West Side Fruit Growers Association - Revision history

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 The union had a large twenty acre drying yard and processing plant<ref>How To Co-Operate: Organization of the Growers at West Side, and Working of a Dryer: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP18930715.2.11.11# July 15, 1893 Pacific Rural Press].  The plant handled 200 green tons of fruit a day, and required 150 workers during the height of the season.</ref>,and handled 3,650 tons of fruit in 1893. There was a warehouse holding twenty carloads of fruit, a separate packing house, a boarding house, and additional outbuildings for cutting and dipping the fruit.    The plant and its machinery cost $20,000; the West Side had 25,000 drying flats available for the season.  In 1917, a huge rush of fruit required 23,000 trays to cover 20 acres of ground<ref>Dry-Grounds Saved By Heat From Deadlock. September 16, 1917 San Jose Mercury Herald.</ref>. The company may have had a siding to the interurban line<ref>Supervisors in Regular Session: March 5, 1906 San Jose Evening News.  "A delegation from the West Side Fruit Growers union was present and requested the right to lay a railroad switch from the drying plant to the railroad.  The switch would cross the county road.  The application was referred to Supervisor Roll with power to act."</ref>.
-The Union also had a mechanical dryer; this was only to speed sun drying, and was not intended to fully dry fruit<ref>The Evaporator and A. W. Hudson, Rain-Damaged Prunes: [http://books.google.com/books?id=-ZkmAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA118&ots=7T9PiI4Klf&dq=september%201918%20rain%20california&pg=PA118#v=onepage&q=september%201918%20rain%20california&f=false March 1920 Monthly Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, State of California], Supplement ofr the California Dehydration Convention in San Jose, Feb. 7, 1920.</ref>.
+The Union also had a mechanical dryer; this was only to speed sun drying, and was not intended to fully dry fruit<ref>The Evaporator and A. W. Hudson, Rain-Damaged Prunes: [http://books.google.com/books?id=-ZkmAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA118&ots=7T9PiI4Klf&dq=september%201918%20rain%20california&pg=PA118#v=onepage&q=september%201918%20rain%20california&f=false March 1920 Monthly Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, State of California], Supplement ofr the California Dehydration Convention in San Jose, Feb. 7, 1920.</ref>.  Manager Hudson discussed its use in saving fruit caught in the torrential downpours of mid-September 1917.
 .  Manager Hudson discussed its use in saving fruit caught in the torrential downpours of mid-September 1917.
 The organization lasted at least until 1922, appearing in a  list of fruit packers in a Santa Clara County history continued to list them in 1922.  The plant was taken over by [[Abinante and Nola]] in the mid 1930's; the buildings burned down in a fire on May 19, 1940<ref> Ruins All That Remain Of Packing Plant: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=e2IiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wasFAAAAIBAJ&dq=packing&pg=1467%2C1925106 May 20, 1940 San Jose Evening News].</ref>

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 [[File:Westside.JPG|200px|thumb|right|West Side Fruit Growers Association.  From turn of the century photo.]]
-The union had a large twenty acre drying yard and processing plant<ref>How To Co-Operate: Organization of the Growers at West Side, and Working of a Dryer: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP18930715.2.11.11# July 15, 1893 Pacific Rural Press].  The plant handled 200 green tons of fruit a day, and required 150 workers during the height of the season.</ref>,and handled 3,650 tons of fruit in 1893. There was a warehouse holding twenty carloads of fruit, a separate packing house, a boarding house, and additional outbuildings for cutting and dipping the fruit.    The plant and its machinery cost $20,000; the set Side had 25,000 drying flats available for the season.  In 1917, a huge rush of fruit required 23,000 trays to cover 20 acres of ground<ref>Dry-Grounds Saved By Heat From Deadlock. September 16, 1917 San Jose Mercury Herald.</ref>. The company may have had a siding to the interurban line<ref>Supervisors in Regular Session: March 5, 1906 San Jose Evening News.  "A delegation from the West Side Fruit Growers union was present and requested the right to lay a railroad switch from the drying plant to the railroad.  The switch would cross the county road.  The application was referred to Supervisor Roll with power to act."</ref>.
