Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-30
SACRAMENTO PACKING COMPANY.
A Local Institution that Gives Employ
ment to Hundreds.


A Local Institution that Gives Employ
ment to Hundreds.
The Sacramento Packing and Drying
Company, local Incorporation, has gone
far toward solving two very important
questions, What shall we do with our sur.
plus fruit ?" and How can we give EN-.
ployment to our boys and girls 2" 1t will
handle during the present season GOO tons
or over 100 carloads. of green fruit, and give
employment for three or four months tc
from 300 10 400 girls and boys, women anc
men, all white.
The first seasons pack. that of last year
owing to its superior quality, sold readily
upon its merits, ard orders for the present
season warrant the company in putting ur
the immense amount spoken of above.
Yesterday reporter of the RECORD
UNION called at the factory and was shown
about the premises by the Superintendent
b. H. Hulburd, and the President, J. NJ
Avery. 1t occupies the northwest corner
OF Sixth and G streets, at a point where
cars can be tracked almost al
the door of the factory. Originally
the property was known as the
st. Louis Brewery. A large two-story
and basement brick building with forty.
foot frontage and depth of 160 feet is
utilized as storage room for stock. The
front room on the first floor contains the
office and the rear room used for labelling
and casing the canned product. Just west
ofthe brick structure is a one-story wooden
structure, 40xl60, where the work of pre-
pairing and cooking the green product is
carried OH, and is a marvel of neatness and
shows to what extent labor is assisted by
machinery. This building was erected tor
convenience, light and ventilation. The
sides are of lattice-work. which admits of
a free circulation of air. The roof is of
corrugated iron with six-foot ventilator
on the cone of the building for its entire
length. The floor, like that of slaughter
houses, is made of the best class of pine
laid with a slant, which is easily washed
with hose at the completion of each day.
work, and as consequence everything is
sweet, clean, and the senses are at no time
offended by decaying fruit or stagnant
water or refuse Of any kind
The cooking watts, fifteen in number, are
something new, of novel structure, and en-
able the handling of 10000 cans OF fruit
daily in manner so complete and auto
matte that can is never in theileast dam
aged and the operators are secure from
scalds or burns. The watts are of wood.
lined with zinc of uniform size and ar
ranged in two rows. Between the rows
is tramway or railroad thAt carries a
wooden car containing ia cans. These
cars are picked up by machinery. lifted to
the vat containing boiling water, which is
heated by steam, and when the cooking is
complete lifts them cut again with a rapid
ity that is surprising. Side tracks take
the cars of cooked fruit to the soldering
table, where the small vent left from which
to exclude the air is plugged up. They
then are wheeled back for farther cook
ing, and the next time they are taken out
are side-tracked to the shower bath, then
to the cooling groom, where they are ready
for labelling.
The syrups and water used are all fill
tered and strained to secure absolute pur-
ity and cleanliness. The syrups are kept
IN watts on the upper floor AMI descend to
the operating-room by gravity pressure,
where they can be handled with rapiditv
without waste or mussing
A small engine does all the lifting, while
an immense boiler furnishes steam for the
numerous cooking watts. there being no fire
about the premises, except that in the
engine-room.
For soldering they have most complete
arrangement, the irons being heated by
gas, which the company generates in the
basement.
The cutting-room is arranged with low
tables and benches for the operators to sit
upon, and every convenience is made for
the comfort of the employees, such as Dress
ing-rooms and closets for both sexes and
numerous refrigerators of ice water besides
large and commodious wash-rooms. Work
Is mostly done by the piece, although some
are employed by the day.
The Directors of the corporation are J
F. Hill. VIM. Schaw, ]. NJ. Avery, George
3 Smith, P. B. Green, John Studerus, E.
Dieterle, NJ. Kestler, II. g. Smith, A. Meis-
ter. and S. S. Holl, all well-known farmers,
business and professional men.
The Executive Committee consists of
Directors Hill, Schaw, Avery and Stud
erus.
The officers are ]. NJ. Avery. President;
5. Scion Holl, Secretary and Treasurer,
and B. H. Hulburd, Superintendent.
Among the stockholders are majority
of the local fruit-growers. They find in
this factory market for their surplus fruit
and also profit in returns of their invest
ment in stock.
large number of the orchardists on the
Sacramento river are stockholders Not a
pound of their fruit comes to this city; vel
they insist that by supporting this cannery
they keep out Of San Francisco, their mar
ket, one thousand tons of fruit, which keen
up prices, and they know of no other in
vestment which will insure them as good a
dividend as cannery stock.
The company has on hand 10000 two
and half pound cans, and 100, 900 smaller
ones, besides gallon cans for pie-fruit and
an assortment of receptacles, both glass,
Tin and earthern, for jellies, jams and pre-
serves.
Their labels are most attractive and their
"Old Fort Brand appropriate. Il presents
Suffers Fort as it appeared in 1913 at the
time of the discovery of gold. Their Fall
Weight and Gold Dust brands, all
standards, are equally attractive
About the latter part of this week they
will commence putting up cherries and for
that purpose engagements have been made
for extensi.e shipments from the orchard
lists at San Lorenzo.
The Superintendent returned short time
since from business trip east, where be
succeeded in getting agencies established
throughout several of the States and Terri
tories, and quick sales and returns of the
entire stock is thus assured.
Sacramento, owing TO its central location
its numerous orchards in the immediate
vicinity, cheap rates on the river, and the
numerous railroad lines that radiate in
every direction, has facilities for obtaining
fruit enjoyed by no other city or town upon
the coast.