Writer and engraver's picture of Graham County's progress since it s organization . d attractive boy. Georg-e McCord. Im sorry I didnt come here sooner, said Mr. George McCord, arecent but most valuable addition to our Hill City Mechanics. Mr. McCordcame to Hill City a little over a year ago, and bought the repair and black-smith shop belonging to S. Nevins. It is said that competition is the life of trade, and when a new firmenters upon a business career in a place like Hill City and holds not onlythe trade of his predecessor but adds to it so materially as has McCordin a few months time, it
Writer and engraver's picture of Graham County's progress since it s organization . d attractive boy. Georg-e McCord. Im sorry I didnt come here sooner, said Mr. George McCord, arecent but most valuable addition to our Hill City Mechanics. Mr. McCordcame to Hill City a little over a year ago, and bought the repair and black-smith shop belonging to S. Nevins. It is said that competition is the life of trade, and when a new firmenters upon a business career in a place like Hill City and holds not onlythe trade of his predecessor but adds to it so materially as has McCordin a few months time, it substantiates the theory that success is obtainedthrough the force of energy, industry and honorable dealings, and inkeeping pace with the times. People will go where they get the best ser-vice for their money and they have found Mr. McCords shop such a place. In a year he has put in improvements amounting to $700 and todayvalues his shop at $2000. Three skilled workmen are kept busy and McCord says they havenot had an idle day in the fourteen months they have been in Hill The shop is v/ell equipped with all kinds of Modern machinery forblacksmithing and repairing, having three forges, a disc grinder, triphammer and power drill with gasoline engine. (40) Mr. McCord intends to put in necessary machinery for a machineshop, also a drill press and band saw. We may attribute this mans success in a degree at least to his markedenthusiasm and in love for his chosen trade. Mr. McCord moved to Hill City in April, 1905, from Lyon lives one mile east of the city limits with his family consisting of fivesons and two daughters. Newton Wetzel, One of the most reliable and progressive business houses in Hill Citytoday, is the hardware and implement house belonging to Newton Wetzel. Reliable and progressive are excellent watchwords and denote manythings—ambition, desire to please and energy. This establishment isbuilt upon such a foundation and is bound to prosper. One thing
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