Rainier Soda & Bottling Works began business in 1903 by John G. Fox & Gustave Zemple and bottled Bohemian Beer and Fox Birch Beer. By 1907 they were manufacturing carbonated sodas and were listed as bottles of "Angeles Beer" in 1912. They were eventually folded into the J. G. Fox Company by 1914.
North Yakima Bottling Works was started by Richard Strobach in 1889 when he constructed a building on west Yakima Ave as the office for the adjacent "Yakima Soda Springs Co.". By mid-1890 orders were ahead of capacity for "Yakima Bottling Works" where Fred Mahler was listed as a proprietor for the sale of Weinhard beer. Sometime later that year the company's name was changed to "North Yakima Soda Works" whose slogan was "Mineral water for all stomach and kidney problems" with the source of the water coming from the Upper Ahtanum Soda Springs located near Yakima. The company was sold to Harry D. Baylor in 1903, changed its name to "Yakima Bottling Works" and began selling a variety of mineral water and soft drinks at that time. In 1909, they joined forces with North Yakima Brewing and Malting on a secret process for the manufacture of apple cider. No further mention of the company occurs after this time.
Note: In researching this company, a variety of newspaper references were made for what appears to be the same business with different names.
The Everett Bottling Works was founded in 1902 by Peter Edward Misgen and Alexander E. Kick, who also founded the Sedro‐Woolley Bottling Works in 1903. In 1906, Kick became sole-owner of the company which bottled a variety of local sodas as well as beer from the Angeles Brewing & Malting Co. of Port Angeles. It stopped bottling Angeles Beer due local Everett prohibition laws taking effect in 1911 and the bankruptcy of the Angles Brewing and Malting Co. in 1912. Kick continued to bottle a variety of sodas until he retired and sold the company to the Pepsi Bottling Co. of Everett in 1961. He passed away in Scottsdale Az. in 1981 at the age of 98.
William Brix (former hotel-keeper) started Pacific & Puget Sound Soda Works around 1880, and eventually took on a Mr. Stewart as a partner. The soda factory was located at 717-1/2 Front Street. In 1883, Brix ran afoul of the law and sold the business to James Morrison and in 1889, Morrison sold part ownership of the company to Herman J. Ritter and George Buxmann. In 1890/91, they bought Morrison's interest and moved the plant to 513 8th Ave where they manufactured soda and mineral water and were agents for the Anheuser In 1894, they purchased F.H. Sheldon & Company, and merged it with their existing firm under the new name "Pacific and Puget Sound Bottling Company". The company engaged in the manufacture, bottling and selling of lager beer, soda water, mineral waters and other beverages, in casks, kegs, bottles and boxes. The company moved to a new location at 1701 8th Ave and remained there until moving to the San Telmo Apartment building located at the corner of Minor and Stewart. The firm lasted past Prohibition and eventually closed the doors sometime around 1920.
Established in Healdsburg, California on June 26, 1886 Mr. Louis Jaffe purchased the Pridham Vineyards comprising of 264 acres of wine and brandy grapes. The firm began business in Seattle on August 4, 1889, just months after the great fire had swept the city. Circumstances forced Jaffe to set up at a location on what was then known as Old Mill Street just above Third Avenue South in a 15x70 ft tent. It was around 1893 that the firm began to show up in city listings and its business was closely tied in with the Imperial Liquor Company whose owner was Joseph L. Jaffe. Throughout its existence it was both a retail and wholesale establishment located at 115-117 Second Avenue South. Jaffe & Co. also owned a saloon in Spokane and a retail/wholesale location from 1892-1915 which closed due to Prohibition.
In 1903, Bernhardt Schade was brewmaster at the locally owned and operated New York Brewing Company. Schade left the New York Brewery in 1902 to start his own brewing legacy, the B. Schade Brewing Co. who's plan was to brew a fine lager and out-produce Spokane Brewing and Malting Co. The Schade Brewery building was built in 1903 at a reported cost of $265,000. The brewery was rock-solid, built of reinforced concrete and brick, with walls three and a half feet thick. The B. Schade Brewery produced beer until Prohibition in 1915.
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