The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 7, 1901, Page 7

MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 190. MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES OF THE BUSY “QUEEN CITY” Remarkable Growth of the Many Plants During the Past Three Years---Some Facts Also Concerning Progressive Real Estate Operations in the City. Tn a busy community such as Se attle unquestionably ts, people may | be so immersed in their own affatrs | as to be oblivious to what their }turning out over 2% tons of tee per! day | The capacity of this establish me fe about to be doubled, and addi j tional machinery Is being put in so neighbors are doing. In view of this/as to double the output and provide fact the Star presents a few inter eating points concerning some of | air the industries of the city Seattle, next to San Francisco, ts the largest: manufacturing center ‘west of Colorado and has a larger for th prospective demands of the ching season. The product of this factory goes | mostly to the local and Sound mar kets, though occastonal shipments are sent as far as North Yakima The cold storage department has payroll than any other two cities in! sig refrigerating rooms supplied the state. The volume of its manufacturing Dusiness is four times greater thaM)ing aii kinds of perishable food it was two years ago. There are no less than one hun- @red concerns mempers of the Man wfacturers Association, which ts only a year old. There are a hundred others, such as cigar, candy factories, etc. not | re} nted in th association Nearty two thousand men are em ployed tn the shipbuilding yards. who receive over $2,000,000 a year ‘The payrolls of the manufacturing Industrics on 4 large scale aggre- wate nearty $5,000.00) per year. This does not include the mechan ous stages of and re ir throughout the end whose Bay roll_ amounts te Barr $5,500,000 . ‘The number UF stfit increa: ia the skilled laborers of the with every modern improvement for freesing meat and fish, and preserv | products, These rooma are fitted | with galvaniaed tron trays or) shelves, under which the ammonia reulates in cotled pipes, producing ja temperature which can be regu-| lated to 10 of 12 degrees b The compressor is a dup one. and when the new engine is put fn the capacity will be doubled. There are two chambers spectally equipped for freesing fieh, 12 tons of which ean be frozen dally. Mr. J. V. Morgan is manager Twenty-five to thirty hands are em ployed as well as a large number of | delivery wagons. Clark, Miller Company. | The best equipped concern tn the | cley handling sheet metal and other City receive as much as ts paid for siniar wares, is the Clark, Miller the same class of work in any city in the coun’ try. Seattic’s industrial prosperity ts without a parallel anywhere weet of Pittsburg, and tt ie not surpassed Dy any city in the United States, Variety Iron Works. The Variety Iron Works are lo- cated on the tide flats at the cor- ner of Charles street and Railroad wenue. The business was found- facturt Industry in Seattle. that resolve been achieved. evidence ‘hich is ty demonstrated by ing output of Architectural work ti one of the Special features of this foundry. well machinery and fobbing ca. ings and all kinds of light and heary castings. Hote! and restaur- ant ranges are also manufactured, while stove repairs and plumbing go00és receive particular attention. ‘Mr. James was.the first to intro- @uce into Seattle the manufacture of tron work specialties in plumbing This was im 199%. For the five years he manufactured My these specialties, but ie ies ts no class of tron work, Which cannot be produced at these Careful attention has, from y this business was ¢steb- altars been given “to ‘the Nty of werk turned out. which favorable comparison with | that of Eastern workshops. From 24 to % men are employed: the works, which cover an ares More than half an acre Commercial Boiler Works. An Pager gg which is = cred- to eity and which has grown small “ae to large pro- fs the Commercial Street Works, situated on First ave- ue south. It was established in 18t by H. W. Markey. tts present or, who started with a force 12 or 15 men. He now gives em- ee to from 20 to 65 men. All of repairs to ships are made ‘and botlers of ai! kinds are con- ed and ired. During the year Mr. Markey has mode re- ‘on the Oregon, Roanoke, Ch: Lene and others, the total t paid for such work having over $100,000. Repairs to the 'y Of Seattie have just been com- In order to be able to