Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-11-03


construction and repair, exclusive OF cos
OF machinery, which reaches nearly
quarter as much more. The com pany i
prepared to deliver crushed rock for al
purposes in any quantity to any part O
Los Angeles. The principal business o.
the company. however, is the manufac
ture of vitritied salt.glazed sewer pipe
water pipe, terra Gotta chimney pipe, etc
The company has now under considera
tion the plans of an enterprise which, i
realized, will be of larger importance te
East Los Angeles than their presen,
plant. The principal office of the com
pany is at No. 1l3 South Fort street.
! HAMILToN's POTTERY WORKS.
The East Side Pottery, at AL North Ls
couyreur strest, is owned and conducted
by r. M. Hamilton. Here is msnufac.
tured the finest quality of hollow brick,
sewer and water pipe and pottery in gen.
eral. Dhe plant has been in full opera
tion for nearly five years, and during
that time has kept in constant employ
ment some forty hands. Mr.. Hamilton
has successfully worked out the problem
OF using petroleum as fuel for burning
bricks and pottery. He is public
spirited man and believes in keeping the
industrial ball rolling.
FRIcK BROS CEMENT PIPE WORKS.
This large establishment is running of
full blast, aud full complement of men
are at present engaged on 30-inch piping
for the zanja system Of the city. The
success of the Frick Bros, sinca the es-
tablishment of their plant some two
years or more ago, has been a full and
continued one. They have put in fully
two-thirds of the cement piping for the
city and the cable roads and more than
two-tnirds of the piping for the sewer
system of the city. Over 4,500 feet of
their large sewer pipe is down in Fort
street and 5000 feet in another street.
They piped large portion of Azuea and
on the city's zapja they have done q
great deal of work. One large job was
in the Vernon district, for the West Side
lrrigating Company, where three miles
OF % inch pipe was laid. They
laid the pipe for the San
Pedro zanja and the zanja on Main
street and part of the storm drains for
the cable company were laid by them.
ALI sizes of pipes are made from four
inches to thirty.
The Frick Brothers brought inventive
skill into their plant, and the moulds for
the manufacture Of all their piping is
their own patent. They also invented
and patented the square base for large
cement pipe, an addition which is of
great and practical value. They also
manufacture superior quality of arti-
fetal stone and can go far as that matter
goes put cement into any durable shape
wanted. Their factory is at 76 Water
street. East Los Angeles, and their
principal Office at 202 West First street.
THE WELL CEMENT PIPE COMPANY.
This is large and important industry
and has been so during the ten years Of
its existence. Mr.. Stowell is the father
OF the cement pipe industry in Southern
California, and the plant Of the company
in East Los Angeles is the pioneer
establishment of its kind. This company
does an extensive business and carries
over thirty men on its payroll. Their
contracts are generally large ones. They
laid fifty miles Of pipe at Ontario and
the piping for the water companies
Of Etiwanda, Pomona, Rsdlands, Ver-
dugo, Pasadena, Santa Anita and Sierra
Madre, aggregating more than 100 miles.
They laid the longest water conduit in
this city-the East Side supply ditch
an uubroksn line Of 24-inch Pipe four
miles long, The long line OF 22-inch
piping on the South Side is their work.
They also laid the longest and largest
sewer in the city, length of ten miles,
of large pipe. Altogether the company
have laid some 800 miles of water con-
duits. They also put in q greater part of
the storm drains for the cable company.
Besides pipe of all sizes, from four inches
to thirty, the company manufactures CO.
ment work OF every description, embrac-
ing water tanks and ollas, reservoirs of
any capacity, well pipe, ornamental fac
ings for building fronts, window stills,
panels, fancy corbels, coping, tiling,
cemetery curbing, stone fencing, orna.
mental fence posts, surveyors posts,
hitching posts, garden rollers, chimneys,
lawn vases, horse blocks. steps, etc.
The company 10 in an exceedingly pros
porous condition. The extensive factory
and yard are on Truman street, near the
Arroyo, ond are in charge of the cour-
teous manager, Mr.. Arthur s. Bent.
A NOTED PYRoTECNIsT.
Mr.. w. III. Wilson, manufactures of
fireworks, has no peer in his line in Cal
ifornia. Although a full Angelefio at
heart he served his apprenticeship at the
Crystal Palace. London, where pyrotech-
MICS were made an art. Mr.. Wilson's q
fireworks report for themselves, and
never izzle. He not only manufactures
for the trade, but for private exhibitions,
and decorates and Eliminates dwellings
for parties and public buildings for
gala days. He has the largest moulds
and makes the largest ariel bombs
manufactured on the Pacific Coast. The
10, 900 stars they fash with the last re.
port are made one by one by hand. Mr..
Wilson is bringing the machinery for
producing calcium light effects and will
in the future supply the Southern The
atrical Circuit with these lights. Mr..
Wilson has no competitor in Southern
California and he proposes by the excel
lence and cheapness of his productions
to overcome the competition of San
| Francisco and the East. As he puts it.
he has come to stay. His factory is al
the corner of San Pedro and Twelfth
| streets.
WOVEN AND HAIR MATTRAssEs.
Mr.. J. L. Abertson, at No. 19 Water
street, has large establishment where
he makes an excellent quality of goode
and does upholstering and frst-class re-
pairing.
EAST SIDE planning MILL.
Mr.. @. FL. Crecist is the proprietor O.
this home industry, and won't stop, ever
! if an unfriendly neighbor enjoins him
He manufactures doors, sashes, blinds
| and moulding.