Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-29
w1cu11A CANNING COMPANY.

The Wichita canning factory was to have
started up yesterday, but owing to delay
in freights, their cans did not arrive until
last evening, therefore the start il deferred
until to-day. An EAGLE reporter visited
the new factory yesterday and was shown
through the establishment By the superin-
tendent, Capt. F. Winterzort.
The main building 10 40x70 feet and two
atories high. The lower floor is divided
lengthwise into two compartments. The
east halfis the store room, where each days
out put win be piled up for the day, whence
it will be transferred up stairs to the labelling
and packing room. From fifteen to twenty
women will be engaged in the store room
continually. The west half of the lower
floor is called the process room, because it is
there the canning is done. Gasoline pipes
range all around the walls of this room and
center into an air tank that stands over
one end Of the capper's table, which is thirty
feet long and furnished with three gasoline
fire pots for heating the SOL
dering irons. These pots are sup
piled with gasoline from the pipes
which connect with . large tank without the
building. In the front of the process room
are also two packing tables of equal size
with the capper's table. These are apple
and peach packing tables, and their work
ing capacity is $500 cans each per day.
Then there are tomato and corn packing ia
bles Of equal capacity with those just men,
toned. In this room also is . large cooling
trough. where boys dip the fruit in large
trays before cans are capped. Twenty-four
women are expected to be worked in this
room. At the other end of this room, and
near the engine room, are three monster
boiler-iron cooking kettles, with daily Ca
pacity each of 5000 cans of fruit Near
them is an immense upright steam boiler,
with regular steam gauge and a cap.
This boiler has q capacity OF 1000 pounds,
and when the factory is running full blast
this boiler will be filed ten times per day,
or once an hour. Right across the room
from this are two large jelly kettles that
hold thirty gallons each, and their produce
is 100 dozen bottles OF jelly per day. At
the rear is the engine room in which is fine
twenty-horse power engine. In the engine
room is corn mill, run by the same power.
Outside the main building is an open build
ing 20x40 feet, in which are long rows Of
tables and hundreds of buckets and tubs.
Here is where the skinning Of tomatoes and
the pairing and coreing of apples takes
place. Outside this is space 20x40 feet,
covered with canvas, where the corn husk-
ers will work. They expect to begin with
fifty hands, which they will increase as they
get into the thickest of the fruit season to
l25. Women, boys and gilrs can make
IS cents to $l.25 per day, and there is no
danger of any one being hurt. The COM
pany have 100 acres of corn, sixty of toms-
toes and 1000 bushels of onions engaged,
and any quanty of peaches and apples. They
will put up canned peaches, apples, tomatoes
and corn and bottle chow-chow pickles,
sauces, jellies and cabbages. II is impossi-
BILE 10 tell just at present what the entire ca
pacity will be, but it will be very large. The
entire product for this year is already en-
gagged. The importance of this enterprise
can hardly be overestimsted.