+The union had a large twenty acre drying yard and processing plant<ref>How To Co-Operate: Organization of the Growers at West Side, and Working of a Dryer: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP18930715.2.11.11# July 15, 1893 Pacific Rural Press].  The plant handled 200 green tons of fruit a day, and required 150 workers during the height of the season.</ref>,and handled 3,650 tons of fruit in 1893. There was a warehouse holding twenty carloads of fruit, a separate packing house, a boarding house, and additional outbuildings for cutting and dipping the fruit.    The plant and its machinery cost $20,000; the West Side had 25,000 drying flats available for the season.  In 1917, a huge rush of fruit required 23,000 trays to cover 20 acres of ground<ref>Dry-Grounds Saved By Heat From Deadlock. September 16, 1917 San Jose Mercury Herald.</ref>. The company may have had a siding to the interurban line<ref>Supervisors in Regular Session: March 5, 1906 San Jose Evening News.  "A delegation from the West Side Fruit Growers union was present and requested the right to lay a railroad switch from the drying plant to the railroad.  The switch would cross the county road.  The application was referred to Supervisor Roll with power to act."</ref>.
 The Union also had a mechanical dryer; this was only to speed sun drying, and was not intended to fully dry fruit<ref>The Evaporator and A. W. Hudson, Rain-Damaged Prunes: [http://books.google.com/books?id=-ZkmAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA118&ots=7T9PiI4Klf&dq=september%201918%20rain%20california&pg=PA118#v=onepage&q=september%201918%20rain%20california&f=false March 1920 Monthly Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, State of California], Supplement ofr the California Dehydration Convention in San Jose, Feb. 7, 1920.</ref>.
 .  Manager Hudson discussed its use in saving fruit caught in the torrential downpours of mid-September 1917.

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 The '''West Side Fruit Growers Association''' was a dried fruit packing co-operative located in the Cupertino area on the west side of the Santa Clara Valley.  The association's drying yard and packing house was on Stevens Creek Road near the current Woodham's Road.
-The association was founded in 1891<ref>West Side Fruit Growers: March 20, 1891 San Jose Evening News.  Articles of incorporation filed.  Directors for first year are D.H. Blake, A.C. Lydhard, E.G. Hall, Philo Hersey, E.T. Petit, A. R. Woodhams, and S. P. Saunders.</ref><ref>What the West Side Association Has Done: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP18920507.2.18.2 May 7, 1892 Pacific Rural Press].  Article describes the plant, operation, and organization.</ref>, and was merged into the [[Santa Clara County Fruit Exchange]] with the other local organizations.   Charles W. Cutler was the first manager<ref>Robert Couchman, Sunsweet Story</ref>.  [[Colonel Philo Hersey]] was president from founding through at least 1896<ref>Sunshine Fruit and Flowers</ref>. A.P. Saunders was president in 1902.  A. W. Hudson was manager in 1917<ref>The Evaporator and A. W. Hudson, Rain-Damaged Prunes: [http://books.google.com/books?id=-ZkmAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA118&ots=7T9PiI4Klf&dq=september%201918%20rain%20california&pg=PA118#v=onepage&q=september%201918%20rain%20california&f=false March 1920 Monthly Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, State of California], Supplement ofr the California Dehydration Convention in San Jose, Feb. 7, 1920.</ref>.
+The association was founded in 1891<ref>West Side Fruit Growers: March 20, 1891 San Jose Evening News.  Articles of incorporation filed.  Directors for first year are D.H. Blake, A.C. Lydhard, E.G. Hall, [[Colonel Philo Hersey]], E.T. Petit, A. R. Woodhams, and S. P. Saunders.</ref><ref>What the West Side Association Has Done: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP18920507.2.18.2 May 7, 1892 Pacific Rural Press].  Article describes the plant, operation, and organization.</ref>, and was merged into the [[Santa Clara County Fruit Exchange]] with the other local organizations.   Charles W. Cutler was the first manager<ref>Robert Couchman, Sunsweet Story</ref>.  Eighty growers belonged to the association in 1893<ref>How To Co-Operate: Organization of the Growers at West Side, and Working of a Dryer: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP18930715.2.11.11# July 15, 1893 Pacific Rural Press].</ref>.  [[Colonel Philo Hersey]] was president from founding through at least 1896<ref>Sunshine Fruit and Flowers</ref>. A.P. Saunders was president in 1902.  A. W. Hudson was manager in 1917<ref>The Evaporator and A. W. Hudson, Rain-Damaged Prunes: [http://books.google.com/books?id=-ZkmAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA118&ots=7T9PiI4Klf&dq=september%201918%20rain%20california&pg=PA118#v=onepage&q=september%201918%20rain%20california&f=false March 1920 Monthly Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, State of California], Supplement ofr the California Dehydration Convention in San Jose, Feb. 7, 1920.</ref>.
