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Early Days at the Storm Lake Canning Plant
Reprint of a 1935 Storm Lake Register piece on the 1905 start of the local canning plant. Managers Miller and Bleakly feed a cooperative venture with hand work, water by hand, and eventual sale to Kansas City. The plant grew, then merged into Sac City and Iowa Canning, expanding to beans and other produces, employing hundreds in Storm Lake during peak years, with Corn volume around 3,000 tons in 1935.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Storm Lake Register
Storm Lake Canning Factory
Storm Lake
M. O. Miller
Robert Bleakly
Bleakly
Kansas City
Miller
Sac City Canning Co
Cooperative Association
Bert Marchant
Sac City Canning Company
Iowa Canning Company
F. E. Heacock
Mr. Marchant
Vinton
Shellsburg
Garrison
la Porte City
Sac City