A.C. Bartz Dairy was originally the Durgan's dairy; it was bought by A.C. Bartz in 1928. Bartz, a skilled machinist and metal worker from Buffalo, came to Saranac Lake in 1909 as a patient at the Ray Brook Sanatorium; he settled here permanently in 1915. In 1917, he went into the dairy business. Bartz sold the dairy to Dairy Dell in 1945.
Record Post Au Sable Forks, July 25, 1929
ADIRONDACK FAIR AND SPORTSMEN'S SHOW NEXT WEEK
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The well known Bartz Dairy of the Harrietstown road, producers of milk and cream, are intending to enter an exhibit of cattle and dairy products and Mr. Bartz has many fine cows ready for this show and is in charge of the exhibit. He has also secured Mr. Nicholas Pendergast at Ray Brook to enter. Mr. Pendergast has some especially fine Ayrshire cattle which he is planning to show and also a fine team of draft horses which were not shown at the recent horse show, and is taking a great interest in the fair.
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Lake Placid News, April 17, 1942
FARMERS MEET TO HEAR EXPERT ADVICE
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The afternoon stop was at the farm of A. C. Bartz of Saranac Lake. After lunch each man at the barn was requested to walk in a pan of disinfectant and was given a tag showing that he had been disinfected. This practice of disinfecting the feet is to be recommended and it is a daily affair at the Bartz farm. After inspecting this herd the group of better than 40 men gathered to hear Professor Lamb explain by the use of charts Mr. Bartz's experiences, his buying a bull in the past based on what information was available at that time. Mr. Bartz is to be complimented in that he permitted the mistakes he made as well as his successes to be fully pointed out. Later on the group went to the pasteurizing plant and saw the only flash pasteurizer north of Saratoga which has been in operation about months. [sic] In this type of pasteurizer milk is heated to 163 degrees for a few seconds and immediately cooled as compared to being heated to around 143 degrees for about 20 minutes in other types of pasteurizers. In this machinery Bartz has an ingenious arrangement making it possible for the milk leaving the pasteurizer to warm the milk on the way to the pasteurizer and vice versa.
Lake Placid News, April 30, 1943
Several properties taken over by the county for taxes were approved for sale, the largest among them being the Pendergast farm at Ray Brook which was sold to A. C. Bartz of Saranac Lake.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, September 24, 1952
Our Town
By Eddie Vogt
Later on, [after a party at Camp Intermission] many of the fellows progressed on to the Rotary Club's pancake supper at the Fish and Game Club, where Jacques DeMattos in the Game Room, and Herb Williams in the kitchen, warded off the outside chill. This is an annual event with the Rotarians, and Bill Distin was telling me that for many years it had been held at Ollie Bartz' place, and that I should get him to tell me about the time that the orchestra had charmed his cows. Later I had an opportunity to talk with Mr. Bartz and he assured me that it was correct. Seems they were holding the barbecue out-of-doors, and there was a group of musicians from one of the night spots to entertain while the fellows were eating. They were playing some soft, sweet selection when they noticed that all of the Bartz cows had come in and were crowding the corner of the corral listening intently to the music. Suddenly the musicians switched to a hot number, and as they did all the cows took to their heels and fled back to the fields. To prove it wasn't an accident, they tried it over and had the boys play soft music again — and sure enough they all came back to listen to it.
