San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 22, 1881 Page: 3 of 8
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BOOM IX LOfO.HO 1 1VE.
ll.!r Ofpr'lirlniMl "I'h Bunlum. and I'atbU
to Fill Orders.
The gnvrl boom J prices from
cal)biijH to lrown stone fronts lias
taken in railroad locomotives. They
liavc not only greatly mlvntioutl in price
but tiif liii!UTH are unable to Bupply
tho U;maul. The situation is nupural-
lol.id in nil our railroad history. A gen
tknnn who U very high uuthority iu
tbeo matters when questioned by ji
rcpriwiitfttivo of the New York Tele'
gram Kitl : "Tho demand for engines
is bo great that the roads which can
possibly dispone of engines second
hand no! obtain nu advance of
from$l.'Oi to $2.0()i) over tho markvt
prion for future deliveries on account
of tho advaatiigos gained in their immediate-
uso. Some of the largest orders
placed art) those lor the Denver and
(iran le which roail has ordered
about 1150 engines within the last six
months l"e Baldwin w.orks receiving
the greatest number of orders.
"Four cl. 8 rfof locomotives are man-
ufactured Jiere-tho eight wheel or
Amerio in type tho Mogul or six wheel
drivor tho consolidation eight wheel
dxivur and a class which is a modifica
tion of the consolidated with only one
pair of leading wheels. The cost of all
these engines has advanced 40 per cent
during tho last two years. Taking into
the estimate all these classes the aver-
age cost of a locomotivo is now from
$12000 to $1300' '. Tho price of the
heaviest and most costly locomotive
made here is about $1SO000.
"So great is the pressure that ne lo
comotive shop in tho country could
build a tingle engine if ordered now
before August of next year without in-
terfering with present orders. The
Baldwin Locomotive works of Phila-
delphia have already orders which will
even cover the entire time to March
1883. The Rogers' works at Paterson
on Friday last closed an order for 100
locomotives. Iu brief the demand for
railroad ougines is far greater than the
supply. By the way this pressure of
demand over supply in railroad opera-
tions is by no means confined to loco-
motive building. The car builders are
quito as crowded. The contractors for
steel rails are equally at their wits' end.
From October of last year to October
of this year there were orders for
about 900000 tons of steel rails; and
yet if an order were given to-day for
steel mils for 100 miles of road the
stock could not be delivered before next
July. It would be hard also for the
foreign manufacturers to fill orders be-
fore next March and the duty on their
rails would be $28 per ton. Here is
another singular thing : The manufac-
turers of railroad machines and tools
used iu various processes in the con-
struction of locomotives etc. cannot
fill their orders. Bement & Sons of
Philadelphia about the heaviest firm in
this line in the country will not be able
to deliver a single machine outside of
existing orders before 1883. Of course
this matter largely governs everything
else for if the machines cannot be had
the locomotives cannot be finished."
"To what do you mainly attribute
this pressure upon the locomotive
builders?"
"The great strain is upon account of
new roads. For instance this year
8000 miles of new roads and extensions
have been built. The Chicago Milwau-
kee & St. Paul railroad ordered 150
ngines last year."
"Has this greater demand caused
many orders to be sent abroad for loco-
motives?" "Three or four months ago an order
was given a firm in Yorkshire Eng-
land for eight locomotives as a trial.
It is supposed that they are for the
Pacific coast. The great difficulty
about buying engines abroad is the
duty. One road in this country is
ready to accept offers for 100 foreign
built engines so soon as this tariff ques-
tion is settled. It is estimated that the
average duty would be about 50 per
cent. so that the eight light built en-
gines that I have mentioned costing
about $8000 would pay a duty of near
$4000 etch. Strangely enough in all
our tariff revisions there is no provis-
ion for the locomotive. It is not in the
tariff at all and therefore the only way
out of the difficulty is the paving of
the rales on the various metals; so
much for the steel in the locomotive so
much for the brass etc Sellers abrojd
will not take the risk of furnishing lo-
comotives here because this duty is
rach an unknown quantity and buyers
will not buy in the foreign market ua-
less a price is named aud duty p till.
But even if this dillionlty were removed
tho foreign manufacturers would for
this market havo to build locomotives
after the American typo. The Ameri-
can roads will havo none other than
American engines.
