The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-21
NEWS OF THE INDUSTRIES,
A Revival in Business Circles
With Orders From the
East.
Local Contracts for Machinery
Awarded During the Past
Week.

The Pacific Can Company has been
ruhed to the full capacity of their factory
of late in filling orders for cans for the sea-
sons salmon pack. This company report
that between 10000, 900 and 1900, 900 cans,
thousands of barrels and an unusually
large quantity of stores have been shipped
by the Alaska packers northbound fleet.
Included in this feet are the Prussia,
Merom, Raphael, Highland Light, J. A.
Boreland, Nicholas Thayer, Alex Mcneil,
]. G. Potter, c. B. Kenney and other YES
sells.
Paul B. Perkins, manager of the Perkins
Pump and Engine Company, returned yes
terday from a trip to Kern County. While
there he secured the contract for building
the engine and pumping machinery for
the Kern County asylum. His company is
also shipping several gas engines to Ukiah
and putting in ventilation equipment in
Bakersfield hotel.
The California Wire Works just COM
pleted 81, 500 foot cable, weighing $4,000
pounds, for the Tenth and Post street
cable road. The company has also orders
from the East for three cables This
fact demonstrates that when manufacture
ers here bend their energies to specialties
importations.
The Risdon Iron Works are building two
ten-stamp mills for shipment to Montana
and two Bryan mills for milling companies
in Mexico. They are also receiving the
material for the boilers to be placed in the
electric light station on Howard street.
Francis Smith d Co. are shipping large
quantity of galvanized iron pipe to Mazat-
Ian to be used in Mexican mines.
The Union Iron Works are building
thirty Gold King amalgamators for the
Midas Gold Saving Machinery Company.
Recently eleven tons of beach sand from
Grays Harbor, WASH, was run through
| Gold King malgamator at the works here
and the results were so satisfactory that
| twenty machines were ordered, and as soon
as completed will be shipped and put in
operation by companies interested in the
| collaborating beach sands of Grays Harbor
The Hadwen Swain Manufacturing Com
pany is moving into new quarters on Spear
| street, where a substantial brick factory
building has been erected specially for the
use of the firm.
The National Base Ore Reduction Com
pany's new plant near Shell Mound, Oak
| land, is about completed and ores are
| being received from Oregon, Washington,
| Idaho Montana and other Pacific Slope
States for treatment by their quick-roast-
ing process.
L. 6. Sresovich has just received cargo
! of cocoanuts by the City of Papeete from
Tahiti. These cocoanuts are Of the new
crop, and will be manufactured into
shredded and desiccated cocoanut at the
Pioneer factory, North Beach.
| A large number of orders for betting are
being received from the interior by L. P.
| Degen, the belt and leather manufacturer.
| The G. H. Evans Machine Works are
building deep-well pumping plant for the
| Cypress Lawn Cemetery. 1t will have a
capacity of $1,000 gallons per hour. This
engine for the bark j. ID. Peters, and is
| building twin-power pumping plant to
| be shipped to Ross station for irrigating
purposes.
| During the past week the McGlue Con-
| centrator Company has shipped one con-
centrator to Placerville, one to Grants
Pass, Or, and one to the Okanogan mining
| district in Washington.
Steiger 81 Kerr, who confine themselves
exclusively to foundry work, report large
| increase of orders, which shows growing
activity among the machine-shops.
| The Woodbury. ConceD traitor Company is
shipping two concentratorS to the Rose
Kimberley mine in Ell Dorado County
| Mr.. Woodbury. will visit Utah shortly,
when he expects to place concentrators in
several important Utah mines.
P. T. Dundon's San Francisco Iron
| Works have just put in machinery plant,
| including pans, tanks, mixers, etc, for the
Mission Chemical Works, and is erecting
| boilers for several other establishments
Bids will be in this week for the kitchen
for the Roman Catholic Theological Semi
nary at Menlo Park, to cost about $50, 0O0
The California Ink Company has filed
an order for five barrels of ink for daily
paper in this city.