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


sPoRTsTMEN's SUPPLIES = SHIRTS - SOAP :
SEWING MACHINES.
Specimens supplies are in steady demand.
The dealers report marked advance IN busl-
ness. Soaps continue to be made here. The
factories report % per cent increase In vol
ume for the year and large interior trade.
Shirts are made By several factories for the
trade, all with good support and growing
business. Sewing machine sales were ina
proved largely, except with one agency. The
others announce decidedly rapid advance
in the business. The aggregates are Sl6l,-
| 600.
UNDERTAKES sUPPLIEs-FURNITURE
Undertakers' supplies are furnished from
Sacramento almost entirely now to the IN
terror. The trade is reported advanced nine
per cent. in that respect Sales, SID, 600.
| Furniture dealers report q slackering Of
trade early in the year, but an increase later.
On the whole year they report an advance.
| All agree as to the area of the market ex-
tending. Competition has been strong by
outside houses. Upholsterers report great
increase Manufacturers report very
great gain III volume and area. Sacramento
made furniture is largely in demand in all
sections of the coast. The local factories
have passed the experimental stage, report
the trade firmly fixed, and say there is moth
ing problematical in the situation now. The
climate particularly favors this industry.
| Aggregate trade, 1916, C0O.
MILLINERY-MARKETs.
The millinery business, so far as outside
trade was concerned, had good year. Prices
were lower, but more were handled. Some
suffered by reason Of heavy home competi-
| ton. No diminution of the city's trade is
reported on the contrary, all the dealers
agree in reporting its influence greater and
the demands ON them increasing. Several
houses enjoyed exceptional prosperity. The
aggregate trade was Sl02, OO0
Market supplies were shipped, exclusive of
| Il g produce reports already treated, by the
several markets of the city, all reporting
rapidly growing trade and large increase in
v,iume of sales. Some Old points have
| dropped off, but shipments have extended to
new ones. Aggregate, S235, 600.
INSURANCE.
The consideration of the business of Sac
ramento naturally involves the aggregate IN
! surance business, but we have not seen MT to
enlarge the showing by including all ia the
aggregates. Ire business of the California
| company having its seat here for the transac-
| ton of life insurance, alone is taken, and the
aggregate of its income alone placed in this
report (; 500. 600.
! CONFECTIONERY, CRACKERS CHINESE HOUSES.
! Chinese houses in underwear, boots and
shoes, provisions, ETC., do a business with the
interior which, as nearly Is can be ascer-
tanned from closest inquiry, is, without being
entirely accurate, at the lowest, $50 COO.
| Cracker bakers, whose business is entirely
| jobbing, report a y-extending trade,
and that the intiusnce Of the city as market
center is being more and more acknowledged.
! With other bakers doing business, proper
- h. Tod hgra no al
shows $4,000 local consumption excluded.
! No business in the city has more rapidly adj
/ vanced OF extended to more points on the
| coast than that of the manufacturing CON
fectioners, who report the trade as increasing
| with them at a remarkable rate. The trade
circuit now touches Southern Oregon, Mon
tana and Colorado, Arizona and Mexico, as
represented by the houses in this lihe. Their
aggregate is S2l6, COO.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Coopering has been pIecarious business
! here-one house reports a depression, and one
q decided advantage ana good outlook. 1t
! is Only recently, however, that the business
! has shown signs of being able to hold its own
against the Eastern cooperage products, and
it does not appear that any large business in
this line can be built up here at present. Car
pets, oilcloths, bags and bagging, wagon COW
ers, etc, upholstery, curtains, holdings, etc,
are dealt in largely. The houses report an
increase of business of fully 10 per cent, one
placing it higher, and enc at the same as
1879 La crockery and glassware all the
houses report decided Improvement. One
demonstrates that its large business
doubled in 1880. the area of business was
greatly enlarged. So, too, for fancy goods,
toys, plated ware (not included in jewelry)
embroidery goods, crewels, fosses, pictures
mot included in the paragraph on paints, oils
and glas.). The aggregate of these lines Is
from eleven houses and Is S3l QUO. Chinese
supplies are shipped from Sacramento by one
house in large quantities. In pianos, musical
instruments and sheet music three houses re-
port an extending trade aud the market area
increasing. One repHrts the trade the same
as in 1879. The others give an increased
volume and hstterif account of the feeling
abroad relative to Sacramento as depot of
supply. The supply is ample here, and the
houses able to fill all demands. The houses
dealing in stoves, tin-ware, sheet metals
and tank goods report 1880 as a
year of great prosperity, with increased
sales, more extended trade ard more goods
handled than ever before. One house alone
failed to find trade advanced, but gave local
reasons for the result in that case. The other
houses give strong evidences Ct great increase
Of business in their line. Aggregate, 1851, eco
In gas and steam fittings the uniform report
is steady advance and heavy gain il volume
Of business. Gas-ftters', plumbers and
steam filters supplies are largely shipped
hence. In the paragraph on hardware some
of these supplies were included. The gas
and steam fittings dealt liz by houses exciu-
sively in those lines and sheet metals are re-
tanned in this paragraph. Buck gloves ere
manufactured to order here, and with one
exception the factories report growing
trade. One announces that the demands OF
the interior are so great as to exceed his
present capacity. Saddle-trees are manu-
featured here, and abroad deemed the
best article produced in any market. Hsr-
ness and saddlery houses report fully ten per
cent. increase in volume Of business, large
extension of area. and that Sacramento Is
daily gaining in trade influence. Aggregate,
1899, Geo Ice is manufactured in the city,
and the demand exceeds the capacity OF the
works Ice agencies sell locally and ship
largely. Yeast cakes and essences are pro-
duced by one factory, which finds the trade
to take all the works can turn out.
Dyeing to order engages considerable capital,
and draws its support chiefly from the in
terror. Marble works report an extending
business, one house fixing the increase IN
value at fully % per cent. The aggregate IS
s51, COO The Graager's Union does large
co-oueratiye business, and has entered upon
shipping trade of promise III farm supplies,
produce. groceries, etc. Ladies wear Is man
ufactured extensively in Sacramento, and
finds large demand from the interior. Elec-
tr;csl instruments are made and supplied to
order, and good business is being built up
in that line 10 connection with plating. Mat
tresses, billiard tables, paper boxes, models,
rag carpetinp, piano repairing, artificial
stone, book binding, vinegar and pickle max
ing are all engaged in extensively and com
| r,opd oood trade aOprepatiup with otherg
and those lines mentioned in this paragraph
without aggregates, and with were omitted
to avoid disclosure of private business, the
sum of s707. 600.
| The Total Trade.
In ascertaining the aggregate of the trade
of Sacramento it will be observed that bank
ing, insurance agencies, outside real estate
: =