Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-15
A PARTN Err WANT TED.
One Who Could Write a GLOWING Accoun
of a New City and was not Afraid to Lie

One Who Could Write CLOWN Account
of a New City and was not Afraid to Lie
At Wichita Kan, | had TO occupy q
room at a hotel with a stranger, who told
me that he lived about fifty miles away on
ranch. We got along all right for three
or four days and then, one night as we
went to bed, he asked:
You kin read and write, can't ye."
Eyes"
81 sorter mistrusted you could What
do they call this thing they get out about
a new tOwn?'
DO you mean prospectus?'
That S it. Kin you write one?"
Il think So"
Kin you draw sort O. map?'
Yes"
'Just as lief lie as not?'
mo, sir!'
"Well. don't get hot. Here's what
want. I've got 200 acres OF land thirty.
five miles from anywhar, and it's too Gus
SEQ poor for a jackrabbit to run over.
want TO lay out a town thar and sell of
$50, 900 worth of lots before the end Of the
month. It kin be done if kin git the
right sort Of a partner"
You want liar, eh?"
Got to be. He's got to lie a river
alongside that property, two railroads
across it, $4,000 population into the
county, and then wiring in lot of church.
es, schools and factories to gid it off. IL
give you half
mo, | couldn't.
'All rlght-no harm done. If you are
not liar, that settles it, and we won't
have no hard feelings
| Six weeks later | met him in a bank in
Omaha just as he was depositing S27, 600
and he held out his hand and said: ''Shoo
Is it you? Wish you'd have come in ten
minutes ago and seen my liar holding up
| his half Of the deal. Conscientious scru,
pies, eh? Well, some folks has EN-, and
when they does it's all right, and no hard
| feelings on my part.
The Beginning of the First Successful Fur
mace Was at Lynn, Mass Iron Making
in America.
1t is certain that at Lynn, in the pro-
vince Of Massachusetts bay, was cast, in
the year 1915, the first piece of hollow
ware made in America--.''a small iron pot
capable of containing about one quart y
This pioneer of all American made castings
was in existence in 1874, but recent efforts
10 ascertain lCS Whereabouts nave been
successful. The works at Lynn appears to
have been very prosperous for number
of years; but after time they became I'M
popular owing to the fowage of lands by
| their dam, and the great destruction OF
timber for tuel.
The Rev. William Hubbard. writing
in 1877, says they were 'strenuously car.
RED on for some time, but at length, in.
stead of drawing bars of iron for the
country's use, there was hammered out
nothing but contentious and lawsuits. >
Just about this time Samuel Butler was
writing his great poem in which he
makes Hudibras says:
Alas! what perils do environ
The man who NEEDLES with cold iron =
reflection which mas been sadly appro-
pirate in the case of too many American
| iron-works.
After the establishment of the first sue.
cessful furnace" and foundry" at Lynn
works for the manufacture of iron were
erected N other parts of New England
and thence the business spread into New
! York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, anc
! Maryland. During the French war in
| 1855 there were a number of furnaces in
operation at which ''cannons, bombs. anC
! bullets, were made in great quantity
and many of these iron works furnished
similar supplies to the continental army
during the revolution.-From Early Step
! IN lTonmaking, by W. F. Durfee, in thu
/ Popular Science Monthly for December.