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Show I UTAH CANNING COMPANY IS PIONEER IN BIG INDUSTRY i Raw Materials Arrive in Carloads to Form Output I , of Plant; Descnpuon of Big Cannery Is Given in Magazine M B rrnmlnnt In the rnnrj business '!pUL' sVth fanning company, th pioneer 'lV " ftnner of h state fir,. I thl V only one that opfriun throughout -E In H When i N Perec, poneer oannei ' of Utah, started the operation of a cannery in Ogden during ISM, there ' aoon rank with t i i - J I n g- elates of the nation In production of nn'd food product itii' In a few brief ( years thla has been accomplished ' and the J tab Canning company ha H ' kept In the first rank urn on the can- fl J nere throughout the entire nation. ' In fart, tlx- I'tflh Canning company, ' with Ita until, ji of Pierre's food prod- ' ucta. haa become the heat known of ' the ate te a I i I'pon the retirement of I. N. fierce 1 from thr ton.i.it, , ii i. Harrington I 1 1 become preld nt. with J. I liirrr I 1 ' aa secretary and general manager, x ud Un. M S It 1 rHON OVER THE W( IRLD iM 1 ( tab Canning 'in;'..:,' thai It poa- JW aibl to opera'. i through Hfl I out the entire year Wlin other can- wrir of the ireai ara idle at the qoi JH aeaeona. the Plan - iroducta plant ta continuing Ita work und lis output. kH Pork and beana. hominy, pumpkin ' "H and table syrup form pari of (he prod-' L ucta of the larg thesei H at" not the only ones, for In the pack- H Ing of catsup an'l the making l""""" sauce, the I'tnh Canning company! IH hns also found spr J.,i. s jjH one day then- Mill tolling Into tomatoes, but tbotx ma; iio followed by the meat delicious) of corn, carloads car-loads r,f sugar and of unusual arrivals Kech year there Is the notable arrival uf pure maple sugar, which is uaod for Plarce j syrup, this romlng from the i-ulrrn ''' ' while from far-away Asia come beans of Just the right size for nee In one ', Plej s most famous foods. Douth tmori i .hi.! well as Asia and North Amen . contributed to Pierce's prodUCtl While Europe is represented at leaat In the tin used In tin tans for the plant. Thus all the vast areas of tin-world tin-world aro drawn upon In order that this one compun ma carry through its plan for food distribution ARTK'LK IBOl l PLANT. f The following article of A LOO prr eent." Factory. " and relating entirely to this gnat cannery, was written bj Helen V. TaylOr for the New u. t Magazine. "Tramp, tramp, tramp, the girls axe marching! This H literally true the woman of today are marching toward . fri eiency Women are programing, Economy Econ-omy Is and should be the keynott of eTer hoi.-eimi.J i,,,t ,. have iid In the past the wrong viewpoint about earing it has boon confined to money only. Formerly a woman's time and energy were n., LCCOUnted for, and why was It so? because she her-' self made it so. Man ame along1 and started emancipation. Iihor-ea Iihor-ea i ng di vi' M wen ipon her Al first sho could not afford the , Ji -vacuum cleaner, the electrli aleotrle washing machine, but aaw them freed from wanted ener-tp ener-tp gy. she began to see iha could not afford in time and strength to thus , economize 1 Again man cornea forth after teeing J woman standing orei tin- heated stove W going through nil tho discomforts, hw I canning time brings In hot summer F months, and riKnln ! i ., r , ),, , gjl the rannlriK fa tOl L I was not a housewife of the old V ectaool, and In computing coats Mid' B "if for my time and strength 1 rj ixed fully that on cannlnc daye tny family were poorly fed. that 1 as I tired to aheer exhaustion when night eajne during annlng seasons Many 1 trips for recreation which I knew myself and famllv needed could not be taken because It was canning time. The inspiration for better Ideals obtained from reading were eecrl-1 eecrl-1 flced to canning. I ften look bark ' to thosf canning summers before I ' emancipated myaclf Was I saving? Ves. a few cents on the ran. If I didn't pay myself to give myself consideration. My principal prin-cipal excuse for this slavery was that eannlng factories were not clean. They canned poor products, the cans were not full and therefore I felt i heated. One