The Springdale news., 1889-08-30
THE ECANNING FLCT0RT '
4 Lasting Monument to the Energy and Enterprise ofthe Citizens of Spring
 dale and Vicinity.
A Visit to This Establishment Of h.
 dustry.

previously bean informed that the factory was running to It's fulles, capacity and that the steam gagewas up to the last notch, but w. must confess that we were agreeablv surprised on entering the factory. The sight that met our gaze as we went III from the south entrance was one that IS calculated to cause feelings of pride. mingled with ad- mlratlon, to rise Tn the breats of any citizen of our town, and 1t must, beyond doubt, be a source of much grat itication to the small lest stock holder in the concern to to know that his money helps to op- crate and maintain tha. excellent institution. There w as something over one hundred men women and childre all busiIy engaged scarce ly taking their eyes off their work. It reminds one of an lmmence bee hive.
 As some of our readers are prob ably not posted as to the modus | operandi Tn canning tomatoes we will try and enlighten them. The tomatoes are first placed in a large tank of boiling water and scalded until the peeling aill readily com c oil when they are taken to the peei- CTS, some 90 or 100 m number Here they are peeled and cleaned and next sent to tho filters table, where they are neatly placed n the cans. From here they go to the Wipers' who drain off all the sur plus water, and wipe them nIce and dry, put the caps on and they are now read y for the cappers. It dosent take q capper long to put the finishing touches on a board (twelve cans and they are then sent to the process tanks. The pro cess;hg, or cooking, is the most dit- ficult part of the whole business, as the vegetables are very apt to spoll if cooked to fast, too slow. or any over or any under the proper time. There are three tanks the vegeta cles have togo through. They are first placed in large iron crates, each holiing 56 cans, and holsted into the exhaust tank, filled with bOlling water. After remaining in thlS tank a few minutes they are withdrawn, the vent holes sol dered and then placed iii the cooking tank where they remain from 40 to 5J minutes, according to the quail of the tomatoes. When done cook ing they are placed in the cooling tank and allowed tn remaIn there until cool enough to handle, when they are carted of to the ware room nd-stacked up ready for la- beling. The reader now has some idea as to the way of packing toma toes.
 Leaving the canning rooth we next visited the ware-roon, where 1 he laheling and boxing was going on in thls roora is stored many thousand cans of goods, some la bled and some boxed. It is in- , ded a sight and it seems almost i'm I possible to sell 50 many goods, but the goods packed by our factory { have attained far-reachlng reputa . tion, and fruits and vegetables with . the lable ''Our Stan dart." is a suf- fclent guarantee that they are first class goods, and ase readily sold in . any market in the United States. The company now have three or iers to fill-two car load ofloma toes 10 go to Dallas, Texas, one to Dennison, Texas, and one to Ft. Smith. Ark. But we digress. LeaV- ing the ware room we went uE stairs, where wor kmen were busy making cans. Up here is all the machinery for making cans by hand, the three men employed cannot make enough for the use of the fac tory, and they buy them from the east occasionally. A car load f was received this wee!-. For in handling cans, etc, an elevator runs from the cellar to the upper story. Everything Is neatly and tastily arranged and Stu pei intendent Freeman informed us that the Factory was doing more and better work thls season than ever before, and employing more hands. The weekly pay roll (for labor only) amounts to in the neigh orhood of $500, and the amount expended weekly for tomatoes is about s700, so Secretary James Dodson informs us. The benefit of placing this amount of money in circulation Tn our midst IS untold | and need not be narrated here as ,he reader can readily see at a glance. While at the factory we no- tlced that large number of wagons,