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The co-op closed in 1931 during the Great
Depression, but was re-opened by R.J. Peterson as the Price County Dairy. In 1933 this was taken over by the Price County Co-operative Dairy Association, which shifted production to cheese. In its first nine months it produced 100,632 pounds of butter and
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bark from the surrounding forests in its tanning process. It was the only industry in town after the sawmill closed. When the tannery burned in
February 1906, U.S. Leather rebuilt it, with the core of the current creamery building as its hide house. But then the tannery burned again after only a
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Prentice Co-operative Creamery Company was formed, and it converted the old hide house to a dairy plant. It produced 500 pounds of butter in its first day of operation; by July 1917 it produced over 9000 pounds in six days. The local paper gushed:
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Prentice was founded on the lumber industry when the local sawmill opened in 1882. But the sawmill closed in the 1890s when the best timber ran out. Without that big industry, people wondered how little communities left in the cut-over would survive.
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Everyone is urged to boost for the farmers creamery because it is a small industry which will help to do wonders to help develop the farming community, the prosperity of which causes the town to improve.
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Meanwhile, more and more farmers had been settling the surrounding cut-over lands left by logging. Around 1903 the private
Prentice Creamery started buying milk and selling butter. In 1915, a
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The creamery closed in the 1940s, and the building was used by
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