Mower County transcript., 1869-12-23
AMERICAN INVENTIONS.
1'ho Exporsation OF Arms and M
chtnery.

Chtnefy.
, II is : fact exceedingly gratifying to tho
pride Of every true American, that Ameri-
oan inventors and manufacturers are to-day
the Old World with many of its
best Implements In the matter of i'm.
proved firearms, We are so tar ahead ofthe
nations of Europe, that many of them are
sending large orders to our manufacturers,
and where they have attempted to get
them up themselves they have almost. in
eariably adopted American inventions. The
Spider alteration of the Enfield. in Eng
land, was an American invention; the Henry
Martin is but very slight modification
Of the Peabody gun, aud the Swiss gun is
the Winchester formerly known as the
Henry) magazine rifle, altered very much
for the worse. At the various trials abroad,
the American guns have invariably come
out ahead, and the English, commission
reported rs to manazine guns in favor of.
first, the Winchester, and, second, the Ball
guns. The Messrs. Remington, of;Ilion,
N. Y, havr furnished to the Danish gov
ernment 81. 600 of their celebrated breeoh-
loading rifles, and to the Swedish govern
ment. 5000: while this year they will send
to Europe fully 100. 600. The rifles have
been sold to Austria, France, Italy, Spain,
Egypt hAO OuOos III okuesAAOA NuoAeAsAoos
with prospect Of much larger sales in the
future, Colts company is completing so,-:
600 Berdan rifles for Russia, and it 10 ru-
mored that the order has been increased
to 100000. At the same time Col. Berdan
has gone to Russia to superintend 3 factory
there, probably for altering their present
arms, Turkey has bought 200, 900 of our
rifles and sent them home, and has Just
completed the purchase rs of over $50, 900
worth Of machinery. with which to convert
them into breech -loaders, on the plan,
probably, Of those altered at Springfield.
Sharps company have been converting 3O,-
600 Of their rifles and carbines into metal
ic cartridge guns for our government. At
the same time the Winchester company is
turning out over 100 per day of its repeat
ing rifles, and is increasing its works. It
has also bought out the Spencer company
of Boston, including the Spencer and Fog
arty patents, Sthus combining and control
ling all the prominent magazine guns, ex-
cept the BAH, which is owned by the Wind
sor company ofVermont and (which quite
q number have been recently SOLD in Per-
sia, The Winchester and Remington rifles
are being sent to China and Japan; and the
former are also sent to Australia, as we'll as
all over the west. the plains, and the Pacific
coast. Nearly one-half of the entire pro-
duct of Smith & Wesson's pistol factory,
employing some 800 hands, is sold in Eu-
rope, mainly in France, Notwithstanding
thoir cheaper labor. This result is of course
due to the fact they are mainly the product
of machine labor, which machines are them.
selves of American invention and manufac-
ture, and which produce an accuracy oi
work andsinish that their hand labor can
not equal. But not only are We furnishing
Europe and the old world generally with
arms, but We ore also supplying them with
ammunition. The Union metallic cartridge
company, of Bridgeport, under the control
of Hobbs, of lock fame, isfurnishing metal.
lie cartridges-fa superior to any ever be.
| fore seen-to nearly all the world. They
had one Older of 25, ,00O. 900 from the Rus.
sian government, and it is report that the
! order has been increased to 100, 600. OOO. -
They make them of every variety and size,
their sale ofone small size for pistol ave.
raging $4,000 per day; a large por.
ton going to Australia. And these. too
are all made on machines invented by thu
elsewhere in the world.
pany, of Windsor. VT, arejust completing
an order for $4,000 worth Of milling and
screw machines, to be shipped to Edin'
burgh, Scotland, to establish there large
factory for the manufacture of the Singer
sewing machine Not content with ship.
ping the sewing machines themselves-o
which large numbers Of the leading kline
are constantly sent-they intend making
them there, and that, too, with American
machinery! Already the Windsor Compan,
| hns sent one or two lots of similar machin
cry to Canadjo for the same purpose; bu
sending machinery from here to Great Brit
is ss"rdRs sse speesy as2%
most importsSnt S and us useful ~. Of i.o all meta
machine are purely IF American origin
N. 7. Tribune, Dec. z.