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Show FACTORIES EMPLOY MANY' i oo , Ton canning factories are in operation opera-tion in Weber county, In the vicinity' of Ogden, handling the peach, tomato and plum crops and the work will extend over u few weeks. Tho ten factories are putting up about 20,000 cans of fruit each day, giving employment to 000 people and consuming a largo quantity of fruit. Tho cannery men Bay that the crop is coming in rather slow this, car but that at this particular time there Is an abundance of peaches on hand. There is a good supply of plums but It is said that the plum is not a very good canning fruit and that the factories fac-tories arc not handling all of the supply- This tomato crop has been a little below the average In quantity, the canning men say, this year bccausi of tho dryness of tho season and the crop is not ripened at this time as it usually does. It is stated by one of the canning men that Weber county coun-ty has lost enough in the tomato crop this year on nccount of drouth tp pay a third of the cost oi building the South Fork reservoir. Peaches were never In better condition con-dition for canning and largo quantities quanti-ties are being prepared for the market mar-ket It is expected that it will require re-quire two weeks more time to finish peach canning. Some of the canneries canner-ies will close when the tomato crop is out of the way. but others will continue con-tinue operations until late in November, Novem-ber, handling apples and some of the farm products, such as pumpkins and squash. Those cngased in this lino of business bus-iness are hoping tho weather will continue con-tinue warm for a few days longer so that the tomatoes may ripen. The damage done' by tho halL storm was confined to a small district In tho vicinity of PlaiW "City, other parts of tho county not having been visited by the storm, but it is said that in the path of the storm the tomato crop has been practically ruined. Tho hailstones wore so large ami oim4 with such force thnt when they struck a tomato, ripe or green, they knocked It from tho vino. oo |