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Show 150 of new irrigation Western the acres Projects under cultivation. planning stage, should further add 'tion in the canning The also total of fruits and at plate for a seven Westert;t This 800,000 ton consumption of 4,081,034 facture of containers The use of canned, has grown pack). 47, and the 1950 places new compared additions, of only 25, was transporting a 000 net 20 per cent of the U. S. plate used in the Included in these methods an increasing per cent of the U. S. 327.3 million pounds can to manu 46 processes, and (42.9 has consumption us-e formerly are of example, the Western frozen fruit pack However, the tin preserving source canning industry competitive methods of packaging products, 203.4 million pounds vegetables the Western net tons of tin and terne during 1950. For in or importance of the West's posi figure approximates packaging, dehydration of frozen under construction, States at 800,000 net tons, in recent years. plastic containers. to the plate by One rapid pace. now thousands of additional vegetables. productive capacity, including tons. 45 food of tin consumption expanded of tin was projects has placed and reclamation (55. 7 pack), per' glass and in 19-50 and the pack cent of the U. S. will still continue to be the chief the bulk of our food frozen products to means widely of dis- persed markets. 45The ,Fiscal ser Steel Corp. Annual Report to Stockholders for the Year ending June 30, 1951. States excluded are Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, which are of relatively minor importance in the canning industry. Also supra, -po. 90. New Mexico and Western , 4:'See 47 OPe Table B,in the Appendix. The Stanford Research cit., Section IV -N. I Institute, Western Resources Handbook, |
