Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-02

ramento is gail ing in Importance as shipping
/ point every year, and the crop of other sec
/ tions besides that Of cur own is being handled
| by Sacramento shippers. The larger portion
OF our crop was marketed early. The stoci
| now on hand does not exceed 200 bales. Tht
amount represented by this line was abou
Sl75. GOO the past year.
JEMELRY.
The iswelry business has lost nothing Of
It's Importance in this market. The busines!
improved over that of 1880, with a broaden
ing of influence and extension of area. Ag
gregate, S212, 400.
LINE, CEMENT, POTTERY, BRICKS, ETC.
In lime, cement, plaster, pottery and stone
ware. fire brick, drain-pipe, marble dust
ETC.. the average shows good business. This
quantities sold were greater, but the pei
cent. was lower. There was 20 declinatior
in market influence. Bricks were sold il
about the same quantity as in 1880. The
volume Of business in these lines aggregated
1928, COO.
MARBLE AND GRANITE.
The dealers in marble and granite all report
much increased influence of Sacramento il
the interior, and an advance Of business oi
eighteen Per cent, or $50. 1S0.
MARKETS.
The markets, outside of the wholesale
shippers of fruit and produce, are as fine a:
there are in the State, and represent an order
business proper to be carried into this report.
Aggregate business; S27G900.
MEATS AND HIDES.
In the hides trade, which was large one,
there has been no loss over the previous year.
and some new territory has been added.
| Quite an important business has sprung up in
the purchase, of beaver pelts, which promises
to be extensive, beavers being plenty in all
the streams in this section. The local lard
product has largely supplanted the Eastern
article. Pork-packing held its own in vol
ume and has successfully competed with
Eastern bacon and hams, which, however,
are brought here to be smoked in large quan.
tity Total trade in meats, hides, tallow AID
lard, S2,6S0 $50.
MILLINERY.
TIE millinery business has held lis own as
to area commanded for ,bbirg, and in vol.
ume OF sales the figures given show AN in.
crease in the aggregate of 10 per cent. AS.
gregate, S112. 200.
PAINTS, OILS, GLASS, SASH, DOORS, BLINDS,
PAPER HANGINGs AND ARTISTS SUPPLIES.
Several large houses compete for the whole.
sale trade, which has largely advanced in
Importance. The business has been much
better, has extended into new sections, and
under the influence Of an active competition
in oils etc.. has resulted in great volume OF
sales. In leads and turpentines the largest
stocks have been brought TO this market that
has ever been placed in the interior. One OF
these houses deals largely in alcohol, cement
and plaster. Excluding these two last items
| we place the sales at $898, 600. 1t should be
remarked here that the excellence of the
lumber used in sash and doors here, and the
climatic advantage for storage, are appre-
ciated and causing the opening up Of very
large trade.
sPoRTsMAN's SUPPLIES, SHIRTS, SOAPS, SEW.
IaG MACHINES.
These lines are grouped because of con-
venience and because the advance in each
is the same 1t represents an inci ease of Ii
per cent. Aggregate, SlS5, l50.
sTvvEs, TINwARE, SHEET METALS.
In these lines there has been an advance
(average) of 20 per cent. An exceedingly
large business has been done, and shipping to
the interior has largely increased. Amount,
S46i, 400.
LEATHER, sADDLERY. HARNESS SUPPLIES, ETC.
The saddlery and harness business has been
excellent, and increased in vo.Ume and extent
of area compassed by the trade of the houses.
The reports place the business at 20 per cent.
gain, or S35S, COO. Shoe findings are largely
dealt in.
WINES AND LIQUORS, GRAPES AND BRANDY
WINE AND BRANDY INTERESTS.
The average Of the reports of the wholesale
LIQUOR dealers of Sacramento give an addition
Of Is per cent in both volume of business and
the financial results thereof, with a widely
extended market One house reports the
same volume of business as in 1880; two re.
port less, and ell tie others give from 10 to 20
per cent. increase. None of the cid trade has
been lost. and several nsw points have been
observation-disclosures nlore-house. has been added
TO The tasinsss. Competition of Eastern
houses has coatinued, and they are selling in
Sacramento market il. smaller packages in
order to give the IN a foothold. Sacramento
traders foupdit necessary to work harder than
ever to resist this influence. but they are
ssratiied at finding that their Eastern com
petitors have discovered the credit bust
ness in which they are; compelled to indulge
I'M. growing more hazardous and it daunts
them. They fad that they have overdone
the business in trying. to run cut the
Sacramento houses. The arrangements
made by, Sacramento dealers with
leading Eastern establishments, referred to
successful, and have crowded from the track
Eastern houses of smaller importance.
More California brandy was made the past
year. The largest special bonded warehouse
ontfe coast is l5cated-in this city, and George
Lichthardt is ifhe storekeeper. In October
he received notice from the Collector of the
district that the capacity of the warehouse
must be increased to accommodate the pre-
ductions of grape brandy in the district by
9, 600 barrels, then to be deposited, and that
the increased capacity should be from 80 600
to 14O 600 gallons. Accordingly an addition,
60x134 feet, aud fre-proof, was added at a
cost of So GOO. and resulting in an increase
in capacity of 150, 900 gallons. During the
year two new stills were set up at Fiorin,
and the one at Shingle Springs doubled its
product.
Sacramento county produced of grape
brandy in 1881, los 2S430 gallons, end the
Fourth Revenue District produced 301 $50 "A.
The distillery at Brighton produced 10, 600 gal
Ions. A tax of 80 cents per gallon was paid
upon all these pre- ductions. There was worked
up in this unity in 1881 5000 tons of grapes,
and the grsre crop was one third short. The
Johnston Brandy and Wine Company pro-
duced between 80, 900 and 40, 600 gallons. For
lack of crop the Lschman winery was not
worked The smaller producers made about
100 600 gallons tf wine. The price was better
by about ten per cent. for grapes, taken for
all purposes.
Tie largest raisir-producers of the State
are located within the trade area of Sacra-
merto. The products Of the Gerke, Barrett,
Natoma, Bugbey and Orleans Hill vineyards
were ali worked up in 1881 by Sacramento
hou .es. The Bugbey vineyard produced
about 300 tons Of grapes the Gerke
$50 tons, the Barrett $50 tons, and the Or
leans Hill vineyard $4,000 gallons of wine.
There is now in bond in the bonded ware
house about 100, 600 gallons of grape brandy,
aud by February there viii be 120, ,000 as the
season is month earlier. Brandy has be-
come prominent article of trade here. to
t1e extent Of being purchased in bond by New
York, Chicago, Milwaukee and Philadelphia
houses, and allowed to remain here to age.
The issue of transferable certificates, which
are really negotiable paper, greatly facilitates
this business. Sacramento is the largest
brandy market upon the coast. Brandy is
concentrated goods, and nearly always goes
to market by rail, while wine is heavier goods,
and seeks water lines of transportation.
| Brandy stored in this climate ripens and ages
better than in any other places upon the coast,
one summer here being equal TO three in San
Francisco, because of Sacramento's mean
| summer temperature from 75' to 7S0. The
Internal Revenus Office for the Fourth Dis
| trict is located here and its location largely
facilitates the business of shipment from thi:
point The brandy sales for the year are
1 c.snln Al