The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-09-09
CILFACTORYCANS
TOMATOES At RATE
TWO THOUSAND HOUR
MORE THAN ONE THOUSAND
CASES ARE PUT UP m
49, ONE DAY.
Big INDUSTRY FOR COLUMBIA
Estimated That over $4,000 VIII Bs
Paid to Farmers and Almost a.
Much for Labor During Present Sea-
son-Potatoes Also.

Much for Labor During Present Sea-
son-Potatoes Also.
Few people have any idea OF the
magnitude Of the canning industry In
Maury county. But a visit to the
factory Of the Columbia Canning Co.
would soon demonstrate that it was
one of the great enterprises of the
city and county. The factory is rum
ming full time now with an immense
force Of lahorers and the delectable
vegetable is being placed in condition
for soups and meats and table at
rate that suIpasses all former records.
In one day last week this factory
canned over $4,000 cans of tomatoes.
This means that almost 1900 bushels
of tomatoes we're used in one day. II
means that more than $500 of the
farmers product of Maury county was
preserved for future use. On another
day over $4,000 cans were put up.
Everything at the factory moves
with clock ike precision. 1t is nearly
all done by machinery and every er-
fort is made to make the process as
clean and sanitary as possible. From
the time that the fruit leaves the wag-
ons of the farmer until it is finally
sealed in the cans and then placed
in huge watts to be cooked from forty
i've minutes to an hour every rossi-
BILE effort is made to insure Its clean
liness.
The factory this year, 1t is estimat-
ed, will put up more than 10000 cases
of tomatoes. A case as is well known
contains two dozen cans. This means
that 100000 ordinary tomato cans will
be filed In one day the factory will
use a half car load OF empty cans,
an entire car being consumed In two
days last week. The tomato crop this
year was late but it was exceptionally
fine and it is probable that the rec
ord will be broken for the number OF
cans put up.
With Horace Rainey, the proprietor
of the factory, representative of The
Herald visited the factory Tuesday at
ternoon. In the yard at that time
were twenty-one wagon loads of toma-
toes waiting for an opportunity to be
unloaded and to reload with empty
crates While enroute from the facto-
~ back to the city at least another
dozen wagon loads were encounter
ed all going to the factory.
1t is estimated that the factory this
year will pay to the farmers of the
county for tomatoes alone not less
han $4,000. This is simply for a side
product, in the raising of which much
If the labor Is done by the women and
children of the family The pay roll
If the factory is now averaging over
800 a week. This means that during
he season which the factory is in OPP
,ration labor in the city will receive
ome $4,000 Practically every dollar
hat the factory takes in except what
8 expended for empty cans finds its
way right back to the people Of the
ity and county.
When the tomato season is over the
actory will begin to can sweet IOta-
oes and from 5000 to 10000 cases OF
hese will be put up. Much OF the
roduct of the local factory Is mar
eted right in Columbia, over 5000
asses OF tomatoes and 1000 cases Of
weet potatoes being sold through To-
al dealers every season. The major
ortion Of the product, however, goes
D Birming dam although the market
xtends from Kansas City, Mo. on
he west to Pittsburg, Pa. on the
asst
The canning factory is one Of the
ity's big institutions, 1t Is one that II
vould pay the people here to investi-
ate. 1t would be an object lesson
I the value of manufacturing enter
rises to the city. 1t would demon
trate the value of bringing such In
titutions to Columbia and would en-
ourage the business men to get be-
ind the Board Of Trade in the eff
,rts Of that organization to acquire
lore factories.