumed
tn be interested Ia securing a cream
cry here rs we'll as all of the farmers
have received letter containing a
circular .purportinR to be copy Of
an article published 10 the Pullman
Tribune. In February 1907 nearly
seven years ago 10 which Is given q
list of cooperative creameries, erect
ed 10 the Palouse country, all of
which turned out to be failures The
reason Of the failures shown by the
article WAS the lack of COWS to fur
nish cream, They we're Guilt without
asssrtalninR u there was any dmand
for them or without finding ont what
II any pstrln age the farmers would
give them, The Palouse district is a
wheei country, The farmers we're max
ing good easy money raising wheat
aud could see no reason why they
should change to the dairy bulsnes. e
consequently as the articles states the
creamerles never we've operated at all
The conditions are rather different
here, I his is a stock country and that
is practically all the farmers have t.
depend upon.
Again the Commercial club here
Instead of blindly going ahead with
the creamery, has had a man out for
two OF three weeks to ascertain just
how much of a demand there wau for
1t ,aud how much pat ronaRe could
be counted upon. lie was not sat
is6ed with just talking with the
farmers and getting oral expressions
from them bat he went at It 10 a
buIsuess like way and secured Within
contracts from them TO furnish but
ter fat continusly to the creamery
from, 10 the Aggregate, =235cows
Remember that the cause of the
failure of the other creameries WIS
lack OF COWS to furnish the cieA "a
to be manufactured into butter, Only
one of the entire number even at
temped to start up" while we have
signed contracts for 235 COWS and II
is the men with the COWS that ha, e
taken almost all OF the stock In the
creamery which to our miud assures
the success Of the undertaking from
the start 1t is very easy to see why
these bigSpo kane caeameies are sc
much Infested in the welfare Of the
people of this community and are
anxious to save them from losing
their money oy starting a creamery
This city is very good maket for
this butter using th ousRnds Ut pound
each year and besides the farmers 10
both the st. Joe aud st MaEies valleys
shiring them alarge amount OF cream
each year, and the builciuR Of q
creamery here would cut off a hig
slice of their profits both on the
cream purchased aud on the butter
sold.
They do not dare TO come ont and
make their fight for business IN the
open but take this unuderhanded way
to knock the project here.
They even try to conceal their idsr
tity by sending ont these ciroularI
anonymously and using an article
wrlttn by a professor 10 the Pullman
college under vastly different condi
tlons and circumstances In their at
tempt to prevent creamery beinl
established here.
rhey also reported that nearly al
Of the farmers said that they Woull
increase the number of their COW
when the creamery got TO running