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'''Mountain View Fruit Exchange''' was a Mountain View dried fruit packer, founded in 1903, and dissolved by 1909.  [http://books.google.com/books?id=f0NNAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA60&lpg=RA1-PA60&dq=%22mountain+view+fruit+exchange%22&source=bl&ots=oHd7w5KGr4&sig=LCaz0S9eo686NImJ_15T4mR6D2A&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-u6JUarzJ4qG8QSr9YDICA&ved=0CEIQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22mountain%20view%20fruit%20exchange%22&f=false Incorporated May 18, 1903] with $75,000 in capital.  [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rZUkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=p-MFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5010%2C6502421 Officers in 1906] at time of Great 1906 Earthquake were M. Farrell (president), Z.T. Croop, VP, F.A. Poland, Secretary, C. Jesse Titus, treasurer, with H. Morton, J. J. Cutter, and Joseph F. Fritts as directors.  The Mountain View Fruit Exchange was short-lived, with its [http://books.google.com/books?id=i_8rAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=%22mountain+view+fruit+exchange%22&source=bl&ots=E3EBOdV3DA&sig=Qdo__EA8eeZEfSBvPeRC6PaxvsQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-u6JUarzJ4qG8QSr9YDICA&ved=0CEoQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=%22mountain%20view%20fruit%20exchange%22&f=false corporation charter forfeited] by 1909.
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'''Mountain View Fruit Exchange''' was a Mountain View dried fruit packer, founded in 1903, and dissolved by 1909.  The company was incorporated on May 18, 1903 with $75,000 in capital<ref>Report of the Secretary of State: State Corporations: [http://books.google.com/books?id=f0NNAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA60&lpg=RA1-PA60&dq=%22mountain+view+fruit+exchange%22&source=bl&ots=oHd7w5KGr4&sig=LCaz0S9eo686NImJ_15T4mR6D2A&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-u6JUarzJ4qG8QSr9YDICA&ved=0CEIQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22mountain%20view%20fruit%20exchange%22&f=false Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the 36th Session of the Legislature of the State of California]</ref>.  The officers of the company at the time of the Great 1906 Earthquake were M. Farrell (president), Z.T. Croop, VP, F.A. Poland, Secretary, C. Jesse Titus, treasurer, with H. Morton, J. J. Cutter, and Joseph F. Fritts as directors<ref>Quake Damage at Mountain View: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rZUkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=p-MFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5010%2C6502421 June 11, 1906 San Jose Evening News]  The packing house was damaged beyond repair by the 1906 earthquake; the directors planned to rebuild it quickly for storing that year's crop.</ref>.  The Mountain View Fruit Exchange was short-lived, with its corporation charter forfeited by 1909<ref>California Secretary of State, [http://books.google.com/books?id=i_8rAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=%22mountain+view+fruit+exchange%22&source=bl&ots=E3EBOdV3DA&sig=Qdo__EA8eeZEfSBvPeRC6PaxvsQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-u6JUarzJ4qG8QSr9YDICA&ved=0CEoQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=%22mountain%20view%20fruit%20exchange%22&f=false Domestic Corporations Whose Charters Have Been Forfeited, November 30, 1909]</ref>.
  
