456 HISTORY OF PASADEiNA. 



Frank M. Schamberger of Anaheim. The capital stock consists of $20,000 

 in 200 shares, all of which has been taken, and the company is thus enabled 

 to start full handed. They propose to can fruits, and crystahze ; and also 

 manufacture jellies, syrups and unfermented wines, etc." 



The county records give November 13, 1886, as the date of incorpor- 

 ation of this company. They bought land, erected buildings, and estab- 

 lished their plant on Glenarm street and the Santa Fe railroad. Mr. Hovey 

 superintended the factory work for a while, and produced some excellent 

 goods ; then he opened a store on Colorado street for their sale. But now 

 the "boom" epidemic struck Pasadena ; and all the members of this com- 

 pany caught the fever, and went to speculating in lands and lots ; the fac- 

 tory business was not pushed by them, and it could not push itself— so it 

 went down. The works lay idle for some months. Then in the winter of 

 1888-89 Messrs. Philbrook and Stetson leased the plant, and started the 

 business of canning baked beans, Boston brown bread, mince meat, etc. 

 This firm was succeeded by F. F. Stetson & Co., in the winter of 1890-91 ; 

 and in 1894-95 Mr. Stetson ran it himself. The articles manufactured are 

 canned baked beans, Boston brown bread, L,ima beans, mince meat, plum 

 pudding, and tomatoes ; bottled catsup, and crystalized fruits. Amount of 

 capital, $3,000. Number of employes vary from three to twenty during the 

 season. Amount of first year's business, 1889 — $2,000; amount of last 

 year's business, 1894, $5,000. 



Olive Industry. — The Unio?t of October 16, 1886, said : 

 "The California Olive Co. has filed its articles of incorporation with 

 the county clerk. [Incorporated May 15, 1885.] The principal place of 

 business is Pasadena. The term of existence is fifty years. The directors 

 are Fred J. Woodbury, John P. Woodbury, Byron O. Clark, James R. Rig- 

 gins, and Charles H. Riggins, all of Pasadena. The capital stock is 

 $120,000, divided into 240 shares of the par value of $500 each, and is all 

 subscribed." 



They planted 200 acres to olive trees, up toward the mountains west 

 from the cemetery, intending to erect an oil mill when their trees came into 

 bearing. But the members of the company all went monkeying with the 

 "boom ;" some of them got bit ; and their oil mill project went out with 

 the general collapse. 



Condensed Vegetables Factory. — Started in 1892 by W. R. Baker 

 in a small way, under his own patented process for evaporating potatoes, 

 onions, cabbages, pumpkins, tomatoes, carrots, etc. The water is all elim- 

 inated without letting the natural flavor of the vegetable escape. Amount 

 of capital, $5,000. Number of employes in August, 1895, were fifty. 

 Amount of first year's business, $300. Amount of last year's business, 

 [1894-95] $12,000. The company now consists of W. R. Baker and W. S. 

 Hanaford. Factory at 552 Bradford street, where they own two and a half 

 acres of land for growing vegetables, besides the buildings, machinery, and 



