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| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer '''Standard Dried Fruit Co''' was a dried fruit packer in San Jose in the 1930's. In 1934, the company advertised wanting 10,000

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer '''Mariani Packing''' was a Cupertino dried fruit packer. The company later had a packing house in the Japantown section of San Jos

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer Fruit packer or shipper

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer | successors = [[C. L. Dick Dried Fruit]]

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...%22pacific%20coast%20raisin%20company%22&f=false March 20, 1920 California Fruit News]</ref>.

| primary_industry = Dried fruit packer '''Saratoga Packing Co''' was a Saratoga-based dried fruit packer. The company exhibited at 1893 Worlds Fair<ref>[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bi

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer '''Valley View Packing''' was a long-lived dried fruit packer based in San Jose run by the Rubino family (Joseph, Leo, Joe and Sam). The

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...s&f=false Pen Pictures from the 'Garden of the World']. 1888.</ref>. The packer produced 15 tons of apricots the first year.

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer Fruit packing. Photo in Sunsweet history, pg 16

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer [[Category:Dried Fruit Packer]]

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer '''J.E. Abbott''' was a dried fruit packer on the west side of the Santa Clara Valley (modern Saratoga and Campbell.)

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer,Cooperative [[Category:Dried Fruit Packer]]

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...Sunmaid Growers of California''' is a Fresno-based co-operated dried fruit packer. The company was founded in 1912 by a set of local growers, managed by H.

'''Jas. Scosur''' was a dried fruit packer on the east side of San Jose. [[Category:San Jose]][[Category:Dried Fruit Packer]]

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer [[Category:Dried Fruit Packer]]

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...rs in San Francisco Call 1900 list of dropoff sites for [[California Cured Fruit Association]]. The company was supposedly sold to [[Richmond Chase]] in 191

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer,Cooperative ...[[California Prune and Apricot Growers]] in October 1932. CP&AG bought the dried fig plants in Fresno, Reedley, Kingsburg, and Dinuba.

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer The '''Higgins Beach''' Company was a Chicago dried fruit packer. They were listed in 1896 having a packing house located near San Jose's M

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer '''Stapleton-Spence''' is a modern dried fruit packer specializing in dried fruit and nuts.

The '''Lester Brothers''' were San Jose orchardists and dried fruit packers. [[Category:Dried Fruit Packer]]

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...ruit Association]] in 1900<ref>List of delivery spots for California Cured Fruit Association. In [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1900-07

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer,Cooperative The '''Morgan Hill Farmer's Union''' was a grower's dried fruit cooperative founded in 1912. The union merged into the [[California Prune

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer,Cooperative ...very sites</ref>. The group was also a member of the [[Santa Clara County Fruit Exchange]] which represented several of the Valley cooperatives. The organ

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer In San Francisco Call 1900 list of dropoff locations for California Cured Fruit Association.

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer The '''Wayne Packing Company''' was an independent San Jose fruit packer appearing in 1907 and dissolved by 1912.

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...name appeared in turn-of-the-century city directories<ref>Steve Zicovich: fruit. In [http://books.google.com/books?id=MK9KAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA468&lpg=PA468&dq=s

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer '''A. E. Newby''' was a San Jose dried fruit packer. His business was listed in an 1896 city directory.

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer | predecessors=[[Mountain View Fruit Exchange]]

| occupation =Dried fruit packer '''Edmund Nutting Richmond''' ("Ed") was a San Jose dried fruit packer and businessman.

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...Francisco Call 1900 list of drop off locations for the [[California Cured Fruit Association]].

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...re he built a dryer. The company was listed as a fruit packer in 1893, and fruit dryer in 1896

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer Little-known dried fruit packer. Appears in city directories in [http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/u

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer,Cooperative ...=%22Sherriffs%20Brothers%22%20healdsburg&f=false March 25, 1922 California Fruit News].</ref>.

| primary_business = dried fruit packer '''Pacific Fruit Exchange''' was a San Francisco-based fruit packer.

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...mpany. He will establish depots in a number of cities, bringing California fruit into market there.</ref>. Sanborn maps show the company in a two story bui

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer | aliases=Lossckuhn and Larger Dried Fruit Packers and Shippers

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...hing, Chicago, 1926.</ref> and in Concord (with control over the [[Concord Fruit Company]] in 1898). Alden Anderson also had an outpost in San Jose, showin

| primary_business=Dried Fruit Packer '''Knowles Brothers''' was a San Jose-based dried fruit packer, run by [[W. C. Knowles]] and [[Frank J. Knowles]]. The company took over

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer '''J. F. Ulrich & Co''' was a dried fruit packer and nut oil processor in San Jose in the 1900-1910 range.

