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Show If 10W UTAH' LETTER I IS FULLJFJilTEIST Wml .VV. H. Child & Co. Impart HI I Information on Canning HI Factories in State. i STATISTICS ARE GIVEN H More Than Half-Million Cans Hi f Goods Put Up at 1 The "Know Utah" letter, issued by 'W. Ill H. Child & Co., brokers, yosterday con- I I tains a largo amount of valuable infor- S M mation. not only far people outside of the stale, but 'by people here at home, 9l irho are likely now and then to ovcr- 11 if look some of the advantages (hat Utah a-Mj t- haa to offer along various Unco. H c Under the heading. "Canning Factories Is teh," the letter shows that these fac- !1 torias put up 605,833 coses of goods last I year. Tt also ahows that the coot of the j M product wae 1,160,000 and that $536,000 ; n Is Invested In cannerlca. Thirty-seven Sj m Pet cent of the product was old in Utah I SB 8 anfl lbe remainder outside of the state. u The letter continues mm 5 . The G05.S35 cases of fruits and vegc- g B tables put up by tho canneries of Mi Utah last year were divided as fol- WL m lows: Tomatoes, 445,949; poas, 153.- fB W 727: fruits (prunes, peaches, pears, am m aprlcotB, apples, gooseberries, cher- 7X ries, raspberries, hlackberrles and M P dewberries), 36,411; string beans. 30.- gm K 35S; catsup, 18,595; pumpkins, 206n; WM M asparajois, S700. Among the products mm added to the repertolro of the can- Hf neries rocontly arc pork and beans, M hominy and rhubarb. There are now R in operation about thirty-fivo facto- mm Tics' and two more are preparing for wmM W business. About fifteen of these run BM ixclusively on tomatoes and their tflg H by-product, catsup. WB Payroll Is Large. Ew R "Wages paid by the canning facto- BH rlcs in 1311, the last year for which MB E the figures have been tabulated, IBS If amounted to $195,126.69. and were D jfi paid out. to 1715 employees. Much of H E the work is light and can be done as am j? well by women and children as by Bm a men. Tho opening of school in Scp- fam rember deprives the factory of stu- Bj dent workers when the work Is most EB Some of the raw material used by M the canning factories in Utah is Wmm ' raised by farmers under contract. HF, somo Is raised under the direct aula au-la rervislon of the factory agent, some Hj , is purchased in the field or orchard B and fomc bought In the market. In B tho fall or winter tho farmer makes Bj an agreement to put a certain num- bcr of acres into tomatoes and the j factory covenantH to buy all that are HJ raised on those acres and delivered mm ar the factory doors. Tho prevailing HE price is ?10 a. ton. in some cases, EH where the farms are a considerable HM distance from the factory, tho ?10 is Hj paid for delivery to a railroad. The BJ railroads charge -fl a ton for trnns-BH trnns-BH portatlon. making the cost to the fac-Bl fac-Bl ion Sll a ton. BJI String beans arc contracted for and HJ purchased in the same way at f35 MM io ?45 a ton delivered. Hj Peas Are in Demand. B The cannera aro more directly con-Mi con-Mi cerned in tho production of peas. BQ They furni3h the seed, supervision Bh and money and the farmers tho land BJ ; and tho labor. From. three to three JM and a liaJf bushels of seed aro sown H to the a-cre. During the growing BJ season the field man of the cannery HJ vlFits each contract daily and gives BJ directions as to cultivation and wa-Hfl wa-Hfl rering. He also directs the cutting. BJ The canncrs pay from 2 to 2$ cents BJ a. pound for the shelled peas. The HI hulls make excellent fodder for cattle Bfl and sheep. They are said to bo very IHU fattening Some factories axe begin-HM begin-HM ning to raise stock In order to utlllzo HH this feed. MB Peaches and other orchard prod- Bl nets s.ro usually purchased on the HI trees when the canning factories are EHJ i ready for them. The orchardlst at- hRJ lends to the picking and delivery, MB which Is made in bulk. Payment ir HE made by the ton. Berries are bought B 1n the open market and are worth 5100 a ton. Some of tho beet berrier BB are raised at Provo. Asparagus for Wat canning is raised under contract by BH a special process. |