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Show PAGE THREE E31ERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE, UTAH t ..unninrnK urn jpmii.mLii ' III! II !l Ill UL. DEIS World's Largest Pea Cannery In Utah PRAISES OF each SHOE HIE! botMt?SS year the Utah State (BY DENNT3 WOOD) Nephi, Utah ociation holds a summer ont- f ome secuon i "getting-to-getheand rpose of methods that will enable the to better of the-sta- toss's f tt5e Times-New- te . session held in charged that the jfv state Press association was not (S- - the sUte of Utah the service ,nization is capable of ren- (SLcr- that information could be as-- J mmvrpr outmc hv .f'i of com- r7.,inr with chambers Cret and others and the week fol- - rUke City it - wm Perm t r, 1 fountain Sough e surface slagmitelr1 ' IS fnlj havisJ to w de. n t? everj-one.- 1 ""ty (asth of tte cavel feet its columns tne many and resources of that ition of the state where above thi miles Ot utifully toa The water fa The flow hii s, There is nothing quite like Cache valley in all of Utah, and I might say with much truth, the entire west. Whether you enter the valley by way ef Sardine canyon, Colliston or Preston, Idaho, the same wonderful fer- tile fields and rV-'- t agricultural region unfolds itself to the view of the traveler. In the month of June this year when I was afforded the opporpart tunity to ride over the greaterseem-ed of this wonderful valley, nature to have outdone itself in its efforts to produce for the thrifty husbandman of this section the evidence that later would bring forth a bounteous harvest. Lucky the farmer I thought, whose lot has been cast in such a section of this great state as I was now viewing. Water, soil, and climate. The three big essentials to successful agriculture are here in rich aounaance, iormmg a combination that brings peace and contentment to the tillers of the soil. Added to this s a thrifty population, the evidence of which can be seen on everv hand m fine barns, and out buildings, good substantial nomes; well kept fences, and highly cultivated r" the last business fit !. was Ifeout WOOD GIVES IMPRESSION CACHE VALLEY t the 1 II " r aavan-U- s particular the A committee sum-outi- was held. IS appointed, with Will R. Holmes j Brigham City as chairman, to Ifher this information and submit L copy and cuts to the Western to publish in news-i- r Newspaper Union thousands of copies for form, ..- tha etata he various ""- - Thau papcio rU folded in with the regular issue j fn tro out on the same date. In iat way Utahns in all sections of 4e state would be reading about the fonderful oportunities of some gar-fe- n spot of Utah the same day, and any hundreds oi copies wouiu una Mr wav in various sections of the rnited States as well as foreign coun- mm This special numoer win De 'sailed next Thursday or Friday, July farms. The valley is dotted with a number of prosperous cities and towns, chief - . . . of wnicn are tljogan, omiuuieiu, neuo- Lewisville. Hvrum. Richmond and ton. The first named city is the nr-.ii- .... . LUUI1LV DCai Ul VOVIIC vvMnvji George V. Rountree, Jr., correspon- seed to obtain a crop of uniform quali- and discussed by field men, scientific west about three mues is tne iwis- thc most beautiful and ideally sit- a or 31. dent for the Coming Age, a magazine ties, and it is in line with the most experts, and by growers themselves. ton augur laciory. , . t of iu Bjze , tne we8t n to be dry convention published in New York City, made a advanced canning technique for ihe Also there are meetings of the emHere is the home of the State Agrl- d This vear the summer m held at Logan where the news special trip to Smithfield to get first canner to develop his own seed stocks, ployees' organization. The floor of h .coniMt. .J paper men and their partners were hand information about the Morgan when the scale of his operations so this hall is polished maple to enable i.ne ceiuer o uio w ."' offered here to students oi this state inuc r n these this latter organization to have their -- town - is tne great conuenseu ... - ingtitution cannot be duplicated in my deep! royally entertained for three days, Canning factory. Among other things permits. comsource is proO Saturday, Sunday and Monday July Mr. Rountree said: Thus we find a department of the dances and amusements under their plant of the Sego Milk Products jud?ment ftnywhere or any place, : pany, who handle daily an average13,19, and 20. Thfl iocation ot Cache valley is 'ga plateaus "Experts all over the country are Morgan Canning company especially own supervision. of milk. The pro50,000 01 pounds