Pickle Salting Works
1893 - Found in the 1893 annual report was: The new sidings
extensions were as follows:
| Feet | Expense |
Marmont pickle factory | 558 | 454.85 |
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So far not much is found about their tenure in Culver.
It seems the Salting works abandoned Culver in April 1897 tho
the property remained in their name until sometime after the
1908 plat map.
The Heinz Pickle Co., who have a salting house at this place will
erect a new building at Saginaw, Mich. size 400X400, where they
expect to care for the product of 1,000 acres of cabbage, tomatoes,
pickles etc., and will try the experment of raising cauliflower
there this year
WILL BE MOVED
The Pickle Salting Works Will Be Moved From Culver City.
This Step Taken By the Company After Due Deliberation.
We understand that the H. J. Heinz Co. are completing arrangements to
move their pickle salting works from this place to Plymouth or some
other town where they can secure more acreage, ancl have the same placed
upon a permanent basis.
Last year owing to a shortage of acreage the company did not receive near
what they could handle at this place, and as there is no better prospect
for more extended acreage in the future the works will go.
We understand in order to secure this industy, several individuals of this
community put up the money to build the plant, which necessarily will be
lost in the “shuffle.”
Now if this community was greatly benefitted by having pickle salting works
here, we regret that the company feel obliged to move the plant for lack of
patronage Of course the farmers and others directly interested in the affair,
know of its benefits better than we do and hence we have no comments to make.
- - Jan 1 1897.
Thi was found:
1897 - Apr. 20 - Jacob Brucker, of Monterey, has taken the contract to
build the pickle salting works at said place. The building will be 90x180
feet.
and it is ASSMUMED that the Marmont buildings were used to construct it as
this was also found:
The company is tearing down the buildings at this place and moving the
materal to another point, hence this enterprise in Culver is a thing of
the past
Those immediately interested in the business say the company was wholly to
blame, as under the rules and regulations no farmer could cultivate
pickles without a loss, as they were assorted altogether too close;
consequently there was no object in breaking your back picking pickles when
only about half were received at the factory.
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1922 |
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1908 - H. J. Heinz Pickle Salting Grounds |
Its address today is
320 Davis Street