Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01
ANIRT UAL REPORT
SACRAMENTO BOARD OF TRADE,
DECEMBER
The City Of Sacramento it's Trade History it's Present
Business Status and Considerations Bearing
It's Future.
The aggregate Trade of Sacramento for 1880 Shown
to be S3l ll2.050
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 81, 1880

The location of the city of Sacramento
was the result of those natural causes by
which the sites of commercial marts are de-
termined and maintained. The discovery of
gold mines in the mountain region lying east
of this city attracted to them large popula-
ton. The supplies for this population en-
tered the then new territory of California by
way of the ocean through the Golden Gate.
The only practicable means of transporta-
ton was by the Sacramento river, then, as
now, a navigable stream for boats of large
class. Sacramento was the nearest point of
supplies for the mining population of Ell Do
RADIO, Amador and Placer counties, and later
for the population of Nevada. From its
earliest history Sacramento has been the seat
of large trade, but until the building of the
overland railroad this trade sustained Sec
ondary relation to that of San Francisco,
which latter city by reason of Its po-
sition on the nearest ocean harbor
made it the primary point of i'm
port and export of products and supplies,
and -s-l:!-7 the chief seat of the rapidly
developing commerce of this coast Later,
the construction of the railway system with
in the State, with grand trans-continental
line for its base and main trunk, developed
an overland and inland commerce of which
Sacramento is the natural center Of distribu-
tion. The steady augmentation of this in
land commerce has been reflected in the con-
stantly increasing trade of this city. This
trade, now upon a firm basis, exists by virtue
of the substantial advantages the location of
this city affords. 1t is commerce primary
in its character, sustaining no secondary re-
lation to that of any other city. Its rapid
growth having attracted attention the stats
tics of its volume became a subject of inter-
est. At the close of the year 1877 these sta
tistics were collected, and presented volume
of commercial transactions amounting In the
aggregate to S25 100000. This volume had
increased at the close of 1878 to S27, 600, 900,
and at the close of 1879 to S29, 27S, 800, and
for the year 1880, as the facts herein pre-
sented show, to S31, 112,050. For the better
promotion of community interests, the
maintainance of commercial honor, the asso-
citation of effort to extend this trade, the Sac
ramento Board of Trade was formed on the
oath day of October, 1877. Its membership
ie composed as follows:
ACKERMAN & co.
ADAMS. McNEILL & CO.
ALSIP. E. X
BAKER & HAMILTON.
BILLINGSLEY & co,
BOOTH & CO.
BREWER d co.
CAPITAL FURNITURE COMPANY.
COLEMAN, W. P.
CoMSToCK, W. D.
CROCKER, II. S. & co.
DENNERY, A. & co.
DREW, N. L. & co.
ELKUS, L. & co.
FILTER, }. /. & co.
FISHER, H.
FRIEND & TERRY LUMBER CO.
GREGORY, J.
HALL, LUHRS & co.
HAwLEY. NJ. C. s. co.
HAMILTON, E. R.
HOUGHToN, W. A. & G. S.
HoLBRooK, MERRILL s. STETSoN.
HUNTINGTON, HOPKINS & co.
KIRK, H. c. & CO.
KNIGHTS, w R.
LIPMAN & co.
LEWIS. L. L. & co.
LINDLEY & co
LYON & BARNES
McCREARY, C. & co.
MILLS, ID. o. & co.
NATHAN, SAMUEL & CO.
PETERSON, w. F.
ROOT, NELSON & co.
SACRAMENTO LUMBER co.
SACRAMENTO PUBLISHING co.
SAWTELLE, C. A.
SCHR0TH, GEORGE.
SMITH, II. G. & co.
STEVENS, C. Fl. & co.
STRONG, W. r. & co.
STUDEBAKER BROS. MFG. CO.
WAREHOUSE LESTER.
wEINREICH, BARTELS i co.
WEINST0CK s LUBIN.
WHITTIER, FULLER & co.
WIEDMANN & HR0MADA.
After due consideration of its value and
Importance this Board of Trade has author
lied its Directory to collate and compile the
illustrative statistics of the trade of Sacra-
mento, and to publish the same, with just
considerations of the present advantages
and future prospects of that trade. This
duty having been discharged in spirit of
candor and fairness, the results, conclusions
and arguments are submitted to the impartial
Judgment of the public.