The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1922-11-17
TRADE WITH YOUR LOCAL MEX.
CHANT-IT PAYS

There is principal involved in
every transaction. and that principal
should be observed There is r. l,t
and wrong position to take, If il
is right for the consumers to send
their money to the catalogue houses
for their merchandise. they should
do so, but II it is wrong they should
not do it.
| will take for ex imple one of our
hardware merchants in Hot Springs
to prove that people should buy from
their home merchants instead of
| sending their money away. In the
twenty-four years he has been u
| business. he has introduced and sold
a great many mowers and rakes on
one, two and three years time which
| encouraged the farmers to increase
| their meadows and make the cost of
the mower in hay before they had
to pay for it.
He has sold mora than q thousand
two-horse wagons at $40 down and
$40 per month to men who had the
teams and no wagons and not
enough money to pay all down for a
new one. They were enabled to
make the wagon pa for itself as the
payments came due.
When the government err. dem
onstrator was trying to introduce
hog cholera serum into this country
to prevent hog cholera. it was diff.
cult to get the farmers to send away
for 1t and this man kept it in stock
and furnished it to the farmers ex-
actly at cost in order to get them to
use it and save their hogs, which
they did.
He was the first man to introduce
commercial fertilizer into this sec.
ton, and was also the first to intro
duce two-horse cultivators and was
told at the time by some that he was
doing the country a great injury by
selling the people fertilizers and cul-
tivators. They contended that the
stock and double shovels were the
best tools for cultivation. And now
there is little demand for stocks and
double shovels
He introduced and sold the first
| liSlx no in th{e
He manufactured, introduced and
sold one of the first home Gamers
for canning fruits and vegetables.
He has introduced many improved
implements that have helped farmers
make more money, and many great
HOUSEHOLD and kitchen furnishings
gas, wood and coal ranges, which
of overworked women of our farms
He has made 1t possible for people
to look at all these things before
purchasing, and when introducing
has placed his personal guarantee
behind them, agreeing to take them
back II not entirely satisfactorily,
If these people had waited for the
catalogue houses to have presented
and sold these improved articles to
them on credit, giving them an OPP
portunity to try them before paying
they would still be breaking their
land with a one horse pillow and cul-
tivating with a double shovel and
stock. They would be cutting their
crab grass and wild grass with
scythes, and their grain with the old
style scythe and cradle.
A personal guarantee from a loca
merchant means great deal more
to the consumer than guarantee
from some catalog house In some fal
distant city.
This man that refer to has erect
ed one of the largest and best stor'
buildings In the city. and Is directo
In one Of the banks. which has erect
ed siy-story building. He is presi
dent OF the school board, which ha
put up one of the best high-schoo
buildings in the South. and severa
modern ward-school buildings
He is a good-roads advocate, an
\ is builder. He Is now erecting on
, of the largest garage buildings 4
that section OF the country. In ad
dition to giving employment In hi