ascanyon, before Surrounded on either side facthe this And devoted to found the employees' if the morninz that year unlque Smithfield, Utah, pencil agreed past Saturday any During purpose. lakej is a novel ushers lined up at the office of the tory of the Morgan Canning company canner needs proof of the serious at sociations have been organized at both cess of condensing the milk is simple b lofty rangeg 0f mountains from the a com the really helpful to the milk as Logan Journal, a live daily paper and is absolutely without parallel. It is tention given to this end of the busi- Morgan and Smithfield plants for the and canyons of which cooling breezes tern- food. Uith mills to grind their represent thfl 8UmmeP heat anj make the the only daily paper in the state that difficult to determine which branch of ness at Smithfield, he can profit from purpose of promoting social functions make sugar of nJ htg ir K ociow. The daims membership in the Utah State the institution arouses the greatest a glance at the seed room, which con- inculcating loyalty and fostering har- wheat, factories to delightful and refreshing. niles north and Press voiiDW s. beets, condense their milk and ,i,,-- i, nnarpntlv iso- association, published by Messrs. enthusiasm; the farm management, tains every modern device and facility mony between the management and can their located right among ,ated from the great vaney regions :ias a general peas, all Earl & England. Charles England is the imposing structure itself, the for selecting the seed stock used in employees. Each employee contrib- the feet, an.l k. better known fertile, deep soil farms, the people west of (ha Wasatch range, yet it is month for.ths purone dollar utes raw the the in as or per growing product. "Bishop" equipment, personnel." Logan 1 here should be happy and prosperous from erosioJ England, who acted as pilot during In the first place the original seed-- pose of caring for fellow' workers in The Smithfield plant was designed and business houses b is no surface the three-da- y Cache valley, and equipped throughout by employes stock has been carefully selected for case of sickness or other distress, and the merchants in visit fingt mountain roads to be found Hey. The nn,. pe snouia immediate anvwhere. that of Sardine canyon, via or their themselves uiriity. either aid "Jess" Earl, so familiarly called of then and Its It is the variety, grade quality. Morgan Canning company. S SO HiseAlvi The Richmond Coop.. J. C. Penny & Brigham Citv. The owners of the comby everybody, was detailed as ' follow- , personnel, one hundred per cent Amer milled and hand picked, and next run dependents. :e m the iuwerl Co.. Peonies Store, H. F. Olsen, and Anderson A. To the person who visits Cache James President men were aDiy as pany. inese mill. up' man. a After thii it fanning ican, exhibits loyalty and Iidelity to through men has disap- - sisted M. Ander- - ii. me are . Linnstensen, Vice President and Joseph lor the first time it is a M. K. principal valley by Hovey, secretary oi the institution of their building that is run through another fanning mill, while the Mason Lumber tion. ;une mio soluWhatever impressions may are members of the association the Logan chamber of commerce, the sets an example for every industry of and has been Cache dues as do other mem Co. furnishes the hardware and buildtheir and boosteon t'age 4) and pay (Continued oversized holes with is fair, County that general The peas the inspiring genius country. . prevent h the under- Bank of Rich- r for "Sunday Movies" and other James A. Anderson, president of the from passing through. Another screen bers. Monthly meetings of the asso ing material. The Statefinancial needs Richmond. It was largely through food things in that" section of thei Morgan Canning company and the re- is provided at the bottom for eliminat ciation are held m company time. mond looks after the ngs of unusual Here the officials are given a portion of this district. While beets, peas, the energy, pluck, and enthusiasm of Can-ner- s' leaves This undersized all National of the cent peas. ing president take too much matters af- and milk are the principal pursuits, Richmond dairymen, the Nelson Broth-dairviAt 8:30 the caravan left Logan for the uniform, evenly graded peas to of the session to discuss association. 