The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-10-15
MIR. Sparkling OBJECTS.
To the Editor Of The Gazette Times
Dear Sir:

To the Editor Of The Gazette-T Times:
Dear Sir:
Will you kindly allow me to con-
tradict statement typically mac
curate, which l am informed ap-
peared in the Herald, through the
medium of your paper; in case any
of the more respectable members of
the community may also have heard
of the article in question.
trust that those who know ME,
give ME credit for having more brains
than the employee of the syndicate
promoting and financing the publica-
tion Of the Herald does.
The article to which refer, stated
that / was organizing a company to
build a creamery at Stanfield. The
article, I am informed, went in fur
ther to state that l was then in Stan
field.
Both statements are false. have
not been in Stanfield for five or six
months. The false statement that
was in Stanfield is Of itself quite
harmless and merely indicates habit
ual and Indifferent inaccuracy, but
the statement that | am interested
in, or would in any way be party to-,
the waste of six thousand ($6,000)
dollars, in an endeavor predestined
to failure, is extremely distasteful.
Some competition is justifable
and a help to the community, where
as other competition is unjustifiable,
pulls down instead of building up
and is mere plagiarism.
There Is already creamery being
successfully operated at Hermiston.
There is at the present time cream
cry building replete with all the nee
essary equipment for the making of
butter lying idle at Echo, three miles
from Stanfield, and representing an
investment of $500.
There is enough butter fat pro-
duced in the irrigation area between
Echo and the Columbia River to sup
port one factory in fairly success
full manner, and no more. If there
were | imagine it would be better
business to operate once more the
plant already in existence in Echo
than to run the risk of losing a fur.
ther sum of $4,000, in a foolish and
unwarranted attempt to compete
with an organization already giving
it's clients and customers a fair meaG
of satisfaction, and good article
1t is that kind of competition which
changes one good institution into two
poor ones. 1t impoverishes the coun
try, robs the shareholders of theil
hard earned savings and gets the in
dustry itself, one of the most i'm
portant in the world, which nations
governments, railroads, and other in
dustries and private corporations arr
spending untold wealth to encour
age, into disrepute.
To organize creamery in Morrow
County which has thousands of acre
suitable for diversified farming
which is already exporting $500 lbs
of butter fat per day, (Which of it
self is enough to guarantee the sup
ply for the operation Of the plant,
which imports 10000 lbs. of butte
annually from Portland, (whithe
our produce at present goes), an(
furthermore consumes more than Sc
600 lbs. of ranch made butter eacl
year, and which has no creamery il
operation within it's limits, is gooC
industrial opportunity, and on
bound to succeed, but to build on
in a locality which produces less but
terfat, which has already got on
working plant and one idle plant
--! Well, Mr.. Editor; l woult
as soon think of doing anything mos
absurd, such as let us say; we'll, sucl
as to start a new paper in Echo.
A. l.. Sparkling.