Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-02-18
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which. am sorry 10 say, have b.ca edcd %
5ut Nv 81 gar tA;,r;Ti;ing c.t;Z5rF, 10 Thcn
htr3ri:h :cturn NV ,hanke; OF course, iGc'ni
ing y0ur9,li.
have Il ll:e, been fuQu1ntiy asked by
parties, How arc yon progressing With y"ui
Screw Bolt Works /? snd when sill The com
mlttee make !hair roper! p snd | .iheroI6rt
deem it uly Gu'y and 10 justice 10 myself, &c
give Jul statement OF iac:s with yGur per
mission through you: valuable columns
Owing 10 the continued unavoidable ahIonoo
OF one o! th2 Committee 90 tull report could tt
made cut - lar, but suffice il TO say thai
the CCch;ann patents, ic;ordipg to written
Of iaion Ct Il. ". Baadie 4 TO-, patent attor-
pleH IN Washington, who, 20 help the cause,
have kicdy offered their services free OF charge,
arc valid, and that theIo is, consequently, uotf-
Ing in the way t. ebs;ruci operations; further
that said patents have three yesfs to Tup, from
May II, 1850, aaG May DO extended by spC ca
act OF Congress Tor II years additional. But,
Tor the sake of argument, suppose that such
extension could not be obtained, three years
start, over all competition, is thing by 10
means 10 lie desplsed, and it does net follow
that operations should cease with tho expira
ton Of the patents; contrary. tho bulk ol the
trade will have been secured by that time, and
can easily be retained. And / will here add
that another improvement has tcen since made
a grip nut bolt" tho nuts of which cannot
possibly shake off. and would therefore be in-
valuable 10 all RAILROAD contrucions, tho pa
tent Oh which will havo full II years to luu.
Finding that Joint stock company could pot
well be organized, | applied to private parties
with WOW OF bringing about q partnership
concern, in which think would havo been
successful, had il not boon for an erroneous
opinion, which had gained cicdoncc, i. O., that
not enough bolts could be sold to mako the
business pay" This belief, eli courao, cor-
plotcly barred tho enterprise in that dire ctiop;
and losing oil homo OF even raising sufficient
means 10 Alexandra for tho starting Of Bolt
Works. was Instructed long ago by the pc.
tcntco 10 dlFc)nlnue my elorts 10 Alexandria,
and that he would now rely upon his own re-
soulc, and begin operations on limited scale
upon his own grounds By tho opening Of spring.
Reluctantly obcyGd his Instructions, for |
knew too we'll what Alexandria would ioso in
allowing this enterprise to slip from her hands
and would eVon now remain silent, had il not
been for letter which received IN the 18th
INST, and, IN wlich occurs this passage. 81
think it will please you to hear that on tho 10Th
inst had an application by mail Iso,n q party
in New York city~-thc full namo il Given in
tho lettcr-tnr 100000 lag screws hc bcinr
under the imprf ss!on inst | was in mlI onnre
ton. What would tho unheievars of Alcynn
drla think Of hall n million lag !cicwI in ono
order when they mid moi srr how wn were
IT, get any orders at all a!so have an ord, =
FIR sIay bol'a for tnnr locomniiv,a."
To ahne you lIIn inagn ufG Of this order |
will state that single !cicW threading machine
n"n thread > GOO bolts IN ton hcnrs aud i.
Wcnd therefore require :.in days to fill thia or
der by adding anrt"rr 'i,Irad:r aud by wo'k
ms two SITS oil hands, all cluld. hoscyrr, he
completed N ''sG nnths, and b. aGa!n jouhliDg
1 h" mac''lrc'2i" s'"EIe m"nih. .iDrinG wticr
tsnn = r'c'! .'rrh; it iI.ri s;3p mo 10 so nAn
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ny: ''a' itld LII AIR CAPITALISTS ami
wfI!" tn"Y :'nn!'! ii" themselves rrcat deal III
good, how mac, mG!c wu,,i thnv d. 70 ,hr
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