Show A BIG MERGER IN THE SOUTH Canning and Packing Interests Form Huge Combination With Capital of Ten Million Dollars In the Production of Its Specials the Company Will Operate a Fleet of Fifty Boats and Erploy One Thousand Hands New York Announcement is mado that I nil Important deal Involving tho combination or merger of annie largo southern t I i packing and canning Interests Inter-ests has Just boon completed through George A Young and associates The deal Involves tho acquisition by tho Mcllheiiny company of the tobasco sauce business of E Mcllhonnys Sons and the packing and canning business of the Mcllheiiny Canning Manufac turing company which Is said to operate oper-ate ono of tho largest modern canner lea in tho United States The capitalization capital-ization of tho new company will bo 10000000 E A Mcllhenny will be president and Frederick ICopf vice president Mr I Kopf in speaking of the enterprise enter-prise said Wllcn the company finally acquires other factories of which a number will bo taken over somo prominent jobbers and wholesale grocers will bo elected to the board Tho companys lands and factories aro situated on Avcry Island Louisiana Louisi-ana and It has offices in Now York Chicago San Francisco Portland Montreal and London In tho production produc-tion of Its specialties the company will operate a fleet of fifty boats and upwards and will employ over ono thousand hands |