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STRICKLAND & CO. manufacture account books to order.
TUBBS' HOTEL. Patrons enjoy all the comforts of a country residence.
E. W. WOODWARD & CO. 958 Broadway-Real Estate Agents.
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interior is circular in form, with the seats slightly raised above each other as they recede from the pulpit. It will seat one thousand persons.
The Society of the First Methodist Church commenced the erection, in August, 1875, of a new church edifice on the southeast corner of Four- teenth and Clay streets. It is of the perpendicular English Gothic style, built of wood, with brick foundation. The front is eighty-four feet, embracing the two towers, and the depth is one hundred and four feet ; the nave is sixty-two and one half feet wide and ninety-four and one half in depth ; the auditorium is sixty-one by seventy-nine feet, exclusive of a front gallery, and will comfortably seat eleven hundred people. The principal tower is one hundred and eighty-three feet in hight. The con- tract price for its construction was $29,470.
The East Oakland Methodist Episcopal Church Society have erected a house of worship on the corner of Seventh Avenue and East Fifteenth Street. The lot, building, and furniture cost $5,200. The building is a pleasing looking structure, plain in appearance, and unpretending in size and architecture, but ample in accommodations for the present require- ments of the young society. It was dedicated June 6, 1875.
Frederick Delger's brick block of fine stores on the west side of Broad- way, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, costing about $18,000, comes into the list of handsome building improvements for 1875.
E. C. Sessions has built a fine two-story residence at the corner of Eighth and Market streets, at a cost of $10,000.
W. B. Hardy has erected a two-story and basement residence at the corner of Webster and Durant streets ; value, 8,000.
J. M. Walker has built on the entire block bounded by Madison, Jack- son, Eleventh, and Twelfth streets, one of the largest, handsomest, and most substantial residences in the city. The cost of the building alone was $40,000.
A. Erhardt has erected a block of two-story frame buildings on San Pablo Avenue, extending from Sixteenth Street almost to Seventeenth.
J. E. Whitcher has put up a fine residence, two story and basement, on the corner of Eighth and Grove streets ; cost, $7,000.
Capt. P. S. Wilcox has erected a brick warehouse one hundred by one hundred and fifty feet, at the corner of First and Jefferson streets, capa- ble of storing five thousand tons of wheat.
The Oakland Planing Mill and the Pioneer Planing Mill, on First Street, have both been enlarged, the former by the erection of a brick building about fifty by one hundred feet, and the latter by an addition of fifty by seventy-five feet, and the enlargement of their main building.
The brick passenger depot of the Oakland and San Francisco Railroad and Ferry Co., at Broadway Station, was finished and opened to the public February 26, 1875. It has a frontage of fifty feet by a depth of sixty feet, and cost $7,000.
The Union Bank Building, on the southeast corner of Ninth Street and Broadway, has been raised several feet and its basement converted into handsome offices, after the metropolitan style.
Jacob Samm has built a large flour mill, of five run of stone, on the northwest corner of Clay and Front streets. The motive power is an engine of one hundred horse power.
George M. Blair has built a new two-story stair manufactory, fifty by seventy-five feet, on First Street near Grove.
The California Bridge and Building Co. have erected, and have now in operation, a two-story planing mill forty by fifty feet, on the northwest corner of First and Grove streets.
Brayton Hall, on Twelfth Street, has undergone in the neighborhood of $7,000 worth of remodeling by Mr. A. C. Dietz, its owner.
The Union Hotel, East Oakland, has had a $4,000 addition constructed.
All sizes refrigerators and ice chests for sale at Gordon's, 469 Ninth.
For Oakland property go to E. J. KELLY & CO., 414 Seventh Street, Oakland.
O. F. S .- Oakland Feed Store, 416 Ninth near Broadway-O. F. S.
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Charles Jurgens has erected a spacious two-story and celler brick build- ing, the lower story of which is for stores, on the south side of Twelfth Street, between Broadway and Franklin ; value, $16,500.
Walter Blair has built six fine two-story frame residences, at a cost of $12,000, on Broadway near Twenty-first Street.
A $40,000 hotel building, three stories in hight, the first floor consist- ing of stores, has been erected by Walter Blair, on the north side of Fourteenth Street, between Clay and Washington.
Besides erecting several fine residences, Dr. Samuel Merritt has re- modeled one of the old University buildings into a fine edifice, now known as the Central Pacific Hotel, on the northeast corner of Eleventh and Webster streets, at a cost of about $9,000.