do all of work of this character an © and complete plant of ery in necessary and during & past year no less than 19.900 has expended on new machinery, ing of compresned air tubes and all the latest improved devices for handling large and heavy pieces of machinery + “The works are conveniently situ- | Bted and the best skilled labor ts employed, Mr. Markey himself being ®& practical and experienced hand at the business under whose personal supervision all work is done. There fa no better equipped pliant on the Whole Pacific coast, and ft can com- Pete with any of them, both as to quality of work done and prices as Rois 8 Schoder Mesers. Fohife & Schoder are Manufacturers of bank and office | fixtures and dealers in hardwood Jamber. Their factory is located on First avenue south and they employ about 4 hands on an average all ‘the year round. There is nothing in the way of interior housework. Which this firm ia not capable of turning out. and a large number of the reridential and business promis on of Seattle have been furnished with internal work of beth plain and decorative description by this well known concern. ‘The planing mills and herditaie' rtments are supplied with the latest improved machinery and the goods turned out from these chal! @nge comparison with those manu- factured in the Kast The business: wan established In 9889. just after the great fire, and @ucceedet the Hall & Polson Co., tn which Messrs. Rohife & Schoder were partners. For beauty of design and skill in carving nothing can ex 4 the interior fittings of many of Seattle's recently erected costly Mansions, while leading banks wii! testify to the skill of this well known firm. The adaptability of Washington woods for this clans of Work is indiaputed, but should the architect or builder demands, fm Ported wood of any specified de- Seription can he brought into use. The reputation achieved by Menars ifs & Schoder has been gained painstaking effort and by careful Bitention to detatis. Seattle Ice Company. The Seattle Ice Company has ita Premines on the tide flatw, at the corner of Railroad avenue and Plummer street. The buildings, tn cluding # main structure of three Stories, cover an area of nearly half on acre. The plant ts of the most lern and improved type and one f the largest on the Pacific const ' Co, on West Madison street. Mr. T. | F. Clark is an old and well known citizen of Seattle having begun dusiness before the fire. The Pact fic Lumber Trade Journal, in speak- ing of the firm says | “John F. Miller, formerly of Min- neapolis, and T. F. rk, the well) known stove man and sheet metal | worker of Seattle are now in bust- ness under the firm name of Clark, Miller & Co. In addition to the general gheet metal work, in which Mr, Clark has been engaged for the last 12 years, are the dust-collecting devices, relief switches, furnace; feed: ind exhaust and blow-pipe systems, patented by Mr. Miller. who has successfully placed his work in all the largest milling con- cerns of Minneseta His twenty years’ experience in this line of work, together with the extensive business acquatntance of Mr.) Clark, should secure for the new firm the best success, The offices and shops are located at the corner of Western avenue and West Madi- son street, Seattle.” "Seattle Machine Works. While the Seattles Machine Works were only established in April of | last year they are already doting a large and profitable business in the way of making ao specialty of mi tng. mill and marine machinery and Co, which fe well and favor #ix years ago and hy large proportions as to give and beside vantage of proper fit and adjust ment by one who has a thorough and =m tifle knowledge of his ness and will do well to call on Mr Lundberg personally or write for catalogue. Pacific Coast Biscuit C0. The Seattle Cracker and © known in Seattle and whieh Is now incorporated in the Pacific Coast Biscuit Company, Was established grown to such mploy ment to one hundred and twenty five persons. They manufacture al! kinds of crackere and confectionery pplying the local de mand find a market for their prod uct In Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Wash ington and Britieh Columbia. The Beattic headquarters of this con rm are in the few and commod! us premises on the corner of Occ! dental avenue and Jackson streets ‘The goods turned out by this estab lishment will compare favorably | with the same clase of goods manu factured in any other city Novelty Mills Company. To the Novelty Mills Company ts