The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-06-17

The - Champion ;, Reaper and
UOwer.-A Few Facts and Fig
ures that viii fse Read
with sntara.f

with interest.
In large city like Chicago there are al
ways scores of important interests that the
masses haYe little or no concern beyond
the mere Tact that such interests exist This
Is especiaI lily true in the manufacturing in
terests, of which there are thousand in this
city, that afford employment for tens of
thousand of men and woman constantly;
and yet those not directly interested in susi
interests have no just conception of their
magnitude. 1t is fact conceded by those
familiar with the SGbject, that there is no
commercial centre on this continent hat
distributes directly to consumers larger
amount of the manufactured products of
the country than does Chicago. Ii is true
that the manufacturing resources of this
great supply market have not as vet been
fully developed; and, notwithstanding there
has been a most unprecedented increase in
the va, iOus manufactures here during the
past half dozen years. fully fifty per cent
of the various articles distributed are the
products of other manufacturing centers,
which naturally avail themselves of the fac
ilities that this market affords for IIacIny
their products IN the hands Of cOnsum rs
Nearly every important manufacturing in
terest In sister states east and south has it
branch house here, from and through which
the demand of the great northwest is sup
piled. Ia brief, Chicago is the great store
house, both for the surplus products Of the
soil and the factories Of the whole country.
1t Is here that the granaries and cribs of
the agricultural masses are emptied; it i.
here that the products Of the l0om, anvil,
and work bench are sent for distribution.
Take the single interest of agricultural ma
chinery and implements as it exists in Chi
| cago to-day, and how many are there that
! have the least idea of its magnitude Per
haps there is not one man in a thousand
that realizes that it reaches fully fifty mil
hon dollars annually. AS an illnstraticu
the writer, the other day, while on a walk
| among the different manufacturing interests
called on Narder, Mitchell i Co., manu-
facturers' of the Champion reaper and
mower at their northwestern Office and
warerooms, Nos. Is, 20, and - North
Clinton street, where he was informed that
the champion" factories at that beautiful
inland city, Springfield, Ohio, are now pro-
ducing one hundred and forty of these
machines per day, which would be equal to
turning out complete machine every four
minutes ucI IbS Tue Jay L MS eOuntS IL HI
| tie like trespassing on Imagination at tie
expense of credulity, and yet, when one
learns that the company employs ,53l men
exclusively in the manufacturing department
OF their business, 1t is easy to comprehend
how they can produce complete machine
every four minutes. And we further learn
ed that the same rate Of production will be
kept Up until tue commencement of the
| harvesting season, and yet the supply will
fall short of the demand. They do all the
work within themselves, even to making
their own malleable iron, for which purpose
! they erected, and have in full operation. an
immense establishment, making only such
malleabie iron as Is used on the 'Champion''
machine They have also just finished
another factory to be devoted solely to max
ing the finger bars and knives and sections
I for the champion" Those are in addition
to the factories that make the machine
proper. 1t may not be out of place in Tia: 5
connection to state that the ''Champion'
mower and reaper works of Messrs. War
der, Mitchell Il Co., at Springfield Ohio,
are not only among the oldest, but are act
ually the most extensive works of the kind
/ IN the United States, land to visit Springfield
and no. visit this, as we'll as the other man
ufacturing establishment for which that city
Is famous, would be something like visiting
Niagara Falls without viewing the cataract.
Messrs. Warder, Mitchell & Co. informed
US that they built in 1874 y, 900 machines.
and vet they were short several thousand in
supplying the demand, although their pro-