The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-04-27
THE CHAMPION"
Signs of q Genuine Revival Of Business
~ at Springfield, Ohio.
The Heaviest shipment Of Respers ,nd Mowers
Ever Made In America.

Special Dispatch 70 the Cincinnati Gazette
SPRISGFIELD, O. April 81.
Facts are stubborn things, and figures based up
on facts cannot lie. Alter 50 much has been saiC
and written in the way of predicting revival o
business. in which il has seemed hitherto that thi
wish was father TO the thought it is solid satisfac
ton TO put ON record genuine, unmistakable proc
that the revival of business is upon us in tang
ible fo-n, which csn be seen, measured, and ell
umerated. To the promise of abundant grain
crops in all parts OF the county. and 10 the ener
gy end foresight OF the manufactures. who pro
vide the means of securing that harvest, thesC
healthful tokens are due.
The firm OF Whitley, Fassler & Kelly. of Spring
field, Ohio, manufacturers of The lCOrid re7Otrred
Champion RsQDers and A0lCeTs, have to-day dis
patched four hallway trains loaded with thess
machines to Harrisburg. Pennsylvania The fOul
trains in all comprised seventytwo cars, and each
ear contained twenty-five Champion Reapers and
Mowers, making grand total OF ,6l8 reapers anC
mowers This may be safely put down as tn,
largest single shipment OF any machine on record
in this or any other country. Ii makes in itself
great industrial pageant, triumphal progress, 10
which no other country but America could fur
nish the material. 81
This quadruple trair,o railway caravan lef
Springfield to-day, via the c. 8. & c. Railway tC
Columbus; thence via the p. c. & st. L. Railway
to Pittsburg thence via the Pennsylvania Centra
Railway TO Harrisburg Fifty ont OF the seventy
car loads of machines exclusively for the STATE
of Pennsylvania, and the remainder for Delawar n
and New Jersey.
II will be observed that this shipment is to wha
may be called Centennial territory. II is in iac
the first fruits of the signal triumph of the Cham
pion Reaper and Mower at the Centennial Expo
sitiOn, where their superiority fully dem
Onstrated as 10 open new fields for their intro
duction in all the grain growing regions OF the
world, but especially Of Pennsylvania and it
neighboring States. The wheat prospect is unu-
sually large in that section and the same IS fOrtu
nately true of nearly all parts of the continent
And il should further be stated that 10 the energy
and ability of Messrs. LII. Lee 4 Bro.,o Baltimore
the impetus to the sale OF these machines, OF
which this immense shipment is token, is large
ly to be attributed
/ The European demand for the Champion Reap
ers and Mowers is also very extensive, and large
shipments have been made to that market the
present season. Ii is probable that 30,O00 machin
es or upward. will be turned out by the 'Champi
on"-Messrs. Whitley, Fassler & Kelly and others
manufacturers for the harvests of 1877.
The march of this huge procession from Spring
field TO Harrisburg was spectacle worth seeing
The seventy-two cars were all alike, and all fur
nished by the Pan Handle people. Each car was
prOfusely decorated with flags, and also with
placards announcing its destination. and fOl
whom its quota of machines Is designed While
the Gar is hurrying forward his troops to the
crossing of the Pruth America may well be thank
ful for no more warlike sign than this Increment
of re-enfOrcements TO the peaceful grain fields OF
Pennsylvania.