 [[File:Westside.JPG|200px|thumb|right|West Side Fruit Growers Association.  From turn of the century photo.]]
-The union had a large twenty acre drying yard and processing plant<ref>How To Co-Operate: Organization of the Growers at West Side, and Working of a Dryer: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP18930715.2.11.11# July 15, 1893 Pacific Rural Press].  Plant handled 200 green tons of fruit a day, and required 150 workers during the height of the season.</ref>,and handled 3,650 tons of fruit in 1893. In 1917, a huge rush of fruit required 23,000 trays to cover 20 acres of ground<ref>Dry-Grounds Saved By Heat From Deadlock. September 16, 1917 San Jose Mercury Herald.</ref>. The company may have had a siding to the interurban line<ref>Supervisors in Regular Session: March 5, 1906 San Jose Evening News.  "A delegation from the West Side Fruit Growers union was present and requested the right to lay a railroad switch from the drying plant to the railroad.  The switch would cross the county road.  The application was referred to Supervisor Roll with power to act."</ref>.
+The union had a large twenty acre drying yard and processing plant<ref>How To Co-Operate: Organization of the Growers at West Side, and Working of a Dryer: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP18930715.2.11.11# July 15, 1893 Pacific Rural Press].  The plant handled 200 green tons of fruit a day, and required 150 workers during the height of the season.</ref>,and handled 3,650 tons of fruit in 1893. There was a warehouse holding twenty carloads of fruit, a separate packing house, a boarding house, and additional outbuildings for cutting and dipping the fruit.    The plant and its machinery cost $20,000; the set Side had 25,000 drying flats available for the season.  In 1917, a huge rush of fruit required 23,000 trays to cover 20 acres of ground<ref>Dry-Grounds Saved By Heat From Deadlock. September 16, 1917 San Jose Mercury Herald.</ref>. The company may have had a siding to the interurban line<ref>Supervisors in Regular Session: March 5, 1906 San Jose Evening News.  "A delegation from the West Side Fruit Growers union was present and requested the right to lay a railroad switch from the drying plant to the railroad.  The switch would cross the county road.  The application was referred to Supervisor Roll with power to act."</ref>.
 The Union also had a mechanical dryer; this was only to speed sun drying, and was not intended to fully dry fruit<ref>The Evaporator and A. W. Hudson, Rain-Damaged Prunes: [http://books.google.com/books?id=-ZkmAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA118&ots=7T9PiI4Klf&dq=september%201918%20rain%20california&pg=PA118#v=onepage&q=september%201918%20rain%20california&f=false March 1920 Monthly Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, State of California], Supplement ofr the California Dehydration Convention in San Jose, Feb. 7, 1920.</ref>.
 .  Manager Hudson discussed its use in saving fruit caught in the torrential downpours of mid-September 1917.

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 The '''West Side Fruit Growers Association''' was a dried fruit packing co-operative located in the Cupertino area on the west side of the Santa Clara Valley.  The association's drying yard and packing house was on Stevens Creek Road near the current Woodham's Road.
-The association was founded in 1891<ref>West Side Fruit Growers: March 20, 1891 San Jose Evening News.  Articles of incorporation filed.  Directors for first year are D.H. Blake, A.C. Lydhard, E.G. Hall, Philo Hersey, E.T. Petit, A. R. Woodhams, and S. P. Saunders.</ref><ref>What the West Side Association Has Done: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP18920507.2.18.2 May 7, 1892 Pacific Rural Press.  Article describes the plant, operation, and organization.</ref>, and was merged into the [[Santa Clara County Fruit Exchange]] with the other local organizations.   Charles W. Cutler was the first manager<ref>Robert Couchman, Sunsweet Story</ref>.  [[Colonel Philo Hersey]] was president from founding through at least 1896<ref>Sunshine Fruit and Flowers</ref>. A.P. Saunders was president in 1902.  A. W. Hudson was manager in 1917<ref>The Evaporator and A. W. Hudson, Rain-Damaged Prunes: [http://books.google.com/books?id=-ZkmAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA118&ots=7T9PiI4Klf&dq=september%201918%20rain%20california&pg=PA118#v=onepage&q=september%201918%20rain%20california&f=false March 1920 Monthly Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, State of California], Supplement ofr the California Dehydration Convention in San Jose, Feb. 7, 1920.</ref>.
