Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-05-01
|CANNING CENTER
| MOVES WESTWARD
Shortage. in Packed Tomatoes Is
Threatened, However,, Despite
fSsr.Sna ~ az lnd,,e4.,.t - - y, > :.

VI populdIIoA duV IAOuey supply ITOIn
the east, to the west, the. canning in
dustry, which each year preserves and
distributes throughout the world mil
lions of cans of vegetables and fruits,
has broken away from a strong east
ern GENERALIZATION and settled in the
states easily accessible to Chicago.
Within the last five years a new com
plexion has been given the packing
business, and, to keep UP with the in
dustrial evolution, eastern packers
have been forced to move westward or
see their trade go into other hands.
Chicago has come to the fore as the
distributing point of the country.
Great grocery iobbing concerns in
this city, which do millions Of dollars
worth of business a, year, find that
from rs to SO per cent Of their trade
is in canned goods. -
Vests Vegetable Business immense.
Especially in the production of can
ned peas, corn and tomatoes has there
been big change in the standing Of
| the states. New York, Maryland, New
Jersey, Delaware, and other eastern
states have seen their business de-
crease and come to Indiana, Wiscon.
sin, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa; Nebraska, and
other western states. Indiana es-
pecially has come to the front in re-
cent years. With Wisconsin, Indiana
has taken a great norton of the can
ned pea production from Maryland
and New York. r..
| Indiana, Illinois and Iowa now lead
the list in the production of canned
corn, but in the production of canned
tomatoes Indiana, among the western
states, has had a most notable rise.
| Maryland, Delaware, and New Jer.
sey are losing their tomato. output and
Indiana is gaining almost in proper.
ton, although Ohio is sharing the
benefit, Illinois prairie land has been
found poor for the production of to.
matoes in commercial quantities., but
| the cleared forest land of Indiana has
proved especially fitted to their cul
ture. Consequently tomato canning
! plants have grown up like mushrooms
in the Indiana belt. III.
Land and Freight Rates Reason.
| New York and other eastern men
interested in the industry have made
searching inquiry into the. conditions
which are bringing to the west what
promises to develop in 4 few years
into one Of it's richest assets. First
of all, they have discovered that rich
western land Is more suited to the
production of tomatoes than worn
lands of eastern states, which require
great expenditure for fertilizer. Add
/ ed to this, western farmers have beer
educated to the point where they are
willing to give up part Of their large
field crops for the more careful grow
ling of tomatoes, which bring greater
i returns. T., = ~, r. :.
Then, too, freight rates have fat
their effect. For a long time eastern
Gamers labored under strained condi
lions. The center Of demand for theil
goods kept going gradually westward
necessitating the payment of Ions
haul tariffs. Factories are now read
justing themselves to conditions %
population and avoid high frefgh'
rates by abandoning eastern plant.
and rebuilding In Hestern locations.
| Build New Plantssin the West.
| Several hundred new plants have
grown up in the west in. the last few
years. During the packing season o
1905 alone eight factories In Della
I ware, ninetyfve in Maryland AMI
several more III New York, which
operated in 1904, closed their door,
and did no packing. When the mex
season for packing begins in TIL,
latter part Of August or September i
y Is thought by, western packers tina
several more eastern plants will hav,
Il LIE =
located in the west. WI .s
4 According to figures complied b.
/ New York experts, the taste of Ameri
1 can people for the acetic Qualities 8
/ the tomato has increased to proper
Itfons never measured for It. Indeed
1 the appetite Of the country for TIL
4 juicy red vegetable has grown s,
I 1arge that there is doubt IL the suppl,
nov in the market will hold out unit
a new pack is made late in the sun
liner. s3,s
Explain Shortage In Tomatoes.
8 During 1902, 1908 and 1904 there wa
Il an average animal pack 81 23I, 913,72
4 cans Of tomatoes. but during 100!
because Of bad weather cond itions al,
shortage Of the crop, the pack wa
4oniy 144 ,00o. 600 cans, or 1900, 90
3 cans below the average.
! Eastern experts who are apprene1
isiye about the supply have estimate
from the consllmpt ion In the last tire
/ years that the average America