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The '''California Fruit Union''' was a co-operative marketing association, organized in 1883 and incorporated in 1885 to promote California fruit and exercise control over selling locations and prices<ref>Remarks by Mr. A. T. Hatch, President, California Fruit Union: In [http://books.google.com/books?id=rjBPAAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA50&ots=5TVgko_ZBJ&dq=%22california%20fruit%20union%22&pg=PA50#v=onepage&q=%22california%20fruit%20union%22&f=false Proeedings of California Growers and Farmers Convention], November 1887. Published by California State Printing Office, 1888.</ref>. Marketing implied both creating a market and serving as a seller, with packers such as [[Porter Brothers]] selling fruit in Chicago for the California Fruit Union shippers<ref>California Fruits: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18910829.2.82 August 29, 1891 Sacramento Daily Union]. "The Porter Brothers Company sold today at auction, for account of California Fruit Union shippers, seven carloads of California fruit." Fruit sold included Muscat, Tokay, and Sweetwater grapes, Rose de Peru peach, cling peaches, and nectarine, and Bartlett and Buerre Hardy peaches.</ref>.

J.Z. Anderson was the president of the organization for a time<ref>J. Z. Anderson, in Eugene T. Sawyer, [http://www.mariposaresearch.net/santaclararesearch/SCBIOS/jzanderson.html History of Santa Clara County, California], Historic Record Co., 1922.</ref>.
In 1886, Horatio P. Livermore was president and H.A. Fairbank secretary<ref>California Fruit Union stock certificate: [http://scripophily.net/cafrunca18.html scripophily.com].</ref>.

<ref>Fred Wilbur Powell, "Co-operative Marketing of California Fresh Fruit". In [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1883562 February 1910 Quarterly Journal of Economics], Oxford University Press.</ref>.
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	The '''California Fruit Union''' was a co-operative marketing association, organized in 1883 and incorporated in 1885 to promote California fruit and exercise control over selling locations and prices<ref>Remarks by Mr. A. T. Hatch, President, California Fruit Union: In [http://books.google.com/books?id=rjBPAAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA50&ots=5TVgko_ZBJ&dq=%22california%20fruit%20union%22&pg=PA50#v=onepage&q=%22california%20fruit%20union%22&f=false Proeedings of California Growers and Farmers Convention], November 1887. Published by California State Printing Office, 1888.</ref>. Marketing implied both creating a market and serving as a seller, with packers such as [[Porter Brothers]] selling fruit in Chicago for the California Fruit Union shippers<ref>California Fruits: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18910829.2.82 August 29, 1891 Sacramento Daily Union]. "The Porter Brothers Company sold today at auction, for account of California Fruit Union shippers, seven carloads of California fruit." Fruit sold included Muscat, Tokay, and Sweetwater grapes, Rose de Peru peach, cling peaches, and nectarine, and Bartlett and Buerre Hardy peaches.</ref>.		The '''California Fruit Union''' was a co-operative marketing association, organized in 1883 and incorporated in 1885 to promote California fruit and exercise control over selling locations and prices<ref>Remarks by Mr. A. T. Hatch, President, California Fruit Union: In [http://books.google.com/books?id=rjBPAAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA50&ots=5TVgko_ZBJ&dq=%22california%20fruit%20union%22&pg=PA50#v=onepage&q=%22california%20fruit%20union%22&f=false Proeedings of California Growers and Farmers Convention], November 1887. Published by California State Printing Office, 1888.</ref>. Marketing implied both creating a market and serving as a seller, with packers such as [[Porter Brothers]] selling fruit in Chicago for the California Fruit Union shippers<ref>California Fruits: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18910829.2.82 August 29, 1891 Sacramento Daily Union]. "The Porter Brothers Company sold today at auction, for account of California Fruit Union shippers, seven carloads of California fruit." Fruit sold included Muscat, Tokay, and Sweetwater grapes, Rose de Peru peach, cling peaches, and nectarine, and Bartlett and Buerre Hardy peaches.</ref>.

