Kings County Biographies


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CLARK & BECKETT
 
Among the prosperous and up-to-date industries of Corcoran specific mention 
should be made of the successful and progressive concern known as the Clark & 
Beckett Creamery, which, since 1919, has been located on the Dairy road, south 
of this city.  Messrs. Clark and Beckett are specialists in the dairy and ice 
cream business, both having had long experience in these lines, and they are 
achieving a success as gratifying as it is deserved.  Mr. Beckett has been 
engaged in dairy work practically since his boyhood days and is the active 
manager of the Corcoran plant.  There is in connection a farm of three hundred 
and twenty acres, on which they keep one hundred and fifty hogs and the dairy 
itself is of ninety-cow capacity.  Prior to locating the plant here, Mr. Beckett 
looked over practically the entire state of California, but for various reasons 
selected Corcoran as the best all-around dairy section in the state and his 
judgment has been abundantly verified in his opinion since they established the 
plant here.
 
In connection with the Corcoran plant, Messrs. Clark and Beckett are majority 
stockholders in the Bothell Creamery Company, of Los Angeles, extensive 
manufacturers of ice cream, and to supply the latter concern a fleet of 
refrigerator trucks operates between Corcoran and Los Angeles.  Fifty thousand 
dollars is represented in the Los Angeles plant and thirty thousand dollars in 
the creamery at Corcoran.
 
Before joining Mr. Beckett in the creamery business here, Mr. Clark had been in 
Mr. Beckett�s employ at Los Angeles.  He is a very capable, energetic and 
reliable man.  Mr. Bothell, who is one of the best informed creamery men in the 
country, was in the employ of the government in Washington and Oregon for a 
number of years before becoming allied with Messrs. Clark and Beckett.  
Altogether the combination is a peculiarly strong one and one that insures 
success in any undertaking to which they may apply themselves.
 
History of Tulare County and Kings County, California � Kathleen Edwards Small & 
J. Larry Smith, Vol. I, Chicago, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1926, Page 
609

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