Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-03-20

QlSpOSlUS Ol tW6uty-elguG udCuiucS 10 Gu6
farmers Of the vicinity. This was certain
ly small beginning, but the machine rap
idly made its way into public favor.
The next year 100 were sold, next 23S,
and the sales went on increasing until, in
the year 1866, they amounted to 1900,
and in the year 1867 to $4,000, with or
ders on hand far beyond the capacity of
the company to fill 4 believe the sales,
last year were at least double those Of
any other factory in the United States
The total number Of machines that have
been made at the mandatory at Hoosick
To Which add fSe total number Of machines
made in the United States by parties who sfts
are licensed by Mr.. w, and pay royalty un-
der his patents ..........-.. ......--. .l3,6o0
And we find that the grand total manufac-
tured on his system, in the United States
amounts to the extraordinary number of. .S5 S22
OF this vast number, it is estimated that
at least sc, 900 were in use in this country
and Europe during the harvest last past.
The first machines were sold in Europe
been, sold, in different European countries,
upwards of 10000 machines of Mr.. Woods
manufacture, being ninety per cent. of all
the machines sold in Europe by American
manufacturers, to say nothing OF a large
number made in France, on the same prin-
ciple estimated at more than 5000. /
have been shown an interesting calcula-
ton, based upon reliable statistics, in which
an estimate is made of the number of acres
of grain and hay cut by the 90,822 ma
chimes manufactured under the Walter A.
Wood patents, and the cost of cutting the
same amount of hay and grain by manual
labor. Upon the other side of the account
is placed the cost of cutting by the Wood
mower or reaper, and the price of the ma
chimes. To this is added the interest on
the price, and the cost of repairs, which
items are likewise estimated as being equal
to the original cost of the machines. De.
Quoting these expenditures from the cost
of doing the SEINE work by manual labor,
it is conclusjvely demonstrated that the use
of Mr.. Wood s machines has resulted in &C
tual saving to the public of the aston
ishing sum of over sixty eight millions of
dollars in gold. Who will say that he is
not a public benefactor, and one of the
useful and practical sort, too? .
1t will be easily conceived that the work
of manufacturing and supplying the pub
lie with these machines at the rate atwhich
they are now demanded, tasks the resources
of one of the largest manufacturing es-
adjustments in the wor'l. have not
space for detailed description of the diff
ferent foundries, shops, &c, but the readers
can form some idea of the extent Of the
works from the fact that the working floor
covers a space of 10000 square feet, or
nearly FOUR ACRES, which, if properly
disposed, would make continuous work
ing floor twenty six feet wide and one
mile long. The concern now employs
about ak hundred men, and is turning out
n1os ut fkrly nf Avan Sv.l nco fhn1
TEN MINUTES of each working day, or 70
machines per day, 400 per week, and 1850
each month. Until the year 1866 the
Mr.. Wood was the senior and principal
partner. In that year, however, joint
stock company was formed, with Mr.. Wood
as president, and the business is continued
by the company, with more energy and
success than ever. 3 as5 fas 50 es
, The company has recently made pur-
chase which will double the capacity of
the works, and will furnish employ
ment to several hundred additional
men, on which the mills are already
erected. ss,.,fs o.,otg Ia 5waI
Does anybody desire to know the secret
of this wonderful success 1t is simply
this The Walter A. Wood Moving and
Reaping Machine Company" MAKE THE
BEST MOVING AND REAPING MACHINES IN
THE WORLD. Not only is the principle |
and mode of operation of the machines |
superior to that of any other, but the man
ufacture is conducted with the most care
full solicitude. Everything in the process
of construction done upon honor, and
with. the most scrdpulous regard for the
efficiency of the machines. s a assa
The materials are selected upon the
principle of the deacon's zone boss shay" |
that of making the weakest part as /
strong as the rest" When farmer pur-
chases one of these machines he KNOWS
that he has only to put it up and 60 to
work-there is not a possibility of failure. |
Moreover, the grand field of the reaping /
machine is in the great grain. growing |
States Of the West, and the Walter &. Wood |
reaper is even greater favorite than the
mower with the Western farmer. More
of these reapers are sold in the Western
States than of all other Self Rakers COM
bined, and the demand from that quarter is
rapidly increasing. -. 3. 1m
But it is not only in the United States
that these machines are appreciated.
Wherever they have been used, and
especially where they have been placed in
competition with others, their superior
qualities have been triumphantly estab
Ished. If the market for first prizes, gold
medals, premiums, &C., is governed by the
commercial law of supply and demand,
those articles can certainly be obtained of
Mr.. Wood, on better terms than can be
given by any one else in the known world.
Upon looking over a list of the prizes
awarded to these machines, / could hardly
help fancying that on some pleasant
November evening, the sky had rained gold