California Green and Dried Fruit Company

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Summary

California Green and Dried Fruit Company was a dried and fresh fruit packer in San Jose.

The manager from 1889 to 1900 was George Draper Worswick[1]. The company frustrated the industry in 1895 by opening a second centralized auction house in New York City to sell California fruit[2].

The San Jose packing house site on First Street at Bassett appears to have later become the Porter Brothers packing house.

Locations

Location Years Address Details
San Jose 1898 First Street near Bassett
San Jose 1900 385 North First Street
San Francisco 1900 327 Market Street From San Francisco Call article on rival auction house.

References

  1. George Draper Worswick: Leigh H. Irvine, History of the New California: Its Resources and People, Lewis Publishing Company, 1905.
  2. July 7, 1895 San Francisco Call