A Massive Dairy Expansion Comes to Yakima
A representative of a major regional dairy firm has contracted for the milk of 1,000 cows in a bid to bring large-scale creamery operations to the valley.
C. H. Schmidt, the dairy man representing the dairy firm of G. O. Wickson of Portland and San Francisco, has gone below, having perfected all of his arrangements here to his entire satisfaction. He contracted for the milk of 1,000 cows and expects to have his creamery plant on the ground and in operation this fall.
“He contracted for the milk of 1,000 cows and expects to have his creamery plant on the ground and in operation this fall.”
Yakima's agricultural identity was built on these early, ambitious industrial investments. The scale of the operation—1,000 cows—was a massive economic signal that the valley was shifting from subsistence farming to large-scale commodity export.
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