The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-04-30
CREAMERY COMBINE
FOR IDAHO AND UTAH
(Gooding Leader.)

A gigantic creamery and butter
combination which, it is claimed, will
be the biggest in the world when per-
fected, is now in the process of for
nation and will, when completed, be
known as the Mutual Creamery com
pany, with western headquarters at
Salt Lake, while some of its most i'm
portant territory will include that
stretch of country from Montpelier
north to .Ribgy and from Pocatello
west to Weiser. Its president will be
w. F. Jensen of Salt Lake, present
head of the Jensen Creamery COM
pany. 1t will operate in practically
all states west of the Rock Noun
tains and will have a capitalization
of $3,000,000, majority of the stock
being held by prominent business
men of Idaho and Utah. Creamery
and dairymen in Boise and the Boise
valley, to say nothing of western and
southern Idaho, are greatly interested
in the formation of the big combina-
ton.
The producer-the dairyman-the
manufacturer and the sales agencies
are to be interested in the furture
sale of milk and cream, its manufac-
ture into butter and by-products and
the sale of the manufactured articles
to the consumers. They are, accord
ing to information that reached Boise,
to be preferred stockholders" They
will receive bonuses in addition to
regular pay for such business as they
give to the company, and the regular
dividends from the profits of the
whole organization will not be paid
until after these bonuses have been
deducted. Another very important
feature of the new company will be
the lending of mony, upon stock, to
dairy ranchers desirious of improving
their herds.
|, Regarding the formation of the new
creamery corporation and merger, Mr..
Jensen is quoted as saying:
This company has been made pos
sible by the development of the west
in recent years and its formation is
assured by the growth of the west
that is sure to come.
"A few years ago the west was
bringing in butter and similar prod
ucts from the east, to supply its needs,
The west is now self-supporting. 1t
produces all the butter and eggs it
uses and, with the opening of the
Panama canal and with the natural
up-building of the western slope, it
will supply large part of the United
States with dairy products.
The states west of the Rocky noun
tains will become the best larry pro-
ducing field in the world. The coun-
try is best adapted for it. Any coun-
try where alfalfa is produced is the
best dairy country, for alfalfa is the
best food for dairy stock.
The principal stockholders in the
Mutual Creamery company will be
the actual producers Of dairy pro-
ducts-the farmers. The company will
be, cooperative in a sense, yet we do
not like that word. Rather we would
say that the producers will be the
principal, stockholders. They have
formed companies before and most of
them have failed because the pro-
ducers did not adequately provide for
the outlet of their products-that
is to say, the selling end. This COM
pany will obviate that oversight. Our
selling agencies will be distributed
throughout the west, in Alaska and
through the opening of the Panama
canal, we will sell our products to the