California Fruit Union
| Business |
cooperative marketing association |
|---|---|
| Active |
-1894 |
The California Fruit Union was a co-operative marketing association, organized in 1883 and incorporated in 1885 to promote California fruit and exercise control over selling locations and prices[1]. Marketing implied both creating a market and serving as a seller, with packers such as Porter Brothers selling fruit in Chicago for the California Fruit Union shippers[2].
The California Fruit Union closed in 1894; xxx stated twenty years later that the Union failed because "the large growers who supplied nine-tenths of the business refused to longer make good of the smaller growers, many of whom would put up inferior fruit which would not pay freight charges[3].
J.Z. Anderson was the president of the organization for a time[4]. In 1886, Horatio P. Livermore was president and H.A. Fairbank secretary[5].
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Images
California Fruit Union application for stock. "An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera" collection, Library of Congress.
References
- ↑ Remarks by Mr. A. T. Hatch, President, California Fruit Union: In Proeedings of California Growers and Farmers Convention, November 1887. Published by California State Printing Office, 1888.
- ↑ California Fruits: August 29, 1891 Sacramento Daily Union. "The Porter Brothers Company sold today at auction, for account of California Fruit Union shippers, seven carloads of California fruit." Fruit sold included Muscat, Tokay, and Sweetwater grapes, Rose de Peru peach, cling peaches, and nectarine, and Bartlett and Buerre Hardy peaches.
- ↑ Edward F. Adams, "Co-operation of California Fruit Growers Twenty Years Later". In March 8, 1913 California Fruit Grower.
- ↑ J. Z. Anderson, in Eugene T. Sawyer, History of Santa Clara County, California, Historic Record Co., 1922.
- ↑ California Fruit Union stock certificate: scripophily.com.
- ↑ Fred Wilbur Powell, "Co-operative Marketing of California Fresh Fruit". In February 1910 Quarterly Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press.