Vancouver Daily World from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • Page 20

THE VANCOUVER WORLD. 20 article of staff of 16 employees, of which some monthly business averages $20,000, at the present rate of progress anol fully are these structure prepared to shingle, and is equipped to cut 200,001) are apprentices and haa an average year will bco this about nounieu. per day J. N. TELFORD MI I.I.

They have a good local Dust Around the corner on Beatty utiU I ness. but the majority of the output is moiithly payroll of $1,000. The monthly business runs in the neighborhood (if $5,000, and Mr. rearsall haa about double that amount invested. near tun corner oi uunsuiuir, is (n order that it vould not be surprising at any time to see tbein hang out the old familiar sign "Made while you wait." The Colonial company, which is capitalized at io.ooo, does an extensive business, while) the amount transacted in the other mills is so interwoven in the general business that it is a matter of up to date business of HALL WALLACE, carriage works.

This factory, the nlgamation of two distinct firina, hnd been rivals ih business for On Hastings Btreet, near the Mew Westminster tram depot, is tbe well known concern of imiiossibilitv to disintegrate it properly wards of 15 years, is completely eq ned with all modern appliances icf! aary to the business. They do a ll nnrt inllcb I hn UlCllOl! at tbe corner of Laurel and Sixth, is just about to begin operations. Willi millsite unsurpassed by any of ils competitors this enterprise starts out under most fnvorable auspices. Tbe mill will lurn on steam about the 1st of July, with a cutting rapacity of UI.iHni feet prr day, but which the official declare they will soon increase to luo.ooo feet. The manufacture of rough and dressed lumber will be their principal business, and tbe market local ami the Territories, for which they bare already secured extensive orders.

A force of between 411 and SO men will be started primarily, whose wage roll at prevalent rates will reach bout $3,500 per month. Tbe next, at 'the corner of Sixth and Oak street is tbe FALSE CREEK I.l'MIiEIt surrounding districts. The HART TRUNK MFG. Granville Rtroet. The company is composed of young, energetic men who have put into the business.

They manufacture trunks of all kinds and si7.es nnd an inspection of their workmanship will satisfy the most particular that they thoroughly understand their trade. The company can hardly be said to have settled clientele as yet, having devoted their initial energies' to preparing a stock of their output, which would be a credit to themselves, nnd a guarantee of their capacity to fill nil orders. They have 3 employed in the business, the salaries from whom will approximate $200 per month. On a small scale, but doing i very gcsKl business is the HASHIMOTO BAMBOO FUR N1TL RK CO. This business, the proprietors of which are Japanese, consists in the making of chairs, tables, cages, screens, poles nnd many other domestic articles wherein bamboo workmanship can be utilized.

Thev have about $3,001) in YVM. BRAID CO. This prominent industry is engaged in importing in the ra material and milling coffee nnd spices. They have a very extensive milling plant which turns out 1,000 lbs. of coffee every half hour.

Besides the large local and British Columbia business, Messrs. Braid Co. send their goods to all points east to Port Arthur. Seattle, Tacoma, San Francisco and Log Angeles and north to Alaska and the Yukon. There is an invested capital of $150,000 in this sent 'to help in supplying the shortage which seems to be chronic east of the mountains.

They have between 30 and 35 men engaged nil the year round, and the average payroll totals The Cascade mill is one of the best located here and has every opportunity for a rapid growth, being centrally otid well located, with railway and waterfront ae facilities. THE COOK TAIT MILL, Lumber and Shingles, is one of the busiest on the waterfront. The members comprising the company arc young aud energetic nnd are rapidly forgiug to the front rank of provincial iiiillmcn. The mill will cut per day of ten hours 50,000 feet of lumber and 100,000 shin g'e, the output for which is the Northwest Territories and Manitoba. It has been established, five years nnd hns all the modern appliances.

Employed there very roomy and wen iigutea ana ia veniently situated for many of firm's customers. They havo $'25i invested in the business, and do a monthly business, but the returns town ich for the Inst half year are i 1 n. There are altogether nt least forty to fifty men employed in the business, earning $3,000 per month, and the total must run into figures between and $70,000 per month, a big proportion of the labor value of which, however, has been earned ill the earlier stages of preparing the lumber. Directly underneath and extending about 100 feet on each side of the Granville street bridge is one of the most complete, most modern, and most reliable shipbuilding establishment on the Pacific coast. This is the WALLACE SHIPYARDS.

