Stewart Fruit Company - Revision history

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Robert Bowdidge: Robert Bowdidge moved page Stewart Packing Company to Stewart Fruit Company: Correct corporate name

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Robert Bowdidge moved page Stewart Packing Company to Stewart Fruit Company: Correct corporate name

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 | San Jose || 1911 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Pleasant%20Street%20at%20Julian%20Street,San%20Jose Pleasant Street at Julian Street] ||
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-| San Jose || 1916 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=New%20Street%20at%20corner%20of%20Pleasant%20Street,San%20Jose New Street at corner of Pleasant Street] || Probably 299 Bassett St - building resembles extension at right in group portrait<ref>Group Portrait of Employees at Stewart Fruit Co., San Jose: [http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/jcgpanorama/id/491/rec/9 John C Gordon Panoramic Photo collection, San Jose State].</ref>.
+| San Jose || 1916 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=New%20Street%20at%20corner%20of%20Pleasant%20Street,San%20Jose New Street at corner of Pleasant Street] || Just west of 299 Bassett St - building resembles extension at right in group portrait<ref>Group Portrait of Employees at Stewart Fruit Co., San Jose: [http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/jcgpanorama/id/491/rec/9 John C Gordon Panoramic Photo collection, San Jose State].</ref>.
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 | San Jose || 1931 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Pleasant%20Street%20at%20Bassett%20Street,San%20Jose Pleasant Street at Bassett Street] ||

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 | Armona || 1933 || || Being used by Kline-Simpson as a receiving station<ref>Fresh Apricots Being Packed in Armona Plants.  June 18, 1933 Fresno Bee.  "Apricots are being shipped by truck to Los Angeles from the Stewart packing house In Armona, which is being used by the Kline- Simpson Company as a receiving station. No packing is being done there."</ref>
 | Hayward || 1925 || ||  Built for packing cherries<ref>Building complete, used for cherries: April 23, 1925 Hayward Review.  Building cost $6,500, built by Eugene Strobridge, local head of the company.  Near the Western Pacific tracks.</ref>.
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 [[File:Stewart-fruit.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Advertisement for Stewart Fruit Co.]]
-'''Stewart Fruit Company''' was a California-based fresh- and dried-fruit packer in the early part of the 20th century.  The company was founded in 1904 with $100,000 capital.  There were hints that Stewart was a front for the Santa Fe's efforts to compete with the SP to get fruit shipments from Northern California<ref>Santa Fe Joins With Fruit Men: Stewart Packing Strongly Suspected of Being Part of Plan for Competition: [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1904-05-26/ed-1/seq-14/  May 26, 1904 San Francisco Call] </ref>.   W. H. Stewart and R. E. Lyons were both connected with SP's Southern California representative for their fruit agency, and the VP was connected with the distributor's combine, both closely allied with the SP, but Santa Fe's refrigerator manager hinted that Stewart was being inspired by Santa Fe's new push.  Both principals were also former employees of Earl Fruit.  Lyons had been Alden Anderson's personal assistant while Anderson was general manager of the [[California Fruit Distributors]] and [[Earl Fruit Company]], then left Earl in 1904 to start his own company.  Stewart had been at Earl Fruit as well<ref>R.E. Lyons, of the Stewart Fruit Company, Meets Accidental Death: [http://books.google.com/books?id=X4JRAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA11&ots=EFkUOyvW8s&dq=%22california%20fruit%20shipping%22%20anderson&pg=PA11#v=onepage&q=%22california%20fruit%20shipping%22%20anderson&f=false January 1, 1921 California Fruit News]</ref>.
+'''Stewart Fruit Company''' was a California-based fresh- and dried-fruit packer in the early part of the 20th century.  The company was founded in 1904 with $100,000 capital.  By 1915, the company had thirty packing plants across California<ref>Frank Morton Todd, "[http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/frank-morton-todd/the-story-of-the-exposition-being-the-official-history-of-the-international-cel-ddo-641/page-35-the-story-of-the-exposition-being-the-official-history-of-the-international-cel-ddo-641.shtml The Story of the Exposition], being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal".  1915.  "The Stewart Fruit Company, operating some thirty packing plants
 Stewart was a commission packer or marketing agency, selling fruit from farmers and tacking on a 7% fee to the eastern buyers to cover the packing and shipping costs<ref>W.H. Stewart, Stewart Fruit Company.  In [http://books.google.com/books?id=DL9UAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA177&ots=Vd-bs6qxai&dq=%22stewart%20fruit%22%20w.h.%20stewart&pg=PA177#v=onepage&q=%22stewart%20fruit%22%20w.h.%20stewart&f=false U.S. Department of Agriculture Report #98: Systems of Marketing Farm Products and Demand for Such at Trade Centers].  Article describes the business.</ref><ref>Henry F. Ellis: in George H. Tinkham, [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~npmelton/sjbell.htm  History of San Joaquin County, California], Page 915.  Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic Record Co., 1923.  "In January, 1918, Mr. Ellis became district manager for the Stewart Fruit Company, this being one of the largest concerns in this line in the state, with shipping and packing houses all over California.  They ship strictly on a commission basis, and in 1920 sent out 410 cars of deciduous fruits and grapes from Lodi.".</ref>.  Stewart packed many different kinds of fruit.  They packed oranges, and installed a packing house at the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition<ref>Citrus Fruits: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP19150123.2.40# January 23, 1915 Pacific Rural Press].</ref>.  They shipped plums from Kings County in 1909<ref>Cannery and Packing News: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP19090619.2.7.3 June 19, 1909 Pacific Rural Press].  "The Stewart Fruit Co. expects to ship 150 cars of fruit from Kings county this season. It expects to commence packing 15 cars of plums at Lucerne within the next few weeks."</ref>.  They also packed raisins.  They even had a record sale of cherries in 1920, with one boxcar from San Jose selling for $8,280 in New York<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1982&dat=19200626&id=8x8yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MeQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=830,7685818 June 26, 1920 San Jose Evening News]</ref>.

