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The Pacific Rolling Mill Company : Original Business Letter - The Pacific Rolling Mill Company, San Francisco, 1869

Original letter handwritten in black ink on beige paper. Letter on stationery of the Pacific Rolling Mill Company. Printed header at the top. Datelined August 7, 1869 in San Francisco, California. 7 3/4" x 9 3/4." One page. Letter is very clean and intact except for a few horizontal and vertical fold lines, light age toning, slight wrinkling, and darkening along a few of the horizontal fold lines (most visible on back). A Very Good copy. A brief letter from the Pacific Rolling Mill Company of San Francisco to the Oregon [Jean?] Co. of Portland, Oregon. The letter simply acknowledges receipt of a $282.10 payment via check from the Portland company. The check is not included. The printed header reads, "Office of The Pacific Rolling Mill Company, 3 and 5 Front Street." The Pacific Rolling Mill Company, also known as Pacific Rolling Mills, was the first iron- and steel-producing foundry of the American West. It was founded in 1866 by a group of investors who included William Alvord, James G. Fair, James Flood, Alvinza Hayward, D. O. Mills, William Ralston, and Leland Stanford. Patrick Noble, who joined the company as a clerk in 1868 and later became a company officer, was another notable figure in the company's history. Noble helped establish its new location at Potrero Hill after the original factory at Potrero Point had closed. Over the years, the iron and steel manufactured by the Pacific Rolling Mills Co. was used throughout the Bay Area and California and even nationwide. Among the projects that the Pacific Rolling Mill Co. helped build are the San Francisco Ferry Building (1898), Fairmont Hotel (1905), Sacramento's State Capitol (1907), Cliff House (1909), Panama-Pacific Exposition buildings (1915), Bay Bridge (1934), intake towers of Hoover Dam (1935), Golden Gate Bridge (1936), Shasta Dam (1937), telescope of Lick Observatory (1959), and the battleships, USS Charleston, USS Monterey, USS Olympia, USS Oregon, USS San Francisco, and USS Wisconsin. The Pacific Rolling Mill Co. eventually merged into the Judson-Pacific Company and, later, the Judson Pacific-Murphy Corporation. The last iteration of the Pacific Rolling Mill Co. was active until the late 1960s.. Manuscript. Book Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Binding: No Binding

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