The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-18
Producing Co. Of Which
KenOsha Men Are Members
Take Over Big Plant
At Elgin.
SELL ALL SURPLUS MILK
Company May Later Enter Into the Re-
tail Trade With Elgin AS Their Mar
keting Center for the Whole Chicago
District Of Organization.

A plan to make Elgin the real and ac-
tive center Of milk industry handling
So, 100000 worth OF the product each
month is in the minds of the directors
of the Milk Producers Cooperative
Marketing Company, who have decided
to pay the Borden Condensed Milk Co.
the price asked for the bottling plant
at the former east side condensing fac
tory.
The purchase price is not given out
but it is said to be IN the neighborhood
Of $4,000. The deal is Of great inter
est to milk producers Of Kenosha coun-
ty. !.
For more than var the officials Of
the company have ben casting envious
eyes at this portion Of the old Borden
plant. The price was too nigh at first,
but the business Of the company has
grown to such proportions and other
conditions are such that the price is
satisfactory now. The deal has not
yet been completed, to the actual sign
ing of the papers, but the buyers and
sellers have agreed and only the rou-
tine of the transaction remains.
To Be Ready in so Days.
So certain Is the signing Of the con-
tract that Charles FL. Potter Of the Mar
keting Company, announced this morn
ing that, within sixty days, the com
pany plans to have installed nearly
$4,000 worth Of machinery for the
handling Of the milk which will be re
ceived in Elgin.
The main purpose Of the plant will
be the care Of the surplus milk that is
produced in all parts Of the milk dis
trict. Whether it will be made into
butter, or Some of it made into milk
powder or some shipped il bottles to
Chicago and ether cities has not been
decided by the Marketing Company Of
ficials. One thing certain is that great
quantities cf milk will BIO received and
procesaed for further distribution.
Besides handling the surplus Of the
en- tire district the Elgin plant will ac-
eept regularly milk from as far north
as Harvard, as far west as Belvidere, as
far east rs Bloomingdale and as far
south as the Great Western tracks at ST.
Charles. Much of it will be brought
by train, as it used to be brought here
in the days Of the old Borden condens-
ing factory, and the rest will be brought
in daily By motor +,nck.
The capacity Of the Elgin plant will
be UP to 100000 pounds Of milk a day,
says Mr.. Potter, which is nearly double
the capacity Of any plant that was
ever located here permanently before.
$3,Oooo,00O Each Month.
Elgin was selected because there is
no other plant here now to receive the
whole milk in competition and because
the establishment of the temporary
skimming plant there during the milk
wagon drivers strike in Chicago demon
strated that milk could be gotten there
easily.
The first milk was sold through the
Milk Producers Cooperative Market
ing Company last February. The bust
ness the first month amounted to near
Ily $1,000,000. Since then more farm
ers have started selling through the com
pany SO that now, according to Mr..
Potter, about $3,oo0,oOo worth Of milk
is being disposed of each month
Since the Marketing Company IS plant
in the packing factory at Elgin was dis
continued several weeks ago about
600 cans Of milk have been shipped
from there each day for the Chicago
trade.
The sale of milk condenseries and
distributors will not Be interfered with
by the new plant.
One thing possible, though, is The es-
Enlistment of retail distributing sta
tions at Elgin and other places in the
district afla,. the plan Of the gasoline
distributing stations, so that the con-
sumers Of milk will be able to buy it at
very close to the cost of production.
The retailing Of milk by wagon in Elem
and other places is another POSSIBILITY
of the new enterprise. This has beels
tried at Indiana Harbor with success
and its adoption at many other pieces
will not occasion surprise.