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Show 149 fruit canned in the United States, the West produced 67 million. 38 The West also canned nearly 85 per cent of all fish and about 20 per cent of the 39 pack of canned vegetables and canned milk. national The Western canned fruit of which 84 per cent totaled 14.4 million and Hawaiian 94 million pack cses was produced in the cases of pack in 45.2 million cases, was California, and the Hawaiian pack same 59.6 million in 1950 year. cases O The combined Western approximated 63.4 per cent of the canned in the United States and Hawaii. 41 The Pacific Coast States, Alaska and British Columbia accounted for the entire canned of li.8 million cases, and the Pacific Coast States also salmon pack counted for 99 per cent of the in the United Stat'es in 1950. cases of 42 than nine million cent of the 114.8 million of 23. 5 m.illion Data for other Western available' to the w:riter; In canning 43. 7 million illion cases 1948, the Western canned cases approximated 20.4 canned in the United State s cases of tuna canned 1 per cent of the 145. 3 43 during 1950. vegetable juice pack cases The Western States canned vegetables, approximately 30. canned in the United States fruit and more ac during in either 1948 or 1950 however, the above figures present a , per that year. 44 was not fairly complete I picture of the importance of the Western canning industry. The completion 40 The Stanford Re sea r ch Institute, Western Resources Handbook, Ope cit., Section IV -N. 43Ibid• 44" Annual Statistical Canner and Re vi ew and Yearbook Numbe r , Packer, Vol. 41; No. 5 (April 25, 1949). ff We stern |
