Difference between revisions of "California Peach and Fig Growers"
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| − | | Malaga || 1922 || || Operating to capacity with figs and prunes in 1922<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&dq=western%20canner%20and%20packer&pg=RA5-PA56#v=onepage&q=western%20canner%20and%20packer&f=false October 1922 Western Canner and | + | | Malaga || 1922 || || Operating to capacity with figs and prunes in 1922<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&dq=western%20canner%20and%20packer&pg=RA5-PA56#v=onepage&q=western%20canner%20and%20packer&f=false October 1922 Western Canner and Packer]</ref>. |
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Revision as of 01:20, 27 May 2016
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Dried Fruit Packer,Cooperative |
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Independent cooperative. Peach Growers association formed in 1916, Fig Growers in 1918, merged in August 1925. Laid low by depression. Also problems that most dried fig growers worked with packers directly. Merged into California Prune and Apricot Growers in October 1932. CP&AG bought dried fig plants in Fresno, Reedley, Kingsburg, and Dinuba.
Locations
| Location | Years | Address | Details |
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| Clovis | 1922 | Grading peaches but forwarding figs to Fresno plant in 1922[1] | |
| Fresno | 1922 | Inyo and Van Ness Street |
New plant mentioned in burned in 1922 and figs were being sent to Merced and Dinuba. Fig Brownies will be packed at Merced.[2][3] |
| Malaga | 1922 | Operating to capacity with figs and prunes in 1922[4]. | |
| Merced | 1922 | 1,125 tons of dried fruit from the plant in 1922 season[5]. |
References
- ↑ California Dried Fruit Packing Houses. In October 1922 Western Canner and Packer.
- ↑ New Home for California Peach and Fig Growers in Fresno. August 1922 Western Canner and Packer
- ↑ California Dried Fruit Packing Houses. October 1922 Western Canner and Packer. "Because of the burning of Plants No. 9 and No. 10 plant at Fresno, the California Peach and Fig Growers will divert figs to Merced and Dinuba. 'Fig brownies' will be packed at Merced."
- ↑ October 1922 Western Canner and Packer
- ↑ October 1922 Western Canner and Packer