Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-18

/ by the Sacramento river routes The chiel
| landings are but stones throw from the
great warehouses herein described, and goods
are taken with equal care to barge or to car.
The house secures not only direct shipment
| to its patrons, but, in common with other
dealers in Sacramento, can fill orders more
rapidly than is possible to San Francisco
house. This must be obvious Trains and
mails so arrive here that, except in few in
stances, orders received can be filed and the
goods
SENT ROLLING
Toward their destination in the same day. To
the purchaser this is a saving in time of from
two to three and four days as against the
San Francisco market, as orders cannot
reach there from all the north earlier than
business day later than they reach Sacra-
mento. On filling the order, then, there ia
the freight time between San Francisco and
Sacramento, and these all put together often
make up week of lost time, and seldom less
than three or four days. But in addition are
the savings in freight, and these are no incon-
siderable items, and the freightage difference
between San Francisco and Sacramento must
inevitably be paid by the purchaser Of goods
il all cases, and this amounts to from 10 to 90
cents per hundred.
1t must be remembered that the Sacra-
mento house sells at like rate with San Fran
cisco competitors, and often at less rates,
because here there is necessity for less fixed
capital-less money is locked up in property,
greater space is obtained at less rental outlay,
and as consequence the goods need to bear
less burden to be Femunerative to the pro-
prietors. Added to all these things are the
climatic advantages OF this locality, which are
of a decided character. Agricultural goods,
in part or whole of wood, stored in dry at
mosphere are, by large percentage, better
suited for use in the dry valleys and foothills
than like goods which have been kept in a
more humid climate. The handling of heavy
goods is an item of moment, and it has been
shown that Baker & Hamilton handle their
goods with as great ease and rapidity as is
possible to any house, and easier and more
rapidly and with less expense than the great
majority of business competitors. This lessons
the burden on the goods and enables the firm
to extend to purchasers the benefits derived.
1t would be interesting to go ON at greater
length and point out other advantages aceru-
ing to the trade of Sacramento and the house
under notice, by reason Of the excellent COM
mercial situation of Sacramento, its connec-
tion with the Eastern markets, its receipt of
| goods at through rates by rail, its shipping
up river direct from ships, its geographical
centrality, its admirable railroad connections
| with all the State, its climatic advantages,
ETC., but sufficient has been said to direct the
| thoughts of the interested reader in the proper
channel The firm of Baker & Hamilton is
| one of the historic houses Of the city and
| State, its business prominence and its vast
! trade, together with its historical Importance
and its representative character-which is
| typical of the trade of Sacramento generally
| Justify the extended and detailed notice
! thus given it, and compensation is found to
! the journalist for the labor and space given
| to it in the realization that only the truth
has been stated, and that simple justice has
been done in pronouncing the establishment
a thoroughly representative one of the trade,
progress and commercial advancement of the
business of the Pacific coast