Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-06-27
Iron Interests of San Francisco.

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One of the best evidences of the growth and
prosperity of community, is the growth OF
Its manufactures. In modern times, and es-
pecially on the Pacific Coast, the manufac-
ture OF iron in its various forms is one of the
most important branches of industry. In
San Francisco the iron interests taken to-
gether form in amount and value the largest
single manufacturing industry in the city or
State. F---
Among the various establishments now do
ing business in that city, there is none which
has had more steady and continuous growth
and development than tire PACIFIC IRON
WORKS, on First and Fremont st,y0s These
works were started in small way as early as
1851, by Barney Hinckley, who came to this
coast at that time from Bangor, Me- Mr.
Hinckley carried on the business successfully
until 1855, when he sold out to Mr. +. b. God
dard and Others, who continued under the
! firm name of Goddard e. Co. With various
changes of individual interests, Mr. Goddard
| continued in the firm until his death in 1864
His surviving partners were the present sole
! proprletors of the works, Ira p Rankin and
A. T: Brayton, who continue still under the
| original firm name, with Geo. w. Fogg an
engineer and mechanic of high reputation, as
general superintendent
In the mean time, however, the character of
the establishment and its work has entirely
changed In the early years the work of a
machine shop and foundry in San Francisco
was mainly confined TO jobbing-such as sup
plying missing or broken parts of agricultu-
raj machinery, repairing engines or other iron
work brought here from the Eastern States
and Europe, making few pilasters or col
umns for an occasional brick building when
the town was nearly all wood, and after few
years building little light and inexpensive
machinery for the gold mines of California.
in t.,
and especially since the later discovery of
what before was only guess, that the pre-
cious metals are found at great depths in the
bowels of the earth, the character of mining
work has completely changed. Quartz mills
are now large, massive and complete in all
their parts, and got up in the highest style of
mechanical skill. Pumping and hosting
works no longer constructed with reference
to depths of 100 or POO feet, but to depths of
sou to 1900 feet-some of them already in
operation being below 1900 feet-have to be
constructed i'll The most massive and substan-
tial manner, and at the present time, nowhere
probably in the world is mining machinery
being made superior to that turned out from
the shops of San Francisco
The Pacific Works have kept up with the
times. They have been constantly adding to
their tools and other mechanical facilities as
the larger and heavier style of machinery re-
CURED has demanded, SO that they are now
fully equipped to do any class of work called
for, to the best possible advantage
AT the present time among other work in
progress they have in hand and nearly com
pleted, pair of engines, with the boilers and
corresponding hosting works for the CONSOLE
dated Virginia and California Mining Cos, for
their new joint shaft on the Great Bonanza at
Virginia City, known the c. Il G. Shaft.
These hosting works when completed will be
by far the largest and most complete which
have yet been erected on the Comstock Lode |
and consequently west of the Rocky Noun
tains.
We advise any of our friends who are in
want of any kind of machinery to go or send |
to the Pacific Iron Works, where from the |
high reputation of the establishment, we are |
confident they will get first-class work at the |
lowest possible prices.
We may add that the Boiler Department of |
the Pacific Iron Works is under the manage |
ment of Mr. John n. Risdon, long known |
throughout the Coast as of the firm of Coffee |
u Risdon, and afterwards of the~Rsdon Iron |
Works, aided by Alr. Tower, latterly foreman
in the above named works.