due the credit for having erected the first four mill in King County, and thie was as recent as 1882. The mille are wituated in West Seattle and have a capacity of 550 barrels a day The location permits deep sea ships | to load right at the mille and the | company owns @ thousand feet of railway track which enables the ears of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern to bring the «rain in without rehandiing Al the wheat ground In these mills is pro duced in Waahington along the lines | of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern rallways. The latest im proved machinery te ueed: the full roller process being In operation to- gether with the new sifter system. ‘This company t* making for the lo- eal trade a very popular brand of flour known of the “Patent lent.” which ts giving firet class sat isfaction. The a also | capital, gives employment to archi ina, Jap- | a large export trade to en, Honolulu and Alaska, During the past year the Yukon territory trade has been an important factor owing to the failure of crops in| Canada. The mills of the Novelty | Company are continually running to thetr fullest capacity day and night and keep « Ilmrge force of men con- stantly employed. Geo. F. Folsom ts president of the ongpany Samuel Wilde secretary, nd treasurer, and the capital em- ployed ts altogether local, Capital Milling Company. Located at 3812 to 1832 Ninth ave- general repairs. They built last year (mue south, alae known as Grant considerable machinery for the Al- askan = trad and constructed a steam hoist and automatic dumping | carrier which met with much favor. | They are now building a compound engine for the Cyrene and Wash- ington park. This contract was ob- | tained after severe competition with other bidders. Twenty men are employed in this lextablishment and a new addition to the present plant ts in course of | leonstruction to cost $190. F. W. Mitchell t# president. C. W. Chand- ler, vice president: I. D. Lovejoy, secretory and E. Johnson, supertin- | | tendent. _ Moeller's Machine Works. ‘The well known business of W. | Moeller, manufacturer of machinery | jfor saw mills and general wood) | working, is situated at 115 Weller street. faat beyond the railroad | tracks, crossing First avenue south. | Established In 189% with merely a/ forge and anvil, this machine shop | |has grown fnto ite present large 4i- | mensions, and is equipped with a Iplant second to none of it# kind on} the Pacific coast. Included in this is some of the most expensive ma- chinery used for special branches of | work. | Engines and botlers, screw head | blocks and other mill requirements | are constructed at these works, and shipped to all parts of the North- | Washington Iron Works. | Under the same management and with a complete plant, the Wash- }ington Iren Works Company has| carried on a rapidiy growing bast- | ness for eighteen years. The bulld- jing consisting of a foundry, boll- er, pattern, machine and black- |smith shops, cover a considerable | area on the tide flats, near the southern extremity of the elty on |the Grant street car line, and are connected by side tracks with all the raflroads. For logging and pile driving engines these works have jextablished a reputation extending from Alaska to Central America, }and second to none in the United State Mr. J. M. Frink is pres! }dent and «iperintendent, and Mr. | Egbert Frink secretary and treas- | urer. Hi. L. Bennett Box Factory. Beginning with a force of six men |two years ago last July the H. L. Rennett Box Factory now employs | 25 when business is at its height This development has not been ac- complished without effort and the | quality of the work turned out has done much to promote growth. All kinds of boxes and berry crates are manufactured and supplied to the! local trade and Sound ports. The wood used is spruce and fir, al though orders are taken and filled for cedar and other woods | Owing to the large and increasing | demand for boxes during the past year this factory for most of the time has been run to ite full capa city. It is situated at 425 First ay enue A. Lundber$. | The Lundberg Artificial Limb Co lof Seattle, of which Mr. A. Lund- | berg is proprietor, has its office in | the Sullivan block on First avenue. | Mr. Lundberg has been engaged for {20 years In the manufacture of ar | tifictal limbs and surgical applian cen, After such a large experience he ts in a position to aupply the mont perfect artificial limbs and ev ery kind of deformity