The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-12

of April as numbering 81, amounting to
$41S, 1913; unrecorded contracts 80, amount
ing to 1927, 1903; a total of 125 contracts,
aggregating 81, 345 1903.
California has the only condensed milk
factory in the West. tits located at Novato,
Marin County, where they produce most
excellent article of condensed milk and
evaporated cream. It is known as the
American Condensed Milk Company.
They put up their milk in glass jar with
glass tops, thus avoiding all chances OF
metal poison.
L. G. Sresovich & Co. have Just received
a large shipment of apples from Austria
liza.
L. H. Lewars of the California Ink Com
pany reports large increase in trade. His
company will remove and consolidate with
the works here that part of their works
now at Santa Paula. The factory facilities
will be doubled in capacity, and they will
endeavor to keep the product up to the IN
creasing demands for their inks.
The Krogh Manufacturing Company has
just shipped one of its centrifugal pump
ing plants, including all the pipes, fittings,
etc, to the United States of Colombia.
The peculiar and highly gratifying feature
of this order is that the purchasers reside
in New York City, to which place the ma
chinery will be shipped by rail and thence
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counted for by the high efficiency OF these
pumps, which are guaranteed as high as
70 per cent, against Eastern makes, which
range from As to so. This company has
also Just filled a big order for lot OF
large gate valves and fanges from Mexico,
and has recently completed $4,000 con-
tract for q redwood tank for the Olympic
Salt Water Baths.
NJ. A. Graham, builder of the Oriental
"a ayrirac 7aIaaad fwO of his ujDpS in
pleasure launches the past week for proml-
nent San Franciscans. One was for George
a. Knight and one for Hugo Key1.
The Bay City Iron Works have large
amount of miscellaneous work on hand.
and their general business has so increased
of late that they have had to add to their
force of mechanics.
The National Iron Works have Just
shipped a quartz mill, crusher and gasoline
engine to Georgetown, Ell Dorado County,
and furnished a double cylinder hosting
engine for the barkentine C. Z. Funk, and
shipped q 35-horsepoWer gasoline engine
to the Cypress Lawn cemetery for deep
well pumping plant.
The Byron Jackson Machine Works are
arranging to put one of their centrifugal
pumps into the whaleback steamer City of
Everett for pumping ash and clinkers from
the boilers. This pump is to take the place
OF an Eastern pump, which failed to do the
work satisfactorily.
The San Francisco Novelty and Plating
Works have secured the contract for the
brass grill and hand ratings for the Safe
Deposit building, corner California and
Montgomery streets, on which extensive
repairs are being made.
The Pelton Water-wheel Company have
recently furnished the Ontario Silver Min
ing Company of Utah plant possessing
some interesting features. After the com
pletion of their great drain tunnel (more
than three miles in lengthy, which taps the
lode at depth of 1900 feet, it was found
to have a continuous flow of about 800
cubic feet per minute. This water was
piped down the canyon some 500 feet,
where a fall of 40 feet was obtained. At
this point is located 4 3-foot 120-horse-
power Pelton wheel connected to a dynamo
which furnishes light to the tunnel as well
as to the mine, hosting works and mill.
In addition to the great saving thus effect
ed much more security is offered against
fire, while the superior light greatly facili-
tates all the various operations of mining
and reducing the ores. This means OF
lighting mines and reduction works has so
many advantages that it is a matter d6 sur
prise that it has not come into more gen.
eral use.
Clot & Meese OF. the Reliance Machine
Works are cheerful. They do general
machine business and as speciality man.
ufacture power transmitting machinery.
To use their own expression: eve have
now more inquiries from all over the State
asking for quotations than we have had for
the last two years. This indicates that the
machinery using people are waking up.
The first thing required in starting up a
new, or even restarting an old factory, is
the overhaufing of the power transmitting
machinery; thus the Inquiries speak for
themselves. Starting up of machinery
means revival of business" They have
just booked an order for an ice-making
and refrigerating plant for the City Brew
cry, Sacramento; a complete outfit of
machinery and trackage for Simon Maier's
new slaughter-house at Los Angeles, and
modern refrigerating plant for Charles Tin
kand.
During the past week the Union Gas
Engine Company have closed a contract
for an 80-horsepower gasoline engine for
G. i. Fairs cruising yacht; also several
contracts for smaller sizes of marine en-
gines, the demand for which still continues.
The shipments during the week con-
sisted OF large marine engine to Washing
ton; small marine engine to Sydney,
Australia, which is to be placed in the park
for the benefit of the citizens of that city
6 horsepower to be used in Monterey
Bay; a horsepower to Cuba; 6-horse-
power pumping plant to a resident of
Marin County, and a large marine engine
for Captain Matthew Turner, which is to
be placed in schooner which is now in
course of construction at his shipyard at
Benicia.