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Show . ' s- ------ ' '.Tl I j 1 , f - " '- r HI-LAND DAIRY TANKER, which transports nearly 100.000 pounds of Uintah Basin Grade A Milk to a Denver, Colorado market each week. Operated by three drivers, this tanker makes three trips weekly to Denver from Roosevelt plant of Hi-Land. Dairymen's Association. Tanker Delivers 100,000 Lbs. A' Milk To Denver From Basin Weekly; Mi-Land Pays Farmers $91,000 Month A new market for the Uintah , Basin's Grade A milk has been ' developed since August of this ' year, and according to Wilford Robinson, manager of the Roosevelt Roos-evelt plant for the Hi-Land Dairyman's Association, a steady increase has been enjoyed from the Denver, Colorado, area, where 100,000 pounds of milk goes weekly. If one were to' visit the Roosevelt Roos-evelt plant of Hi-Land Dairy every ev-ery Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, he would see a large tanker loading up preparatory pre-paratory for the nearly 400-mile 400-mile jaunt to the mile-high Colorado Col-orado city with approximately 25,000 pounds of grade A milk that is produced on farms of the Uintah Basin . most of which comes from Duchesne county. Three weekly trips are made by Hi-Land's own tanker, and oh Friday a rented tanker comes out from Ooden, loads another 25,000 pounds of milk and transports it to the new Denver market. Hi-Land's tanker returns to Roosevelt the following day, loads up and makes a trip to their Murray plant, returns to Roosevelt and on to Denver the next day. The round-trip Roo.i-evelt Roo.i-evelt to Denver to Murray and back to Roosevelt, is done in three days, allowing time to load and unload. The- Weber Central tanker returns td Ogden empty. Three drivers for the Hi-Land tanker are Bob v Richards, O Mountain Home; Otto Myers, Salt Lake City, and Wayne Wil-kins, Wil-kins, Altonah. In addition to the 100,000 ! pounds of A-grade milk that is shipped weekly to the Beatrice Food Co., in Denver, the Colorado Colo-rado market has developed a sale for from 40 to 60 cans of sweet cream, and another weekly week-ly order awaits their ability to fill 150 cans of sweet cream. The average milk producer can I easily figure out what the Denver Den-ver market is doing, and can do, for dairying in the Uintah Basin. Prior to Hi-Land getting this market, Denver was shipping milk from Wisconsin. However, the quality of milk from the Basin and the speed in delivery, has removed Wisconsin from tne Denver field and they reiy on iltah milk to fill their need. "Our company recognizes the possibilities of the Denver market, mar-ket, as well as the growui that dairying is experiencing m Utah, and our hope is that dairymen in the Basin will continue to expand and build to supply the demand that is coming for the milk produced here," Mr. Robinson Rob-inson said. When Hi-Land first entered the Denver market, they were making one trip weekly, with approximately 25,000 pounds. This was about August 15 of this year. Another interesting factor that affects the general economy of the Uintah Basin is that Hi-Land Dairymen's Association averages $91,500 in monthly payments to Grade A milk producers. The Roosevelt plant also has -a labor payroll of approximately $14,-000 $14,-000 monthly. Mr. Robinson, who' manages the company's Roosevelt plant, is a native of Beaver and has been here almost three years. He has spent most of the last dozen years in the dairy business. |
