Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-05-24
GRANTS PASS CANNERY
NOW BEING BUILT
Construction OF Buildings Rushed
and Machinery
Ordered.

Grants Pass will have cannery and
it will be in readiness to handle the
fruit and vegetable crop for this sea-
son. Manager. Herbert @. Sampson,
after spending week in Portland in
company with his father, c. H..
Sampson, in looking up information
on the oannery industry and inter
viewing implement firms in regard
TO machinery for the cannery got mat.
ters in shape for starting work ON the
building, and Thursday the beginni ng
was made. The canncry will be To-
Gated in the east part of town between
the S. P. stockyards and the Standard
Oil Company's oil tank. The tract of
land purchased by the Cannery Com
pany is 100x225 which gives ample
space. On the ground there is a
planning mill building 3sx4s feet
that will be fitted up for a warehouse.
There is also we'll built cottage that
will be fitted up and rented to some
one of the employees. The oannery
building will be 40x6o feet, two
stories, we'll constructed and on con-
crete piers. The order for the ma
chinery has been placed, and it is the
plan to have the cannery in operation
by the first of July. While only a
small plant will be installed now,
yet it will be of the best, and So ar
ranged that the oannery can be readily
enlarged as the business warrants.
AS with the fruit growers unions, the
rule Of the Grants Pass Canning Com
pany will be to give quality rather
than quantity in putting up the pack,
and the purpose is to build up repu-
taton for Rogue River canned fruits
that will equal the high standing now
had by the green fruits of this Valley.
The Cannery Company has taken
over the vinegar and spray factory
operated for the past year by Sampson
Bros, and the plant will be added to
the csnnery equipment. The Samp-
son vinegar has met with a ready sale
owing to its absolute purity and fine
color, and now that the national and
state pure food laws are being rigor-
ously enforced, the cheap acid vinegar,
that would eat the lining out of a
stove, will be debarred from the mar
ket. thereby making better sale for
pure, wholesome vinegar. When fit
ting up for the manufacture Of lime
sulphur spray solution last Fall Samp-
son Bros. expected that it would be a
difficult matter to get the farmers to
use the factory made solution instead
of the homemade article. The
farmers, though, were quick to note
the superiority of the solution made
in an alright .retort under heavy
steam pressure that gave higher
degree of heat than is possible to get
in an open kettle, and which 50
thoroughly melts both the sulphur and
lime that perfect chemical union is
made of the two substances and held
in perfect solution with the water,
and orders came IN so fast that the
Sampson Bros. had to run their
factory much of the time day and
night Each year, since they fret
came, the pests have stt tadily in
creased in the orchards of this county
until this present season, when the
farmers ceased using the open kettle
spray and got the SAMPSON solution
THE result is that such killing of
the pest was made that the trees will
compare in yigor aud fine appesrauc-
With those Of the best districts of
the state, aud the percentage Of goou
and bad fr0it will be reversed tbs
season, for instead of 10 per cent anu
50 per cent imperfect, .as was the Gaze
last year, there will lie S5 per ceut or
more marketable fruit aud scsrcel,
10 per cent that will be unsalablr.
The Sampson solution was also largely
used by the fruit growers in jackson
aud Douglas counties. they are as well
pleased with it as are the orchardists
Of this county. With this strong en-
dorsement of the fruit growers the
sales of the Sampson solution " i'll be
certain TO be more than double thi.
year over last year, and .his aud the
arsenate of lead that is also to b.
manufactured. viii do much toward
making the cannery q financial sue.
cess.