Imperial Valley press., 1919-07-09
FARMERS GIVEN
FACTS BY GRAY
IN STAT TEMENT

Tie folo,cjng is made to the people of the
Imperial VALLEY By C. E. Gray president of the California
Central C1eomeries:
r HE California Central Creameries, following its
course Of open and frank discussion of matters
Of common interest with the people on whose sup
port it depends for its success, deems it duty to
publish this statement.
The California Central Creameries has no part,
directly, indirectly, in the criminal prosecution
of the directors of the Associated Milk Producers
Of San Francisco; which association is part of the
attempted state combination ordganzed by Banker
j. M. Henderson, Jr., of Sacramento who claims to
dominate and control the socaed Imperial Valley
Milk Producers Association of Imperial County.
That is action being conducted by the people
Of the State of California against these men for
violation of the law.
Phe California Central Creameries has no part
in the criminal prosecution of the Milk Producers
Association of Central California, in Stanslaus
County, for alleged cheating of the farmers by
undertaking butter fat tests.
That is an action being conducted in the name
of the people of the State of California by the
stituted OFFICIALS of the government.
Honest Money Against Dishonest Talk
The California Central Creameries, in pursuit
of legitimate business, has invested in Imperial
County in the best equipment known to science a
sum III excess OF S2oO,OOO.
This plant has produced and is producing,
through the most modern methods, the character
OF butter that establishes the reputation of Imper-
ia County dairy products in the markets of the
world.
No institution coordination, since our COM
ing to the Valley, has invested any considerable sum
for the benefit of the dairyman.
The California Central Creameries, despite it's
large investment and service to the dairy people, has
been unscrupuously, and unfairly, attacked by in
dlVlduals and combinations who have sought to ex-
ploit the farmers under pretended fictitious CO.
operative plan.
The Sacramento Banker, who is attempting to
dominate this situation has not invested any visible
sum OF money in Imperial County.
He, and his outside associates, have sought the,
money of the farmers under Shylock contracts pro-
missing alleged and impossible benefits
Banker Promoter Invests Big Promises .
Neither j. M. Henderson, Jr, nor his associates
nave made any improvements in the valley; and un-
doubtedly are preparing to do with the farmers
money, obtained on all sorts of promises what they
are now doing in other parts of the state namely
using the farmers money to create issues of promi-
ssoly notes and mortgages that constitute direct
obligation on the farmers and their property
These people not only obtain the farmers
money without making any return to them but use
this money to create debt which the farmer is
obliged to pay.
In other words, the farmer is paying them
money for the privilege of assuming mortgage
debt.
The difference between the California Central
Creameries and these men is this:
The California Central Creameries brought its
money here to improve the Valley, and has built here
the finest creamery establishment i'm America
The Sacramento men, who have exploited the
Imperial Valley Milk Producers have brought no
money here