The morning call., 1894-08-26
MAY REBUILD 1T.
The Golden Gate Mill to
+ Run Again.
ITS LOCATION TOO COSTLY.
May Take 1t Down to the Water
-: Front.
PLANS OF THE FLOUR TRUST.
!: IN the Meantime the Idle Mill at
Stockton Will Be Set
r. Going.
'LANs OF THE FLOUR TRUST.

Inc announcement made Yesterday of
= the shutting down of the Golden Gate
.FIouring-miil, the oldest in the city if not
10 the State, an institution of this city for
the past thlrty-fve years, caused quite
Il tie tiutter in business circles.
-: In speaking of IL yesterday Mr.. Charles
!. Laumeister of the Laumeister Mills
said: u regret very much TO see it, as
regret anything that tends to take business
away from San Francisco, as l under
stand this does, though, of course. not
: questioning Mr.. Davis business judgment
IN The matter. The site occupied by the
mill is a valuable one and no doubt they
can save money by putting it to other uses
and planting the mill elsewhere"
This is the reason given by Mr.. Davis
: himself when seen yesterday. He was
very indignant about the statements as
published as to the reduction of the wages
oft the men under the trust regime, which
. he characterized as en- tirey untrue.
1T is true that the com biDation or trust
II you wish TO call it so. has an idle mill al
: Stockton-the Farmers Union Mill, pur-
= chased some time ago. Its product was
n OF required-which was the reason it SOLD
out 10 us-snd has remained idle since we
purchased it. We had in view, however
The closing Of this mill, which is old, and,
being On valuable property, is expensive
a. With the closing of the Golden Gate Uni
however, we will at once open the Farm
ers' Union mill, if 1t is rot already run
ming. That mill has a capacity of 1900
barrels, while the Golden Gate can do but
1000 per day. We have under contempla-
ton the plan of putting up the Golden
Gate Mill on the water front"
Discussing the business of the trust. Mr.
Davis said: I'VE control one-fourth TO
one. third of the flour output of the State
about 100000 barrels. OF this about
l2,0000 C0 are consumed at home and $780,
600 are sent away TO China. Japan, Hawaii
and to South America. With regard to the
operations of tue sO-called trust the fact
= that the price Of -four is lower now than
at-any time 10 the history of its manufac-
ture on the coast is a fact known to most
=: people and easily demonstrable to any
person. You say that wheat is lower,
which is true, but the margin between
wheat and flour is narrower than ever be-
fore. We have been making hard strug-
gle to get the expense of manufacture aud
distribution down. and the point where
we see any money in the business is in
this matter Of proper distribution. Flour
TO be distributed in the north we manu-
. 1acture in the north, that to be distributed
IN the south We manufacture in the south.
BY moving the Golden GAZE mill TO the
water front we save very materially in
hauling ana handling.
~ IN IOBdiu W Tue wages OF Ll6 men.
however" continued Mr.. Davis, lit has
been a matter OF pride with me and l was
rather Boosting of it only yesterday that
III ali my tbtrty-fve years in business l
=. hive never reduced the wages of my men.
They stand just as they were when first
began-modlfed slightly by the change in
methods brought about by the introduc-
tiOn of machinery. Tue head millers and
engineers, for instance, get So per day
DOW at they did then and the roustabouts
get 50 80. That is the highest and lowest. !"
Mr.. Marteinstein of the National mills
was the head miller in the Golden Gate
when it started as a less than 200-barrel
mill thirty-fiVe years ago. He said yester-
day that he knew that Horace Davis. be-
fore be went into the com bine, had started
=. TO build a mill at Port Costa-had bought
the land and driven piles for it, as he
wanted to put upa commercial Office build
ing 90 the Golden Gate mill site. He gave
:. that project up, however, after going into
the trust
"There are three mills in the city not
now in the trust" said Mr.. MarteD stein.
1.-The National, Del Monte and the Yo-
semitic"