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Show J The Daddy 'of 'Em AS1 Well : ftady and Consistent Growth of Utah's Pioneer M Cannery Remarkable Efficiency Due to is jf liberal and feiness-like Management i I Since the latter part of August the : Jreal plant of the Utah Canning com. ny, at Twenty-ninth street and Pa- ijjfic avenue, the largest cannery in ijiab. has been Perated at capacity, ji order that the great tomato crop of TJtab may be packed and conserved by 1351 'ttls and "other Utah factories. The re-1 re-1 ijit has been that, up to last Satur-SCfii Satur-SCfii September 22, the Pierce plant g j Ed canned 15,000 cans of tomatoes ihrlKjldes large quantities of tomato iKbree, 101115110 sauce and tomato cat-JBjp. cat-JBjp. During the past week this out-sKjt out-sKjt was further developed, with indi-1 indi-1 EtJons that if favorable weather con-. con-. Hfcues for a few days there will be ! Ke greatest pack In all Utah's history. (Mbe tremendous demand for the Kjoducts of this cannery Is shown by e fact that the tomatoes are loaded Klo cars as rapidly as cases are filled itid shipped to practically all the west-lifr west-lifr states. JThe early distribution this year in- -flKitides Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Colorado, '"jTOyoming, Montana, Oregon, Nebraska 'imEii Soutli Dakota. Calls for shipment iS territory further east have come, jpt cannot yet be filled, because the jKpmpany feels tho western territory jEould have the first consideration, jftl Government Order, i 110116 order of 9,000 cases of tomatoes ,; fcpm the United States government Bras received during the past week by Re Utah Canning company and im-Kediately im-Kediately accepted. This is one of ' Be0 largest orders that has ever been Ah 'Hkced in Utah and tho sending of such reqUiS'n sbows te conf'dence of i the government and tho ability of the Utah Canning company to carry through the large demand. President i I. N. Pierce and Socrotary H. L. Her-, Her-, rington have been directing tho oper- ations of tho big cannery and have per-' per-' sonally supervised the entire pack, be- ing assisted by a number of exports engaged with the particular view of enlarging tho output this year. Realizing tho extent of food shortage short-age and the necessity of conserving supplies, the Utah Canning company, before tho opening of the big season, arranged for the installation of new equipment, which added approximately approximate-ly 25 per cent to the normal output without Increasing tho working hours. Since tomato canning started, however, how-ever, tho company has found it necessary nec-essary to also work overtime and on Sundays in order to take care of the tremendous amount of tomatoes placed at its disposal. Automatic Equipment. Tho process of canning as shown in the big Pierce plant exemplifies the modern utilization of automatic equipment. equip-ment. From the time that the raw material is unloaded on tho platform at tho south end of this factory until tho finished product is loaded into tho cars at tho north end, automatic machinery ma-chinery Is utilized to conserve time and to minimlzo the physical labor. A visit to the factory shows tho perfect working order of this automatic line. Upon tho unloading platform at tho south end of tho building were half a dozen men lifting heavy boxes filled with tomatoes and dumping tho con tents into a washing machine. There the tomatoes were cleaned thoroughly, thorough-ly, lifted by an endloss chain onto a table and passed through a scalding equipment to loosen the skins. .Then they were sorted again, bad ones were thrown aside and the balance sent into the main plant on an endloss bolt, so arranged that it supplied a stream of tomntoes to each of several tables, at which ueatly attired women were peeling peel-ing tomatoes. These tables wero made of metal, kept whito and clean constantly. Running Run-ning water is supplied and arrangements arrange-ments made for taking away the skins and tho scraps from this division of tho factory as the peeling progresses. Other endless bolts aro near and on these tho peelers placed tho buckets filled with peeled tomatoes, which aro sent northward again over tho bolts and a gravity conveyer to tho filling machines. Hero one step Is not automatic mon lifted these buckets of tomatoes and dumped the contents into tho hoppers of tho filling machines. From above, coming through the floor from the second story, came an endless stream of tin enns supplying tho filling machino, which measured out tho tomatoes Just to the right proportion pro-portion for each can. As the array of cans, each filled in turn, proceeded through this machine It reached another an-other device, a capper and sealer, where, with heavy pressure, tho can was made perfectly airtight. Another turn and the cans were picked up by an elevator, tossed sidoway and in hurried procession lifted to tho