The San Francisco call., 1895-05-19
THE C|TY'S INDUSTRIES,
Business Reported to Be Very
Brisk in the MeChan-
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>: iCaI Arts.
BUILDING A GREAT DREDGER.
Orders for Machinery From the
East-Some New California
= Enterprises.

The Golden State and Miners Iron
Works are at work on a contract on one of
the largest clamshed dredgers ever built
in the world. The bucket will handle as
high as six yards of earth at one swing,
and the boom is 125 feet long, making it
possible to load and deposit $50 feet dis
g tant from the point where the deposit is
taken up. 1t is fitted throughout with
compound condensing engines, electric
lights, and with all its new appliances is
expected to do most rapid work of any
dredger ever built. This company is also
furnishing a new 600-horsepower Corliss
engine to the Mutual Electric Power Com
pany for their new works on Howard
street, near Second. They have also Just
placed a 10Qhorsepower gasoline engine
In the new schooner Monterev. This is
one of the largest built on this coast, and
will drive the Monterey when loaded at
an S-knot speed. The Monterey is 100 feet
long and 26 feet beam.
The Dow Steam Pump Works are run
ming up to their full capacity on orders
from the City and many interior points.
Francis Smith d Co. are shipping from
their factory large lot of iron pipe for
mining purposes to Idaho. Several miles
of it goes TO Lemhi County, where a
company of Boston capitalists are develop
ing large mining properties. They have
recently shipped considerable galvanized
. iron and steel pipe to the Sandwich Islands.
The McGlue Concentrator Company
closed a contract yesterday for five of
their concentrators. Three of these are to
be shipped TO Washington and two to
Montana. These machines are being man.
ufactured by the Union Machine Com
pany.
The Gyclops Iron Works have just signed
a contract for building complete ice and
cold storage plant for Andrew Brown for
his creamery at Kernyille, Kern County,
Cal. This plant will be operated by water
power.
The Keystone Boiler Works have lust
secured the contract for building six
boilers for the Alameda Sugar Refinery
Company, and have several other impor-
=. tant orders in hand upon which they are
at work.
Nearly all the smelters and silver mills of
Colorado, Utah, Nevada and New Mexico
are sending their bullion to China and
Japan by way of San Francisco, whereas
formerly 1t went by way of New York and
London, thence through the Suez canal
The bullion is now refined in San Fran
cisco, and has added materially to the
business of the smelling and refining
works OF this City within the past few
months. Ali the bnllion from Tacoma and
Everett, Wash, as well as the gold from
the mills and mines of Alaska and the en-
tire Northwest find ready market in this
City. The reduction works that We're
started some years ago in a small way have
gradually grown and extended until now
- they have assumed great magnitude
and their business is practically unlimited.
AT present China and Japan are the con-
;I sumeTs OF the greater portion of the silver.
The Selby Smelling Works report very
marked increase In their hTSiOaSS
E.; The krogh Manufacturing Company
have Just shipped one of their centrifugal
pumps to Sonora, Mexico, and one to
Honolulu and another to an island in the
reclamation of land.
The Western Iron Works, manufactur-
ers OF the only all-steel wheelbarrows on
the coast, report an increased demand for
them, occasioned by the renewed activity
In mining.
= Hobbs, Wall & Co., the box manufactur-
ers, have been kept very busy the past two
. weeks turning out their patent lock-beer
:shlpplng cases. The warm weather so in
creased the consumption of beer that they
nave had orders for several thousand extra
OF these cases a week.
ID. ID. Wass reports work in electrical en-
~gineering quite brisk and his works run
ming to their full capacity.
raul b. Perkins of the Perkins Pump
something new in the way of a pump for
irrlgatlng purposes. Its simplicity is an
important feature, 1t having only five
parts, three of which are in the easement
ana two. IN the operating parts. One of
THESE, with capacity of 1900 gallons per
nour, VIII welgh. only twenty-five pounds.
In connection with one of their oil engines
II makes very economical irrigat
ing pumping plant. The company
has shipped one Of their double-acting
pumps to Winnemucca, New, for min,
. ing purposes.
l.. Z. Degen, the leather and belt manu-
facturer, reports business brisk. The re-
cent rise in the price of leather all through
the East has stimulated trade. The beef
COMBINE IN the past few years has run the
price OF cattle so low that there was no
proht In raising stock, and the falling off
OF the number slaughtered has created a
scarcity OF hides, so prices went up. This
mas greatly benefited San Francisco leather
manufacturers, as there are certain grades
OF leather and betting which are shipped
East from here, and the rise has resulted
In having increased orders. Mr.. Degen
says he has more business now on hand
% than he mas had the past year or two. He
mas issued a new price list
The General Electric Companv is inst
finishing up the overhead work on the
Market-street railway system, which i'm
portant piece of work they have had on
hand for the past year. This company is
also putting in an electric hoisting plant
on the water front at the foot of Harrison
street for x. Dunsmuir & Sons coal bust
ness. They expect to duplicate this piece
OF work shortly in order to double the
capacity OF the plant. They are also about
TO commence wiring the new cars for the
Sutro road and are engaged on an
important piece of work in the Sacra-
mento Valley. This is the building of a
power-transmission line from Folsom to
Sacramento, the poles for which are all set
and part OF the wire in place. They ex-
.pect to have the large generator and sub.
station: in Sacramento finished by July /.
In Southern California they have several
-: contracts on hand, among which is the
shipment of electrician equipage to On
:tario, where the old mule road is being
changed for the use of electricity, and are
putting In new machinery and remodeIing
the electric-ight plant at Pasadena.
The Pelton Water wheel Company has
recently made water-power installation
near. the city of Fitchburg, Mass, which is
attracting much attention. The plant con.
sists of six wheels running under head of
'l30 feet. aggregating 900 Horsepower The
wheels are directly connected to West
inghouse two-phase 800 K. w. generator