+The association was founded in 1891<ref>West Side Fruit Growers: March 20, 1891 San Jose Evening News.  Articles of incorporation filed.  Directors for first year are D.H. Blake, A.C. Lydhard, E.G. Hall, Philo Hersey, E.T. Petit, A. R. Woodhams, and S. P. Saunders.</ref><ref>What the West Side Association Has Done: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP18920507.2.18.2 May 7, 1892 Pacific Rural Press].  Article describes the plant, operation, and organization.</ref>, and was merged into the [[Santa Clara County Fruit Exchange]] with the other local organizations.   Charles W. Cutler was the first manager<ref>Robert Couchman, Sunsweet Story</ref>.  [[Colonel Philo Hersey]] was president from founding through at least 1896<ref>Sunshine Fruit and Flowers</ref>. A.P. Saunders was president in 1902.  A. W. Hudson was manager in 1917<ref>The Evaporator and A. W. Hudson, Rain-Damaged Prunes: [http://books.google.com/books?id=-ZkmAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA118&ots=7T9PiI4Klf&dq=september%201918%20rain%20california&pg=PA118#v=onepage&q=september%201918%20rain%20california&f=false March 1920 Monthly Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, State of California], Supplement ofr the California Dehydration Convention in San Jose, Feb. 7, 1920.</ref>.
 [[File:Westside.JPG|200px|thumb|right|West Side Fruit Growers Association.  From turn of the century photo.]]

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 The '''West Side Fruit Growers Association''' was a dried fruit packing co-operative located in the Cupertino area on the west side of the Santa Clara Valley.  The association's drying yard and packing house was on Stevens Creek Road near the current Woodham's Road.
-The association was founded in 1891<ref>West Side Fruit Growers: March 20, 1891 San Jose Evening News.  Articles of incorporation filed.  Directors for first year are D.H. Blake, A.C. Lydhard, E.G. Hall, Philo Hersey, E.T. Petit, A. R. Woodhams, and S. P. Saunders.</ref><ref>What the West Side Association Has Done: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP18920507.2.18.2 May 7, 1892 Pacific Rural Press.  Article describes the plant, operation, and organization.</ref>, and was merged into the [[Santa Clara County Fruit Exchange]] with the other local organizations.   Charles W. Cutler was the first manager<ref>Robert Couchman, Sunsweet Story</ref>.  [[Colonel Philo Hersey]] was president from founding through at least 1896<ref>Sunshine Fruit and Flowers</ref>. A.P. Saunders was president in 1902.  A. W. Hudson was manager in 1917<ref>The Evaporator and A. W. Hudson, Rain-Damaged Prunes: http://books.google.com/books?id=-ZkmAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA118&ots=7T9PiI4Klf&dq=september%201918%20rain%20california&pg=PA118#v=onepage&q=september%201918%20rain%20california&f=false</ref></ref>.
+The association was founded in 1891<ref>West Side Fruit Growers: March 20, 1891 San Jose Evening News.  Articles of incorporation filed.  Directors for first year are D.H. Blake, A.C. Lydhard, E.G. Hall, Philo Hersey, E.T. Petit, A. R. Woodhams, and S. P. Saunders.</ref><ref>What the West Side Association Has Done: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP18920507.2.18.2 May 7, 1892 Pacific Rural Press.  Article describes the plant, operation, and organization.</ref>, and was merged into the [[Santa Clara County Fruit Exchange]] with the other local organizations.   Charles W. Cutler was the first manager<ref>Robert Couchman, Sunsweet Story</ref>.  [[Colonel Philo Hersey]] was president from founding through at least 1896<ref>Sunshine Fruit and Flowers</ref>. A.P. Saunders was president in 1902.  A. W. Hudson was manager in 1917<ref>The Evaporator and A. W. Hudson, Rain-Damaged Prunes: [http://books.google.com/books?id=-ZkmAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA118&ots=7T9PiI4Klf&dq=september%201918%20rain%20california&pg=PA118#v=onepage&q=september%201918%20rain%20california&f=false March 1920 Monthly Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, State of California], Supplement ofr the California Dehydration Convention in San Jose, Feb. 7, 1920.</ref>.
