Williams news., 1919-07-18
WILLIAMS ID HAVE
 ,. FLOUR & FEED MILL

The Williams Farm Improve
 ment Association took a step at
 it's last meeting, which is by far
 the most important undertak,
 ing that the association has Yet
 attempted, and which if sue cessfu1, will react greatly to
 the benefit of the entire com
 munity. There is no good req
 son why these farmers should
 not succeed since they already have in sight sufficient capital
 to accomplish their object.
 The big thing which these
 farmers are now attempting is
 the establishment of a feed and
 flour mill in Williams. They al-
 ready have $5,000 in sight to
 capitalize the undertaking and they expect to be able to doub- le this amount if necessary.
 At present the farmers about
 Williams are confronted with the necessity of shipping their wheat-if they raise any con siderable amount of it ito a distant market being forced to deduct the freight from the market price. Then they must ship their flour back paying freight on the return trip. A mill located in Williams would save the freight both ways. In an inland town like. Williams located so many miles from a market, the double freight which the farmer pays on his grain and flour or feed is enough to make. it unprofit- able for him to raise grain.
 At the meeting of the Assoc iation last Saturday an esti- mate was made of the acreage in wheat about Williams, and of the probable yield. It was found that the total acreage of wheat was between four and five hundred acres. An aver age yield will mean the produc- ton of from four to six bushels of wheat this season. With g mill located here giving the farmer a better market, the yield would naturally be in creased another year. In addi- tion to this there will be 9 large yield of oats and con siderable barley rye and corn which might be ground into feed. There is enough grain i'll sight to make ample business for a small mill.
 The cost of installing the achinery for a mill was taken under consideration and it was estimated that S5, ,00O would be sufficient to put in a small four mill, an oat and barley roller and a feed grinder. This amount had already been pledged for the proposed ware house which the Association first thought to erect, and all present were of the opinion that the mill should come first.
 To build up a live and busy community about Williams, it will first be necessary to supply the local food markets with food grown, locally--so far as this is practicable in any com It is to the interest of the entire community to do this. So long as large sums of money are sent out of town each year to. buy butter, eggs, poultry. four, feed and other products that might be successfully pro- duced here, that long as the community must be deprived of the amount of circulating mon ey that is essential to keep busi- ness lively. A Williams Mill, besides supplying a better mar ket for the farmers grain, would naturally reduce the cost of feed for poultry raisers and dairymen. Naturally both of these lines of business would receive great impetus and the time would not be far distant when the entire local market would be supplied by them and soon other towns along the San ta Fe would get their. supplies :, from Williams instead of from other distant states.
 The farmers have made a good move, both for their own interest and for the interest of the community. It now be- hOoveS everyone interested in