The San Francisco call., 1896-01-12

Company are furnishing No. fifty ton
mill to company at Sheep Ranch, Gala
veras County, and one of the same capac-
ity for Angels Camp, a large No. 8 150-ton
mill to company in Arizona and are also
shipping small mill to British Colum bia.
Arrangements are being made for. manu-
featuring these mills in Australia and at
Denver, Colo.
The Perkins Pump and Engine Com
pany have Just finished putting in COM
plete water plant for Santa Rosa and are
contracting for like plant for Healds-
burg.
The Midas Gold Saving Machinery Com
pany recently shipped seven Gold King
amalgamators to New Zealand, one to
Clipper Gap, two to Carson Greek, Gala
veras County, and one to New port, Or.
The Union Photo Engraving Company is
turning out some half-toue work three by
six feet in size. This is believed to be the
largest ever made in America. Tie South
American republics are beginning to ap
preciate San Francisco art work in this
line, and the Union Photo Engraving Com
pany have large orders on hand from these
countries.
L z. Degen recently equipped Tillman &
Bendels new coffee and spice mills and
factory with new betting throughout. He
is also manufacturing an 18-inch belt for
driving dynamo at San Bernardino.
About year ago the Ontario Mining
and Milling Company, at Park City, Utah,
installed an electric transmission plant for
the purpose of running their mills. 7 be
generators were operated by Pelton water
wheels, running under head Of about 120
feet and developing 100 horsepower.
At the time of the installation provision
was made for duplicating the power plant,
in case they found 1t necessary to increase
the output of their mills at some future
time. Such an increase has already been
found necessary, and the Pelton Water
Wheel Company has in hand an order for
complete duplicate plant which will
afford the company twice the capacity it
had before.
The Pelton Water-wheel Company re-
ports very good run of business for the
past few months, their export trade being
particularly good. Among recent orders
they have contract Tor pumping plant
and piping system for Chalchupa, near
have similar contract for Santiago Chile,
and for number of electric lighting plants
in the Northwest.
The Dow Steam-pump Works has Just
completed al the present time some large
contracts, and among them are a COM
bined air and circulating pump for Stock
ton, a gas-compresSor for the Pasadena
Gas and Electric Light Company and an
oil pump for Fresno, and they report
having just completed six pumps for Port
Townsend, to be used on Government
vessels now building at that place. The
vessels in question are two launches for
lighthouse service, and the pumping
plant consists of two boiler-feed pumps
and one combined air and circulating
pump for each boat.
The large sinking pump Just completed
tor The North Star Mining Company will
be shipped this week. This firm make a
practice of testing every pump built, and
each test is more severe than the work the
pump will be called on to perform.
The pump built for the North Star mine.
while over twentyone feet long and
weighing close on to $4,000 pounds, was
tested in an upright position, that being
the position it will be called on TO do the
greater part of the work.
This company has also just shipped to
Mazatlan several Of the latest improved
boiler feed pumps. They have also
equipped the Union Oil Company with
one of the duplex pumps, to be used for
pumping salt water and for fire service.
The Lick Observatory, at Mount Hamil-
ton, has just ordered Dow pump of the
outside packed pot-valve plunger pattern,
which will be used for pumping water
through 1000 feet OF pipe to an elevation of
300 feet
The Abner Doble Company of this CITY
has contracted to furnish the Los Ange les
Electric Railway Company with an 500
kilowatt generator for their lines. The
generator, weighing 1900 pounds, will be
run at so revolutions per minute, driven
by compound engine OF 1900 horsepower.
The Risdon Iron Works recently con-
structed for the North Star Mining Com
pany of Grass Valley a high-pressure line
of water-pipe, 1000 feet in length These
works have large number of contracts on
hand for mining machinery, including
contracts for several Bryan quartz mills
for California, Mexico and South Ameri-
can mining companies.