 [[File:Westside.JPG|200px|thumb|right|West Side Fruit Growers Association.  From turn of the century photo.]]
 The union had a large twenty acre drying yard and processing plant<ref>How To Co-Operate: Organization of the Growers at West Side, and Working of a Dryer: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP18930715.2.11.11# July 15, 1893 Pacific Rural Press].  Plant handled 200 green tons of fruit a day, and required 150 workers during the height of the season.</ref>,and handled 3,650 tons of fruit in 1893. In 1917, a huge rush of fruit required 23,000 trays to cover 20 acres of ground<ref>Dry-Grounds Saved By Heat From Deadlock. September 16, 1917 San Jose Mercury Herald.</ref>. The company may have had a siding to the interurban line<ref>Supervisors in Regular Session: March 5, 1906 San Jose Evening News.  "A delegation from the West Side Fruit Growers union was present and requested the right to lay a railroad switch from the drying plant to the railroad.  The switch would cross the county road.  The application was referred to Supervisor Roll with power to act."</ref>.
-The Union also had a mechanical dryer; this was only to speed sun drying, and was not intended to fully dry fruit<ref>The Evaporator and A. W. Hudson, Rain-Damaged Prunes: http://books.google.com/books?id=-ZkmAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA118&ots=7T9PiI4Klf&dq=september%201918%20rain%20california&pg=PA118#v=onepage&q=september%201918%20rain%20california&f=false</ref>.  Manager Hudson discussed its use in saving fruit caught in the torrential downpours of mid-September 1917.
+The Union also had a mechanical dryer; this was only to speed sun drying, and was not intended to fully dry fruit<ref>The Evaporator and A. W. Hudson, Rain-Damaged Prunes: [http://books.google.com/books?id=-ZkmAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA118&ots=7T9PiI4Klf&dq=september%201918%20rain%20california&pg=PA118#v=onepage&q=september%201918%20rain%20california&f=false March 1920 Monthly Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, State of California], Supplement ofr the California Dehydration Convention in San Jose, Feb. 7, 1920.</ref>.
 The organization lasted at least until 1922, appearing in a  list of fruit packers in a Santa Clara County history continued to list them in 1922.  The plant was taken over by [[Abinante and Nola]] in the mid 1930's; the buildings burned down in a fire on May 19, 1940<ref> Ruins All That Remain Of Packing Plant: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=e2IiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wasFAAAAIBAJ&dq=packing&pg=1467%2C1925106 May 20, 1940 San Jose Evening News].</ref>

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 The Union also had a mechanical dryer; this was only to speed sun drying, and was not intended to fully dry fruit<ref>The Evaporator and A. W. Hudson, Rain-Damaged Prunes: http://books.google.com/books?id=-ZkmAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA118&ots=7T9PiI4Klf&dq=september%201918%20rain%20california&pg=PA118#v=onepage&q=september%201918%20rain%20california&f=false</ref>.  Manager Hudson discussed its use in saving fruit caught in the torrential downpours of mid-September 1917.
