California Growers Association
| Business |
Cannery |
|---|---|
| Main Location |
Ontario, California |
| Active |
1915- |
The California Growers Association was a grower's cooperative canner in Southern California. The cannery processed fruit including apricots[1].
The cooperative started in Ontario in 1915, opened a branch in Hemet the next year, and followed with canneries in Falbrook, Elsinore, and Riverside in 1919[2]. Vernon Campbell, a strong proponent of cooperatives, was one of the organizers.
In the hearings over changing the packer's consent decree, a letter from Edmund Nutting Richmond characterized Campbell as "a promoter 100 per cent efficient"[3], complaining the California Grower's Association had been a failure. Campbell, in the hearing, declared that the cooperatives were doing well now, but the first couple years had been harsh. 1915 was a hard year for peaches and apricots -peaches ripened without demand, but bought as fruit falling from trees.
Locations
| Location | Years | Address | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elsinore | 1919- | ||
| Fallbrook | 1919- | ||
| Hemet | 1916- | ||
| Ontario | 1915- | ||
| Riverside | 1919- |
References
- ↑ Cannery Notes: July 1922 Western Canner and Packer.
- ↑ In Packers' Consent Decree: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Sixty-Seventh Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to Senate Resolution 211, to Investigate Matters Concerning the Consent Decree Entered in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in the Case of the United States of America, Plaintiff, V. Swift & Co. Et Al., Defendants. U. S. Senate, March 23 and April 21, 1922.
- ↑ In Packers' Consent Decree: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Sixty-Seventh Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to Senate Resolution 211, to Investigate Matters Concerning the Consent Decree Entered in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in the Case of the United States of America, Plaintiff, V. Swift & Co. Et Al., Defendants. U. S. Senate, March 23 and April 21, 1922.