Fruit Driers and Packers' Association

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Summary
Business

Trade Association
Main Location

San Jose
Active

1890

The Fruit Driers and Packers Association was a trade group started in 1890 by fruit driers in the Santa Clara Valley[1]. The association intended to "bring about some uniformity in buying procedures"; previously, verbal contracts and payment thirty days after delivery. The association encouraged a written contract and uniform grading procedures.

Initial members were H. J. Haines (president), W. F. Parker (secretary, Noah J. Rodgets, S. R. Cushing, A. E. Newby, George A. Fleming, L. J. Lathrop, F. R. Shafter, S. A. Moulton, and Frank Buxton.

References

  1. Robert Couchman, The Sunsweet Story, 1967, Sunsweet Growers, p. 28