The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-05-11
Golden Belt Creamery
and Ice Company
Inc.)

(BY R. KENNETH EVANS)

A great impetus has been given the dairying in
dustry in Ellis county by the building here of of
largest and best constructed creameries to be
found in Western Kansas by King Brothers at an e-
pense of more than $5O,000.OO and which gives for
this section of the state reliable and steady market
for milk and cream and gives the farmer an incentive
to produce more of these commodities
The King Brothers creamery was first estab-
shed in Hays in a small frame building in 1919 and
has grown and developed with the darying industry
until last fall it decided to put up a plant that
would be credit to the city and county and which
adds~very materially to the reputation of Hays as
commercial, marketing and distributing center
The Golden Belt Creamery and Ice company
is incorporated with E. R. King as president A A
King as secretary, and G. L. King vice president
and treasurer. The King brothers are experienced
creamery and enthusiastic boosters for Western
Kansas. They are imbued with the true spirit of pro-
gression which is characteristic of a westerner and
the fact that they have made such heavy invest
men in establishing this modern institution is evil
dence within itself of their confidence in the future
OF Western Kansas.
The new creamery was ready for occupancy
April IA of this year. while the ice plant which an
artificial plant of the latest improved type started
making ice April 81
In the creamery department a steady and high,
est cash market is maintained for milk and cream,
sweet cream and milk being bought at the creamery
and sour cream being received either at the Kelley
Produce Company or through the Farmers Union
Market quotations are furnished daily upon request
and the highest possible price is always allowed and
never does the company allow the to set on an
unpaid can of cream if possible to deliver the check
to the producer.
Butter is made at the creamery from sour cream
and the highest grade of creamery butter is manufac
maker The plant has a capacity for turning out 500
pounds daily of the celebrated Golden Belt brand.
modern ice cream making plant is also a part
of the equipment with capacity of turning out
500 gallons of ice cream daily. The purest of in
gradients into this product and it is mixed under
formulate that snures the consumer of being salts
fed packing room with capacity for holding
1000 gallons is maintained and great is exer-
cised to deliver the product in the very best of con
ton. All kinds of ice and sherbets and ices
made here
800 gallon pasteurizer is installed and all
milk and cream is first sent through this machine be
fore being made up into the marketable products
which eliminates any possible contamination of the
milk and puts it in the class of abso-
lutely sanitary. The churn has capacity of 500
pounds of butter. The arrangement at the plants
permits the freezing of from forty to sixty gallons of
ice cream hourly.
The company is gradually building up a very
tenSive wholesale business dairy products and
operates two ice delivery wagons in the city of
Hays Butter is handled in wholesale lots to all local
retailers and the majority of the surrounding towns
are supplied from this institution. All local soda
fountains serve Kings Kwaty Ice Kream."
Thejce plant is equipped with Murray Corliss
125 h p engine and Hamilton COrliss rs h. p.
CINE to pull twenty ton compressor and ten ton
of freezing thirty of ice daily. Three city ice de-
livery wagons operated to all sections of Hays
daily and ten employed in the plant with
five working in the Creamery department Distilled
water ice is of the attractive features of using
this ice we'll the fact that it is clear and pure.
100 ton ice storage plant is maintained and storage
for load of fruit, vegetables and produce
and one car load of meat. The approximate payroll
of the company is 81, 100 monthly
The city of Hays can we'll be proud of this lnstl-
tuition and the progressive spirit displayed by the
owners in giving the town such creditable plant.