The farm was an ideal location with respect to the Burns family meat packing plant. This changed in 1871, when an ice machine was installed in a packing plant. He was a shoeshiner and pizza delivery boy before working at a meat packing plant. The city was even home to the world's largest walnut packing plant. A Swift and Company packing plant is located near Hitch Ranch. Her father worked in a packing plant and her mother was a secretary. The meat packing plant was in Mexico as well. Orange groves were planted, with the first fruit packing plant built in 1869. The last remaining sardine packing plant in North America is in Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick. Pangnirtung Fisheries Limited operates a packing plant to process local turbot catches. A huge packing plant was built in 1911 by the Spokane Valley Growers Union.