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Title: The Glassblower (PH 10-11)(February 1978) Collection Type: Directories and Documents Collection Name: Pamphlets Catalog #: PH 10-11 Author: Northwestern Bottle Collectors Association Published: February 1978 Subjects: Bottle Collecting # of Pages: 16 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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A. Hesse with 1,180 shares worth $118,000; William Hesse, J. B. Fargo, George Gruenewald, Charles Thompson and Joseph May with only 5 shares each worth $2,500 collectively; E. A. Fargo with 100 shares worth $10,000; C. F. Fargo with 560 shares worth $56,000; L. Livingston with 500 shares worth $50,000; O. E. Johnson with 30 shares worth $30,000; and B. F. Bacon with 25 shares worth $2,500. By early 1877 the Boca Brewing Company was in operation. An office was opened on Sacramento Street in San Francisco with William Hesse as superintendent. United States trademark number 4513 was registered April 3, 1877 for the label used on Boca Beer bottles (see Figure 3), and as early as August of that year Boca Beer was being advertised in bottles. Boca claimed itself to be the “only lager beer brewed on the Pacific Coast.”” A supplement to the Western Brewer, published in 1903, would tend to support this claim, at least for a short period of time, since they give Boca as being the first lager beer brewery in California. It is, however, known for certain that John Wieland’s Philadelphia Brewery of San Francisco was advertising ‘‘lager beer’ as early as 1868, which would disprove the claims by Boca and the Western Brewer, since the Wieland Brewery was in existence during the entire time the Boca Brewery was. It seems that the final solution rests upon the criteria by which a beer is judged to be lager. Remember that ice was not readily available until 1869 at the earliest and even then its use by brewers is doubtful. John Wieland’s brew may have been called lager, but chances are the product was somewhere between true lager using ice and steam beer using no ice. In 1882 the Boca Brewery boasted a capital investment of $300,000 and a production of 25,000 barrels per annum with the employment of 80 men. William Hesse was listed in the San Francisco directories as president of the corporation, with William Hesse, Jr. as secretary and J. B. Fargo treasurer. A San Francisco depot was opened on Berry Street near Sth in 1883 in addition to the previously established Sacramento Street office. By 1884 the brewery employed 100 men, and Boca Beer was being shipped to Mexico, Central and South America, Hawaii, Japan and China. In 1886 the Sacramento Street office was moved to Montgomery Street. William Hesse, Jr. was now president of Boca with Henry Wolters, a partner in Wolters Bros. and Company, another firm which embossed BOCA BEER The only LAGER BEER brewed on the Pacific Coast. OFFICEE—406 Mnacramento Aireet. liquor bottles, as secretary and Jacob Endres, who one year previously was a manager for Boca, as treasurer. Jacob Endres became president of Boca in 1887 with Benjamin F. M. Benson as secretary. In 1889 George Keith was listed as secretary and a resident of Boca, California. Jacob Endres was also listed as a resident of Boca. Christian Padelinetti, who had been a proprietor of the Composite Fuel Manufacturing Company, became the local agent for San Francisco. In 1890 only, the Boca Bottling Company is listed in San Francisco with George Steiger as proprietor. Joseph May, while still a partner in Livingston and Company, became Boca’s president in 1891 with Edward May as secretary. The Boca Brewing Company with these two men as officers was last listed in San Francisco in 1894. The exact closing date of the Boca Brewery is not known. Some sources claim that Boca closed during the 1891-1892 period, but the continued listings in the San Francisco directory may indicate production as late as 1894. On January 14, 1898 the lands of the Boca Brewing Company, by this time consisting of 656 acres, were sold to the Boca Mill Company, which had been formed in the late 1870s by the split of the Boca Mill and Ice Company, for $1,000 in gold coin. Grass Ve lley Union Fri, Jan, 13, 1893 p.3 ? pee, __ pletely clestroged by fire mee . s The Beca Vrone© LRP) Mosnda y night.