Olive Trees
From Islapedia
Olive trees were planted on the east end of Santa Cruz Island under the direction of Justinian Caire in the 1880s or 1890s. Caire’s intent was to make maximum use of the island’s resources. By 1917 olives were still being harvested, and by 1922 picking was abandoned. [ See letter book. 1922 abandoned. See Symes.]
In the News~
1905: “Grapes, olives, wine, poultry, sheep and wool are shipped in large quantities…” [Sunset Magazine, Another Treaasure Island by Heatherwick Kirk, 1905 (239)
February 14, 1917 [SCICo]: “At Scorpion there are but two men and the cook. They are engaged in picking olives at Smuggler’s and repairing fence.”
