Puget Sound Bottling Works - Bellingham
The Puget Sound Bottling Works began in 1907 and was led by Raffael Geri along with his brothers Benjamin and Iliario who advertised that they were the "Manufacturers of the Mt. Baker Brand High Grade Carbonated Beverages, All Flavors". By 1919, they listed themselves as the "Exclusive Agents for All Rainier Products" at which point Iliario left the business in 1925 to work as a miner for Bellingham Coal Mines. Benjamin died in 1925 and the plant was sold to Fred Daesener where it merged with the Bellingham Bottling works and remained in the Daesener family into the late 1940's.
Yakima Mineral Springs Co. - North Yakima
The Biggam Brothers began business in 1886 as the Yakima Mineral Springs Company, featuring several different brands of soda including "IronBrew", which was advertised as a "Non-Alcoholic Life Renewer". They bottled some of their earlier sodas in a "Cod-shaped" bottle around the 1903-1904 timeframe which had a marble in its neck and was designed to keep the carbonation inside the bottle from escaping. In 1911, James Biggam along with his brother became sole distributor of the "Kola Nut" soda franchise of Atlanta Ga. for North Yakima. An advertisement in the 1911-1912 Yakima County Business Directory showed them as owners of the Yakima Mineral Springs Company and Yakima Brand Soda Waters which was located at the "End of East Chestnut St". The Biggam Bros sold the business to Robert A. LaBissoniere in 1916.
Walla Walla Bottling Works - Walla Walla
The Walla Walla Bottling (Soda) Works was started by Charles Epler, who had previously owned a soda works in Salem Oregon before moving to Walla Walla in 1884. In 1888, he left the firm to a William Rasmus and moved to San Francisco to pursue other business interests. In 1898, Charles Von Thron who had been a bottler at the Star Brewery in Walla Walla, purchased the company and began to bottle both beer and soda water. Von Thron sold the company sometime by 1911 and the company remained in business past prohibition in 1915 selling soda mineral water and other products.
Rainier Soda & Bottling Works - Seattle
The 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 bottlers of "Angeles Beer" in 1912. They were eventually folded into the J. G. Fox Company by 1914.
Zarembo Mineral Springs Co. - Seattle
The Zarembo Mineral Springs Co. was founded in 1904 by Frank Wadsworth who was an agent for California's Witter Springs Mineral Water which was located at 115 Marion St. in Seattle. The mineral water sold by the company was transported by ship from Wrangell Alaska to Seattle where it was bottled and sold at the plant located at 1304 Grant St. The water was advertised as the "Most Delightful Invigorating WATER in the World for Health and Pleasure" and won numerous awards in various expositions in the 1905 time frame. Wadsworth died in 1907 with his wife taking over the business until appointing Archibald Rutherford as the plant manager. The Zarembo brand was featured at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific_Exposition held in Seattle in 1909 and by the end of the exposition, the company declared bankruptcy. The Zarembo brand resurfaced in 1911 when Henry Henke formed the Zarembo Mineral Water Co. located at 1812 9th Ave. in Seattle and later moved 1110 Bailey St. which by 1913 was known as the Coca Cola Bottling Co. The original Zarembo Mineral Springs Bottling plant at 1304 Grant St. was destroyed by arson in early January 1912 and according to Hencke, the building was covered by insurance.
Pacific Bottling Works - Tacoma
The Pacific Bottling Works began in 1889 at 1532 C. St. in Tacoma with Armitage S. C. Forbes listed as proprietor and featured among its products a variety of Soda, Sarsaparilla, Ginger Ale, Champagne Cider, Mineral Water and Syrups of all flavors. In 1892, the firm was next led by William T. Krebs until 1901 when George H. Halin (previously co-owner of the Yunker Bottling Co. of Tacoma) had taken over the business which by that time was located at 948 South C St. The company was next led by Diego H. Beurhaus in 1915 who remained in that capacity until 1920 when the business became the Yuncker-Pacific Company.
Note: Over the course of its existence, the company utilized a wide range of glass bottles for its products including 4 different Hutchinson sodas, 7 different crown top sodas and at least one version of a blue seltzer bottle.