Mountain View Fruit Exchange

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Summary
Business

Dried Fruit Packer
Main Location

Mountain View
Active

1903-1909
Successors

Mountain View Packing Company

Mountain View dried fruit packer, founded in 1903, and dissolved by 1909. Incorporated May 18, 1903 with $75,000 in capital. Officers in 1906 at time of Great 1906 Earthquake were M. Farrell (president), Z.T. Croop, VP, F.A. Poland, Secretary, C. Jesse Titus, treasurer, with H. Morton, J. J. Cutter, and Joseph F. Fritts as directors. The Mountain View Fruit Exchange was short-lived, with its corporation charter forfeited by 1909.

Mountain View Fruit Exchange's building was a former grain warehouse. An 1897 Sanborn map shows the site as Mrs. S. E. Bubb's Grain Warehouse (vacant). By 1904, the Sanborn map shows a low warehouse only with a dryer in one corner. The building was levelled by 1906 earthquake, but rebuilt in 4 months according to Mountain View Arcadia book. The new building was a three story packing house, with grading on the 3rd floor, box making and storage on second, and packing on first. There was a separate sulfur house, and separate "facing" room (ground floor, better light?).

After the Exchange collapsed, the plant was used by the Mountain View Packing Company, which became Sunsweet's plant #8.

Locations

Location Years Address Details
Mountain View 1903-1909 end of Oak Street east of Bailey Road

On Sanborn map. 1904, 1908.

Details

Mention in Pullman Herald March 19 1920 (citing Mountain View Register Leader) about a company in Mountain View that sold the worst prunes.