LTD. The selection of a site for this industry could hardly have been chosen with a greater nicety, for the owner or owners of any craft built in these yards can have their choice of launching either above or below the bridge. The Wallace yei uiauu up. lucy cmpij unnj men and distribute a payroll of $1 enterprise, which is one of tho most for J. B.

GRANT, valuable of nncouver 8 assets, large sash and door factory. About the period hen the remarkable Impetus, began which bus placed Vancouver and British Columbia so prominently before the world's notice, the firm secured tbe lari. area of waterfront which they now occupy and added the lumber mid shingle business to their plant. The market is primarily throughout British Columbia, the Territories, and Eastern Canada, and the business is now one of the most considerable in the city. There is an invested capital of $100.01111, and the capacity is 50.000 feet fer day.

Tbe number of employees total 125, with a salary roll of $0,000. Traveling northward now aeroso the long railway and traffic bridge, which keeps open the flow of trade ami commerce between the Kairview section ml the city proper, the traveler comes to quite a cluster of manufacturing concerns. Before taking these in detail it may be mentioned that some distance westward, at tbe English Bay bathing beach, the Messrs. SIMI'SON BROS, do a considerable amount of business in wav of boat building. They manufacture for the use of the patrons of their own summer renting business, and also turn over some very creditable work fr outside parties.

They have six employed in the business, whose wages approximate $450 pet month. They have about $12,000 invested in tbe business, and all tbe wood turning, sawing, and general preparation of parts is turned out by electric motor power, a large plant having been put in over a year ago. Another large industry, tbe existence of which is unknown to many people, is the BARBER ASI'IIALT the plant of which is located on the north shore of False creek, near the corner of Bitrrard street. Tbe Barber peo Messrs. Braid Co.

advertise this city C'ambic street, is a manufacturer le wnerever tney advertise their, goons. lli(lgj ami a)1 engravmg There are from 15 to 18 hands employ Ho ha8 heen established over tw ed here, to whom a monthly amount nnu verv wci known in in are over 100 men, whites and Orien nf Si dIMI in nnul rnt Thn imPA nnil i i I I T3 taln. with a monthly salary roll exceed ing $5,000. ciiv. ine ousiness is locui aim and factory is contained in an impos Columbia, for which he employs a ing 4 storey stone structure at 20 Has of vi han, whose monthly wages tings street west which was erected for average $800 e4c vested in stock and itnpleitients and are doing a monthly business of $800.

Two men are employed in the manufacture On Homer street, near the corner of Davie, is found the cooperage plant .1 1 1 1. ll. ho receive a total ot eacn uiroui. conducted by. 1 Everything turned out by this little iiicm aDout six years ago, inoiigii iuu members who comprise the business have been in business here for a much II.

FULCHER plant is Htrong and neat, and they are Mr. Fuloher has been in business for mud to work up a considerate nusi L. I pita hi.i. This industry, the capital of which is in the hands of local men, is really only undergoing the travails of birth, bavins started operations last month. Rut the company is composed of practical and eneregtic business men anil already they are in a position to take care of themselves and with nn assured future ahead.

The staff at work now totals 30, with a payroll of $1,500. Tbe mill is equipped to cut 40.0(H) feet per day, with a steady local market, but the bulk going to that bappy bunting ground of the British Columbia lumber man, yclept, the Northwest. On Sixth avenue, at the foot of Alder treet, there will, in a few days, be in operation a manufacturing industry unique in British Columbia. Quietly and devoid of all preliminary notice a party of local capitalists have' secured a site, bave erected a building, have installed a plant, and will now proceed with business as the Tho fiour milling business has been an important one in the Psti' the energies of Vancouver citizens hj been taken up with other things PL they have trusted to importation Tj supply all these needs. That it become an important one in the rL ness.

Around tne corner inun ntn: ten years or more and has always con 15 Robson street is the business cou ducted very profitable business. His uetcd by principal trndo is local, but a large bnsi E. A. MARSHALL, ness is done in up const points, on the future is as sure ns tho ebb and IN Skeena, hitehorse and other points, of the tide. The first to break groir longer periixl and bave always been prominent iu the commercial life of the city.

