Rainier Fruit Company exists today as the marketing arm of Zirkle Fruit Company. Lyman Bunting was a 13-year-old orphan in 1904 when he arrived in Yakima, Washington, from Utah to live with his older brother Charles and finish school. Almost immediately, he secured a job with the newly formed Artificial Ice and Cold Storage Company, which was then primarily a supplier of ice for residential customers. Before school, Bunting fed and hitched the horses used by the ice wagons, and after school, he returned to care for the animals when the drivers had finished their routes for the day. Bunting […]