The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-02

of 100 to 140 pounds. The engine is five
feet high. and weighs $1,000 pounds.
Early last week the vessel Tropic Bird
discharged $4,000 cocoanuts at North
Beach for L. G. Sresovieh 81 Co.'s pioneer
factory and the San Bias, now in port
brought the firm 100000 lines. The firm
has removed to their new quarters on San
some and Washington streets.
During the past week the Union Gas
Engine Company shipped a sixty-horse-
power engine to Nye County, New, and a
acknowledgements gasoline engine to Salt
Lake. Recent shipments by this company
also included six-horsepower engine to Sgd
Gey, Australia, fve-horsepower marine
engine to Tiburon, a large hosting plant
to Grass Flat, Sierra County, pumping
plant to Santa Barbara, an engine and
winepump to Mountain View and five
horsepower electric plant and engine to
Dunn Brothers resort at the Cliff House.
The Union Lithograph Company has
issued very handsome souvenir pro-
gramme for the bankers convention,
which meets at Fresno on the 5th Of
October.
The Pelton water wheel is distinctively
Californian product and is Justly regarded
as one OF the most useful and illustrious
inventions of this or any other country.
A very high honor has been paid the,
Pelton Water-wheel Company recently in
the award by the Franklin Institute of
Pennsylvania of the Elliot Cresson gold
medal-made as Just recognition of what
is regarded by them as one of the most
valuable products of American genius that
has ever been produced.
A recent shipment made by the Pelton
Water-wheel Company is that of three
loot wheel for the juneau Eleetric-light
Company at Juneau, Alaska. This wheel
is to replace turbine previously installed
This company also reports a steady in
crease of business during the past month,
which has taxed their works to the ut
most. Among recent orders they note two
wheels for a mining work in Colorado and
an electric-light plant complete for Mex
leo, and also three wheels for the mining
districts of this State.
The Wave Motor Company is going to
put in a wave-motor plant at Capitola, to
cost $9230.
The Union Oil Company has an extern
siye oil refinery at Santa Paula, Ventura
County, which they intend to remove to
the vicinity of Martinez, Contra Costa
County. A tank 80 feet in diameter by %
feet in height is being built and furnaces
constructed. The oil will be brought bv
sea from Ventura County, pumped into
the tanks and refined. 1t is the intention
to pipe the oil to the California Powder
Works and the selby Smelling Works.
The Golden State and Miners Iron
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foundry work. The immense dredger, the
largest ever built on the coast, and de-
signed for work on the San Joaquin, on
which the company has been engaged for
some time, is now completed, and to-mor-
row test will be made of its working
capacity.
The Union Iron Works has the eentract
to furnish the new forty-stamp mill for
the Champion Mining Company at Nevada
City. This, with the thirty stamps now
in operation, will make seventy stamps
running on the ore from the Champion,
Merrifield and Wyoming, the quantity of
which is estimated to be sufficient to keep
them going for an indefinite period.
The Dow Steam Pump Works have been
very busy the:past week filling orders for
pumps. They report having shipped to
jacksonville one of their duplex piston
pumps of a capacity of 1000 gallons per
minute for use in the beet sugar factory
a fire pump of the compound duplex
inside plunger pattern, for the Selby
Smelling and Lead Works at Seiby, Cal
also Dow improved sinking pump for
Siskiyou County, Cal, this pump making
the second shipped to this section in the
last ten days, the first having capacity of
900 gallons per minute from depth of 40O
feet and the second 800 per minute from
same depth. These sinking pumps are be-
coming recognized in Mexico.