Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-21
A NEW INDUSTRY.
THE SACRAMENTO PACKING AND
DRYING COMPANY.
They Have Commenced Operations
and Give Employment to 100
Women, Girls and Boys.

Inc Sacramento City and County I'M
proVement Association has succeeded in
benehting this city in many ways. The
Improvement of the streets, the planting of
shade trees, the establishment of the per-
manent exhibit building are all the out
growth of this association. and from the
amount of work laid out they have scarcely
entered upon their work One of the
grandest results of their labors is the Sc
curing the establishment of fruit cannerv
at Sixth and G streets. 1t was
suggested several months ago and the
simple suggestion was sufficient for
men of means to Immediately
take hold Of II. The plan was proposed.
and in less than two weeks matured. in
corpoTated and its success guaranteed. The
men who were mostly interested in the
new industry were those who saw the ne
cessity OF making Sacramento what she is
destined to be-a manufacturing town
Her location gives her all the advantages
of a commercial center. Here are the
finest orchards in the State; tons of fruit
go to waste annually for want of local
market to handle it, and hundreds of
women and children are compelled to re-
main in idleness or go elsewhere for en-
ployment because there is no local demand
for such labor
1t was incorporated under the name of
the Sacramento Packing and Drying
Company" Its officers are as follows:
Executive Committee-William Schaw. of
the Huntington Hopkins Company, J. NJ.
Avery, ofthe California Furniture Company.
J. F. Hill, the Pioneer carriage and wagon
manufacturer and John Studerus, the
well-known orchardist. C. H. Cummings
is Treasurer and S. S. Holl Secretary. They
purchased the property at Sixth and G
streets, some years ago used as a brewery
The building is two.story brick extending
from street through to the alley, dis
lance of $50 feet. The location could not
be better, as carloads of fruit can be
unloaded at the door. The first thing the
Executive Committee did was to select a
Superintendent, one who could bring to
the business experience in that line and
full knowledge of it in all its details. They
secured for this important position Byron
81. Hulburd of Placerville, a gentleman
with years of experience in that line, and
he at once entered upon his duties, and in
short time transformed the old brewery
into what is now one of the most complete
and best arranged canneries upon the
coast. All the modern Improvements are
used in this institution, and every
thing is so arranged that the hand
ling of the fruit can be done
in manner which saves it from bruising,
and the canned product must be equal to
that put up in any other cannery in the
State. All the cans of full fruit are ham
died in trays placed on miniature railway
cars, which are handled on movable tram
way, and the hundreds of pounds of fruit
are lifted in and out of the cooking vats by
one man, aided by machinery, as easily as
lady would put IN or take out pan of
biscuits from the stove oven. All of
the machinery is labor. saving, and in
the handling of the fruit one man
can do as much as ten in other
similar institutions. One thing for
which this company should receive credit
is the fact that no Chinese are EMPLOYED.
The old cry that there are some portions of
| the work that cannot be done except by
Chinese does not hold good in their case
| The handling of the fruits in the cooking
watts is done with such ease that there is no
| difficulty IN finding men who are willing
| to do the work, and, in fact, they are not
| in the least troubled with the heat
The building is well ventilated. The
| house built for the operators-women,
| boys and girls, who assort, pit and prepare
| the fruit for the canning-is latticed on the
| sides, and has a large ventilator in the roof
the other. Here are tables, ten, twelve and
fourteen feet long, where the fruit is pre-
pared.
The cannery started up last Monday
morning and by noon was running with as
much regularity as could be looked for in
an old and well-established business house
Yesterday when a RECORD UNION reporter
looked in he found 120 persons at work
and the result of their days labor was
nearly 5000 cans of peaches. They do not
pay by the piece, but all who come are
hired by the hour and paid from to 12l
cents, according to their capability. Some
work II and II hours. All who desire
] to sit down at the tables can do 80. Rooms
| for hats and cloaks are conveniently ar
ranged. Tanks of ice water are centrally
located, water closets are new and perfect
and the drainage of the premises is most
excellent. The company purchased thirty
| five tons of fruit last week, and for the
balance of the season they will work the
factory up to its fullest capacity.