Pacific service magazine . unity has not alone been built by thefruit industry, for many manufacturing in-dustries have found that here is not only amost pleasant and wholesome place forworkers to live but, also, transportation andan abundance of power made this commun-ity almost ideal for the location of their fac-tory. Take, for instance, the Bean SprayPump Company, which has grown up inSanta Clara valley. This firm was incor-porated in 1903 when it was doing a busi-ness of about $30,000, annually and hadabout $15,000 invested capital. Its growththroughout intervening years has been con-tinu
Pacific service magazine . unity has not alone been built by thefruit industry, for many manufacturing in-dustries have found that here is not only amost pleasant and wholesome place forworkers to live but, also, transportation andan abundance of power made this commun-ity almost ideal for the location of their fac-tory. Take, for instance, the Bean SprayPump Company, which has grown up inSanta Clara valley. This firm was incor-porated in 1903 when it was doing a busi-ness of about $30,000, annually and hadabout $15,000 invested capital. Its growththroughout intervening years has been con-tinuous until, at the present time, its busi-ness exceeds $1,500,000 a year, and ship-ments of the machinery which it manufac-tures go out to every part of the world. In 1910, the BeanSpray PumpCompany estab-lished a factoryat Lansing,Michigan, to sup-ply the Easternpart of the UnitedStates, but this isentirely owned bySanta Clara val-ley the SanJose and Lansingfactories manu-facture exactlythe same goods it. Home of the Pacific Manufacturing Company at Santa Clara. I Pacific Service Magazine 315 is possible to secure some accurate compari-sons between the desirability of the Easternand Western Factory locations. Mr. JohnD. Crummey, the president of the BeanSpray Company, in an interview, broughtout some very interesting facts in favor ofthe Santa Clara Valley location : First, the San Jose factory has the advan-tage of much less expensive buildings withconsequently lower depreciations, interestand insurance charges, and the milder clim-ate here gives a much lower cost for heating. Second, while the merchandise investmentis somewhat larger at the Western factorybecause of distance from markets, yet rawmaterials such as pig-iron, structural andcold-rolled steel, etc., through water ser-vice by way of the Panama canal can be de-livered at as low a price San Jose astheir cost Lansing, Michigan. states that the terminal freightrates which San
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