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teen hundred and seventy-two. Banking house, corner of Fifth and G 

 streets. Capital, two hundred thousand dollars; paid up, fifty thousand 

 dollars. President, A. H. Wilcox; Cashier, E. F, Spence; Assistant 

 Cashier, Jose G. Estudillo. 



MANUFACTORIES. 



The manufacturing interests are fairly represented, there being a good 

 steam flouring mill, three steam planing mills, a machine shop, an iron 

 foundry, two brickyards, a stoneyard, three furniture manufactories, 

 two salt works, two soap factories, and two breweries. 



These are mostly doing a good business. The flouring mill is capable 

 of turning out one hundred barrels of flour per day, the citizens gen- 

 erally preferring it to any other brand. The planing mills are all fitted 

 up with machinery for working up beehive lumber, and are crowded 

 to their utmost with that kind of work, two hundred and fifty-five 

 thousand feet of lumber having alread} r been sold from the yard this 

 Fall to be worked up for the coming season. The foundry has turned 

 out some superior castings for buildings and for machinery at the mines, 

 the sand here being peculiarly adapted for fine castings. Granite of an 

 excellent quality has been found within a few miles of the city, and 

 specimens sent to San Francisco with satisfactory results. The amount 

 of capital necessary to make it a profitable shipping article has been 

 wanting, and beyond supplying the local demand little has been done 

 with it. There is also very fine stone on the Coronada Islands, but it 

 being on Mexican territory, the duties have prevented these quarries 

 being extensively worked. 



Besides that already done, there is a wide field open for a great vari- 

 ety of manufactories. Large sums are sent away every year for manu- 

 factured goods, the raw material for which is produced here. The wool 

 supply, reaching at this time into the millions of pounds annually, is all 

 sent away to be returned in manufactured articles. An establishment 

 for the manufacture of woolen goods would prove very profitable, the 

 cost of running machinery here not being much greater than in the 

 East, and any additional expense would be much more than repaid in 

 the saving of freights and the general increase of business. The manu- 

 facture of leather and boots and shoes would also prove remunerative. 

 Within a short distance of the city are large quantities of live oak and 

 sumac for tanning purposes, and the large number of hides annually 

 shipped from here, if made into boots and shoes, would add to the value 

 of the export list. There is scarcely a manufacturing interest that 

 would not pay well here — the market is extensive and yearly extend- 

 ing. Farming implements of all kinds are in demand, many of which 

 could be manufactured here profitably. During the past year there has 

 been sold in this market one hundred and forty-five Mitchell wagons, 

 besides a large number from other manufactories, and quite a large 

 number made here. 



Nearly all branches of business and professions are represented. In 

 addition to the manufactures, there are twelve dealers in general mer- 

 chan lise, three drygoods, two groceries, three furniture stores, one 

 fancy articles, three jewelers, one book store, three milliners, four drug 

 stores, one builders' goods, four tin and stove stores, five fruit stores, 

 one commission house, two wholesale liquor houses, two lumber yards, 

 two bakeries, one bookbindery, six blacksmith and wagon shops, two 

 harness shops, two livery stables, two boot and shoe stores and several 



