The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1910-07-15

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city of 10000 people centered about
its mighty mills. The divers. the
Studebakers, the Deeres, the Nc
Cormicks, the Deerings and all the
other manufacturers are alive to the
opportunities of the future. They re-
joice in the approaching completion
of the Panama canal and are deter
cal scheming shall not delay the
building of the Lakes-to-Gulf deep
waterway, even if they have to pay
for it themselves.
The commanding position of this
industrial district is we'll indicated by
the trademark of the M. Rumely
Company of La Porte, Ind, repro
duced herewith. This company, in it's
spirit and achievement, is typical Of
the manufacturers Of the district.
Within the last three years it has
doubled the size Of it's plant, and still
it is unable to supply the demand for
it's goods. Nevertheless it does not
rest satisfied hut is already planning
more new buildings and, as It's
trademark indicates, is reaching
out for yet broader markets. Five
hundred workmen are employed in ma
king the threshers, blowing engines,
and other agricultural implements
which it turns out and Is branch Of
fees and a hundred travelling sales
men distribute them. The wide
awake officers of the company have
had their eyes on the Canadian mar
ket for some time, but only recently
felt justified in entering it. Their
first salesman sent there met with
extraordinary success. Now the Rune
lys are turning toward South Ameri
ca with the certain knowledge that
given equal transportation facilities
their goods will soon replace those of
European manufacture. During the
financial depression of last year the
Rumely Company stood in a class al
most by itself. While other manu-
facturers were closing down their
plants, discharging their statesmen
and in every way checking expendi
lures, the Rumely Company kept right
on turning out machinery and selling
it. The demand for it's goods last
year was greater than ever before.
The reason why the Rumely goods
sell so we'll is not far to seek. Meinrad
Rumely, who established the business
in 1853, also established the policy of
making every machine he turned out
a little better than it had to be- His
sons and grandsons have never de-
waited from that policy for a mo-
ment The success of the products of
their immense plant lies in correct
design, highest quality of materials
and thorough workmanship. The ma
chimes they turn out are always the
best that can be built.
The Rumelys have attacked me-
problem that has become actual dur
ing the last two years. Their achieve-
ment in the manufacture of success
full steam blowing engines and of
mechanical tractors, will mark an era,
as did the plows of John Deere and
oliver, and the binder of Mccormick
To-day, for the first time in the his
tory of the world, is it possible to
produce power by mechanical trac-
tors more economically than by the
use of the animal body. Out of every
hundred pounds of fuel or food more
pull can be obtained from an engine
than a horse or a mule. Twenty-eight
million horses are engaged on the
farms of the United States alone for
blowing purposes. The motors per-
fected by the Rumely inventors are
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