The western sentinel., 1900-07-26

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Ist of January, Mr.. w. E. Spach
began learning the wagon trade as
an apprentice to the late J. P. Mis-
sen. After working at the bust
ness for five years he began to do
some pretty solid thinking. He
reflected that if his employer could
make money off his work he ought
70 be able to do the same for him
self, so he opened shop and be-
gan manufacturing. He employed
only one blacksmith and did all the
wood work himself, and he manu-
factured on an average of two wag-
ons per month, mostly made upon
special order and all sold in this i'm
mediate section to the farmers. In
this way business was carried on
for about zen years; then he began
employing additional workmen and
increased his product year after
year until now the product is about
800 wagons per year, or asstaver-
age of one per day. This increase
continues with unfailing regularity;
this year fully fifty more wagons
have been made by Mr.. Spach than
during 1854, aud he hopes and ex-
poets that similar increase will
characterize 1886.
Mr.. Spach differs from most 9th
er extensive wagon manufacturers
IN his methods, and his trade is of a
class that would not be satisfied with
wagons made in any other way. He
began making wagons by hand and
he has continued to do so. He be-
lieves in muscle and Drawn instead
of in machinery, and he hasn't de
waited from this system. The
result is that the wagons of his
manufacture have a distinctive rep
utation-eveTy one who buys a
Spach wagon knows just what he
is getting, and the customers of the
Factory are willing to swear by it,
for they have ever found the vehic-
les reliable.
We don't suppose that Mr.. Spach
will undertake to build a wagon
on just the same principles that the
Deacon's cone horse shay" is said
to have been constr ucted AS our
readers will remember, in this ia
nous vehicle the wheels, shafts,
body-every part in fact--was
equally strong as the ether; it run
for generation after generation;
eventually it collapsed--it became
nothingncss " and the places that
once knew it knew it no more Tor
ever" Now we don't reckon Mr.
Spach builds anything upon exact
ly that plan, but be comes mighty
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our reputation for veracity III all its
purity else we would tell how long
some of Mr.. Spach's wagons have
been in daily use. There actually
seems to be no 'wear OUT to them
It's hard lines on men who do
repairing, but the farmers are all
the better satisfied and the reputa-
ton of the Factory gains in r"',0 =
quence.
Mr.. Sp, IL .st..:l-:1, raw ma
te.iai for the Wood work of his
wagons from this immediate vicin-
ity, /. e. from within radius of
twenty five to thirty miles from
Waughtown or Winston Salemg
Before being manufactured every
thing is thoroughly seasoned the
ironing is perfect, and while the old
time features are retained, new and
valuable improvements are embod-
led from time to time these I'M
provements, however, before being
adopted, are Thoroughly tested at the
factory, for Mr. Spach has no desire
that his customers should be any
thing but the gamers by them.
Nearly or quite all the wagons
manufactured by Mr.. Spach are
sold in this State, South Carolina
and Virginia some are delivered
to agents at different points by rail,
others are carried across the coun-
try by the Factory's own teams.
Every wagon is guaranteed to be as
represented, and all who know any
thing of the gentleman in question
know that the guaranty is a good
one.
The business is under Mr.. Spach' S
own management, but, after all, he
largely relies upon his son, Mr.. ]
G. Spach, who acts as general sup
erintendent. When Mr. 7. G. Spach
was only fourteen years of age his
father entrusted him with the gen
eral supervision of the business, and
its growth during the years since
intervening is not little owing to
his thorough and business like meth
DDS. So far as that is concerned
both father and son have done ev-
erything in their power to advance
the business upon the best basis oi
all-that of real merit of the wag-
ons made
We can't compliment Mr. SpacI
upon the appearance of his various
factory buildings, for truth compels
us to say that they are not inpos
ing. All the same, they answer
their purpose well, and patrons ,oi
the factory are more concerned sr
the product than in the buildingsir
which that product is fashioned
We like to write of instances oi
business success like this. We
know that its past and present pros
periry is not the result simply of ad-
ventitious circumstances bat of hard
persistent work When Mr.. Spac!l
determined TO work for himself in.
stead of some one else he sounded
the key note OF success, and we
wonder if when he and his solitary
blacksmith were uorking away year
after year if he fancied the time
would come when wagons would be
so priced at home and abroad that
he would find 1t difficult to supply
the demand We presume he did
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