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Show ADO TO VARIETY OF FOOD PACK Van Alen Canning Corporation Corpora-tion Increases Articles Canned Each Year During the past year, one of thej largest industrial transfers In Utah wa made when Gage B. Rodman an&l associate 1. ought control Of the Van I Alen panning corporation, with its, plant! i" Ogden .imj Tremonton. These are two of the best equipped canneries; In the state The Manner plant Lfl 1"-loatfld 1"-loatfld at twenty -first street. Just wflft of the Oregon Short Line tracks. The; Tremonton plant was built three yean ago. PA4 K . vi UUJ j When the Danner plant was first I founded, its pack was small, md in 191o it had only reached the figure! of 6000 cases, yet in It 13 it was lo.-j 000 eases, and since that time It has1 crown by leaps and bounds W illiam Van Alen founded Che industry, or-j ganlzlng and incorporating the Banner company after having successfully op-t erated the Wasatch Orchard company! plant, including Its cannery and ranch. for several years. It was during hla management that the Wasatch com-1 Pany put on the market the first pai -of Utah-grown paaa and Also the first, pack of L'tah-growu asparagus, upon I the basis of his experience being founded much of the progress in Chase linen, which resulted ln pea canning becoming on. ..f Utah's most essential essen-tial industries. lie continued actlveh as tho head of the company until his di ath Th same policies which were inaugurated in-augurated by William Van Aim have been followed since that time, the con-; slant aim being lo place the Banner and the Tremonton plants at the high-1 est summit of excellence in all of those ( features which all appeal to the criti-l cal consumer. With tht In view, the management of the company has) Iguarded cirfully both the buying andj the seiiini, divisions of the business, I " '' "'i m the canning oporationsl I themselves. The company started i i canning tomatoes, then adding peas, but as the years have gone by there1 have been other lines added until to-! oaj pork and beans, spaghetti and fruits of all kinds form pan Of the long list of Van Alen products. I ( i N , 1 1 'i It XTIO.V This line of products Is such that: I the V an Alen company oporatea its i plants, not for one, two or three I months, but for about nine months of leach year. ! its good products are known not' only in the west, the original market.1 but are on the tables of eastern con-1 nil, cis as well, shipments lo Atlanta oast state being not unusual. With markets that include such cities as Pittsburg. St. Paul, Galveston, Lo Angel, Cortland and Chicago the business of the company may be aald . to be nation-wide, onh limited by the! output capacity of tho factories " Hie company's large pea canning' operations have called for extension of its vinlng facilities, so that there are not only viners at the plants, but also In several of the rural districts of the county. Including Plain Cltv and Lden. Gage B Rodman, president of the th Canners' association. Is president "f the company, and associated with him In active management of the business busi-ness (s Thomas Leslie, who Is also one of tho best known cannery men, Of the state. |