The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-01-18
ORDINANCE WOULD
CLOSE CREAMERY
BUTTER AND ICE CREAM MAX
ING IN MOSCOW WILL END
IF 1T is ENFORCED.

Ii this new ordinance governing
the marketing of milk and dairy pro-
ducts is enforced / will have to close
the creamery" said j. E. Wilson, pro-
prletor and manager of the creamery
that is doing big business in Moscow
ana supplying market for the milk
and cream of several hundred far
mers- This institution is one of Mos
cows leading manufacturing industries
and has large payroll for cream and
milk and large payroll for en-
ployes. 1t distributes thousands of
dollars among the farmers every
month, furnishes employment to sew
,eral married men who have their
homes here and who without this
employment, would go elsewhere.
The creamery has built up an envi-
able business in butter and ice cream.
wholesaling its products over a wide
area. Continuing Mr.. Wilson said:
IF this ordinance is enforced it |
will ruin the dairy business of this I
section, or at least injure it badly |
FARMERS cannot sell butter, cream or
milk in Moscow. Of course they can |
find market elsewhere but Moscow
cannot afford to drive the farmers
trade away from the town. | will |
have to close the creamery and 90
elsewhere if this ordinance is en-
forced. The creamery cannot run
and comply with the ordinance"
Jolts Bon Ton, Too
"The enforcement of this ordinance
would put our ice cream plant out of
business" said "Bob" Woods, of the
Bon Ton, which added a $4,000 ice
plant, ice cream and sherbet factory
a few months ago and has built up
a wholesale and retail trade that :
means much to Moscow and the sur !
rounding country. Mr. Woods said: n
we will simply have to give up i
our ice cream business if this ordi-
nance is enforced. There is only one
place where we can get cream that /,
complies strictly with this ordinance :
and that is from the University of .
Idaho. We get their cream and it is :,
fine and complies with the ordinance. g
but none of our other customers have !.
the means to put in a plant like the J
University has. We buy only from
those whom we know to have good
facilities for handling milk and keep
ing it and the cream clean, sweet and s
sanitary. Some of these customers :
have fine plants, but not one would &
comply with the requirements of this
ordinance"
Farmers Would Go Elsewhere r
Il have spent lot Of money in try
g, to build up good dairy herd and ]
get started right in the dairy busi-
ness and had expected to build it up
20 be credit to Latah county" said
! well known farmer who has a nice
larry herd, but who requested that
lis name be not used, but he will
appear before the city coun- B
Ill and ask for modification of the
ordinance. He says he will not quit
he dairy business but will quit Mos
ow. 81 take it," said he, "that the
armers and dairymen can get along
Without Moscow great deal better fo
han Moscow can get along without a
he farmers and dairymen. If we ar
ave to take our butter, cream and m
ther dairy products elsewhere to sell di
hem we will take our eggs and other ar
roducts of our farm and, very Pl
aturally, we will buy our supplies br
there we sell our products.
II do not believe single member ar
the city council really understood oil
that he was voting for when he voted be
Dr. that ordinance, or that any mem gu
er wants it rigidly enforced. l be- ma
eve that if they are made to see cit
nat it will work great hardship COZ
nd injustice on Moscow merchants lea
) well as the farmers who have but tel
sr, cream or milk to sell, they will SKI
lodify it so that the men in this III an
lstry will not be driven out Of the fol
1siness or driven out of the Moscow no.
arket. It will be time enough to an
link about marketing our products he'
sewhere when we learn that they the
ally intend to enforce the ordinance err
! passed and printed" slu
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