LOCAL INDUSTRIES.
In another place special mention is made of the several manufactories in the City of Oakland. Foremost is the establishment for the manufac- ture of jute bags. Manufactures are a sure source of wealth to any com- munity ; those who have the facilities to create articles of commerce from raw material will never be dependent. They create wealth, and there is no surer basis for permanent business prosperity. The tanneries, pot- teries, and establishments for the making of artificial stone, are all sources of revenue that possess a peculiar value; they draw upon the outside world, and a large part of their receipts are disbursed so as to benefit the city. The immense plaining mills that are kept running so steadily are not second in importance to any in the State. There are peculiar facil- ities for the manufacture of woolen goods, iron, glass, and inany other articles of commerce, which will be more fully developed as the improve- ment of the harbor advances. On each side of the San Antonio Creek there are miles of frontage, the property being equally accessible by rail or by water. This is one of the most important elements in the locating of factories. Equal conveniences can be obtained nowhere else in the vicinity of the metropolis, and they will be rendered available at the earliest possible moment. Then the city will be largely self-supporting, and no longer dependent on San Francisco. But without looking for- ward to the time when this idea will be realized, looking at things as they are, it will be seen that a heavy capital is already invested, that a vast amount of work is done, and that hundreds of people are kept in constant employment. The works of the Central Pacific Railroad Co., at West Oakland, have drawn there a large population of thrifty and intelligent persons, who quickly became owners of homesteads, and add to the wealth and standing of the city. That company has constructed a marine railway, and during the past year has rebuilt the Chrysopolis, a Sacra- mento River boat, and transformed her into a ferry boat that is probably unequalled in America for its elegance. A freight boat, for the carrying of cars, similar to the Thoroughfare, has also been completed. There are many localities where the business of building steamers and small vessels can be carried on advantageously, and in this direction there seems to be a fair opportunity for safe investments. Very many local industries have languished on account of the high rates of interest that have heretofore prevailed, and when the conditions become more favorable in California, Oakland will be the first to feel the benefit.
THE OAKLAND PLAINING MILLS were built by Burnham, Standeford & Co., and have been in operation since February, 1869, the firm name remaining the same. In addition to their old mill, they have just com- pleted and occupied an extensive brick addition, besides purchasing of
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E. W. WOODWARD & CO., 958 Bdwy, desirable cheap lots for sale.
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Mr. W. L. Barnes the premises lately occupied by him on the corner of Washington and Second streets, thus securing a frontage on three streets. The new addition is a story and a half high, and in superficial area fifty by a hundred feet on First Street, at a cost of $3,000. The mills contain all the latest improved machinery, thereby enabling the proprie- tors to supply everything that may be required in the manufacture of doors, sashes, house trimmings, etc.
THE PACIFIC LUMBER AND MILL COMPANY is a corporation, having its principal place of business at Oakland Point. The capital stock is divided into five thousand five hundred shares, all of which have been issued $55 per share having been paid in, so that the capital invested amounts to $302,500. In addition to the land and buildings at Oakland Point, the company own three thousand acres of timber land and a saw- mill in San Mateo County ; a flume from this land to Pigeon Point, seven miles long, and a wharf and warehouse at the latter named place; also thirty-four hundred acres of timber land and a saw mill in Lake County. The company manufacture all kinds of house and mill work, and furnish lumber, railroad ties, posts, and cord wood at any point on the coast. J. W. Pearson, President and Treasurer.
BLAIR'S NEW STAIR FACTORY on the corner of First and Grove streets. Its dimensions are seventy-five by one hundred and twenty-five feet, two stories high. Mr. Blair commenced business here when the patronage of the town did not offer employment for more than half his time; he now employs eighteen men, and not only supplies the local demand but ships his stairs to various portions of the State, and has almost exclusively the trade of Los Angeles. His portion of the building measures fifty by seventy- five feet, a forty horse power engine supplies the power. The California Bridge and Building Company have a share in the building, in extent fifty by fifty feet, and an altogether independent establishment, although for the sake of economy uniting in building with Mr. Blair.
