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Show mil r! 11 S rvouxra r " "' r rr- y . v.. -tt- ' ,J . " - 11 . " I I . . I I . 1 American Fork side Markets A steady healthy growth In out getables, fruits and live stock is fast nlted States for American Pork and e hundred cars were loaded nslgned to markets scattered from Jtexican border to Canada, winter second and live stock third. Ore ton reached forty cars this year. I INCREASED YEGETABLE SHU'MEMS The season Just closed has fully demonstrated the adaptability of this bc&litjr for the production of vegetables, as the railroad movement of oar- loads of these commodities show an increase of over 100 per cent as compar ed with the movement last year. This Irosperity for our growers, also means better business conditions for ll and lenefits to every individual and business interest in the community. While weather conditions throughout the growing season were not all lhat could be hoped for and a certain Iobs was experienced by reason of it, me success obtained by our growers indicates what wonderful things can be lone in future yearB wlfen better weather conditions must prevail. That our production next year, with normal weather conditions, will more thaa double Ihls year's record Cannot be doubted. Our products have found their ray n'o all sections Df the country, from California on the West to New York knd Boston on the East and from fexas and New Orleans to the Cana. Ian border, as well as being scatter. fd In all directions "between these vuuuuaj icrOf niai acb tuuutuuuo mcv( been favorable and better prices have lenerawy prevailed. Railroad Helping Marketing Perishables. The increased efficiency of our ransportation facilities has had a greater effect than most people sur-Imlse sur-Imlse in making possible the develop, pent' oTThis, as well as other, sec. Jtions in the production of perishable commodities. Without fast and safe transportation agencies such development develop-ment would have been impossible, as we, would have been deprived of the more distant markets for our pro. ducts. With only small yields of per. Ishables a surplus would have resulted result-ed and nearby demands would not be sufficient to handle it. With far distant dist-ant markets available to us with unlimited un-limited demands for our products, the mccess of this section in the production produc-tion of such commodities Is assured. EfWi Bring Outside Cash. A careful check of car movements over the three roads is startling in the least. A little figuring brings out the fact that hundreds of thousands of dollars are being brought to this yici. nity from outside territory. 'Of the 500 cars loaded out of here 130 were of eggs. In this particular shipment full cars were not always loaded here. To avert ln thru keenine: eKcs over too long a period before getting them to market, cars were either half loaded end finished elsewhere, or partly loaded before reaching here and flnlBhed here. With a car of eggs selling at $5,000 and over the 130 cars ent out would sell for from $300,000 to $500,000 if near half of them were oniy half cars and the price was at the average point received during the year. Winter Vegetables Promising Crop. The increase of winter vegetables tHh as onions, cabbage, cauliflower, ttc., promises to develop Into one of r greatest wealth producers In this district. With the doubling of shipments ship-ments this year and a resultant Increased In-creased profit from better prices received, re-ceived, a steady Increase In this line "HI naturally follow, v A total cabbage shipment this year Df n cars was made bringing grow-rs grow-rs from, $16.00 to $35.00 per ton. A brisk demand for American Fork cab-bKe cab-bKe Rtarted with the harvest this fall id the price has steadily gone up WII the present time. The last car ,0 Ko out. this week sold for $35.00 Pr ton. Onions were also a good crop this ar, bringing the producer Rood Money. Thorn vara J7 rnr nf this 'inter vegetable loaded and fore. anled to outside markets. Double ,he Price of 1927 was received by "rowers at harvest and since the price ns steadily moved upward. Some few er of onions have been placed In nJ cold storage injranslt this Developing: Out For Products going car lot BhlpmenU of poultry, eggs, developing markets over the entire vicinity products. During the year 1928 out of our three railroad stations California to New York and from the vegetable shipments led the list with shipments from American Fork can increased production, while it spells at 2.00 during the peak of the dlg- ing period. Ore From Canyon. This year ore shipments from American Fork canyon totaled forty cars. Two of these came from the Pacific Gold Mining company and the other 38 from the Yankee Mines com. pany. These shipments run into a considerable sum of money and pro. vides labor or business for people and merchants of our city. One car of this ore shipment was made up of the richest mine run ore to come out of the canyon in, many, many years. It was a 65 ton shipment and returns showed $100 per ton or $6,500.00. This ore was incountered and mined at the Yankee Mines which is now the only steady shipper in the canyon. This property has great bodiesof low-grade milling ore and can coni tlnue shipping similar to this year indefinitely. Miscellaneous Shipping. In the balance of the miscellane. ous shipments we find eight cars of