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HENRY B. HYDE, Pres.
JAMES W. ALEXANDER, Vice-Pres.
EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY
OF THE UNITED STATES.
Organized 1859. 120 Broadway, N. Y.
løsurance in Force, January 1, 1899 $987,157,134 Surplus in Force, January 1, 1899 .$57,310,489 New Insurance Written in 1898 $168,043,739
Office Santa Clara District,
12 N. First Street, SAN JOSE, CAL. T. P. SPIERS, Manager. For Other Particulars See Opp. Pages 172 and 173.
FIRE MARINE
FIREMÁNS FUND
Insurance Company
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
CAPITAL, $1,000,000.
ASSETS, $3,902,970.
HOME OFFICE:
401-407 California St., S. F.
315, 0465
Established 40 Years.
DAILY AND WEEKLY Mercury
SAN JOSE, CAL.
Leading Journal of the Interior and Unrivaled as an Advertising Medium.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
The Daily Mercury is published every day in the year at the following rates:
Per annum, by mail in advance. $6.00
Six months, by mail in advance. 3.00
Three months, by mail in advance. 1.50 Per month, delivered by carrier. .50
The Weekly Mercury is published every Saturday morning at the following rates:
Per annum, in advance ... .$1.00
Six months, in advance. .60
Three months, in advance. .35
CLARENCE M. WOOSTER,
EDITOR AND MANAGER.
. . SAN JOSE
Evening News
C. W. WILLIAMS, Publisher.
Complete
Afternoon
A Live
Paper
Dispatches
Read .. by .. Live People
Reaches all the Homes of Santa Clara Valley.
Office, 78 and 80 South Second Street.
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Objects .... Furnish Personal Abstracts. Furnish Information of a Business Nature. Furnish Ratings on all who desire Credit. Fornish you Assistance in the Collection of your Bills.
PHONES: Sunset West 53 People's 393
Mercantile Agency
OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY
Rooms 32 and 33 Rea Building,
When in doubt as to credit Ring us up.
SAN JOSE, CAL.
A. F. BROSIUS,
Book Binder, Paper Ruler and Blank Book manufacturer
Telephones :-
SUNSET, NORTH 12 PEOPLE'S. 53-2 BELLS
H.BROSIUS&SON
INDEXING MUSIC and and ... MAGAZINES
GOLD LETTERING. NEATLY BOUND
Rooms 35-36-37 .... Knox Block,
SAN JOSE, CAL.
BOOKBINDERS & PRINTERS
This Directory was bound by A. F. BROSIUS.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
THE GRAND
.. Mrs. M. J. Whitlock Proprietor.
LOCATION CENTRAL
The Most Comfortable and Homelike Room- ing House in San Jose.
Rooms Large and Sunny; Spacious, Light and Airy Halls.
TERMS REASONABLE N. W. Cor. San Fernando AND Second Sts., SAN JOSE, CAL.
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SAN JOSE CITY DIRECTORY
INCLUDING
Santa Clara County.
Giving Name, Occupation and Residence of all Adult Persons in the County, including Farmers, Stock Raisers, Mill- men, Fruit Growers and Vineyardists, with their Postoffice Addresses. Also Street Guide to the City of San Jose,
TOGETHER WITH A
Classified Business Directory of the County. 1899-1900
FOR SALE BY H. L. MILLER, STATIONER,
11-13 South Second Street, - SAN JOSE, CAL.
F. M. HUSTED, Publisher, 53-54 PORTER BUILDING.
COPYRIGHT 1899 BY F. M. HUSTED.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Miscellaneous Information of San Jose.
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Alphabetical List of Names of San Jose
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Alphabetical List of Names of Santa Clara County 437 Classified Business Directory of San Jose aud Santa Clara County 595
Representative Business Houses of San Francisco 635
INDEX TO CONTENTS.
DAGE
Agnew
437
Alma
440
Alviso
441
Bell's Station.
.444
Mount Hamilton
517
Berryessa.
145
Mountain View.
.519
Campbell.
448
New Almaden
525
College Park (See San Jose for names)
Palo Alto
531
Patchin
542
Rucker
542
San Felipe
543
San Jose
San Jose Street Guide
67
San Martin ..
.544
Santa Clara.
.546
Saratoga
577
Gilroy Hot Sprinsg.
479
Hillsdale
480
Sargent ..
582
Smith's Creek
582
Uvas
583
Los Gatos.
483
Madrone
.501
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Mayfield
.504
Milpitas
509
Morgan Hill.
