Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-06-28
new CREAMERY
AT SANDSTONE
Farmers Cooperative AS
ISOLATION Decides on
Structure to Cost About
$4,000 With Added
Equipment; Erected Soon.

Sandstone is to have a large, new
creamery building, costing, with what
new equipment will be necessary, be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000.
Decision to build a new creamery
this summer, was made at a meeting
last Saturday night of stockholders in
the Sandstone Farmers Cooperative
Creamery association.
The meeting was attended by about
SO stockholders and 20 others, includ-
ing patrons and interested parties.
There. are in the neighborhood of
so stockholders in the association.
A building committee, consisting of
the board of directors and buttermak-
er, was selected. Those on the COM
mittee are, Gust Johnson, president;
Louis Anderson, vice president; Nels
Lundorf, secretary-treasurer; Albert
Eitens, Fred Anderson, ]. c. Hansen,
Joe Warner and P. E. Robinson, but
termaker.
To Go On Tour.
This committee is to go on an auto
mobile tour today Thursday to look
up other creameries in the st. Cloud
and Willmar territory. Following the
tour, a meeting will be held to de-
eide on the type of building wanted,
after which the committee will confer
with architects. 1t is probable about
three plans will be drawn up. The
committee will recommend one and
Of oil
stockholders to make the sfinal deci-
sion.
The meeting last Saturday was
very harmonious and good spirit
reigned throughout.
Art Rentz of Hinckley, field man
for District No. 2 of the Land O'Lakes
creameries, was present and gave Il
short talk.
Site Selected.
The proposed creamery will be built
north of the depot on the railroad
park grounds, and on the industry
track if a permit is granted by the
Great Northern railroad, which now
seems quite certain. This would
greatly facilitate operations at the
plant, for butter tubs then could be
loaded right from the creamery to the
cars. This would be true of unload
ing coal, salt and the other products
necessary.
The Sandstone creamery has been
conducted as a cooperative institu-
tion about 13 years. Previous to that
time it was, privately owned. The
present structure is of Sandstone con-
struction, but is too small for the
growing business of the concern.
Plan For Extension.
The new building may be built of
brick and tile, the proposed dimen-
sions being about 56x66 feet. Room
will be provided for extension of the
business so that the creamery, if it
so desires, can later take on the dry
ing of buttermilk, making it into pow
der, the egg business, and so on.
There was some talk of going into
the feed business also, but it was
the sense of the meeting that it would
be best to drop that project. at least
for the present.
Mr.. Robinson, the buttermaker, has
been at Sandstone about six years,
and during his connection with the
institution, steady growth in the
business has been noted. In 1927,
345,O0O pounds of butter was manu-
featured. 1t is expected that 100000
pounds will be made in 1928. In
1922 the output was 10000 mounds
of butter. About so per cent of the
output is the highest grade Land o.
Lakes butter.
Mr.. Robinson is recognized as a
good buttermaker and manager He
is staunch believer in the future of
this cutover country, and believes it
has great possibilities, especially as