colling coll-ing of tho plant. They rushed along an Incline over a number of cookers, dropped down nearly to tho floor and struck another endless chain, loading through ono of tho three wonder cookers cook-ers that havo been installed in tho past fow years. Through this cooker, from one end to the other, and then back, this procession pro-cession of cans continued unti, thoroughly thor-oughly sterilized, the canned goods emerged again, at tho north end, dropped down an incline and wore assembled as-sembled in packing cases. A nearby gravity conveyer was used to Jako them to tho warehouse, whore, after cooling, they will have labels placed on them by automatic equipmont, will be packed in paper cartons by another an-other device, sealed by others and thon trucked into tho cars or sont there on gravity conveyers onco more. Cans From Cars. Possibly another step in this automatic auto-matic process needs explanation. The tin cans made at the American Can company plant in Ogden come to tho factory in carload lots and aro sidetracked side-tracked at the west sido of tho factory. fac-tory. An incline railroad is used to carry great loads of those cans to the second floor, .where they are stored. Gravity conveyers are then used to send tho cans to the filling machines on the main floor, but beforo they reach thoso machines each can passes through a live steam bath, so that it is germless "when It reaches tho machines ma-chines is absolutely sanitary. Indeed, sanitation is tho watchword in tho canning factories of Utah and the great Pierce plant is scrupulously scrupulous-ly clean. Its great whito walls, its scrubbed floors, Its genernl appearance appear-ance all attest to this fact, as do also tho records of tho Utah stato food and health departments. Not only aro tomatoes packed at this cannery, but a dozen other products. For some of thoso it Is necessary to uso special cooking processes. There is a largo catsup room on tho upper floor, where catsup, bean sauce and similar foods aro mixed by tho uso of tomato products, sugar and the choicest choic-est spices Imported from all parts of the world. Experts aro constantly in charge, directing such operations. On tho main floor adjoining tho wonder won-der cookers aro a comploto set of pressure pres-sure cookers, with traveling cranes for handling great iron baskots filled with canned products which must bo plugged into steam or hot water and cooked for an extended time. This Is tho process used in packing Plorco's pork and beans, hominy and ssomo other products. There nro also tho mixing kettles and cookors for handling hand-ling table syrup and tho special vats for making sauerkraut. Other Pierce Products. Ono can visit tho Utah Canning corn- pany plant almost any day of tho year and find It In operation. The- rush season Is when the tomatoes are being picked, catsup and bean sauce being prepared and tomato puroo canned. But In other seasons can bo seen the preparation of the many other varieties vari-eties that havo made tho Pierce brand well known. It is said that tho products of this ono cannery aro assembled from all parts of tho world. While most of the raw material Is secured in Utah, needed need-ed articles come for thousands of miles to tho Utah factory, some across the sea. Spices are brought from South America and from Africa, beans are bought not only In Utah, but also In Michigan and Manchuria Indeed, tho first large crop of Utah beans will be harvested this year after much urging urg-ing from Secretary Horrington that they bo planted. The tin plato usedm tho cans originally orig-inally camo to some extent at least from Wales and was put In marketable market-able shape for can companies In Pennsylvania. Penn-sylvania. Maplo sugar for Uio table syrup that Is manufactured comes from Vermont and Ohio. But tho tomatoes, tho com, tho cabbage, cab-bage, the apricots, the sugar and mnny other essentials aro secured In Utah. As time proceeds perhaps more of the needs can bo filled locally. In turn, tho shipments go far afield. Tho Utah Canning company has a demand de-mand for Its products all over tho western states and ships frequently to Now York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Massachu-setts and other western commonwealths. common-wealths. Orders havo been received from the West Indies and even from South America, while Australia and Now Zealand offer a market at any tlmo tho company desires to sell products prod-ucts there. Thus Utah Is proving an assembling placo for world products to bo scattered scat-tered again throughout tho world. That Is ono of tho roasons Utah Is taking a front placo as a cannery state of tho union. oo In a- bulletin issued by tho federal bureau of labor statistics tho International Inter-national Typographical union Is quoted as reducing deaths, duo to tuberculosis, tubercu-losis, from 31.2 per cent In 1900 to 19.1 por cent In 1915. |