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Show GDDDARD PACKING CD. TO EMflGE ITS FIELD V New Plants to Be Erected in Ogden and Provo by Local Company. The Goddard Packing Co., one of the largest concerns of its kind in the country and easily ono of the most thoroughly and modernlj' equipped, contemplates the expenditure of thousands thou-sands of dollars during the coming season. In addition to the present plant, Thirtieth street and Lincoln avenue, a large cannery will be constructed at that location, and a similar plant will be erected at Provo. Both the new institutions, in-stitutions, like the plant now in operation, opera-tion, will be ideal for efficiency, sanitation, sani-tation, convenience of storage and comfort for the employes. Every equipment for handling tho maximum volume of products will bo installed. The Goddard Packing company is tho new corporation name of the organization or-ganization founded as the Goddard Pickle & Preserve company. Its first factory was on Wall avenue, between Twenty -fourth and Twenty-fifth streetst the plant known frequently as tho Rose pickle works. George W. Goddard, the aggressive head of the company, arranged for the expansion of the business and, with assurance for sale of all products of a new factory, fac-tory, built tho beautiful pickling, preserving pre-serving and canning plant on Lincoln avenue. This structure, only a few years old, and standing as one of the finest fooi factories of the west, was immediate ly equipped not only to hindle tho pickling and preserving business, but also to care for the canning of tomatoes, toma-toes, sauerkraut, spaghetti, pork and beans and other products. A general pickling business was instituted, both In bulk shipments. In kegs, glass and cans Other .preserving lines were added and the business grew with considerable con-siderable rapidity. A year ago, -the Goddard Packing company having been organized, President Pres-ident Goddard took steps to add the production of jellies to the factory's growing list. Largo quantities of ap ples, grapL'3 and other fruits which might have been wasted because of Utah's bounteous crops were utilized in this campaign, and tho products have found a ready markot, being practically the first of their kind to be commercially handled by a Utah factory. Realizing tho'heavy demand for canned can-ned goods, especially because of the war conditions, the company decided last fall that it would enlarge considerably. consid-erably. Already tho plant at Salt Lake has been acquired and utilized largely large-ly for pickle products. Tho decision was made to extend the cannery business busi-ness to Provo. Plans were made for a large factory there, the ground was purchased and the contract let for building early in the winter. Now contracts con-tracts are being signed for the targe acreage necessary to operate such a plant. Afterwards the arrangements were made for building another unit (or the Ogden plant, to be constructed entirely en-tirely for cannery purposes and practically prac-tically a duplicate of the Provo plant. Contracts will soon be let for this excellent ex-cellent structure. George W. Goddard, president and general manager of the big corporation, corpora-tion, is a magnificent type of the younger business men of Utah. Progress, Pro-gress, fairness, thoroughness are his component parts. He believes in giving giv-ing value received and that policy operates op-erates throughout the big concern. That is one reason the Goddard company com-pany is one of the big Institutions of the west-Other west-Other officers of the company are Adam Patterson, vice president, and E. F. Hundley secretary' -treasurer. The beard of directors and stockholders are Ogden men, always alert to their interests in-terests and the development of the city. oo |