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A photograph taken outside the Mohr and Yoerk Meat Packing House at 1024 J Street, the company occupied this building from 1862 through the rest of the late 19th century and into the 20th. Equipped with an ice house, this facility processed a significant number of pigs, along with slaughterhouses near S Street and 22nd Street. In 1911, they moved to a location on K Street across from the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament. As a supporter of the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, Fred Yoerk led other businessmen in threats of mass withdrawal due to the Chamber allowing anti-monopoly Grangers to meet within their facilities. They went out of business in 1931.
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