Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-07-11
An Important hid for Farmers.

tSI1llWaher LQmDerman
Happening in at the Office of Seymour,
Sabin, & Co., Wednesday morning, our at
tention was called to the number of orders
received by mail that morning, for Min
nesota Chief Threshers. Single orders came
for ten machines there were two for two
each. The entire number of machines
ordered amounted to thirty, and the orders
were all from Minnesota and Iowa, except
two. This led 10 inquiries as to the bust
ness of the firm, and we gathered some facts
that may be of interest to our readers.
r., - EXTENT OF THE BUSINESS.
On the day before our call there had been
shipped Is machines, and the entire number
shipped this season, up to that hour, had
been 424, while more were then ready for
the cars, making the seasons shipments, up
/ to Wednesday night, 1872. The number of
sales this season has been something over
600 machines, about It's orders remaining
yet to be filed. No business day of late has
brought orders for less than Is machines,
and the selling season has Just fairly OPEN
ed. The prospect now is that three. and Der
haps four machines will be wanted by
agents for every one that can possibly be
supplied. sy< 4 '.".
= MEhlIS OF The MINNESOTA CHIEF.
The letter files of the firm give conclusive
evidence that the Minnesota Chief sells on
on its merits to remarkable degree. In
places where single machines are once in
operation, there is at once a demand for
more. In sections where the: Minnesota
Chief is introduced, agents almost invariably
report that the Representatives of other
threshlng machine firms are cutting down
on prices, and still the Chief sells steadily,
and much more rapidly than it can be sup
piled. The Saltwater firm is now building
more threshers than any other house in the
country save one. ~ = 81 ssa .s,>v
Sales are rapid in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan,
Kentucky, Texas, and Kansas. In the last
State it is believed that the number Of the
! Minnesota Chiefs sold is more than double
the number Of sales Of any other thresher.
and If allorders could be filed the sale Of
the Chief would be greater than the sales of
all other machines, introduced in the State,
combined. The Minnesota Chief is already
. an established favorite with farmers who
have seen 1t in Oregon, and the foundation
of large business has been laid there.
Proposals have been made to the firm, by
g New York house, looking to the introduc-
( ton of the Minnesota Chief in New Zealand
and Australia, and arrangements for the first
shipment viii probably be closed ere this
article reaches the eye of the reader. BUSH
ness with those distant markets will Be done
entirely on a cash basis. Reports from
Texas, Illinois, Kentucky, and all winter
wheat regions where the thresher is nov III
operation, indicate that the demand another
rear viii be far in excess 81 the demand the
present season. and the shrewdest may well
hesitate before fixing q limit for the future
growth OF the business 81 manufacturing the
Minnesota Chief s s23 .sls
PAST GROWTH.
The record Of the past few years shows
conclusiyely how satisfactory the Chief has
proved In operation. III 1876 there were
manufactured 5 machines. The NEXT year
s125 were inside. " In 1877 the number reach
ed 81 TWAS intended to double that
number this year, but the pressure OF de-
smand will compel the firm to do npch more
than thai, and even then majority pf APP
piicants win be obliged 10 wait. ,Ihes firm
will. however, ell All orders that Ii son-
atrAcfs tel and all who ares rrunised
threshefa BY rsap onsible eraesenta tiyes 2f
the corcern viii get them The growth of,
sbuEpeas based % tho merit of the thresher
hAs been fostered by aurh Judi cipts nnnI,a a.