Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-02
A. A. VAN WORRIES a co.,
SadGiery, saddlery Hardware. Shoe Find


Saddiery, saddIery Hardware. shoe Find.
ings, Etc, 3e2 and 3e4 } Street.
To the advancement and the prosperity
of Sacramento during the year just ended
no individual Sacramento firm has contrib
uted more materially than has that of A..
a. Van VOORHEES, 4 &C., importers and
manufacturers of and dealers in saddleTy,
saddiery hardware and shoe findings, at
322 and 324 street, between Third and
Fourth streets. The firm, though now
bearing new name, is in fact one of the
very Oldest firms of the city, it having been
established thirty years ago by Rockwell
Stone and El. Vandenberg This firm then
assumed the name of r Stone & Co. In
1868 the composition of the firm was
changed, the interest in it of Mr. Vanden-
berg having been then bought by A. A Van
| VOORHEES,, the present senior partner Upon
the accession of Mr.. Van VOORHEES, he was
made the manager of the business. The
| firm name remained unchanged until July
| of last year. At that date Mr.. Van Voor.
HES bought the interest of Mr.. Stone, ad-
mitted new partners, and the firm name
was changed to its present one of A. a.
Van VOORHEES, & Co. The newly admitted
partners were Messrs. r. G. Irvine and l..
c. Montfort, two energetic and intelligent
young business men, whose long previous
connection with this particular business had
made them extensively acquainted with
its needs and its limitless possibilities. The
steady and rapid growth OF the business
having left the facilities of the first loca-
tion of it insufficient for its transaction, the
building in which it il now conducted was
constructed for its special accommodation.
This building is of brick, having frontage
of 40 ieet on street and being of the same
width to the alley in the rear, distance
of l60 feet. II has three floors, but not
withstanding every device for the econo-
MIXING of space and the concentration OF
work, it has already been found inadequate,
and the firm has had to establish elsewhere
subsidiary workshop. Canvassers for
Eastern establishments, and who know
perfectly whereof they sfirm, unlni-
mously and enthusiastically declare the
Sacramento saddlery and shoe finding es-
tablishment to be by all odds the hand
soonest and most completely fitted one
west CT the Rocky mountains.
OF the five great Pacific coast firms en-
gagged in this business, the other four are
located at San Francisco. Aside from
wider and more far.reaching energy IL at
Sacramento claims for her establishment,
certain indisputable and commonly admit.
ted advantages CT location have made 1t
the conspicuously commanding one of the
coast. One OF these advantages is the con-
siderable one of the smaller rental value of
occupied premises here than in San Fran
cisco. Another and most important one Is
Sacramento's greater nearness TO all the
markets of the north and northwest,
and her cheaper and more numerous
facilities for supplying them. There
are many lessons which Sacra-
mento may very advantageously learn.
One of the most valuable OF these it may
learn from the initial of it's harness and
saddlery establishment. Two years ago
this firm had scarcely customer south of
Stockton. To-day it has customers in
Southern California to the boundary line
in Arizona, and some even in Texas, and it
has obtained them by the very simple but
effective way of sending an agent-a COM
mercial traveller or drummer to look
for them. He had no difficulty in finding
them, por ia demonstrating to them the
advantages that Sacramento can offer over
the Bay firms This fact is fully atte sted
by the daily increase of trade from that
quarter, and it is very gratifying to notice
that the limitless southern country can be
supplied not only as quickly AID as con-
venlently from Sacramento as from San
Francisco, but little more so, for reasons
already given. It is still more gratifying
to notice that the Sacramento firm is even
fair competitor fer the trade of Santa
Clara and Salinas valley, and also for the
towns lying along the south coast, as far as
70 ho hnpa1 that the
RECORD UNION, in its next annual resume,
will be able to record that other enterprises
of Sacramento have fastened to profis by the
example of its harness and saddlery estab
lishment, that other Sacramento drummers
have been sent to look after this most
promising field, and that this city is receiv.
ing its full share of the profitable patron.
age of the south and the southeast. Chief
of the many special manufactures OF the
Sacramento firm is that Of the horse collar.
The collar made here is acknowledged
throughout the whole coast to be the hest
of any manufactured, and in this regard
the Sacramento establishment stands not
only far ahead of all Eastern firms, but
likewise of all the other California ones
All the work OF the Sacramento firm has
Justly earned wide and enviable reputa-
ton that its continued excellence is steadily
Increasing. Next to horse collars, can this
be said especially of saddles. So great has
been the trade OF the Sacramento firm in
these that with capacity for turning out
seventy. five per week, it has not only not
been able to accumulate any in stack, but
it is very hard pressed to supply the
ceaseless demand. 1t is scarcely necessary
to enumerate the different articles of mer
chandise the firm carries It is sufficient
TO say that such stock embraces fully the
three already mentioned distinct lines of
harness, saddlery and shoe findings, and
includes an excellent assortment of these