Women Wauled In Wyoming.
Wyoming's want is women. "We
waut women here partially to even up
tho population aud partially to marry.
Our Territory is suffering more now for
choice styles of young aud middle-aged
women than for any thing else. We
need thorn in all departments of indus-
try where women may be employed
and also in our homes aud by our fire-
sides. There are hundreds of lonely
men in Wyoming who ure doing well
financially' and who would willingly
rush into matrimony if there were
enough matrimony to go around. It is
the saddest feature of our wide western
couutry at present.
The over-populated East where a
young man pays for ice-cream or oysters
for three pretty girls at a time ought to
contribute some of its wealth of girls to
this desolate land where there is only
one woman to five or six men and
where life is a hollow mockery.
We sometimes wish that nature had
designed us for a hired girl instead of
an editor so that we could - have been
independent. ; In this couutry a "hired
girl" is only another name for affluence
and financial stability.
Twenty-five" dollars a month and
board makes the poor cringing editor
green with envy r And yet there are
not enough girls in the country to do
half the work. " A man lives out half
his days and at last 'secures a wife only
to find the latter part his of career will
be devoted to securing a servant girl
for her.
It is tough.
Life is too brief to be trifled away in
this manner. One friend of ours who
has been reared in luxury has been
without a girl for two months and al
though he has offered all krsds of in
dncements he has been compelled to
make the beds and do the chamber
work while his wife did the washing
and cooking the meals.
Let the man who never tried it rise at
six o'clock dress five children in the
subdued light of early morning then
cook breakfast eat it and go down to n
for a couple of months and he will al
low the girl thatwill work for him the
use of his upright piano and take her
with him to the theater. Why it has
arrived at such a stage here in Laramie
that when a man askes one of his neigh-
bors if he knows of a servant girl that
he can get the mob turnes loose at him
and laughs at him till he wishes he was
dead.
It is not an uncommon occurence for
n. m r to nome west work at regular wa
trp.n two or three vears. and then as an
heiress marry a bloated capitalist and
settle down.
It is a horrible fact that unless some
thing is done to prevent the centraliza-
tion of capital among the servant girls
of Wyoming a revolution cannot be
avoided.
There is not a man within the sound
of our voice that will not admit with
fours ill Ins ves and both suspender
buttons trembling and totteringto their
very foundations tnat sucn is tne case
Bill Nye.
1 he (iraiige.
In a late address to the patrons of
Texas. Worthy State Master Ross says
"We have cause to be encouraged. The
order is on the increase in Texas and
also in many other States. We have
reported to us since -January 1 1881
forty subordinate granges revived and
five new ones in this jurisdiction with
a membership of 729. The secretary's
report for the first quarter of this year
showed an increase of about 800 over
the corresponding report of the year
1880. The increase of membership for
the second quarter in the working
granges will certainly be as great as the
first quarter; if so the increase for the
first half of the year would approximate
2300 to say nothing of the increase of
members in the revived granges."
Thk Philadelphia Nxc thinks "Nast
might employ bis pencil poking fan at
the people who get trspped by bogus
silver mines. He has lost $50000 him-
self." But you see Nast doesn't see
anything funny in it. Nev York JVt
A Colorado photographer recently
started in to be a desperado but he lost
his life the first time he tned to kill a
nin as after covering the intended vie
tim be gave the victim time to draw
and ehoot first by pauing to remark
ere he fired: 'Now look natural l-
Bos ton post.
WIT AM) WISDOM.
A night gown is nothing but a mm-
Rnrk.
The dogwood troe is known by its
bark. Kew Orleans Picayune. While
pig weed is knowu by its root.
Tue rubber clings used by the little
bovs are getting to be as daugeroua as
the gin sling handled by their daddies.
A St. Louis woman who makes box-
iug-gloves gives every pnir a tria1 on
the old mau before sending them out.
Elephants aro now quoted at $7l'(
each but most people would rather have
a $1 50 turkey even if it woi tlant quite
as long.
Will the "coming man" shut the door
after him? He will iu thisofliee or the
going .man will go out of the window.-
Loire' I Citizen .
A little boy remarked "I like grand
pa because he is such a gentlemanly
man ; he ulways tells me to help myself
to sugar."
