The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-09-13
THIRTY THOUSANDS
CANS TOMATOES THE
DAILY OUTPUT NOW
THAT Is WHAT THE COLUMBIA
CANNING COMPANY Is
DOING.
PAY ROLL IN The THOUSANDS

Laborers and the Farmers Almos,
II Not Quite sec, 0O0--scenes q,
the Factory Are Inspiring.
Working nearly 200 hands day
with an average weekly pay roll OF
from $500 TO $1,000 and paying out
in the course of the season from $40,
900, to 100000 for labor and to the
farmers for tomatoes and potatoes
the Columbia Canning Company il
one of the big industries of Maury
county.
This concern has doubled it's ca
pacity since the last season and is
now canning a daily average of more
than 10000 cans. Il is shipping out
one car a day of its products and on
some days Of the past ten has receiv.
as high as three cars of empty cans.
1t takes car load of boxing mate
rial at a time and the labels even, the
least bulky Of all the items that en-
ter into the turning out Of the finish
product, are bought in huge quanti-
ties.
And while this factory is working
at the very highest pressure, with
an immense Corps Of hands and the
hum and rush of machinery, shows
that it is keyed to the very highest
notch, the fact that the people want
clean and wholesome canned goods,
that will be chemically pure. is never
for an instant overlooked.
Every precaution is taken to make
the product clean. Every sanitary
arrangement has been made. The
floors in the packing rooms are Of
concrete SO that they can be easily
cleaned. And every night three or
four hands are kept busy cleaning
and securing and steaming every ar
ticle used during the day in putting
up the product. In fact every thing
Is steamed so that no germs can pos
sibly live.
For the past two weeks the factory
has been running at tremendous
speed, the average production during
that time being in excess of 10000
cans. This rate will be maintained
for some time and will be increased
if possible for the company is anxious
to increase its force and is advertis-
ing for hands.
The scenes around the factory in
the midst of the busy season are tru-
ly inspiring. When representative
of The Herald visited the factory on
Tuesday afternoon he found gerita-
BILE blockade Of loaded wagons in the
yard. There we're more than forty
two-horse wagons loaded Z to the
guards with tomatoes awaiting an OPP
portunity 10 be weighed and unload |
ed. Passing on a little it was found /
that there were dozen or more !,
wagons in addition that had been
that had not found an oppor-
tunity to be unloaded. There were
more than a dozen thousands of bush
els of the luscious vegetable on the
yard and in the house awaiting the
expert hands of the packers to be
for the thousands who will
buy them in cases this winter.
The canning factory contracts for
ali of it's tomatoes. 1t buys all that
It contracts for at contract price.
The fluctuations of the market, the
drop of the prices, have no terrors
Tor the farmers who are selling to !.
the factory. They get their prices
regardless Of the prices on the open
market And the tomatoes are all
inform, they are all of the same va
'iety. The factory saves its ewn seed
md 1t furnishes the seed to very
armer from whom 1t buys. II is
,art of the contract that the farmer
whose crop is purchased must use
he factory seed. This gives uni
orm and luscious tomato that is
,ure.
The factory has proven a'big boon
o the farmers, especially to the
mall farmers. It has given them a