SAMM'S FLOURING MILL, located on the corner of First and Clay streets. This is a frame structure, forty by sixty feet, and two and a half stories high, with engine house, forty by forty feet, attached. The buildings alone cost $32,000. It is furnished with the most modern and improved machinery, has five run of stone, with a capacity of two hundred and fifty barrels of flour and fifty tons of ground barley per day. The mill is now running, and turning out a superior article of flour which is finding a ready demand in the home market. It stands immediately in front of Merritt's Wharf and the Central Pacific Railroad track, so that the ship- ping facilities are of the most convenient description.
THE CLINTON FLOURING MILLS, located on the corner of East Eleventh Street and Twelfth Avenue, East Oakland, were erected in 1854. Weston & Welch are the proprietors. The mills contain six run of thirty-inch stones, and have a capacity of two hundred and twenty-five barrels per twenty-four hours. The engine by which the machinery is propelled is fifty horse-power. The firm manufacture flour, hominy, oat and corn meal, etc.
THE OAKLAND IRON WORKS, Ives Scoville & Co., proprietors, are located on Second Street between Washington and Clay. This firm is engaged in the manufacture and repair of different kinds of machinery, steam engines, pumps, windmills, etc., and pattern and model making. They also manufacture the Climax Side Hill Plow, all steel and wrought iron, which they claim excels all others in lightness, strength, and dura- bility.
THE SAN ANTONIO PIONEER POTTERY, Daniel Brannan, proprietor, is located on the corner of East Twelfth Street and Seventeenth Avenue, East Oakland. This establishment has recently been enlarged to enable the proprietor to enter largely into the manufacture of his patent drain
GORDON'S Ice Cream Manufactory, 469 Ninth Street, Oakland.
You have not seen Oakland unless you have seen KELLY & CO., 414 Seventh Street.
Oil-cake meal and ground barley, 416 Ninth Street near Bdwy.
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and water pipe, now being introduced in the market. In addition to this, he manufactures an extensive assortment of pottery of an excellent quality ; also terra-cotta, of various designs and patterns, for ornament- ing brick buildings.
CALIFORNIA POTTERY AND TERRA COTTA WORKS, James Miller, pro- prietor, are located on the corner of East Twelfth Street and Nineteenth Avenue, East Oakland. This firm has recently commenced operations, and is preparing to enter extensively into the manufacture of terra cotta flower pots, etc. The clay used is obtained in the vicinity of tlie works, and is said to be of excellent quality.
THE MANHATTAN MARBLE COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA commenced opera- tions January, 1873, at the corner of First and Filbert streets. This com- pany is engaged in the manufacture of mantles, tiles, furniture tops, etc., in imitation of the costly European marbles, such as Sienna, Jasper, Mala- chite, and Lisbon. The articles manufactured are said to be unequaled in durability, beauty, and cheapness. Twelve men are employed, who turn out about fifty or sixty mantels a month, besides other work.
PACIFIC JUTE MANUFACTURING COMPANY .- East side Second Avenue near East Tenth, East Oakland. Capital, $1,000,000. Leopold Cahn, President; Philip Susmann, Secretary. Manufactures grain sacks, wool sacks, potato sacks, burlaps, and twines, from jute, of which over fifteen thousand bales are imported yearly from Calcutta. The capacity of the company's works has been increased to one hundred and fifty looms, capable of turning out four million sacks per year. To manufacture this quantity, employment is given to about five hundred men. This result has been reached within four years, the growth of the institution being unprecedented in the manufacturing enterprises on this coast. Beyond the importation of the raw material, everything is done on the premises- spinning, weaving, sewing, hydraulic pressing, etc., and nothing in the way of machinery and its operation is wanting to produce bagging materials universally acknowledged superior to any imported. This corporation has heretofore been known as the Oakland Cotton Mills, which was organized August 25, 1865, by W. H. Rector and his three sons. Originally, cotton goods were manufactured, but the machinery for that work has been sold to make room for the jute working.
PACIFIC CORDAGE COMPANY .- The works of this Company are located near Fruit Vale Railroad Station, Alameda County. The main building is two stories in hight and one hundred and ninety feet wide by forty-five feet long. The rope-walk is twenty-six feet wide by eighteen hundred feet long. The machinery used is of the most improved character, with a capacity of ten thousand pounds per day of ten hours. Constant em- ployment is afforded to nearly one hundred persons. The raw material used in this establishment is obtained from Manila and St. Louis, and is known as the Manila and Kentucky hemp. The attention of those engaged in industrial pursuits is invited to the fact that this company could consume annually five hundred tons of the Kentucky hemp, if parties could cultivate it on this coast and furnish it even at an advance on Eastern prices.