On Cambie street is the business of the VANCOUVER HAT FACTORY which under the proprietorship of Mrs. Dukinficld has been doing a very nice business during tho past four years. This concern manufactures felt and cotton hats and caps, has a good local market and a nice trade in Victoria, New Westminster and surrounding places. There arc 4 engaged in this ing places, mere urc engngeu mm manufacturer of window shades, who has a business which is growing very rapidly, the principal customers being found in tho city nnd in the suburban districts. There are 6 employees en here, to open up tho virgin terntd is the VANCOUVER MILLING GRAV CO.

Tbia tain fiiibsidinrv romnnnx' to aged, mostly women, but the details regarding earning power and business transacted could not be ascertained. Shipyaids have placed in the water some of tile best ships, tugs, steamers, plowing the waters of the Gulf of Georgia nnd of the Pacific, among which might be specially mentioned tbe big ferry boat St. George, and tbe government cruiser Kestrel. The bun of industry is nowhere more noticeable in the ciiy than in this place, and, thanks to the nature of the climate of the country, the men are able to work in the open all the year round. The concern manufactures everything pertaining to ships and shipbuilding, row boats, fishing boats, yachts, cruisers, tugs, barges, scows, steamlKiats, etc.

The business is multifarious nnd orders nie received from nil points up and down the coast. In addition to the large local trade. A force of 00 men and apprentices are employed in Hie yards, whose mouthly cheques would run little over $4,000. The company is capitalized nt $40,000, held locally, and the business generally is one of the most representative and progressive in the city. At Beach avenue and Granville street, with splendid railway facilities, is the business of the PACIFIC COAST FIFE LTD.

Hall Elevator though entirely business, whose earnings come to $250 business. The bmM At Hw lticnai'ds sireei we cianc i tho newly erected building of Messrs. a fun f.j,i ii i ot tno mil nas iubi own comniru The cooperage generally employs two skilled hands, which, at journeymen's wages, would amount in the neighborhood of $200. Mr. Fulcher carries a heavy stock, but being absent at the time of our visit, could not get exact figures.

THE EMPRESS MANUFACTURING Capital, is located at 1107 Homer street, and was formely known ns the British Columbia Fruit dinning Co. They import and mill coffee nnd spices, can all kinds of fruits, jams, jellies, pickles, flavoring extracts, and enjoy a very huge business all through British Columbia and the Territories. The factory has been CROSS i uumui. mis. j'umuiu iu inn to have $1,000 invested in the business shafting erected, and the 100 hr.

manufacturers of alh kinds of aerated and has a monthly turnover of between Pw" nsallp(' AT.CU. tl waters, who have been located until IIUlllllllU line imi'Jmh. tiv fcoOO and $700. ver Milling Co. are starting with recently, and for a considerable num L.

E. GLOVER i ft ber of years, at the corner of lender 340 Abbott street, is a manufacturer of oi men wn harness, collars, straps, and has approach They intends a well paving business established. He run about 2.3) barrels per day foi A. oil while, but can double that if ne and Hornby streets, in which latter site they have worked up a very large local nnd 'Suburban business, in uieii new home they promise, to keep on the forward inarch, and have installed a in business about 12 years and the capital is held and the business conducted by ell known local men. They employ a staff of 50, including women and girls, to whom a wage roll of about $3,500 Is plant sufficient to cone with the.

expected additional trade. The quality of the waters they put tip is much in sury. The market win ne pnncipi throughout British Columbia and Yukon nnd undoubtedly this new purture under the management of J. E. Hall will soon develop into of the main planks of our platform, the politicians say at all events orogrcss will ho watched with gi This establishment manufactures ev favor with their customers, and a con erything in the way of woven wire noisseur has pronounced it equal to the paid.

The business usually exceeds $12. pipe, and in the course of ten years lias succeeded in building up a 000 per month, nnd is one of the most interest, and the business has tbe gj mportnnt we have. very successful business. Ihe extends all over British Columbia and will of all. pleased i with the fortuitous circumstances which turned his attention to this thriving city.

