| Show CANNING WORKS WASTED WANTED in these days of dullness many are wondering what will make times better belter and the only solution lution Bo seems to be b start up more home industries Indu and patronize them so far as practicable to the exclusion of imported articles every dollar thus saved isa is a dollar made for more inore general circulation here at home our oar resources for home manufacture are nearly unbounded utah contains natural wealth of almost every known kind considering its ita latitude besides the mineral supplier found in the mountains our valleys yield the most luscious druies that can be found in the zone many tourists to utah seeing the excellent yield of our greatly neglected orchards wonder why it is that our people do not en engage ag e more extensively in horticulture the reason is this we have not the market for fruit darin during the autumn harvest the local marl markets bets are over flooded and hundreds oi of tons of fruit wa waste te in our orchards no provisions have been made for pres preserving erTing our richly flavored fruits and sending them canned to differ different eni parts of th tho a country in fact we feast when the vintage is on and fast when it is over for the remaining months of the year vear instead of cann canning ing our horticultural products and making in n them last us the whole year we 6 feast on the fruits of our orchard so long as they last in their natural state and then rely on imported canned goods for the greater part of the year the tha amount of money thus sent out of the territory every year is something enormous and it can be re regarded added in no other light than a double waste first we allow the products of our own orchards to go to wasie ald al d then we waste our money on abo imported article Is that the kind of economy which will mako make a community prosperous it seem seam r ro FO o by a long ways what wo want avant throughout the valleys of utah are more canneries there will be good profits in them if properly run for example at woods cross davis county is a canning and pickling establishment that haa bas been 1 0 pratt putting irig up twenty bushels of pickles berday per day nearly all winter long and it can sell them as fast as they are cutup put up the davis Davia county clipper gave gava is a little write up of the busi business neEs in its last issue in the body of which appeared the following significant paragraph while tho the writer was there a party canio came in from pleasant grove grova who thought he could furnish a thousand thon sand bushels of a certain kind of fruit if thi factory could use nse that amount he fie et tho the matter r with ith the officers of th tle institution ution for consideration what is the matter with this county that our farmers have baye to go to salt lake valley to got their fruit canned why not open up tip a canning establishment lish ment in some of the centrally located Fettle menis of this valley come to think thick of it provo already has a cannery why not not start that going this coarl year lot let men be sent tut out now to the different settlements and contract for enough fruit to keep the factory running it seems seeing to us that at leaah one cannery ought to flourish flon rish in utah valley if only conr own stores were supplied with tho the products produces of our home cannery there would be a big market at the command of iha canning company |
