CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-07-04

1hS NoiiS iNcSciu
had occasion to call attention to the
scope and magnitude of the business
done by the Colorado Canning COM
pany in this city, and its importance
to the industrial welfare of the COM
munity. The amount OF money which
the company pays out here for labor
and for the products of the orchard
and garden renders it an institution
of more than ordinary concern to the
people of Canon City, and for that
reason a description of its plant and
operations and of its contribution to
the material prosperity of the COM
munity cannot fail to be of interest
to our readers.
A visit to the company's factory at
the corner of Eighth and Water streets
at this season of the year would re-
veal one of the busiest places imagin-
able and would astonish the majority
of callers by its extent and its splen-
did mechanical equipment.
No canning plant in the state is
more capacious, is fitted out with bet
ter machinery or turns out better
class of goods than the one here, in
fact it is the constant aim and endea-
vor of Messrs. Turnbull & Lindenber-
ger, who are at the head of the con-
cern, to make it in all respects a
model institution and its products the
best on the market.
The company puts up great variety
OF products and they find a ready
sale in the most exclusive markets of
the country, for they are of the high
est quality and are prepared in an
attractive manner. In addition to
strawberries, raspberries, currants,
blackberries. gooseberries, cherries,
and other small fruits, from which
preserves, jellies, jams and canned
goods are put up, the company cans
large quantities of asparagus, rhu-
barb, etc, besides immense guam
titles of pickles. beans, saur kraut,
chow-chow and catsup, in short, 1t is
consumer of practically everything
raised by the ranchers, orchardists,
and gardeners of the Canon City dis
trict.
About seventy-five girls and twenty
i've men are now employed, and ap-
proximately $500 week is at present
being paid out for labor. The average
unskilled girl makes from ninety
cents to one dollar a day picking
Strawberries. currants, cherries, etc,
for the Gamers, who, of course. are
paid more wages. Girls specially
skilled and experienced in some in
stances make as much as two dollars
and a half. and in rare cases, as much
as three dollars day.
A new thing at the factory is the
Max Ans Sanitary tin can, in which
most of the company's product is this
season being put up. 1t is solder
less can lined with a special compost
ton which makes ptomaine poisoning
impossible. The top of this specially
constructed can, which is of French
invention. is clamped on without the
use Of soldering metal of any kind by
a most ingenious machine, which, in
the hands of an expert operator, will
Theoretically seal 10000 cans in ten
hours. This machine is well worth
Inspection by people of a mechanical
turn OF mind.
It is a we'll known scientific fact
that water will boil at a lower tenn
perature as one rises from the sea
level. hence boiling water is not nearly
% hot at Canon City as it is 5000 feet
lower down. In order to get a sea
level pressure, where water boils at
212 degrees, all of the canned goods
OF the company after they are sealed.
are placed in a vacuum and steam
turned in until degree Of heat is
reached equal to boiling water at the