The business is nearly all local, and the goods are turned out by a staff of 6 employees, whose monthly roll would total $500. Mr. Glover says ho has a business of nearly $2,000 each month, and haB close to $5,000 invested. A large institution oE this kind is that of the B. C.

LEATHER DTD. capital $50,000, located at Hi Hastings street west. The chief stockholder in this company is Mr. P. N.

Smith, who began business here some eight years ago, formerly conducting the Fraser River Tannery. Though established Another cooperage business and in best. They have 10 employees in the business at present, whose monthly pay exceeds $500. About $34,000 ia invested in plant, stock, from which the. company derive a business of $3,000 each month.

Besides all these and probably at the same locality is the shop of Mr. Into the Territories, and is constantly being increased. The company is eapi all these in point of the magnitude A. O. LUND, business in force ia the department tnlized $2.

1.000. lias a staff of 18 0(54 Richards. Mr. Lund was formerly in ittmr rrsi The father of all the soda water and employees, to whom it pays $1,000 in heat and light. Both of these a essentials are supplied locally, hy Vancouver Uus company and the aerated water manufacturers, the, pio wages each month.

The plant is equipped business in the city of New, Westminster and remained there fur many years ster and remained there for many to turn out about $12.0110 worth or neer in this particular brancn ot nust nesa throughout British Columbia, is Electric Light and Railway eompa work each month, and anybody in a posi Building of Itnmaar Bro. DlaculU, Confectionery, Corner I'onrll and Rwymnr. These two concerns, though opera ears. Recently however he decided to ee what fortune hnd in store for him tion to observe the workings of the con that conducted by cern will readily belive thnt it never in the Terminal City and moved his niuler distinctive names, are nirecieoi the one management, the business of THORPE CO. This business was established in 1S89 plant to the address given above.

Mr, falls below this. Coming down Granville we find be thnt length of time the present coin puny has been manufacturing for practically about two years. They import ihn mw material from Eastern Canada ancouver company und claims to have aw.iw invested nhwirhed some two years ago by tweeu Drake and Davie the business of when tho population Vancouver was about similar in proportion to that of in the concern, and is meeting with pie were known, heretofore, merely us successful contractors, who came over from the United States and engaged in the laying of street pavements anil side wulks. But with the establishment of their own manufacturing plant they have other nnd wealthier company ELECTRIC TURPENTINE OF CANADA, LTD. They will manufacture turpentine, pyroligneous acid, wood alcohol, tar, pitch, roHln, and all by products.

To state what will be the staff, the output, and other particulars are questions success in all directions. The business R. HOFFMEISTER, who manufactures efsetric motors, elec keeps two men working pretty stead North Vancouver today, ihe Vancouver portion of the business, for the company have establishments at Vic ily, whose average earnings will reach trie heating apparatus nnd all specialties the honor of being classified ns one of $180. connected with electrical work. the city's industries, and undoubtedly toria and iNelson.

was originuuy on Mount IMeasant. but. a few years generate and supply heat, light power to the homes, the mills, factor stores, foundries, of this and nei boring cities, towns and villages, lies operating all the principal street raih systems in the province. Probably one reason for the ignorn dlsnlnved bv the average individual ARMSTRONG Mr. Hoffmeister has approximately from the amount of ability and energy al ago, the plant was moved to tbe cen 6f)9 Hastings street, have a very attrac $25,000 invested in tbe plant of this im ready displayed are destined to become a and the United States, England, Germany nnd France, and engage in the output of everything in tho line of harness, saddles, horso collars and closed i uppers.

The market for these products is found locally and all over British Columbia and the Yukon. The company occupies new commodious brick and stone premises in the center of tho town, and their Rhow rooms are filled with some beautiful specimens of the handicraft of their workmen. They employ a staff of 20, including porta nt enterprise, and transacts a very trally situated and wen eqmrpe" 'ruc tore at the corner of Bcatty and Rob very important one. The business at pre large business nil over the city and sur sent is mostly local, but as soon as they son Rtrrets. The company have built up rounding points, and into the Interior nnd garding the amount of mnnufactu.

