| Show WILL CAN PEACH CUP on tuesday evening of this week mr law of salt lake city met with a number or of local fruit growers in the commercial club rooms for the purpose of outlining to them a proposition to install individual canning plants and handle the canned product mr mr law stated that a plant to handle bushels of peaches per day can be b installed for a trifle over and his firm will install the plants and contract for the output at a specified price of per case ot of 2 dozen no 2 carts cans which hold a pint and a halt half each said price F 0 B brignal BrIg Br ighani hal or his company will handle the output on a 2 commission he stated to those assembled that a bushel of peaches would make a case ot of canned product and the cost of canning material for cans and cases manufacture of cases and all handling to make ready for shipment except picking and hauling to the factory would be 96 cents leaving the grower a profit of per bushel out of which must come the cost of picking and transporting from the orchard to the canning plant in answer to the question can fruit be put as cheaply by large canning factories as by these individual plants mr law stated that it can be done provided the large plants are operating to full capacity all the time but as soon sofonias as they drop down to and 50 capacity then they operate at much greated expense than the industrial plant and hence cannot compete with them mr law stated that it would be hla his idea tor for two or three growers to combine and install a plant and then the expense can be kept down and he stat stated e d positively that his company will contract for the entire output with the provision that the foods rods must be put up as the firm specifies r no action was taken at the meeting which was called simply for for the purpose of acquainting the growers growe with the industry but C H davis peter baird and ernest cheney have decided to install a plant between them and have it in operation during the coming season |
