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Show Thursday, August 16, 2007 SPRINGVILLE HERALD 17 Snipp Helen Beardall (A note from last week's article: inadvertently left out, it should have read: Several incidents happened the summer of 1855 because of the high water of the creek, one such incident, the near death of a young lad who had been swept away by the whirling torrents tor-rents of water, eventually rescued by a James Sylvester Syl-vester who had his forge located near the creek side and hear the cries for help of another party .) Dream of one man-A new industry born In the early days of Springville, many of the men went away from home much of the year to make a living through freighting, mining, railroad grading, timber cutting and hauling timbers for railroad building, build-ing, etc. Because of so many men leaving for other jobs, the idea sprung forth of having hav-ing a stay-at-home business whereby men could work and earn a living in their own community . A Mr. Ed Crandall longed to save the peaches that lay on his ground to rot in the itts of Springville History fall. It hadn't been so long since people had been hungry hun-gry for just such good food, and he dreamed of having a cannery. In 1904 the Springville Canning Company commenced com-menced to do business in a very small way, resulting in a stay-at-home business, with Myron Boyer (early pioneer) stating, "Not so much to make money for ourselves, but to have something going to build up our city and help people to make a living and be at home." The first factory was a 24 by 24-foot frame building, located on 10th South and Main Street on the west side of the road, down a little hill and just below a beautiful spring on the property of M. E. Crandall, Sr. The canning was all done by hand, with the cans being be-ing purchased from other canning factories, or from a can company in Chicago. After the cans were filled with produce, a lid was placed on top, with the sealing seal-ing of the lid by hand with a hot iron. About 1906 the company compa-ny was incorporated for $10,000. The five owners were Myron Edgar Crandall, Cran-dall, Sr., Myron E. Crandall, Cran-dall, Jr., John S. Boyer, Sr., Myron A. Boyer and Olive Anderson. The company soon outgrew out-grew the little building located in the back yard of Ed Crandall and was moved a little south and west, but still on the Crandall Cran-dall farm. The new building was much larger, growing to a size of 48 by 75 feet. To the cooperation this seemed a real beginning for a home industry. Many more stockholders were sharing in the business: M.E. Crandall, Sr., and family, M. Boyer and wife, H. Lee Boyer and wife, John Hafen (the artist), John Lowry, Mike Molen, George Ed. Anderson and Edwin Olsen. This canning factory grew by leaps and bounds. More land was purchased in about 1926 and a larger building was constructed on said property, located by the Crandall farm, but still on the west side of Main .Street. About 1925 M.E. Crandall, Jr. bought out the Boyer Brothers. In 1929 Crandall sold to W.R. Eddington and the factory then changed its name to W.R. Eddington Canning Co. The building was added on to and enlarged, en-larged, with the eventual addition of two and one-half one-half stories. In 1936 this canning factory fac-tory put up the first corn to be canned in Utah. The farmers first planted and harvested peas, then corn was planted on the ground. In 1945, it canned 80,000 cases of com. In all of Utah 300,00 cases were canned that year. The Eddington Cannery also canned beans, tomatoes, toma-toes, cherries, apricots, peaches, apples, lima beans and mixed vegetables. It also developed its own labels: la-bels: Spring Kist, Utah Trail, Spring Pack, Clean Pack, Tiny Teddy and Goodness Me. Seventy-five percent of the canned goods were shipped out of state, almost to every state in the union. Many farms in the local area and surrounding areas in the valley were contracted contract-ed to raise the produce so necessary to this large and important industry, which did provide stay-at-home jobs for many people in the community, building up the infrastructure of the city. Later Eddington formed a partnership with two local lo-cal bankers, Fay Packard and Claude Salisbury, in a canning operation in Canada Can-ada which became very successful and highly competitive, com-petitive, but the Canadian Government refused to let any of the profits be taken from their country. InUtah, other problems developed with the company, com-pany, the IRA stating that Eddington owed the government gov-ernment more money in back taxes than he stated, but the shareholders said the money had been used to improve the old facility. Storage of a super abundant abun-dant pea crop caused a terrific drain on the company's com-pany's capital, with Eddington Edding-ton forced to pay one cent a pound a month to store the peas for 14 months, while peas on the market were selling for less than the storage cost. (Were these peas frozen? There was to be a freezer unit installed at the plant.) The final problem, which poked its nasty head into the picture, was when Eddington Ed-dington was sued by a consumer claiming to have found a mouse inside a can of goods processed at the Springville plant. All of these problems, which broke about the same time, proved too much for the business, forcing forc-ing its closure in about 1958 after operating for about 40 years. The canning facility was later purchased and used as a tanning factory. The whole structure was destroyed de-stroyed by fire in October 1978. This area is now the home to the Springville Baptist Church and other companies compa-nies located about 1150 S. Main Street. 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