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Title: The industries of San Francisco. Her rank, resources, advantages, trade, commerce & manufactures. Conditions of the past, present and future, representative industrial institutions, historical, descriptive, and statistical
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Hackett, Frederick H Payot, Upham & Co., San Francisco
Subjects: Industries
Publisher: San Francisco : Payot
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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d in no other house can such a variety ofI design and make be found as here; nor can prices be equaled in this as in other lines by com-petitors. The decorative art rooms, up stairs, are as complete and elaborate as the storebelow. Everything in this line of artistic and jesthetic goods can be obtained, or the materialsprocured to make them. Much attention is paid to materials suitable for making decorative art work, and amateurs and the trade may obtain anything needful in this place. The busi--> of the house is very heavy, and includes the entire Pacific Coast. THE ARCTIC OIL WORKS. Xo. 28 California Street. The Arctic Oil Works is another of those enterprises founded by San Francisco capitalists,destined, in the near future to exercise an important influence on this coast, and to have a directbearing upon the markets of the world in the lines of its particular productions. These workswere erected for the express purpose of refining the oils obtained by the catches of the whaling
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The Industries of San Francisco. 125 fleet and fishing boats engaged in capturing whales, sea elephants, and other oil-producing ani-mals and fish in the Pacific Ocean. With this end in view, and desiring to produce only thepurest article, the works were erected at the Totrero, on the bay shore, and supplied with allthe scientific appliances and adaptable machinery that experience could suggest. The estab-lishment began operations in 1883, in time to refine the catch of that season, and the result ofthe years operations was satisfactory in an emment degree, the products being of the best char-acter, and worthy of being placed with the oils made at the well-known works in the East andEurope. At these works are made sperm, whale, sea elephant, and fish oils; spermacetti andsperm candles; whale and fish pressings; and sperm, whale, and fish oil scraps. All these pro-ductions are superior articles, and are already in demand for use here and shipment to all partsof the world. The business,

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