Difference between revisions of "Pioneer Fruit Company"

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| San Jose || 1906 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Bassett%20Street%20west%20of%20Terraine.,San%20Jose Bassett Street west of Terraine.] || Plant to [[California Fruit Exchange]], burned in 1907.
 
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| San Jose || 1907, 1911 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Pleasant%20Julian%20Street%20near%20Pleasant,San%20Jose Pleasant Julian Street near Pleasant] ||  
 
| San Jose || 1907, 1911 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Pleasant%20Julian%20Street%20near%20Pleasant,San%20Jose Pleasant Julian Street near Pleasant] ||  

Revision as of 17:17, 7 November 2013

Summary
Business

Dried Fruit Packer
Successors

Virden Packing, American Fruit Growers

Locations

Location Years Address Details
Lodi 1913 Main Street and Lodi Avenue

FE Collins Manager, "Lodi Sentinel, Aug 30, 1913":http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2485&dat=19130830&id=UaAzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=f-4HAAAAIBAJ&pg=3476,5035558

Muir/Martinez

(1923, acc. to Oakland Tribune Aug 14 issue)

Napa None
Newcastle 1905

Placer County.

Red Bluff None
San Jose None 385 North First Street
San Jose 1906 Bassett Street west of Terraine. Plant to California Fruit Exchange, burned in 1907.
San Jose 1907, 1911 Pleasant Julian Street near Pleasant
San Jose 1928 Bassett at Terraine

Details

Fruit packing company associated with California Fruit Distributors. Schism in 1913 when California Fruit Distributors (and their eastern backers) wanted distribution centralized through Atlantic Fruit Distributors, and Pioneer refused. The secretary of California Fruit Distributors backed down; Charles Virden, who had run fruit packing houses in the northwest, took over the secretary's role.

Mentioned in land description in groundwater pollution deed restrictions on FMC land.

Owned by Virden Packing in 1923 ( lawsuit from Zellerbach Paper going after Virden for Pioneer's bills)

Charles Virden solely owning Pioneer in 1926. ( Lodi Sentinel, May 6, 1926 Supposedly sold to American Fruit Growers in 1932 according to Solano Valley History Frank E. Collins bio Bassett Street Visible on G.H. Lawrence 1906 panorama. Building appears to be George Allen Flour company on 1915 Sanborn map.

Newcastle history