Show I IS THE SHE I CENTER GENTER OF GREAT W DAIRY INDUSTRY I At the foot of one of the most mos t beautiful Wasatch mountain ran range es s nestles the city of Richmond in the thi th c northeastern part of Cache county count y just six miles south of Franklin Idaho and fourteen miles mn s north of o f Logan It has a population of 1600 0 and dates its history from the fall of 59 leading citizens have havo always alwa's been of a broad progressive public public- spirited nature In early days they the were prominent as freighters into int Montana and Idaho It was Rich Rich- Richmond mond men M W Merrill and W D Hendricks that contracted the grad grad- ing and construction of the Utah and ant Northern railroad from Franklin Idaho to Butte Montana This same sam spirit seems to have been transmitted to the descendants of such stalwart pioneers Richmond was the first firstI city in the county outside of Logan to install a city water system It was I the first city in the valley to establish i a Carnagie library For years ears and up ui until the consolidation of public schools it stood at the head of our ou r I county local school districts Today we have established here the Stake 1 headquarters and Stake building of ol the Benson stake The North Cache 2 high school one of the best in the th 3 I state is located here This school is i well Yell managed and is making a safe satisfactory growth It is located o othe on n I the cement state highway and standout stand stands s j i j out prominently as a monument to the th I progressive spirit of the people who wh o built it I weI In the south part of the city we w c I have the pen vinery of the Morgan Canning company To the north and an am d west about three miles is the Lewis Lewis- Lewiston ton Lewis ton Sugar factory A mile north and anda half a mile west is the Gilt Edge Roller mills Just a little west of the center of the city and right in town is the great condensed milk plant of the Sego Milk Products company com com- company com company pany who handle daily an average of pounds of milk The pro pro- process pro pro- process process cess of condensing the milk is simple and realty really helpful to the milk as a food With mills to grind their wheat factories to make sugar of their beets condense their milk and can their peas all located right among the fertile deep soil farms the people I here should be happy and prosperous and the merchants and business houses house s should be thrift thrifty I The Richmond Coop J Cr C Penny Co Co Peoples Store II H F Olsen and II F Christensen are the principal III merchants while the Mason Lumber Co furnishes the hardware and build build- building building building ing material The State Bank of Rich Rich- Richmond Richmond Richmond mond looks after the financial needs of this district While beets peas and milk are the principal pursuits dairying and dairy livestock is the leadin leading industry here For over thirty years ears Richmond has held the distinction distinction distinction tion of being the dairy center of Cache county the leading dairy county of the state Her Tenth Black and White day held May 1st 1925 was very tangible evidence that she can still consistently claim that distinction distinction distinction tion Back in 1903 when a location for a condensed milk factory was being sought for the mountain inter and western states it was the volume of milk centered at nt Richmond that attracted those interested in establishing establishing lishin lishing a milk plant It was the num num- number num- num number number ber of large milk producers in this district partin that played an important part I partI in getting the condenser established The daily volume of milk produced I at Richmond and vicinity early in 1902 attracted the attention of of J B of Comina Maine a 3 con con- condensed condensed con condensed milk factory promoter After several visits to Cache valley and thorough investigation of conditions he finally succeeded in uniting the two creameries the here here the Cache Val Val- Valley Valley Valley ley Cr Creamery amery company and the Union Creamery company By absorbing the stock of the two creameries and with their help he organized the Utah Con- Con I I Milk com company pan with J W Hen llen- Hendricks Hendricks dricks president C Z Harris secretory secre- secre secretary secretary tory tary and manager and C Er E Merrill l factory superintendent The factory factor was built equipped and made its first days day's run March larch 15 1904 1 Like Lik 1 all new industries for the first yea year ear it seemed that every known obstacle 2 and some imaginary ones were op- op operating op crating to defeat the success of this new industry but the bull dog officials official had taken a firm hold and the harder they were hit the tighter they grip grip- gripped gripped gripped ped A loan with the personal signatures of the directors was finally made and the business kept going The policy of the management was to put out quality milk so that every ever case sold would become a salesman for another case and case and the policy won I At the end of the