Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01
wATEREOUsE al LESTER,
Wholesale Dealers in HardwOOds. Car
riaee and Wagon supplies.

NOS 70S AND 10 STREET, SACRAMENTO,
AND Nos. 9l7 TO 92I SEVENTH
STREET, SAN FRANCISCO.
This IS the only house of the interior
that deals in hardwoods, lumber, carriage
and wagon materials. It does business
vast in extent and of the highest import
ance to the State This firm started in
business in Sacramento in 1852, and in San
Francisco in 1862 Its chief sales-room
and Office are at los and 10 street, while
its store.rooms and yards are at 81 to 921
Seventh street, and opposite the Office on
street In the building on Seventh street
three floors are completely packed with
goods. The same may be said of all the
floors on street. They carry all the
Eastern hardwoois that have any use on
this coast The house deals in all wood
wagon supplies, carriage and buggy lumber
and all carriage and wagon hardwood
the latter being a speciality. They deal
largely in finished goods, manufactured
wheels, etc. At this establishment all the
wood of wagons, buggies and carriages,
ready prepared for afhxing the iron work,
can be had This manufacturing OF car
riages and wagons in piece, ready for set
ting up, has grown into an important
business during the last four years
They make now two thousand sets
of wheels per year-from light buggy
to the heaviest freight-wagon wheels.
The wheel work and making of bodies IS
prosecuted by no other establishment on
the Pacific slope, and the Sacramento
house sends great quantities Of this work
to the branch establishment at San Fran
cisco. They have in the rear Of the J
street house job mill running in e0nneo-
ton with the establishment which is con-
stantly employed in cutting out material,
and while they solicit no work from the
outside, yet much is forced upon them.
The great space required by such house,
and such conveniences, makes the question
of fixed capital one Of utmost Importance
In Sacramento but comparatively small
amount is required to be invested in prop
erty for the carrying on of a business of
such magnitude, and consequently the re-
sulting advantages accrue to the purchaser
of goods from firm that is not required
to assess upon its patrons the interest
upon vast amount of capital locked up
in buildings or paid for heavy rentals.
This house is enabled for the same
reason to carry an immense stock and to
supply the entire trade of the interior,
which it does, as well as the adjacent
States and Territories. 1t does the most
business of this class transacted by any
house upon the coast, and is very rapidly
extending its limits and capacity. The
dryness of the Sacramento climate renders
it particularly advantageous for the stor-
ing of all hard lumber, and stock made up
here out of well-seasoned materials is pre-
pared to endure in any other climate. In
fact, no better climate could possibly be
ound for the business. There is no firm in
Sacramento the business of which more
strikingly illustrates the advantages OF this
favored locality for the transaction of bust
ness to the benefit, not only of the business
man, but of the people who, realizing the
economy of trading here, act upon that
knowledge. The firm under notice in the
highest degree enjoys a custom of the best
and most substantial kind, which naturally
draws in its turn, trade to other houses Of
the city.