Stevens County tribune., 1880-03-18

The following from the Chicago Inter.
Ocean fully proves the world wide rcputa.
ton and acknowledged merits of the ma
chinery manufactured by G. Ii. s. L. J.
Mccormick
Chicago, Sept 10. 1879.
IT,. THE M CoRMICK REAPER WORKS.
The space these works occupy comprises
about twenty-five acres, lying on the north
side Of the south branch of the Chicago
River, all of which, excepting about three
acres that are covered by the buildings, is
used for railroad tracks, for stables, and for
pihng lumber, pig iron, and other materials
The different manufacturing building are
located i'll the shape of q rectangle, having
frontage 10 the north and south of 500
feet, and to the east and west of AGO feet,
covering and inclosiDg space of over three
acres. Without going further into detail,
it may be observed that the floor of the sur
face of these several buildings is 301, ,450
square feet or about seven acres; and in
the several different departments of the fac
tory the firm have kept las many as / 900
employees at work. The season Just closed
has been good one. and no less than 25,-
900 machines have been sold These ma
chimes have been disposed Of in all the
! great wheat growing States in the Union,
| from seaboard to seaboard. from Texas to
Manitoba. Nothing can better illustrate
| the popularity Of the Mccormick self bind
I er, and at the same time show the growth
ofthe State, than the fact that aa
~" aa S, ,403 MACHINES sU
| were sold during the past season in the
Stale of MINNESOTA. On McCOrmck's
! ledger Minnesota leads the United States
she is to that establishment indeed the ban
| ner State, IN 1856 Mccormick sold ten ma
chimes III that State one agent writes that
! he will sell 1900 The coming year. The
! firm are at present employing 500 hands,
| and during the busy season have run the
factory night and day. It might be inter
esting to note, as an item Of news, that the
! firm have very extensive trade with Great
Britain and the European countries gener-
| ally, as we'll as with Australia, New Zea-
land, South America, AMI South Africa.
| Il will give some idea of the popularity of
! the Alcl ormick machines abroad as we'll as
at home to say that Que years shipment to
New Zealand filled tic freight cars-the
largest single shipment of agricultural I'M
plements, We veture to say, ever made at
one time on q single order from any estab-
| lishment in the world.
Mr.. Mccormick in the Worlds Fair at
! London, in 1851, made all impression which
has not been erased, which gave Europe an
! idea of Tie characteristic quality-origi-
nality-of our inventors. From that date
to the Paris Exposition, of 1878, he has TAX
en- the first prize at every one of the worlds g
fairs. 1t has been shown above that to Mr.
! Mccormick was awarded at the recent Par
is Exposition Tire highest honors ever given
/ an inventor, ard in the recent severe trial
for the golden medal of the Royal AgriCul-
tural Soeiety'of England, rs usual, the Nc
! CorlniciS machine came out ahead and was
awarded the gold medal for it fulfilled the
/ conditions laid down. s;no9
i The Mark Lame Express, OF Aug. 12, 1879,
4 gives the following very interesting and ably
written account of the Mccormick Binder:
1T cutsa breadth of five feet, the cut
! grain falling upon a horizontal platform of
endless web canvas, or, as the Americans
f"call it, tduckingH carrying ribs of wood.
This carries the grain toward the rear side,
where itzpasses upward at an acute angle
4 almost perpendicularly, abetweens endless
webs, to u height of nearly five, feet, thus
rising oyer the main wheel, framing and
driving gear: and the stuff, delivered in a
continuous stream, falls over upon hor.
izontal table: binding arm, placed about
midway along the side of, the table, advan
ces toward the falling grain, strikes down
ward through it, separating Il portion for q
Y sheaf, and at the same time earrying down
the uppefply of wire beneath, and thus en-
compass the sheaf. The arm then retreats,
4 drawing the girded sheaf toward the side,
and in the course of this movement The
wires are cut off and twisted together by a
rapidly rotating pinion below, named the
whirl.g The sheaf remains upon the table
until the next sheaf pushes it off, with de
liberate, quiet notion. Nothing can ex
ceed the smoothness and unerfing perfec
z tion of this arrangement for binding. y =
The sheatesare dropped with the greatest
regularity, lying in line, longitudinallv, oil
in the direction of the machines course,
with the butt ends foremost, and they are
some feet clearfof the horse track The
! wire band is joined by a twist in two
:, places on opposite sides of the sheaf, leav
ing the twisted ends sticking ont for abou
J, couple of inches. The special merit oi
. the work was in its perfect collection of II
the wheat scarcelyan ear being dropped
thus absolutely the'whole of the crop i.
= bound in the sheaves, leaving nothing a
alltolbe raked up, and perhaps not more
than q handful per acre for cleaners.
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