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Pacific
Car and Equipment Company
The Pacific Car and Equipment Company was started in June. 1907 as
the Mutual Engineering Company, in San Francisco at Bryant and 16th
Street. During the early days of this concern about thirty men were
employed.
Five years ago the company went in with Mr. N. B.
Livermore, when the organization took the name of the Pacific Car
and Equipment Company. At this time the business was located at
South San Francisco in April, 1911.
The Pacific Car and Equipment Company makes a specialty
of building cars of all types, overhauling locomotives and does
general engineering work. They have a complete blacksmithing shop,
machine shop and a boiler shop. Since 1911 the business and output
has steadily increased.
The Company has built cars for the Oakland and Antioch
Railway and the Municipal Railways of San Francisco. It has also
made a specialty of constructing lime burning, plants such as the
Henry Cowell Lime and Cement Company, the Pacific people of two
continents.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Fifty-five years ago Uncle Tom's Cabin, for years one of the most
famous resorts for tourists in California, was opened for the
accommodation of the traveling public. It has always enjoyed a
splendid reputation, both for its cuisine and for the high-class
manner in which it has been conducted. It stands surrounded by
immense shade trees and gardens at the junction of San. Bruno road
and the state highway, and its roof and cozy arbors have sheltered
many of the most prominent
It is a spot that is never overlooked by Californians
in showing visitors the different places of interest. Mr. Buerk will
tolerate nothing in his place that does not conform with the
strictest rules of deportment, and it is little wonder that none but
the very best people enjoy his hospitality.
Although with the passage of years, the older patrons
of this resort have died; the younger generation, attracted by the
old associations and good cheer at Uncle Tom's Cabin, still
patronize this resort.
Schaw-Batcher
Pipe Works
This company was established in 1892 by Mr. Schaw and Mr. Batcher,
in the city of Sacramento, with just a small plant employing five
men. Since that time there has been a steady growth, so that when
the concern was moved to South San Francisco in 1913 the number of
employees had increased to about one hundred men.
Building operations in the new location were started in
August 1912, and the plant began operations on January 1, 1913. At
the present time this plant is employing upwards of two hundred men.
The Schaw-Batcher Pipe Works is the largest enterprise
on the Coast in the steel pipe business, and the second largest in
South San Francisco in the iron industries of this
section, where they occupy six acres of land.
The original plant at Sacramento has been retained as a
branch.
This Company has built practically all the high
pressure pipe lines in California and Nevada for the Pacific Gas and
Electric Company, the Northern California Power Company, the Snow
Mountain Power Company, La Grange Power Company, the Great Wester
Power Company, the Nevada California Power Company, the Southern
Sierras Power Company and the Sierra and San Francisco Power
Company. The Company makes any kind of iron pipe, ranging from three
inches up to twelve feet in diameter -the only limit to the size of
their output being the size of pipe that can be shipped on the
freight cars that convey their products to market.
The concern is equipped to work the thinnest plate, such as No. 28
Guage, up to 1 ½ inches thick.
Their additional products are boilers, oil-hearters,
oil storage tanks, ore-hoppers, irrigation pipe and wellcasing. As
high as 800 tons of steel pipe have been turned out in a month by
the Company whose superior facilities enable them to make rapid
delivery of all orders entrusted to their care.
The Schaw-Batcher Pipe Works built the high pressure
pipe line for the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, the heaviest
pipe used, being 1 ¼ inches thick and 52 inches in diameter. This
line is used by the above Company for their Drum Power House located
on the Bear River above Colfax. About 15,000 tons of material were
used in turning out this contract. The SchawBatcher Company
installed about 45,000 feet of high-pressure, rivited .pipe for the
Sacramento Municipal Water Works. They built all the oil heaters,
twenty-two in number, for the Shell Oil Company, each heater
weighing 42 tons. They are now building 19 oil heaters for the
Associated Oil Company.
The field of operations of this Company is large, as
they are now shipping a number of oil storage tanks to Honolulu.
They also supply nearly all the well-casing used in the San Joaquin
Valley.
The equipment of the SchawBatcher Pipe Works is
thoroughly up-to-date, while their shipping facilities are augmented
by a spur track six hundred feet long that runs the entire length of
the shop.
Mr. Wm. Schaw is President of the concern; John H.
Batcher is Vice-President and General Manager; and Mr. O. H. Fisher
is Superintendent of the works.
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