The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-25
THE HOME OF INDUSTRY.
Products of the Loom and Vat
That Are Famous the
World Over.
A FUTURE FULL OF PROMISE
Its Transportation Facilities Are
Excellent and Its Advantages
Manifold.

NAPA March 24-If the indolent tribe of Indians
who gave this valley the of Napa here to-day
their sleep would be disturbed by the hum of machinery
which is making of this shire town of Napa County
manufacturing center. The industry that stands out
most prominently is that of gove-leather tanning
and picking which is carried under the of
the Sawyer Tanning Company. Some of wear gloves
all our lives without knowing the processes through
which the skins pass before they made gloves
to hands The CALLS correspondent could not have
found more extensive and complete place to gain
knowledge than the works of the Sawyer Company,
which occupies three blocks and is by far the largest
place of the kind the Pacific coast. The SOFT beauti
full castor gloves which all like for outing and cool
weather wear made by superior oil tan of the
tor buck. The great watts of oil where these skins
put in bath not particularly attractive sight but
the result beauty and durability of the leather
Hair seals are being tanned for the use and
satisfactory to the glove-makers.
To make leather for gloves used by miners smelter-
workers farmers and railroad men the Sawyer Com
pany horse and seal SKINS which prepared
has gained reputation the world over through patent
process for the tannage of sheep goat and deer skins
on ber goods East or to- oresn lands
1t is Interesting to see the wool pckers employed
here The wool from the sheep pelts cleaned graded
pressed into packages for shipping Four thousand
pounds of wool is pulled and shipped every day. Six
teen hundred skins of grade another are put on
the shelves tanned, measured ana ready Tor market
each day. Nearly two hundred men are employed by
the Sawyer Company in their extensive business -,
The Napa Woolen-mill plant, with its four-set mill
twenty-five broad looms, several dressers, calender
press, securing, coloring and other machinery and
equipment in which sixty people employed is a
factory of consequence. The mills mainly
gagged in the manufacture of medium and heavy weight
Atwood fannels and blankets. The good California
wool and carefulness in dying weaving have given
their goods reputation second in the country
Notwithstanding the general depression and closing
down of many Eastern mills the looms here are hum
ming all the time B. F. Holden, manager OF the COM
pany their daily output at this season OF the year.
which their dull time, because of the long hot sum-
months just ahead is 1000 yards
Two-thirds of the goods from the Napa Woolen-mll
sent east thus bringing outside money here Tor crcu
ation which is certainly good thing for the town and
State.
Williams glove factory here Napa. The firm for
mery engaged in the line in San Francisco where
their business increased beyond the capacity of their
building. Business of Napa learned they were
seeking location and offered build them factory if
they would come here. The advantages of Napa, the
firm found many, and their supplies came from
the tannery company here they decided to accept the
yitation The plant built most desirable lot
near the Southern Pacific Railroad depot. The building
is large two-story and basement structure well lighted
and ventilated, and with all the latest improved
chinery for glove manufacturing in large quantities.
The output 1900 dozen gloves per month"; but
orders coming in fast that twenty people
will be added 70 the seventy employed 1t is
clean work and well suited for the de fingers of
Three-ffths of those employed here women. They
make speciality of patent seamless glove which has
no in the front of the hand. 1t is made from
peculiar tannage of leather, known 'Napaite which
IS waterproof and freproof This glove is making the
Napa glove factory famous in the East where they
used by fremen gripmen and harvest men. This firm
takes great satisfaction in the fact that nine enths of
Rocky Mountains, where