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Show I Utah Canning Co. I Plant is Pioneer III Cannery of State I Prominent In the tamnerj business of Utah Is tbe greot plm t iH Utah Canning company, the pioneer tannery of the state, and also the only one that operates throughout the entire year. When I. X. Perce, ponder runner of Utah, started ih.' operation a caiinery In ftdm during iss-V there was little anticipation th:n Utah would , soon rank with the leading StS I (he nation In production of -armed mj food product. But In a tew brief i J yean this has heen accomplished ' and the Utah Canning company has mj kept m the firt rank among tl ners throughout tlx- entire nation, In fact, the Utah Canning company, with Us output of Merde's food prod-1 ucts, has become the besi known of the state's canneries. i';on the retirement or l. x. fierce from the company U L. Herrlngton became president, with J. I Bai CC as secretary and general munanrer, I and Mrs. M. A. ilson us treasurer I ROM i i III kVOIU 11 So varied are the product of the Utah Cunning company that Is 1m possible pos-sible to operate practical!) throughout through-out the entire year. When other canneries can-neries of the west are Idle, at the conclusion con-clusion of tomato and pea packing neasons, the Pierce products plant is continuing Its work and it output, 1'ork and beans, hominy, pumpkin and table e.vrup form part of the products prod-ucts of the large Industry. But these are not the onl ones, for in the packing pack-ing of catsup and the making of a sauce, tho Utah Canning company has also found specialties Unc duy then- will be rolling into thr cannery great carloads of ripe tomatoes, but these may be followed I the most delicious of corn. cai loads of sugar and of spices are nol ' unusual arrivals. Each year there .i tho notable arrival of pure maple augar, which Is used for Pierce's! syrup, this coming from the eastern states, while from far-away Asia! come beans of Just the right BlSfl tor use In one of 1'lerrr'e most famous IoucIj. South America and Africa, as well as Asia and North America, have rnn t rl hut oH to in. r, . - i, . v.ii-r-j I I While Kuropc Is represented at least In the tin used In tin cans for tho plant. Thus all the vast areas of the world are drawn upon In order that this one company may carry through Its plan for food distribution in h 1,1 . vuoi r uua.vt. The following artlrlc of "A 100 per cent' Factory,' an.l relating entirels to this great cannery, was written by Helen V. Taylor for the New VVeSI Mugazlne: "Tramp, tramp, tramp, the girls are marching! This Is literally true the women of today are marching toward effl-ciencyi effl-ciencyi Women aro progressing. Economy Econ-omy is and should be the keynote of every household, but wo have had in the past the wrong viewpoint about saving it has been confined to money only. Formerly a woman's time and energy wero not accounted for, and why was it so? because she herself her-self mad It so. Men come along and started emancipation. Iabor-aving Iabor-aving devices were forced upon her At first she could not afford tho vacuum cleaner, the electric Iron, the electric washing machine, but as she saw others (reed from wasted energy, ener-gy, she began to SOS she could not afford In time and strength to thus economise, Again man comes forih after seeing woman standing over the heated stove going through all the discomforts canning time brings In hot BUmin i months, and again liberates her by JBJSJB the canning fad : HER EM N( PATION II was not a housewife of the old school, and In computing costs paid myself for my time and strength. I realised fully that on canning days my family were poorly fed. that I was tired to sheer exhaustion when night .mio during eannlng seasons. Man trips for recreation which I knew myself and family needed could not OS taken because it was canning time. The Inspiration for better Ideals i I obtained from reading were eecrl- ficed to canning. 