Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-01-04 | Page 4 | Canning Industry Needs Better Rates

l&SM CANNING INDUSTRY NEEDS BETTER RATES, &9tiH Ogden's great canning industry, with an output last year of over a million cases of goods, is passing I through a severe strain by reason of I the fact that, with the starting of the Europe"- at tne beginning of the canning season, wholesalers and I retailers began to cut down their stocks and cancel orders. At that I time California canners were caught I with heavy packs and, driven to real-I real-I lze. sacrificed their goods:, selling I throughout the territory covered by I the Ogden manufacturers. Since then 1 the Panama canal has been completed gH I and an all-water route opened to the fRi I tanners of Maryland, and even to jH I those on the Oreat Lakes, who aro - shipping their goods down the St jH Lawrence and on through the canal. The Panama waterway haa reduced jB' freight rates on canned goods one-half, one-half, allowing the eastern canner to jLH Invade the western field So far the Hk railroads have not met this competl-1 competl-1 tlon, and, as a result, the local can-WL can-WL pprtl are between the devil and the ? deep sea. With eastern canners paying less Tor their help and raw material and I getting cans and boxes below Ogacn I figures, and with transportation In m their favor, they threaten to upset (lone of our great industries. El A1readr a cannery Jn southern Utah I mm been forced to appeal to lta cred- Bk itors, and there are a Dumber ol plants which have been forced to pil the Tarmers In promissory notes Dpi the peas, tomatoes and other turn produce which entered into their lasl year's pack. This is not an encouraging nil look but we believe there win .onio an I improvement as trade geuerally rend ! Justs itself to the new conditions Imposed by the war and the olenitis of the canal. It may be necessary for the railroads to meet the cnnil competition in order to give the canned goods in the Ogden district an outlet.