Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-01
HUNTINGTON, HOPKINS { co.
Some Account of a New and
Revised Catalogue
Soon to be Issued by This Hardware Es-
ablishment-sacramen and
San Francisco.

Hopkins q Co., OF this city and San Fran
cisco, is one of the oldest commercial estab-
lishments in the State. It is entirely need.
less to enter into details concerning this
| house, which is the largest in the iron and
hardware line upon the Pacific coast. The
present purpose is to give some account Of
| forthcoming catalogue that the firm has
in preparation, and that kindly courtesy
has opened to private inspection prior to
its being sent to the press. The firm has
consented to the presentation of a synopsis
of the main features of the book, and has
aided in the proper preparation of this arti.
Gle, which is for the information OF the
large class of the community that is inter
ested in knowing what the forthcoming
work will contain.
IN THE YEAR
1879 the firm issued it's first catalogue of
general hardware. It met with instant
success, and demand sprang up for it
that soon exhausted the supply, and has
rendered new issue an imperative neces-
sity, but which can be put forth only at a
very great cost, and after long and elabo.
rate preparation. The want of Just such
work by the trade was what led to the
issuance of the first volume, which was
large octave of over $50 pages, and bore
many hundred illustrations. The new
| catalogue will be quarto by II. and will
| far surpass the original work in its scope
| and its interest As the demand fer it will
| be great, the firm has taken steps to secure
| it to those to whom it will prove of the
greatest value, and in aid of that effort
this article is given. 1t will, of course, be
understood that it would be impossible IN
| the limits to which we are here confined,
to give any adequate idea of what the book
will contain but we may say that in sd-
dition to the thousand and more of fine
illustrations of the goods it will schedule,
| it will present departments, the general
character of which may be imagined by
glance at the abridged summary given be-
low. When We mention the class of goods
that will be specified, the fortunate p2ssesz-
or of the book will find the articles de
scribed in detail, illustrated, and all neces-
sary information given TO enable him to
make
| <AN ~ OINpJhp
And, in addition, the book will contain q
cipher system, that he may order by tele-
graph, at vastly less cost than he could
otherwise do.
In making note of what the catalogue
will contain, we have arranged departments
to suit our own convenience, and it must
not be assumed that in the book itsalf any
such loose way of grouping articles will
be followed.
| BUILDERS HARDWARE
TIE catalogue will show that in this line
the house carries most exhaustive variety
of building locks, from the common home
rim lock to the finest bronzed mortise locks
with all the latest details in style and
| trimmings. There are the light, the an
tique and the ssstuary bronze, for instance,
and some of these new patterns
are very handsome. Butts, from
the commonest to the finest in bronze.
Window fastepiugs from a common bolt
to the best burglar. proof sash-fast. In
sidewind owl blind fastenings in nickel. plate
and bronze. For parlor sliding doors there
are three kinds of fine fittings shown, the
anti-friction bottom roller, Wagner's patent
top. hanging land by which carpets may be
laid through double doors without cutting),
and Prescott's patent duplex hangers, the
latest and best. Window weights, sash
cords, pulleys and other details are named
in great variety; and there are set out also
cabinet, Jail and pad locks all the best va
rieties of nails known to the trade, among
them the new "HP" nail, made of steel
| hot, har rheJ pJ 1,iy, III
that of cambria needle up to a railroad
spike. This nail the firm has the agency
for. 1t is popular and certain to come
this straight and mon splitting" nail will
take immediate precedence, and will un-
| doubtedly soon be used in house building.
| MECHANICS TOOLS.
! In this line the book viii present an end
less variety-all the latest and most sp-
proved tools to be found in the trade.
Hsnd.saws of all grades, from finest to
coarsest and the most common Cooks,
Jennings, and Morse's bits, for metal or
wood; Clark's expansive bits car and
gimlet bits and braces, from the common
ball brace to the latest development in
racket braces. Iron and wood planes, all
varieties of combination planes, as tongue.
ing and growing, dado, rabbet. filletster
and matching; adjustable miter boxes, iron
and wood spoke shaves, ship augers, steel
and iron squares spirit levels, from pocket
to largest builders size mill, circular, and
cross-cut saws chisels and augers, and
gauges, of all sizes and styles coopers'
tools, from the Barton Tool Company !;
turner's, molders', plasterers', shoemakers',
bricklayers, masons, stonecutters' and
cabinetmakers' tools and supplies. Files
of all grades, and, indeed, host OF other
tools that space forbids even the mention Of.
NAcHINIsTs' TOOLS AND SUPPLIES.
In this department will be catalogued
and illustrated great variety. The firm
keeps in stock all fine, small size machin-
lists tools, screw and thread gauges, cal.
lipers squares graduated to one. hundredth
| part of an inch iron levels and inclin.
ometers for taking angles bevels, pro-
tractors, center gauges, thread cutting
tools, lathe chucks, twist drills and
wrenches plumb. bobs and trammel points !;
metal saws. steel and brass spring wire
annealed and hard wire, copper and other
| wires in variety.
MILL AND MINING SUPPLIES.
Leather and rubber belsing and hose,
nitro glycerine and black blasting powder,
explosive caps (single, double and triple
force), tamping-bars and mining spoons,
sledges, wedges and hammers track-nails
aud spikes; wheelbarrows, crowbars,
sheaves, diffsrential pulley blocks; asbestos
fire. proof) packing hemp, rubber. black
lead and soapstone packing quartz bat.
terry screws; sheet copper, headless sluice
nails, sluice forks, common lifting screw
and hydraulic jacks; miners candlesticks,
etc.
PIPES.
The firm has facilities for filling orders
for water pipes for mining, irrigating, town
and house supply, of all sizes and gauges,
and riveted to suit any purpose; also
wrought iron, lap-welded pipe, from one
quarter to four inches in diameter /; black
and galvanized pipe, for steam, gas or water,
with full stock of fittings tor came. 1t
has, too, full stock of pipe-cutting tools,
tongs, wrenches, vises, etc. Pipe is cat
alogued either black. galvanized or as