.513
Eden Vale.
.455
Encinal
457
Evergreen.
458
Frohm
161
Gilroy
462
Lawrence.
481
Llagas ..
482
West Side.
584
Wrights
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Coyote
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De Forest
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Index of Advertisers.
Angevine H G.
.Top Lines
Azule Co.
Side Lines
Bonestell & Co.
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Bothwell C A.
Top Lines
Brant & Brown
opp 240
Brosius A F
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California Art Glass-works ...
Back Cover
Coppock E .... Bottom Lines and 272 a
Darby A C.
Top Lines
Degelinan G F
164
Dixon, Borgeson & Co .. Bottom Lines
Ducoing J F.
175
Enright Joe G.
.Top Lines
Equitable Life Assurance Society
... Front Cover and opp 172 and 173 Evening News. 2
Fireman's Fund Insurance Co ....
...... Front Cover
Fisher J E
Top Lines
Howes D H
.239
Hudson Cyclery
241
Husted F R
.opp 241
Lewis H E
Top Lines
Mangrum & Otter Co.
Side Lines
Marckres C C.
Side Lines
McGehee Fannie P.
.. 364
McNeil Bros
Bottom Lines
Mercantile Reporting and ..
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Collecting Agency
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Mercury
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Miller H J.
Top Lines
Mutual Label and Lith Co ... opp 368
Myers M Miss
.315
New York Exchange Hotel ......
Side Lines
Pacific Congress Springs ... Side Lines
Rucker Jos H & Co ......
.Top Lines
San Jose Institute .............. 364 Spiers T P ... Front Cover and opp 172
Globe Carriage Works.
...
Tetremu C L.
398
Top Lines and 208 a
Whitlock M J Mrs.
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PREFACE.
This number of the Santa Clara County Directory has been gotten out under some difficulties, many changes having taken place since the canvass was com- menced. We made over 2500 changes and corrections during compilation and printing, showing the necessity of compiling and printing a directory in the city where it is published.
Very few persons realize the magnitude of the work of publishing a directory. For San Jose alone it involves the visiting of every public building, place of busi- ness and dwelling house in the city, and for several miles outside in every direc- tion. Over 25,000 names must be written, arranged alphabetically, compiled (dupli- cates thrown out), checked and made ready for the printer, involving the prepara- tion of nearly 3000 pages of manuscript. This copy must be revised at least three times, and even then many errors are detected by the proof reader, to the despair of the type setter, whose patience is sometimes sorely tried by the many necessary changes of copy. A casual comparison of a directory with an ordinary book will give an idea of the difficulties to be overcome by the printer.
The present book contains 16,507 names in the San Jose Department, as con- pared with 14,351 in the last book. A directory should include about 55 per cent of all names, married ladies and children being omitted. This would seem to show a population slightly over 30,000. Outside of San Jose the intention is to give only heads of families, or about 20 per cent, but in the towns the lists are consider- ably more complete, so that for the whole county, aside from San Jose, 25 per cent would be a fair estimate. There are 7065 names in this part of the book, which would give a population of 28,260 or a total of 58,273 in the county. This does not include Chinese, nor a considerable number of transient laborers, who have no fixed residence, so that a fair estimate of the entire population would be 60,000.
The publisher wishes to acknowledge many courtesies and much valuable in- formation and assistance received from county and city officials, and from business men generally.
The work of the printers, McNeil Bros., speaks for itself, and cannot fail of being satisfactory.
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Santa Clara County.
ITS RESOURCES AND ATTRACTIONS.
S' O MUCH has been written about California of late years that . the world has come to be moderately well informed in regard to its people, its climate, its gold, its fruits, its wines and its grain. The recent exploit of the battleship Oregon, built at San Francisco, has called attention to the startling development of our manufac-
tures. When it is taken into account that the millions of horse power stored in the streams having their sources in the everlasting snows of the Sierras are already being transmitted and used for light and power in all the in- terior cities of the State it will be understood that NTV California is wide awake and conscious of her in- --. finite resources and pos- sibilities.
SAN FRANCISCO BAY
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
However, reading PACIFIC and experience are differ- ent things. To fully ap- preciate the attractions of this favored country one OCEAN must visit it ; must taste its fruit, its fish, its game, its wine, its milk and hon- ey; must feel its cooling breezes of summer and its fostering winter sun; BAY OF MONTEARY county must hear its song birds; must see its orange and lemon groves, protected by its peaks of snow; its giant trees, its silver lakes, its myriad flowers, its fruits of all the zones in their perfection.
