The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-11-13
THE CORVALLIS CANNERY.
IT Is SURE co, AND WILL BE READY
FOR WORK NEXT SUMMER.


There is now no doubt about the mat
Ter. What will canrery do for Cor
Wallis As much as it has done for |
other places. 1t will furnish employ
ment to- labor, and reimburse the pock-
cts Of the employers proftably. It will
encourage other enterprises, and en-
courage the establishment of other in
dustries. One industry leads to the
institution of another, and so the wheels
of progress move with rapid PAGES.
The organization that is being perfected
IN the matter has an eye toward the
future. This cannery, we are informed,
will be in operation next summer, and
will be located near the S. P. depot.
The contract for the construction OF
this institution has been assigned to an
experienced hand at the business, and
we reproduce below letter written by
Him to the Roseturg Review, which
will probably prove of interest to all
concerned:
"Please permit me through your col
umns to give you some idea of the bene
fits a fruit cannery and dryer would be
in your section of country. Having
been in the business of fruit canning
and drying 16 years, and during that
time / have fitted up thirteen canneries
and number of dryers in as many
different places in California and one
here in Eugene, and in each and every
instance it has given life to the people
of the town and country for miles
around. 1t induces people to get out
more and better varieties of fruit, to
cultivate and take better care of what
they have already put out. 1t gives
employment to class of people who
outside of cannery earn but very lit
tie money; namely the women, girls
and boys. The women can 60 into
cannery and earn from one dollar to
dollar and fifty cents per day, and
good worker, after becoming expert at
the business can earn two dollars per
day and at the same time keep their
house work going at home. The school
girls and boys during vacation can earn
from seventy cents to one dollar per
day and it gives employment to great
many men. This company employed
during the busy season one hundred
and thirty women and girls and forty
FIVE men and boys and as the supply
OF fruit increases the more labor will
be wanted in the cannery and dryer.
People, both men and women, have
cume' from a distance to work in Eu-
gene, some as far as fifty and sixty
miles. The cannery was built in
part of the town where the most of the
houses were vacant, but rs soon as the
work commenced last spring the va
cant houses were occupied and are yet.
Eastern people learn of the cannery
here and stop off, and quite. number
have told the writer that was the main
inducement to come here, as they
wished to 60 into the business of rails
ing fruit and did not like the chances
Of putting out an orchard where there
was no cannery and no way of dispos-
ing of fruit. A good cannery and dryer
we'll managed in community add value
TO every acre of land and every town
lot. 1t induces people to come into the
town and county to settle and make
permanent homes, for during the can
ming season their people can all get
employment"
"It is one of the best mediums thro' |
which to advertise place that can
be, as every can of fruit and vegetables
and every package of dried fruit should
have the name of the place where it
was canned or dried upon them with
neat attractive label and trademark
representing the place and surround
ings. These canned and dried fruits
are and would be mostly shipped to
eastern cities and much of 1t would
reach foreign markets, so you see every
package is standing advertisement
and you have no idea the number ofI
people it will attract to your place,
who, many of them, will say (as have
heard it said many time) 4 first knew
of your place-by seeing the name ON a
can of fruit 1 purchased in Chicago, or
Philadelphia, Boston, New York or {
some other far-away place as the case
may be. I know how all these things
work to benefit ii town and country like
yours where you have SO many natural
advantages. 1t not only adds valne to
every foot of land in the community,
but to every pound of fruit and vege-
tables grown. To illustrate This com
pany paid from fye to six dollars more
per ton for fruit grown in the immedi
ate vicinity Of the eannery than they
did for fruit that was shipped in from
a distance by railroad. There are many
more advantages l could set forth, but
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