apparatus as well as trusses for hernia and elas | tle gooda and every sort of appli ance, Any person who unfortunate |ly requires any apparatua of this | description will appreciate the ad | | | of Canada and the Ade the comps president, and J. G, Pox secretary street. are the mille of the Capital Mitt me ny. Organized by F. EF. Sheidon, T. Coulter and Chas. E. Shepard, all residents of Seattle and interested in Seattle's welfare and growth. The company began the cemstruction of the plant iaat June and wae open for businens tn November and ts now running to tts full capacity of 250 barrels of four [per day. Thirty-five thousand dol. lars were expended. These mille are run altogether on blue ste wheat grown along the line of the Great Northern and Northern Pa cific raftways. It is one of the most complete plants In the Northwest having all the modern improv ments and besides «upplying the lo cal trade, exports large quantities to foreign countries. Centennial Flour Mills. This mill originaliy built for a ca- pacity of 500 barrels day, now turns out 2000 harreis every 24 hours. Resides having a large local trade, large shipments are continually go ing forth to China, Japan, Austra ia and other foreign countries Nearly all the wheat used in this mill i# grown tm the state of Wash ington, although some Oregon wheat is consumed. Veasets of th est tonnage can come along sic the mill and load with quick din patch, while the railroad runs right into the mill and discharges the | wheat from the cars, The Centen nial mill flour ¢ in competition with the well known Manitoba fi de flour of Australia, and more than holds ite City Mills. The City Milis, situated on the own. corner of Western avenue and fen a street have been established for ten years and are owned by Leh man Bros. A large business has been built up during this period. T day. which is nearly all consumed locally. Seattle Brew's & Maltin (0, Travelers from such distant parts of the world as Hong Kong, Shang hai, Manila, Viadivostock, Nagara ki and Central and South American ports, aay that in all these places they have se “Rainier” beer and were surprised to learn that it was made in Seattic. Thin will be sur- prising to the readers of the Star as well, But when we take into consideration. the fact that during all last summer the Seattle Brew ing and Malting Company bottled and labeled ten thousand bottles ev ery day, it will be seen that in spit of the large home consumption there must be found @ market for it sore | where else than here. Another idea | suggests Iteelf and that ts that ev ery bottle of “Ttainter,” #0 named after the magnificent snow moun tain of that name, in an ad ment for Seattle The company during the past year operated two large breweries and one of the plants is now being doubled to meet the increased de mand, When completed the capa city will be 1000 barrels a day. The shipments recently made to Hono. lulu consisted of 26 car loads of “Rainier” beer, and no noise wae made about it either. The prestige tine attained by this beer has been due are to the indefati in a large me gable efforts of General Manager F. F. Sweeney, The other officers of ny are Andrew Hemrich Hemrich Bros. Brewing Co, The plant of the Hemirich Bros. Brewing Company ie situated near Lake Union, and is reached by the } tion and prepare them for proper | presentation its clients. There nev | er was a time in the history jent. Such an institution should be | this ie with all the elements of #uc eapacity of the mills is ten tons of | cereals and twenty tons of feed THE SEATTLE STAR. Lake Union cars, which pass ut | ance to the vertous manufact in cond avenue, The original plant mauiated of a small steam beer | ta brewery and was purchased by the present owners about three yeare | tion to a#O and converted into a lager ri} th | brewery, Sinee they took hold of it from emall beginnings, the output | p hae increased until tte present capa> | ay city te 25,000 barrels per year, and | age the local demand for the beer, which | ts deservedly popular, has beeen # |mreat that export har been ims | wits The company i# now bullding a new plant near the Arn Pack ing Company's new buliding, which will conaiat of a building i t long and five stories in hets \ Ps or elght months, with a eapact of 50,000 barrels per year, ¢t $250,000 The outside demand ear | then be supplied, 1 ompany ts in orporated, ite p Ipal #tockhold ore being Alvin Hemrich, president and Louls Hemrich, secretary and treasurer, both of whom are cap able and well known business mer Moran Bros, Company. An industry which Is of para mount Importance to Seattle Is that of the Moran Hros.’ Company, #hit bullders, whl # fhational of ita bida f or more of the jby the last congress, The eyes of | the public were opened when it w found that there was a ship build ing plant capable of constructing battleships, no matter of what di mensions This concern was on! tablished in 1882 and then consisted of a rmal shop on Yesler avenue, In 18 was incorporated as the Moran Company and moved to tts ¥ nt location, which no wers a besides the additional lands which have just be haved for further enlarg the plant, They employ fr 1400 hands. Among the craft turned ship . fle army transport & ni, the rehoor er Minnie A. Caine. the barkentir James Johnson and many other ves ™ And atl thia has be 4 } without any flouriah of trampet» They have now under constructior a two-saction balanced float dock, 400 feet long, @ fret t towers, patent steel wedge koe blocks, 12.000 tons Alepiacement an: marine ratiway with a capacity of 1800 tons. Moore Investment Company. ‘There are two classes of real ¢ tate men. There are those who, fore seeing the growth of a city, pur chase real estate and hold it for ar a nee. They benefit no one but There are others who amy lo wn tote themae! purchase tracts advant cated, lay them out In t open up streets and build reatdences and business blocks to meet the in creased growth of population the latter class that benefits community, It brings in outside tects, builders, stone masons and ta borer and ts a benefit to everybody It is to the Intter clase that Moore Investment Company longs. of which Mr. J. A. Moore tx the president and leeding spirit Personally he needa no enconium and wants none Everybody ac knowledges hie public spirit ar 1 broad-minded views, He has a}. | Pike street, ways been the friend of Beattie, In| the past two years the company has | built the Lincoln apartment how on the corner of Fourth and Mad gon at a cost of $150,000, the Pata brook, at Second and Union, which cowt $80, is now buljding a store «& building on Becond avenue near Union, to cost $100,600, and a store tuliding af Becond ave } nue and Jackson street, to comt 860,- }000, Im addition to this, the com }pany ha bought 16 acres on Fit teenth avenue near the City Park, whieh is hetng platted, streets are being gtnded. and, commanding, as it does a Beautiful view of sivund, lInke and mountains, ft t* bound to become the at charming residen- tial section of Seattle, Pacific Coast Investment (0, The Pacific Coast Investment Co. intends to cover a new field in th development of the wonderful re | sources of the northwestern Pacific | coast country by promoting and | handling all meritorious enter- prises whether mining, real estate or industrial, and also bringing to gether the projectors of the various business enterprises which in this section of Washington and seutheasterm Alaska are abso jutely Hmitiess, and the people of Eastern and older portions of the country who are looking for safe and satisfactory placer for invest ment. The connections giready en tered into with eastern capitalist, com th mpany in a porition t be able to consider such prop untry when the co 1y completion of ant gotiations with capital were as quickly accomplished as at the pres country situated as ein a a sucee cena at hand H. H. Dearborn & (0. The following cash sales were made of property on the tide lands during 199 by H. H, Dearborn & Co., owners To the Pacific Mattress Co., 60x120 feet of block 210, for $2300; improve ments have since been made there on comting $10,000. To Ka 222 and 33% for certificates, $4,000. To Lieut. A. B. Wyckoff and F A. E. Wright, three lots in block 223 Milling Co., lotsa 3 and 4, block 222, for $2,600, It has 4 a flour mill thereon of 900 els daily capacity, costing $20 Olymple Foundry Co., lot one on which a foundry has been erect ed. To Louls an 119, of block eluded, on which there is now a $6, 0) bullding. To BE. C, Neufelder, for the Seat tle Transfer Co., fractional lote 3 and 4, lot 7, and north 40 feet of lot 6 in block 210. It is being improved at a cost of £20,000, Alvin Hemrich, 20x | To the Ce Brewing the south 20x111 feet northeast corner of First avenue south and Jackson street for $20,000, This property is soon to be cove’ with a magnifi- | cont four-story bullding. | H. H. Dearborn & Co., have alao sold other tide and upland, amount ing to $20,000 cash, and have for their