The paradise of this paradise is Santa Clara County. To merely give its boundaries is to show why this must be true. On the north is the great bay of San Francisco. In the summer days the wind blows through the Golden Gate a gale freighted with the ozone of old ocean. Deflected by the coast range of mountains, its force toned down to that of a summer breeze, it cools and refreshes the great Santa Clara valley. On the east the same coast range, whose highest point, Mount Hamilton,
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ton, is 4200 feet high, protects from the cold winds from the Sierras in winter, and from the liot breath of the great San Joaquin valley in summer. The south lies open, ready for the coming of the warm rain cloud of the winter months, the never failing harbinger of plenty. The winds and fogs of the ocean are barred on the west by the Santa Cruz mountains. Thus cradled between mountain ranges, protected from blighting frost and scorching heat, yet open to cooling breeze and enriching rain, nature can do no more.
AREA.
Santa Clara County has a mean length from north to south of about fifty-five miles. Its average breadth is thirty miles. Of its mill- ion acres of land one-quarter lies in the valley, 300,000 in rolling hills and mountain slopes The remainder is mountainous, some rough and covered with timber, some clear and suitable for grazing. A great part of this mountain land when cleared has no superior for fruits and vines.
SOIL.
The valley in some prehistoric age was part of the bed of an in- land lake, and so its soil, as might be expected, is a rich sediment. Having received for Indreds, perhaps thousands of years, the mineral and vegetable wash from the mountains-the result is "a soil more fertile than the valley of the Nile and which now produces an income larger than that from any other territory of equal area on the face of the globe."
CLIMATE
San Jose has about the latitude of Norfolk, Va., and of Southern Spain and the island of Sicily, but its proximity to the ocean and the cooling breezes that come from the north and are as constant as the succession of sunny days, render its midsummers delightful. The cli- mate of the valley has none of the violent changes of the Atlantic Coast and none of the enervating effects found in southern Europe.
The late Judge Belden, for many years on the Superior Bench of the county, wrote perhaps the best description of the climate of the Santa Clara Valley that has anywhere been published.
" Beginning," he says, "with the month of October, the signs of a coming change are apparent. The winds, no longer constant from one quarter, become variable both as to direction and force, or wholly cease. Sudden blasts raise minia- ture whirlwinds of dust and leaves which troop over the fields, and the stillness of the night is broken by fitful gusts and the sudden wail of the trees, as the breath of the coming winter sweeps through them These are the recognized precursors of the season's change, and are usually followed in the first ten days of October by an inch or more of rain; and this, usually, by weeks of the finest weather. The effect of these first rains is magical. The dust is washed from the foliage, and is laid on the roads and fields. The air has a fresh sparkle and life. The skies are of a deeper azure, and the soft brown hills seem nearer and fairer than before. It is the Indian Summer of the East; but, instead of the soft lassitude of the dying year, ' here it comes with all the freshness and vigor of the new born spring. If in this and the succeeding months there are further showers, the grass grows up on every hand, and the self-sown grain in all the fields. The hills change their sober russet for a lively green, Wild flowers appear in every sheltered nook. Hyacinths and crocuses bloom in the gardens, and the perfume of the violet is everywhere in the
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air. In the latter part of November the rainy season is fully established. A coming storm is now heralded by a strong, steady wind, blowing for a day or two from the south-east, usually followed by several days of rain, and these are succeeded by days or weeks without a cloud-and thus alternating between occasional storms and frequent sunshine is the weather from October to April- the rainy season in California. The amount of rain that falls varies materially with the locality. In San Jose it is from fifteen to twenty inches, while in places not ten miles distant, twice that amount is recorded. During this period there are from thirty to forty days on which more or less rain falls, from fifty to seventy days that are cloudy, the rest, bright and pleasant. These esti- mates will vary with particular seasons; but taking the advantage of a series of years, it will be found that from October to April, one-half of the days are cloud- less, and fully three-fourths such that any out-door vocation can be carried on without discomfort or inconvenience. Cyclones and wind storms are wholly unknown, and thun- der is only heard at rare intervals, and then as a low rumble forty miles away in the mountains. With the month of March the rains are practi- cally over, though showers are expected and hoped for in April. Between the Ist and toth of May a slight shower may not be unexpected, but it causes no par- ticular damage or in- convenience. By the Ist of July the sur- face moisture is taken up and dissi- pated, and plant growth dependent on this ceases. The grasses have ripened their seed, and, self- cured and dried, are the nutritious food of cattle and sheep. The fields of grain are yellow and ripe, and wait but the reaper. Forest trees and shrubs have paused in their growth. This, to the vegetable world, is the season of rest. IN SPRING-TIME. This is the winter of the Santa Clara valley-winter, but strangely unlike winter elsewhere, for here man las interposed. Here by art, and by labor, he has reversed the processes of Nature and constrained the courses of the seasons. In gardens bright with foliage and resplendent with flowers there is spring in its freshness and beauty, while, in orchards teeming with fruits, and in vineyards purple with ripen- ing grapes, summer and autumn vie for supremacy. And so, with changing beauty and ceaseless fruition, pass the seasons of this favored clime."
