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Show CRAIG CANNING : COMPANY FLART I Three Factories Operating in , !;' Weebr County" District. . I j VARIED PRODUCTS ! u ARE NOW HANDLED r " ! , H Many Young People Ave Em- I fl 1 il ployed Strict Rules of !' lH Sanitation Aer 1 ! l( Enforced. j 1 Tho Craig Canneries, with factories ' at Five Points, Roy and North Ogden, aro preparing to do a greater yolumo h , of business during tho year. fi! The Craig corporation is one of tho ,i livest industrials in the West and ,'J j IH has developed a business that merit I and thoroughness and strict fairnesa 1 1 h alike to the producer and tho con- j 1 : sumer invariably merits and inovit- ; j ; ably r-jceives. It has two affiliating j plants at Perry, Utah, and Bitter Root, ; IH MonU, which like the Weber county J jj , JH factories are doing an immense bust ness. ,U William Craig, founder, of tho I ' , plants 'which have continued in pro- I ' litable operation for twenty-four) 1 j I years, was ono of tho pioneers of the " Jj i industry In this section. Mr. Craig , , was a man of initiative and cuter- 1 prise. He observed tho possibilities 1 " of this vast domain for canning pur- ' poses and early organized one of the 1' first canning companies. That his ' j judgment was good, the great monu- ( ment, consisting of a 'long chain of 1 1 nH factories, attests more accurately than J . ' columns upon columns of laudatory j ir statements. ' i . The three Craig canneries in We 1 ; , ber county arc at Five Points, tho jH 'largest and tho pioneer plant of tho I f t chain; at Roy, where tomato prod- 1 Jn ucts are largely packed and at Nortli 1 nH Ogden, where a large plant Is devoted ' , J both to the handling of vegetables ' and fruits. The Five Points plant is 1 ; not only equipped to handle toma- ( I, toes but also strlnglcss beans and , ) other vegetables, as .well as all classes L 1 and kinds of nltah-grown fruit. A;. !i jH a result, the company packs five dif- J( fercnt brands and handles fifteen dir- 1 ' fl ferent varieties of canned products. f j BH There are about 1,000 employes in ' ui , the canneries, these being chiefly ,jr girls, women and young men. Through ' i' I tho efforts of the company, tho girls and young women are carefully safe- i i aH guarded both as to moral and physical ii ' jH welfare. Dormitories have been . jj jH erected at several of the, factories, I ( j, jH where matrons have complete charge. ; i Lights are out at 10 o'clock and thero t, arc rules as strict as those applying ' to Uie best of schools. Many of tho t ( 'H young folks of the neighborhood dis- '' tricts as well as girls and women from j , the cities and towTis nearby work ln ' , iH the various Craig canneries, finding , 1, ) yM lucrative employment. 1 The Craig canneries were estab- lished twentj'-four years ago, when , , 1 William Craig built a plant atN Salt v ' Lake. Finding that Ogden's district ; h ! was more suitablo for tho business ' ' he removed the plant to this city and ' . ' ' has since made this his home. ' . iH Associated with William Craig in il tho management of the. "plants of ' V iH Avhich he is president are Gage B. H J iH Rodman, secretary and Mrs. Lou Rod- Lr , man, treasurer of the corporation. iiTH They personally supervise the opera- IH tion of all the factories. |