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...n the 1893-1894 season<ref>The Sunsweet Story</ref>, and dried 500 tons of fruit in 1896-1897.

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...A. Coe. In 1891, the company expected to sell around 60 carloads of dried fruit<ref>Agricultural Notes: Santa Clara: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&

| primary_business=Dried Fruit Packer '''California Green and Dried Fruit Company''' was a dried and fresh fruit packer in San Jose.

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer The '''San Jose Dried Fruit Company''' was a dried fruit packer in the San Jose area, incorporated in 1891 by W.H. Wright, Stillman A. Moul

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer | successors = [[California Fruit Canners Association]]

| primary_business = Cannery,Dried Fruit Packer 1946: Specialty was packing fruit cocktail, brands: "Wool's Fancy", "Betty's Best", "Sundipt". Distributor w

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer '''H.E. Losse and Company''' was a dried fruit packer in San Jose, and the successor company to [[A. C. Kuhn %26 Company]]. The

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...d to dry the fruit. William Mortimer shipped a special train of 10 cars of dried fruits and nuts from Niles to Chicago in 1891. This was a new and bold vent

...f>San Francisco Call 1900 list of dropoff locations for [[California Cured Fruit Association]].</ref>. [[Category:Dried Fruit Packer]]

| primary_business=dried fruit packer ...s.%20j.%20spoelstra%22%20san%20jose&f=false August 1919 Western Canner and Packer]. The plant was to be built near the SP tracks.</ref>. The building would

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer '''John S. Roberts''' was a dried fruit packer, active in San Jose from 1934 to 1945. J.S. Roberts had been a vice presid

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...&q=western%20canner%20and%20packer&f=false October 1922 Western Canner and Packer].</ref>.

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer,Cooperative ...ted to double or triple that amount in 1901 because of a new warehouse<ref>Fruit Union Rents Large Warehouse: July 17, 1900 San Jose Evening News</ref>.

'''M. J. Passetta''' was a San Jose-based dried fruit packer and shipper.

| occupation =Dried fruit packer '''John Ballou''' was an early fruit packer in California. Ballou shipped the first prunes from California to the east

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer The '''Gem City Packing Company''' was a dried fruit packer in Los Gatos. The company was probably founded in 1913 (based on the timin

The '''Big Orchard Drying Establishment''' was a drying yard and dried fruit packer started by [[Fred W. Crandall]] and William Rice. The pair grew peaches an

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer Chicago-based fruit packer and wholesaler. In 1902, advertised it would sell prunes and cured fruits i

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer '''Elijah S. Whitney''' ran a fruit packing house in Los Gatos around 1900. Whitney was born in Maine, but move

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...ant. A 1907 advertisement bills the company as packers of green and dried fruit, and packed cherries<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5jcyAAAAIBAJ

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...hipper. The company was listed as a fruit shipper in 1896, and as a fruit packer in other years.

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...n. The site appears on both 1884 and 1891 Sanborn maps. The company sold dried fruits and nuts and desiccated coconut<ref>L. G. Sresovich. In [http://www

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer '''C. L. Dick Dried Fruit'' was a dried fruit packer in the San Jose area from the 1930's through the 1950's. There's evidence

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer | brands = Thistle<ref>Warren Dried Fruit bought by Airline Food. NY Times May 6 1948.</ref>.

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer,Cooperative | aliases = Willow Glen Fruit Growers Union

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer | aliases = Curtis Fruit Company, Los Gatos Drying Works (1902)

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer [[File:Hamlin_fruit.jpg|240px|thumb|right|Hamlin Fruit packing house, 2011]]

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...age&q=%22sanitary%20fruit%20company%22&f=false January 27, 1917 California Fruit News].</ref>.

