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Show RAILROADS AS CANNERY HELP Excellent Shipping Facili ties Make Ogden Vi tal Center Oi-den'i location aa a railroad cen ter has been one of the determlnlnc 'factors In the upbuilding of the I'tah , canning Industry- There are canner lea located on every railroad line in Utah on the Union Pacific. Southern Pacific. Denver & Rio Grande. Los Angeles A Salt Iakc. Bamberger Electric. Utah Idaho Central and the Salt Lake & Utah electric lines. The necessary route to market from theso canneries, for the products are largely shipped north and east, la througn Ogden. Man;, hundreds of carloads of canned goods arc sent through this 'trrmlnal each year. In many In atancep there is the desire of pome I Jobber or w holesaler to secure a i mixed car of goods, made from the .irious plants. The shipment through ogden makoB this possible, cars beinc partially loaded with one kind of product in one section of the state, then s. nt here to be filled w ith R den goods. i How excellent are the facilities ror handling large ordera has been shoun . through very extenslvo contricts calling call-ing for shipments that would be entire en-tire tralnloada. Important among such orders have been those of tti" i United Statea government and of larg I eastern firms seeking Ctah tomato-- I and tomato products. Another development has been the centralization of cannery wholesal lng in Ogden. the wholesale grocers handling a very large amount of the goods from Ogden and other I'tuli 'centers for the lntermotiutaln trade. |