San Diego county, California; a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement . oing all kinds of repairing. The opportunity in his way was undoubted butbefore Mr. Conniry was well enough established to take advantage of it the panicof 1907 was affecting all lines of business and the newly founded enterprise suf-fered with the rest. Mr. Conniry resolutely took up the fight, in which he wasaided in a splendid way by the foreman of his blacksmith shop, who was anexpert mechanician and unusually able in his line of work. However. Mr. Con-niry was denied even the help of this mans a
San Diego county, California; a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement . oing all kinds of repairing. The opportunity in his way was undoubted butbefore Mr. Conniry was well enough established to take advantage of it the panicof 1907 was affecting all lines of business and the newly founded enterprise suf-fered with the rest. Mr. Conniry resolutely took up the fight, in which he wasaided in a splendid way by the foreman of his blacksmith shop, who was anexpert mechanician and unusually able in his line of work. However. Mr. Con-niry was denied even the help of this mans ability, for his foreman died a shorttime after the business was established, leaving a place which it was extremelydifficult to fill. He found the task so hard that, combined with other obstaclesand discouragements which beset him, he was on the point of abandoning hisenterprise when the tide suddenly turned. On the very day which he hadappointed for the sale of his shop he sold five fine cars and this renewed hisambitions and hopes. With characteristic determination he donned overalls and. WILLIAM 15. CONNIRY, JR. HISTORY OP SAN DIEGO COUNTY 351 went to the forge, resolved to do the work himself if a competent blacksmithcould not be found. He worked at hard manual labor many hours of each daybut was rewarded by seeing his business gradually increase and then expandand develop rapidly along progressive, modern lines. Three times Mr. Conniryhas been obliged to enlarge and change his quarters to secure increased accommo-dations and recently he erected a fine building one hundred and fifty by fifty also has become entirely inadequate to accommodate his rapidly growingpatronage and he contemplates further enlargement in the near future. Besideshis individual enterprise he is part owner of the agency which sells the Frank-lin automobile in San Diego. In 1909 Mr. Conniry went to San Francisco with the ostensible purpose ofpurchasing automobiles but when he returned he prese
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