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Show Hyland Cheese Company ! Makes First Shipment 1 Sixteen hundred pounds of high class cheese, manufactured at the Hyland Cheese company factory, and made from the rich milk produced from the dairy herds of the valley, was shipped from Gunnison Tuesday morning. The cheese is the first ever shipped from this city and the initial shipment marks another epoch of the building of industries here. An (important fact connected with the first consignment is (that it'he wholesale houses who are buying the Gunnison valley cheese are regretting regrett-ing the fact that a car load shipment ship-ment could not be supplied at this time. Ray Smith, who is associated with his brother, P. M. Smith, and who is superintending operations at the Hyland Hy-land 'conmpany's jfaqtory (Here, accorded ac-corded the News man a visit through the new cheese factory Tuesday afternoon. af-ternoon. . The plant at present is supplied with the very latest appliances appli-ances for the manufacture of cheese. A vat with a capacity of 600 gallons of milk and a press with a 10,000 pound pressure have been installed. In addition to these there are other modern appliances throughout the factory and it is fully equipped to meet all present needs. "The plant as it now stands is capable of handling 6000 gallons of milk daily," said Mr. Smith, "However, "How-ever, just as soon as conditions will justify we will double the capacity. At the present we are receiving about 3000 gallons of milk daily, showing a big gain over the first ' few days of operation when we were j receiving only about 850 to 900 gallons. gal-lons. Yes, the quality of the milk is splendid and if we can get the I quantity we will build a good industry indus-try for the valley. At the present j rate of operations we will distribute I approximately $1000 each month j among the farmers. We are paying ! all the way from two to four cents J 'higher for the milk than the cream-; cream-; eries are paying for the butter fat in the hopes that we can get larger '.Quantities, thus enabling us to manufacture man-ufacture cheese on a larger scale. We are manufacturing cheese every day and with a view to acquainting the citizens of Gunnison and the farmers farm-ers of the valley what we are doing we want all to come and visit the factory. They will be welcome and Ve will be glad to show them through and explain the operations." The Smith brothers, -owners anc, operators of the Hyland Cheese company, are both experts in the manufacture of cheese. They have been with some of the best cheese makers in the state. It is their intention in-tention to add to the factory and increase in-crease the capacity just as soon as conditions will justify.. The new enterprise, the first of its kind ever established in the val-lcy, val-lcy, should receive the solid support of every dairyman and everyone owning cattle. Through this an industry in-dustry will be built and the farmers and dairymen will benefit through 'the distribution of the pay checks which will be sent out each month. |