Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01
HOLBRO0K, MERRILL d sTETs0N.
Metal WOrks-Iron. Tin. Copper, Zinc
and lrauWare

STOVES AND HOUSE FURNISHING HARD
WARE, 223 AND 225 STREET.
In the front rank of the business houses
of Sacramento, is that of Holbrook, Mer-
rill & Stetson of San Francisco and SAcra-
mente. Its establishment is one of the
largest in the State, and one OF the most
prominent among the business houses of
Sacramento The Sacramento house has
store-rooms that are exceedingly spacious.
They extend through from j street to the
alley on the north, and have immense
breadth and depth. The basement is on a
level with the alley, which has easy ap-
proaches 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
workshops upon the alley, where the stock
of the firm is largely worked up, Civ
ing employment on the average the
year round to over thirty skilled
workmen. The chief business of the
house is wholesaleing, and in this line
its business. perhaps more than any other
in Sacramento, has had rapid advance
ment. The annual showing of its transac-
tions gives it credit for an increase in vol
nigh phenomenal. The, house is selling
now not only more goods than ever before,
but is selling in sections a year ago not on
the trade list, sending, for instance, its
goods as far southeastward as Tucson, A. T.
Meanwhile it has retained all its old trade,
and augmented it. AS manufacturers, this
firm is widely known, it making speciality
of sheet-metal work for tanks and all
classes of reservoir goods. 1t keeps in
stock for the trade not only all kinds of
stoves and ranges, but heavy stock
of house furnishing hardware and all
kitchen, dairy and like utensils, timers,
gasftters' and plumbers stock, pumps,
farm and factory kettles, tin, copper and
sheet iron ware, wire, lead and iron pipe,
etc. 1t makes special 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
buys its goods for its stock of every
description either from England, Ger
many, America or elsewhere, direct from
the manufacturers, and carries stock of all
kinds in such quantities as to supply all
possible orders from the interior, either in
metals dealt IN or manufactured goods.
| There is and can be no need for the trade
of the interior, northeast, or over the
mountains going to San Francisco for sup
plies of the character named, for the firm
keep in Sacramento sufficient supply in
variety and volume to meet the demands
of this market area. 1t demonstrates
beyond all denial that business can be, and
is conducted here on a more economical
basis, and that the benefits resulting can
be, and are availed of by the people of
interior California. The house Holbrook,
Merrill & Stetson, with few others,
stand ont pre-eminently among all the
! business houses of Sacramento, bearing
witness to the integrity of the claims
made for the Capital City, and thus give
tone, character and weight to the oft-re-
peated recital of them. The retail de.
partment of the store exhibits full line
of samples, including every possible uten-
sill of hardware and tinware known to the
farm, the shop, the mandatory or the
household.