The average number of clear days per year is 300. Average temperature of the months of June, July and August 74º. Average temperature of the months of December, January and February 52º. Average number of days in the year when temperature is higher than 85°, 14. Average number of days in the year when temperature is
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below 35°, 4. The observations upon which above figures are based were made by the United States Signal Service Bureau every day at 7 a. m. and 2 p. m. through a series of years and may be relied upon as substantially correct.
The average rainfall in San Jose is about 19 inches, confined to the months of October to March inclusive, though there are occasional showers in April and May. In some parts of the county the fall is much greater.
PRODUCTS.
The climate and soil of Santa Clara County seem equally adapted to the cultivation of grain, fruits or vegetables. Horticulture, however, is attracting most attention and giving largest returns on investments. All the fruits and nuts of the semi-tropics and temperate zone flourish in abundance and perfection.
There are now (July 1, 1899) in the county, according to the report of the County Assessor, 4,760, 145 fruit and nut trees (about 47,000 acres), of which 3,532,915, or 35,000 acres, are in full bearing. In addition to this there are about thirty millions of vines (12,078 acres). The principal fruits included in the above figures are apples 31,365, apricots 545,120, cherries 160,130, almonds 21.555, olives 16,410, peaches 546,915, pears 142,095. prunes 3.278, 200, quince 1,410, orange 1,570, lemon 1,075. walnuts 11,135, figs 2,200. Figures of fruit shipments from San Jose for the past year are not at hand, but in 1895 there was shipped overland from San Jose alone 111, 410,475 pounds Of 3,714 carloads. The amount has increased considerably each year since.
This season there are also 7,920 acres of wheat, 8,450 of barley. 159 of corn 325 of potatoes and 27,013 acres of hay. Other fruits, vegetables and grains are grown in smaller quantities. [Brandies assessed in 1899, 102,620 gallons; wines, 1,510, 150.] Near the town of Santa Clara are the largest seed farms in the world. Hundreds of acres are devoted to garden and flower seeds of ail possible varieties. Of carrots and cabbage there are 15 varieties grown; onions 20, lettuce 75, 100 of sweet pea. One farm, owned by C. C. Morse & Co., contain- ing 1, 200 acres, grows garden and flower seeds the year around, being suppled with water for irrigation purposes from four artesian wells. All kinds of vegetables are planted immediately after the autumn rains begin and grow throughout the winter-the most tender varieties of lettuce, cabbage, etc., very rarely suffering from frost.
In the eastern and southern parts of the county stock in consider- able number is raised. Some large dairies are located near Gilroy, where the finest butter and cheese are made. The largest and best equipped horse farm in the world is at Mayfield.
For several years tobacco has been grown near Gilroy of a quality fully equal to any grown in the Eastern or Southern States, the warm sunny climate being specially adapted to its growth.
To describe, or even mention, in further detail the products of this favored valley is unnecessary in such a sketch as this. Suffice to say
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that soils and climatic conditions exist here favorable to the production of nearly everything that grows.
PRICES OF LAND AND PROFITS.
Land in Santa Clara County is not cheap either in price or quality. To a man who has sold a farm in the Mississippi valley, which he has improved and brought to a high state of cultivation, for $50 or perhaps $75 an acre, $150 an acre for unimproved land seems a high price, but when the income is taken into account, the discrepancy disappears. From his Illinois or Iowa land he will do well if he realizes $10 an acre net, which we will say is 15 per cent on his investment. A Santa Clara County orchard when in full bearing has cost him $150 an acre for the land and say $100 an acre for planting and cultivation, or, if he prefers, he can save the time required for development by buying his orchard at about $300 an acre. The net income from this land will not be less
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than $75 per acre or 25 per cent on his investment. Experienced fruit growers say that taking the average of the years they can make a net profit of $too a year per acre. These may seem large figures, but for the past five years, the average income from 30,000 acres of orchards in this county has been more than $75 per acre. In many instances profits from $400 to $600 an acre have been realized in single years. This year orchardists sold their cherries at 20 cents per pound, realizing from $500 to $1500 an acre, depending upon the age of the trees. Unimproved fruit lands may be had at $75 to $250 per acre, depending chiefly upon location. Orchards in full bearing, where owners are for some reason anxious to sell, go as low as $250 an acre, but more often are held at $350 to $600, including fair improvements.
