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Force Pumps, by F. E. Myers & Bro., Ashland, Ohio. This is a double-acting 

 force pump, simple in construction and very efficient in operation. It is adapted 

 to any depth of well, and never need freeze. The valves are easily kept tight, so as 

 to hold and force water against very great pressure, and will force it through hose 

 sixty feet from the nozzle. These pumps are also made in a form that adapts them 

 to use in drilled wells of any depth. Pumps of this character do not seem to be as 

 generally appreciated as they should be; they cost but little more than the com- 

 mon lift or vsuction pump and would often furnish adequate means of extinguiah- 

 ing fires that destroy valuable property before a fire department can get to work, 

 and would be especially useful in country places, where help can not often be had 

 in time to be of much service in an emergency of this kind. 



B. B. Bouse, IndUmapolis, makes a large display of various machines, tools and 

 fixtures in his line: 



Erriesons' Caloric Pumping Engine. This is designed mainly for the purpose 

 of pumping or elevating water from wells, cisterns or reservoirs, to upper floors or 

 tanks for domestic use. No steam is used, and it can be safely managed by any 

 one, as it is not liable to derangement. Gas is better adapted for use as fuel in it, 

 though any other kind may be used. 



Sieavi Pumps. He has a variety of these of the best makes and all capacities, 

 well adapted to the uses for which they are required. 



Driven Well Supplies and Tools. There is a good display in this line that rep- 

 resents the latest improvements. The long experience and genius of the exhibitor 

 has enabled him to overcome all the difficulties heretofore met in driving wells, 

 and to make improvements in everything pertaining to them, until he is now in 

 advance of all his competitors in this business. 



He also has adjustable stocks and dies on exhibition. These are not so clumsy 

 as many others, has no guides to carry about and look after, as the bushing can be 

 adjusted to any variation in the sizes of pipes. They work easy, and the cuttings 

 can not work in and clog or bind the dies. 



Also, a new adjustable pipe wrench, which is an improvement on this much 

 improved tool. It is made of steel in the best manner, and will hold pipes, rods, 

 or anything of this kind in a very satisfactory manner. 



Also, a great variety of specimens of light drop-forgings, neatly arranged on a 

 large card, that were handsomely executed. 



Hand Hoisting Machine, by B. F. Jones, Indianapolis. This is a remarkably 

 compact and well designed arrangement of gearing, by which heavy weights may 

 be raised by hand powej-, and is especially adapted to handling heavy stone in 

 quarries, bridge building or other similar use. The machine possesses great merit 

 but is not easily described. 



Ideal Caligraph, by H. T. Conde, Indianapolis. This is claimed to be an im- 

 proved type-writing machine which is fast coming into general use, as it furnishes 

 a means of very rapid writing that is as legible as any print, and copies as well as 

 pen work. 



