Certificates for stock are not mentioned as an expense. but the first printing was purchased from the Examiner Publishing Company, at a cost of $2.00.

Other costs not mentioned in the above assessment were:

(1) the seal of the factory - This was bought from Hazard & Moore, for $2.10, a copy of which appears here. No information as to its whereabouts is available at this time.

(2) cheese boxes - The first boxes were purchased for a total cost of $180.68. from Mark Wright & Co., Charlottetown. However, the number of boxes is not mentioned.

(3) milk cans - These were purchased from Matthew Stevenson, Charlottetown. at a cost of $3.35 each. This is rather inexpensive compared with today‘s prices.

(4) incidental purchases recorded in the 1895 Ledger:

Freight on cheese vat and cheese press $6.09 R.T. Holman - paid for pump 12.00 John Cann - for boring well 8.75 650’ plank for drain 4.88 Truckage on pump and plank (Hugh, B. MacKay) 2.50 9% dozen sample jars 15.00

Telephone calls are listed as being made at A.J. McLeod’s store. Mr. MacLeod owned the only telephone in this area. A number of years before this, he had the line built, at his own expense, from Kensington to Stanley Bridge. The cost of a telephone call from Stanley Bridge to Charlottetown is listed at 25 cents each. This was comparable to the cost of a similar call up to 1970. Then charges for telephone calls were drastically increased.

Regardless of the debt incurred, the shareholders were confident with their venture and the fac- tory opened for business on June 1, 1895.

Unidentified milk "drawer with truck wagon load of cans - crossing Stanley Bridge

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