Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-07-11
Ia I'm lDOrtWut .lid for Farmers.


Saltwater Lumbermen
happening III ut the office of Seymour,
Sabin Il Co.. Wednesday morning, our at
telltl"n was called to the number of orders
received by mail that morning. for Min
nesota Chief Threshors. Single orders came
for ten machines: there were two for two
machines each. and four for one car load
each. The entire number of machines
ordered amounted to thirty and the orders
We're all from Minnesota and Iowa, except
two. This led to inquiries as to the bust
ness of the firm, and we gathered some
facts that may be of interest to our readers
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
IA, while more were then ready for the
cars, making the season. $ shipments. up to
Wednesday night. 1872. The number of
sales this season has been something over
600 machines. about 175 orders remaining
yet to be filled. No business day of late has
brought orders for less than Is machines,
and the selling season has just fairly opened.
The prospect now is that three, and perhaps
four machines will be wanted by agents for
every one that can possibly he supplied.
MERITS 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 demand for
more. In sections where the Minnesota
Chief Is introduced, agents almost invariably
report that the representatives of other
threshing 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.
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 all orders could be filled 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 it in Oregon, and the foundation
OF large business has been laid there.
Proposals have been made to the firm, by
a New York house, looking to the introduce
ton of the Minnesota Chief in New Zealand
and Australia, and arrangements for the first
shipment will probably be closed
ere this article reaches the eve of
the reader. Business with those distant
markets will be done entirely on cash basis.
Reports from Texas, Illinois, Kentucky, and
all winter wheat regions where the thresher
IS now in operation, indicate that the de-
mand another year will be far in excess of
the demand the present season, and the
shrewdest may we'll hesitate before fixing a
limit for the future growth of the business
OF manufacturing the Minnesota Chief.
PAST GROWTH.
The record IF tho past fow ,,oo-o cho.rr
concluslvely how satisfactory the Chief has
proved in operation. In 1875 there were
manufactured machines. The next year
]25 were made. In 1877 the number reach
ed 312. 1t was intended to double that
number this year, but the pressure of de.
mand will compel the firm to do much more
than that, and even then majority of ap-
plicants will be obliged to wait The firm
will, however, fill all orders that it con-
tracts to fill, and all who are promised
threshers by responsible representatives of
the concern, will get them. The growth of
business based on the merit of the thresher
has been fostered by such judicious manage
ment as insures the. future.