The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1917-03-10

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often heard, frequently used,
occasionally understood, but not
generally practiced. Towns
people and ranchers lose money
for themselves every year by not
upholding home industries, but
far beyond the monetary result
is the loss of opportunity sus-
tanned by contributing to other
communities instead of the home
section.
A commodity made in Colville
should be bought and used in
Colville. The dollar stays here
and is used over and over. When
the dollafgoes elswhere, Colville
people have no further chance at
it. A sack of Colville flour
bought by any one in Stevens
county makes money for the pur-
chaser, for the money stays in
the county, goes to pay county
and school taxes, aids in keeping
up the county government. and
cannot escape from the commun.
ity until some shortsighted per-
sons sends it to Montana or Min
nesota or Spokane. When it gets
out of the county, it takes an
extra effort to get another one
back here to replace it.
Only a few years ago we sent
our butter to Spokane in the
summer, and bought it back again
in the fall at an advanced price.
Therefore creamery was insti-
tuted here. Butter prices are no
cheaper as the result. but the
money all stays in THIS county
and is in circulation here. The
wages paid, the interest on the
plant investment, the taxes, all
stay in Colville, and every
citizen profits by having this
continual payroll here. Farmers
profit just as much as towns
people. for they have the same
advantage at Colville money a.
do the town residents, and profit
just as much in the increase in
the value of the farms. When
butterfat is shipped out Of town,
the wages paid to make it into
butter or cheese are NOT paid or
received in Colville our loss.
Many communities have had
the experience of fattening out.
side business houses by selling
their produce to them instead of
to local men. Prices may be
the same, or the outside house
may for time pay trifle higher,
in order to put the local men out
of business; then the prices go
down lower than ever because of
lack of competition. Spokane
will never give US q cent more
for produce than it has to.
The creamery business is sus-
ceptible to considerable Juggling
in the matter of tests. Every
dairy in Spokane wants more
butterfat. The big plants are
capable of using more butterfat
than they can get. THERE'S no
law on the statute books against
ranchers selling to Spokane. but
there is a rule of finance which
should show them that if they
can get anywhere near the same
price from a Colville creamery or
flour mill or commission house,
it is money in their pockets to
sell here, for the manufacturing
wages all stay in Colville and go
to the workmen who buy in COL
vile and help to swell the receipts
of the farmers who sell wood
and produce and meats and fruits
to the Colville people. Every
dollar that is not spent here costs
this community more than a
dollar in the end-the dollar is
gone, and the dollar that ought
to stay here cannot increase nor
draw interest here.
The man who steals from
bank is called q criminal. The
man who steals or surreptitiously
takes money from his home COM
munity is a criminal to the best
interests of home and his neigh
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