Although I do not have direct information about Jacob Crocket's odd shaped  
bottle, I recently researched a local olive bottling operation in San Diego  
County that began in 1899. The year before, a woman in San Francisco developed  
an olive pickling process and personally traveled up to the town where the  
Klondike gold miners began their trip to market her olives. She made a  fortune 
and traveled the nation lecturing on how to pickle olives. Our local  man, 
Frank Gifford, learned the technique from her and turned his olive oil  industry 
into one of the largest canned olive industries in southern California.  His 
family sold the business in 1961. But my point here is the neck of the early  
olive bottles resembled Jacob's bottle.
 
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.



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