Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-08-20

day. With the machine working,
the next part of the program was
to find the customer Mrs. Spitz
went to the largest prospect she
could find-Fred Harvey, who sells
very large volume of such goods
along the Santa Fe system. He is
handling many products with local
color, and the pinon nuts, espec-
tally as they were not handicapped
by the tedious and difficult task OF
Smelling by the consumer. were put
on his list. He is still the largest
customer. On the trip made to
sell the first of her product. she
sold all her stock. securing these
orders for the product before
single nut was shelled.
Carloads of Them Now Used.
Last winter alone saw 10000
pounds of the shelled nuts pass
through the plant" Mrs. Spitz
looked after every detail of the
business, also doing her own house.
work in the bargain. With the re-
cent advance of 100 per cent In
the price Of unshelled nuts, the
machines work has added to the
value of them. During the three
months after the gathering of the
crop, that basement was stacked
to the ceiling with the nuts. one
hundred and twenty-five carloads
of unshelled nuts were gathered IN
the district. twenty-five carloads
from one little flag station of the
state. Mrs. SpitZ was shipping tho
shelled nuts to candy makers In
let's of from twenty to 200 pounds,
her invention making them practi-
cal for use. She has also put on
the market a candy in fancy boxes,
with the nuts as an ingredient, that
sold in the two-pound size for Sc.
One of the first things she did
after getting the machine perfect
ed was to design package that
bears copyrighted label. n.F,. D. g.,
THE Cream Of Wheat carton Is
known to shoppers" she said, land
l want people to think of my prod
uct when they think of pinon nuts.
| am getting mail orders from all
parts of the country and from
some foreign countries. There are
some who reading my advertising
challenge the statement in regard
to the invention being the product
o. a woman's mind. ] wish they
could see this model plant.
Il usually devote three hours y
day to this business-it has taken
as many as eighteen--but have
time now for my household duties,
my social affairs, trips into the
field and pleasure trips in my car.
II a woman will divide her time
according to her interests she can
manager to get along nicely"
Mrs. Spitz's invention, putting
these New Mexico nuts on the mar
ket, is getting many users to APP
pCrtunities. Large candy makers
are eager to arrange contracts that
call for tons. Clubs and hotels
want pralines made of them. At
an early date Mrs. Spitz will issue
a carefully prepared cook book
which will aCduaint the housewives
with the use and flavor of the
pinon. All the time those who get
acquainted through the packages
sent from the plant are mail order
ing. One especially enthusiastic
man in a middle western state is
distributing circulars voluntarily
and evidently speaking a kind word
for his trail is marked with orders.
With the development of the in
vention more of the nuts will go to
the market each season and at
better prices than were ever
thought possible. Mrs. Spitz has
been granted a process patent in
addition to the protection cover
ing her mechanical inventions, as
a result of the new industry made
possible by her invention.
81 never did any inventng be-
fore" she said. land I cannot ac-
count for doing this. except that l
got started. saw the great reward
and am not one to quit any prob
lem, no matter how much sacrifice
1t means. One woman who saw
the machine work could hardly ex-
plain my success for a while. Then