Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-04-02
NEW FIRM TO DEAL.
IN DAIRY PRODUCTS
COOPERATIVE CREAMERY CON.
SOLIDATED WITH SCHMIDT
ESTATE.

Organized by the combination of
the Farmers Cooperative Creamery
with the Schmidt estate, a new COM
pany which proposes to deal at whole
sale and retail in eggs, poultry, milk,
cream. butter, ice cream and cheese,
and which is named the Olympia
Dairy Products company, capitalized
at $4,000, entered the local field
this week when it took over the op-
Grafton of the Farmers Creamery
Thursday and put out it's first prod
nets under the trade name "Olym-
ms" The deal had ben pending for
some time. The company will be in
complete operation by June 1.
Working through the local mer-
chants, the new company will offer
farmers Of the county a steady mar
ket at the going market prices for all
their eggs, and will buy directly from
them their poultry, milk and cream,
branching out into other farm prod
ucts as the business develops. The
company has leased one of the
smaller buildings of the Olympia
Brewing company and will buy water,
ice, steam, power and light from the
brewery, conducting plant for the
cold storage of eggs, poultry and
meats for its own business and doing
commercial refrigeration for others,
similar to the plan followed for the
least year at the Salem, Ore, brewery
Of the Schmidt estate, where all
kinds of meats are also handled.
Will Operate Store, Too.
The interior of this building is
now being remodelled to provide the
storage room and to permit the in
stallation of several thousand dollars
worth of new machinery to be used
in the new creamery plant, when the
present plant of the Farmers Co
operative Creamery on Water street
will be dismantled, part OF its ma
chinery moved to this new location
and the business of the company con-
Quoted from that point. In addition
to it's wholesale and manufacturing
business, the company will conduct
dairy products store in Olympia,
handling eggs, milk, cream, Ice
cream, butter, dressed chickens,
squads, vegetables, oysters and clans
In season.
All of the stockholders of the CO.
operative company are stockholders
of the Olympia Products company,
together with the Schmidts, it's Of
fcers being Adolph Schmidt, presi-
dent; w. J. Abbott, formerly presi-
dent and manager of the Farmers
company, vice president, and Freder-
ick Schmidt, secretary-treasurer. The
company proposes to establish IN
Olympia for the farmers of Thurston
county steady and stable market
for dairy products and to dispose OF
the surplus in outside markets, and
1t is believed it will give an added
stimulus to the development of this
feature of agriculture in this county.
For it's retail creamery trade, the
company is installing the most mod
ern machines for making clarihed
pasteurized milk, cream and butter,
having purchased complete new
outfit for pasteurizing milk and cream
for family use, the process removing
all impurities and bacteria. The
principal feature of the process is
that the milk does not come into con-
tact with air from the time 1t is clari-
fed until the cap Is removed from
the bottle by the purchaser.
New Method OF Gaping Bottles.
The company will introduce new
plan of Gaping milk bottles, using,
instead of the old method, a large
crown cap fitting over the top OF the
bottle similar to the smaller caps
used on beer bottles and removed
with the same kind of an opener.
This machine will bottle 40 quarts OF
milk or so pints per minute and Is
the first one of it's kind turned out
by the factory from which 1t was
bought.
The new concern will lease but
small portion of the brewing plant.
What will be done with the major
portion of it after the estate goes
dry" next January, has not been an