White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-02
PRESTON CREAMERY
HAS BRIGHT PROSPECTS

IlduS lOI Startling dilu OptidtiHe
the creamery at Preston are shaping
satisfactorily and there appears TO
he plenty of local interest in the en-
terprlse. Professor V. +. Scott of
the department of dairying of the
University of Nevada and T. II. King.
county irrigation engineer, have
taken an active part in the project,
with practical advice as to the manu-
featured output and the business
management. There are twenty-one
stockholders and the company Of
ficers are Martin Paterson, president;
Dan Nicholas, yice-president; Chris
tian Hermansen Jr., secretary and
treasurer.
The butter-making machinery has
been purchased and the plant will lie
operated by water power, the water
coming from a never-failing spring
about three-quarters of mile from
The creamery. through a canal dug
for the purpose and giving fall of
twenty-five feet. The power will be
more than is required to run the
creamery and the surplus may later
be utilized to operate an electric
lighting plant.
If the business prospers, and there
appears to be no reason why it should
not, Ely will be a logical market for
the product. Even in the dullest OF
times there is a heavy demand in
this district for butter and other
creamery products. and this demand,
for the reason that there has been no
local supply. has been met largely
from Utah and distant points in Ne
yada. During warm weather the but
ter shipments are a source of consid-
cradle worry and inconvenience TO
the local retailers, and especially
since the mail and express service
has been curtailed to three times a
week the question of demand and
supply has required close attention
With the development of a creamery
In this county. operated by butter
maker who knows his business and
we'll equipped and dairy support
to meet any considerable demand, the
local retailers should welcome the
opportunity to handle a homemade
product
II such dmand is created and
properly met by the creamery man
agement there will follow the nat
ural necessity of increasing the num-
ber of dairy cows in the district, and
this phase of the project Is already
being considered by the promoters of
the enterprise, who are planning to
lring in some high-grade dairy ami
mails from the western part of the
state. Increased dairy herds will
naturally lead to increased develop
ment of grazing lands and larger hay
crops, and all together IL means de-
velopment on a general scale Of the
county's jairying and stockraising
resources.
AS Preston is centrally located for
this particular enterprise 1t would
seem that mail routes in that section
OF the county could be utilized for
conveying butterfat to the creamery
from the outlying dalries The mails
in the rural districts are now gener-
ally carried swiftly and regularly by
automobiles, and by taking up the
matter with the postoffice department
1t could readily be arranged that the
mail automobiles carry the cream
where the routes are practical and
the individual ranchers do not wish
10 carry their output themselves
These details will of course be work
ed out as the project develops.
The enterprise of the Preston COM
pany is being watched with county
wide interest aud the whole-nearted
wish for its success Is prompted by
the belief that 1t means a great deal
for the county at large