Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-06-17
The Staye Machine Again.
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Stav-SpaEagled Banner!
M,tscGtine March "a. Use

MlscGtine March "a, 1888
Mt. MANN: As the press is means " which
good IN rails, law and order, dc, are est ,bIiah,d
and maintained, so also II is the best means that
can be used FOR correcting erroneous impressions.
Therefore small space in your excellent paper s
earneetly solicited, for the purpose IF placing GER
tain matters aud characters Ia their ,rue lights
there has been niuh said in certain quarters with
~ he past few weeks TO prevent merchants and
others from shipping -four packed in machine
made barrels in consequence of their being subject
to deduction oi20 to - cents per Dbl on flour
sh ppcd. aud that flIu' has been shipped from z.
Washburn & Sous Mill and treated in like man
Ber, ope ans a serious injury to the barrel
mandatory. That this false impression might
ne corrected, few certificates have been obtained
from percons whose ruthfnlness viii not lie ques-
toned, showing To extent at leas, the nstur.,
origin and Truth this report:
Nm. BEvARD.
Muscaiine, March %, 1853
lhear that there is a report in circulation 10 tbs
effect that we have shipped flour 10 ST Louis this
Spring in barrels made NJ G w Hunts Slave and.
Basrel Factory in this city, and that tho -four WAS
scratched and 20 cents deducted from the barrel in
consequence of the -four being packed in machine
made barrels. This report is exceedingly uuju.
towards me and Mr. Hunt, aud is raised in ort'er
TO injur, us both, as il is wholly without founda.
ton aud basely false. have not shipped, nor has
any Que else one barrel OF flour made at the Nevs-
ia Mil! since il first started. further state tina,
for the last eight years have bern using -four bsr-
rels made by different coopers i'm this region cf
country, many of which have been good bsrrels
bat Ihava never any iha, bore aay companion
with the barrels that Mr. Hunt is now making.--
For strength. perfection and nealn.ss they excel
any thing III the shape of -four barrels have ever
seen. Il. WAsuBuHH.
Masculine March "a. 1853
| hereby certify that Samuel Bamford informed
me this dav that -four sh pped from z Washburn
& Sons Mill Tins Spring, was scratched in ST
Louis and 20 cents deducted from tie price, in
consequence of i 5 being packed in machine bar.
| rels. JoHS BUKER.
Muscdfine, Eel ruary 1 1883.
| have used the machine.stave flour barrels made
at Qnihcy ILL.,. of which lin regard To shipping and
souring -four, there was no complaint.
OF. MILLkn.
We have shipped no -four On TO this date.
| (March 81, 1851 OGILvIY g. ST; JouS.
Muscafiae, August IL, 1852.
Messrs. Burrotcs 4 Pretyman, [Davenpor:l--
We, the undersigned, do certify that we have been
making flour barrels of the machine dressed slaves
OF Messrs Hunt 81 Bevard, and the slaves we're as
good lfnot better than the split slaves. Josef h
| Bennett has been using the barrels ior year aud
better. and he states that he would "a her have
them than the split staye barrels. Z lie reason he
uNts Hbt tLtifB now Is because lie cannot pay
Tor what he has already got. and he cannot get
any more until lie pays mp. That's oil he troubIs
with the barrels that we know of. We neyer
heard OF II until we wanted our pay ON them, be-
fore which be did not find any fault with ,hem.-
HE sent man 10 engage 10000, at 40 cents lpr
Dbl. Yours, &c s. BlMronp.
JAS. BUK.n.
STAVE MACHINE AHEADt-RALSE TNL
FLAG!
eIN In addition 10 the above, l wish YOU To
tIIlrpublish the following certificates, obained in
/ S71SSt Louis, which will place this matter be-
yonJ question forever after, and put to sicn.s
and shame the periidious deiTactors of honest in.
iuslry. Notwithstanding the barrels have soured
-four AMI cut up sundry other curious antics. these
certificates sh w iha, there is 10 say The least;
ieet!e "ro,tenness in Denmark
WIN BEvARD
i 81 Louis. April IL. 1858.
Messrs Ogilcie & st john Gents: The 2l2
barrels, containing flour, received from you OH the
9th instant, per Wisconsin, were made from una
chine slaves, and we consider them fully as good
as any barrels we have been in the habit Of rerev-
ing from the upper rivers. No objection was
made To The flour in consequence of being in barrels
Of he kind named above.
RHoDEs, PhsRAM & Co.
81 Louis, March 81, 1889.
Messrs Farmer & Eoohfte-- Gents. In answer
to yours f23d ultimo, in relation to the Musca,ine
machine flour barrels, we would say thai they ore
decidedly the best packages for flour thai we hays
received this year, in every respect.
Yours, respectfully, w l. EwISe & TO.
81 Louis. ApIll II 1883
This is to certify that ], Ledden Davis. Flour In
spccIor for The city ST Louis did, on March 81,
1853, inspect (56) ffiy-sx barrels of -four for
w !. Ewing * Co, branded Nevada Mills. Mus.
caline, Iowa" and on April 6. 1853. (2l2) two
hundred AMI twelve barrels. Of the same brand aud
place, with the exception Of (2dl twenty -four bar
rels of The LOT. which branded Family Flour.
To the best of my recollection, both lots were in
the hest order Of any LOT Of barrels lai had eve,
con under my notice, fiom above the Rapids
And would further say. lha, the barrels brand.
ed ..Alhion Mills fom Burrows 4 Prettymsn.
are generally in good merchantal,le order. Allthe
barrels q oxen of above are the machine ba,rsl..
L DAVIS. Plbsv E,sCeekar.