Sayre, Owens & Company
This comapny was a furnace manufacturer and it's history intersected with the Carton Furnace Company as described below, among other Utica Furnace & Boiler Companies.
Founded in 1887, the Sayer family was prominant within Utica and thus Sayre Alley in CoLa was named in their honor.
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SAYRE, OWENS & CO.
Manufacturers of Furnaces.
Office and Salesrooms, 41 Fayette St. The rapid advancement in the manufacturing arts which so strongly characterizes our American industries is a subject of interesting study. In almost every department of manufacture, the products of American workshops stand unrivaled and the products of American genius and invention have always been noted for their general adaptability to the work required of them.
These remarks particularly apply to the manufacture of heating apparatus, which is a prominent feature of the industries of this city. Utica has for many years been celebrated throughout the country as a hot-air furnace manufacturing centre, and the stamp of Utica on a furnace is sufficient guarantee of its excellence, as it is well known that this city produces none other than the best of appliances of this nature, and the houses representing this branch of industry here, have long borne the highest reputation as responsible, enterprising and honorable concerns. The first furnaces made in Utica were manufactured by the late John Carton, over twenty-five years ago.
About eight years ago Goodenow & Owens began furnace manufacturing, from which enterprise the Palace King Furnace Company was organized, Mr. W.J. Owens being a prominent owner in the Company. He sold out his interest in 1886 to Russel Wheeler & Co. He then introduced a new furnace, and in 1887 formed the present firm, whose efforts are directed to placing on the market a new line of furnaces which are the result of many years' experience of manufacturing and experiment, and which can claim to be the best of their kind extant, and which absolutely till all requirements.
The offices and sales rooms of the firm are located at the above address, and the work is executed outside by contract, the entire details, however, being closely scrutinized before being set up or received into the establishment.
It will be obvious to our readers that we are unable, in a work of this nature, to enter upon full particulars relative to the qualities of these furnaces. However, we deem it due to our readers to mention some of their more remarkable features. In the first place, they are made from the very best of raw material procurable, by the highest skilled and most intelligent labor obtainable.
The “Union" Warm Air Heaters are made in brick set and portable form, and as the name indicates, their construction constitutes an union' of the latest improvements, free from complications and exceedingly simple in their make. They are provided with the firm's improved flat anti-clinker dump center, or their new Hexagon revolving grate, thus adapting these furnaces to all climates and to all kinds of fuel.
There are but few joints in the Union hot air furnaces, no bolts, and they are made very heavy and durable, the fire pot and dome being extra heavy. They have the most simple and the best shaking and dumping grate, and very large radiating capacity. The fire is kept under perfect control by a simple arrangement of the improved damper. We could much further dilate upon their points of excellence, but we say enough by stating that they are unequalled for their durability, heating capacity and economical consumption of fuel.
The firm publish a very handsome and complete illustrated catalogue which goes fully into details relative to these productions. We certainly advise the trade and public to apply to the house for one of these publications, which cannot fail to afford them valuable information. The firm also manufacture the Oneida and Tubular hot-air furnaces which are also of the highest grade, differing somewhat from the Union in certain details of construction. The furnaces made by this house are suitable for the heating of private residences, public buildings, schools, factories, churches, halls, etc., and they are adapted to burning either soft or hard coal. They are shipped to all parts of the United States, and notably to the Western sections of the country. The firm estimate that they will make this year about one thousand furnaces. Their facilities allow of the production of about fifteen hundred annually, and there is but little reason to doubt that the full capabilities of the establishment will soon be pushed to their utmost limits.
The gentlemen composing the firm are Messrs. George S. Sayre, W. J. Owens and J. Sayre, of whom we shall not presume to offer any further personal comment, but of their enterprise we may say in conclusion that it is one which occupies a commanding position among the leading industries of the city, and as an important contribution to Utica's influence as a manufacturing centre, fully deserves the success which it has achieved.
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