Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-26
BAGLEY CANNING co. PLANT A
CREDIT TO TALENT.
HAS The LATEST IMPROVEMENTS
The Plant Will Eventually Handle
All the Side Products and Will
Provide Market for a Large
Quantity of Fruit.

various delays, 1t has already demon
strated that it can produce a high
grade class of goods.
The plant, which cost nearly $1O,-
900 in addition to the site, which
was donated by the citizens of Tai
ent, is situated on the east side of
the Southern Pacific tracks a short
distance north of the village. The
fine plant is the outgrowth of a small
plant started last year by DR.. w. r.
Bagley, at his ranch northwest of
Talent. DR.. Bagley, who was former
! ly one of the leading surgeons of Du-
/ luth, Mimi, was compelled to give up
the practice of his profession because
of i'll health and settled on a fruit
ranch near Talent. His attention was
attracted to the need of some method
of properly marketing the products
of his own and his neighbors' ranch
es, besides that of shipping the fresh
fruit. He installed a small plant and
the 1911 product commanded such a
ready sale and such a high price that
! he decided to enlarge the scope of
the work. and the Bagley Canning
Company is the result.
The buildings are principally of
corrugated steel upon timber frame
and include, besides the main work
room, a dryer and an engine room.
The storage will mostly be done in
the main building, but DR.. Bagley
states that it will undoubtedly be nee
essary to erect large warehouse be-
fore next season.
The cannery proper is up to date
in every respect. 1t will, on the
quart cans, use the sanitary cans en-
tirely. These cans have the cover all
in one piece, instead of having a cir
cular cover which is soldered on af-
ter the can is filled. The entire TOP
is put on at one operation and the
machine in use has capacity of 90
900 cans in "a hours. In the gallon
cans the usual style of can will be
used. The pack so far has been most
ly of pears, and within "a hours after
samples were sent one of the leading
Portland jobbers, telegram was re-
cefved asking how much of that grade
could be used. The peach pacl
started Saturday. September 2, ant
it is expected that it will last about
ten days. The tomato pack will las
somewhat longer. In putting III
fruit in syrup the exact amount o.
syrup desired is placed in one dozer
cans at once. The machine will feet
eithe rof two syrups of different
strength as desired.
The output OF the cannery, when {
full crew of expert help is employed
will be about 20 cans per minute, ol
a carload of 500 cases every q
hours. The cannery has already or
ders for about 1000 cases of canned
goods and will undoubtedly have al
most the entire pack sold by the time
the season closes.
In addition to the cannery feature
the plant has an up-to-date dryel
which will handle fruit of all kinds
1t has capacity of about 800 bush
els of apples in "a hours. The ma
chinery for preparing the apples fo
drying is not only up to date but very
effective. There are three pairing ma
chimes, which will each pare and cor,
apples as fast as a man can plac,
them on spindle one at a time. TIL,
machine throws the apple onto al
endless belt which carries it to tn,
left to an automatic slicer whicl
slices every apple not only in evel
} thickness but at right angles to tn,
stem. At the same time the parin!
and the core drop onto another bel
which carries them to the right to tn,
cider press. Each pairing machine
operated by one man, has a capacit,
| of rs to 50 bushels per day.
, ! ho 4 % A a
dry apples, longer to dry pears, an,
about eight hours to dry prunes. Th
capacity in prunes is about one tol
after drying. The cannery this yea
had already on Saturday, the 21st
= received two cars from Tolo and ex
. pected to receive two or three car
of prunes more this season.
The work is under the immediate
supervision of DR.. Bagley, assiste,
by Mr.. and Mrs. Lodgedon of Port
, land, who are experienced in th
work.
In speaking of the business DR.
Bagley stated to a representative o
the Tidings that to be successful
plant of this sort must be able t,
take care of the by-products, and alst
" l ull Ou NcScIdDlcS DIS well DIS Vi
fruits. The ideal cannery, he states
, should be in operation, with a large
or smaller force, about six months o
each year. One of the department
will be that of making cider vinegar
and the cannery expects to work VI
reputation for fine bottled good
made from ripe Rogue river apples.
Mr.. Bagley clearly foresees that il
order for this valley to reach its high
est state of prosperity it must be abl,
not only to market it's high grad
fruit to the best advantage, but t,
get every possible dollar out of th
: lower grades, and that without re
gard to the fluctuations of the mar
ket or of the fruit crop. This onl,
can be done by marketing it largel,
in non-perishable condition, an,
this is only possible through canning
preserving or evaporation, as well a
by the securing the value of the by
products.