In order to test the capability of soil and climate for the production of hemp, this company, in March, 1874, planted five acres to Kentucky hemp, about two and a half bushels to the acre, the result was a yield of one thousand pounds to the acre, of strong, soft fibre, equal to the best Kentucky grown, and they also found the winter season very favorable for the rotting of the hemp, occupying much less time than is required to do the same thing in Kentucky. It is understood by hemp growers that it can always be produced wherever Indian corn does well. The company will furnish samples of the seed gratis to any parties who desire to make the experiment.
Rich goods suitable for presents at STRICKLAND & CO.'S store.
TUBBS' HOTEL, East Oakland. Horse Cars pass the door every ten minutes.
E. W. WOODWARD & CO., 958 Broadway, Oakland Real Estate.
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OAKLAND GLOVE FACTORY .- Mrs. Spaulding & Mrs. Robbins, formerly of Stockton, have established, recently, at 406 Twelfth Street, a manu- factory of gloves. Already, the enterprise affords employment for a number of persons and every effort will be made by its proprietresses to ensure its success.
RIBBON MANUFACTORY, corner Market and Twenty-second streets, Joseph Green, proprietor. This is the pioneer ribbon factory in the State, all kinds of ribbons are made of any width, shade, or color, to suit, and entirely from California silk, it has not been so well patronized as it deserves, although Mr. Green is endeavoring to satisfy both the trade and private custom; but as the ribbons manufactured are equal to any imported they may in time find a ready market, both at home and abroad. .
THE BROOKLYN TANNERY, Crist & Rued, proprietors, located on East Twelfth Street, between Twenty-first and Twenty-second avenues, East Oakland, is the largest in Alameda County. Operations were commenced in July, 1873. The business consists in the manufacture of sole leather, also harness and skirting leather. At present eight men are employed. The quantity of leather manufactured is about two thousand sides a month.
THE OAK GROVE TANNERY, John S. Derby, proprietor. The business consists in the manufacture of harness, skirting; and sole leather, the principal market for which is San Francisco. Six men find constant employment. The quantity of leather manufactured is about two hundred and forty sides a week. The tannery is located on the corner of East Twelfth and Eighteenth streets.
THE OAKLAND TANNERY, located on the Bay shore, about two miles north of the old charter line, is owned by Wm. Watts. The specialty is the manufacture of the finer kinds of calf-skin, for boots and shoes, and the principal market for which is in San Francisco.
CALIFORNIA REDUCTION WORKS, late Brooklyn Metallurgical Works, located at East Oakland, A. P. Minear, proprietor. Not in operation.
LUSK's MANUFACTORY OF PRESERVED FRUIT .- These works are located on Evoy Avenue, between San Pablo and Telegraph avenues. The principal building is one hundred and eighty feet in length, by seventy feet in width ; and, in addition, there are several small structures for the different departments of the enterprise. Ten thousand cans of preserved fruits and vegetables are packed daily, and over one hundred and fifty persons are constantly employed. Three hundred and fifty acres of land are in cultivation, on which are raised nearly all the vegetables required in this establishment.
CARRIAGE MANUFACTORIES .- There are several establishments in Oak- land engaged in the manufacture of carriages, buggies, and wagons, and a variety of articles connected therewith, the quality of which will favor- ably compare with those produced elsewhere. One of the most extensive is the Oakland Carriage Factory, M. W. Allen, proprietor, located on the corner of Tenth and Franklin streets. The Pioneer Factory of Sohst Brothers, corner of Franklin and Eighth streets, is extensively engaged in the same line. The new and commodious building recently erected by these gentlemen affords ample facilities for the economical and prompt dispatch of the various departments of their business. Northey & McGrath, 803 East Twelfth Street, are also engaged in the manufacture of carriages, buggies, wagons, and all kinds of agricultural implements.
In this connection may be mentioned the establishments of King & Williams, 414 Eleventh Street; T. Weymouth, 365 Eleventh; John O. N. Smith, 502 Seventh Street; Henry Weeks, 314 East Eleventh, rear of Washington Hall; and P. H. McGrew, 1050 and 1064 Thirteenth Avenue, where carriage-making, repairing, and general blacksmithing is done in a workmanlike manner.
J. S. G. GORDON, agent for Napa Soda Springs. 469 Ninth Street.
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Good productive business property on Broadway for sale by E. J. KELLY & CO., 414 Seventh St., Oakland.
