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Show IN Pjn~fI"<', 1904 JAm.. A. ANDERSON, of Morgan, Utah, and Jam", cashier of the First National Bank of Ogden, organized a canning company in Morgan with capital of $10,000, thereby giving birth to the Morgan Canning Company. Mr. Anderson, fOJmerIy employed by the John A. Guild Store in Rock Springs, \'Vyoming, where he had sold canned peas packed in Long Mountain, Colorado, fclt peas could be as profitably packed in Utah as they were in Colorado. With his beginning capital James Anderson erected a small building to house one viner and a line of pea processing machincry. The combined equipment and factory cost approximatdy $12,000. Unfortunately, the first year the company lost money. And although another loss was sustained the following year, it was reduced somewhat ovcr the previous year. Because of a poor market, no profit was realized from the eight thousand cases of peas canned in 1908. At the close of the year, Mr. Pingree called a meeting of the stockholders for the purpose of changing the management. At the meeting James Anderson stated that the canning venture had seemingly failed, and he would purchase the stockholders stock in the amount which they paid for it. Everyone sold except a 1\1r. Scoville of Ogden. Three years later the Andersons bought him out. This transaction gave .lames A. and Joseph Anderson sole ownership of the canning company. A bounteous harvest was produced in 1909, and the calming busin('~s was an assured SUCCCs.c; if money could be secured to purchase cans. The farmers were willing to wait for their money until the pack was sold, uut the day soon arrived when a carload of cans was standing on the tracks and there was no money to release it. Loads of peas were waiting to be threshed, but it appeared everything would be shut down. Jim Anderson, however, secured a loan in time and the cans were released. A small profit was realized, and the Anderson brothers were assured the business would succeed. In 1910 the company packed thirty thousand cases of excellent quality peas. In 1911 the previous year's production was surpassed, The Mn. Gregory, a resident of Smilhfidd, has h.·.·n prnonally inll'J"Cslrd in the Mor!:;!11 Canning Compan)' bcrausc her father, J.'rank Lt·){oy \\". · ~I. was one of the many men who playt·d an importanl rolc in thc huilding and opt"ralinn "f IIII' ranning cstablishmcnts in both Mor~an and Car-he Vallr.y. Tlw 11111 hOI" wOll1cl li~,. to IIrl.nnwl,·n",· ,I". ""'rilmtioD5 nf the man)' inrli\'iduals who lwh\(·,1 in ',·r;t;.,,· th" hi.tory. Rmonl!' tl.",n :,r,' th, 1..... "1,..,, Anel , ' . t:. -. :.' ' . r'nl'l,"ty,.,.~ ,,( tlu' '1nrg:l1l C!~nninL:' .. •• ' ! tt, '\4.-. <:""';n N """I.,tn: of ~p . :.,. |