day things had about reached a llrnax and everything had gone wrong I knew and used all the latest methods of canning, but oak anj woman who has canned for a famllv If at best It Is hot a most trying try-ing ordeal. If It does not tax her strength to the fullest, and sometimes things all go wrong. Just then my husband came In. after phoning he would not be home for lunch. My disposition under ordinary or-dinary circumstances Is good, but just then I couldn't qualify This was the beginning of my freedom. HI NOT HI "Why don't you buy your tomatoes, catsup and the rest of this stuff by the case at the store and stop this drudKCry f- I leave the reason 1 have set forth Husband, who was practical and a rini.,i., oi . "What are you saving and what about your disposition? I surely wouldn't have you lose It for three cents a can, as well as I like canned tomatoes." I then Informed him that boughten canned goods were not clean and were Inferior. When did you visit a factory?" he Immedlatelv asked. I replied, "Oh, I've always heard that.': 1 had never been In a canning factory, and from the stories he told me. the desire to visit one had never come to me. Hclng a woman who has learned to listen to argument and the value of Investigation. I at once determined to visit factories 1 heard the L'Lah Canning Can-ning company factory of ugden had 1 been pronounced "one hundred per I cent" by the federal authorities, and thore J started m factory education. EX PI KM i t PLAN I The factory wus canning tomatoes, puree and catsup. At onco I was Impressed Im-pressed by the general atmosphere, as 1 h pped Into the well lighted and ventilated work room and saw the contented faces of the women who ' 1 1 al work. My uUontton wua called fint to the quality of the fruit which Wag being canned. It rwas fresh and firm, ond I wae told tho tomatoes were brought In from the gardens In the evening and put Into CJUDfl the next day. Next I was shown the ripe tomatoes brought In clean boxes which had been washed by maohlnan In the factory. The tomatoes to-matoes wore put upon a revolving screen to bo sorted by girls on each side, picking out the faulty fruit. The tometOOa were passed on to the washer and again passed sorting girls. They were then ready to pan, throufih hot water that would loosen the skins. Again they were sorted and then passed into buckets which were set upon a moving track conveyor Here women stood peeling the tomatoes with ii modern Implement shaped like a scoop, thus eliminating the knife. They are then put by a patent filler Into cans, which were atorlllzed. the same amount going Into every can. Thev come out sealed and are carried by machinery to the great steam cook- ' er, where they aro thoroughly cookod. As they leave the cooker they are ' placed In boxes and are ready for the I label. Mv first argument of uncleanlt-I uncleanlt-I n ess had forever vanished from mv consclousnesa The quality of the fruit canned was no longer queatloned Hut w hat about mold and short mcas-i mcas-i urc . , I was next ushered Into an Immaculate Im-maculate laboratory, with a woman . hamlet testing every batch that caftrn I out a to mold and weight. This was tho surprise to think that I had lived only a few miles from this fac-! fac-! tory and closed my eyes upon this 1 efficiency. I had been prejudiced : because I was not cognizant of the truth about factory canned goods to I sacrifice myself and family and re-j re-j peat what 1 had heard without knowing know-ing about factory producta I i on tension is good for the aoul. , I made mino. Being Interested In knowing how , the factory had become a 100 per, cent Institution, I wan taken to the rnanutcer, Mr Herrlngton, who told! i me of a woman who had been con-1 nected with tho factory for 35 years. , She. with a woman's knowledge of what a woman demands, had cooperated cooper-ated with tho efficiency, capital and ambition of the man emancipator, and I a 100 per cent factory was the result. I After the tomato season is finished tho factory- devotes Its time to canning can-ning pork and beans, hominy and sauerkraut, sau-erkraut, thus keeping the employes at work the year round. |
