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Show .o . Cannery Committee Reports Favorably Seventeen Per Cent ProlU First Year-Gives Year-Gives Kmplu)iuent to Mnny Good Prellls lo Farmers. W. II. Chipman nnd Kil 11. Hawkins, who were appointed n committee to visit tho Draper cannery plant, relumed re-lumed Thursday with ulowlnir ronorts of the plant there. I The Draper plant cost $7,000. Last ' year il consumed the product fro" ' slty acres or tomatoes and wan i operation two mouths, Thirty wi n nnd girls were employed at govd wages, also eight men nnd nn expert, Two local men having had sufficient experience, the expert will not bo reemployed. re-employed. Mnny farmers grew twenty tons ot tomatoes per ucro and received $10 per ton for them, which means $1:00 per ncro. This yeartho company lias contracted for 100 acres ot tomatoes and has already refused twenty-flve acres more. The plant last seacou turned out thu tlnlBhed product at the rnto or one can per second, canning leu carloads for the season. Tho company cleaned up $1,300 on last Benson's run. This bo-Ing bo-Ing tho company's llrst year, a prolll of 71 per cent Is consldured remarkable. remark-able. Tho committee miyn that this locality local-ity is much moro favorably located than Draper for thu operation ot a canning factory. Wo havo llvo times tho laud adapted for the production of tomatoes, and three times tho population popula-tion from which to secure help. |