1 often look back BJSJpa to those canning summers before 1 ffpH emancipated myself. S H Was 1 saving.' Yes. a few cents fffl en the can, If 1 didn't pay myself to glv myself consideration My prlo-H prlo-H clpal excuse for this slavery was that pfpH canning factories wero not cl an Hj They canned poor products, the cans 1 wars not full and therefore 1 felt H One day things had about reached climax and ever thing had gone ffffS wrong. I knew and used all the pppM latest methods of canning, but ar.k fffH any woman who has canned for a fffta family if at best it Is not a most try- ppppfl Ing ordeal, if It docs not tax her fffn strength to the fullest, and sometimes flj things all go wrong H' Juft then my husband came In fffB After phoning he would not ! home fffB for lunch. My disposition under nr- B dln.it- circumstances is good, but lust I then I couldn t qualify. This was the WHY NOT BUY? fffH U hv don't you buy your tomatoes I eaUup and the rest of this stuif by fffffl th case at the store and stop this ffffa drudgery?" H I gave the reason I have set forth. B Husband, who was primal atid u H llnan.clcr, said. H! "What are you Saving and whnt! about your disposition.' I surely H wouldn't havo you lose it foil ihr. I - -nta a can. as well as 1 like cannrd H tomatoes. H I then lnfoimed htm that boughten 111 -armed goods were not eh un and were ffffB H; When did you visit a factorv?" he! H immediately asked I replied. "Oh ' H 1 ve a way, heard that." I had never sffeffeBBsffJ KC!'Jn.a caJln,n factorv. and from H the stories he told me. tho desire to smasma Mslt one had ncr come to me Being a woman who has learned to I masma listen l0 argument and the v al fBJS inve.tigatlon. 1 at one determined to vl.lt factories. I heard the I 'tab c,,.. H 'n eompanv factory of i . VflsVal fn Prnounced "one hundred per H i the federal sffssffsffsffJ rVv.Vnm.'-faou,r Education. i.M'i mi m i v AT M . H 'he factory was canning toms r H puree and catsup. At once 1 was lru- fBaVJ! pressed by the general atmosphere sffeffeffet tl K,,.0 '"to lhu wc" "ghted and ventilated work room and . aw thi Contented faces of the women H) Wor My attention ffH called first to the quality of the fruit 1 T2lii ".helng canned. it fwaa H rr," and f,". and I was told the! pppW tomatoes w. re brought in from the H garden,, In the evening .uid po. Uilw! bssssssV the next day' N4 Jtl 1 owni K the ripe tomatoes brought In dean ffftaj boxes which hud been washed by 1 B machinery in the factory. The to-: fffH matoes were put upon a revolv ing i bssssssW "fT"".1.0. 1,0 ort,d b' rtrl 'ch ffffH side, picking out the faulty fruit The ? tomatoes were passed on to the washer M and again passed sortlriK girls ffffH were then ready to poos through hot H water that would loosen the skins.' Bj. Again thev were sorted and ffffH; pniwed Into buckets ... H upon a moving track conveyor. Hera I v. It h a modern implement shaped like 'a scoop, thus eliminating tho knife s I i IRITjIZBD N i COOKED. They are then put by a patent filler Into cans, which were sterilized, the same amount going Into every can. They come out sealed and are carried by machinery1 to the great steam cooker, cook-er, where they are thoroughly cooked. As they leave the cooker they are plated in boxes and are ready for the label. My first argument of uncleanll-nesa uncleanll-nesa had forever vanished from my consciousness. Tho quality of tho fruit canned was no longer questioned Hut what about mold and short measure? meas-ure? I was next ushered Into an immaculate im-maculate laboratory, with a woman chemist testing every batch that came ; out as to mold and weight. This was tho surprise to think that 1 had lived only a few miles from this factory fac-tory and closed my eyes upon this efficiency. I had been prejudiced In cause J was not COgnUtsIlt of the truth about factor) canned goods to sacrifice myself and family and repeat re-peat what 1 had heard without knowing know-ing about factory products. Confession is good for the soul. ! I made mine. I Being interested in knowing how tho factory had become a li0 per cent institution, I was taken to the ! manager, Mr. Herrlngton, who told me of a woman who had been connected con-nected with tho factory for 85 years. She. with a woman's knowledge of what a woman demands, had cooper 1 ated with th efficiency, capital and ambition of the man emancipator, and , a 100 per cent factory was the result. I After the tomald season is finished tho factory devotes Its tlm- to can-: can-: nlng pork and b-nm. hominy and satl I erkraut, thus keeping the employes I at work the year round. |
