The San Francisco call., 1909-12-19
BIG DEMAND FOR
LOCAL PRODUCTS
Centrifugal Pumps Used for Re-
claiming Land Meet
With Favor
Gas Engines Manufactured in
City Easily Overcome East
ern Competition

The Keogh manufacturing company
few days ago sent another So inch CEN
trifugal pump to the Ringe land and
irrigation company of Stockton, TO be
used for retaining land. This is the
sixth order of the same kind that has
been placed by this company. In a let
ter addressed to the local pump firm
the officers of the company expressed
themselves as more than satisfied with
the pumps. The letter also states
that they can secure similar machines,
but not of the same weight and eff
cheney as the local pump, although it
costs them more.
The picture printed herewith shows
the size of a pump of this kind, with
workman sitting in the mouth of the
she'll The capacity of this pump, sold
to the Ringe company, exceeds. 10000
gallons of water minute.
The Keogh company has also sent a
36 inch centrifugal pump to the En-
pire water and land company for rec
lamation purposes. Wherever there
are large areas of ground to reclaim
these pumps are most generally used.
They are being used at the present in
San Luis Obispo, Dinuba, Selma, Visalia,
Hanford, Fresno, Palo Alto, San Jose,
Pleasanton, Lodi Yuba City, Marysville,
yacav Vile, Winters, Dixon, Davisville,
Susun; Walla Walla, Wash; .Juarez,
Mex; Houston, Tex, and wherever
there are water covered lands to i'm
prove
Some of the Keogh pumps replaced
steam pumps, which cost many times
more than the centrifugal pumps which
replaced them. On the Sacramento and
San Joaquin rivers there are So pump
ing plants used for reclaiming over
flowed lands. each with a capacity eX-
ceeding $4,000 gallons per minute. OF
these SIS plants Keogh pumps are used
in AZ of them. or 72 per cent.
During the last week the Doak gas
engine company has contracted for
one so horsepower distillate running
gas engine for w. M. Hall for mining
purposes; one 55 horsepower for c. II.
Wagner, Los Banos, for use on farm,
one 100 horsepower pump for ]. NJ.
Brown tugboat company, to be used on
the bay here; one 100 horsepower dis
tillate running, for ]. NJ. O'DonRell,
Amador county, for mining purposes;
two 20 horsepower, for the U. s. gov
ernment, to be used for fog signal sta
tions at Point Qua, and one 55 horse
power, for Charles P. Bates. an Oak
land contractor.
This firm is running night and day
to fill its orders and at the first of the
year will increase its equipment so
per cent.
The Western steel works, one of the
very few steel foundries on this coast,
is just finishing orders for two large
steel propellers to be used on launches
in the bay, four and a half foot con-
Meeting guards, several sleeves for
crank shafts and four gear racks for
heavy planes.
The advent of steel casting since the
old days on the coast and of recent
years is practically a new industry in
the west. But the fact that casting OF
steel is being done here is a good
sign. If local firms had been able to
do much steel casting Of any size a
number of big contracts recently
awarded would not have gone east.
The Wetsern steel works is Begin
ming to cast automobile commodities
to great extent AT one time such
work could not be done here. The
opening up of the automobile supply
industry means the beginning of big
trade as heretofore all of that work
has been sent east, keeping the Gus
toner waiting from two to three weeks
or a month.
The Western steel works new plant
is equipped with two crucible steel
furnaces of 1000 pounds capacity each.
a IL horsepower double cylinder dis
tillate running gas engine has just
been sent to 'Suva, Fiji islands, by the
Imperial gas engine company. This
is the fourth order from the Fijis for
the same kind of an engine and the
demand is growing every day These
were all ordered within the last five
months. These orders indicate that
the engines meet with favor.
The Imperial company has also re-
eeived an engine order from Auckland,
n. D., and Sydney, n. s. w.
The company's latest installation is
so horsepower three cylinder distillate
running gas engine in H. Petersen's
new towboat Sunlight" Wright of
the Imperial company on the trial spin
was more than satisfied with the re-
suits. particularly when it is known
that an engine of that size was able to
draw No. barge of the Associated oil
companys feet one of the big three"
belonging to that company.