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Show Canning Factory May Be New Valley Enterprise j Possibilities of establishing a can-in'ng can-in'ng factory in the Great Gunnison i Valley are not remote and with a ; view to making a survey of the situation situ-ation for the purpose of inviting capitalists cap-italists here the Gunnison Lions club took a step forward at the regular meeting Wednesday evening of last week and will sponsor this activity. J. M. Knighton, perhaps the best I versed man in Utah on wrater, was an :nvited guest at the club meeting and he gave the club members some close-up close-up facts on the possibilities of making a canning factory here a huge success. suc-cess. Mr. Knighton gave some cold facts on the water situation and cited instances where the high waters would prove invaluable for just such an enterprise as has been started. The matter was discussed from every angle, and to the end of getting the real facts in concrete form, a committee com-mittee was named to make further investigations. The committee consists con-sists of Ira Overfejt, cashier for the Gunnison Valley bank, J. M. Knight- on, president of the Gunnison Irriga- tion company, C. M. Edwards, county l attorney, Hart J. Sanders, superintendent superinten-dent for the Gunnison Sugar company, com-pany, and M. M. Duggins, proprietor of the Duggins Service station. The committee will investigate further and when the survey is completed, com-pleted, formal arrangements will v made to submit plans to investors. Thousands of acres of land in tho valley, Mr. Knighton stated, are available avail-able for the growing of peas and oth:c commodities handled by canning factories. fac-tories. And particularly does this apply to the lands under the Highland High-land canal to the east side of the valley. Due to the lack of late water in this section, it is difficult to raise beets, but with the early high waters and the ideal soil conditions peas can ; be grown and developed easily and there is little doubt about the prolific pro-lific crops. And all the crops could be harvested by the first of July. Other sect;ons about the valley, where beets are slow to develop-, can be used i in growing crops for a canning fac-I fac-I tory. The cultivation of peas on lands I not adapted for beets, soon enriches j the soil and sooner or later it proves . ideal ground for beet growing. It was brought out at the Wednesday Wednes-day night meeting that peas, cucumbers, cucum-bers, celery, cauliflower, onions, tomatoes to-matoes string beans, corn and cabbage, cab-bage, all ideal farnr products for canning can-ning and pickling, are successfully , grown and with an increased acreage the factory would find nn abundant! supply to keep going. Thei building of a pea canning factory fac-tory in the valley would not only put much of the land in useful work hut the creation of a payroll, 'in addition to supplying work at an idle time of the year, would prove invaluable. The committee, it is announced, has had conference and plans are le-ing le-ing mapped out to make a real effort to land a canning factory in the val-. val-. ley. |