The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-05-07
New Plant of Albuquerque
Creamery Will Have Capa-
city Double That of Com
bined Creameries of New
Mexico.
HAS DOUBLED DAIRY
INDUSTRY IN A YEAR
Cream Checks to Producers
Mount to $1,000 a Week for
Cream That Goes Into Sun
shine" Butter.

Daily capacity. 10000 pounds
az butter.
it, own power aud heating
plant.
it, own water plant.
it, own r-cfrigcrating plant.
The most modern creamery
aud butter making equipment In
the west.
\ market for c,crS pound of
butter the enlarged plant can
produce.
\ steady demand for all the
crtnm farmers Ia u radius of i've
hundred miles can furnish.
Cream ClicCks to producers
ranging from $1,000 tO $4,000 u
week. keeping NJ home the money
heretofore sent To Colorado and
Kansas.
An industry that hRs doubled
the dairying industry of this state
twice over In two Year,.
These are a few interesting facts
about the Albuquerque creamery
which rs engaged this week Ia moving
into it's new and thoroughly modern
brick. steel and concrete plant iu the
|lNAl ct ANAf Z MANNfN MNNNfNANt uNtHf
Few Albuquerque people have real
lied the proportions which this home
industry has reached. especially since
II came under It's present manage
mcnt II has become q stable indus.
try. not only of material value To Al
buqucrque. but Of worth To- the whole
state especially e. those sections
adapated to dairyinE. In fact. the
Z Albuquerque creamery may be said a.
have established the dairy industry
In New Mexico II Is ana will con
tinue to be the chief factor IN It's de-
velopment.
For the producers Of Sunshine but
ter have nfty cream shipping stations
of their own scattered throughout the
length and breadth Of New Mexico,
with supplementary stations in west
Texas and Oklahoma. II Is shipping
cream from az mr east ns AlNH, bkla.
: from Roswell. Nm, and points be-
tween. from Dcming and points he
tween, and TO some extent from ~
tancia valley, from northern New
Mexico and a beginning IN cream
shipping has been made west OF Al
huquerque. The plant has made Az
huqucrquc the dairying center of tht
state.
From It's utty shipping stations in
this state cream Is being shipped In
for which the farmers receive check
a%ggrogating from sl2O0 to $4,000 y
week This money uscd to go e.
Colorado. oklahoma, Kansas aud 9th.
CT dairying states. II stays at home
now aud is spent at home. and the
- - III 80. .INW.
ments is increasing steadily The
makers u sunshine butter have q e.
pacity double that ~ all other cream
cries la New Mexico AMI Arizona
combined.
when the sunshine creamery wac
started three years ago there wa
practically no dairying industry ~
New Mexico outside of the Pccus val
ley. where q small creamery has beer
ia operation for some years The lo'
cal milk supply, ar commercial dair'
les. were running. but cream produc'
ton from the farm and anch Wal
unknown, To-day hundreds Of farm
crs In all sections OF the state arr
steady shippers of crcam tn Alhu
querduc. To many of them II hal
meant the difference between pros
perity and disaster. between read
money and giving up farms an'
homcstcads IL h the basis upon
which much of the farming OF tn
plains section will rest.
Industry Firmly Established.
Like many another beginning, IN
sunshine creamery had IT. inancia
troubles In starting, Its promoter
were not practical creamery men AM
had not sufficient financial backing
The plant went through "a receiver
ship. and a sale. finally passing Int
the hands Of the present company
backed by ample capital and wit
practical men OF long experience 4
charge. Il has now arrived on a per
mancnt basis with thorough equip
ment. adequate capacity and estah
lishod markets.
II viii be interesting 10 most Al
huquerque people to knoW that IN
plant Is now shipping ten thousan
pounds Of butter Ia ~ PaHo eVer
month. having the supply con
tracts for the Paso del Norte, IA
, Zeiger aud Orndorn hotels. the prin
cipal hotels of the Pass city; that
In shipping see pounds OF butte
weekly To- the Chino copper con
pany; that II has the butter suppl
; contract for the Elephant Butte dai
construction camps. amounting
! several hundred pounds a week an
; that Il is supplying several of ~
= largest OF the southwestern Harve
. hotels, the hnal test 90 a sound proc
, uct. The Industry. therefore, has NJ
only established a market Tor a pro'
uct on which farmers 81 the state CA
. base permanent prosperity. but ha'
: assured the success Of the industl
|. itself In the distributing md.
g. H. Sweeney, the nag Of q
p creamery. has spent his entire life
p the practical eEd Of The business :
y has managed creameries In the gre.
butter-making states, and has studi'