The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-21
AMONG HOME INDUSTRIES
Orders Secured From the u. S
Government, South Amer
lea and Mexico.
NEW ENTERPRISES STARTED
Good Work Being Done by the
Manufacturers and Producers
Association.

| It is the testimony of large number OF
the manufacturers of San Francisco that
since agitation in the interest of home IN
dustry the demand for the products OF the
home factories has greatly increased. Peo-
! ple who heretofore never gave She matter
| q thought as to whether an article they
wished to purchase was made here or I'M
ported from a foreign country or the East,
now insist that the retail dealer snow
! them what he has in the line OF nome
manufactured goods and are giving prefer
| ence in all cases to the homemade article
when prices and quality are equal. 1t is
| surprise to many to find that in almost
every instance where the home manu-
features are compared with the imported
the superior quality of the California PROD
uct is at once apparent.
| There are many causes coming to llgh'
| which account in part for the langulshlna
| of some lines of manufacture IN this stare
One instance was given by Hugh craig IL
| his speech before the manufacturers mass
meeting few days ago. Wishing new
| suit of clothes, he asked his tailor to show
| him some patterns of California manufac
/ tured cloth. To his great surprise, he wa,
| told that the tailor did not keep any III
i
/ replied it was because the Callfornla-madt
| goods were of too good quality to. be
| nrofitable to him. The prices were low
| enough, but suit made from the produc'
| of our local wooden mills would last So
| long that once customer was suppheo
| with one the tailor would see no more OF
| his customer for year or more, whereas
in furnishing him with imported goods bs
got action on his pocket-book from two
| to three times year. Here is a case where
the extra high quality of the product OF
home industry worked to its disadvantage
| 1t is needless to say, however, that Mr.
| Craig lost no time in repairing to the ware
| rooms of local wooden manufacturing
company and purchasing the cloth Tor his
/ suit. 1t is hardly probable the people vii!
| ask the local woolen-mills to reduce the
quality of their output, so 1T Will not faSt
/ so long, and for that reason may be Cd
tanned at the nearest tailor-shop, but more
| likely when the facts become generally
| known why the tailors do not deal in home
| made cloths it will be surprising if they dc
not follow the example of Mr.. Craig and
90 to the factory warerooms with then
orders.
The fact that the home manufactures il
this line are vastly superior to the I'm
ported article was fully demonstrated when
/ after a crucial test and critical comparison
with imported French beaver the contract
was given the Golden Gate Wooden Manu-
featuring Company of this City by the
/ Police Commissioners for furnishing the
cloth for uniforms. This cloth is now be.
ing made up at the factory. This com.
pany is also at work on an order for COOK
/ blankets for the United States Govern.
ment and also large order for the same
kind of goods from an Eastern firm, part
of which was shipped yesterday.
The manufacture of the Girard water
wheels was recently inaugurated here
Hitherto the use of these wheels has been
altogether in Europe and the English colo
MES, together with examples in various
parts of the Latin countries. In these
countries there are great many in USE
and their great merit has caused their re
cent introduction into this part of the
United States. The wheels are universally
adaptable as they are equally suitable to
| the high heads with small quantities Of
water and low heads with large quantitie,
of water. The wheel is what may be called
"free running" wheel, with no running
water joints.
1t may be regulated easily and without
| loss of water or pressure. Regulation il
| effected either automatically by governor
or by hand and as the change occurs a.
| the nozzle there is no throttling action
! with its consequent reduction of pressure
| This is a most important consideration
where the supply of water is limited and
| where the machinery to be driven require;
| fine regulation behind it.
| The company's works are busy makins
| up these wheels to fill orders for varioui
| parts of the mining regions of the coast
| and during the past week shipped a large
pany, near Volcanoville. Ell Dorado
| County.
During the past week the Perkins PumI
! and Engine Company shipped two four
horse power hosting plants and thres
pumping plants. One of these went to
| 10 or,l %ba 1{1,a
| Oakland. The company reports bushes,
| good with increased demand for pumping
| plants among the farmers for irrigation
! purposes
The McGlue Concentrator Company hal
| just shipped two machines to the quick
silver mines at Sulphur Creek, Coluss
| County.
The Keystone Boiler Works are busily
| engaged on various orders for boilers, in.
| Guiding one of 80 horsepower to be
shipped to Mexico and one of 60 horse
| power for a dredger to operate on the Sar
Joaquin River. They have also just COM
pleted the setting of six boilers for the
Alameda Sugar Refinery.
/ The Risdon Iron Works are placing sci
of the Heine patent boilers in the Sar
Francisco Safe Deposit building and have
on hand the building and repairing of 9
| large amount of mining machinery.
The Pelton Water Wheel Company has
I6CGntly SlSleO d tAO
| work of the new power station of the San
Joaquin Electric Light and Power Com.
pany, which is to furnish light and power
for Fresno.
The plant consists of three 500-horse.
power Pelton wheels, which are to run
under a head of 14i0 feet and be directly
connected to three General Electric Com
pany generators of same capacity. The
transmission involved covers distance Of
thlrty-two miles.
This is the first step toward making the
mountain torrents of the Sierras available
for power purposes in the valleys. The
length of transmission, as we'll as the enor
nous head under which the wheels are ia
operate, makes this one of the notable in
stallations in the country and is a sug.
gestion OF what is to be done in this way
in the future.
The Union Machine Company is turning