The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1914-02-26
CANNERY MEN
ANNOUNCE PLAN
PLANT 10 BE READY BY SPRING
Valley, Too, Will Have Cooperative
Creamey-Saturday Action Pres
sages Benefits to Valley and City

Saturday was an eventful day In
Hood River. With E. b. Cloud, for.
merly superintendent of Reed, Muir
dock q Co., Gamers of Chicago, an
nouncing that he would have ready for
this seasons strawberry crop a can
merry, and with 200 orchardists and
business men Of the city and valley
taking action toward the building of q
cooperative creamery, results toward
which the members of the Commercial
club, the business men Of the city and
the ranchers Of the valley have been
looking forward for number Of years,
were realized.
So quietly has Mr.. Cloud been max
ing his negotiations here through the
Manufacturers committee of the Com
mercial club for the past 80 days, that
| his definite announcement came Satur-
day night as a great surprise to many.
With the former Chicago eannery man
will be associated John X. Newton,
manager of the Pacific coast branch of
the X. M. Kellogg Co., of Three Riv.
ers, Mich. Both were here Saturday
and have been comforting as to the
construction of the proposed l20x40
feet concrete plant and 20x40 power
house.
I'VE will be ready to handle the
product of this year," said MIR. Cloud.
1T is our intention to work with the
orehardists and to can all vegetables
that may be grown prohtably between
the trees"
The new cannery will be built on the
lot east of the Fashion Livery Com
pany's barn and will be located on a
spur Of the Mount Hood railroad.
No meeting has ever created more
enthusiasm than that at which the
creamery was discussed last Saturday.
The manufacturing committee of the
Commercial club, the members of which
called the meeting, could have secured
no no better man than Chris Myhre,
Of Junction City, to tell of the methods
to be used in establishing.a cooperative
creamery. Mr.. Myhre Is a big live
bunch of thinking energy and his talk,
in his own peculiar impressive manner,
caused undivided attention from the
first. He gave a brief history OF the
cooperative creamery business, telling
of its rise In Denmark, and the unprec-
edented prosperity that Denmark had
enjoyed since its rural residents had
banded themselves together for the
purpose Of manufacturing butter. He
told of the establishing Of such plants
in Minnesota. 1T has been no easy
thing for ranchers," he said, pointing
out difficulties that had to be sur
mounted, when big centralized COM
petitive concerns attempted to break
down the cooperative efforts of the
farmer.
In whatever industry growers may
have bahued themselves together for
cooperative purposes, the talk of MIR.
myhre was good tonic. He got straight
at things without beating the Devil
about the bush. His speech, which
covered the growth of the cooperative
dairy business here in Oregon, the
butter making industry and cheese
manufacturing, was not completed at
the noon hour, and he was given the
1 fioor again in the afternoon, when the
growers had returned from their
lunches. In Is minutes after he had
finished his address and had instructed
the committee on organization as to
proper methods to be used, the sum OF
$500 of the proposed $4,000 capital
stock had been subscribed. and owners
had signed up to furnish the cream
from 278 cows for the new enterprise.
The committee appointed by Chair
man Mitchell is composed of j. p.
Thomson, A. W. Peters, h. G. Zillia-
Gus, w. q. f. Smith, G. e. Coffin,
| M. o. Boe and A. F. Bickford. They
will make thorough canvass of the
valley and the subscribers to stock and
all interested parties will hold meet.
ing on Saturday, March Il.
Mr.. Myhre is Of the opinion that II
is necessary to have 400 cows before the
creamery can be successfully operated.
However, from the expression Of grow
ers who are conversant with the sesti-
menti in the valley, the orchardists will
quickly subscribe this number. MIR.
Myhre showed how valuable the add.
tion of cows would be to the orchard,
lists. w. H. Paulhamus, of raspberry
fame in Washington. he said, urgeC
the growers of that district 10 raise
more cows. The value of the fertilizer
is almost inestimable, he declared.
In his speech of introduction, MIR
Mitchell called attention to the faeI
| tndt TIC Udnhb OI tub city hilu TUE
business men would be ready to aid tht
growers in the advancement Of such al
enterprise.
1.-The officers Of the Commercial elui
are jubilant," said President Heilbron
ner Saturday night. I'VE have beer
working toward matters of this kint
for years. IL has been realized tha
payroll will be of great benefit t.
Hood River valley. The two new en-
terprises will be of greatest benefit I,
all in the county,"
~ have never been received any
where any better than here at Hoo,
River" says MIR. Cloud. ''The mem
bers of the Commercial club hav,
4 shown me every courtesy. hav'
been investigating Hood River sine
1909. About two years ago met CT
Calkins, manager of the Hood Rive
Apple Vinegar Co. II was he who in
troduced me to the club and to j. II
Heilbronner, its president. Mr.. Calk
ins, assure you. has always been