White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-04-01

O00 2h cents for under 10000 and is
cents for under 100000. One hundred
thousand count is the extreme limit,
and should the count run over that the
skimmilk has no purchase value.
There are IL full monthly settle
ments in the year for the products
handled. This means that at the end
of each month the expenses of oper-
ating and maintenance are deducted
from the gross receipts for that
month and the remainder of the cash
on hand is divided between the pa
irons, represented by so much pound
for the butterfat delivered plus the
price of skimmilk to those who deliver
whole milk, said price fluctuating &C
cording to the quality of the product
as explained above.
There are several hundred patrons
of the Enumclaw Creamery who are
not stockholders in the organization.
These receive the same price and set
Element as that accorded the stock
holders save the IL cents interest
paid annually on the $500 share of
capital stock held by the members,
providing they sign contract with
the company to furnish their milk or
cream for one year.
On October "a, 1901, the original
creamery was burned to the ground
Immediately the present site was pur-
chased and frame building 50x60
| feet constructed at a contract price
of $4,000. Schomburg and Bayes be-
| ing the contractors. The equipment
purchased to refit this building con-
sisted of 1750-pound DeLaval cream
separator, 300-gallon harrington
cream ripener, No. Z Victor churn
and butterworker, an Acme butter
mold, an Ideal skimmilk weigher, and
a two-beam Standard scale. To re-
build and equip the plant it was neces-
sary to borrow $1,200.00 which was
loaned the company by Henry Osborn,
at 6 per cent.
j. p. Frees was employed as but
termaker on November 80, 1903, at a
monthly wage of $1,000 and during the
December that followed the total bust
ness for the month amounted to
1 $S97.44. These returns show how
slowly dairying developed in that
earlier day.
d. Van Patten, the present manager,
was employed as buttermaker in April,
1908, and it has been during his ad-
ministration that the business has
made it's splendid growth. To accom-
modate the steady growth of this sue
cessful cooperative, it has been neces-
sary to add three concrete additions
to the original frame building, finally
tearing down the wooden structure and
replacing it with concrete. The plant
as it stands today is of solid concrete
60x120 feet, and the old wooden ware
house, a separate building, has been
replaced by concrete 20x100 feet.
The building contains the new re-
frigerating plant, storage room and
garage
The business for 1926 totaled $685.,
902.05, and was derived largely from
the wholesaling of sweet milk and
cream. OF the total receipts but $780,
1871 were derived from the sale of
butter, which goes to show that while
originally creamery in the true sense
of the word, where butter was the ex-
elusive product turned out the man
agement has hardened to the demand
of a fast growing nearby city, and has
turned the carefully produced milk and
cream into more profitable channels
those leading to the daily retail dis
tribution of the liquid products in
Seattle.
During 1926 the Enumclaw Coopera
tive Creamery Company received and
paid for 3,7S6,7S0 pounds of milk, aud
1,472,143 pounds of butterfat. The
patrons received an average of So 5/7
cents pound for butterfat during
1925, but had to be contented with 55A
cents in 1926, as fat prices averaged
lower for last year. 1t is doubtful if
there is another organization in the
state that made as liberal return to
/, it's patrons, unless perhaps it be one
handling raw whole milk exclusively
The present board is composed of
Otto Tamm, president, who was also
the first president of the organization
treasurer, and Andrew Deusen, and
Enevold Slott, directors. David Van
Patten the capable manager has been
constantly on the job since he became
associated with the company in April
1908.
And now as we look back over the
past we can visualize the development
that has taken place in this progress
sive cooperative since that eventful
day in July, 1897 when Robert Mont
gomery trundled his two cans of milk
up to the weighing platform of the pio
neer plant, and compare it with the
string of huge auto trucks that are to-
day travelling the twelve different
: routes gathering the hundreds of cans
of milk and cream daily passing over
the scales at the modern concrete