live poultry, four of casein, fourteen of potatoes', five lettuce, eight apples, two dressed turkeys, seventy-five sheep, forty-five sugar beets and twenty-five miscellaneous. These were made to various markets and constitute consti-tute a great variety of farm and range products. The two cars of turkeys were raised on the west side of Utah lake and were killed and dressed and loaded out of the new D. ft R. O. rail road packing plant which was built this summer. Canllflower Shipment. The -increased acreage or couiu flower this vear was the means of bringing shipments up to 18 cars. The dryvjtiol summer season hit this crop harder than almost any other grown and as a result only a .half crop was harvested. However, growers dein onstrated what can be done In this line and increased acreage In years to come will be had and a mighty profitable product will result Tabulation of Car Shipments. We llsf here a tabulation of the car lno.nnp- nn Acured from the three V-"f -0 .. . . .. . 7. , ..... railroads for the year just coming to -Inn! CARS Egg 1 Cabbage Onions ..........! Ore Live. Stock CouUflower Beets Potatoes 130 77 47 40 75 18 45 14 Poultry and Turkeys .. 10 Lettuce Apples ' Casein Miscellaneous 'Total 500 Incoming Shipments. A glance at the incoming car lot ihlpmerili Tls Interesting.- Feed for the poultry leads this list with coal com ing next The list Is as follows: Feed CARS .... 258 .... 146 Coal. . J l.mlflt oo .. . S Gasoline .. "'" AMERICAN FORK," UTAH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, The Dairy Industry From a - Manufacturer's Standpoint ' 0 ; Paper Given By Creamery Manager Hansen. We have often heard the question, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" , .'. ' ' The answer is a good deal the same as to manufacturing. We must have raw material available before plants can be operated profitably. The ore must precede the smelter, the wheat the flour mill, the fruit and vegetables the canner, and cows must precede the creamery.1 Once an investment is made In a plant, such an investment means the accumulated savings of an individual, or, in the case of a corporation or stock company, the accumulated savings of various stockholders. The Incentive for such investment in buildings and machinery is profit dollars and cents. Over and above the cost of raw materials, labor and sup. plies, cost of selling goods, etc, there must be sufficient profit to at least pay interest on money invested plus enough to take care of upkeep and a reward for the time and effort devoted. . ' a. ' There Is not a man here, be he professional, man, farmer, merchant or employee, who is giving his labor or service free to the public. We talk service to the public, but this Implies service to be paid for by the public. We all represent the public. Each of us is a purchaser of the other's J would have to make a choice of de-wares de-wares or services. We live in an age liverlng milk or cream In case he de-of de-of specialization. We have grown cided to diversify, beyond the age when. the hide of the The handling of by-products has beast slain for food was converted by become quite an item. The drying of the killer into protective garments buttermilk followed the sale of liquid and rude foot coverings. "' J buttermilk as a by-product," and the The farmer now prefers to buy powdering of skim milk followed the his flour and shoes, even though he may raise wheat and cattle, ajid, reaching beyond the confines of his farm to distant parts of his pwn country or foreign lands, he - finds other farmers or other manufacturers manufactur-ers ready to exchange their wares for his, even though 'the transfer means money payment, the money being In effect concentrated goods or labor. The dairy industry, therefore, starts from the humble cow. Soon, in a given "district, are many cows. Each-farmer . has more than one, which means a surplus of "milk ' and cream beyond his needs. The coming of the separator revo. lutionlzed dairying. The farm-wife was glad to sell cream, and the ease of sale of cream led to the raising or buying of more cows. The great creameries of the east were built from cream secured from diversified farms and not dairy herds as we know them now. The buying of cream in small quantities was very costly, the transportation was high, the cost of transporting and selling the finished product was high, but theTnen who milked cows and those who built plants were the pioneers of the great industry of today. As enough cows were accumulat. ed in dairy districts to support little plants, these naturally sprung up. The fast talking promoter selling machinery appeared and hundreds of plants were sold in communities where the volume did not Justify and, worst of all, when conditions did Justify a plant or conditions arose that enabled the late comer to walk In the ipath blazed by the pioneer, the farmers was told he had been robbed and the newcomer was hailed as a Moses. . Specialization has followed in the dairy industry as in other lines. One group elects to supplr a "city with' Its milk, another to manufacture condensed con-densed milk, another cheese, another butter. Each has its advantages and disadvantages for the manufacturer and the dairyman. In selling milk, everything leaves the farm, there is no skim milk left for raising hogs, calves or chickens. Yet the price received may more than offset these disadvantages. Milk must be delivered or picked up every day, rain or shine. Cream can be delivered every other day or every two or three days, making it more convenient for the farmec The supply of milk and the de mand made for various products have their effect. The fluctuations are violent at times,-and each specialist has his ups and downs. Live Stock Egg Cases and Supplies 85 17 6 21 Machinery ... Miscellaneous MS The ideal situation would be to have in every community a conden-sary, conden-sary, cheese factory and creamery, and have each of them close for lack of support at various times In order to sustain milk .prices or cream prices. Even then, the dairyman . ' . , . . . 