Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-02
CAPITAL WOODEN MILLS.
Factory. sixteenth and Street, Depot,
store.room and Tailoring Depart.
ment. S22 q Street

This establishment is one of the most
prominent industries in the city and State,
not only, but the Capital Wooden Mills
have become generally known as one of the
leading and most successful manufactures
upon the coast. The works occupy two
full blocks OF ground, and the buildings
are $50 feet long by go feet in width, with
additions and 81" The mills were estab-
lished in 1870 In 1875 they were totally
destroyed by fire. In the fall of 1876 they
were rebuilt The factory is four-set
mill, operating seventeen looms. Many
important improvements have been made
recently and others are in progress, with
view to increasing the facilities of the mills
for turning out goods. These improve
ments are in the machinery and furnish
ings, making them to include all the
latest inventions. These changes will
be completed early this month, when
greater productions than in the past,
with improvement in the already celebrated
superiority of the goods produced. There
is now demand far more than the mills
have heretofore been able to manufacture,
and as soon as present works IN making al
terations are finished, the mills will be run
to their full capacity, probably employing
about l25 men, in order to supply existing
demands The Superintendent and Presi-
dent of the company, S. Tryon, is one Of
Sacramento's best-known and most thor
oughly industrious and enterprising citi
zens. The full capacity of the mills is
the working of l,200 pounds of wool per
day. The mills make fannels of all
grades, cassimeres, blankets of all grades
usual to the trade and Of all usual colors !;
tweeds, waterproofs, stocking yarn, etc
A second department of the company S
business is the cloth and tailoring house
branch, located at SD street, between
Eighth and Ninth. This branch occupies
two full floors, each ITO by 80 feet, with a
work.room of two floors, each so 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, feecy blankets and
soft fannels, gives to one the most COM
forting and satisfactory Of physical sensa-
tions. The tailoring department employs
from thirty five TO forty hands, and is
supervised by thoroughly competent and
popular cutter and filter. Here is made
up TO order gents and youths underwear
and gents and youths suits, and much of
ladies' wear, 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 customer 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 perfection of fit, and
after the very best methods. There can
be In this system no second class work
made. The interests dependant upon and
behind the work are too great TO be en-
dangered by permitting any slipshod or
unsatisfactory work TO be done. This de-
partment makes speciality of filing orders
from abroad for cloths, blankets, fiannels
and yarns; also suits, ETC., made TO order
The trade of the Capital Mills has extended
greatly during the past year, and their pro-
ducts have become even more esteemed,
until they are now in popular and extensive
demand from Washington Territory to
New Mexico and east to the Rocky noun
tains. In fact its goods have a very large
jobbing trade IN San Francisco under the
very caves of the San Francisco factories,
which of course could not be done except
by reason of marked superiority of its pro-
duction over those of competitors. a
further evidence of this superiority is given
in the fact that the products from these
mills, being entirely free from cot
ton, demands have been made for them
from the eastern market to be laid beside
the manufactures of the numerous mills in
that section. but thus far this coast alone
has consumed its entire productions as fast
as they could be made ready for delivery.