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Show THIS IS BANNER . CANNING COUNTY Pack of Tomatoes and Fruits This Season in and Around Ogden Will Be Over a Million Cases No Section of the United States Equals the Local Tomato Output Former Mayor Alex Brewer, who is extensively Interested in the canning enterprises of Ogden and neighboring places, states that the outlook for the canning Industry has not been brighter bright-er lu a number of jears. Most of the canneries have disposed of their surplus stock which accumulated last year end the year before, and they will 1)0 ope'Sting in a clear field this season. sea-son. He says prices arc going to be good for canned stuff, the factories are in good shape for heavy runs, the fruit crop and other kinds that mny be used for canning purposes, will be abundant and the people can I look to Weber county to be the ban-1 ncr canning county in the United States this year. ! "Iast year," said Mr. Brewer. "Weber county canned about 600.000 cases of fruit, but I am confident that th's year s output will be oer a mil-I Hon cases. This Is no exaggeration, for, :iou know, Weber county beats j theui ail in that line of manufactur- I ing. Our lands here are more productive pro-ductive than In most conning districts, dis-tricts, we raising fully four tons more of tomatoes to the acre thau in any other district, and we raise the best tomatoes in the world. The tomato crop is going to be fine and the acreage acre-age will f.ir erceed that of lant ear. There have been planted In the vieln-itv vieln-itv of the 22 canning factories of this county not lesj than 4,000 acres of tomatoes. to-matoes. Tho ground Is in good condition con-dition for tholr growth, the 6un is wurm mi! it seems that this is going to hi; the big tomato year. There will be at least 150,000 cases of tomatoes canned by the Weber countv factories." factor-ies." Mr. Brewer states that the ground that has become too dry for the raising rais-ing of a good crop of sugar beets has beep re planted to tomatoes and that since the re-planting the vines have growu remarkably fast. The tomato crop will be ready for canning about the middle of August. |