CYRUS HALL McCORMIC.K 



view it seems to be mainly a foundry. Thou- 

 sands of tons of iron 88,000 tons, to be exact, 

 pour out of its furnaces every year and are 

 moulded into 113,000,000 castings. But from 

 another pqint of view it appears to be a carpenter 

 shop. In its yard stand as many piles of lum- 

 ber as would build a fair-sized city 60,000,- 

 000 feet of it, cut in the forests of Mississippi 

 and Missouri. And so much of this lumber is 

 being sawed, planed, and shaped in the various 

 wood-working shops that eight sawdust-fed 

 furnaces are needed to supply them with power. 

 The marvels of labor-saving machinery are 

 upon every hand, in this McCormick City. 

 The paint-tank has replaced the paint-brush. 

 Instead of painting wheels by hand, for instance, 

 ten of them are now strung on a pole, like beads 

 on a string, and soused into a bath from which 

 they come, one minute later, resplendent in 

 suits of red or blue. The labor-cost of painting 

 these ten wheels is two cents. Guard-fingers, 

 for which McCormick paid twenty-four cents 

 apiece in 1845, are now produced with a labor- 

 cost of two cents a dozen. And as for bolls, 



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