Joseph Enright's Patent Straw-Burning Portable Engine Works.—This enterprise was founded by Joseph Enright in the year 1864, on the site it now occupies on the south-east corner of First and William Streets. The principal manufacture here carried on is that of the Patent Straw-Burning Portable Engine, recognized by all to be the most perfect of its kind in use. A sale is found for it all over the State; in 1879-80, sixteen different counties, from Tehama to Fresno, and from Monterey to Napa, were supplied with these, while over two hundred are now in use in various parts of California. The patent is Mr. Enright's own. Sixty men are employed on the premises, which consist of all the necessary work-shops and machinery, this latter being driven by an engine of twenty horse-power The yearly out-turn is in the neighborhood of sixty thousand dollars.
Information Sources
- Steam Power on the American Farm, by Reynold M. Wik, 1953 page 252
- History of Santa Clara County, California,1881, page 517
- The Steam Tractor Encyclopedia by John F. Spalding & Robert T. Rhode, 2011 pages 50-51