3 and dairy livestock is the and that the Blacks and Whites were the Lakota plans for genemployees resort on the shores of ComDarativelv few canners have go through between these screens. fecting thin the bonds So thoroughly have leading industry here. For over thirty introduced on the exhibition grounds Bear lake. eral efficiency. The drive through the the over then run picking to visit Utah, and few The seed is the forest Under tanyon was of the officers of the company cemented years Richmond has held the distinc- - 0f our State fair. It was then that special interest. For haveopportunity is generally consid tables where off color seed and ker- the bonds between the company and lion OI ueiiig me uairjr tciivc ui seen what the area has miles there was not a dull they Were JOKingiy loia oy wio uwx true to type are picked out. the most remarkable factory ot nels notsweet Cache county, the leading dairy county men who for years had practically strikes are unknown. isty overgrazed that moment. employees The road is in excellent eredkind wrinkled In the peas particular in existence. So it is the pur nomic and the state. Her Tenth Black and monopolized the livestock exhibits at rendition and for natural beauty and its foreign or illiterate help is used of nose of this article, to bring Smith attention is paid to eliminating seed in No White present e State fair, to take their "Mag-ver- y All day held May 1st, 1925, was varied scenery for that distance, there of work anv any the on department. borders of the country, that that resembles or rest can to field the evidence she that is of i)ack home. It is different to- tangible families from obtained is pjes nothing to compare with it in this canners' smooth, round type, the reason for the help much - J..,y. TVi "Mnomioa" now nrfiinv first benefit difitincas receive rlaim nnaiatfintlw otill that ?s and 100,000 may and the entire western country. deThere are the rural communities nearby from the experience which is that the latter tends to .son. Back in 1903, when a location piace on the grounds and in the show other beauty spots but there is but and inspiration earlier than the regular strain bova and girls from these thrifty fam tion. velop condensed milk factory was rmg, at county and state fairs. With a for Logan canyon Canning, own one Logan almost which such scenic of with invariably wrinkled ilies, of sweet This, peas. for the he canyons of neauty everycanyon nnA nr two exceptions, the dairymen being to sought been have own Wearitaught foot of the way. homes, would produce over ripe peas their bottom of the Progressive Americans are never course, few and western states, it was tne voiume 0f Richmond have centered on tne With ng the summit economize. and work very of the bulk and when after the time at the crop passing satisfied with things as they are, but is n and covered milk centered at Richmond that Holstein-Friesia- n breed. They are through groves of pine trees, the deep most suitable for canning. In the exceptoins all have had a good high of unsatisfaction stimulates hard and soft All the attracted those interested in estab- - making a studv of this breed and as education. tine in the distance is evidence that happily this school attenor college careful Alaska or variety them to bigger and Deuer mines, ine early is the water has the beautiful Bear Lake in lishing a milk plant. It was the num- - a result there are two exceptionally valley is not paid to picking out kernels female help is required to dress is one of the tion of its ber of large milk producers in this WPn.bred sires owned here, and some citizenry loped into far distant. complex attracthat or white uniforms Then driving around a reasons our present country leads the world that are not true to that variety and fkts These district that played an important part 0f the daughters and granddaughters loop and appearance. neat, sanitary tive, coming out on the point of in so type. many lines of endeavor. Kecords amping. work as high clas in getting the condensor established. 0f the best sires of the breed, as well fte mountain, there at your very feet, Careful tests in growing these peas wompn regard their As Conifers are broken each year in sports, in The rlailv volume of milk Produced as some daughters and granddaugh- a result of this town, far down is more of the blue in every particular. all human pur have proved that the smaller or under Richmond and vicinity early in ters of famous dams of the breed. It ng mostly of ae Bear lake, extending thirty miles business and in almost ana at ami sized seed tends to mature earlier than feeling oi priae scalesausiacwuu suits. spruce, in force, such 1902 attracted the attention of J. B. will be a matter of but a few years n length and fair of the Where wide. wage miles over while the eight Lumber The canning industry has developed the evenly graded peas