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Mountain View Fruit Exchange's building was a former grain warehouse.  An 1897 Sanborn map shows the site as Mrs. S. E. Bubb's Grain Warehouse (vacant).  By 1904, the Sanborn map shows a low warehouse only with a dryer in one corner.  The building was levelled by 1906 earthquake, but rebuilt in 4 months according to
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Mountain View Fruit Exchange's building was a former grain warehouse.  An 1897 Sanborn map shows the site as Mrs. S. E. Bubb's Grain Warehouse (vacant).  By 1904, the Sanborn map shows a low warehouse only with a dryer in one corner.  The building was levelled by 1906 earthquake, but rebuilt in 4 months<ref>Nicholas Perry, [http://books.google.com/books?id=VpNa9UckT24C&pg=PA52&lpg=PA52&dq=%22mountain+view+fruit+exchange%22&source=bl&ots=YcHFNduvhD&sig=xpYOQ6XcGrErGanbbcs5lNHo75g&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-u6JUarzJ4qG8QSr9YDICA&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22mountain%20view%20fruit%20exchange%22&f=false Mountain View], Arcadia Publishing.  Shows picture of new building.</ref> .
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[http://books.google.com/books?id=VpNa9UckT24C&pg=PA52&lpg=PA52&dq=%22mountain+view+fruit+exchange%22&source=bl&ots=YcHFNduvhD&sig=xpYOQ6XcGrErGanbbcs5lNHo75g&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-u6JUarzJ4qG8QSr9YDICA&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22mountain%20view%20fruit%20exchange%22&f=false Mountain View Arcadia book].  
 
 
The new building was a three story packing house, with grading on the 3rd floor, box making and storage on second, and packing on first.  There was a separate sulfur house, and separate "facing" room (ground floor, better light?).   
 
The new building was a three story packing house, with grading on the 3rd floor, box making and storage on second, and packing on first.  There was a separate sulfur house, and separate "facing" room (ground floor, better light?).   
  
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[http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085488/1920-03-19/ed-1/seq-3/#words=Mountain+Clara+packing+fruit+Santa+packed+View Pullman Herald March 19 1920 ]
 
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(citing Mountain View Register Leader) about a company in Mountain View that sold the worst prunes:
 
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"A firm of this sort of packers had the Old Mountain View packing house along about that time on a lease.  They bought up prunes whereever they could get them cheap enough, and packed them out of here under the name of "Santa Clara County Prunes".  They did more to damage the name of Santa Clara County fruit and spoil the market for it t than all causes combined had ever been able to do to benefit it.  They were unscrupulous and unfair in their dealings with the growers, and never hesitated to take advantage of them whenever opportunity offered."
 
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Revision as of 16:49, 3 December 2013

Summary
Business

Dried Fruit Packer
Main Location

Mountain View
Active

1903-1909
Successors

Mountain View Packing Company

Mountain View Fruit Exchange was a Mountain View dried fruit packer, founded in 1903, and dissolved by 1909. The company was incorporated on May 18, 1903 with $75,000 in capital[1]. The officers of the company at the time of the Great 1906 Earthquake were M. Farrell (president), Z.T. Croop, VP, F.A. Poland, Secretary, C. Jesse Titus, treasurer, with H. Morton, J. J. Cutter, and Joseph F. Fritts as directors[2]. The Mountain View Fruit Exchange was short-lived, with its corporation charter forfeited by 1909[3].

Mountain View Fruit Exchange's building was a former grain warehouse. An 1897 Sanborn map shows the site as Mrs. S. E. Bubb's Grain Warehouse (vacant). By 1904, the Sanborn map shows a low warehouse only with a dryer in one corner. The building was levelled by 1906 earthquake, but rebuilt in 4 months[4] . The new building was a three story packing house, with grading on the 3rd floor, box making and storage on second, and packing on first. There was a separate sulfur house, and separate "facing" room (ground floor, better light?).

After the Exchange collapsed, the plant was used by the Mountain View Packing Company, which became Sunsweet's plant #8.

Locations

Location Years Address Details
Mountain View 1903-1909 end of Oak Street east of Bailey Road

On Sanborn map. 1904, 1908.

References

  1. ↑ Report of the Secretary of State: State Corporations: Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the 36th Session of the Legislature of the State of California
  2. ↑ Quake Damage at Mountain View: June 11, 1906 San Jose Evening News The packing house was damaged beyond repair by the 1906 earthquake; the directors planned to rebuild it quickly for storing that year's crop.
  3. ↑ California Secretary of State, Domestic Corporations Whose Charters Have Been Forfeited, November 30, 1909
  4. ↑ Nicholas Perry, Mountain View, Arcadia Publishing. Shows picture of new building.
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