The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-01-01

1. 1890.
Francisco. who work principally On TIE
cheaper grades .Penifenfiaryn and
machine cigars hsvs been almost elimi-
mated from the problem. bat the heather
continues disturbing element in the mat
Ter OF prices for lower grades Of work, and
when smoker huys s.ssinkern il Is dol
lars 20 Jacksfones that il has gone through
the fingers OF . yellow-skinnei celestial in
rs journey from an innocent cabbage leaf
70 bad imitation of poor cigar. How
ever the cigar men here feel the pressure OF
the pig-taias but lightly. If at all. IS their
capacity Is fully taxed for goods into which
he does not enter. and with the widespread
2fie growing prejudice against smoking
cigars 20 which may still cling sundry
scales Of leprosy from the diseased tongue
Of hias-eyed workman, By the time when
our manufacturers viii care 70 enter the
market OF cheaper goods the market viii be
ready 20 take them 1t paying prices.
Uesp Assooea
40
rapaoyes 81
AeziFSake NaSes-.--.--. 30 %
Average wages per dsy.-.-.-.-.-.--.--.-...-.- 90
The foregoing table includes the OUTPUT
OF aIl factories only for business actually
done, and takes in the ones where only the
proprietor and stripper work up to the
largest employing thirty men. The output
Is Tar dispr0portionate TO the amount of
manufactured Havana burned in Seattle,
and another year. with the energetic efforts
made bv local manufacturers TO supply the
demand, should see much greater per-
centage OF cigars smoked IN Seattle made
here.
Soap.
The Seattle Soap Company was estab-
lished in Seattle y 1887. The concern did,
during the year Just closed. a business en-
nreiy satisfactory 20 the proprietors. The
output OF finished goods was valued at
$4,000, which does not BY any means rep
resent the output that should be demanded
OF the home product in this market. Ii Is
difficult 10 conceive of q better point for
the manufacture OF soaps at the minimum
OF cost than Seattle. TaIlow, q large factor
in soap making, can here be obtained
cheaper than in Chicago. and soda ash and
all the cleansing and bleaching qualities
can certainly be imported here much more
factories of Kirk and other practically in
terror makers. Many OF the ingredients
that 20 into a box OF soap must necessarily
come from abroad, and that the market
not only of Seattle but of an Sound and
coast towns should be fun of Rabbits and
Kinks and other brands of soaps is wholly
without excuse in the natural condition OF
things. The tallow from the beeyes killed
here should 90 in much larger quantities
into soaps made here. and not shipped
East in barrels at Sc per pound. and back
to US in soap at Toe per pound, not to men,
ton the water that it carries when made
into soap. and which is as cheap here as
anywhere. There is a magnificent chance
for large investment OF capital that would
pay big returns.
Value of $4,000
Capital invested 5000
Number OF employees 10
Tanners
ID. Kellogg & Co.. tanners and wool-pull-
ers. did business for the year aggregating
SLOT 500. The product Of the firm is large
~ glove stock, they having tanned $1,000
sheepskins during the year. of the value of
81, 900, exclusive OF the wool pulled. They
use 5000 capital and employ twenty oper-
atives. paying in the aggregate $4,000 per
annum in wages.
The entire product Of their sannery,
sheep and deerskiBs, Is shipped to the At
lantic coast and is there manufactured.
This Is condition of affairs that should
not exist, as q glove factory In Seattle, be-
ing necessity and Offering splendid re-
terns on the investment, should be estab-
tablished during the coming year. There
is probably no better opening in the city in
the lire OF manufacture-many as there
are-that offers better field for the invest
ment of capital than this. That the goods
tor the manufacture of gloves should he
shipped 20 Boston, there manufactured,
and the gloves shipped back TO the point
from which they started in the tanned
skins. thus paving freight both ways,
proves that the goods made here could
readily control the market Of Puget sound.
The figures given below are fer 1883:
Value OF output Slo7 900 90
Capital invested GO 90
Number OF employees -
Average wages per day....-.....,...-.-......e $40
Tents. sails and Awnings.
Tents, sails and awnings are made in Sc
attic BIZ Wilton & White. Marion street,
between Front and second, and by Feiiiz
Bros. I25 Yesler avenue. They have made
during the past gear goods 20 the amount
OF SCI 90, using nearly 10000 yards OF
canvas. Both trims report q steadily i'm
ereasing business. Nor did the fire. by
making temporary quarters In tents nn-
avo;dable 10 many people. cut any consid-
cradle figure in the volume oil their business.
a. the legitimate demand for their goods
was and remains futfy IN TO their capac-
it's. The new buildings Of the city as
thew are finished furnish an ever-growing
market for awnings. and tie saii-inaking
OF these houses is considerable. The FACT
that now. when the pressure caused by the
IRE has long since passed axay. Is their
busiest season OF the past year, evidences
the stability and need OF ths business in
Seattle. The coming year will DOUBTLESS
show an increase in the aggregate output
of manufactured canvas commensurate
with the strides Of the city IN population
and binding. and Of tie other Sound towns
which will require Eaore and more Of this
class OF work. Below We give the totals OF
the business and the persons employed,
the aggregate amount paid for labor alone
being 80.
Vase of output 20 9
Capital investec- su09 ~
Number q employees
Vases per opesatls e--...,-..-.-=- =
Harness ard Saddles.
In the manufacture Of harness and
saddles r. Marco. who up 10 October ] Of
last year also MAIDS carriages and wagons
i the heaviest oTerstor. There are smaller
factories. some Of them starting during the
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