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{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer,Cooperative
| primary_town = Campbell
| primary_dates = 1892 - 1913
| predecessors = [[Frank Buxton Dryer]]
| successors = [[George E. Hyde & Company]]
}}
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[[File:Campbell_fruit_growers_union.JPG |200px|thumb|right|Receiving office, Campbell Fruit Growers Union.  From "Sunshine, Fruit, and Flowers"]]
The '''Campbell Fruit Growers Union''' was a
Campbell-based grower's cooperative founded in 1892.  The co-op bought the existing [[Frank Buxton Dryer]] in July 1892<ref>[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP18920716&cl=CL1%2ePRP&e=-------en--20--1--txt-IN-----# July 16, 1892 Pacific Rural Press]</ref>.  The union supposedly joined the [[Santa Clara County Fruit Exchange]] and was part of the [[California Fruit Association]], a sales agency backed by the Fruit Exchange.    In 1902, Captain J.H. Hamilton was its first president. and S. G. Redeck secretary.

In 1895, the [[San Francisco Call noted that a hundred tons of prunes was arriving each day at the dryer<ref>[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&cl=search&d=SFC18950904.2.52&srpos=9&e=-------en--20--1--txt-IN-ainsley+cannery----# September 4, 1895 San Francisco Call]</ref>.  The cooperative was just as busy in 1906.  "San Jose Herald, August 29: The Fruit Growers' Union is a very busy place just now. About 75 tons of prunes are being handled daily, besides the peaches and pears, which require about 40 pitters to prepare for drying. A big shipping business has been done this year. Fifteen hundred tons of peaches were shipped green by the Union as well as 350 tons of apricots and a quantity of pears. A few days ago three cars of pears were shipped in by outside canneries, necessitating an increased force of women and girls."<ref>September 13, 1906 Pacific Rural Press.</ref>

The co-operative slowly lost the support of its growers; growers were willing to sell to the co-op when prices were good, but went looking for the best deal when prices were low<ref>Robert Couchman, The Sunsweet Story, 1967, Sunsweet Growers, p. 30</ref>.  The co-op eventually leased itself, then sold out to [[George E. Hyde & Company]]. 

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
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! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
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| Campbell || 1892-1909 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Central%20Ave.,Campbell Central Ave.]<ref>Listed in Sunsweet book's list of 1900 packing houses and San Francisco Call list of collection sites for [[California Cured Fruit Association]]</ref> ||  
|-
|}
==Photos==
[http://content.scu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/svhocdm/id/2286/rec/47 Alice Iola O'Hare photograph of Campbell packing house] looks like it might be an interior shot (or might be [[Central Santa Clara Fruit Company]])  (The Sunsweet Story<ref>Robert Couchman, The Sunsweet Story, 1967, Sunsweet Growers</ref> sets the photo in the [[California Cured Fruit Association]] packing house.

==References==
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[[Category:Campbell]]
[[Category:Dried Fruit Packer]]
[[Category:Cooperative]]