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 The '''California Fruit Union''' was a co-operative marketing association, organized in 1883 and incorporated in 1885 to promote California fruit and exercise control over selling locations and prices<ref>Remarks by Mr. A. T. Hatch, President, California Fruit Union: In [http://books.google.com/books?id=rjBPAAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA50&ots=5TVgko_ZBJ&dq=%22california%20fruit%20union%22&pg=PA50#v=onepage&q=%22california%20fruit%20union%22&f=false Proeedings of California Growers and Farmers Convention], November 1887. Published by California State Printing Office, 1888.</ref>.  Marketing implied both creating a market and serving as a seller, with packers such as [[Porter Brothers]] selling fruit in Chicago for the California Fruit Union shippers<ref>California Fruits: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18910829.2.82 August 29, 1891 Sacramento Daily Union].  "The Porter Brothers Company sold today at auction, for account of California Fruit Union shippers, seven carloads of California fruit."  Fruit sold included Muscat, Tokay, and Sweetwater grapes, Rose de Peru peach, cling peaches, and nectarine, and Bartlett and Buerre Hardy peaches.</ref>.
-  J.Z. Anderson was the president of the organization for a time<ref>J. Z. Anderson, in Eugene T. Sawyer, [http://www.mariposaresearch.net/santaclararesearch/SCBIOS/jzanderson.html History of Santa Clara County, California], Historic Record Co., 1922.</ref>.
+The California Fruit Union closed in 1894; xxx stated twenty years later that the Union failed because "the large growers who supplied nine-tenths of the business refused to longer make good of the smaller growers, many of whom would put up inferior fruit which would not pay freight charges<ref>Edward F. Adams, "Co-operation of California Fruit Growers Twenty Years Later".  In [http://books.google.com/books?id=83lRAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA4&ots=srko2f9r8R&dq=%22california%20fruit%20union%22&pg=PA4#v=onepage&q=%22california%20fruit%20union%22&f=false March 8, 1913 California Fruit Grower].</ref>.
 In 1886, Horatio P. Livermore was president and H.A. Fairbank secretary<ref>California Fruit Union stock certificate: [http://scripophily.net/cafrunca18.html scripophily.com].</ref>.

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 The '''California Fruit Union''' was a co-operative marketing association, organized in 1883 and incorporated in 1885 to promote California fruit and exercise control over selling locations and prices<ref>Remarks by Mr. A. T. Hatch, President, California Fruit Union: In [http://books.google.com/books?id=rjBPAAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA50&ots=5TVgko_ZBJ&dq=%22california%20fruit%20union%22&pg=PA50#v=onepage&q=%22california%20fruit%20union%22&f=false Proeedings of California Growers and Farmers Convention], November 1887. Published by California State Printing Office, 1888.</ref>.  Marketing implied both creating a market and serving as a seller, with packers such as [[Porter Brothers]] selling fruit in Chicago for the California Fruit Union shippers<ref>California Fruits: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18910829.2.82 August 29, 1891 Sacramento Daily Union].  "The Porter Brothers Company sold today at auction, for account of California Fruit Union shippers, seven carloads of California fruit."  Fruit sold included Muscat, Tokay, and Sweetwater grapes, Rose de Peru peach, cling peaches, and nectarine, and Bartlett and Buerre Hardy peaches.</ref>.
-  J.Z. Anderson was the president of the organization for a time<ref>J. Z. Anderson, in Eugene T. Sawyer, [http://www.mariposaresearch.net/santaclararesearch/SCBIOS/jzanderson.html History of Santa Clara County, California], Historic Record Co., 1922.</ref>.
+ J.Z. Anderson was the president of the organization for a time<ref>J. Z. Anderson, in Eugene T. Sawyer, [http://www.mariposaresearch.net/santaclararesearch/SCBIOS/jzanderson.html History of Santa Clara County, California], Historic Record Co., 1922.</ref>.
 In 1886, Horatio P. Livermore was president and H.A. Fairbank secretary<ref>California Fruit Union stock certificate: [http://scripophily.net/cafrunca18.html scripophily.com].</ref>.
 <ref>Fred Wilbur Powell, "Co-operative Marketing of California Fresh Fruit".  In [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1883562 February 1910 Quarterly Journal of Economics], Oxford University Press.</ref>.
 ==Images==
-<A href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=rbpe&fileName=rbpe00/rbpe002/0020160b/rbpe0020160b.db&recNum=0&itemLink=h?ammem/rbpebib:@field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+0020160b))&linkText=0">California Fruit Union application for stock</a>.  "An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera" collection, Library of Congress.
+[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=rbpe&fileName=rbpe00/rbpe002/0020160b/rbpe0020160b.db&recNum=0&itemLink=h?ammem/rbpebib:@field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+0020160b))&linkText=0 California Fruit Union application for stock].  "An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera" collection, Library of Congress.
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