New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-06
INDUSTRIAL POSITION
Actual Business Situation of
American Can Co. Presented.

The Wall Street Journal publishes the
| following account Of the American Can
Company's industrial POSITION:
The companys earnings have shown
remarkable growth since. organization.
This growth Is due 20 the large number
Of different kinds of products which il
| manufactures. The company makes over
! forty thousand different products. and
very few of them are ever used twice.
The largest number OF containers of one
class made by the concern is that OF the
common fruit. vegetable and fish can.
More than two Billions of these were made
! last year. and this number is expected 10
| increase in 1913. due TO increased popula-
i ton. The designing department Of the
American Can Company Is constantly
| finding new uses for tin containers. and
has completed and has ready to put On
the market a can the body of which is OF
! fibre and the top and bottom of tin. which
Will be used in the cereal. coffee and bis
jcuit trade. There is already a good de-
! mand for this article. The can company
will lease sealing machinery 10 the users
of this can.
| 1.-THE company has forty-seveu facto-
ries. nine large warehouses and three ma
chine shops. In the shops it employs 600
men and manufactures machines Tor the
use of its factories, and also sells them TO
its competitors. Each plant has a ma
chine shop for repairs TO its machinery.
"A recent product of the company which
is already making money for II is the new
adding machine put out iast fall. There
Is a good profit on it, and the demand for
| il is good. The shops will be able to turn
out between 10000 and 5000 of these
! machines year.
The demand for cans Is scattered over
| the entire country. and the American Can
| Company has its plants and warehouses
| located as near as possible to the centre
of its different lines Of trade. The Pacific
Coast has three large factories 10 make
cans for the fish and fruit trade: Illinois.
! Indiana, Iowa and Maine are great corn
| states, and all have factories. while Mary
| land and New Jersey have tomato can
| factories, as they produce great crops OF
| that vegetable In Georgia and California
| the peach crop is large. and these states
also have factories. while New orleans
| has a factory to take care Of packing
oysters and sbrimps. In Honolulu there
is a factory making cans for the pine
apple trade. and In st. Paul large num-
bers of cans are used for the canning o.
syrup The company also makes turpon-
tine cups. oil cans and watering cans.
These are only a part OF the uses to
which the products are put. and do not
include the packing Of talcum powder,
| soap. tobacco, cigars. biscuits. phonograph
needles. etc, of which hundreds OF MILL
ions are made yearly.
The can company employs fifteen thou
sand people and has a very accurate cost
system, and saves a considerable amount
each year by defining It's scrap. as pig
tin sells for 30 cents pound AZ present.
4 lower tariff would I'D the company. as
it could in case of a reduction In tinplatc
obtain its raw materials cheaper. either
abroad or in this country. The company
has never yet had any labor troubles. II
has no competitors In most Of its lines
and obtains fair prices Tor its products.