The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-10-12
HISTORIC AMERICAN TRIUMPH.
NotaDie 'isit of the Foreign Worlds Fair Commissioners to North Dakota to View Harvesting Machinery at Work.

Notable Visit of the Foreign Worlds Fair
 commissioners to North Dakota to View
 Harvesting Machinery at Work.
 Forty-hve Deering Irvine Binders, form. ing procession half a mile in length, and steadily moving through waving sea of wheat-such was the sight that greeted the Fore,gp Commissioners to the Worlds Fair during their recent famous visit to the bo- manga farms Of North Dakota This impos- ing spectacle was witnessed on the great Elk Valley iarm at Larimore, North Dakota a 1arm comprising l2,000 acres or nearly 19 square miles, 10000 acres of which formed one unbroken fenceless field of wheat. To witness this sight the distinguished spec Worlds Fair Commissioners and represen. tatlves Of the foreign press, together with an equal number of Americans, eminent in Woflas Far, Railroad and Commercial cir cles, had undertaken the discomforts of a thousand mile journey from Chicago; and the, eXclamations of delight and surprise, ana the cries of "bravon that rang outo on the air showed that their expectations were vastly more than realized. Sent here4 to study all things American, these gentle men had been especially desirous of witness ing the methods in vogue on the much talked-of "bonanzan wheat farms. Four days before they had left Chicago as guests of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail road, along whose route from Chicago to St. Paul they had received one continuous oya- tlon. From St. Paul through Minnesota and North Dakota they travelled as guests of the treat Northern Railroad, and the farther north they travelled the warmer and more cordlai was their reception. Here at Lari- more they found the climax of interest and the height of hospitality. They were met at their train and escorted to carriages by what seemed to be the whole population of the llttle city of Larimore, headed by O. Ii. Philips, the Mayor, Gov Shortridge, and N. U. Larimore, the proprietor of the great farm which they were to see. Silently and almost breathlessly at first they viewed the mighty phalanx of ma chimes; then quickly alighting from their conyeyances they followed the machines on foot, eagerly peering into their mechanism as II bent on finding the secret of their per feet, automatic, almost noiseless action. For an hour or more they followed the machines, asking innumerable questions of MT. Larimore and his sons, when they were called 10 one side of the field where scien- tlhc tests of draft were being made under the supervision of Mayor o. H. Phillips and Mr. C. Il. Olmstead. The machines tested the Deering Pony binder and the Deerng Ideal mower-were remarkable because embodying the ball and roller bearings, such as are used in bicycles and bicycle sulkies. Twelve tests were made on each NlIH TcBlSJefCu ~ Elckmeyer dynamometer each representing the draft involved in cutting a six-foot swath, 100 feet in length, in twenty to twenty-five seconds of time. The six cut ting tests of the binder showed an avera ge Of only 29S pounds of draft. The six tests m which the machine was run Tn gear over the tops of the stubble just cut known as the trolling draft test, showed an average draft Of only POT pounds. The Deering Ideal mower, new machine also fitted with the bicycle bearings, in heavy grass showed cutting draft averaging 126 pounds, and the rolling draft ninety.two pounds. The remarkably low draft-abouJ half the draft of ordinary machines-shown by these fig ures for both machines was carefully noted by the astonished visitors as demonstrating the practicability of the bicycle bearings The same Pony binder, drawn by two light mules, cut an acre of wheat in twenty-two and half minutes.
 PAPER TwINE USED.
 A notable feature of the binder test was the use on the Pony binder of the Deering ''paper" twine, made from Il wood fibre. This twine, patented by William Deering & Co.,, bids fair to prove Waterloo to the twine trust, for it can be made and sold at prices considerably below those now paid for the hemp and sisal flores.
 At the close of these tests the commits sioners, together with party of spectators, were tendered a good, substantial prairie chicken dinner by Mrs. Larimore and her tcighbors. Toasts followed. Gov. Short ridge, Mayor Phillips and Rev. J. H. keeley delivered eloquent addresses of welcome, which were responded to by D. M De Per alta, of Costa Rica; Mr. A. Grineysky, the assistant Russian commissioner; Don AL bert1 Gomez Ruano. of Uruguay; Mir. Har- ry Vincent, of Costa Rica, and Judge At water, of Minneapolis. Mir. Lariniore also spoke. He said that by using the best l..a ,l cost of raising and marketing wheat to be- tween A. 50 and $500 an acre.
 MIR. APPLEBY SURPRISES THE COMMISSIONERS.
 Mir. John F. Appleby, the inventor of the Appleby twine binder, whose pres ence was u surprise to the commissioners, told of the history of his early struggles and the final universal adoption of his in- vention. He paid glowing tribute to Mr. William Deerng, to whose enterprise he said the world was indebted for the intro duction and general adoption of the ma chine. Said he:
 Tn 1879, when the Deering Company made seventyfye Of these binders, people smiled knowingly and predicted failure The next year when Mir. Deering made 5000 of the ma chimes, the manufacturers of the old reaper and the wire binder said he was crazy. If he was crazy all the manufacturers of harvesting ma chinery who have been forced to follow his ample have also become violently insane llaughterl and the millions of farmers who now use the invention are fit candidates for a lunatic asylum Laughter and applausel
 The excursionists left for Alton and the great Dalrymple farms at 4 D. m., where they witnessed threshing machines at work on crop of wheat that was cut from q, 900 acres by l90 DeeriDg binders-a make that is used exclusively by the Dalrymples. From Alton they journeyed to Fargo, where they were royalty received and shown the marvellous result of western pluck, which in a season of hard times had built solid that had lain smoking there only ninety days before. From Fargo, the guests re- turned to Chicago brimful of enthusiasm over the wonders they had seen.