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 | primary_town = San Francisco, CA
 | primary_dates = 1904 - 1930
-| aliases = Stewart Fruit Co
+| aliases = Stewart Packing Co
 | brands = Signal <ref>Orange crate fruit label: [http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16003coll4/id/767/rec/15 Huntington Library Digital Collection].</ref>
 }}
-'''Stewart Packing Company''' was a California-based fresh- and dried-fruit packer in the early part of the 20th century.  The company was founded in 1904 with $100,000 capital.  There were hints that Stewart was a front for the Santa Fe's efforts to compete with the SP to get fruit shipments from Northern California<ref>Santa Fe Joins With Fruit Men: Stewart Packing Strongly Suspected of Being Part of Plan for Competition: [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1904-05-26/ed-1/seq-14/  May 26, 1904 San Francisco Call] </ref>.   W. H. Stewart and R. E. Lyons were both connected with SP's Southern California representative for their fruit agency, and the VP was connected with the distributor's combine, both closely allied with the SP, but Santa Fe's refrigerator manager hinted that Stewart was being inspired by Santa Fe's new push.  Both principals were also former employees of Earl Fruit.  Lyons had been Alden Anderson's personal assistant while Anderson was general manager of the [[California Fruit Distributors]] and [[Earl Fruit Company]], then left Earl in 1904 to start his own company.  Stewart had been at Earl Fruit as well<ref>R.E. Lyons, of the Stewart Fruit Company, Meets Accidental Death: [http://books.google.com/books?id=X4JRAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA11&ots=EFkUOyvW8s&dq=%22california%20fruit%20shipping%22%20anderson&pg=PA11#v=onepage&q=%22california%20fruit%20shipping%22%20anderson&f=false January 1, 1921 California Fruit News]</ref>.
+[[File:Stewart-fruit.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Advertisement for Stewart Fruit Co.]]
 Stewart was a commission packer or marketing agency, selling fruit from farmers and tacking on a 7% fee to the eastern buyers to cover the packing and shipping costs<ref>W.H. Stewart, Stewart Fruit Company.  In [http://books.google.com/books?id=DL9UAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA177&ots=Vd-bs6qxai&dq=%22stewart%20fruit%22%20w.h.%20stewart&pg=PA177#v=onepage&q=%22stewart%20fruit%22%20w.h.%20stewart&f=false U.S. Department of Agriculture Report #98: Systems of Marketing Farm Products and Demand for Such at Trade Centers].  Article describes the business.</ref><ref>Henry F. Ellis: in George H. Tinkham, [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~npmelton/sjbell.htm  History of San Joaquin County, California], Page 915.  Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic Record Co., 1923.  "In January, 1918, Mr. Ellis became district manager for the Stewart Fruit Company, this being one of the largest concerns in this line in the state, with shipping and packing houses all over California.  They ship strictly on a commission basis, and in 1920 sent out 410 cars of deciduous fruits and grapes from Lodi.".</ref>.  Stewart packed many different kinds of fruit.  They packed oranges, and installed a packing house at the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition<ref>Citrus Fruits: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP19150123.2.40# January 23, 1915 Pacific Rural Press].</ref>.  They shipped plums from Kings County in 1909<ref>Cannery and Packing News: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP19090619.2.7.3 June 19, 1909 Pacific Rural Press].  "The Stewart Fruit Co. expects to ship 150 cars of fruit from Kings county this season. It expects to commence packing 15 cars of plums at Lucerne within the next few weeks."</ref>.  They also packed raisins.  They even had a record sale of cherries in 1920, with one boxcar from San Jose selling for $8,280 in New York<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1982&dat=19200626&id=8x8yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MeQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=830,7685818 June 26, 1920 San Jose Evening News]</ref>.

