Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-02
SAN FRANCISCO BUSINESS HOUSES
MARCUS g. HAwLEY & co.
The agricultural Implement and Hardware
Trada

Inc eRrlculLurdl ImpIcLucHt eau - e>AN" -
Trade.
This firm, which was founded in San Fran
cisco in 1S49, and is one of the pioneer houses
of that city, at the present time occupies the
leading position in their line of trade. The
house was originally known as Hawley, Ster.
ling & Co., and from 1S49 to 1852 did q hard
ware and general merchandise business. In 1852
Mr.. Sterling retired. The name of the firm
was changed to Hawley Co., and from that
time until 1856 it carried on the hardware
business exclusively. In 1856 Messrs. Haw-
lev & Co. imported their first reapers, and
ever sincs that date they have dealt very ex-
tensively in agricultural goods and hardware
of all descriptions. In 1868 the firm name
was changed to Marcus c. Hawley l. Co.,
the present members being Messrs. Walter
N. Hawley and George I. Hawley, who
manage the business in San Francisco, and
Mr. Marcus C. Hawley, who resides in New
York, and who attends to the Eastern re-
quirements of the house. This firm has ex.
hibited remarkable energy and foresight in
the prosecution of their business, their present
status baing the result of untiring and never
failing enterprise and sound business judg
ment and principle. To the credit Of this
house more than to any other cause belongs
the fact of the superiority of the agricultural
machinery used on the Pacific coast they
having given special study and attention to
the peculiar requirements of these imple-
e L. ~, 10,
of this region, which differ 50 materially
from that Of any other section Of the coun-
try, and which requires special qualifications
as to the principles involved In the mechan-
ism of the implements to make them efficient.
Machinery which is suitable to the work re-
auired at the East will not perform as good
work here, and the enterprise OF Messrs.
Hawley & Co. has overcome such. obstacles.
and placed 10 the field long list of agricult-
ural goods, which are notably the best in the
market. Besides such as they have thus per-
fected, they, by their high standing and repu-
tation at the East for business energy, have
brought under their control the sole agency for
the best leading implements sold on the coast.
These gentlemen do not claim all the honor
of having SO perfected their machinery, but
are obligated to the farmers, millmen and
thrashermen Of the coast for many excellent
suggestions, which, after having thoroughly
investigated and found practical, they have
adopted, but only after the efficiency of the
improvements had been proved worthy. The
following IMPLEMENTS, which are included in
the long list handled by Messrs. M. G. Haw-
ley & Co., are recognized as the very best In
the market, and will be SO admitted by every
practical farmer who has tested them. In
the first place, as it is now the blowing sea-
son, it is proper to head the list with the cele-
brated plows Manufactured by John Deere d
Co., of Moline, Illinois, the pioneer steel
pillow skers of the world, whose implements
are used in every soil beneath the sun where
agriculture is known, and the fame of which
as sir Incompatible is everywhere acknowl-
edged. Tens of thousands of these plows are
in use in California and the adjacent terri
tory. The buckeye" mowers and reapers
have been handled by this firm ever since their
first introduction on the coast, they having
imported the flst Buckeye" that came
here. 1t is unnecessary to psnegyrize ma
chine so well known as the Buckeye"
Thew also control the sale of the " Buckeye"
force-feed seed drills, and Buckeye" broad
cast seed sowers, both of which are unequaled
by any others. The Hodges Haines' and
| Hodges Cases headers sold by them are
the leading and most Improved machines for
the purpose in the State, and have become so
by reason Of the great perseverance, of the house
TO cope Win Jue many ODStdClcs lHCiuSuO W ouI
system of farming and the conditions of TIE
grain and climate, but which this machine, in
its highly improved condition, successfully
overcomes. The "Gold Medal f" Separator
| is another instance of the ability of this firm
| to produce perfect machine. which has no
equal here or elsewhere. At first Eastern
machines were imported to the coast; ma
chimes which were well adapted to the work
of an Eastern harvest field in grain ripeEed
under the influence of an Eastern sun and
climate. These were found entirely made
quate to our peculiar conditions, the result OF
their use being the cracking and waste OF
grain, deficient separating CAPACITY, and gen.
eral usslessness. Messrs. M. G. Hawley 4
Co. set to work, and at an enormous expense,
after few seasons, had perfected the Gold
| Medal " Separator. which overcomes every
obstacle, and has the envisble reputation oil
sariRg all the grain, which every other
thrasher wastes; and it will, in given time,
do more work than any other thrasher. A
popularity of the grain in California Is the
lenacity of the capsules which inclose it, and
which the operation of this machine Is de-
signed to overcome. The climate, also,
varies in different sections, that of the in
terior being hot aud dry, whila on the coast
it is damp and subject TO fogs. These
obstacles at first seemed insurmounta-
| ole. How to design q machine suitable for
he localities was the problem, and the Gold
Medal is an evidence of that problem solved /;
il being adapted for all C nditions of grain
and climate, and has received more encomiums
| from farmers and thrashermen than could
be printed on dozen pages of this journal