territories. have time to catch their breath the other fields in the province and territories will be examined aud bids made for the whole trade of the country. The business tive retail store at tne place indicated. But they have, in addition to this, a well equipped manufacturing jewelry plant, with the latest machinery for the rolling of gold, modal making, gold and silver work of all kinds, all of which is operated by electricity. Messrs Armstrong Bros, have had this portion of the business in running order for Mr, Hoffmeister has been In business a very largo business, for they have ahvavs made it a study not to turn out anything but the best, and besides are constantly shipping big nil over British Columbia, the industries located here is tne wiuo a over which the city is scattered and fact thnt the said Industries are not fined to any one selected portion of here for over ten years, and when he un dertakes a contract it is a guarantee it nu ironnmllv linDnens in ot is hardly in fair running order yet and Mr.

McLennan, the local manager, found it rather hard to give precisely the exact that the work will be thoroughly am; several juniors, and tne payron averages $850 per month. A similar institution and situated Yukon, nnd into the United States. There is a force of about 20 engaged which the directorate do not care at tne moment to enter upon, but they anticipate and have prepared for a market which will practically embrace almost every civilized country. The stockholders and officials arc well known nnd capable business men of this city, who would not embark In any enterprise which they were not positively certain of carrying to a successful issue. THE FAIRVIEW CEDAR AND LUMBER, CO.

has been established for some time at the easterly comer of Granville street and the passenger and railway bridge. This is another busy hive of activity wherein 50 men are constantly at work. The payroll comes approximately to $12,500 per month, and the capacity of the mill Is understood to be at present 65,000 feet per day. This company has an excellent waterfront site, and is in efficiently done. He has a capable staff places, but are distributed with lavish Impartiality into every suhdivis reason for the display of ipr about three yenra, I' our men are en details asked for, but calculated that be of fifteen under lurn.

who derive trom in tho local factory, but we were un tween the men employed at the works their indnstrv between $1,100 nnd Sl.JOt nbln to net a complete summary of the gaged in this branch of tne business, whose monthly receipts total $300. mice aforesaid is derived from the II nnd those engaged it laying the product ner month. The business which business by reason of the absence of tho (Ten tlcmen who has charge of of curiosity displayed hy the lea A. F. McMILTjAN thev have going generally about men runs into exnensive materials averages which would run to a total paysheet of about per month, and from nil business men in each other nusines these details.

the prominent jewelry and diamond and retail merchant is also inaugurat indications it is safe to say that Mr A short, distance down Bcatty street about $5,500 each month; CATES' SHIPYARD. As an Illustration tne liean oi a known manufacturing firm makes statement that In all the time that Hoffmeister is able to cope with a na a manufacturing plant, to supply competitors in electrical work and wir his own and outside work. He has started with an initial number of 4, to almost contiguous, is that of STOREY CAMrBELL. 156 Hastings, manufacturers of harness, saddles, collars, shoe uppers, etc. Messrs.

Storey i Campbell have been in business now for about ten years and are very well known to the business community and the citizens generally. They have built up by persistent effort and shrewd judgment a very large, business, which is carried to all "British Columbia points, the Yukon, Northwest territories and Manitoba. They have invested an amount of practically $00,000 in the business and linv a mon thlv navroll of about $2800, and adjoining the C. F. R.

track is one of the largest of those particular enterprises engaged in extracting fortunes from the wealth derived from the A few steps eastward is the next nlnce of importance! Captain Cates is so business hns been located on its prej magnificent site, a penoa or over three of Vancouver pn ing. Alongside of this isthe JONES SANDERSON COMPANY, well known in marine and general circles that it is almost unnecessary to make any remarks about his personality. Com output of British Columbia tmiDcr. Inenr'business men have displayed creasing its monthly business by leaps and bounds. It does a large local trade whom he pays out every month something over $200.

Mr. McMillan will without doubt makes a success of this branch, as he has done of the big retail business. who make a specialty of the, manufac This is the CANADIAN FIFE ing to the city in the early days Capt nd also in the usual places, the knot ture of show cases, office and store fit Cates has been Very successful in bis enayt and Northwest Territories. The tings, mnntels and ornamental wood capital, $25,00. This company manu shipbuilding career.