O. F. S .- Oregon oats and ground barley, 416 Ninth Street-O. F. S.
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WINDMILLS .- A. H. Southwick, office 414 Ninth Street, is extensively engaged in the manufacture of the Turbine Patent Windmill, a California invention. The inventor claims that this is the best self-regulating, noiseless windmill in the country, and that, after a series of experiments, it is now brought to perfection.
TAYLOR & Co.'s LUMBER YARD, foot of Washington Street, presents, at all times, quite a lively appearance, the immense piles of lumber furnish an answer to the natural query as to where the vast supplies required to keep so many mills in operation come from.
WILCOX'S WAREHOUSE is immediately west of Samm's Flouring Mill, on First Street, a fire proof brick building seventy-five by one hundred feet, cost about $5,500, is to be used for storing grain, it has a side track for loading and unloading railroad cars. This is the first grain warehouse erected in Oakland.
POPULATION-1870-1875.
The Federal Census of 1870 placed the population of the township of Oakland at 11,104, divided as follows: native, 6,940; foreign, 4,164; or white, 10,142; colored, 55; Chinese, 906; Indian, 1. Of this aggre- gate, 10,500 are declared the population of the city, and the remainder, 600, represent the township outside the Charter Limits. No official classification of the sexes and ages has been as yet published, and it is therefore impossible to compare the above figures with the returns of the school census of 1874 and 1875, and the data collected during the progress of the canvass for the present volume. In 1869, the total number of children of 15 years and under, according to the school census, was 2,144; 1870, 2,628; 1871, 2,952; 1872, 3,402; 1873, 5,064; 1874, 6,121; 1875, 7,231 (or males and females, 5 and under, 2,482 ; over 5, and under 17, males 2,303, females 2,446). The total population of the city as returned by the Census Marshal June, 1873, is 15,387; for June, 1875, 20,691, of which 3,474 are residents of East Oakland. The number of names of male adults contained in the Oakland Directory for 1873, is 4,564; for 1875, 9,184, an increase of over one hundred per cent. in two years.
The following table has been compiled from the above and other relia- ble data collected during the progress of the canvass for the present volume. Attention is respectfully directed to the figures contained therein, and the aggregate derived therefrom :
Males over 21, names in the present volume. .
9,184
Females over 18, estimated .
5,700
Males between 16 and 21, estimated.
950
Males between 5 and 16, inclusive, school census ..
2,303
Males 5 and under, school census ..
1,200
Females between 17 and 18, estimated.
400
Females between 5 and 16, school census.
2,446
Females under 5, school census
1,282
Colored, Indians, etc., of all ages, estimated . 125
Chinese, males and females, estimated. 1,050
Floating names, refused and not obtained in canvass. 200
Total population City of Oakland, August, 1875. .24,840 Population (School Marshal) June, 1873, 15,387 ; increase in two years, sixty-two per cent.
The difference in the above estimate, 24,840, and the returns of the Censul Marshal, 20,691, of 4,149, appears to be large, but when the fact
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is considered that there are in the present volume the names of 9,184 adult males, and that the returns of the Census Marshal of children of all ages under 17, amount to 7,231, an aggregate from these two elements alone of 16,405, it will be admitted that our figures are a fair approxima- tion to the actual number. Estimating the population on the basis of the number of names in the present volume, and assuming that each name represents three in the population, it would give 27,552 as the result, over ten per cent. more than the figures of our table.
The Sacramento Directory January, 1875, contains 7,000 names, and an estimate of the population of the city at 21,000. It will be therefore seen that Oakland is now the second city in point of population in the State. The Federal Census, 1870, returns the population of Sacramento 16,298; of Oakland, 11,164.
CLASSIFICATION OF DEATHS
OCCURRING IN THE CITY OF OAKLAND FROM JUNE 30, 1873, TO JUNE 30, 1875.
1873-4.
1874-5.
MALE.
FEMALE.
MALE.
FEMALE.
CLASS I .- ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
Order 1.
Miasmatic
15
26
17
21
2. Enthetic or inoculated
I
...
..
1
3. Diatetic .
2
....
1
1
4. Parasitic
....
CLASS II .- CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
Order 1. Diathetic
2
3
5
3
2. Tubercular
17
14
23
31
CLASS III .- LOCAL DISEASES.
Order 1.
Nervous system
15
21
15
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