The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-01-22
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| plOymenC TO regular crew. Inf
months in the year for the benefit
of our farmers. The Campbell's Gus.
tom Cannery is enlarging every
year. The Twin City Creamery
maintains regular payroll and with
two other cream buying stations pro-
vide a competitive market for dairy
products.
The Grange Warehouse Co. erect
ed their new building and included
| a modern feed mill. The Reese
Concrete Pipe Company steadily en-
ploys a number of men and cover a
wide area with their high grade
products. We are informed that the
Kennewick Cannery has been leased
to a Spokane Canning Co., who in
tends to operate throughout the
coming season. With all these assets
to the city must be mentioned i'm
provements in general way in our
retail concerns, the paving of many
more streets, and probably Kenne-
wickss biggest home building years
with the issuance of nearly s150,000
worth of building permits.
Biggest in World
Special mention should be made
of several other industrial activities
in our community. There is first of
all our only nationally known plant,
the Church Grape Juice Company,
whose general manager is your pres
ident for the present year. This
company has now in bearing the
biggest concord grape vineyard in
the world. During the past year
they have more than doubled the ca
pacity of their plant with the addi-
ton of large storage rooms and more
modern machinery at a cost of
100000. They employ from the min
imum regular crew of 104 persons to
432 during the pressing season, and
have an annual payroll of $113 ,872.-
Al. During 1871 they shipped 281
carloads of bottled grape juice and
received 145 carloads of bottles and
other supplies.
The Pasco Growers Association, a
cooperative composed mostly of
Kennewick growers, leased the Nor
thern Pacific Railway freight de-
pot and completely remodeled it,
added cold storage and modern
packing equipment, and do the
larger part of their business at this
location. Their annual payroll at
this plant is over S18, 900, employ
ing from so to $50 persons during the
season. Produce shipped from this
plant during 1941 amounted to $215,-
600, the greater part distributed to
Kennewick growers.
Big Business
Under this same roof we have the
Washington Cooperative Egg and
Poultry Association. They have in
stalled modern turkey killing and
dressing equipment. During No
vember and December they gave
to 70 men and women
with payroll of $1,000, and shipped
$4,000 worth of turkeys. This is
seasonal work in addition to their
year around activities. We are in
formed that within the next year
they will possibly build a new plant
or add greatly to the equipment of
this one.
The Pacific Fruit and Produce Co.
purchased the Gleason warehouse
and have actively entered this dis
trict as cash produce buyer. They,
too, have greatly added to Kenne-
wick's cash income by their ship
merts of $149, 538 worth of produce
and their payroll of 1922 in en-
ployment of Is men during the sea-
son.
CannerieS Come
Through the efforts of your cham
Der the Walla Walla Canning Com
pany secured a satisfactory location
and built their modern cannery here
in our community. They We're too
late building to accomplish much
during their first season of 1910, but
they had a very satisfactory run in
1941, and have since purchased
enough acreage and contracted with
growers to assure them of plenty
of produce in the years to come
Probably, 49, ~ will he a very success
full year for them. They have added
to their buildings and equipment,
and during the past year employed
SO women and 40 men throughout
the season, with a payroll of $43, 900.
Big Y Grows
Our old reliable Big Y have great |
ly increased their membership. They
are the leading factor in our fresh |
fruit products. They have added |
many Improvements to their build |
ings and Equipment, and have en-
larged their shipping territory, re-
sulting in d oAe profitable returns to
their growers. Their shipment of |
fresh fruits an& vegetables amounted
to the valu lie 4 $4,000 and gave
employment to as many as 287 per-
sons during the shipping season, be-
sides the regular yearly crew, with
a payroll of $26,376. The Big Y have
pioneered in the frozen fruit indus
try, inducing several concerns to op-