DIVISION SIX — BUSINKSS. 455 



F. Kernaghan, president; Prof. T. S. C. I^owe, vice president; R. C. Com- 

 melin, secretary; First National Bank, treasurer; Joseph Wallace, superin- 

 tendent. Capital stock, $75,000. The Board of Trade pamphlet of 1892 

 made the following report : 



"In the season of 1891, the Pasadena Packing Company put up 250,- 

 000 cans of peaches, apricots and pears ; used three carloads of sugar ; em- 

 ployed during the months of July, August, September and October, from 

 seventy-five to one hundred girls, and paid for wages an average of $3.00 

 per week. The establishment canned, in addition to the above, about 10,- 

 000 pounds of strawberries, and dried large quantites of other fruits." 



Fruit Drieries. — Fruit-drying enterprises were carried on in a small 

 way by some growers, to prepare their own fruit for market, ever since the 

 colony had any fruit ; but Joseph Wallace, in 1885, was the first to operate 

 a machine drier here — and it was destroyed by the burning down of his 

 cannery that year. He has done some drying every year, to utilize surplus 

 fruit that was not choice enough for canning. 



J. R. lyloyd for five or six years did a somewhat extensive driery busi- 

 ness, at the corner of Fair Oaks Avenue and Painter street, buying up fruit 

 by the ton to prepare for market by the sunshine process. His was the 

 pioneer commercial driery, others before having been only small, private 

 works. [No figures furnished.] 



C, C. Thompson has also run a driery for many years in his own ex- 

 tensive apricot orchards on North Lake Avenue, and has been one of our 

 heaviest producers of dried fruit. His output was in 1890, four car loads; 

 in 1891, five cars; in 1892, seven cars; in 1893, five cars. Then in 1894 ^^ 

 went into the North Pasadena or Highland association. 



There have been others engaged more or less in the same line whose 

 names and places I did not get. 



May II, 1894, the fruit-growers of North Pasadena organized the Pasa- 

 dena Highland Fruit Association, whose objects were thus set forth : 



"To receive, store, prepare for the market and sell the fruit or other 

 food products of its stockholders, on a strictly co-operative basis ; to take 

 care of orchards of stockholders and gather and deliver the fruit of the same, 

 etc. The principal place of business of the association is at Pasadena, and 

 the term for which it is to exist is fixed at five years. The following board 

 of directors was elected : C. C. Thompson, C. K. Tebbetts, L. S. Porter, 

 Byron Usk, A. R. Clark, H. Cooley and J. E. Smyth. 



This association established a drying yard and procured a lot of patent 

 cutting and pitting machines, and during the season of 1894-95, they 

 shipped 146 tons, or twelve and a half carloads of dried fruit. 



Fruit Crystallizing Works. — The [/nion of November 27, 1886, 

 made this announcement : 



"A company has been formed in this city for the purpose of engaging 

 in crystallizing fruits. The members of the organization are P. M. Green, 

 F. M. Hovey, Byron O. Clark, and James R. Riggins of Pasadena, and 



