Show UTAH TOMATO CANNERIES UNJUSTLY ASSAULTED Pure Food Inspector Gets Too Previous One of the most uncalled for and untimely attempts to injure the Utah Canning factories was made by Heber C. a deputy food inspector in a talk in the Eighteenth Ward Sunday school June He stated that is not a. single Utah packing company which is manufacturing tomato catsup that is fit for human He further stated that only two canning factories in the state of Utah are even reasonably clean in their method of canning while the other twenty-three factories are practicing methods in the handling of tomatoes that would effectually bar their use if the consumers could see the lack of care and common decency used in their The above statement is not and if it how like and how unjust for a state officer to publish it at this season of the and what an insult to the food inspectors and canning factories of Utah for their last year's Utah canned tomatoes are the best in the United The editor of the Utah Independent has visited several when in operation and not in a single instance anywhere in the process of canning did he see an unclean or an unhealthy condition from the time the tomato arrived at the factories till it was sealed in a Utah tomatoes are the the conditions in which they are cannot be excelled in any other state our atmosphere is high and soil sandy ana no or other moisture to keep them from ripening in a good flavored Too much rain and moisture is the frequent complaint from the Iowa and other Eastern while too much rain in Utah is a There is but very little opportunity for filth or the unhealthy conditions Smith speaks of with Utah Utah tomatoes are usually ripened evenly and are free from de Such tomatoes are thrown into a revolving and from there they are conveyed in buckets to girls who peel them and remove any foreign substance that might get in with them in the they are then taken and the process is simple and If Smith had used common business caution he would not have made such a bad and injurious break as he Suppose the Utah canneries were as bad as he Smith should have had the tomato canning interests and Utah's good name at heart and quietly informed every cannery that before they commence operation this fall they must put their buildings and machinery in a sanitary and that if they violated any health rules in the process of canning that he would close them up and publish the fact that they were But to make a grand-stand such as Smith and injure every caning factory in the state when he admits two of them were all right is a specimen of the Tribune kind of Then the Utah daily papers had no right to publish such injurious It is always better to praise than to quietly caution an not to publicly Agents for the canneries of other states will use the Salt Lake daily papers ribald account of the Utah tomatoes to secure orders for their own It appears that the daily papers are so hard up for news to fill up twelve pages every day that they will publish anything whether it is true or ct to fill up their |