Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-29

racks to the cars, or vice versa
| with ease and in less space thar
if otherwise situated. Here, too, in upright
| racks and along the walls, are stored vas
quantities of iron and pipes, in bundles bear
| ing the manufacturers guarantee metal tae
| as to quality and measurement, SO that the
goods can be shipped almost on instant order
Here can be found vast quantities Of black
sheet and galvanized iron of all the thick
| nesses and sizes known to the trade; also
gas, water and steam pipes in like variety
wrought iron, lap welded, etc. The racks
show Norway shoe-shaped and Swedish bal
| iron Norway round, square and oval iron
| frog and blister steel, round machinery steel
planer and drill steel lay, tool and cast
steel; heavy fat are square tool steel
refined iron, steel and bar iron, punched
strap Tor track, iron. band, hoop oval
half oval and half-round iron, etc.
The west 40 by 1G0 feet of this section i:
the coal house. From the L-street level ar
incline descends into the center of the build.
ing and to the alley level. Thus teams can
drive in from either grade and out at the
other, atfording every facility for the receipt
and discharge of stock. On either side OF
the drive way incline are the coal bunkers,
above which is stored cask coal While an
immense supply of coal is kept thus stored, it
represents only part of the stock of this
firm, as coal is constantly shipped to the Gus
toners of the firm direct from car and barge,
which never passes through the warehouse at
ALL In these warehouses are stored other
goods, such as buggy, wagon and carriage
springs, light and heavy tires, and galvanized,
painted and black barbed fence wire in variety.
Nails, spikes, wire, and other heavy goods
also find storage here.
just outside the city limits the firm has a
T.. % bnr ~
of the Oriental powder mills, and also of
the Hazard Powder Company of which pow
ders, with fuse and like supplies, the house
carries large stock, besides large variety
of pistols, guns, sportsmans goods, anglers
supplies, twines and cordage from silk line
to a hawser- cable. blocks, pulleys, tackle, etc.
THE EMPLOYEES
Of the firm number 80, who are actively and
constantly engaged about the buildings de-
scribed, in Sacramento. The San Francisco
house has spacious storerooms on Market
street, at its junction with Bush, where also
a heavy stock OF goods is carried. The facil-
tiles of the firm for doing business are obvi-
Gus, and may be briefly summed up as fol-
lows:
1. The firm has business relations with the
leading manufacturers and producers of goods
in its line throughout the world.
.. 1t conducts business in a city where
local expenses are far less than in the metrop-
oils 1t has not great fortunes locked up in
:" fixed capital, but its capital is mainly IN
the goods and business, and not in houses and
lands which yield no returns.
8. It carries the most extensive stock Of
any one firm on the coast. 1t has an old and
long-established business, and the centrality
Of the location of Sacramento enables it to
receive goods on the best of terms and ship
with greater ease and rapidity than is posi-
BILE at other points.