nrofessional women as school teach Rackliff of Coruina, Maine, a con- - until these Richmond breeders can you see the groves of stately trees, and has sized seed has a tendency to mature ers, music teachers, nurses and others all quantities, ilk fartorv nromoter. After furnish sires and heifers with as good homes and the little town with other leading industries is gardens, later. Therefore, the object of screen is a far it While d with aspen, vaca of Garden summers a to Cache valley and breeding and pedigrees as can be had visits many. to several are of surpassed spend glad Cityorr the shore line out over and undersized peas and ing can little crude to the i. Hawthorn m indeed, this factory. thorough investigation of conditions, any where, in the United States. beautiful lake. To the north cry, hand picking them, is to produce an tion working ilace along the Nelson Bros, were the real pioneers some three miles is the Lakota resort nery of forty years ago, tne specialhe finally succeeded in uniting the and both for true is be uniform And Morgan it will between that article in here-th- e Val- - fifteen years ago, when they brought occupies the Cache two creameries were thousands go each year to enj- ized, systematized packing establish in size and man that factories every uniform Smithfield grade as well as best cows canyon, while oy the cool breezes in shadv nooks. ment of today dates us aeveiopmem. and woman from the owners down to ley Creamery company and the Union to the state some of the in maturity and quality. for more A much recent, the ever imported. The progeny of these a to idges especial-th- e period resort where nature has arranged absorbing By company. under those them, Creamery and foremen the is thus pre"After the seed stock sun. The of a dozen years is with cows, and that of the now famous everything to your liking and for your which the space were born and raised in the communi- stock of the two creameries and Con- Ragapple Korndyke the hich has come to account. The contrast is pared, thorough germination tests are ties where these factories operate. he organized the Utah their ldth, are comfort and convenience. help enough to Then in the Smith-fiel- made. Seed prepared in this manner later years of W. Hen- - among the best cows of the county. with comnanv. Milk dd to this E. M. flensed J. exemplified strikingly in charge Pugmire, strain for d enough and of the Utah, factory of the Morgan produces a well nigh perfect dricks, president; C. Z. Harris, secre- - Two years ago N. K. Nelson interested premises, has erected summer late variety." nine the well as as with the its mothered the which formed a early company, wttages along the shore line under Canning tary and manager, and C. E. Merrill, a few neighborsMr.who cut the The article continues with clear Nelson east where The factory pany and sent IS we superintendent. complete lines may be considered factrees modern installed and large descriptions of the viner station oper,'S been a good and most modern canning was built, eauinped. and made its he purchased Marathon Bess Burke equipment, including electric lights, largest A study of a ations, extensive .grading facilities, rater contains first comfortable beds and clean linen, a tory in the world today. day's run March 15, 1904. Like 25th, from the world famous herd of food, many few of the unusual features of this re- special conveyor system, warehouse, Place to cook new industries for the first year John Erickson and Sons. This sire all and own meals fol the with your will disclose not shipping, and concludes ;ssary to otel accommodations it seemed that every known obstacle is one of the best type and production- if you do not markable enterprise The state of the develop- lowing: the high and some imaginary ones were op- - bred bulls in America today. Erick- only ilfe. W camp has been is a Morgan-Canninthe which ted each year to company The this son, himself, with twenty-eigh- t ment industry years At erating to defeat the success-oLakota members of the associa but will suggest new ideas corporation owned by two brothers, it seems to be aon new industry, but the bull dog officials experience in constructive breeding brought, in a the free pool enjoyed dip be that might it was twenty James A. and Joseph M. Anderson. had taken a firm hold and the harder says: "I don't know how we could fid all were then seated at a real and greater possibilities to advantage by even the Both men were raised on a cattle employed Pug-MM. they were hit, the tighter they grip- - breed them better." sire owned here E. at home wquet the of