Show ON PROVOS TIIE ogden standard takes the herald to task for its alleged misrepresentation in asserting that the establish men of a fruit cannery has been much talked of at ogden provo aad salt lake during the past year but the garden city through the energy and enterprise of her business men is able to boast of the first cannery of the territory the establishment has a capacity of cases of fruit a season but this season not more than cases will be canned our ogden clotem cotem goes on to say that the writer of the article had either wilfully misrepresented the or else he must have been buried in some out of the way town for the past year or more A cannery establishment says the ogden paper was opened in the junction city last year and canned cans of fruit it was impossible to obtain enough fruit for the capacity of the establishment lish ment or the amount packed would have exceeded cans then the standard proceeds to aay for its information it may be well to report that liere are now two canning establishments in this city lundey kershaws Ker shaws and mckenna cos the former has a capacity of cans per day which on a weeks notice can be increased to double that amount it is said that the provo cannery has a capacity of cases and that it will put up cases thia season to can that number of cases it will require nearly pounds of fruit aroas groas weight if the tomato crop proves a failure as was stated bv a provo exchange it is certainly very doubtful eliat that amount of graded fruit outside of apples can be obtained at that cannery another fact which makes the statement of that article apgear exaggerated and incorrect is this Th ePro cannery was incorporated with a capital of with 2000 paid up it will require from to to put up of fruit outside of the purchase of machinery labor etc and all this before there are any returns how this can be done with an incorporated capital of is at present i mystery however be that as it may the fact still remains that ogden was the first city in alie territory to open an extensive canning establishment which has been in operation a year already A second factory has been built this season and both will be ready for work as soon as the fruit is ready for canning mr lundey has enough fruit and tomatoes bargained for to can cans per day during the season though under the necessity of buying cans from the east this sea son machinery has been ordered and next year everything needed for the work even to the solder will be manufactured there and then from the raw material about cans have been ordered from the enst by the two factories one third of which have already arrived mr lundey expects to put up three pound cans of tomatoes and cans of fruit while McKenna Mr will can making a total of or nearly sa carloads mr landev has invested in his plant and machinery alone the main building of the provo cannery is only large enough for a peeling room if the institution has the capacity mentioned if this ho the case where is the fruit to be canned cooked and stored we are pleaded that the cannery of prevo is ready to begin operations and trust it mav meet with the success that it merits it is a laudable enterprise for which the citizens should have due credit there is plenty of room for this class of institutions in the territory providing tho farmers work systematically |