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{{Infobox
| title = Summary
| header1 = Business Details
| label2 = Primary Town
| data2 = San Jose
| label3 = Primary Business
| data3 = Box Maker
| label5 = Dates
| data5 = 1922
}}
==Summary==

==Locations==
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! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
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| San Jose || 1917 || 353 North San Pedro Street ||
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==Details==

summary in Western Canner and Packer: co-operative with 22 members ranging from Klamath Falls to Central California. 10,000 cars of output, 250,000 feet of shook, 80,000,000 boxes, 7% of the entire manufacturing output of California. Canned goods responsible for 12MM boxes, dried fruit 12.5MM, cantaloupes 6MM. 300-500 carloads of shook to Imperial Valley. 20MM boxes for wine grapes. Distributors in 1922 in Sacramento, San Jose, Watsonville, Fresno, Los Angeles, Brawley.
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 | Sacramento || 1922 || 4th and R Streets<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=6oA9AQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA10&ots=oFxZcx0gBz&dq=%22California%20Pine%20Box%20Distributors%22&pg=PA11#v=onepage&q=%22California%20Pine%20Box%20Distributors%22&f=false Directory of Manufacturers and Wholesalers in Sacramento], Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, 1921.</ref> ||
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-| San Francisco || 1919 || 1019 First National Bank Building<ref>Advertisement, [http://books.google.com/books?id=rmtRAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA14&ots=SXz7FPmigo&dq=%22California%20Pine%20Box%20Distributors%22&pg=PA15#v=onepage&q=%22California%20Pine%20Box%20Distributors%22&f=false April 26, 1919 California Fruit News].
+| San Francisco || 1919 || 1019 First National Bank Building<ref>Advertisement, [http://books.google.com/books?id=rmtRAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA14&ots=SXz7FPmigo&dq=%22California%20Pine%20Box%20Distributors%22&pg=PA15#v=onepage&q=%22California%20Pine%20Box%20Distributors%22&f=false April 26, 1919 California Fruit News].</ref> ||
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 | San Jose || 1917 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=353%20North%20San%20Pedro%20Street,San%20Jose 353 North San Pedro Street] ||

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 | primary_business = Box Maker
 | primary_town = San Jose
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+| primary_dates = 1918-
 }}
 '''California Pine Box Distributors''' was a California-based cooperative supplying box-making materials to canneries throughout the west.  Western Canner and Packer declares it had 22 members ranging from Klamath Falls to Central California<ref>Magnitude of the Box Shook Industry: [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA96&ots=9RBYfyGuNG&dq=%22California%20Pine%20Box%20Distributors%22&pg=PA96#v=onepage&q=%22California%20Pine%20Box%20Distributors%22&f=false February 1923 Western Canner and Packer].  "... organized along the same lines as the co-operative fruit producers of the State..."</ref>.  The company appears to have worked with multiple lumber mills<ref>California Pine Box Distributors vs. Southern Pacific Co. et. al, [http://www.yosemitevalleyrailroad.com/CRRC.DIR/1929-CRRC.html California Railroad Commission case #2403, decision #21081, case #2403, decided May 11, 1929].  The case explicitly demands refunds for lumber shipped from multiple different sites owned by different lumber companies.</ref><ref>Cantaloupe Crates in California: [http://books.google.com/books?id=pfxYAAAAYAAJ&lpg=RA5-PA23&ots=W1Exi3CmpD&dq=%22California%20Pine%20Box%20Distributors%22&pg=RA5-PA23#v=onepage&q=%22California%20Pine%20Box%20Distributors%22&f=false July 1921 The Packages magazine].  "...California Pine Box Distributors, which buys shook from all the lumber mills of California and Oregon, and, by handling the crate demand of California as a unit, is efficiently able to meet the shook requirements of each crop."</ref>
 The company existed as late as 1961<ref> Truhe Box Company vs. Jandrew: [http://www.leagle.com/decision/1961776346SW2d430_1710.xml/TRUHE%20BOX%20COMPANY%20v.%20JANDREW Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, San Antonio, 346 S.W.2d 430 (1961)], April 19, 1961.  The lawsuit argued over the ownership of boxes produced by California Pine Box Distributors and shipped from California to Texas.</ref>.
- In 1922, the company produced 10,000 cars of output, 250,000 feet of shook, and 80,000,000 boxes, That work represented 7% of the entire manufacturing output of California. Canned goods were responsible for twelve million boxes, dried fruit 12.5 million, cantaloupes six million, and wine grapes twenty million.  Between three hundred and five hundred carloads of shook was shipped to the Imperial Valley.  In 1922, the company had distribution sites in Sacramento, San Jose, Watsonville, Fresno, Los Angeles, Brawley.
+In 1922, the company produced 10,000 cars of output, 250,000 feet of shook, and 80,000,000 boxes, That work represented 7% of the entire manufacturing output of California. Canned goods were responsible for twelve million boxes, dried fruit 12.5 million, cantaloupes six million, and wine grapes twenty million.  Between three hundred and five hundred carloads of shook was shipped to the Imperial Valley.  In 1922, the company had distribution sites in Sacramento, San Jose, Watsonville, Fresno, Los Angeles, Brawley.
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 | Sacramento || 1938 || 1401 Front St.<ref>California Pine Box Distributors photo. [http://cdm15248.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15248coll1/id/1197 Sacramento Room, Sacramento Public Library].</ref> ||
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 | San Francisco || 1919 || 1019 First National Bank Building<ref>Advertisement, [http://books.google.com/books?id=rmtRAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA14&ots=SXz7FPmigo&dq=%22California%20Pine%20Box%20Distributors%22&pg=PA15#v=onepage&q=%22California%20Pine%20Box%20Distributors%22&f=false April 26, 1919 California Fruit News].

