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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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y years the harbor has been the rendezvous of vessels engaged in that business, coming here to dispose of or transfer their catch and lay in supplies. A few of these whaling vessels were owned here, but for a generation too little attention has been paid to a trade that, with fostering care, would promise to be the main artery of the commerce of the city. Within a few years, however, a few farseeing and enterprising men fitted out large and well appointed vessels, and engaged regularly in the business. They were successful in a marked degree, and in 1883 organized a company under the name of the Pacific Steam Whaling Company of San Francisco,
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I. S. VAN WINKLE & CO. (See opposite page). The Industries of San Francisco. 109 with a large capital. The stockholders number among them several of the largest capitalists and most enterprising an I sagaciou-; man of this place. The officers of the company are Chas. Goodall, President; A. Iv. P. Harmon, Vice-President; Edwin L. Griffith, Secretary, and J.N. Knowles, Manager. The company has already built and fitted out six of the finest and best equipped steam whalers ever put in this business, which, in addition to the sailing vessels, comprise a large fleet. All of these are actively engaged, and are a most important factor in adding to the trade of the port. About 400 sailors are employed by the company, and in the near future the number of vessels and employes will be doubled and trebled. The office of the company is at No. 28 California Street. I. S. VAN WINKLE & COMPANY. Importers and Dealers in Iron, Steel, and Heavy Hardware, and all kinds of Blacksmiths Materials. Agen

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