r,t tlio ran- of the more eastern ranch and farm near Morgan, Utah. advanced The other famous most ned. at Wood the resort with Dennis And besides In 1909 they bought the Morgan Canrve on whick Matador Segis Walker 11th. This the Nephi Times, president of the pea canning centers. with the most A personal of the of one loan, $5,000 the foot At as a canning factory ning company, at that time a small, s is unl8Witnwas VionH of th table. holding interest of the at delation, the mountain w? directors, finally Wasatch ranges beautiful signatures not often encouname is deveiMr. and Mrs. plant at Morgan, for which nestles the city of Richmond, in the made, and the business kept going. Caronation Stock Farms by furnished brimful of methods Canning company one line Pugmire It was packone the Morgan viner necessary. "us ti,-ionly vnao.omonf wna to I Funk of Richmond and D. D. Buttars t banquet, new potatoes, green peas, tered, achievement of a ed only 6,000 to 7,000 cases a year. northeastern part of Cache county of Lewiston. This sire carries prob- ve flourished personal foast beef, represents ni, ,n that om salad, coffee, several kinds constant applica- just six miles south of Franklin, ' short of sensational. little hard work, lat there aref cake, ice inoman ably as equally famous blood lines as degree Through cream, etc., free of charge and fourteen mues nonn oi oro abunand has an excellent pedi- "Marathon," rase-a- nd The Smithfield plant is located in a tion and the ability to absorb and use Idaho, the hnnrVi frnm TTfoli arA tint fol- won. nolicv the 1600 of a has population It The progeny of these sires wi 'At the best ideas of other canners, they Logan. to see deer half second jowing newspaper men from Southern veritable pea canner's paradise. the end of the fall the At year a and dates its history from . i knolls . n 13 one tramps some prehistoric time the Gods saw fit have grown until they now have the debt was paid off, and the end of surely bring results, and the men, all rreston r"u. lur. strong oi tne the in the of '59. factories two leave in their and aside farmers, mountains early in the capacity to push third year the business was out !tr"elin hundred Wallis of the Paris Post and H. J.ts leading citizens have always the ways for each dol- vening. Bl "Nelson rf Virt MAnfnallav TTvominor "Cache Valley," a strip of the most neighborhood of half a million cases balance (with substantial a with of debt, public-spirited se are - ".they get to be spent) who risk land in the lntermountam re- a year. These factories now pack been of a broad, progressive, 'be pencil pushers had full charge of fertile This nature. In early days they in the bank. Soinin spiteofofallall pro- - their miles in three hours as many peas as the money m the purchase of such thirty begins valley gion. genermotion for the day and they enjoyschemes, spite at- presort were prominent as freighters into do a lot more for their conn-f thirty-fiv- e original factory packed during an enanimals extends d to the rt. The of Ogden, northeast financiers hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Idaho. It was Rich- ous predictions by leading tnr snaiMontana Idaho and season. the southern tire community m which they into canning north miles one ,nur,tv that this wonld be "gtnire will nnf onnn ho fnrcott.pn. twelve miles active em has a capacity of 20,000 mond men, M. W. Merrill and W. D. of the biggest failures Cache county live than they "are given credit for. Smithfield The is and approximately summer back down to the trip of cases of that contracted the grad- ever are the real benefactors, But too erved for "nes of Messrs. Earl and England in wide at its center a huge bowl peas per day. Those not fa Hendricks,construction had, the Utah Condensed Milk They of the Utah and snow miliar with and unseen benefactors. It is such the often ing surrounded by ,nt camper may the processes one canning of the great men as opportunity from ' Franklin, company became railroad these that make the State ca- Northern of the this Rocky of what aanenv Wasatch clear a range clad picture industries of the empe (jity, was a delightful drive, get About one third of the pacity means. Mr. Anderson, remark-pd.th- Idaho, to Butte, Montana. This same agriculturalstates and has paid its fair, the livestock shows, the county granted only "U route thev visited the .Bovs' sum mountains. of and Black and White day. Yes, mer home ver from tw one time a lady proudly told spirit seems to have been transmitted stockholders ., , ; and a mile further down the valley is under a complete system good dividends