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-'''California Pine Box Distributors''' was a California-based cooperative supplying box-making materials to canneries throughout the west.  Western Canner and Packer declares it had 22 members ranging from Klamath Falls to Central California. In 1922, the company produced 10,000 cars of output, 250,000 feet of shook, 80,000,000 boxes, 7% of the entire manufacturing output of California. Canned goods responsible for 12MM boxes, dried fruit 12.5MM, cantaloupes 6MM. 300-500 carloads of shook to Imperial Valley. 20MM boxes for wine grapes. In 1922, the company had distribution sites in Sacramento, San Jose, Watsonville, Fresno, Los Angeles, Brawley.
+'''California Pine Box Distributors''' was a California-based cooperative supplying box-making materials to canneries throughout the west.  Western Canner and Packer declares it had 22 members ranging from Klamath Falls to Central California<ref>Magnitude of the Box Shook Industry: [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA96&ots=9RBYfyGuNG&dq=%22California%20Pine%20Box%20Distributors%22&pg=PA96#v=onepage&q=%22California%20Pine%20Box%20Distributors%22&f=false February 1923 Western Canner and Packer].  "... organized along the same lines as the co-operative fruit producers of the State..."</ref>.  The company appears to have worked with multiple lumber mills<ref>California Pine Box Distributors vs. Southern Pacific Co. et. al, [http://www.yosemitevalleyrailroad.com/CRRC.DIR/1929-CRRC.html California Railroad Commission case #2403, decision #21081, case #2403, decided May 11, 1929].  The case explicitly demands refunds for lumber shipped from multiple different sites owned by different lumber companies.</ref><ref>Cantaloupe Crates in California: [http://books.google.com/books?id=pfxYAAAAYAAJ&lpg=RA5-PA23&ots=W1Exi3CmpD&dq=%22California%20Pine%20Box%20Distributors%22&pg=RA5-PA23#v=onepage&q=%22California%20Pine%20Box%20Distributors%22&f=false July 1921 The Packages magazine].  "...California Pine Box Distributors, which buys shook from all the lumber mills of California and Oregon, and, by handling the crate demand of California as a unit, is efficiently able to meet the shook requirements of each crop."</ref>
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 | San Jose || 1917 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=353%20North%20San%20Pedro%20Street,San%20Jose 353 North San Pedro Street] ||
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 [[Category:San Jose]]
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-| title = Summary
+| primary_business = Box Maker
-| header1 = Business Details
+| primary_town = San Jose
-| label2 = Primary Town
+| primary_dates = 1922
 }}
 ==Summary==