Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-01
STOVES, TINEARE.
Metal Workers Brass, Copper, Zinc,
Gas Fitting,

HOLBROOK, MERRILL & STETSON.
NOS. 223 AND 225 STREET, BETWEEN SECOND
AND THIRD
IRON AND COPPER WORK AND HOUSE HARD
WARE.
In making our annual review Of the bust
ness of Sacramento for the year just closed,
we find that no establishment in the city
has exhibited evidences of more marked
progress and success than Holbrook, Mer-
rill & Stetson, whose trade has reached out
to nearly all parts of the Pacific coast and
extended largely over the transmontane re-
gions. The Sacramento house occupies
store.rooms of the most spacious character
and as well adapted to the business as could
be devised. They extend through from J
street to the alley ON the north, and have
immense breadth and depth. The base
ment is on level with the alley, which has
easy approaches to both Second and Third
streets, thus enabling goods to be taken to
and from the storage departments with the
greatest ease and the least possible hand
ling. In addition there are extensive work
shops upon the alley, where the stock of the
firm is largely worked up, giving employ
ment ON the average the year round to
about thirty skilled workmen. The chief
business of the house is that of wholesal-
ing and retailing stoves and ranges and all
classes and kinds of copper, zinc, tin and
brass ware the manufacture of tanks,
pipes and all classes of reservoir goods, and
the general working up and dealing in of
copper, tin, sheet-iron and zinc goods, and
the supplying of the same to the trade.
The retailing department of the store ex-
hibits full line of samples, including
every possible utensil of hardware and tin
ware known to the farm, the shop, the
mandatory or the household. In the
matter of timers stock, plumbers and gas
filters goods this firm maks a speciality and
supplies the trade to the full extent of every
demand. Itmakes Especial business of work
ing up metals to order for miners, large
agriculturists, manufacturers and others.
Every kind and class of tin, copper and
sheet iron work they engage in largely. 1t
would be interesting, were it proper, to state
in dollars the actual business of this
house, but from the statements already
made the reader may form something of an
idea of its extent. 1t is not, how 5ver, a
violation of confidence to state that in
the year 1879 the business of the firm was
more largely increased than ever before,
both in volume and the extent of the area
of the trade of the honse This house sue
ceeds in clearly establishing the advantages
OF Sacramento over and above that of
the Bay. The reason for this are found in
the immense business of the firm, the great
area required for the storage of their goods,
small fixed capital required here, etc The
location OF the Sacramento house is such
that it can supply orders on the same day
they are received, and the ease of ship
ment enables it to save to purchasers the
usual percentage which is added in less
favored markets, in the way of drayage,
wharfage and extra handling, while the
question of time and freightage in the
transport of such heavy goods is an
essential element realized by all who deal
with the house There is scarcely line of
approved stoves or ranges, either for office,
kitchen or parlor, that this house does not
have in stock. 1t buys no goods from
agents or jobbers, but purchases all its
stock of every description either from Eng.
land, Germany, America or elsewhere,
direct from the manufacturer, and carries
stock of all kinds in such quantities as to
supply all possible orders from the interior,
either in the metals dealt in or mapufac-
tured goods. The house is managed upon
sound business principles and with due
economy, and this, added to the fact that
the business is carried on here at less cur
rent expenses than accrue in the metropolis,
together with the general advar tages accru-
ing to this market, constitute elements of
success which the public now recognizes
fully. If space permitted we might give
some interesting details of the methods of
work in the shops and store-rooms, and of
the labor saving machinery used in this
establishment. All the departments of the
establishment have been during 1879
among the busiest of places in Sacramento
or the State.