Sorry Alf ...
Author: Dragoman
Date: 01-18-2022 - 13:42
Alf Doten Wrote:
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> California & Hawaiian Sugar Co......Claus
> Spreckles, another symbol of America's rise in the
> 20th Century fading into the past.
While Spreckles did have major interests in Hawaii, I do believe that the Spreckles Sugar Co concentrated on refining sugar beets, and was not connected with C&H which refined sugar cane. (I could be wrong, but that is from my brief research, done in the days I worked at 703 Market St in SF, which had been the Spreckles Building once upon a time -- the old office door knobs still had a stylized intertwined CS on them!)
RR connection - apparently Spreckles had its own narrow-guage railroad from the refineries to docks at Moss Landing (near Monterey.