American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1915-08-05
takes a genius of organization to plan and operate

go wrong. That Is not all, however, there is to
canning the way they practice it at Puyallup.
In one of the side rooms they have started a
jam and preserve plant and great quantities of
currants and all kinds of fruit and berries are
being put up in glass. One order in this depart
ment is from a Boston house for several thousand
cases.
Another room is where they pack the berries in
sugar, More than 1000 great barrels have already
been filled this season with alternate LAYERS Of
berries and sugar. These are shipped in straight
cars to the eastern ~centers, where the juice is
drawn off and sold to the soda fountains, and the
residue is worked up into jams and preserves
This finds a market for a volume of stuff that
could not be sold in finished form from this plant,
but some day there will be a different story to tell.
1 learned that later at the Sumner plant where
saw them crushing the juice out of the raspber-
ries, and starting it on the way toward the soda
fountains.
Also at Sumner l saw another new product
barrels Of Royal Ann cherries being pitted and
prepared to go on the market as Maraschiuos.
Several thousand cases of these will soon be IN
their bright red attire and will go out under the
Puyallup label. You may not recognize them
when you meet them. but they will be real Wash
ington cherries prepared In Washington and they
will show just as prettily as the bottom of the
cock tail glass as though they had been imported
thousands of miles.
Through both the canneries l travelled In Spot
less Town. Not one kitchen In a thousand is as
perfect. There is an attention to little details
that will lay a foundation for a wonderful adj
vetising campaign when rauIhamus gets
around to that. Even the fruit is packed In spec.
ial made cans, every can lined to protect the acid
of fruit juice from causing any trouble.
No man can go through these two canneries and
not feel that he has come in touch with a great
industry-perfectly organized, progressive and
successful.
Railroads After Business.
The canneries now are in the hum of industry.
They are through with rhubarb, gooseberries and
strawberries and are getting along we'll with rasp-
berries and cherries. Loganberries and black
berries are beginning to come and a little later
they will give place to peaches and pears, and
still later to apples.
While the canneries are spectacular and vitality
interesting to everyone thinking about the future
Of the fruit business in this country they repre-
sent only a small part of a vast business enter
prise.
When we left the cannery at Sumner we went
through the big warehouse that the Northern
Pacific has built nearby to handle the fresh fruit
shipments. a warehouse constructed by the rail-
road and turned over to the growers for their
use. A little later we saw another warehouse of
the same kind and used In the same way, only
constructed at the expense of another railroad.
This one is on the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
tracks at North Puyallup.
After that we came back to Puyallup and In the
early hours of darkness watched the men rush
through the final fresh fruit shipments Of the day,
Tor the canning season is also the fresh fruit sea-
son and when you are handling raspberries and
sending them to distant markets there cannot be
a moment Of delay.
OF raspberries alone, they have shipped more
than 900 cars and this number will be increased
4nother 100 cars or so before the raspberry season
is over. This means that something more than
100000, 900 raspberries have already been picked
and sold. The bulk of the product stays in the
northwest, but a great volume goes into Montana,
the Dakotas and Alberta Numerous cars 20
l-rlheI east. Two days before l was there they
Lad sent two cars to Detroit.
Work for 10000 People.
There is no more perishable product anywhere
than the raspberry. Ii you don't believe that 20
out in your back yard and pick a box of them and
carry them down town on the street car and ex-
anime them TO signs of bruising. Then figure
what a problem 1t is In business organizatisnuto
pick this fruit ripe and sell it over thousa bf
miles of territory at a uniform profit to the grow-
ers. Since the resent machinery for marketing
was perfected, the growers of the Puyallup val
ley have never had a thin year.
More than 10000 people are working these days
in the fields and in the fruit manufacturing plants
of Puyallup. The weekly pay roll is 80 much
bigger than any other in the state that COM
PARSONS are childish. That pay roll is met
promptly in cash every week. Not only is the
cannery financed, but each grower receives ad-
vances against his deliveries sufficient to take
care of his cash outlay. That is another end of
this great enterprise that is quite a job of organi-
cation. There is still another end. III -
A two-story hollow tile building. eori20. Is Just
being finished OIL the ground adjoining the can
merry at Puyallup. This is the new home of the
Puyallup store. A large part Of the warehouse
at Sumner is used for the etbie there. The mem
bers OF the association buy their flour, feed, sugar.