-The organization lasted at least until 1922, appearing in a  list of fruit packers in a Santa Clara County history continued to list them in 1922.  The plant was taken over by [[Abinante and Nola]]] in the mid 1930's; the buildings burned down in a fire on May 19, 1940<ref> Ruins All That Remain Of Packing Plant: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=e2IiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wasFAAAAIBAJ&dq=packing&pg=1467%2C1925106 May 20, 1940 San Jose Evening News].</ref>
+The organization lasted at least until 1922, appearing in a  list of fruit packers in a Santa Clara County history continued to list them in 1922.  The plant was taken over by [[Abinante and Nola]] in the mid 1930's; the buildings burned down in a fire on May 19, 1940<ref> Ruins All That Remain Of Packing Plant: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=e2IiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wasFAAAAIBAJ&dq=packing&pg=1467%2C1925106 May 20, 1940 San Jose Evening News].</ref>
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	The association was founded in 1891<ref>West Side Fruit Growers: March 20, 1891 San Jose Evening News. Articles of incorporation filed. Directors for first year are D.H. Blake, A.C. Lydhard, E.G. Hall, Philo Hersey, E.T. Petit, A. R. Woodhams, and S. P. Saunders.</ref><ref>What the West Side Association Has Done: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP18920507.2.18.2 May 7, 1892 Pacific Rural Press. Article describes the plant, operation, and organization.</ref>, and was merged into the [[Santa Clara County Fruit Exchange]] with the other local organizations. Charles W. Cutler was the first manager<ref>Robert Couchman, Sunsweet Story</ref>. [[Colonel Philo Hersey]] was president from founding through at least 1896<ref>Sunshine Fruit and Flowers</ref>. A.P. Saunders was president in 1902. A. W. Hudson was manager in 1917<ref>The Evaporator and A. W. Hudson, Rain-Damaged Prunes: http://books.google.com/books?id=-ZkmAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA118&ots=7T9PiI4Klf&dq=september%201918%20rain%20california&pg=PA118#v=onepage&q=september%201918%20rain%20california&f=false</ref></ref>.		The association was founded in 1891<ref>West Side Fruit Growers: March 20, 1891 San Jose Evening News. Articles of incorporation filed. Directors for first year are D.H. Blake, A.C. Lydhard, E.G. Hall, Philo Hersey, E.T. Petit, A. R. Woodhams, and S. P. Saunders.</ref><ref>What the West Side Association Has Done: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP18920507.2.18.2 May 7, 1892 Pacific Rural Press. Article describes the plant, operation, and organization.</ref>, and was merged into the [[Santa Clara County Fruit Exchange]] with the other local organizations. Charles W. Cutler was the first manager<ref>Robert Couchman, Sunsweet Story</ref>. [[Colonel Philo Hersey]] was president from founding through at least 1896<ref>Sunshine Fruit and Flowers</ref>. A.P. Saunders was president in 1902. A. W. Hudson was manager in 1917<ref>The Evaporator and A. W. Hudson, Rain-Damaged Prunes: http://books.google.com/books?id=-ZkmAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA118&ots=7T9PiI4Klf&dq=september%201918%20rain%20california&pg=PA118#v=onepage&q=september%201918%20rain%20california&f=false</ref></ref>.
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		+	[[File:Westside.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|right\|West Side Fruit Growers Association. From turn of the century photo.]]

	The union had a large twenty acre drying yard and processing plant<ref>How To Co-Operate: Organization of the Growers at West Side, and Working of a Dryer: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP18930715.2.11.11# July 15, 1893 Pacific Rural Press]. Plant handled 200 green tons of fruit a day, and required 150 workers during the height of the season.</ref>,and handled 3,650 tons of fruit in 1893. In 1917, a huge rush of fruit required 23,000 trays to cover 20 acres of ground<ref>Dry-Grounds Saved By Heat From Deadlock. September 16, 1917 San Jose Mercury Herald.</ref>. The company may have had a siding to the interurban line<ref>Supervisors in Regular Session: March 5, 1906 San Jose Evening News. "A delegation from the West Side Fruit Growers union was present and requested the right to lay a railroad switch from the drying plant to the railroad. The switch would cross the county road. The application was referred to Supervisor Roll with power to act."</ref>.		The union had a large twenty acre drying yard and processing plant<ref>How To Co-Operate: Organization of the Growers at West Side, and Working of a Dryer: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP18930715.2.11.11# July 15, 1893 Pacific Rural Press]. Plant handled 200 green tons of fruit a day, and required 150 workers during the height of the season.</ref>,and handled 3,650 tons of fruit in 1893. In 1917, a huge rush of fruit required 23,000 trays to cover 20 acres of ground<ref>Dry-Grounds Saved By Heat From Deadlock. September 16, 1917 San Jose Mercury Herald.</ref>. The company may have had a siding to the interurban line<ref>Supervisors in Regular Session: March 5, 1906 San Jose Evening News. "A delegation from the West Side Fruit Growers union was present and requested the right to lay a railroad switch from the drying plant to the railroad. The switch would cross the county road. The application was referred to Supervisor Roll with power to act."</ref>.