He has a splendidly capital ii mostly rity and provincial. facture wire wound wooden water pipe work. This company is a miccessor to ficlent interest to go down and look nj the plant and the workings thereof, p. The same complaint, if it can be rl sidered such Is to be met with on nlnf every side, the claim being, probel i a 4 Across the road from this and occupy II ANSTIE, 112 Hastings west, also conducts a very profitable business in the jewelry nianu tbn fWivlhers Mia. Co.

and has de continuous stave water pipe, cast iron fittinns. valves, etc. Established in divided among 30 employees. The ing a yery extensive waterfroutage of veloned. and is continuing to develop 15 acres Is the situated marine ways, and hns a staff of 15 men constantly employed.

THE NE JPACKING Salmon and General Fish Fackers, is another institution which Is rather 1 1 1004 the business has had apnenomena BAT TORTAOR LUMBER the possibilities ot a very inrtre Business. The market is principally local, with considerable business in the sur Capital, J2. i0.000. growth. Their business extends throughout British Columbia, the Northwest Territories.

Ontario, New Zealand and in the Yukon; where at hard to properly arrange into set de This mill site was operated for a con rounding points. The business has an employment mil of 8 men, who have Dnwson thev established a complete paysheet ot ifioo mommy. city system. In ninny points of Brit THE MORRISON CRAWFORD ish Columbia, such as Chilliwack, En ufacturing. lie has consineranm ouni nesa in the surroumling localities, besides a large city business.

There are two skilled workmen engaged here, whose wages roll will come to about $250. CHARLES TEARSALL, 107 Cordova street, lias the largest and most minutely equipped plant devoted exclusively to the manufacturing of jewrhv and its constituents that there is to he found west of Winnipeg. Mr. Fearsall began business here in 1S03, coming from Toronto, where, so many of the sueessful merchants of this city saw the light. He has worked up a large and lucrative business, not only in the citv, but all over British Colum t.

derby, the water pipes were in stalled bv this concern. In the ae 1249 Granville, are makers of cornices, skylights, heating apparatus, with eomnnnvinc photograph we show siderable number of years by Mr. W. L. Tait, and under his skillful management It grew Into a very profitable enterprise.

A few years ago, however, Mr. Tait was approached by some Northwest and Manitoba capitalists, who had a wish to hare in the good thingR of the province, nd after earnest negotiation, and really desiring a rest and change of occupation from a hitherto strenuous life, he agreed to part with the property which he had raised Into maturity. Since then the present owners have allowed no grass or tails, as Mr. Nye says there are sometimes in the busy season ns many as 80 men employed, while again it drops to nnd for a portion of the year there is very little business of any kind carried on. The Nye Co.

has Invested about $10, 000 in a very commodious factory, and is equipped to put up about J0.000 cases per month. Taking the employment list at an average of 30. a monthly payroll of $4,000 would be expended. Just across the way from that Is the THE COTTON F'O 7 sample of their work a portion of over feet ol continuous slave pipe mm a capital ot tney are aoing a very encouraging local trade, and the staff engaged, who number 11, are as down for the city on tbe Cnpilnno. Th.

bnsy as can be during all working plant turns out about. 40.000 feet of pipe, per month, wmeli in valuation cm Aim between $10,0110 and $1 would run 000. Thev have a st.ifi of 18 men a Shingle Manufacturers, are located on Fnlwe creek, between bia and across the Rockies, ne nus a work, sometimes niclit and dnv, and the usual monthly payroll is $1,210. At the foot of Cnmhic street, at the Wallace and Cate' shipyards. This concern has been established five years and is In possession of a very favorable north end of the bridge, is the old.

established and well known site on the waterfront, with about one WOODS SriCKR. acre of mill space. The company, which shingle, manufacturers. This cc.ncern r. i i is under the proprietorship of Mr.

A. Cotton, has a capacity of 100,000 shin barnacles to grow under their raw material, and have at the present day one of the best equipped mills in every respect to he found in the province. The Rat Tortage people have an average of 200 employees, who draw down $9,000 per month. The present cutting capacity is about 75.000 feet per day of rough and dressed lumber, of which some is applied to the local trade, but a big proportion to the lumberman's paradise, often mentioned in this Issue, the Northwest. On Sixth avenue, near Arhuetiu itreet, there Is now In course of completion a well equipped nnd modernized PA81I AND POOR FACTORY, under the proprietorship of Mr.

