CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-07-04
CANNING FACTORY A
BIG CANON INSTITUTION
Nearly Hundred EmployesThree Tons of Sugar DayBg
Shipments of Observation-Disclosures Distinctly

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impossible This is done for the pur-
pose of killing any germs or microbes
that might cause the goods to
spoil. After the boiling process
the cans are labeled and polished and
packed for market.
Large quantities of currant and 9TH
er fruit juices that have been cooked
are strained off into five and ten gal
Ion jugs that have been thoroughly
sterilized and kept there indefinitely
for making jellies. This is done in
order to save sugar and is very con-
venient manner of keeping the juice
from deteriorating in quality. At any
time it is required for jelly making it
is poured off and mixed with sugar
which completes the Transformation
from juice to jelly. Just now the
company is consuming on an average
three tons of sugar a day, the market
price of which would be about $500,
or in the neighborhood of $4,000 a
week.
The Colorado Canning company at
its factory here puts up several pro-
ducts distinctly its own, in other
words, articles that are marketed by
no other firm. One of them is large
sweet pickle upon which it is build
ing up big reputation among the
grocers of the west. The casing of
this special product is a three fourths
grown cucumber, the inside of which
has been bored out by machinery and
the cavity filled with a most delicious
chow-chow. Another is a canned bean
specially prepared for the Mexican
and Spanish trade. 1t Is cooked with
red peppers and over it is poured a
Chilli sauce especially palatable to the
Latin-American taste.
The operations of the Colorado Can
ming company are so extensive and
widespread that it is unable to OBJ
tain anything like the required guam
tity of fruits and vegetables in the
Canon City district to keep it going
and its representatives are compelled
of the country to purchase a large
part of what is needs. Texas, Mis-
souri, Utah, Idaho and Colorado are
laid under contribution and "the raw
material" is being shipped here from
all of them this year. If the gardeners
and orchardists of Fremont county
could supply it with all the stun it
needs for canning purposes it would
annually be many thousands OF doil
lars in their pockets.
Mr.. Turnbull recently contracted
with gardeners at Baxter, little sta
ton six miles below Pueblo, for $20.-
600 worth of cucumbers to be made
into pickles. Under its provisions at
least one car load of cucumbers will
be shipped here every day for sixty
days, or longer if the season permits.
In all about one hundred car loads Of
cucumber are expected by the COM
pany from the growers at Baxter An
effort was made to induce the ranchers
of Lincoln Park. Fruitmere. Four Mile
and other communities within radius
of tive or six miles of Canon City to
grow these cucumbers and thus save
the $50 900 to be paid out to the peo-
pie of Baxter to the people here, but
a canvass showed that ranchers here
were not willing to enter into an
agreement to plat altogether more
than ten acres in cucumbers. although
they were offered twenty-five cents
hundred pounds more for them than
they were subsequently bought for
further down the valley.
1t is the same with every other var
iety of produce. The crop of the Can
on City district is insufficient for the
needs of the company. II every
available acre of land about Canon
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