own account bought tide lands of the value of 360,000; the latent purchase being from M. H. Young of lota 10 and 11, block 2%, at the northeast corner of Firet avenue) south and Atlantic street, for $11,0001@ ¢ including the fill | Seattle Electric Company, Every olty which ts progressive always seeks to hive its streets w paved and well lighted, and to » cure an efficient str Tho deficiency in pavements in be ing remedied as rapidly as the dim in the way ean be overcome The Senttle Klectrie Company which Is only @ little over a year | old i at present an important ad- | ARMOUR ova Societe The Chicago Mult Milionare| the Passes Away. » extimated at from $25, twetlings throughout the struck western N W. J. McConnel his town to leave, and} ‘They do alton Washington » thelr hands on is situated on of Second avenue and Great Northern Hot Springs. Mustration gives | ground having been set apart for but a faint conception of the beau surrounding the locatt The foregoing and proprietor, Mr. I has for the past ten jreen River | x Springs on the line of the| od the Northern railway own last spring. The thous f patrons whom he entertain. | * these many years will |4# remember him as an affable and | * rounded by @ magnificent forest to the tunnel 1000 feet above with the raiir ging up the mountain side, j trains of eight mit ar Ames, four lote in biks | mort sents one of the | tain hotel excellent trout fishing Is to be rituated 20 station and will accommodat During the coming summer | ges for private families will be | constructed and tenting parties will eamping | Washington See PIMLP = DANFORTH f bis son and nar to h affected progress of ms he the fir ea to Chi * generally cop 4 his) went’ to the summer nat Danforth lodge, | lake, Wis., from! t of the b an of | been #0 well con. | material change is Mr. Armou # death. | "00, which amow the $15,000, 4 by the y | Armour was born on a!/ n Onetda county, New York, The California gold | wl Armour waa one of years old, he walked re distance to the} He was succemfu and ft there after em 1 fortune. Aft 1 the grocery bust n the best: ft costs he cheapest. Tel. Pianos ife until the «ame 503 Pike Street, LAAAKARARERERARERRS He is an expert on minera) springs, having visited the | Springs, of Utah, the |g anft and Harrison Springs in Can- | ers, and he pronounces | thern the superior of | contains every modern | # he bath rooms are in iiding and special attention | ne | to the cuisine, Th on the Pi cifle const attendance. Special rates “see SOnsorial Creal Great Northern Hot Skykomish, King Co., | 229, for $6000; fill in | geeeeeosooes oe > o ° yy For the cure Habite--The only genuine British Columbia y Inetitute in Washing fiee 80 Sullivan * MATHESON BROS. I a a i Rl te td Sear rie. waar Special Bar DOMESTIC ON SALE 100 Dozen Men’s Heavy Wool Gloves 19 Cents Mechanics Ching Ge. 1» Yosler and Wash- ington. Look for sign). You won't know what ts the very best pomsibie deal to be made on & plano until you have visited our plane departmen! It's an excellent showing makes and beeutiful t really extreofinary prices. Credit is given on terme to sult your convenience, SHERMAN, GLAY & CO. Til Becond Ave. CAHN & COHN YESLER DOCK Tent and sell house raising jacks to any elze an@ quan- tity, Tet Mein 423. Fig Prune Cereal, a Delicious Drink To Be Used Instead of Cof- fee or Tea. SOMETHING NEW Makes a Most Palatable and Healthful Drink. 25 Cents Per Package WwW. S. MAYFIELD FAMILY GROCER ‘Phow Main 998 8 bars Emerald Soap, toe, 6 bars 16-02. Savon, B5e, 2-1d package Gold Dust, 200, GROCERS Cor. Sixth and King Tot, Main 563 POPP SS LISS SESS ESS EVERY DAY references are coming in, people as- tonished from the effects pr | for they did not think it possible to A New Pair 1 |remove all scalp disease, and pro- , * | duce new hair. But now they ere Not Good | proving that we do what we claim Wear | to do, Call at 482 New York block. | Or at Smith & Kennedy's, James Toprennd 3 $3.50 Shoss T the top of A all $3.50 Shoes, for com- @ fort, style, fit and durability, Raymond & Hoyt, 918 2d Ave. | et car service, | COOOOOOOOOOO 000000000000 £00000009000 000009000008 | KEELEY INSTITUTE Opium and Tobacco | RAY, Mar, Institute | Lake or Fremont car, Of Main, 8 Seattle, Wash | | and Second, You may bring your prescrtp- tions here, with heaps of confi- dence. Trust us for what you can see and smell. Trust us for | what you don’t see, Nothing is high priced if you want the best. Telephone Main 787, ° §, B. Corner Second and Pike, a