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer '''E. B. Howard & Company''' was a dried fruit brokerage run by [[E. B. Howard]], with ties to the Armour meat-backing com

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...ng from 1892 through 1917. The company was busy, packing 160 carloads of fruit in its final year<ref>F. H. Holmes: in Eugene T. Sawyer, [http://www.maripo

| primary_business=Dried Fruit Packer '''O. A. Harlan & Company''' was a San Jose-based dried fruit packer in existence before 1917. The company was operated by [[Orrin A. Harlan]],

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...interested in fruit-raising, and in packing seasons worked for the Curtis Fruit Company of New York. ".</ref>.)

|occupation = Dried fruit packer ...]. " Mr Losse came to San Jose about 28 years ago and engaged in the dried fruit business until he retired in 1906. He held a large interest in the Vendome

| employer = [[J. W. Chilton Fruit Packing]], [[Porter Brothers]] | occupation =Dried fruit packer

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...o Call]. California Supreme Court ruled "In the case of the E. E. Thomas Fruit

Owner of [[Andrews and Coykendall Ham Company]], an old dried fruit packer, and general manager for [[Sunsweet]] / [[California Prune and Apricot Grow

| primary_business= dried fruit packer The '''Williams-Brown Fruit Company''' was a San Francisco-based dried fruit packer or agent. The company was incorporated in February 1894 in San Francisco w

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...nois.edu/cgi-bin/illinois?a=d&d=CHP19191018.2.258 October 18, 1919 Chicago Packer</ref>

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer,Cooperative The '''East Side Fruit Growers Union''' was a grower's cooperative on the east side of the Santa C

|occupation = Orchardist, grocer, dried fruit packer '''Curt V. F. Roemer''' was a Santa Clara valley dried fruit packer and businessman. Roemer operated the [[San Tomas Drying Company]] packing

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packing '''Madison and Bonner''' was a California-based dried fruit packer founded by James Madison and [[Charles G. Bonner]]<ref>1908 San Francisco c

...acker [[Griffin and Skelley]], and eventually became [[Del Monte]]'s dried fruit plant, Plant #51.

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer '''C. M. Webber and Company''' was a Chicago-based wholesaler, with a dried fruit packing plant in San Jose. The company appears in [http://digitalcollectio

| aliases = Cushing's Fruit Dryer '''S.R. Cushing Cannery''' was a cannery and dried fruit packer run by [[Stephen R. Cushing]] in San Jose's Willow Glen neighborhood. Lit

|employer = [[Warren Dried Fruit Packing]], State of California |occupation = Dried fruit packers, assistant state purchasing agent.

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer '''Abinante and Nola''' was a small independent dried fruit packer in San Jose. Abinante

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...itchell, Superintendent, and Ed Trojan, office manager. Winchester Dried Fruit's license was suspended around 1940 due to "claims of growers against the c

...onta Vista Packing Company''' was a Cupertino-based canner and dried fruit packer in the early 1920's. W. Allen was the superintendent. William W Brelte, a ...epage&q=cannery%20work%20campbell&f=false November 1922 Western Canner and Packer].</ref>.

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...epage&q=z.%20t.%20croop%20mountain%20view&f=false April 3, 1910 California Fruit News].</ref>.

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer | successor = [[Sanitary Fruit Co]]

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...and Frances A. Paddock<ref>Articles of Incorporation, Central Santa Clara Fruit Company, July 11 1903. In California State Archives.</ref>.

...=western%20canner%20and%20packer&f=false September 1922 Western Canner and Packer]</ref> The company was founded by V. O. Lawrence. By 1920, the company op ...Clara Valley. The [[Hyde Cannery]] in Campbell and [[Higgins-Hyde]] dried fruit pack in San Jose both used Lawrence to take control of their products so th

...ary cookers (see photos in the Gordon collection at San Jose State), dried fruit processing equipments, and at some point built [[Faegol]] tractors as well. ...e&q=%22greco%20canning%22%20plant&f=false February 1917 Western Canner and Packer] has photos of the new plant.

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer,Cannery ...e son of a California immigrant; his brother, J.H. Herbert was also in the fruit industry. Herbert sold his [[George N. Herbert Packing Company]] packing

...r =[[E. B. Howard & Company]], [[S. A. Moulton & Company]], [[E. E. Thomas Fruit Company]] | occupation =dried fruit packer, dried fruit seller

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer and Canner ...lley started packing oranges in Riverside, California, pioneered the dried fruit industry, and eventually moved into canning. Founders were Willard M. Grif

| primary_business = Cannery, dried fruit packer ...Company was operating at Race and San Carlos (in the former [[E. E. Thomas Fruit Company]] plant, but burned to the ground on December 24, 1901<ref>Packing

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer | predecessors = [[Riverdale Fruit Company]]

| primary_business = Fruit Dryer | predecessors = [[George_A_Fleming_Company | Fleming's Fruit Dryer]]

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer,Cooperative The '''Campbell Farmer's Union Packing Company''' was a dried fruit packing co-operative located in Campbell.