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-The '''West Side Fruit Growers Association''' was a dried fruit packing co-operative located in the Cupertino area on the west side of the Santa Clara Valley.  The association's drying yard and packing house was on Stevens Creek Road near the current Woodham's Road.  The association was founded in 1891<ref>West Side Fruit Growers: March 20, 1891 San Jose Evening News.  Articles of incorporation filed.  Directors for first year are D.H. Blake, A.C. Lydhard, E.G. Hall, Philo Hersey, E.T. Petit, A. R. Woodhams, and S. P. Saunders.</ref><ref>What the West Side Association Has Done: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP18920507.2.18.2 May 7, 1892 Pacific Rural Press.  Article describes the plant, operation, and organization.</ref>, and was merged into the [[Santa Clara County Fruit Exchange]] with the other local organizations.   Charles W. Cutler was the first manager<ref>Robert Couchman, Sunsweet Story</ref>.  [[Colonel Philo Hersey]] was president from founding through at least 1896<ref>Sunshine Fruit and Flowers</ref>. A.P. Saunders was president in 1902.  A. W. Hudson was manager in 1917<ref>The Evaporator and A. W. Hudson, Rain-Damaged Prunes: http://books.google.com/books?id=-ZkmAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA118&ots=7T9PiI4Klf&dq=september%201918%20rain%20california&pg=PA118#v=onepage&q=september%201918%20rain%20california&f=false</ref></ref>.
+The '''West Side Fruit Growers Association''' was a dried fruit packing co-operative located in the Cupertino area on the west side of the Santa Clara Valley.  The association's drying yard and packing house was on Stevens Creek Road near the current Woodham's Road.
-The union had a large drying yard and processing plant,and handled 3,650 tons of fruit in 1893. In 1917, a huge rush of fruit required 23,000 trays to cover 20 acres of ground<ref>Dry-Grounds Saved By Heat From Deadlock. September 16, 1917 San Jose Mercury Herald.</ref>. The company may have had a siding to the interurban line<ref>Supervisors in Regular Session: March 5, 1906 San Jose Evening News.  "A delegation from the West Side Fruit Growers union was present and requested the right to lay a railroad switch from the drying plant to the railroad.  The switch would cross the county road.  The application was referred to Supervisor Roll with power to act."</ref>.
+The association was founded in 1891<ref>West Side Fruit Growers: March 20, 1891 San Jose Evening News.  Articles of incorporation filed.  Directors for first year are D.H. Blake, A.C. Lydhard, E.G. Hall, Philo Hersey, E.T. Petit, A. R. Woodhams, and S. P. Saunders.</ref><ref>What the West Side Association Has Done: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP18920507.2.18.2 May 7, 1892 Pacific Rural Press.  Article describes the plant, operation, and organization.</ref>, and was merged into the [[Santa Clara County Fruit Exchange]] with the other local organizations.   Charles W. Cutler was the first manager<ref>Robert Couchman, Sunsweet Story</ref>.  [[Colonel Philo Hersey]] was president from founding through at least 1896<ref>Sunshine Fruit and Flowers</ref>. A.P. Saunders was president in 1902.  A. W. Hudson was manager in 1917<ref>The Evaporator and A. W. Hudson, Rain-Damaged Prunes: http://books.google.com/books?id=-ZkmAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA118&ots=7T9PiI4Klf&dq=september%201918%20rain%20california&pg=PA118#v=onepage&q=september%201918%20rain%20california&f=false</ref></ref>.
 The Union also had a mechanical dryer; this was only to speed sun drying, and was not intended to fully dry fruit<ref>The Evaporator and A. W. Hudson, Rain-Damaged Prunes: http://books.google.com/books?id=-ZkmAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA118&ots=7T9PiI4Klf&dq=september%201918%20rain%20california&pg=PA118#v=onepage&q=september%201918%20rain%20california&f=false</ref>.  Manager Hudson discussed its use in saving fruit caught in the torrential downpours of mid-September 1917.