.1. Mur sJZ. i hours. The monthly payroll nere is $950. This concern has been operating for nearly two years and report a very steady and an always increasing business, showing that they manage to secure their prorsir'ion from the rapidly increasing population of the city.

Across the road at 12H4 Granville street is the very busy business of J. A. TUFrER SONS, carriage and wagon builders. The senior member of the firm, Mr. J.

A. Tupper, haa been a resident of Vancouver almost since its and by hia affable, pleasant manners and straight business dealings haa deservedly earned the respect and confidence of all with whom he came in contact. The business here is generally local, with a large share going to tho surrounding fnrmin? community. Messrs. Tupper Sons invariably make a good ioh of anything they undertake, and gles per day, the market for which is has been steadily growing unuer un ferent controlling heads for nearly 18 years.

It has seen many similar industries start up and fade away during the course of its existence, it has hail its mostly in the Eastern States. Sir. I ot ton has an Invested capital of $25,000 in this plant, which gives employment to sixty men (whites nnd The usual monthly payroll is $4,000. The Cotton Shingle Manufacturing company is one of the most 'promising encaged in thin department of the lumber industry. baptism of fire on several occasions, but like the phoenix has always arisen from its ashes, rejuvenated and strong.

The company does a very large business all over Canada and the States, and the management is active and pro phy, who is, however, not quite ready to and the mill capacity is tested to its ut give definite details. most nearly all the year round. At several of the big mills, and ex gressive. The exact details of the business are not yet available, but will arrive in time to be included in our summary. On Vhc opposite corner to clusively by the 'ittX iipfc the monthly business usually over the $8,000 mark.

They have a force of 8 carpenters, painters and smiths employed in their business and the total amount raid out in wages each the shingle mill is another pioneer industry of Vancouver, that of the ROBERTSON HACKETT, Manufacturers of Lumber, Shingles, Sashs, Doors, are located upon one of the most advantageous sites possible to secure. The business was established on Seymour treet, about 15 year ago, and for several Tears Robertson Tlackett ran a COLONIAL PORTABLE HOUSE CO. who are situated just west of Granville street on False creek, a lively business is transacted in a new, quick method of bonne building. So rapidly and skill B. C.

COOPERAGE CO. The cooperage began openUions 17 years ago, and is now run in conjunction with the B. O. Sugar Refinery. month comes to $750.

There are no special features in connection withthis concern outside ot smuui. luorougn and endurable workmanship, which Thev manufacture all kinds of barrels, fc tmmmmmm' kegs, fisketts, etc. and have a business of alxnit $5M0" P'T year on an invested cunital of $25,000. There are em after all is the beat and only recouv mendation that any firm needs. THE B.

C. NOVELTY WORKS. with a large tnodienm of truth, each separate manufacturer is so sorbed and Interested in his own at the corner of Granville and Nflaun streets, is enterprise which is mnk ness that he has not time or opnortu to pay friendly calls for the purpos. Tiewing the work of his eo citiiens. reasons advanced may not account ina a strenuous and successful ciiiiiih tinn in the manufacture of all kinds of wood carving, show cases, mantels, fix JEM msmM fef reetly for the impression so prevslen tures, and ornan tejlal work.

This busi nesa is of recent addition to the sum many quarters regarding the volnm, mantifaetaring done here, bnt in event the idea of, Vancouver bein total of the city a workshops, but is ployed in tbe manufacture some 20 coopers, with asistants. the total bringing a monthly payroll of about As eaid before the bulk of the output goes to Ihe sugar refinery, but there is considerable business of this, which goes principally to interior and up coast points. The building are well situated, having one of the most central location possible to secure, 'and the fire projection is excellent. A short distance north of the cooperage ia to be found the CASCADE I.FMBLR shingle manufacturers. This mill is another of tbe many addfd in recent years to an already large list.

The Cas growing very rapidly, having a large local trade and considerable outside non producer is altogether erroneous the reader will find from the det business. The prporietor has invested i mnrrx 11 statement herewith every detail atta which conclusively demonstrates. about in the plant and gives employment to 10 skilled woodworkers, wbiwe earnings each month will ap proach $050. Another new arrival upon me innua 8ece. Take.

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