Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-08
CANNED GOODS.
A Business that Readily Pays Dividend
of More than Twelve Per Cent.
No Reason why Fort Worth Should Not Put Up
Canned Goods for All the Southwest.
How the Work is Done.
wEATHERFoRD, Tex, Jan. Z, 1889.

wEATHERFoRD, Tex, Jan. Z, 1889.
To the Gazette.
Reading the canning article repub-
lished in THE GAZETTE of the 18th, it
looks to me as if the writer is fearful
there will be other factories and his sales
may be cut short. When the canning
business is oyerdone people must stop
growing children. They are growing
faster than canning factories. The con-
sumption of canned goods is increasing
every year. So is the sale. Every ship
going out to sea takes large supplies Of
canned goods. If you look into
your wholesale grocery houses you will
find large stocks of canned goods. If
there is no money in them, why have
them? There is double the amount of
tomatoes and corn sold to any other
canned article. The time is not far dis
tant when Texas win appreciate the en-
terprise, Notwithstanding what Tyler
may say. Tyler has three small Gamer
les. If she had one that would put up
more than the three, and call in produce
from the whole country, that would be
business.
It is useless to look to st. Louis or any
Eastern city for the sale of Texas canned
goods. Colorado, New Mexico and all
the West is Texas market.
1 was six years on the Pacific coast
and ranged from San Diego to British
Columbia. The reason California has
such credit for fruit is she has live men
that made it. There is no doubt Texas
viii lead her in time. Not all Texas
is adapted for the coming business. East
Texas and the -Timbers cannot be
excelIed for the business in the states.
Let her people see to it that
her lands put on the market what they
are adapted to ralse, then she viii pros
per. [ have written a little of the work.
ings, if they are not worthy place in
your valuable paper, please consign them
to the wast-basket. can give full in
formation of the working of a canning
factory. Yours truly, n. S. SToRRs.
Warfield of Baltimore sold in Liver
pool, England, in 1887, 800 900 cans or
125 200 dozen tomatoes. Why cannot
Texas come in for little?
CANNING on a LARGE SCALE.
WEATHERFoRD, Tex, Jan. Z, 1883
To the Gazette
In THE GAZETTE of the 9Th tn ere was
fowery written article on the canning
question which is calculated to be inju-
riolIs to the canning interest of Texas.
The condition of the canning business is
not dependent upon fruit. Tomatoes,
corn and peas are the staples for canning.
Texas pays thousands of dollars annually
in Baltimore and Maryland for canned
goods, while they can be put up rs
cheaply in Texas. The money can be
kept at home and employment given to
labor. Those small concerns in East
Texas do not put up enough to command
the trade. Let Fort Worth have a can
merry capable of putting up from
1000 to 20 900 cans per day
Then she could go into any
part of the world The demand for cam
ned goods is increasing faster than the
supply. 1t is strange that Texas cannot
put them up as cheaply as Baltimore,
and she has all the West for market In
my Fruit Grower, published in Roches-
ter, N. Y. for January, 1889, [ see that
Maine alone packed the last season 600,
900 cases or 200, ZOO dozen of sweet
corn. The United States for the past
four years shipped to England S1l 900 900
worth of canned and evapOrated goods.
Very little is done in England in the way
of the canning and evapOrating business.
Land is said to be too high to devote to
fruit with q view of profitable competi-
ton with the United States.
American canned goods are sold largely
in Germany. Attempts made to estab-
lish the evaporating and canning bust
ness in that country have failed. Ma
ture intended East Texas and the Cross
Timbers for vegetables. They raise them
in quality superior to any Northern state.
l have yet to learn that they cannot be
put up, and put on the market, as
cheaply in Texas as in any state. The
canned goods trade of Texas is immense.
Fort Worth alone pays many Thousands
dollars for canned goods. Why MT put
them up at home and give employment
to her citizens? Raising vegetables for
cannery pays the farmer better than any
other business he can do. All
canning companies that do bust
ness in business way con-
tracts with the grower in writing for
his crop. The company furnishes seed
and does not agree to take any produce
except that grown from the seed fur
nished.
For information about the canning
business it Is well to go where the bust
ness is dOne-Baltimore Md; Benton
Harbor, Mich. Herst Packing Company,
st. Louis, Mo-; Lincoln, Neb. Glenn
Wood, Ga. and Fort Smith, Ark Fort
Smith, Ark. put up the last season 1000
acres af tomatoes, 500 acres of sweet
corn, seventy-five acres of peas; en-
ployed 200 women and girls, besides
other help, and averaged 90 900 cans per
day In 1887, the first six months of her
work, she declared dividend to the
company of 1913 per cent. or $50 200.
She has always contracted her entire
pack in advance of putting it up.
The average cost of putting up three
pound cans of tomatoes is 20 cents per
dozen. If sold at 81 per dozen there is a
clear profit of 80 cents on 20 cents. To-
matoes now are bought by the car load at
not less than 81. 30 per dozen. If they
cost 20 cents, is there no profit IN that;
besides the good a cannery is to a city.
All successful canning factories are run
by machinery and by cooperative compa-
MES: and they pay better dividends to the
company than any manufacturing bust
ness now in Fort Worth costing the same
money.
Let Texas determine to put mp her own
canned goods and stop paying tribute to