California Peach and Fig Growers
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Dried Fruit Packer,Cooperative |
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The California Peach and Fig Growers was a grower-owned cooperative formed in 1916 as the "California Peach Growers". The California Fig Growers, started in 1918, merged with the organization in August, 1925. The company was laid low by depression, and also continually suffered from fig growers wishing to work with packers directly. The company was merged into the California Prune and Apricot Growers in October 1932. CP&AG bought the 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] |
| Reedley | 1917- | 8th Street | Built directly in front of "the old 76 warehouse"[4]. |
| Malaga | 1922 | Operating to capacity with figs and prunes in 1922[5]. | |
| Merced | 1922 | 1,125 tons of dried fruit from the plant in 1922 season[6]. |
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."
- ↑ Kenneth Zach, Reedley.
- ↑ California Dried Fruit Packing Houses. October 1922 Western Canner and Packer
- ↑ California Dried Fruit Packing Houses. October 1922 Western Canner and Packer