The San Francisco call., 1895-07-30
California-Made Machinery for
the India Ruby
Mines.
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS LET.
Forty Miles of Insulated Wire In the
Big Parrott Building-OrderS
From Japan.

The san francisco Bridge Company has
just closed several important contracts in
their line of work. Among these was one
of $500 from the United States Govern
ment for dredging the approaches to the
new drydock now being built at Port Or
ford for the Puget Sound naval station.
Another contract is with the Harbor Com
missioners for putting in an iron and con-
crete pier at the foot of Pacific street, to
cost $4,000. This company has also re-
ceived the contract for building a large
coal bunker for ]. P. Taylor of Oakland
and is shipping three steel bridges to Hon
olulu.
Some three years ago the Pelton Water
wheel Company received an order for three
wheels for running the machinery of the
Burmah ruby mines in India, and their
operation has been so satisfactory that a
duplicate order has just been received from
that company. Not long ago several ship
ments of these wheels were made to the
South Sea Islands and the Straits Settle
ments. The Pelton wheel is distinctively a
California invention, the fame of which
seems to have gone round the world. 1t
evidently fills a most important place IN
water-power appliances, to which so much
attention is now directed, more especially
in connection with electric transmission.
The Perkins Pump and Engine CoEi-
pany shipped several pumping plants to
interior points during the week, including
one to Berkeley and an engine and pump
ing plant complete of Il 900 gallons per hour
to Fort Jones. They also closed contract
for an immense hosting plant for the
Sepoy Placer Mining Company. The New
man Tribune speaking of the plant recently
completed In that city SAYS:
The pump and engines for the fire depart
ment erected by w. W. Barnes for the Perkins
Pump and Engine Company have been pro-
nounced a success in every respect by the COM
mittee. The engines are the well-known scyclo-
type built by this firm and are arranged to run
either single or together, being coupled by q
14-inch pulley with an 11-inch face, which
drives the rotary pump by means of a belt.
The pump at It's first test as to capacity gave
1900 gallons per hour. The second test was
for pressure and gave 5000 gallons per hour at
highly pleased with the plant With few
hundred feet of hose and a number of fire
plugs distributed atconvenient points through
out town Newman viii be in as good position
to fight fire as any town of its size in the
State.
The great Parrott building on Market
street is magnificent in many details. The
contract for building the electric plant has
been let for $4,000, exclusive of fixtures
and dynamos, covering simply the cost of
wires, insulations and connections for 1000
incandescent and 800 arc lamps The in
sulated wires would be almost forty miles
in linear length, this being believed to be
the most extensive system ever constructed
for any single building in this country
j. G. Hall, president of the Union
Lithograph Company, says that in some
quarters there is misapprehension as re-
CARDS the position occupied by the Union
Lithograph Company on this coast-that
orI ~ ch
only branch of the Eastern house. The
reverse is more in accordance with the
facts. Mr.. Hall, who owns a majority of
the stock of both establishments, resides
here, has made realty investments here
and will still continue to invest the profits
of his business in this State. In the light
of these facts the Union Lithograph Com
pany should be regarded as strictly a
home institution.
l.. G. Sresovich & Co. have just received
8 cargo OF cocoanuts per City of Papeete.
This is the third cargo received recently
for their Pion eer cocoanut factory at North
Beach, where about thirty-five men are
employed in the manufacture of the
Pioneer brand of shredded and desi coated
cocoanut.
The Washburn & Moen Manufacturing
Company, recent purchasers of the Calf
fornia Wire Works, report business still on
the increase, and the factory as being
worked up to its full capacity They are
shipping the products of the factory by the
carload to points in Washington, Oregon
and Idaho, and are turning out some big
cables for local street railway companies.
California has the only condensed milk
factory in the West. 1t is located at No
vato, Marin County, where they produce
a most excellent quality of condensed milk
and evaporated cream. 1t is known in the
market as the American brand. The milk
and cream are put up in jars with glass
tops, thus avoiding all chances of metal
poison.
The Pacific Refining and Roofing Com
pany is about to build an establishment
on its Potrero site, 200x233 feet, to refine
coal tar and manufacture building
paper, etc.
The Bicycle Railway Construction Com
pany has been incorporated under the
laws of this State with a subscribed capital
stock of $500, 900.
The Pacific Saw Manufacturing Com
pany report business good, with quite
satisfactory orders from Japan, with which
country there is a growing trade in their
line.
M. O'Brien, the fourmill manufac-
turer, is shipping barley-mill to Messrs
Crook & Jones at Haywards, and also
barley plant to j. Patterson of Winchester.
The Union Photo Engraving Company
is at work on large order for half-tone
engravings for handsome souvenir soon
to be issued by the San Jose Mercury.
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