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer [[File:abram_block.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Postcard view of Abram Block Fruit Packing House with lug boxes and wagons visible.]]

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer | predecessors = [[Stillman A. Moulton drying yard]], [[San Jose Dried Fruit Company]]

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer,Cooperative ...umb|right|Receiving office, Campbell Fruit Growers Union. From "Sunshine, Fruit, and Flowers"]]

| primary_business = Dried fruit packer '''Royal Packing and Drying Company''' was a fruit packer and dryer at the beginning of the 20th century. The company had a packing

.../ref>. The company was George Frank's new venture after selling his dried fruit business to [[California Prune and Apricot Growers]]. ...g#v=onepage&q=%22ainsley%20cannery%22&f=false July 1918 Western Canner and Packer] .</ref>

...eld superintendent for the Distributors. Mr . Ellis retired from the Cured Fruit Exchange while it still was in good condition about a year ago and has been ...the exchange still managed to become "the most extensive cooperative dried fruit packing and marketing association up to that time"<ref>Robert Couchman, "Su

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...ed in the fruit business, and the company slowly switched to a dried fruit packer. After his death in 1904, his sons [[Frank Coykendall]] and Horatio G. Coy

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...other principal. The name varied: the company was listed as Phoenix Dried Fruit in 1904, and as "Phoenix Raisin Seeding and Packing Co" in 1906<ref>Oct 6,

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer [[File:Sorosis_Fruit_Company_1905.jpg | 240px | right | thumb | Sorosis Fruit Company, 1905. Alice Iola O'Hare photo]]

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer | successors = [[John S. Roberts dried fruits]]

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...cisco-based grocery wholesaler which turned into a significant dried fruit packer, operated by Albert N. Castle and Arthur H. Castle. In operation from the

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer,Cannery ...ing at Third and Keyes during the 1919 season<ref>Wanted: Women to Work In Fruit: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1982&dat=19190919&id=DtgxAAAAIBAJ&s

...g exists to collect and record the history of the dried, fresh, and canned fruit industry in San Jose. It's ok to stretch outside these boundaries to relat ...so intended for historical and detailed information about San Jose and the fruit industry - articles that may be not be [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip

'''Dee-Hi Food Products Company''' was a fruit dryer near Campbell, California that existed in the early 1920's. ...&f=false May 1922 Coast Banker], p. 579.</ref>, was director<ref>Wholesale Fruit Merchant Is Manager of Dee-Hi Co: [http://books.google.com/books?id=ALdJAA

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer, Cooperative The '''Los Gatos Fruit Growers Union''' was a fruit growers cooperative.

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer | successors = [[Virden Packing]], [[American Fruit Growers]]

| brands = Edenvale (dried and canned), Heart's Delight, Everybody's Brand, Gold Belt ...crate label from Richmond-Chase, intended for wholesale 30 pound boxes of dried prunes. The "70-80" notation indicates that 70-80 prunes would weigh a pou

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...ne.com/photo/A989B7B2-E86A-4693-B23C-970537493803 photo of Los Gatos Cured Fruit Company, 1914]. History San Jose collection.</ref>

...rnia%20prune%20and%20apricot%20growers%22&f=false July 20, 1918 California Fruit News]</ref> | primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer

|occupation = Dried fruit packer, canner ...golden%20gate%22%20%22hunt%20brothers%22&f=false April 13, 1918 California Fruit News].</ref>, but quickly left and teamed with E.N. Richmond to form [[Rich

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...fruit%20news&amp;pg=PA2#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=fals May 27, 1911 California Fruit News]</ref>

...&f=false Mida's Trade-Mark Register of Canned Goods]</ref>, Today's canned fruit<ref>Official Gazette of the U.S. Patent Office: [http://books.google.com/bo ...and invested in) [[Central California Canneries]], and ran their own dried fruit packing houses. The company apparently may have moved headquarters to San

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packers ...wspapers?id=7CoiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QaQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=820,2782774&dq=chilton+dried-fruit&hl=en September 12, 1903 Evening News]</ref>.

