The record-union., 1895-03-25
MANAGER HOWELL'S FIRST REPORT.
Covering the Years Work of the In
dustriaI Association.
Manufacturers Who Were Seen Rela-
tive to Coming to Sacramento-Our
Cheap Motive Power, Etc.

Cheap Motive Power. Etc.
c. Howell, Manager for the Sacra-
mento Industrial Improvement Assocla-
ton, has completed his annual report
showing the operations of the association
from its organization up to the present
time, and will be printed in pamphlet
form for distribution. The proof sheets
of portion of the report have been re-
ceived, from which some extracts are
made.
"The object of issuing this pamphlet"
says Mr.. Howell, sis to inform its mem
bers and citizens of what has been done by
the association dur ing the past year, and
under what conditions and influences the
directors had to work, and the import
ance of such an organization as this to the
city"
The report is quite voluminous, but
much of its contents are already familiar
to the public, being a statement IN detail
of subjects that have been discussed at
meetings of the association, and covered
by reports in the daily press.
CHEAP POWER.
After referring to the cost of motive
power for factories in other parts of the
report says:
"rhis association gets, under its ar
rRngement with the Sacramento Electric
Power and Light Company, ten-horse
power OF electric current for manufact-
urer at $500 year. This is fair plant at
this time to figure on, because you can
not hope for large concerns at hrst:
40 per cent. $3.50
Ten-horse power, second year $500,
less 33 per cent... -. 536
Ten-horse power, third year $500, less
so per cent.. .',.,.....,..... $50
Ten-horse power, fourth year $500,
less 90 per cent...... GAO
10 per cent..... ........,.....'....,.. 72o
Ten-horse power will cost for five years So, $50
Five hundred and eighty-seven dollars
and twenty cents year, or S4S 50
month for ten horsepower ten hours
day, for twenty-six working days in the
month, and twelve months in the year.
There is not place in this country to-
day where power IS as cheap as this, TAX
ing into consideration even the power at
Niagara, for while it is sold there for a
less price than this, you have to lease the
land OF the company producing the
power, paying stiff rent, and the power
company build houses themselves tor the
employees that work in the factories, and
will not sell these tenement houses, but
and light, and expect to make a large
profit indirectly from selling their power
cheap to the manufacturers. These are
facts l obtained from the Office OF the
company when l was at Niagara Falls,
and l know they are correct. The ques-
ton of power for manufacturing is now
practically solved for this particular
place.
CARRIAGE AND MATCHMAKING.
I'VE succeeded in getting a very re-
sponsible and shrewd manufacturer from
one of the most prosperous carriage cen
ters in the East to visit Sacram ento, with
the view of establishing a large carriage
factory here. The same man was IN
trusted with the responsibility OF looking
up the manufacture of wagons and har
ness for two reliable concerns in the East,
who wished sooner or later TO locate on
this coast. He spent about three months
IN visiting all the country west Of the
Rocky Mountains, investigating the ex-
tent of the trade IN this particular line of
manufacture. He shipped different kinds
of timber from this coast, that he thought
would work up to advantage in his busi-
ness, to his factory in the East, and had il
properly tested, and found that it could
be used in the vehicle business to ad-
vantage, and much could be saved on
transportation. he found the feathers
manufactured on this coast of a superior
quality, and that raw materials necessary
Tor this kind OF manufacture could be de-
livered here 10 an advantage. He satis-
fed himself that woods seasoned here
would make up into vehicles worth
double the value Of those seasoned in the
Erst, owing TO the climatic conditions
here.
During my visit East obtained
proposition from these concerns, over
their signatures, TO move 10 Sacramento
and establish themselves to manufacture
n a la a Of
the directors OF this association, after |
returned from the East l wrote them to
find out the latest time they would care
TO begin work on their factory here if
their proposition was accepted, in order
that they might establish themselves to
commence business in the fall of 1895;
also informed them in that letter that
they would have to be satisfied with
less consideration than that stated in their
first proposal.
a long letter was received from the
company, in which il was stated that
business unless they could ''get part of
what 1t would cost to build up the busi-
ness so that 1t would be proftable."l
A PAPER FACTORY.
I'VE also succeeded in getting a paper
manufacturing company interested here
and they were waiting patiently for the
cheap power that Is TO be here soon, ana
y
proposition.
BEET SUGAR.
1--WE investigated the beet sugar indus
try in Utah, Nebraska and California,
where six beet sugar factories are oper-
ated protitsbly, anu we also Investigated
the results OF the Government expert
mental station, which for four years fos-
tered the beet root industry in twenty
eight OF the different States in the Union.
We found that during the years 1891. ;g2
and '93 the State OF California pro-
duced sugar from beets in excess of the
sugar obtained from the same touuage Of
beets in any Of the other States, and that
sugar could be manufactured here and
shipped 10 the great commercial centers
in the East, and there sold at a profit
after paying freight over the cost of sugar
manufactured IN Nebraska or II tan. (. O.
b., at their factories.
The closest students of the best root
industry, those now in the cane sugar
business, predict for it TO succeed all