second year half hall the debt was paid off and the end of the third year the business was out lof l of debt with a substantial balance I in the bank So in spite of all pro pro- promotion promotion I motion schemes in of all spite generous generous gener- gener I ous predictions by leading financiers lof of the county that this wo would ld be one lof ever of the biggest failures Cache county ever had the Utah Condensed Milk company became one of the great agricultural industries of the inter inter- intermountain intermountain I mountain states and has paid its stockholders good dividends every year ear except the first two And the i increase crease in the value of its stock has been Notwithstanding the fact that the stock has lias b been en a very profitable investment in in- in investment vestment estment the constant great hazard connected with the operation of the business resulted in the original stock stockholders stockholders holders selling seIling their interests a few years ago and the firm name changed to the Sego Milk Products company IThe The new company has made extensive improvements at the plant and greatly increased the volume of business Their average put out-put per day is near 1500 cases They employ from 75 to people an and have done their part toward making Cache valley vaHey a million and a half dairy county Today roday some of the largest and finest dairy herds in the entire moun- moun mountain tain tarn states are arc owned by dairymen of Richmond It was largely through the energy pluck and enthusiasm of Richmond dairymen the Nelson Broth Broth- Brothers Brothers Brothers ers that the Blacks and Whites were introduced on the exhibition grounds of our State fair It was then that they were jokingly told by the beef men who for years ears had practically monopolized the livestock exhibits at atthe atthe atthe the State fair to take their Mag lag pies back home It is different to- to today today to today day The Magpies now occupy first place on the grounds and in the show v ring at county and state fairs With one or two exceptions the dairymen of Richmond have centered on the Friesian Holstein Friesian breed They are arc making a study of this breed and arid as asa asa asa a result there are two exceptionally bred well bred sires owned here and some of the daughters and granddaughters of the best sires of the breed as well as granddaughters some daughters and of famous dams of the breed It will be a matter of but a few years until these Richmond breeders can furnish sires and heifers with withas as good breeding and pedigrees rees as can be had anywhere in the United States Nelson Bros were the real pioneers fifteen years ears ago when they brought to the state some of the best cows ever imported The progeny of these cows and that of the now fatuous famous the are I among best cows of f the county Two years ago N K Nelson interested a few neighbors who formed a c m- m pany and sent Mr Nelson east where he purchased Marathon Bess Burke from the world famous herd of John Erickson and Sons This sire is one of the best type and production production- bred bulls in America today Erick Erick- Erickson Erickson son himself with twenty-eight twenty years ears experience in constructive breeding says I dont don't know how we could breed them better The rhe other famous sire owned here is Matador Segis Walker This sire was purchased as a 3 calf from Stock Farms by C L L Funk of Richmond and D D Buttars of Lewiston This sire carries probably probably ably as equally famous blood lines as Marathon and has an excellent pedigree pedigree gree grce The progeny of these sires will surely bring results and the men all struggling working hard-working farmers witha with a hundred waS wa'S ways for each dollar dollar dol- dol dollar lar they get to be spent who risk their money in the purchase of such animals do a lot more for their country country coun- coun country try and the community in which they live than they are arc given credit for They are arc the real benefactors but too often unseen benefactors It is such men as these that make the State fair the livestock shows the county fairs and Black and White day Yes they keep the industrial camp fires burning they dont don't carryall carry all the wood perhaps but they keep the fires burn burn- ing burning bum Richmond has lias such men and that's why she still holds the tion distinction of bein being the great dairy center of the state These men have achieved that distinction they ha have held it for thirty years ears and they expect to hold it for another thirty years Visit the farms fanna of the Caine Live Live- Livestock Livestock Livestock stock Co who b by the way war have sonic of KNelson the best Jerseys Jerse's in the tile state N K IC Nelson Sons SOilS P L Nelson Bros C L L Funk A C Fisher C Z Harris Sons Skidmore Bros Webb Bros F II Whittle Leander Peart Cyrus Bullen F H Leroy Robin Robin- Robinson Robinson son C D Merrill Ray Pond Lorin Hendricks and Thomas Ballantyne et etil etI I 1 and nd you OU will see sec wh why they CICI are to keep up their record for another thirty years |