Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-11-21

sent here, and when be learned the.
mistake, ordered the wheels back and
sent set of 10 and 2 spoke wheels.
Now wasn't it a most remarkable
test that a set Of cast hubs with loose
boxing should stand under a load Of
forty kegs of nails weighing 4,240
pounds and two men On it, making
about $500 pounds, drawn several
times around the square, up Frank
lia, First and Strawberry streets, pass
ing as often over fiverongh stone cross
ings, over hard streets, BY no means
as smooth as plank floor besides
hauling many other loads.
1t was even a greater test than that
made a. Danville with 10000 pounds
of Pig iron and six men on it, | have
explained to hundreds of people that
the wagon had not been perfected,
that the Danville company were with
out the proper machinery for setting
boxing but they have managed to
put them in rough so as to give salts
faction in all wagons sent out for use,
when the proper machinery is gotten
up for boring out the hub and forcing
the boxing in by compression, as ex
planned by Mr.. Whitfield there can
be no doubt of the work standing.
1t is not an experiment to be tested
but certainty developed in loco
motive, and car wheels, and all heavy
machinery. Certainly after all these
tests, such mechanism will stand in a
wagon wheel. | could if necessary
procure hundred certificates of the
best mechanical minds in the country,
agreeing with MIR. Whitfields idea.
"And ifthe Iron Wagon is lighter and
stronger than the wooden one, why not
| make IL all of iron? ?"
Well: if the wood wagon is lighter
and stronger than iron one. why not
make it all wood? We can make it
all iron, hut your wooden wheels
wouldn't be worth > cent without
| iron.
ALSO. what is the testimony of seven
| teamsters who are using the iron Wagon in
| a city OF .neighboring State? This we Will
answer. Bu. one OF the seven spoke any
! thing in favor of the Iron Wagon-he
| thought IL would do, but had not tried it
long The other six say they would not
take the wagon rs gift aud be compelled
to work their tear 10 il. So much for the
Iron Wagon"
There is not single ron wagon in
use outside of the State of Illinois and
vicinity of Danville, except the one
here, consequently there is no truth
in the statement. The wagon which
I have had on exhibition, was used
one day at Guthrie and one day at
Trenton and those using it both white
and black, pronounce it the Gghtest
running wagon the V had ever hitched
to. | here produce the statement of
three gentlemen of high character at
Danville, who are using both Iron
and wooden wagons daily.
DANvILLE, ILL.,, May II, IA
This is to certify that / used one of
the Wrought Iron Wagons during the
winters of 1872 and 1873, in hauling
coal from my bank to the city, and al
so in the summer following in brick,
&c, and am free to say that, accord
ing to my observation when wooden
wagon is loaded all twill bear, / can
put on the Iron Wagon one-third
more load and draw it with the
same draft.
L. s MAxEY.
/ This is 10 certify that | have one of
the Iron Wagons of Ball Brothers
patent in constant use in the lumber
business. | do not hesitate to say
that | believe the wagon runs as easy
as the common wood wagon with 20
per cent. more load on it. With m,
experience with the wagon, | feel JUS
titled in recommending the Iron
wagon.
j. G. HOLDEN.
Danville, Ill,
This is to certify that after an ex-
perience of twenty-five years in haul
ing brick from my brick kiln one
mile from Danville to the city, and
in hauling from my kiln 1 ] mile from
Springfield to the city for the State
House of nine million brick, | have
found that for an ordinary two horse
wagon one thousand brick is all they
will bear, and more teams hauled less
than even that amount. During
last season / saw one of the Danville
Wrought Iron Wagons haul several
loads from the kiln, and fifteen hun
bred brick was its ordinary load, and
as far as / could see it, rolled as easily
to the team with its load as to the
wooden wagon with their load. /
saw also, one load of two thousand
brick on the same wagon hauled to
the city. This load / consider would
be equal in strain on the wagon to
10000 lbs and there was no percepti-
BILE give to the Iron wagon in any
way.
PERRY FAIRCHlLD.
Danville, ILL.,, May II, 1874.
! "Also. will Mr. Ingram please inform us
| what became of the celebrated little iron
/ wheel, the Perkins iron wheel, the Parks
/ wheel and dozen others we could ment
| ion but time and space will not permit.
| If the above are answered satisfactory, we
may be induced TO invest in the proposed
enterprise. II maybe said of us that we
are old fogies, that We are down on inn
provements, but far from II. We are for
all improvements that have a shadow of
success, but IL you must have wagon
factory, and there ought 10 be one here,
why not make the wooden wagon: We
know 1t will meet the demands of the peO-