Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1921-04-21
THURSDAY. APRIL ri. 1921

The following article was contrib
uted for our last issue during home
products week, but was received too
late for publication. The article
treats on a subject of great import
ance and we are passing it on to the
readers of the Enterprise this week
Home Products Week is here,
but how many of us are really IN
a position, thru information gained
from our different industries, TO
give to the iifnuiring public authen-
tic data pertaining to them. Not
only this, but how many of us suf-
ficiently appreciate the value Of
these home industries to our COM
munity. This week we in this rich
and productive valley should allow
ourselves a few moments of serious
thot on these vital questions. We
not only owe it to the section wei
reside in, but owe it to ourselves
personally, for the success of our
industries means much to our own
chances for success.
AS a new resident here, there is
nothing would appreciate more
than to be in possession of all the
information possible regarding our
home producing plants and indus
tries. which go towards making
bigger and richer community.
The high feeight rates to the
larger marketing centers makes it
mkt to impossible for us to reach
them with our raw products and re-
ceive renumerative returns, so in
order for us to dispose of our prod
ucts at profit, it is necessary that
we get them as nearly as possible to
the finished product. We cannot do
this without manufacturing indus
tries, which not only assist in prof
tably marketing our products, but
also furnish labor and money to the
territories served by them. Money
paid out by them goes to the grower
md merchant at home and money
hey receive for the finished product,
With few exceptions, also stays at
lone for the developing and en-
arging of home and home people.
The point I want to make and i'm
'ress upon your mind is the abso d
ute necessity, for your own inter- u
SITS, to realize the. Importance of
ONE industries regardless of the u
osition you hold in the community .
AXE for example, our little Flour u
nd feed mills here, which have been
perating at less than half their II
apacity. You will no doubt be sur.
rised when 1 tell you that the flour u
Ill has a grinding capacity of q
100000 lbs. of wheat yearly, equal d
} 10000 bushels. In other words
will grind all the wheat you can III
Use each year on 5000 acres OF 90
nd. Figuring wheat at $3.50 per
lshel would mean $225,00OOO an u
Jolly to the farmer. 1t has a ca
lcity of milling 100000 sacks of =
lirements of $4,000 people. The
our, or sufficient to meet the re- or
tie feed mill has a capacity of III
hiding 5000 tons or 100000 ge
5. of barley, rye and oats yearly, or tn
you could raise on 1900 acres tic
land, and figuring price of $3.50 thu
r cwt., would mean s1S0,0OO.00 co
IRE to the farmer, or about a half
lion dollars annually these mills
Id pay to this valley, were they
Grated to their full capacity. Pa
No doubt some of our other in thi
Stries are in a like positin to the cry
ur and feed mills. If we want all 9th
It these various industries are sell
'able of securing for home people,
get behind them with our sup.
t and patronage. Everybody is
ing "Patronize home industry FIR
we as growing community will
lacking unless we protect what 1
already have here in operation. Mo,
JIM DAVIS. whe