1 1 ,, cuuueuBiug oi saim mux. The original plants for powdering milk were expensive but were later simplified. For some time, we dried buttermilk and - found it profitable. Eventually driers were installed all over the country and the price we now receive barely enables us to get by. Every added plant lowers the market returns to all plants. Powdered sweet milk has been widely exploited and the. original owners of patents on such . plants made big profits. The hope of reward mentioned earlier" caused " numerous" large Installations of plants and laL er smaller units, so gradually the high prices disappeared. As you know, we make Casein here. Our returns were good for a time. We now find Argentine competition and the use of the soybean for glue and paper sizing, so the cycle shows up and down curves. We have had occasion to see figures fig-ures on big powder plants put out by fast working promoters, the prices being in excess of what we can buy skim milk powder for by 2c, and the price on dried buttermilk 4c more than - we are able to get. We use dried milk in making Ice cream, so are buyers of this commodity. We dry and sell buttermilk, so we are familiar-with both products. We know facts, and theories do not in. terest us. Every community has Its well in. tentloned but misinformed idealists, and the eagerness to see the wheels go round in a plant to get payrolls and industries, leads many times to overplantlngT Strange to say, mem. bers of Chambers o Commerce usually usu-ally can tell how profitable the other fellow's business Is and are willing to see every business or plant duplicated dupli-cated but their own. The exception Is rare when' some one has the courage to speak np for Industries already established.. The Oregon Agricultural College for some years has given prospective investors invest-ors In creameries, cheese factories and condensarles the information that Oregon is already overplanted, but they do encourage more cows In every single, section. Tributary to Portland, Oregon, are over a hundred hundr-ed and fifty creameries, cheese factories fac-tories and condensarles. In this case, competition Is keen, the dairyman dairy-man benefits temporarily, but many a hard working chap has seen his savings lost In a small plant while the larger ones are not making Interest In-terest on their Investment a mighty poor condition. - r,r. There is not a single cteam'err in Utah running to capacity, not one. There is not a condensary or cheese factory running to, capacity. '" The crying need of. every community is for more cows.; 1 4 ,,:! Some one might say, "Well. If we 1928 American Fork City's Activities During Year J ?2o . By Mayor Roy Greenwood. In the solution of the problems that arise and in the performance of our work as city officers, the degree of success attained U in a measure de- feeder t upon the suvorf and, cooperation received from the people of the community, therefore, as we approach the close of this year's activities In our municipal work, let me take this opportunity in behalf of the city administration ad-ministration to express our appreciation for the support that has been given the city officials In the execution of their duties. The efforts of the different ward organizations, schools, business interests, Lions Club, Farm Bureau and other civic organisations have been some of the factors which have made this year work a success. We are Interested first of all In the promotion of those things whicb will stimulate the growth and development of our community. Not alone In a material way, but in the advancement of principles of good government and In the development of better citizenship. The attainment of such an achievement can be realized only by the cooperation of Individuals and organizations or-ganizations whose object is the accomplishment of that which is necessary to community betterment ' . - Ward groups such as the Mutuals, that have for their slogan, "We Stand for Law, for the people who live it and the officers who inforce It," are display, ing a spirit of cooperation that is necessary to the growth of better citizen, ship. -. "V The effort of the Farm Bureau along the line of pest control and its war on weeds as typified by their campaign of Eradication against White Top, Black Morning Glory, Canadian Thistle and Burdock are examples, of community- betterment, Our fine school, churches, up-to-date banks and mercantile lnstitu. tion are also an Indication" of civic pride that Is essential to our growth. , In an industrial way, the efforts of the farmers and sheep men have been the means of bringing into this locality local-ity many thousands of dollars annually. annu-ally. Much also Is due the