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Show AMERICAN CAN I" WORKOUTLINED Manager Leonard Tells of Operations at Rotary Luncheon. ' 3 Activities of tho Ogden plant of the Vmrian f'nn company were outlined Soday hy ,lnhn Leonard, manager W-Kore W-Kore members of the Hotarv club She regular noon luncheon Mr. Ieon-ird Ieon-ird was the principal speaker. $ Mr. Leonard surprised his hearer ivlth Ihe statement that the MgUeni 5dant 1- n bio to ma nufacl nr; 500,000 r :i iv dally n nd Im.m Ihe annual output Ef 16O,OOO?0OO finished tin container. J- The Ogden plant, he geld, has been 4n COfltilluOUS operation since Its installation in-stallation In 1915. with the exception Aif last summer when elo-e-down Was eccssary owing to tho depression in he canning Industry In Utah. It I" liow operating and will continue until 'he first frost next fall when the candling can-dling activities close. Tin-plate for the making of cans 4 ome.M to i igden from Pensyhanla. in iarload shipment?!. Ilj- speaker said. Phe machinery is so arranged In the "jdant that tln-platc enters one end at & series of machines and emerges as Completed tin canr. without being touched by hand Some machines in the plant are capable of making three and one-half 'cans a second, he averted, i Two rallro:id-i link up the loi plant, the lieno r Hl O.mde Western Wes-tern and the Oregon Short Lino mak-l fng it possible to -hip 13 carloads of ( ians a da Mr. Leonard said the company nowj a njovs the business of all canning plants In tTlah A total of 1 2 r. per-j j-ons are now employed here one-third pf which are women. Acting President Joseph Tarker of j ; Ihe club, called individually upon each nember to make n verbal report of hi I "jLCcompllthments in railing funds for ihe Boy S outs Responses snowed! Jhat the work I going along nicely feach member getting fair response , from a canvass of pertnttis given to him tn a list Charles Empey, chairman i tif the drive committee. announced j that $665 had already been turned In I |