MACHINERY AND APPLIANCES. 



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In D. M. Frost, of Garden City; W. B. 

 Button, of Russell, and M. B. Tomblin of 

 Goodland, Governor Morrill selected ex- 

 cellent timber for that Board, and the re- 

 view of its work, thus far, by Secretary 

 Sutton, speaks volumes. President Potter 

 and Secretary Coburn of the State Board 

 of Agriculture were both re-elected. 



T. W. GKAHAM. 



A WESTERN MANUFACTURER. 



W. GRAHAM, President of the 

 Dubuque Turbine & R. M. Co., 

 was born at Rutland, Vermont, February 

 21, 1848; moved to Iowa with parents in 

 the spring of 1854. They settled in Clayton 

 county, Iowa, and engaged in farming 

 and saw-milliug. He was educated at the 

 country school; got the Western fever in 

 1871; went to the Kansas frontier; pre- 

 empted a quarter section of land and made 

 some improvements thereon. The ex- 

 perience of the few years following with 

 grasshoppers and fever and ague per- 

 suaded him to return to Iowa. In 1875 

 he went to work in a mill owned by an 

 uncle at Rockford, Iowa; learned to dress 

 burrs and grind. He also worked some at 

 mill- wright work, building flour bolts and 

 elevators under his uncle's directions. 

 He worked at carpenter work and mi 11- 

 wrighting until 1881, when he bought a 

 one-half interest in the Flenniken water 

 wheel. Went to Dubuque and made 



arrangements to have the wheel manu- 

 factured there and at Rockford, 111. Sold 

 wheels and mill machinery until 1886 in 

 partnership with R. B. Flenniken of 

 Colesburg, Iowa. In that year Mr. Flen- 

 niken retired and later on Mr. Frank 

 Williams, of Moline, 111., took his place in 

 the partnership. Commenced the manu- 

 facture of flouring mill machinery about 

 that time on a small scale in rented rooms 

 in Iowa Iron Works and later on in Novelty 

 Iron Works. In 1891 the business had 

 outgrown the limited facilities for manu- 

 facturing and a stock company was or- 

 ganized and the present shops of the com- 

 pany were erected. 



A WITTE PORTABLE GA.SOLINE ENGINE. 

 GASOLINE ENGINES. 



The above is a cut of a twenty- five 

 horse power portable gasoline engine, re- 

 cently shipped to Southern California by 

 the Witte Iron Works Company, of Kan- 

 sas City, manufacturers of the Witte gas 

 and gasoline engines. In that country 

 where water is scarce gasoline engines are 

 the popular power and the county to 

 which this one is shipped alone has 1,600 

 in use. The many advantages the porta- 

 ble gasoline engine possesses are readily 

 perceived. No water to haul, fuel for a 

 week's run easily carried, and no danger 

 from flying sparks. For irrigating, the 

 pump is placed on the trucks with engine, 

 thus making a compact outfit very easily 

 handled. Every farm and ranch of any 

 size should have some such power for 

 grinding feed, pumping water fo stock, 

 and especially in the West for irrigating. 

 The Witte Iron Works Company make 

 these portable engines in sizes from one 

 and one- half to fifty horse power, and, 

 while they make them for sale, would be 

 pleased to correspond with parties who, 

 if unable to purchase an entire plant, 



