Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01

money transactions through banks, insurance |
md real estate agencies, amounted to $685.
700, 600. In 1878, statement taken showed !
,he legitimate market area of Sacramento to
laye drawn from her business houses S27.-
800, 600 worth of supplies. In 1879, the re-
view made showed that though the year was
marked by trepidation and fear, a repression
If business in many lines, and a general un.
settled state of the public and business mind,
yet Sacramento, in the face of all, did bust.
ness fairly to be credited in her aggregate,
to 500. 273,000, and sold more
staples than ever before. The year 1880
business tone along all lines and most
outlook for the whole twelve
month, along which busy period this report
will now proceed.
PAPERS.
There are published in Sacramento these
journals: The DAILY-REcoRD UNION, the
WEEKLY UNION, the daily evening Bee, the
weekly Bee, the Sacramento semi-weekly
Journal (German), the Jai,us (monthly dem
tai journal), the Sacramento Leader Sunday
the Capital Gazette weekly, and
several casual and advertising sheets, direc-
tories and guides.
The Sacramento Postoffice is the second in
Importance upon the Pacific coast, and but
one other receives or dispatches more matter.
POSTAL STATISTICS AND THE COUNTY ORDER
BUSINESS.
The postal system in Sacramento EMPLOYS
carriers. In 1880. there were delivered 953
letters, 1913, $50 mail letters and
AZ, GA postal cards local letters delivered,
%, 3lS; local postal cards delivered, ID, S74;
delivered. 241,415; letters col
lected, 2S9.371 postal cards collected. 43, 1l5;
collected, 80 020. A partial
showing of the business of the Sacramento
postoffice for the year only can be given, but
it may be stated that the office in the year
issued money orders to the amount of $780,
661 SO, and received and paid money orders
be noted that the great bulk of this last item
represents money sent to merchants of Sac
ramento engaged in what is known as the
country order business, the shipment by mail
and otherwise Of small packages of goods.
These figures are valuable as giving force to
the claims of Sacramento merchants relative
to the country order business and the supply
of the interior with goods outside of large
wholesahng. The postal orders represent,
however, only very small part of the total
receipts by reason of country orders. The
postal statistics for the city also show for the
year 1880:
in plain envelopes upon which postage was
paid by adhesive stamps, 49,, 06S !; number of
letters mailed in special request stamped en-
velopes printed and furnished by the Post
office Department upon orders received
through postmasters, 124, 720 number OF let
tiers mailed in ordinary stamped envelopes,
As, 256 ; number of letters mailed in envel-
opes bearing business cards or return requests
not printed by the Postotfice Department.
395, 252; number of official letters mailed by
officers and employees of the Government,
50, 952; total number of letters, 1,074, 24S
number of postal cards, 123, 62S.
Second-class mail-Number of newspapers
mailed to subscribers or news agents by pub
fishers and news agents, 1,570, 7s4; number
of magazines and other periodicals mailed to
subscribers or news agents by publishers and
news agents, "A. 152.
Third-class mail-Number of packages of
transient printed matter, books, circulars,
ETC., 504, 920.
Fourth-class mail-Number of packages of
merchandise, etc., 79, G92; number of pounds
of merchandise, etc, 81, 20f.
Total number of pieces of mail matter of
all classes, 2,22S, 92S.
There is located at Sacramento one Ct the
most important of the United States land
Offices upon the coast and here too is placed
the internal revenue office for the fourth col
lection district of the coast. The citizens of
Sacramento are convenienced by four and
one third miles of street railway, by the
American district messenger system, and by
telephone exchange. The State Agricult-
ural Society holds its annual expositions here
each fall and the State Legislature assemblies
in the city every other year, in regular ses-
sions CT sixty days. Two prosperous and
successful Building and Loan Associations
exist here, and are the convenient mediums
through which men of moderate means are
enabled to acquire land and erect buildings,
The National Gold Bank of D. o. Mills, the
Sacramento Bank and the Peoples Savings
Bank are the banking Institutions of the city,
hold in trust about SD, G00,000 of the
peoples deposits, and do an extensive
general banking business. All the lead
ing insurance companies have agencies here.
Nearly every branch of business suggested
by the demands of the State Is carried on in
the city. The chief lines are in agricultural
implements, hardware, groceries, liquors, Qill
productions, music goods. boots and shoes.
feed and grain, crockery and glassware, ftssld-
ing and machine making, wagon and carriage
building, tanning, pork packing, brick max
ing turning, box, tub, pail, molding, sash
and door making, paints, oils, paper, print
ing, artists supplies, clothing, hats
and caps, furs, quicksilver, fancy
goods, woolens and cloths, hops,
wool, hay, fruit shipment, produce forward
ing wood, coal, pottery, cement and drain
pipe, shirt and glove-making, vault and iron
work, boiler-rlaking, car. building, jewelry,
book binding, planning, wood and willow ware,
drugs and medicines, dental goods, soap
making, hides and tallow, yeast and tiavoring
extracts, Illuminating and lubricating oils
electrical apparatus, plating. brewing,
brandy-making, liquors and wines, confec-
tionery manufacture, tobacco and cigars,
guns and ammunition, furniture-making and
importing, upholstering, carpets, lumber,
millinery, sewing machines, lime, cement and
plaster, books and stationery, cracker baking,
gas fitting supplies, stoves, tin and sheet
metal working and supply. butchering, mar
bic, granite, spice and coffee, saddlery and
harness, undertakers' supplies, iron and steel,
ice, cordaee, ship chandlery and engraving.
HAY AND GRAIN MARKET.
The volume of business transacted by reg
ular dealers and on the market-pGe
amounted to about $4,000. The following
table presents the prices current for the year
Hay-Ton. Grain-Cwt.