PUBLISHER'S NOTES. 



THEY FENCE THE WORLD. 

 The Page Woven Wire Fence Co., Ad- 

 rian, Mich., sends out the following remark- 

 able statement regarding its business for 

 the year ending August 31st, 1901 : 



Another fence season has come and 

 gone, and it 'has been a most wonderful 

 one for us. It began in November, 1900, 

 and there has been no let up since. 



We had anticipated something of an 

 increase of orders over any previous sea- 

 son, and prepared ourselves for it as 

 best we could by increasing our weaving 

 capacity, employing more men, and put- 

 ting every loom at work, both day and 

 night; but this 'did not suffice. All 

 through the season great piles of orders 

 have loomed up ahead of us, and it was 

 not until recently that we were Sble to 

 catch up. 



At one time during the spring we were 

 short over 1,400 miles of fencing, and 

 even though we were weaving a great 

 many miles every day, still the orders 

 came so fast that we could not keep pace 

 with them. 



In the spring of 1900 the Lake Shore 

 & Michigan Southern railway shops, just 

 opposite our factory, were shut down and 

 abandoned by that company. Last Spring 

 we took a lease of them and went to 

 work mantling them with power, ma- 

 chinery and looms for building Page 

 Fences. 



With this greatly improved capacity of 

 our Adrian plant, and the many new 

 looms set up in our Monessen mills, we 

 believe that hereafter we shall be able 

 to fill orders promptly. 



In all our history, we never before 

 were obliged to run our looms both night 

 and day in July and August in order to 

 supply the demand ; but this year we 

 can not see how our men or looms will 

 get a rest. 



It seems as though every farmer or 

 stockman who had ever bought a roll of 

 our fencing, wanted more this year ; also 

 that every one who had not used it, want- 

 ed to try it. 



No better evidence than this of the grow- 

 ing sense of American farmers and busi- 

 ness men, as to the improvement of their 

 country homes, has ever been shown. 

 Page fences are real luxuries. They are 

 the best fences made, and while they cost 

 a trifle more than almost any other style 

 of woven wire fence in use in this country, 

 they are the cheapest in the long run. But 

 American people, and especially American 

 farmers, have long made a practice of tem- 

 porizing in the matter of fences, as well 

 as in other things. They have been in- 



clined to buy or build anything that would 

 answer for the time being, or for 

 the present year, only so it was cheap, 

 and to take the chance of replac- 

 ing it when necessary. Our people are 

 now looking farther, ahead. They real- 

 ize that the best is the cheapest, and this 

 is why the Page Fence Company has been 

 compelled to double and quadruple the size 

 of its plant, and to run its mills day and 

 night. This is why these people have been 

 left 1,400 miles behind their orders, in the 

 busy spring season. Think of a single fac- 

 tory having orders for wire fence enough to 

 reach from New York to Omaha, to say 

 nothing of having filled in the meantime 

 orders for enough fence to reach from New 

 York to San Francisco and back again. 

 This is what the Page people have been 

 doing. 



Think of the wonderful improvement that 

 has been made in the country at large by 

 the buying and putting up of thousands of 

 miles of fence, which the Page people have 

 made and sold during the past year. Think 

 of the saving in the value of live stock 

 that would have been killed or injured by 

 being torn on barbed wire fences. Think of 

 the saving of stock that would have es- 

 caped through temporary, cheap fences and 

 have been lost. 



Another phase of this subject and one 

 which will appeal more directly to Re- 

 creation readers, is the fact that more than 

 1,000 miles of this Page fence has 

 been used for enclosing game preserves and 

 zoological parks for preserving and propa- 

 gating American wild animals. Over 

 1,000 miles of this fence have been 

 used for enclosing poultry farms and ken- 

 .nel grounds, in order that domestic poultry 

 and dogs may be made more comfortable, 

 and in order that their breeding and propa- 

 gating may be made more profitable. 



Verily, the American people are progres- 

 sing, and the Page Fence people have had 

 a big hand in the progress. They have 

 done more to educate the people in fencing 

 and made more original research in woven 

 wire fencing and its requirements than all 

 other fence companies combined. Dr. Rey- 

 nolds their advertising manager, tells me 

 the Page Fence Co. has paid for advertising 

 its name over one thousand million times 

 within the last 10 years. 



THE SOO HUNTING GROUNDS. 

 W. R. Callaway, G. P. A. of the Soo 

 Line, Minneapolis, Minn., has issued a most 

 novel and beautiful book entitled "A Hunt- 

 ing Trip," which describes the hunting 

 grounds reached by the Soo Line and con- 

 nections in upper Michigan, Wisconsin, 



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