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[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UZI0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=I6sFAAAAIBAJ&dq=san%20jose%20golden-gate-packing&pg=804%2C3935591 Elmer Chase obituary]  
 
[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UZI0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=I6sFAAAAIBAJ&dq=san%20jose%20golden-gate-packing&pg=804%2C3935591 Elmer Chase obituary]  
"Secrets of Canning":http://books.google.com/books?id=azFDAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA130&lpg=PA130&dq=king-morse+packing&source=bl&ots=iHjENMU_YO&sig=Gcc6C2wqAKbyCggFehWESVQ5OLI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nKO0UYePA4imqgHfjIHIBQ&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=king-morse%20packing&f=false lists a plant in San Lorenzo in 1886.[[Category:San Jose]]
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[http://books.google.com/books?id=azFDAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA130&lpg=PA130&dq=king-morse+packing&source=bl&ots=iHjENMU_YO&sig=Gcc6C2wqAKbyCggFehWESVQ5OLI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nKO0UYePA4imqgHfjIHIBQ&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=king-morse%20packing&f=false Secrets of Canning] lists a plant in San Lorenzo in 1886.[[Category:San Jose]]
 
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Revision as of 01:26, 14 July 2013

Summary
Business Details
Primary Town San Jose, CA
Primary Business Cannery
Dates 1877 - 1915

Summary

None

Locations

Location Years Address Details
San Jose 1877, 1896, 1904, 1906, 1907, 1917 361 North Fourth Street
San Jose 1893, 1902 361-369 North Fourth Street

Details

Cannery, Incorporated 1877, by W.S. Stevens (brother-in-law of J.M. Dawson who did the first canning and built the [San Jose Fruit Packing] Company.) Managed initially by George Melville Bowman. Managed by Elmer Chase from 1907. Cannery bought by Hunts in 1917.

says the building burned in 1879 and was rebuilt in 1880. Also had a wine cellar destroyed by the fire.

Another history, from

Pen Pictures From The Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, Illustrated (Edited by H. S. Foote.- Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1888.) This company have their works on Julian Street, between Third and Fourth Streets, and was started, in 1875, by W. H. Mantz and W. S. Stevens. It afterwards became the property of a joint-stock company, and was finally incorporated, in 1877, by F. S. Hinds, A. P. Jordan, and H. A. Keinath, of San Jose. The original premises were burnt to the ground, December 19, 1879, and was rebuilt in May, 1880. It is a two-story building, one hundred and twenty feet in length, and eighty in width. The cans used are manufactured on the premises. Employment is given to five hundred persons, principally females. The business is increasing each year, showing a larger export, chiefly to Eastern and foreign markets.

(Transfer of ownership when Bowman died? Wife died August 12, 1915 in SF acc to August 13, 1915 San Jose Evening News). 

History here:

http://www.sfgenealogy.com/santaclara/history/scchist12.htm http://www.sfgenealogy.com/santaclara/history/scchist12.htm

1901: 65,000 cases packed (out of 435,000 in Valley),

mostly going abroad 1940's label 1938 Sunset brand December 1906 ad from Montreal Gazette listing the fruit they sold. Apricots, white cherries, greengage plums, golden drop plums, egg plums, damson plums, lemon cling peaches, yellow crawford peaches, white heath peaches, and bartlett pears were all listed by name

1899 article of "opposition combine" buying multiple canneries.

Elmer Chase obituary Secrets of Canning lists a plant in San Lorenzo in 1886.