The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-11-09
WORLDS FAIR TROPHIES.
The McCormick Harvesting Machine Com pany Awarded Seven Medals and Diplo- mas for the Superior Excellence of Their Binders and Mowers.

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 Binders and Mowers.
 CHICAGO, Oct. 24th.
 At the Worlds Columbian Exposition to- day seven medals and seven diplomas were awarded the Mccormick Harvesting Machine Company of this city. These honors are in recognition of the merit of the following named machines manufactured by the Nc Cormick Company: The Machine of Steel, Bndlochine, Open Elevator, Mccormick Simple Knotter, No. 4 Steel Mower, Big Steel Mower and the Corn Harvester. These, the highest awards, are based on the per- formance of the Mccormick machines be- fore the judges in the field, at the regular field trials of the Exposition, held at Wayne, H., in July last, the machines tested being those regularly built for the general trade. It IS significant fact that of all the manu- lecturers of harvesting machinery having exhibits at the Worlds Fair, the McCor mick Company alone complied with the committees request to show the capabilities of their machines in the field. The first successful reaper was invented by Cyrus Hall Mccormick in 1881, and from that time to this the Mccormick machines have had a decided prestige over all others. They have won the grand gold medals and highest awards at every Worlds Fair, and it was possibly for this reason that sixteen differ ent manufacturers of Binders and Mowers did not compete in the field with them. Throughout the entire season these sixteen concerns, in their efforts to have floor award granted, have done everything possi- ble to bafi1e the Commission and prevent a fair open field exhibit that should test the working qualities of the machines. And now, after four months fight by the makers of harvesting machines who did not dare meet Mccormick in the tield-a fight in which the United States Commission voted at every turn that the only way to ex- anime machine was by seeing it at work in the feld--and after having signed an agree ment with all the others not to show in the field, one concern wanted an award so bad ly that only two weeks ago It went so far as to get a secret permit to pay the expenses of new Committee to secretly accompany their special machines to a remote section of Colorado, where no other machines could be shown, and where the crop df there is any lefD must be much lighter, and the surface of the ground tirmer, with the evi- dent hope that these conditions would insure as easy work and as light draft as were shown by the regular Mccormick machines in the official tests in July, in the very heavy grain then harvested. The diplomas award ed the Mccormick machines speak in high est terms of their efficiency, ease of hand ling and extreme light draft. The McCor- mick No. Mower showed wonderful power at work and 1t. cut machine, in a field averaging three tons to the acre, with a dynamometer perfectly adjusted by the U. s. Custodian of Government Weights and Measures, drew at work, at an average draft of 152 lbs. The judges pronounce this a remarkable performance. The Mccormick Binders, cutting 6 it. of heavy oats on up. hill ground, and carrying bundle carriers, measured by the same standardized dyna- mometer, showed draft as low as 320 lbs., and none higher than 360 lbs. This wonder ful showing was a great revelation to many distinguished foreigners at the trial, and no one present was at loss to know why more machines did not take part in the tests.