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Show WHERE PIERCE'S PORK AND BEANS ARE MADE PORK AND BEANS ARE CANNED IN OGDEN 1 History of the First Cannery, Established Here in 1888 Growth of the Industry Best Tomatoes in the United States Are Prepared For the Market in the Local Canneries More Modern Machinery Assures Cleanliness and Sanitation Thrrp nr 10 canneries in Weber j county, gning this locality a big lead over all intcrmountaln districts in the amount and r-uality of food can- ( ned All these factories buy the pro- I ducts of Weber county or surrounding surround-ing farms, employ Weber county la- bor and consequently should deserve I the heartiest support of the people of this community. To he an enthusiastic booster, work- I ing for the interests of the vicinity In which one lives, Is merely to buy the products of home manufacturers In preference to others. This boosting boost-ing does not require any self sacrifice sacri-fice on the part of purchasers, because be-cause the articles to be bought are Of equal if not superior quality to the products of outside manufacturers. manufactur-ers. Tn no other lines Is the foregoing statement so true as in the products j of the canneries, for the goods turned I out ha"e demanded the attention of consumers throughout the entirp west If the products are of sufficient quality qual-ity for outsiders, then there is no reason for people living In the vicinity vi-cinity of the factories to turn aside from the home manufactured prod- 1 ucL In discussing the canning Industry of the county, the growth and description de-scription of the Utah '.inning company, com-pany, the pioneer of the state, may be taken as an example As the canning can-ning industry has Increased, 60 has that factory increased from a small shed where six men were employed I 25 years ago to one of the largest in the state where 150,000 cases of canned and bottled food products aro turned out every year and whose markets are the commercial centers I of the United States. Isaac X Pierce, now president of the Utah Canning company built the first small building which even at that time wae called the Utah company, , In 1888, on the present site at 29th i S t r 6 et and Pacific avenue. The building build-ing was a small frame structure, not much larger than a small barn, and in this building the first canned goods were manufactured Difficulties were experienced in securing se-curing farm products as what little the farmers raised in Weber county was for their own use and there was not much left for canning purposes. The farmers, however, were not slow to respond to Hi demands of Mr Pierce and his factory, and the number num-ber of acres planted for supplying the factory began to Increase with each season. After the factory had been put on a successful basis Mr Pierce moved to Littleton, Colo . and became the ploncei canner in that state also. The factory here was conducted under the title of the Utah-Colorado Can-i nlng company, while the Colorado 1 plant was in operation and the growth of the plant continued. It was found necessary to increase the size of the building each year and add machinery machin-ery and hire more hands with the opening of each new canning season. sea-son. In 1 SOT the factory was reorganized with I N Pierce as president and Thomas D. Dee, David ICcokwif George Matson and E. W. Watson filling the other offices. The board remained the same until the death of Georgi Matson. when H L. Hcrrington became be-came interested. At the present time the officers' are: I X Pierce, president H. L. Her-1 nngton, vice president; E W Mat-son, Mat-son, secretary; John L. Pierce, treasurer. treas-urer. The foregoing, with Royal Ec-cles Ec-cles and HL B. Porter, compose the board of directors The factorv is now one of the largest lar-gest in the state, with 50. U0" square feet of factory floor space Through- 1 out the entire vear employment is given to 30 and" during the canning season 200 people are employed Within the bulldniK Is housed the mo?t up-to-date and sanitary canning can-ning machinery that it is possible to secure on the market. All pipes used ( for the handling of Juices are enamel ed fo keep the acids from coming in contact with the metal. Sanitation is a watch word at the plant, not only for hygienic reasons but because the sale of the product depends upon palatableness and appearance ap-pearance , The factory floors are constructed In such a manner that they can be 1 lushed with water, the flushings draining into an open sewer that leads to the river. One of the features of the place Is the apparatus for washiug and scalding tomatoes In place of doing do-ing all the scalding for the day in one large vat of water, the tomatoes are first washed by streams of water wa-ter turned upon them as they pas under and oer nozzles from which clean water Is parsing They then pass into a machine where they are scalded, ready for the peelers, by-live by-live steam. The factory specializes on the following fol-lowing products Tomatoes, pork and beans, ketchup, ketch-up, hominy, sauerkraut, tomato soup and table sauce. Through extensive advertising, Pierce's pork and beans and Pierce s ketchup and the other products have become known throughout the entire en-tire country and the products are sold as far east as Chicago and west to Portland, Ore. which is one of the best markets The Bale of the products prod-ucts is increasing throughout all the western states. At the Lewis and Clark exposition and the Alaska-Yukon exposition the Ogden products won prizes, and Ogden Og-den and Utah gained much valuable-publicity valuable-publicity by the displays To meet the increasing demand for their products and especially for the ketchup, $50i0 worth of new machinery ma-chinery is being Installed at the present pres-ent time, and two 125 horse power boilers are now being set up In anticipation an-ticipation of the opening of the season. sea-son. The new boilers are needed to supply the increasing demand for oteam In the manufacturing of the canned products. |
