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Show TKE CAiiHERY BUSINESS. . Cu.il:il T;tl;inr II. .1.1 and the Ki suit U Nil D.ml.t ! SLillHra.-l-.ry. It is almost a settled fact now that the summer of 1S1I2 will not die away before it first witnesses the establishment of a canning factory in lirigham City. This subject has been long discussed, planned and doted on, but without satisfactory results, however. Put now the important crisis seems to have arrived. The virtue of the eon nt less wordy projects and innumerable in-numerable wi ndy discussions on this subj'-et, w hich have agitated our City for years, seems to have and summarily boiled down into been sifted from the great sea of dross the following sententious sentence: "We'll get there in '02." K ven (he most purblind can readily com pi ehend the inestimable inesti-mable benefits: such enterprises will be (o our City. Nothing else will assist ?o directly and material ly the building up of a country a.-i the establishment of markets for home products. Our chief industry is the raising of fruits and vegetables, and canneries will prove profitable, cavernous-mouthed market for these p rod nets. We say 'cavernous -lnoulhed,'' because we (irmly believe the demand for certai n products will ever be so large as t exceed the supply. In adiliti. n Lo the scores ofl'arm-ers ofl'arm-ers who will he employed in raising rais-ing products to feed the cannery, it will furnish employ men t to from id'ly to seventy-five hands. These half-hundred factory hands will receive on an average one dollar 'per day each, which will equal tifty dollars a clay; .$300 a week, or $1,200 a month for inexperineeil I joys and girls, only. A plant ready for operation, of 10,000 cans capacity, will cost not more than 2.500: the machinery $l,oOUandthebuilding$l,000. It is estimated that a capital of $5,000 rcaily cash will bo ample to launch the enterprise on a firm, sound basis. Say the cannery were run nitty ..lays, C.00,000 cans of fruit could be turned out, which would be valued at something like $110,000. The cans would cost about $18,000; labor $.'1,500; tomatoesabont $25,000, plant, building, etc., $2,500, which would leave a neat little sum of several thousand dollars net gain. The fiist year the enterprise may not be carried on on quite ;o extensive exten-sive a scale, but the profits would no doubt he proportionately satisfactory. satis-factory. Monday night from seventy-five to one-hundred people met in the Knsenhaum hall lo talk over this cannery matter. K. A. II ox gave a report of (he committee's investigation investiga-tion ;, the ligures in the main agreeing agree-ing wi'.h the foregoing facts. A committee of three, Mayor J. M. Jensen, Win. llorsley an-1 E. A. Ilox, was appointed to consummate matter,--. The following have ' agreed to subscribe for stek in the prop i:'cd canning factory: E. A. Ilox. Win. llorsley. S. A. Saeketf, k Fnsgren, A. P. Fosgren, E. Jensen. Jen-sen. Nels Madscn, Andrew Jensen, Henry Wight, J. Jeppson, F. (i. Niels m. N. -I. Nelson, J. P. Jacob-sen, Jacob-sen, C. t). Meline, . Dedrieksen, A. J. Muur.s, C. J. Nielsen and P. P. Siggard. |