The mon who stood in front of his
glass for two hours getting the right
color ou his mustache said he was just
dy eiug to see his girl."
Two New Yorkers got into a dispute
as to which was the leading .church in
that city and one had his arm broken
and the other got a fractured jaw.
Alexander Stephens says he never
got down below seventy-three pounds
iu his life and even at that " weight he
could bluff a tramp as well as a man
weighing 200.
A greenback with a hole in it will
be received where a silver dollar having
a hole would be refused. This is an Iowa
argument in f aVor of greenbacks.
New Orleans Picayune.
The Ohio boy is full of cute ideas.
Two of them living near Medina sent
a tramp across the fields to get a dollar
of their father and a bull . tossed him
over a fenco and turned his raven locks
to white.
Millinery jotting; "Ma" remarked
a New Haven belle yesterdy "do you
know what has become of that old
trunk-lid of grandma's? It would make
a beautiful hat for the theater with a
few feathers on it."
Two men disputed about their pow-
ers of eudurance and one said testily to
tho other : "I bet you that I can hold
my legs in boiling water longer than
you cun." "Done" said the other and
the steaming water was brought. In
went the legs No. 1 with an air of defi-
ance No. 2 with an edifyingserenity.
No. 1 began to wince No. 2 called calm-
ly for the newspaper. No. 1 began to
find it intolerable No. 2 smiled at the
humor of the paper. "In heaven's
name!" at last exclaimed No. l.exasper
ated by the heat of the water and the
coolness of his antagonist "what is your
leg made of?" "Wood" sententously
replied the other.
Important to Urocers Packers Hurkstcrs and
v the General Public.
OZONE
THE KING FORTUNE-BAKER !
A New Process for Preserv-
ing all Perishable Articles
Animal a n d vegetable
from Fermentation and Pu
trefaction Retaining thoir Odor and Flavor.
"O.OM: IMiririett nlr ucllvo ktule ol ox )ru.' Webatcr.
TMh Preservative Ik not a liiiitl pickle or any or tho o'd exploded processes but
simply unit pinelv OZoNK as produced md ujpIiol by an eutlruiy new process none
h ihe tut tei-pilo principle ot every ubstauvc t d posciscs iho power to preserve uul
lit I and vcg tuMu siiuciure Ironi decay.
There I iiol!iln;j on (tin fao of the earth llubls to decay or spoil which Ooiio tint new Pr-
rrvulive will nut iTrrvr for ull time in a nrrfcrllv iivaU and iulutulil i-uuditloii.
Tho value of Ozone as a natural preserver Inn bc n known to our abler chemists for
year but until now no meaii of producing it iu a practical Inexpensive und ttuuple
mauncr have been discovered
Mi r.-M opl. observation provo that U iuy U ;ue to m-ptle mutter or n Junto n i ms
that aVvt'l. mid l't! d upon Miiiniul and vrnMabl mpu'iuivh. Ozoii- uppllrd by the
m-ntl h lin-tliod H.'izt'H ind duciroy tlu-m -.germ utoneound IIiuh preHervtri. -tj.ur
olhVi'K In ItH'inuuti can bcM-eu ilnioteyery aiti;lo ihaii-uu bu ilioujrht of. pivn"id iy
ttiin proresH. mid evcrv vii r U wo coiuo to come- in taiv miu-U taku awuy wuli Una
and U'bt in owry wuv iho nu-riis of Uzont as a prcM-rva'ivo. We will alsopivm-rvi' live
of ditirm. any ui ticlV that is brought or cent prepaid to us ami iMurn it to the hciider
for him lo kot p mi i tent.
rii:sii mots jiu. h us beef mutton veal pork poultry gomo hVh Ac. preserved
by i his method un be idii peu to Jiuropo nubjectod to a luoNpuerio chuuges and return
to this eounlty In u tale ol peru el prenei vaiiou.
TAW can bo treated at u eon. ol'k'Mt than a dollar u thousand dozeu and bit kept in
an ordinary room hi:; months or m- re moronm) piuMirwu iu n iu mi
condition tunl Hie c'N as IVeeli and p-rl'ecla tho day lliey weio wealed aud wil hellai
Mne.tlv "choice." The advantage in pr hirving egs i readily -een ; there ar heiniom
when thev ean b- bought for H or 10 c nts a dozen and by holding them can berold lor
an advance of Irom oie to three hundred in rent one man with this method can
preserve ft'00 dozen a day.
