The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-01

secured contract for manufacturing an I'M
mense reclamation pumping plant for Suffer
Island company. The pump has a capacity of
eon;oS gallons per hour, and will be
sion eondensing engine. This company is also
shipping 600,000 gallons per hour pumpin g
plant TO Soledad.
The California Drilling COMPANY of this CITY
VIII be an important factor in the development
OF the oil industry of the State. They viii also
MAKE the borings for large number OF arte-
san wells In this city now about being con-
tracted for.
On the last steamer the Union Gas Engine
oiinPany shipped large gas marine engine to
SSEuney, Australia, and during the week sent a
se9-norsepower engine to Daggett for the Con-
noence mine, 12-horsepower gasoline engine
10 ~ acne county, Utah, and large pumping
plant TO Healdsburg. This company recently
lnade test run with the gasoline engine road
wagon just completed for J. w. Stanford. The
trlal trip was entirely satisfactory.
The Pacific Coast Cooperative Cigar Manu-
iacturlng Company reports q gratifying
increase in trade, due largely. they think, to
the local agitation in favor of home manufact-
ured goods.
The Merralls hydraulic quartz mill will be
MAKING exhibition runs on ore neXtweek at AT
fremont street.
The Union: Photo Engraving Company has
iust turned out some half-Ione work, one plate
being six feet in height. This is the largest
piece OF hali-tone engraving ever produced in
The Pacific Saw Manufacturing Company is
running Its factory up to full capacity on
SANNAS lOI us Sp6cldlI1SS. 1T reports u
petter trade than for the past two years.
W 5: Townsend, manufacturer OF California
glace fruits, is making large shipments to the
East, where the demand for the products OF his
factory is steadily increasing
Inc FELTON, Water-wheel Company has re-
Gently furnished the California Powder Works
win an additional wheel for their works near
santa Cruz ana the quite novel application OF
Water-wheels in this connection may be of in
terest; Directly back of the powder works is a
hill, the top OF which is at an elevation of 400
feet above the site of the works. A large Pei
ton wheel working under low head is used to
pump water from the river to the reservoir on
the hilltop, from which the water is conveyed
TO numerous small Pelton wheels scattered
around in various departments of the factory.
The Rlsdon Iron Works recently constructed
q hosting engine for the MERGED Gold Mining
Company, Mariposa County, which has hoist
ing speed OF 25OO feet per minute for depth
OF 2000 feet.
H. Bohls & Co., tobacco manufacturers, re-
port large increased demand for the product
of their factory Recently they have filled
! large orders Tor Montana, Ulah and farther
east. They now employ about forty people in
! their works.
The National Base Ore Reduction Company
! whose new plant was recently completed al
| Shell Mound, Oakland, is now receiving car.
| load lots of ore for treatment from various
mining sections throughout the coast.
! The Ralston Iron Works has contract from
/ the Government for a 12-foot iron fence, to be
! placed around the Preside.
The Brode q Clark Machine Works have con.
! tracts for the iron work, vaults and ratings
! LOT the new AldlneuA lily Hail, ana also 1Ol
| the iron work for the new barrack buildings al
| the Preside.
Fink & SCHNEIDER are compelled to work their
factory overtime 10 keep up with orders.
| Among the contracts on hand are the fitting:
/ for Leipnitz & Boyken's new drugstore, on SUIT
ter street, and for Nolan's new shoestore OIL
! Market.
The Union Machine Company is manufacture
ing a large amount Of new machinery foI
! equipping the extension OF the plant of the Cal
ifornia Tartar Works of this City.
The Oriental Gas Engine Company is build
| ing a 30-horsepower marine engine TO be
placed in an eighty-foot schooner. which IS &c
! be used for freighting on the upper waters o.
! the bay. This company mas also just shipped {
large pumping plant to Tulare City and a like
| plant TO Berkeley.
The Pacific Can Company manufactures an
nually Sc, 100000 cans.
The Dow Steam Pump Works running
! full-handed and have under way several large
orders, among them being one for a sinking
pump OF the compound differential-plunge
pattern, to be run by compressed air, Tni
pump will have capacity of 500 gallons
minute to a vertical height of 800 feet. They
are also at work on plunger-pump, to have ,
capacity of between 100000 and 8,000,00(
gallons day.