White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-08-22
Still Putting Out Pears For
Consumption In CCC
Camps

the workers at the newly established
cooperative cannery are rapidly be-
coming experts at their jobs and turn
ing out first class lots of fruit On
Tuesday they did eight hundred cans
of pears and on Wednesday they al
most doubled their production, putting
out thirteen hundred and fifty tins.
BY the time the workers are thoroughly
accustomed to the tasks they will be
chalking up good three thousand
cans at the end of each shift.
The cannery's many visitors have
been impressed by, and have COM
mented upon, the air of busting &C
tiyity which prevails in the one-tlme
cement block factory. The women,
dressed in white smocks and caps, perch
on high stools or stand at long tables
| to work.
/, Labor Divided
One group peels the fruit, which has
| first been washed, and then puts 1T
| in pans containing salt water SO That
it will not become discolored during
the time which intervenes between the
peeling and the packing. The women
at the second table take out the cores
and the fruit is then passed on to
the third table where it is packed, APP
proximately ID pear halves to each two
and one-half size tin.
These cans have first been exam
ined for defects and any out of-shape
are corrected; then they are sterll1zed
by live steam The fruit is packed III
these still hot cans, put into baskets,
and then filed from a hose with the
hot sugar and water syrup. The ten
minutes the open cans then spend in
boiling water bath is helpful in pre-
serving the uniformity Of the fruit and
!, essential to the creation of q proper
. vacuum when the cans are sealed and
put in the big pressure cookers for
/, their final twenty minutes cooking
Men in White
The men in the outfit who do the
washing, sealing, cooking and rousta-
| bout work also wear white uniforms,
white coveralls and trench caps They
do all of the lifting and carrying, TAX
ing away The cans OF Feelings, empty
ing the loose packed boxes OF fruit
into the washer, rectifying and steam
ing the cans, as we'll as operating the
sealer and the cookers which are steam
heated by an automatic diesel burning
boiler
The cannery is well ventilated and
we'll lighted and the workers at pres
, ent are very comfortable.
!, Try Vegetables
On Wednesday the crew had it's first
experience with vegetable canning, put
ting up some green beans. They cannot
;, vet attempt to can beets or corn, as
each of these vegetables requires q
differently enameled can for their pro-
: per preservation The project recently
;, received an additional allotment fund
;. which will be spent for a variety of
tins. The cans are much more expen-
sive than one would think, costing from
three to five cents apiece. Curiously
=. enough, those especially finished on the
> inside cost but fraction of cent
more than the ordinary variety.
- Custom Canning in Future
= The cannery is not yet geared to
do any custom canning However, adj
- ditional equipment will soon be in
:, stalled separate from that already in
@ place, on which women may can their
own produce under expert supervision
and according TO the safe methods
practised with the larger machinery
y Or, if they wish, they may have their
fruits and vegetables canned for them
'e the cannery employees preparing AND
re processing their foodstuffs on the small
" equipment at a small charge. No def
" mite details concerning this are yet
n known except that the additional
lg cookers are on their way and viii
J. probably be used in separate room
Of on a wood range.
h Although about sixteen women anc
j. eight or ten men are at work, the
he cannery is still horthanded and ad.
ID ditional workers are being sought.