TAXES.
Large sums of money are used annually in public improvements and maintaining those already made. The public school fund amounts
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to about $300,000 annually. Over $100,000 a year is spent on public roads, which are the best in the State. All public roads in the county are sprinkled every day throughout the dry season, keeping them in excellent condition. The county has no debt, and only needs to raise by taxation sufficient funds for current expenses. That the people are fairly well satisfied with the conduct of county affairs is evinced by the fact that delinquent taxes rarely amount to more than $250, though the amount raised annually averages about $650,000. The rate of taxation is lower than in any other county in the State except Yolo. State- ments furnished by the Assessor to the Board of Supervisors for the past five years give the following figurs :-
YEAR.
VALUATION.
RATE PER $100.
AMOUNT RAISED.
1894.
.$56,512,650.
$1.25
$640,752.32
1895.
56,728, 125.
1.45
755,919.55
1896.
59,524,700*
1.30
704.409.12
1897
50,629,8671
1.38
629,558.81
1898.
51,228,807.
1.40 657,745.54
*Assessment raised 5. by State Board of Equalization.
+Assessment reduced 10% by State Board of Equalization.
PEOPLE.
The population of the county in 1890 was 47,895. At present it is about 60,000. It is cosmopolitan in character, though a great majority are Americans. The county originally was settled by the Spanish, and about 5 per cent of the present population are of that nationality.
INDUSTRIES.
The industries of Santa Clara County, while many and somewhat varied, are not equal to the increasing demands. Chief among them is of course the fruit industry. Canneries and fruit drying plants, with their acres of floorage, thousands of fruit trays and miles of track. abound in all sections of the valley. Some idea of the extent of the canning industry may be gained from the statement that a single company has canned in one day no less than 111,000 cans of fruit. Their output for the season was over 5,000,000 cans. One fruit drying yard covers over 40 acres, and they have over 40,000 trays. One firm made over 2,000,000 fruit cans, and another firm over 1,000,000 fruit boxes last season. The lumber trade is also a heavy industry in this county, the freightage of one firm being over $100,000 per year. Clothing is made here from cloths manufactured at the San Jose Woolen Mills. Many of the largest buildings in San Francisco have been supplied with San Jose terra cotta. Our elegant new Hall of Records was built by our Western Granite and Marble Company. The stone for our new Government postoffice came from the Greystone Quarry, six miles south, which quarry also supplied the stone for the Leland Stanford Jr. University. Our building trades industries, wood and metal working, household and general supply factories, etc., are, however, unequal to the demands of our section, and many lines of goods that should be made here are purchased abroad. Time alone will remedy these shortcomings. Agriculture and stock-raising are also important industries with us. So is dairying and the manufacture of cheese. Manufacturers of agricultural implements, wagons and
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carriages, tanneries, flour mills, wineries, breweries, windmill factories, brick and lime kilns, ice works, glove and box factories, etc., give employment to many hundreds of our people, and the trade of these concerns is scattered throughout the State.
At New Almaden, twelve miles south of San Jose, are located the richest and most productive quicksilver mines in the world, excepting only the Almaden mines in Spain. The location of the ledge was known to the Indians, who used the vermilion for face paint, at least three-quarters of a century ago. In 1822 they told Luis Chabolla and the Robles family concerning the ore, and in 1824 Senor Robles showed it to Don Antonio Sunol. The latter, supposing that the bright globules in the ore were silver, spent a year and $400 in trying to extract it. During the succeeding twenty years no efforts were made toward its development.
COURT HOUSE AND HALL OF RECORDS, SANTA CLARA COUNTY.
On November 12, 1845, Andres Castillero, a Mexican officer so- journing at the Mission Santa Clara, examined the ore, and pronounced it cinnabar. He filed a claim upon the ledge on November 22, 1845, and formed a company with a view of development. The property in 1864 passed into the hands of The Quicksilver Mining Company of New York, by whom it has since been operated. They paid for the mine $1.700,000. Up to March 6, 1891, the product amounted to $14,939,055.41. The land owned by the company aggregates 8,500 acres.
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