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

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space is given to the storage of rope and OF
nails, which rise in package pyramidal piles
from floor to ceiling, and completely I'LL
the whole section, save only one or
two narrow alleY-ways left for passage.
Next on the west is an apartment
of like size to the retail department above,
and here one finds stacked up in great cubes
and lofty piles, cases without number, APP
parently, of handles for all imaginable kinds
of tools-from the smallest to the largest
demanding wooden handles. Here too in
stacks is a vast quantity Of wrapping paper
and hundreds of cases of backing, etc. In
this section one encounters the first OF
great number of racks and shelves, wherein
are stored duplicates of every piece of ma
chinery in which the frm'has dealt for the
last ten or fifteen years. This is one of the
most important departments of the house.
From every duplicate package is taken a
sample piece, and each of these is numbered,
lettered and marked in such manner as to
indicate its character and the exact machine
to which it belongs, and its place therein.
These duplicates are thousands in number,
and require much labor to keep up the or
derby arrangement of them and the constant
REIMBURSEMENT of the stock. Here also are
racks with knives for moving machines, and
racks beneath the sidewalk-for all space is
utilized-for plow duplicates. All duplicates,
by the way, are sold for less than it would cost
to make the pattern here, so that when
the agriculturist breaks or loses any part OF
farm machine he can send to Baker l. Ham
ilton and have duplicate forwarded for a
mere trihe, tenfold less than he can geta like
piece made for, and beside it will be guar
anteed that the duplicate shall fit and work
as well as did the original. In this depart
mens also are boat-oars, rotary chucns, fat
irons, mining fuse, butter-molds, and great
number of odd articles. This completes the
trip around this extensive business house, and
gives one some faint idea of the stock carried
and the extent of the business. The house,
however, beside the San Francisco establish
ment, has
MANUFACTURING BRANCH
Located at San Leandro, where its works
cover no less than ten acres of ground and
embrace a complete brass and iron foundry,
a complete machine shop and a woodworking
department. These shops give employment
constantly to from fifty to seventy -fve skilled
workmen, and turn out annually from Sl23,-
OO0 to $50, 900 worth of finished goods. The
factory makes gang-plows, cultivators, head
ers, harrows, thrashers, hay presses, iron
wagons, seed-sowers, spring wagons, scrapers,
hay forks and rakes, and in fact nearly every
kind of an agricultural tool or implement
demanded by the trade, and takes orders for
anything in the machine line usual to agri-
cultural uses.
THE BUsINFss OF BAKER AND HAMILTON.
| AS this showing must indicate to even the
least thoughtful of readers, the business Of
Baker & Hamilton is one of the most extern
sive On the Pacific coast 1t is the only ag
ricultural implement establishment which /:
at once manufacturer and an importer Of
goods from other manufactures. The house
| has business relations and correspondence
with all the leading agricultural and hard
ware houses of the United States and thu
prominent houses of Europe dealing in linei
of which the California firm keeps supplies
Its relations in this regard are so extended
and complete that it is scarcely possible II
| order an article of the Sacramento house il
any of the hardware or agricultural nipple
ment lines which it has not on hand or canno
speedily supply.
The Sacramento house enjoys especial ad
vantages, all of which accrue to those VIII
deal with it, and many of these advantage
are those which are enjoyed in common b.
all the merchants of Sacramento.
| It's located within few feet of the grea
freight depot of the c. P. R. r., Californi
and Oregon Railroad. California P. R. R
and Sacramento Valley and P. R. r. The.
diverging lines Of railway enable the hous
to ship to all the nothern section of the Stat
and to Oregon and beyond; to the foothi
and mountain region, to Nevada, Utah
Wyoming, Idaho and the far Territories (; t
the central counties north and west; and t
the San Joaquin valley and all the south an
southeast part of the State, through tn
medium of the branch lines or feeders of tn
trunk lines named. By these routes of trans
portation its trade is extended to the riches
sections of the State, and it has the abillt
and facility also to tap the patronage OF Ar
IONA and New Mexico. Indeed, 1t is
geographical fact that Los Angeles ana al
the semi-tropical region thereabout ana al
the great southern valleys are ~ mics nea,s
by rail to the Sacramento than to the Sa
Francisco market.
But in addition to these unequaled railroa
! facilities, the trade of the house is benehte