The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-06-28
A TRIAL OF ONE OF
Hollis BIG STEAM
PLOWS.
Expressed Great Wondernent at "nae
Could Be Accomplished by Use
of Machine.

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featuring company shipped to Spain
one of their immense steam plows.
which was set up and several demon
strations of, what work it would do
were made Recently the king of
Spain made a visit to the experimental
farm operated ny the government for
the purpose of inspecting the ploW ana
witnessing it in operation. The pillow
was operated by 4 representative OF the
Holt company which proved highly
successful and was d revelation to the
monarch of that country. Several days
ago Ben G. Holt. jr.. local manager OF
the company in Walla Walla, received
a letter from the coInpanys agent IN
Spain including a copy of the Espana
Rural the official organ of the Seville
containing an account Of the official
visit of the king to the farm. which is
produced part as follows:
| The agricultural part of the eXposi
| ton was established as is known on
the Common of Tablada in close prox
| unity to the edge of the Guadalquiver
| and on land adapted to maneuvers. A
most artistic awning carpeted and
plainly decorated had been erected
I cl,n Ii, To
majesty was received by the president
of the Chamber of Agriculture, Senior
| NasQuez. by the sage engineer Senior
Manjarres our distinguished co-labor
er. by Don Fernando Flores. owner of
the G,utomotor Holt that was to be
| inspected by the king and other MEM
bers Of the Chamber of Agriculture.
AS eye witness of this roya1 visit
We shall endeavOr to transfer our i'm
preston to paper. After dismounting
from his carriage Don Alfonso and
! Messrs Manra and Dominguez Pas
quail, who accompanied him, received
the above named members of our
chamber and seeing the engine, whose
whistle resounded noisily its rejoicing,
! he addressed Senior NaSqueZ saying:
| desire to see it operate, it was put in
motion. The Monarch being filled
with admiration at the realized result
asked Messrs. Nasquez and Flores the
daily consumption of fuel and equiv
alence with animal work to which the
| said gentlemen answered that con-
sumption of fuel in ten hours per day
was one ton of coal and wages of one
machinist and one fireman and for
each furrow four oxen (alternates) or
say eight oxen in all would be the basis
of calculation.
With such data the Monarch
promptly said: Can the automotor
travel at greater speed With more
mangs than the four that it is drawing
now and make deeper furoWs?' His
desires We're satisfied by Senior Flores
ordering the men to lower the plOwS
deeper in the soil and give more speed
which being done caused such admir-
alton that the words This should be
common in Spain escaped his lips. AS
| the traction was in a direct line II. NJ
asked Can it make the turn?' immedi-
ately that beautiful mechanism began
| to CITRATE, Don Alfonso approaching and
infinitely examining the excellent ro-
| tatinS movement of the forward wheel.
Senior Manra was also filled with cur
iosity by the enormous potency of the
engine. its easy movements. etc, and
asked questions on the application of
power to the motion wheel In the
meantime H. NJ. spoke few words in
English with one of the engineers of
the Holt company, after which ad-
dressing Senior Vasquez, said I had
already figured all this must be North
American
Don Alfonso related that he had
heard and also added read that other
accessories were applied to these au-
tomotors for the purpose of cutting and
threshing. Have you not one of these
outfits and do you know the result
they give" he asked turning to Senior
Flores. This gentleman answered that
/ his outfit had already arrived in Cadiz
but as yet they had not finished putting
it together Does it cut and bind?
asked the Monarch. No, the binding is
| not necessary because Immediately af-
ter being cut the grain passes into the
| threshlng apparatus, leaving this con-
verified into straw on one side and on
the other into wheat filed sacks auto-
maucaily tied, answered Senior Flores
And why are not these machines
more numerous, asked the king, to