Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-07-07
Az iMp0RTA L INDUSTRY.
The Wagon and Carriage Manufacture
of Saaranaufn


of Sacramento.
One OF the leading manufacturing inter
ests in this city is, and has been for years,
that of wagon and carriage making. The
wagons made in Sacramento have always
had a reputation throughout the coast of
being the very best. There are many rea-
sons why the Sacramento wagon is supe-
rior TO the eastern and San Francisco make.
The dry atmosphere of this section seasons
the wood most thoroughly, and wood and
iron put together in Sacramento never
shrinks from heat or swells with damp or
wet weather. i Sacramento-madec carriage
or wagon with proper care will last one q
lifetime. During the district fair at lone
last fall reporter was given q ride out TO
the Q ranch in an elegant carriage He re-
marked to his friend that the vehicle wss
COCA one, ana was surprised when told that
| II was made By Harry Bernard, of Sacra-
mento, over a quarter of a century ago. He
said with the exception of painting he had
not spent 50 on the carriage since he bought
| 1t in 1862. In this city to day there are
twelve carriage and wagon making estab-
lishments that employ regularly all the
way from ten to fifty men each. They are
as follows CrOnkite Il Jones, 1913 and
W. - lA4tA otANNA LII ~ DCIEdAN u. COI-
ner Sixth and l. streets opposite Ar
mory Hall George b. Blue, 9l9 Third
street; Brown Bros, 100 K street;
| j. f. Davis & Son. Oil Second street J. +.
| Hill, 1901 to 1923 street August Meister,
| $40 to 9l4 Ninth street; Melvin & Son, APO
| street; Nielsen Bros, 1913 Tenth street
Palm Bros, III to lib street; NJ L.
Wise, corner Eleventh and streets. A
| visit to these different shops yesterday
found them all busily engaged on new
work with large orders ahead Outside of
the railroad shops and the printing office
there Is no industry that gives employment
to so many iaborers or that pays such high
wages. First-class workmen in the trim
| ming, painting, woodwork and iron de-
partments get So per day, and many who
do piecework make as high as $50 per
week. One of the largest as well as Oldest
and best established manufactures on this
coast is that of J. +. Hill, at Thirteenth
and j streets. His place covers the best
portion of two blocks, and he gives en-
| ployment the year round to fifty mechanics
and at certain seasons of the year his force
is almost doubled. During the time
| when the freight for Nevada was car
ried over the mountains by freight
teams hundreds of wagons were turned out
OF this shop, and there stands in the fac
tory-yard to-day the remnants of some of
the prairie schooners of those DAYS. Then
every teamster had a train-his eighteen
or twenty mules, with their jingling bells,
pulled not only one immense wagon, but
two smaller ones, termed back-actons,
All of the carriage shops in the city are
substantial brick structures, and with but
two exceptions the property is owned by
| the proprietors. ]. L. Hill has recently
made some extensive Improvements. add
ing two-story brick structure 40xS0. The
| second floor is used as a repository for fine
work, and the first floor for wagons and
carts