*** Source: Thompson, Robert A., Historical and descriptive sketch of Sonoma County, California. Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1877, 122 pgs. Notice: This data is donated to the Public Domain by TAG, 2004, and may be copied freely by anyone to anywhere. *** ---page 66--- county, is used annually. The other material is purchased in San Francisco or imported from the east; value of manufactures, twenty thousand dollars. COOPERAGE was established in 1868, Isaac Fuller, proprietor. Fifteen thousand kegs and firkins, two hundred barrels and twenty tanks are made; material mostly imported from the east, and some procured in Lake County; value of manufactures, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. BRICK-YARD, established by Jordan Peter in 1867, and now owned by him. The material abundant and of first-class quality; capacity of kilns 1,200,000 bricks; number made annually 3,500,000; value $4,200. GLOVE FACTORY--M. Berger, proprietor. It was established in 1870; 500 dozen buck-skin gloves made; 12 persons employed, mostly females; value of manufacture, $9,000. BREWERIES.--Petaluma Brewery, established in 1855 by Christlich & Erbe, was the first in Sonoma county; Baltz & Schierhold are the present proprietors. Sonoma Brewery, established in 1872, Mechele & Griess, proprietors; they ship fifty tons annually to San Francisco. The capacity of the two breweries is 5,000 gallons per week, and the quantity made about 81,000 gallons per annum. They use 200 cords of wood, 850 tons of barley, 12-3/4 tons hops, mostly Califor- nia grown. Their beer is sold in Sonoma and Marin counties; value of same, $20,000. GAS WORKS.--Established in 1863, Peter Donohue, proprietor; 400 tons of English and Australian coal used annually; 2,800,000 feet of gas made; value of same, $15,800. SADDLE-TREE FACTORY, M. Haar, proprietor, was established by him in 1861, and probably is the most extensive in the State outside of San Francisco; all materials, except a small quantity of Oregon pine; procured in Sonoma county; trees sent to all parts of California, also to Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and Texas; number of trees made 2,500; value of same, $10,000. MARBLE WORKS, Thompson & Meek, proprietors, established March 1875, Italian and Vermont marble used; work sent to various parts of Sonoma, Marin and Mendocino counties, and to other parts of the State; four men em- ployed; value of manufacture, $10,000. SOAP WORKS.--Established July, 1875, G. W. Manville, proprietor; 3,000 boxes of 18 pounds each made annually; value of same, $4,500. SODA WORKS--B. F. Connolly, proprietor, established in 1860; makes 12,000 dozen bottles of soda and sarsaparilla, and 700 dozen champaigne cider, which are distributed in Sonoma and Marin counties; amount of sales $10,000. CIGAR FACTORY.--A. Horstman, proprietor, established in 1871, 50,000 cigars made annually; value $3,000. BAKERIES.--Three; W. B. Matzenbach, J. T. Rugg, and George Stroebel, proprietors; amount of flour consumed 840 barrels; value of bread, cakes, etc., made $12,768. SUMMARY.--Number of persons employed in manufacturing 201; value of manufactures $535,150. *** end ***