Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01
CAPITAL WOODEN MILLS,
Factory sixteenth and c Streets: Depot,
store-reom and Tailoring Depart

store.roon and Tailoring Depart
ment SIC j street.
The Capital Wooden Mills is one of the
leading manufactures of the State. The
works occupy two full blocks of ground,
and the city buildings are go feet long by
60 feet in width, with additions and 81. "
The factory is four.set mill, operating
seventeen looms. At the hight of the sea-
son the works engage about l25 hands. The
mills were established in 1870. In 1875
they were totally destroyed by fire. In the
fall of 1876 they were rebuilt. The SuperiD-
tendent and President of the company rs
S. Tryon, one OF Saeramento's best-known
and most industrious citizens. The full
capacity of the mills is the working OF
| 200 pounds of wool per day. The mills
make hannels of all grades, cassimeres,
blankets of all grades usual to the trade
and OF all usual co!ors; tweeds, waterproofs,
stocking yarn, etc. So much for the fac
tory, which is fitted with the best and
most improved machinery, and into which
is brought, as the trade increases, other
new and improved machinery. Next, as
to the second department of this great in.
dustry. This is the cloth house and tail.
oring branch, located at SD J street, be-
tween Eighth and Ninth. These depart
ments, at that point occupy two full
floors, each 10 by 80 feet, with work
room of two floors, each go by 20 feet.
The store is itself one of the most spacious
in the city, with an attractive glass front,
glance through which into the interior,
packed from floor to ceiling with warm
woolens, heecy blankets and soft fannels,
gives to one the most comforting and salts.
factory of physical sensations The tailor.
ing department employs from thirty.five to
forty hands, and is supervised by a thor
oughly competent cutter and filter. Here
is made up to order gents and youths un-
derwear and gents and youths suits, and
much of ladies' wear to order, and at rates
that run level with the most advantageous
and the cheapest, and in general that
are lower and better than those of rivals in
this business. The advantages the mills
offer are positive and undeniable. The Gus.
toner selects his goods to suit from all the
vast product of the factory is measured
on the spot, and in the briefest possible
time receives his clothing made up to a
perfection of fit, and after the very best
methods of merchant tailoring. There can
be in this system no sloppy work made.
The interests dependent upon and behind
the work are too great to be endangered
by permitting any shpshod or unsatisfac.
tory work to be done. This is strong
guarantee to the purchaser, which grows
stronger as one reflects upon it. This de-
partment makes speciality of filling or.
a h,oa for tath he bate Ho,,
nels and yarn, and also of making up suits
to order, gentlemen's clothing complete,
youths the same, and cloaks, ulsters, etc.,
for ladies. To this end it sends samples
of cloths on application and in all leading
sections keeps samples with reputable
houses. Its goods command large pat
ronage, and the trade of the mills now ex-
tends from Oregon into Arizona, from San
Francisco into Utah and beyond. The
fact that the Capital Mills sell to jobbers
in San Francisco very largely in the very
teeth of the San Francisco factories is one
of the best of cards for it. Its goods now
turned out are superior in quality to
most Eastern goods, because while the
make is as good as the best, the cloths are
pure wool, but Eastern goods contain in a
majority of cases cotton. The manage
ment has had frequent application to sell
the products OF the mills in Eastern mar
kets, but thus far the coast consumption
has been ample. The business of the
Capital Mills is steadily expanding, and
its trade is commanding larger area OF
territory every year, and especially is its
tailoring department attracting more and
more of attention, and the demands upon
it augmenting as its peculiar advantages
and claims become better and more widely
known.