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Show VAN ALEN HAS URGE TRADE Canneries Operated By Rodman Rod-man and Leslie Are Important Im-portant Industries Tacking 3 large variety of canned foods, tho principal one- being tomatoes toma-toes and peas, tho Van Allen Canning corporation holds a prominent place in the cannery business of Ogden ! The comnny with Its large plants In ! Ogden and Trenionton Is controlled by Gage B. Rodman, Thomas Leslie, and associates, tho active nvmine-tnont nvmine-tnont being In the hands of Messrs. Hodman and Leslie The company's largest plant is tho Banner, located on Twenty-first street Just west of tho Oregon Short Lln tracks. Tho Trenionton plant, built j three years ago, is also one of the best in the state PACK GAINS YEARLY. When the Banner plant was first founded, Its pack was small, and 111 1910 it had only reached the figure "f f,( ( im's. . r in l m :: it l o, 000 canes, and since that time it hoi grown by leaps and bounds William Van Alen founded the Industry, organizing or-ganizing and incorporating the Banner company after having successfully operated op-erated the Wasatch Orchard company plant, including Us cannery and ranch, for several years. It was during his : management that the Wasutch company com-pany put on tho market the first pack of Utah-grown peas and also the first i pack of I'tah-grown asparagus, upon I the basis of his experience being j founded much Of the progress in these lines, which resulted in Pea canning becoming one of (Ttah'e most essential essen-tial Industries He continued actively as the head of the company until his death. The same policies which were inaugurated in-augurated by William Van Aln have been followed since that time, the constant con-stant aim being to place the Banner nnd the Tremonlun pb.nts at the high-' est summit of excellence In all of those features which all appeal to the crlti-l cal consumer. With this in view," the I j management of the company has guarded carfully both the buying and the selling divisions of the business, las well as the canning operations' I themselves. The company started by canning tomatoes, then adding peas.' , but as the years have gone by there) I have been other lines added until today to-day pork and beans, spaghetti andi fruits of all kinds form part of the ,' long list of Van Alen products. LONG un it ri l "I his line of products Is such that! the Van Alen company operates its! plants, not for one. two or three months, but for about nine months of' eajsh year Its good products are known not only in the west the original market, but are on tho tables of eastern consumer con-sumer as well, shipments to Atlantic coast state being not unusual With markets that include such cities OS Pittsburg, St. Paul, Galveston. Los1 Angeles, Portland and Chicago, the' business of the company may be said j to bc nation-wide, only limited by the output capacity of the factories. The company's large pea canning Operations have called for extension of Its vining facilities, so that there are not only vinors at tho plants, but also in several of the rural districts! of the county, including Plain City and Kdon Gage B Rodman, president of the I tab Canners' association, is president of the company, and associated with, him in active management of the business busi-ness is Thomas Leslie, who is also one of the best known cannery men of the state. 1 |