The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-06-23
READY FOR
BUSINESS
COLUMBIA CANNING FAC
TORY is FINISHED AND
WILL STA RT
NEXT WEEK.
WILL GIVE EMPLOYMENT TO 60 PEOPLE
Output of 10000 Cans a Day,
and Offers a Profitable Mar
ket for Fruits and
Vegetables.

With the opening of tue blackberry
season next week, one of the most com
plete and perfect canning factories IN
! the south, will begin operations and
that factoy is located right here in the
southern suburbs of Columbia.
Few people realize the progress that
has been made on this establishment
Along in tine winter local business
men subscribed bonus of about 50 00C
for the establishment and by good
fotune the matter was taken up by two
persistent ana indomitable workers.
MessTs. hoace RaIney and j. j..
Wilson, JI. Today. we have an estab-
lishment in which town and country
may well take pride. 1t represents an
investment of $4,000. In the tomato
season 1t VIII give employment to
sixty men. women and boys.
1t will affold profitable market for
all the tomatoes and small fruits this
section will provide. and the men in
charge are not men whose names are
associated with failures.
The factory proper is 100 by go feet,
two stories and is located on its own
side track across the railroad from the
Columbia Mill & Elevator Co. Besides
the factory building there is a large
two-story storage building a hundred
feet away. The factory machinery is
the most improved and is capable of
turning out 20, 900 three pound cans of
tomatoes Gay. 1t was purchased
originally for the factory at Comes
VILE for s., 200 and was never used
day. By a lucky stroke of fortune Il
was secured for 81, 300 for the Colum-
tia factory and that in itself IS
good, long step toward success.
detailed account OF the way the
machinery works would doubtless
prove too technical for an ordinary
newspaper account sufficient it is to say
that from the time the tomatoes are
poured into the Dig scalding hopper TO
the point where the cans come out
filled with perfectly cooked fruit,
sealed and marked 10y attractive wrap
peTs, the machinery goes like clock
work. every provision being made for
minimum of human assistance and
a maximu IN of cleanliness and system.
Besides the facilities for tomato can
nlng there is an eighty gallon, porce-
laln-llned preserving kettle, sixty
barrel, air tight sweet potato cooker
and facilities for canning corn. aspaT
agus, beans and all smaller vegetables
The factory will be run by twelve
horse power engine and has thousand
barrel storage tank supplied by crystal
spring water for washing the fruits
and vegetables,
The company has under cultivation
eighty acres Of tomatoes and has an
other seventy acres being grown under
contract by outside parties. Three
hundred bushels Of tomatoes to the
acre is minimum estimate, while
crops of 600 bushels to the acre are fire.
quently grown. The company agrees
to pay twenty cents bushel for all
marketable tomatoes and at this rate
a 300 bushel crop will yield the farmer
$50 w to the acre.
The company has established rule
OF purchasing everything possible at
home, and all the crates, boxes, and
materials outside of the cans and ma
chinery were bought here in Columbia.
Three hundred thousand cans we're
purchased for this year 8 output. One
sixth of them are In and they make a
pile.
Commission men from several points
have been here seeking to purchase the
output, but the managers are waiting
to become thoroughly posted before
they turn loose
RAYED-Two Jersey cows, both
dehorned. One is a brown COW, the
other yellow and white spotted COW
with white spot in forehead. Telephone
information to A. P. Morgan. % 2t&w