every fairs, t. descendants of such stalwart j. ,ountain " two. the And wyon the Girls' home. Both places irrigation and is highly cultivated, him of her talents in canning food for to the the "ZZ first except year the first was Richmond residence5 farmis devoted to dry her own household. She stated Umt pioneers. fe wonderful, large buildings with all another third remainder is low d. the canyon. she generally put up about 300 quarts city in the county, outside of - ing and the surroundfavenionces w and beautiful first was of the ; the chief The products ing. Kichmond has such men, ana,ths of fruits and vegetables for the fam- to install a citv water system. It boast the fact that the Uw.'s establish to whv'sbn still holds the distincNotwithstanding the in could first valley it potafhe how city and inquired long ,D fhe summer hnmpa of Messrs. Earl irrigated soil are sugar beets, supply ily's a very profitable of heinc the creat dairv center dry would take the Smithfield factory to o romno-- i lihrnrv. For vears. and ud ' stock has beenconstant lere fishingV "i England are quite unique, situated toes, and other vegetables. The loam of public vestment the great hazard 0f the state. These men have achieved consolidation lands, where the rich ping are lUSS t ht I linn ritrar pack a similar quantity of food. He until the iu91 frnm tH( farm benchremarkable connected with the operation of the that distinction, of our holdhead the at stood of it moisture an they have held it pen schools, output that answered assuming ,xty homes-roa'Jjvel where the tall birch and Box-fifl- possesses to wheat, al- only 100 cans per minute for each of county local school districts. Today business resulted in the original stock for thirty years, and they expect to mmer are given immed-ately qualities, ing prows very prolific and ! holders selling their interests a few j, it for another thirty years, the nine lines, an amount equal to the we have established nere tne ataKe and other grains. at the foot of a large cliff that falfa the firm name changed visit the farms of the Caine Live-t- o n nr i nerhans second to 300 quarts would be canned in 20 headquarters and Stake building of years ago andMilk ar lake. The Products company. stocij Co., who by the way, have some the Sego ai the Benson stake. The North Cache eveSwtert sugar beets in the valley and Cache seconds. pass ears gUs' The new company has made extensive 0f the best Jerseys in the state; N. K. in the best of the one school, The spirited corps of the company high fere moVoTthe ewfpaperTri and county can-r- e This school is improvements at the plant and greatly Nelson & Sons, P. L. Nelson Bros., Logan is not the result of chance. state, is located here. employes this and is making a safe, increased the volume of business, fj. L. Funk, A. C. Fisher, C. Z. Harris and canyon well for -grazing, ovppllont -- u managed worked has diligentThe management out-prnjoyed the evening meal seatea per day is near & gonS( Skidmore Bros., Webb Bros., growth. It is located on Their average he cleanest. a huge bonfire at Mr. Eng- - toge ther with the ly to cement the good feeling between satisfactory 1.500 cases. They employ from 75 to F. H. Whittle, Leander Peart, Cyrus stands and cement state highway the There is of the and One camp, and later dancing at the pulp are office and work shop. b ee as a monument to the 100 people and have done their part Bullen, F. H. Troveller, Leroy Robinirer ero mer home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl, eed main contributing factors is the great out prominently who toward making Cache valley a million son, C. D. Merrill, Ray Pond, Lorin erpendirtf. located on the second floor progressive spirit of the people " auditorium a ele-c- e main is of and a half dairy county. the , , part building certain ip Hendricks, and Thomas Ballantyne, et its ,. the of the main warehouse. This is put built it. nuL with hardwood floor. At feeders "Jhf tne and tte some of of the we al, and you will see why they are largest the Today of south e south In the city ments uses. part growui Meetings to a number of good fitjicA MuiD-cuu u o 0mii .wnse moun to keep up their record for with i entire the of in these herds finest rotation going the of dairy Morgan ngs are held at frequent intervals where have the pea vinery Mwith a curtain, piano, Edison , other. Therefore, owned another states are a thirty years, by tain and dairymen north To profitable the it be taken up Canning company. be taken with the agricultural problems can must care ion. 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