San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-10-12
Failure Of a Giant Enterprise.

Sometime ago Mr.. ]. K. Gunh.
who is of a scientific twist Of mind A.,
who lives at Wyoming Station, becsm s
impressed with the idea that Wyom;ns
could be made a great manufactures
center, and that it had all the necess.,s
facilities for canned corn emporinm
and laboratory for embalming strin.
beans for nations yet unborn. Wyom
ing territory is not naturally the hon.
OF the string bean, and sweet corn Ia,
never yet matured here, but Mr.. Gull.
hur thought that the day would coma
when the Laramie plains would be COW,
cred with waving corn and blue-eyed
China beans climbing up cottonwood
sticks. He therefore decided to start
bean vineyard and corn orchard, with
headquarters at Wyoming Station
where he proposed to erect a large corn
smelter and bean reducer, the corpora.
ton to be called the Wyoming Cereal
Gamers and Black Eyed Bean Bottles
From Away Back. In order to test his
theory, however, before any great out.
lay of money had been made on the
erection of works, MIR. Gullihur pre-.
served two dozen cans of early dent
corn and brought them down here and
left them at the grocery store of AS.
Peabody, for future sale. Gullihar
Thought that if these were not fatal he
would make some more this season, and
next fall food the trans-Missouri
country with a style Of canned grub
that would make humanity feel real
tickled. We understand that MIR. Pea
BODY sold one of these cans to- de-
serter who left Fort Sanders a few
months ago, and who has never been
heard of since. That was the last that
was ever heard of him. He came in
the store, Jack Fetting says, looking
very unhappy and like a man who had
resolved to die in some painless way
He got the corn, and as no one ever
heard of him afterward, it is pretty
certain that he must have eaten some
of it.
The corn left on the shelf at the store,
and now known as Gullihur's Non
Explosive EARLY Dent Corn, did not
seem to meet with ready sale Tor some
reason, probably because buyers nosloea
that the tops Of the cans had swellea
up like an oyster can that the dealer
has lost faith in. Finally, one evening
as Mr.. Peabody was adding up a long
column of figures in the cash BOOK anu
Billy Rich was putting the cat down
cellar and the other boys were sweep
ing out and claiming up the cheese iof
the night, there was aloud, soul-search'
ing report followed by q prolonged nzA'
Then their was regular volley and tne
air was filled with the noise OF carnage
and corn. The heavens were darkenea'
and amid the clash and crash OF pufS''
ing cans torrent Of boiled dent COIL
fell on the show cases and hung III le''
toons from the ceiling.
It seems that the Wholesale ana NJ
tail succotash Repository and SWEEP
corn purveyor to his Nibbs had nesleo' =.
ed to punch small hole in the 'op -
each can for the gas to escape thfouel,
50 the fruit got up on its hind feet anu
knocked things kind of crazy.
Mr.. Peabody said he did not care ioi
the noise and nervous shock resulting
from the explosions, but that tne ooi.
must have grown during very Mana
GUS and unhealthy season; 1t seemeu '.
be suffering from Ill healVn' ''-
soured on almost every t,
thing. People who passed along 'n0
street, shook their heads and sala 'l'.
Mr.. Peabody lad opened
case of egg "reminiscences by mi''aI w.
Or that in honor of some great eVen' ~
had shipped a carload OF an'iqO'
cheese.
Jack Fetting said that there was
kind of tropical fragrance ana JolO"
fever miasma about the Wyoming corn
dodger company's corn that mug gu
please the cultivated taste, but II uiun
strike him fayorably. He mlgh1 i0"-
10 take it, but should rather not n.y.
Later, the boys took an OLD 'O
Ill II q Irro huehnl DaSkeb ILL.,