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This business was established
by the present firm at the present location in July, 1890. The copartners
are Mr. H. A. Wadsworth, Mr. J. H. Stegeman, and Mr. H. Remke, all of whom
bring to bear exceptional qualifications for conducting this industry upon
the most efficient and progressive basis. This firm planned and erected
their building specially for the purpose. It is a two story brick
structure, with roomy basement, equal to a third story, and 40 by 125 feet
in dimensions. The outfit of machinery and appliances is of the most
improved modern description, including special stamping and shaping
machines, savings labor and insuring great accuracy and precision of
workmanship. There are full sets of lathes, and a complete gold smelting
and refining outfit in the basement. The firm employ upwards of eighty
hands in the various departments, and are now turning out fully 500 of
their beautiful and durable gold filled watch cases every week. They are
popular with and preferred by the best class of trade everywhere. The
reasons for this are the manifest superiority of these cases. They wear
much better than solid gold cases, having an outer surface of pure gold,
and which is stiffened and supported by an interior metal filling of great
strength and elasticity, so that these cases are more durable, vastly
cheaper, and yet exactly the duplicate in appearance of the solid gold
cases, which wear badly, are easily bent and warped out of shape, and
prove an expensive nuisance. The firm have already developed a flourishing
trade with watch factories and watch makers all over the west and south,
also east, and those wanting the most perfect watch cases in existence,
and adapted to all styles of movements, should place orders here. Mr.
Wadsworth is a native of England, resident in this city for twenty years
past, and has long been actively identified with this branch of skilled
industry. He is an able and responsible member of commercial circles and
whose firm is achieving a national reputation. Messrs. Stegeman and Remke
are both active and able young businessmen, and the firm has before it
prospects of the most favorable character. |