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Show Lehi's Canning, Factory An Assured Success Stack Xon Largely Subscribed I'lnat to be Thoroughly 3Iodern Work la Commence This Fall Plout to Cost $10,000, urn! be Iteadj lor Sel Season's Tomato Crop. Lehi will have a modern sanitary canning factory. The stock is now practically two-thirds subscribed for Work on tho plant will commence this full. Tho building will be completed com-pleted and tho machinery Instulled by spring, nnd the factory will be tendy to take care of noxt season's tomato crop, and next yenrs peaches, pears, berries, etc. It will have a capacity of 20,000 cans per. day and will consume Iho product from one hundred acres of tomutoes, besides using up hundreds of bushels of peaches and other fruits. The machinery ma-chinery will be the very latest and will bo made by tho Hastings Industrial Indus-trial company, the largest makers of canning machinery In the world. The plant, with land, etc., will cost approximately ap-proximately 110,000. For a number of years Lehi has been talking cunning factory and the necessity for nnd advisability of building one has been 'universally conceded. Several times the project pro-ject has about been started, when for some good reason tho question has been dropped, usually because it was too late in the season to crotract for the necessary acerngo. Ilishop James H Gardner, John Uevey, Dr. H. C. Holbrook, K. H. Davis, Da-vis, Edward Southwlck, S. W. Ross and others have In tho past been Instrumental In-strumental In working up sentiment for tho factory. Ton duys ago these gentlemen decided that now was the time to launch tho project. Accordingly, Accord-ingly, J. A. Law, a representative of the Hastings Industrial company, was sent for, tho type of factory was agreed on nnd lust Saturday the com. mlttea commenced work. Lehi Is an Ideal place In which to locate a conning factory. We have an abundance of tho' finest fruit In Amerlcnn, tho flnostjland anywhero for growing tomatoes, Ideal shipping conditions, an abundance of help at a tlmo when help is needed, and n loyal progressive class of citizens to back up tho proposition, No other factory would do this community so much good as a canning can-ning factory. Uy bringing $50,000 nn-ually nn-ually Into this community It will stimulate business. No other crop will benefit the farmers or Increase the valuo of their land more than growing tomatoes, and no other Industry, In-dustry, for tho nmount of money Invested, In-vested, will give more employment to so many boys and girls nt a tlmo when employment Is wunted most. |