Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-11-01
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FAMILY TRADE SECRETS.
X. h. Wood,
Trustee.

bOne Ennt bring Great wealth. TO
Their Fortunate POssessOrs.
That silence is golden no one. will
deny. but they who will most ready ad-
init the truth OF this maxim are the
members or those families whose
silence. lasting in some cases for GEN.
turtles, has brought them untold wealth.
And the most curious part Of it Is that
outsiders, try rs they Will. have been
unable TO discover the secrets these
lucAy families possess.
Few people know where Bank Of
England note paper comes from. and
fewer still how it is made, because its
manufacture is family secret, and
has been so for nearly two centuries.
In I'LL man named Portal discovered
how to make this paper, and the gov
ernment thereupon contracted with
him to supply all that was required for
bank notes. The contract still holds
good, and once week quantity is
sent from Laverstoke, in Hampshire,
where the family still exists, the paper
being guarded by number of detec-
tives throughout the journey. No one
the Portals make the paper, and prob
ably no one ever will.
Minton ware is another family mo-
nopoly. though unprotected by the
patents act. In 1893 Thomas Minton,
Staffordshire potter, discovered how
10 make n peculiar china with n green
glaze unlike any. other In vogue. He
kept his secret 60 himself, made the
ware 10y stealth, and I'm due time ac-
cumulated n fortune. Before he died
he gave the secret TO his eldest son,
and II has been handed down from
generation TO generation to the present
time. The works are now situated ut
Stoke-on-Trent, and every year the
Mintons turn nearly 100000 tons OF
clay into the famous ware that bears
their name.
Sword forging is one OF the most diff.
fcult branches OF the mechanics art
and only one family, residing In Bir
mingham, knows how TO do it TO per
lection. There is a secret I'm sword
forging which this family alone has
conquered, and 1t has been in its pos
session for upward OF half a century
and is still unknown to outsiders. A
sword made by a workman belonging
to this family is worth twice as much
as one made 10y any other firm, and al
though enormous sums have been Of
fered for the secret from time To time
every member remains true to his
trust.
One of the oldest family secrets is
that connected with the manufacture
OF eau de cologne, for Ii has been own
ed by the Farinas since 1856. In that
year an Italian. Giovanni Farina, In
vented the perfume. and only his eldest
Son was admitted into the secret. At
the present moment the Farinas have
twenty-eight factories at Cologne.
This silence on the part OF the family
through so many years has brought
untold wealth, for nine out OF every
ten bottles of the perfume purchased
all over the world is OF Farina make.
1t seems hard to believe that we are
10 great extent Indebted to one fam
lily for our supremacy on the seas, but
such is the case. All the iron used in
the navy is made by the family OF
Crawshay, the descendants Of n York
shire farmer who discovered a method
of making the metal harder than any
one else could do, and in consequence
received a contract to supply the iron
Tor the navy. The secret still remains
with the family, and foreign nations
have periodically offered millions for
its possession. but without success.
In the wine trade there are endless
secrets, some of them OF great i'm
portance and owned by single families.
Tokay, rare and costly wine and the
ravorite drink of the emperor OF Aus
tria, is made only by the Counts of
Zemplen from secret recipe, while
the equally famous Lachrym;e Christi
cannot be procured except from the
family Of Adrienne. the owners of the
vineyards on Vesuvius Maraschino.
too, is made in secret solely by a Dali
matian family called Nanis, who first
discovered the recipe three centuries
ago.-London Tit-Bits.