Fit UTS may be permitted to ripen iu their native elimnte aud can bo transport tl to
ft"J ThlSuceczresscd from fruit can be held for an iudelin'tc period without fermen-
tatioi -llenee the groi.t val e of this pr.-cc lor producmg a temperance beverage cider
can ho held perfectly'-wc t for any length ol 'iuie. . . .
vegetables can be kept for an indefinite period iu their natural condition rct-rin-ing
their odor aud llavor treated iu thoorig.mil pachages at a small expeuse. All grains
Hour meal e care held iu their normal condition.
BUTTEIt alto being treated by this process will not become rancid.
le d human bodies treated before decomposition sets in can bo held in a natural
condition for weekh without puncturing the sklu or mutilating the body iu any way.
llenee the gre.it value oi Ozone to undertakers-
There is no change in the slightest iiartthmlar in the.appcarauce ol any artlclo tuui
preserved mid no traeo of any foieign or uui.aturul odor or uste.
The process is ho simple that a child can operate it as well and successfully as a man.
Inere IK BO fxpcilH ve u 'linrnuia ot iiiiii-uiiirii iin"iivui- . i
A room filled with ditlerent articles such as eggs meat flsb. etc. cau bo treu ed at
oue time without additional trouble or expense. '
1733- In fuel there is iiothln? that Ozone will not Prfwrvf. Think ol everything yU can
thatis liable to sour decay or spoil aud then remember that we guarantee tlu "zone
...in u i. iio ...iwiwi.ni rmi wa t it for nv length ol tlniw. If you will
remember this it. will save asking question as to whether Oz ue will preserve thl or
that article -U will preserve nuyihlns ami everything you can think or.
There is not a township in the.Uuit(l States iu vvMiich a live man cannoi uiaKe any
amount of money from l00l to $umiuw a year uiai no piennus. u .u r. . H.
livf man interested in cch county in H e United States in whoso hands wo cau place this
Preservative aud through him ecure the husiness wuicu every couuiy ougunopiouucu.
New Mexican Wouders.
New Mexico is perhaps the greatest
field on this continent for the study of
the inquiring student. The Cliff Houses
in the several parts of the territory
have scarce been noticed. The remark-
able group of Cliff inhabitants on
the range east of the Gallinas occupied
at a time so remote in the past that the
antiquarian and historian are unable to
venture an opinion either to tho epoch
of its occupation or to the character of
its occupantsii a monument to antiquity.
These cave dwellers were of Liliputiau
stature. A small man of the present
generation would have been a colossus
among these pygmies and to enter their
dwellings hewn in the solid rock are
compelled to crawl on all fours and once
in the chambers which honeycomb the
cliffs s 6tooping attitude must be ob-
served. The floors of these extraordi-
nary apartments are covered with the
impalpaWle dust of ages in the lower
part of which charred ears of corn
engrossed elk horns implements made
from obsidian and flint are abundant.
The bones of numerous animals are
found in amazing quantities. Frag-
ments of pottery covered with strange
devices are to be aeen on all sides.
Jfot far away from these abandoned
abodes a spring breaks forth from the
rocky flanks of the mountain of abluuh
green color which upon determination
by Mr. Moore Superintendant of the
Colorado Mining Company proved to
be a saturated solution of sulphate of
copper by eimple evaporation the wa-
ter which flows in abundance market-
able product is left which at no remote
period will be a bonanza to the proprie-
tor and discoverer Mr. Moore. Socof
ro 2Iinrr.
August
Awaits any Man: who Secures Control of OZONE in
" try 1 -l... r
any rownsnjp ox- vuuuion
A. f!. nr wen. of Marion. Ohi". has cleared -2000 in two mouths f 2 for a test puck-
age was his iiit investment . 1A . i i
Woods Brothers l.ebr.non AV rren county un-o niaue uiiw on ts i" --"- "
August and sold Jovciiiber lxl. f 2 for a test package was their lirst InveMme'it.
F K. ltaymond. on istowu Uelniou County Ohio Is clearing 2(.0U a month in
handling ami selling .Ozone ? lor s test package was inHm.
