American Fork Cifien - Thursday, Earth 1914, Gardner announced their mont profitable year. Prominent guest speakers in the field of agriculture, most from Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural College, (now Utah State University) gave support sup-port and suggestions in continuing con-tinuing the .work of the organization. Secretary Garner report-t-d that in the beginning 10 cars of celery were shipped. As the organization had grown statewide, he reported report-ed that 212 carloads of vegetables veg-etables had teen shipped from the American Fork plant to every part of America Amer-ica The shipments including includ-ing celery, cabbage, onions, potatoes and carrots. In 1!)1") there were 500 carloads shipped, with a new plant opened in Cedar City. During 1916 two more plants were opened in Springville and Midvale. Karh new plant was 80 by too feet and represented an investment of $50,000 each. Kiiipment for each plant came to $15,000. 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Gerber was named secretary-treasurer and Harvey Hansen was the Chief Accountant. The cooperative quickly showed the profit. In the beginning, only local growers grow-ers brought their crop of crisp bleached celery to the plant for processing and shipping. Bleaching was accomplished accom-plished by making deep furrows fur-rows along both sides of the celery plants as they grew. When they had reached proper height the plants were covered lightly with the fertile soil to protect them from the sun and "bleach" the stalks. The Utah Celery Cooperative Cooper-ative began marketing other vegetables, as well. The name was changed to the Utah Growers (Celery) Cooperative Association. The location of the first plant was adjacent to the Denver & Rio Grande Western West-ern Railroad Co. depot, in American Fork. 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The company ultimately shipped more than 2,000 f 7 1 1 have chosen to lock up The Historic aka Klvis after more than 27 years in business. The employees hope that friends and patrons will still support their favorite stylist or nail tech by calling them: Ranae Rigby Kathy Hills Tory Meenderink 372-628 787-4357 768-4268 And look for Amber Wilkin in January 2004 Si Back-to-school POOL BASKETBALL RACQUETDALL STEAM SAUNA . HUGE CARDIO AREA YOGA SPINNING' " ' , CARDIO CLASSES TANNING 'CHILDCARE 'j 1 (AmenKies and ervice$ vary between cluis) t ft Continued from front page railroad cars of Utah produce pro-duce to national markets each year. When row crops became too labor intensive, farmers moved to crops which could be planted, cultivated and harvested by machine. The Utah Celery Cooperative Cooper-ative proved its usefulness and initiative in promoting Utah products and maintaining main-taining the farm life that brought a good living from Utah Valley's good earth. Melissa Smith along with Art & Janine Smith 5 n ; f , W .t4r Sfe ,!( 7'-. - -11 FOR ONLY .w mm ...... SPA MASSIVE WEIGHT AF band captures two first places American Fork has become the marching band to beat in Utah thi3 year as they swept both the Bridgerland and Davis Cup competition this week. Tuesday night The Davis Cup competition produced the highest totals in Utah history according to the stadium sta-dium announcer. "These were the finest performances in Davis Cup history," he said. On Saturday American Fork took first place at the Bridgerland competition in Logan with a score of 900. 1 and won the caption awards for both music and drum-line. drum-line. Davis finished second t:f ROOM i ,' "I 3. with a score of 887.8 and Mountain Crest took third scoring 879.6 and won the captions for auxiliary and visual. All the Davis Cup Open Class awards went home with the Cavemen. American Ameri-can Fork took first place with a score of 940.2 and won all the caption awards for the second time this season. sea-son. Davis finished second scoring 921.3 and Mountain Crest took third with 872.6 The next band competition competi-tion will be Oct. 14 at BYU and then the AF band will host its own tournament at Mountain View High School on Oct. 25. V J ' j I j Maim Cote j fal b .A a j r j i v A 1 i T b e. r V j fs ,7 V V B D .1 I H V .V 1 ,1 q (i el J '4 9 I POOR x 560 West Main American Fork 756-0233