Arizona republican., 1915-04-03

entertain the 1eennS that the Salt River valley has none but potential ly great industries. No longer will the Pacific Creamery at Tempe, the home of Lily milk, be pictured as an obscure plant requiring careful nursing and betting to keep it alive. Visions of possibilities were swept away yesterday afternoon in the presence of the real, moving, throb- bing, producing, almost humanly in telligent equipment housed in the spacious buildings of the concern that in less than nine years has increased it's daily output six times over, or from less than 100 cases of con- densed milk daily to in excess of 500 cases for every working day.
 Only the Rotary club of Phoenix could have originated a trip like that taken by nearly it's complete membership and numerous guests by special Arizona Eastern train, and only concern like the Pacific Creamery company, with such man at its head as J. B. Cook, president and manager, could have convinced the business men of Phoenix that it was a few hours well spent, with a lesson learned that will not soon be forgotten
 Yesterday was Lily Milk day in Tempe It was no different from any other day so far as the Pacific Creamery company was concerned, except that as fitting climax to the complete inspection of the grcAt plant, the management of the cream cry. with the cooperation of Prof. A. J. Matthews, president of the Tempe Normal School, seated the 133 Rotarians and their guests at sumptuous banquet in the Normal dining hall-a banquet that for the most part demonstrated effectively the possibilities in the utilization of the Lily products. From the cream of tomato soup and the Lily tea bis cults, down to coffee with Lily milk and Pacific Creamery buttermilk. about ninety per cent of the good things offered owed their goodness to Lily milk or Lily products. The menu is presented elsewhere on this page and will serve to convey to  been of the Rotary party yesterday some idea of the sumptuousness of the feast.
 It was a few minutes after 12 o'clock when the special train rolled out of the Arizona Eastern depot There were perhaps 100 passengers aboard each bearing the yellow tag which represented a round-trip tick ct Twenty minutes later the party was detraining at the doors of the creamery.
 The first impression gained by the visitors was that of the utmost cleanliness. Nor was that impress sion dispelled as progress was made through the various branches of the big industry. Everywhere there vas absence of odor and dirt. From tine moment the milk was received from bright, clean cans until it had been condensed, evaporated, run into con- tainers, sealed and sterilized the raw material entered no vessels or machinery not absolutely sterile, nor passed through the open air With the exception of the buttermilk as it came from the big separators and ran into great vats, there was noth- ing in sight to indicate whether it was milk, cream or some material of quite a different character that was being made ready for the market The visitors saw tiny cans move automatically up to filling machine saw holes punched in the top of the
 c pass on to a sealer and then through steriliZing hot water. on to the cool ing vats and finally to the labelling machine after being shot along an electric carrier to the packing house
 And such buttermilk! Rotarionf drank to their fill from the cans and vats and pronounced it the sweetest, finest and best buttermiil they ever had tasted. A detailed de- scription of the plant is presented or this page. It tells of the equipment and operation of the entire plant ond presents facts and figures that z dozen visits would not bring out.
 Not that the white-co atten dants at the creamery were not ready with information, but there are thousand and one things about thu institution that could not be fully understood by the layman in ta' time at the disposal of those wh' visited the plant yesterday.
 President Cook and his entire forc' of assistants were here, there and ev anywhere during the hour or more occupied in the inspection of th plant. They volunteered information to the various little knots into whici the party divided itself. answere' thousands of questions. handed on sample tins of Lily milk and daint, cakes of Lily soap, delicatel. scented, pure product. and marshallc' the crowd to the receiving statio' where with the big buildings as background and the dozen or nor auto milk trucks in the middle dis tance, they were confronted by tn camera of Republican Staff Pho tographer McCulloch who secured tn photograph of the entire party pre- scented herewith.
 And then the party boarded th train once more, or entered the SCOT or more automobiles sent out b