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they do from wheat. We would call especial attention to this subject. 

 The corn samples were numerous and of good quality. 



The manufactured products represent some of the most important indus- 

 tries of the State. Stockton occupies a foremost position among the inland 

 towns of California for manufactures. The flour on exhibit represented 

 two of the largest mills on this coast. These two mills have a capacity of 

 two thousand eight hundred barrels per day, and the brand is favorably 

 known in home and foreign markets. 



The manufacture of agricultural machinery is very large, employs 

 many men, and the output of machinery and implements is of great value. 

 The "Combined Harvester" works are extensive, and, with other concerns 

 of similar character, have worked a revolution in grain growing in this 

 State. They have done more than this; they have saved that leading in- 

 dustry from disaster, and perhaps from extinction. The competition in 

 the markets of the world which our wheat was subjected to from countries 

 where labor is low or illy paid, was so great that the prices of that staple 

 hardly paid the farmer the cost of its raising. The invention and manu- 

 facture of the Combined Harvester reduced the cost of production from $2 

 to $3 per acre. This was a saving to the wheat growers of the State of 

 several millions of dollars annually, and enabled them to compete with 

 the cheap labor product and still make a profit. The exhibitions of 

 leather, woolen goods, paper, soap, agricultural machinery and implements, 

 and furniture, were numerous and of high excellence. We append here a 

 summary of the manufactures of Stockton, furnished us by the managers 

 of the San Joaquin exhibition: 



Stockton Manufacturing Establishments. 



Name. 



!=f 



Production. 



p 



B 

 o 1 



Amount 

 Paid in 

 Wages 



Monthly. 



Value of 

 Annual 

 Output. 



Capital 

 Invested. 



Sperry & Co. 



Crown Mills 



Comb. Harvester Works. 



Cal. Paper Mill Co 



Matteson & Williamson. 



Pacific Tanner}^ 



Buell&Co 



Woolen Mills 



M. P. Henderson & Son 



Wm. P.Miller 



Farrington, Hyatt & Co.. 



Globe Iron Works 



H. W. Sylvester & Co.... 

 Stockton Wheel Works.. 



White & Thomas 



H.C.Shaw 



Stockton Soap Works ... 



Hoult&Son.... 



Stockton Broom Factory 

 Pacific Agricultu'l Wk's 



E. J. Marsters 



L. Hansel 



Breweries (2) 



Windmill makers 



1852 

 1883 

 1882 

 1877 

 1865 

 1855 

 1883 

 1870 

 1869 

 1852 

 1868 

 1859 

 1878 

 1882 

 1873 

 1870 

 1881 

 1885 

 1877 

 1875 

 1875 

 1852 



Total. 



Floor* mill stuffs 



Flour, mill stuffs 



Agricultur'l mach'ry 



Paper 



Machinery 



Leather 



Planing mill works. .. 



Woolen goods 



Carriages, etc.. 



Carriages, etc 



Machinery 



Machinery 



Furniture 



Carriage works 



Planing mill works. .. 

 Plows 



Soap 



Agricultur'l mach'ry. 

 Brooms 



Agricultur'l mach'ry. 

 Agricultur'l mach'ry. 



Carriages, etc 



Beer — 



Windmills, tanks 



60 

 55 

 150 

 60 

 40 

 40 

 30 

 30 

 30 

 25 

 30 

 20 

 50 

 25 

 25 

 16 

 5 



12 

 10 

 15 

 10 

 30 



$5,000 



3,500 



10,000 



3,500 



2,200 



1,800 



1,500 



1,300 



1,400 



1,200 



2,250 



1,000 



2.000 



1,200 



1,000 



800 



250 



700 



400 



750 



600 



750 



500 



2,000 



$2,000,000 



1,200.000 



300,000 



250,000 



110,000 



150,000 



100,000 



100,000 



50,000 



40,000 



35,000 



40,000 



80,000 



75,000 



50,000 



20,000 



30,000 



24.000 



10,000 



20,000 



15,000 



20,000 



35,000 



75,000 



$500,000 



300,000 



500,000 



300,000 



100,000 



100,000 



35,000 



40,000 



55,000 



40,000 



50,000 



20,000 



20,000 



40,000 



30,000 



10,000 



10,000 



20,000 



3,000 



18,000 



12,000 



18,000 



20,000 



20,000 



784 



$45,600 



$4,829,000 



$2,261,000 