Poultry association and to their type of cooperation. coop-eration. They have been responsible for the poultry industry that has been the means of assisting our people in a financial way. Too much credit cannot be given to., our. , Lions. Club., who have already done so much toward promoting that spirit which stimulates community growth and who now have undertaken under-taken the problem of establishing in our city some Industry that will furnish fur-nish the additional employment so greatly needed here. It has been such cooperation that has made the success of our city in a municipal way possible. The Auditor Audi-tor Mr. J. B. Parker has, in the sum. mary of his audit,' this to say, "The financial condition of American Fork City Is excellent and the past few adminstrations responsible for this, are to be congratulated on their achievement There Is no apparent reason why the city should not be entirely en-tirely out of debt at the date of Its Bonded Debt 1931." The present adminstration ' has made an effort to further this work and as a result of carefully watching the expenditure and ... by adhering closely -to our allowances, we have not only lived within our budget but will have a balance of from $500.00 to $1000.00 unexpended. During the past year, we have been able to pay off $10,000.00 of our outstanding out-standing bonds, thus reducing our total bonded Indebtedness to $10,000.. 00. In our Wwaterworks Sinking get more cows, prices -will go down." Yet If volume makes for low unit cost of production and sale, and better bet-ter ability to sustain prices, the above argument will not hold.' And-mark this, if the argument is correct, why In the name of common sense do we need more plants? Self-preservation Is the first lay of nature and, wanting to protect our. selves, you will pardon this thought, that Is, the bills always look greener far away, and' we needrnore encouragement encour-agement given to our local industries and Investments and less listening to talk of politicians, so.called marketing market-ing experts and promoters, and funny songs about "Big butter and egg men.'i The', publiclwhlehl'has pety of money for gasoline, radios, . silk hose, movies and bootleg booze, Is being educated to" cheap food. Our Industry is suffering from this, and when I say "our industry," I mean your community, of Which we are al. ready a, part NUMBER 44 Fund we have approximately $4000.00 of available money for the farther reduction' of this bond. In the expenditure of this money $13,600.00 or one-third of til thr money spent by our city is expended w our- water : iysteni la the way of Improvements, rebuilding, payments' of bonds, etc. The expenditure of this proportion was in conformity with ft plan adapted three years ago and the results of such are commencing to be seen. This .year the entire water system will have been metered at an ftpproximate cost of $15,000.00. We have now installed about 16 blocks of cast iron pipe and have made many other improvements to safe guard the purity of our culinary water. During the year, a very extensive road building program has been carried car-ried out. By the expenditure of about $3500.00. and. with. th plencJI(..coop, eration of the' county, about four miles of roads were resurfaced with crushed stone and gravel. More work probably than has r been ac. ' complished In the last four years. The work of our Police Depart-s Depart-s peaks for itself.- In Justice' to our peace officers a word of commendation commenda-tion should be given. There is not a better or more capable police force In Utah county, than we' have here.""' Of our firemen, we are Justly proud. During the current year they have promptly and efficiently answered answer-ed twenty-two calls. To them must we 'give the praise and honor of sponsoring the Community Christmas Tree which has come to mean so much to the kiddles of this locality. The improved condition and appearance ap-pearance of our cemetery has proven that the care and control exercised by our city has been successful. " The" Installation of our new Main street' Lighting, system has also ; been a much needed improvement " On the other hand the present administration ad-ministration has made an -effort to provide healthy " recreation and amusement The achievement of our baseball team in winning the champl ionship of the Utah Central league, under the able management of our Recreational Leader Earl Holmstead, has been a source of satisfaction. The splendid work of the ' Silver Band with their fine concerts and programs are being appreciated more and more every year, - -v The worthy manner in which our Library Board and librarian have cared for our public library and the needs of the school children and citizens is indeed commendable. -Io the poultry people, the Lions Club and all who worked so diligently diligent-ly to put over in such a successful way our Utah Poultry. Day celebration, celebra-tion, we wish to extend our appreciation,' apprecia-tion,' Let us resolve toTnake of this day one of the biggest celebrations of the best cities of this state. , ' Hsr the New. Tear 1 be". n open road to greater happiness, , larger' usefullneBt and a fuller realization of -all wise hopes. ' With this greeting Is expressed Again a sincere appreciation apprecia-tion of the many tilings you have done to make this year's work success. ' - Total ".. vwiu v,l viMtf tf |