The San Francisco call., 1910-03-20


sion purposes, as illustrated here.
San Francisco has done more toward
the perfecting and standardizing OF this
important class of machinery than any
city west of the Mississippi, and it is
used from the icebound regions of
Alaska down to Cape Horn, also far
toward the eastern United States and
westward to Australia, Honolulu and
the Philippines-even to China and
Japan.
WORLD is THE MARKET
This machinery that is manufactured
by the Meese & Gottfried company of
this city with branch houses all over
the coast has, in it's many varieties,
markets all over the world. 1t is the
class of machinery in detail that is
absolutely indispensable to the driving
of power. Made up of a great variety
of separate units it is difficult to imag
inc the extensiveness of the line and
the enormous amount of detail in
volved in the production.
Recently this firm has supplied thou
sands and thousands of dollars of their
commodities to British Columbia, Ore
gon and Washington for various pur
poses of transmission.
This detail begins with the design
ing and drawing of the numerous styles
and sizes of bearings, shaft hangers,
couplings pulleys, friction clutches.
gears, sprockets, etc, and does not stop
until the patterns have all been made
and the work taken up by the foundry,
then passed on through the various
machine departments to the assembling
rooms.
CREDIT TO LOCAL INDUSTRY
The plant of Meese & Gottfried COM
pany is the largest of its kind on the
coast and is a credit to the manufac-
well as to the men who. about so years
ago, pioneered the business in face of
great obstacles and through years of
close application gradually built up
large plant and succeeded in stand
ardizing the line to such an extent
that 1t became possible to make up
great quantities of the various classes
of goods and keep them in stock, ready
for immediate delivery.
The founders of this institution all
deserve the greatest credit for giving
to San Francisco a live and still grow
ing concern, one able to meet the grow
ing intensity of eastern competition,
and ofttimes by merit alone, when.
due to some exigency of the case, the
prices were necessarily higher; though.
as a rule, the firm is able to sell as
low as the large eastern manufacturer,
and often lower when the heavy item
of freight is considered.
Before the standardization of trans
mission machinery, chaos reigned SUI
preme, and it is well within the recol-
lection of mechanical men how difficult
it was to get shafting, bearings, pull.
leys, etc. and almost every new concern
was Obliged to make their own bear
ings, pulleys, etc. at great loss of time
and money, with usually more or less
unsatisfactory result.
Imagine a concern in these days try
ing to make. say, wood split pulley.
Almost like trying to make their own
typewriters!
MANUFACTURE Of PULLEYs
In the matter of pulleys alone the
firm has always in stock at least 5000
in various sizes and styles, such as
cast iron, wood split, all steel and
steel rim, and have very large de-
partment at their factory devoted ex-
clusively to the manufacture of steel
rim pul1eys.
One of the firms side lines and which
has developed into very substantial
part of the business is machinery for
the elevating and conveying of ma
terial, and they have installed bucket
elevators, rubber belt conveyers, etc.
in various Industrial plants through
out the west.
They also manufacture line of ma
chinery for the cyanide process of gold
extraction, included in which is the
celebrated Buffers centrifugal pump, of
which there are more in use than any
other one style of mining pumps made
A list of the firms customers would
embrace almost every mechanical in
dustry in the west, besides govern
mental departments and thousands of