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer | predecessors = [[Pioneer Fruit Company]]

...http://sacoldcity.org/?page_id=7 Organization history.]</ref>. California Fruit Exchange was headquartered in Sacramento. ==California Fruit Exchange in San Jose==

This page documents important events in the history of the dried fruit industry in the Santa Clara Valley. '''1858''' market glutted by oversupply of fruit.

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer,Fresh Fruit Packer | successors = [[Armour and Company]], [[Di Giorgio Fruit Company]]

...nner and Packer]. "... organized along the same lines as the co-operative fruit producers of the State..."</ref>. The company appears to have worked with ...California. Canned goods were responsible for twelve million boxes, dried fruit 12.5 million, cantaloupes six million, and wine grapes twenty million. Bet

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer, Cooperative ...Side Fruit Growers Union]], [[Berryessa Fruit Growers Union]], [[Campbell Fruit Growers Union]]

The '''Mayfair Packing Company''' was a San Jose-based dried fruit packer founded in 1931 by Joseph Perrucci. Mr. Perrucci was born on Delmas Avenue ...ell the plant at 631 Sunol Street, but Homer Hamlin (principal of [[Hamlin Fruit]]) and R.S. Butler who had leases on the drying yard protested.

|occupation = Dried fruit packer, canner, orchardist. .../1900-07-29/ed-1/seq-25.pdf list of delivery spots] for [[California Cured Fruit Association]] on the "west side" of the Santa Clara Valley. Hyde was activ

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer and also had apple and other fruit orchards in Watsonville and Pacheco Pass. When one year's tomato crop was

| predecessors = [[Campbell Fruit Growers Union]] ...t was from the Santa Clara Valley; Ralph Hyde visited Ceres in 1914 to buy fruit<ref>[http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/54400568/ July 29, 1914 Modesto Eve

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer | brands = Signal <ref>Orange crate fruit label: [http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16003coll4/id/

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer,Cooperative ...&q=western%20canner%20and%20packer&f=false January 1923 Western Canner and Packer]. Attempt to manufacture cooking oil from prune and apricot kernels. Sunsw

...estern%20canner%20and%20packer%22&f=false February 1922 Western Canner and Packer] ]] ...age&q=western%20canner%20and%20packer&f=false June 1921 Western Canner and Packer]. "Mac Schuckl, head of Schuckl & Company, San Francisco and New York, ret

...>. Swift sold its final interest in Libby's in 1940 as part of the 1920's Packer's Consent Decree<ref>[http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1939/11/19/page/41 ...cker, had bought Libby's in 1888, but sold the company as part of the 1920 packer's decree.

...he California Cured Fruit Association in 1900<ref>List of California Cured Fruit Association drop-off sites, [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066 ...87/1900-07-29/ed-1/seq-25.pdf list of delivery spots] for California Cured Fruit Association)

...put primarily went to the east coast, with apricots going to England. The fruit sent to England was often used as raw material for jam making<ref>Alba Cann Alba Canning was sold in 1921 to Japanese fruit and vegetable growers as the [[Santa Clara Produce Company]]<ref>Japs Purch

Herbert Plant Has Tremendous Fruit Output ...dustry for a quarter of a century, and Mr. Barthold is an expert in “green fruit” and canning.

| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer ...1967, Sunsweet Growers</ref>, commenting on their business model of buying fruit and hoping it would sell for more when actually sold.

...rchard%20city%22%20canning%20campbell&f=false July 1919 Western Canner and Packer]</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=skpPAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA50&lpg=R In 1915, the cannery packed 1,500 cases of canned and dried fruit, two boilers, employed between 45-50 cannery workers during the season....

...kelley]], [[Central California Canneries]], [[J. K. Armsby]], [[California Fruit Canners Association]], [[Alaska Packers Association]] ...Del Monte''' or by the '''CalPak''' nickname) was a major canner and dried fruit processor founded in 1916. The company dominated the industry and Californ

One opponent in particular, Aaron Sapiro, lawyer for the [[Fruit Growers of California]], filed a complaint against the company in 1919 clai ...s. It does for the green fruit what the dried fruit operators do for dried fruit."</ref>.

...former owner of the [[J.F. Pyle Cannery]], and superintendent of the dried fruit plant was George Holmes<ref>New Cannery Is Inspected: [http://docs.newsbank ...tion&hl=en July 2, 1940 San Jose Evening News].</ref>. Neuroth had been a fruit buyer but later was associated with D. C. Kok Sr. in organization of United