1). J) . WPhUCr CJIIlll lOUi' Ct.iWHi nuuty iuiumguu i- vv. - -
rust. -j ior a tesr. was ins ni-xi iiives'iuciii.. . .. . .
r. ll. (ii.vlord. 80 Laal!n street. Chieago.is presetving fruit tc for the commission
men of Ohicago ehnrg ng 1 l-2o per dozen lor eggs and other articles in proj oi l on.
lie is preserving 3.000 dozen eggs per day and on his buiuoss is maklug $.1100 a month
clear ft 2 for a test package was his first iuvesl.meut. . A. .u
The Cincinnati Feed Company. 4U8 West Seventh street is making 000 a month in
handling brewers' malt preserving and shipping it as feed to all parts of tho country.
Malt unprepa-ed sours in twenty-lour hours. Preserved by Ozouo it keeps nrriectly
"TVeware1 instances which we have asked the privilege of publishing. There are
scores of others. Write to an of the above parties and get the evidence direct-
Now to prove the absolute truth oi everything we have said iu thispaper wP'P
to plate In yoifr limul the means of proving for youmrU that we Imve not claimed hull "H&n
To any person who doubts any of these st tenieuts and who is Interested sufficiently U
ruak the trip we will pay al travelling and hotel expenses lor a visit to the city il wo fail
to prove any statement that wc havo made.
How to Secure a Fortune With Ozone.
A test package of Ozue containing a sufficient quantity to preserve on-th.ui nd
dozeu eggs or other articles in proportion will be sentto any applicant on receipt of J.
This package wi 1 enabl the applicant to pursue ny Hue of teBls and experiment ho de-
sires and thus satisfy himself as lo the extraordinary meri s o Ozone as a l'resei vative.
Aft r hav ing thus satisfied himself and had lime to look the Held over t o determine what
he wishes to do in the futurc-whelher to sell the article to others o- to confine it to his
ownuseoranv other line or policy which is besti suited to hm and to l.is ownh. or
countv vvewi'll enter i loan armngemcot with linn tint win make a fortuno for him
and iilve us good proiits. We will give exclusive t-wnshipor county priv eges fo the
first tCBPonsiblc aim leant who orders a tot package and des res to com. ol the busim ss
in his locality. Th mau who s.-eurtx control of O.oiie for any petiul trrrltorr wljl rnjor mo-
nopoly whirli M ill mirely rurii li liiin. ...
Jon't leta dav pass oniii you hve ordered a Test Pa-kage and if you desir to so-.
cure an exclusive privi ege we assu.e you that delay may deprive you ot it tor the
a"plicHions "on. iu lo us by scores evely mail-many by iclegrsph. "First come first
BCrVVf 'voMdornrot care to send money in sdvar.ee for th- lest package we will send it
C. O 1) . but this will put vou to the expense of charges f..r return ol money. Our cor-
resiond. nce is verv large ; we Lave sll we ean do to attend to the shipping ol ordeis aud
giv ng a t" ntion to-o..r working agents. Therefore we can not give any attention to
fetter whi lnlo not order Ozone. It you think of any article tCt you nv doub ful
about Oxon" preserving rcmembeS wo guarantee that it will preserve it no u.attt
what it is. jT-xrsroE!:
We desire to call attention to a . lass ol references which no enterprise or firm based
on anything but the soundest business succe and highest commercial merit
CU WeVfer by permission as to our integrity and to the value of the Prentiss Pre-
servative to t'e foMovviiig gentlemen : Ldwaid C. Boyce. Member Jloard of Publie
Works- K. O. Ksbclby. City Con ptroller ; Amor Smi-h. Jr.. Collector Internal Revenue;
Wulsin'I Worthing on Attorney: Martin H Jlamll and 15. K. Hopkins County
Commissioners; W. S. Cappe kr County Au-iitor; all . f Cincinnati llamilloii County.
Ohio. These gentlemen are each faini iar with the menu or our Pieservative and
know from actual observation that we have without question
The Most Valuable Article in the World.
The 2 you invest in a lest package wi'1 surely lead you tft secure a township or
county and then vour way is absolutely clear to make from 2MK) to $10000 a year.
Give your full address in every letter and seiid your letter to
PRENTISS PRESERVING CO. (Limited)
. E. Cor. Ninth & Jtace Sts. Cincinnati O.
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