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fixtures necessary to work up six tons of green vegetables per day. In 

 July, 1895, they had in hand orders for 100,000 one-pound cans, and ten 

 tons of 25-pound cans, for shipment to Alaska, Siberia, China, Russia, and 

 to supply whaling ships and other long- voyage vessels. 



Orange Packing. — As early as 1885 the Earl Fruit Company of L,os 

 Angeles commenced buying orange crops on the trees, and packing the 

 fruit in Pasadena — and has continued the business every year, up to 1895. 

 [The Germain Company also tried it two or three years, then dropped out.] 

 The Earl Company operates in all Southern California, with a capital of 

 $250,000. I tried to get a table of its pack in successive years in Pasadena, 

 but could only get a verbal estimate that they had shipped about 150 car 

 loads a year for three years past — a car load being 300 boxes. The average 

 price to growers was about $1 per box, on the trees, for navels, and about 

 75c for seedlings. About 30 men and women are employed here while the 

 work is going on, which includes picking, hauling, washing, packing, box 

 making, car loading, etc. Packery on Glenarm street and Santa Fe railroad 

 in 1895. 



During the winter of 1885-86 the Southern California Orange Growers 

 Protective Union was organized. F. H. Heydenreich became its represen- 

 tative in Pasadena ; and early in '86 he and Byron O. Clark commenced 

 orange packing here, in a building which then stood at the corner of Locust 

 street and the railroad track ; and that year they packed and shipped 35 car 

 loads. Mr. Clark says that growers were getting only 25c per box for their 

 oranges on the trees, from the private packing companies ; but those who 

 went into the Union realized about $1.50 per box. 



During the season of 1886-7 Brent Bro's packed and shipped about 100 

 car loads of oranges from here ; besides what were shipped by the Union, by 

 the Earl Company, and by orchard owners themselves. I requested from 

 the railroad company's books a table of the number of car loads of oranges 

 and dried fruits shipped from Pasadena each year from 1885 to 1895 '> t)Ut, 

 for prudential reasons, the agent was not permitted to furnish me the figures. 



The Pasadena Fruit Growers Association was incorporated De- 

 cember 14, 1893, after several preliminary meetings. C. C. Thompson was 

 the first president and manager ; Dr. Lyman Allen, secretary. Capital 

 stock $15,000, in 1,500 shares of $10 each. There are orange growing 

 districts organized in this county at Alhambra, Downey, Fernando, Glen- 

 dale, Pasadena, Rivera, Vernon, Whittier. These by delegates form the 

 "Semi-Tropic Fruit Exchange" at Los Angeles ; and delegates from that 

 incorporation, together with those from similar corporate bodies in other 

 counties, form the "Exchanges of Southern California," a sort of mutual 

 supreme council for the whole business. The Pasadena Association had 109 

 stockholders in 1894, and 134 in 1895. In '94, operating only a part of the 

 season, they shipped 43 car loads of oranges, mostly east. In 1895, up to 