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 | Hayward || 1925 || ||  Built for packing cherries<ref>Building complete, used for cherries: April 23, 1925 Hayward Review.  Building cost $6,500, built by Eugene Strobridge, local head of the company.  Near the Western Pacific tracks.</ref>.
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 On SP, Sanborn map.
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-| Suisun || 1910 || | Suisun || 1925 || Sacramento St. at West St.<ref>Southern Pacific Company, Station Map Suisun-Fairfield.  1910-1925.  Reprinted in "SP Trainline Fall 2015" (Southern Pacific Historical and Technical Society magazine).</ref> ||
+| Suisun || 1910-1925 || Sacramento St. at West St.<ref>Southern Pacific Company, Station Map Suisun-Fairfield.  1910-1925.  Reprinted in "SP Trainline Fall 2015" (Southern Pacific Historical and Technical Society magazine).</ref> ||
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 | Vicksburg || 1923 || ||

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 | Melvin (Clovis)  || 1927 || || Mentioned in lawsuit.  Mr. Rough was houseman, John Hays was district manager<ref>E.G. Potter vs Jack McFarland, [https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/ca9/briefs/govuscourtsca9briefs1689/gov.uscourts.ca9.06233.b.03.pdf Case #6323, U.S. Court of Appeals for 9th Circuit, 1930].   Case decided October 6, 1930, Fresno.</ref>.
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-| Porterville || 1910- || Next to Southern Pacific depot<ref>Two Acreage Tracts Near City Sold to Southerners and Bring Good Prices: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19100711.1.5&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN------# July 11, 1910 San Francisco Call].  Plant construction under way.</ref>.
+| Porterville || 1910- ||  || Next to Southern Pacific depot<ref>Two Acreage Tracts Near City Sold to Southerners and Bring Good Prices: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19100711.1.5&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN------# July 11, 1910 San Francisco Call].  Plant construction under way.</ref>.
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-| San Dimas || -1933 || Bonita at Depot St.<ref>San Dimas: [http://scph001.home.netcom.com/scph_la_san_dimas.html Historic Packing Houses of Southern California].  The fire also consumed the Santa Fe depot next door.</ref>.
+| San Dimas || -1933 || Bonita at Depot St.<ref>San Dimas: [http://scph001.home.netcom.com/scph_la_san_dimas.html Historic Packing Houses of Southern California].  The fire also consumed the Santa Fe depot next door.</ref>. ||
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 | San Jose || 1911 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Pleasant%20Street%20at%20Julian%20Street,San%20Jose Pleasant Street at Julian Street] ||