. Some successful Americans . Shop where First Reaper was made had to be made at a furnace a considerable distance overthe mountain and the matter of transportation was a seri-ous one. In the case of the finished machines it was evenworse, for it was in the West, with its great plains andimmense grainfields, not in the East, with its uneven sur-face and small farms, that the reaper could be used to thebest advantage. Therefore the machines had to be drawnby teams to the canal at Scottsville, from there floated toRichmond, then sent to the coast, and from there sent CYRUS HALL McCORMICK 83 on t
. Some successful Americans . Shop where First Reaper was made had to be made at a furnace a considerable distance overthe mountain and the matter of transportation was a seri-ous one. In the case of the finished machines it was evenworse, for it was in the West, with its great plains andimmense grainfields, not in the East, with its uneven sur-face and small farms, that the reaper could be used to thebest advantage. Therefore the machines had to be drawnby teams to the canal at Scottsville, from there floated toRichmond, then sent to the coast, and from there sent CYRUS HALL McCORMICK 83 on the ocean to New Orleans, and again reshipped andsent up the Mississippi and Ohio to Cincinnati for sale. It was clear thatit was a great wasteof effort to manu-facture in Virginiaimplements to beused in the West;so young McCor-mick started fromhome on horse-back, with a littlemoney placed in. First McCormick Reaper his pocket by his father, and went to Cincinnati with theview of arranging with some firm there to build the reapersunder his supervision. Here he made a contract with a manu-facturer to buildsome reapers, giv-ing farmers orders for reapers assecurity. Later hewent to Brockport,New York, wherehe contracted witha firm to manufac-ture reapers foruse in the wheatHarvesting with Sickle in Algiers fields of western New York, the makers to pay a royalty on each machine sold. In 1846 he began the manufacture of reapers in Chicago, experience showing that to be the point most favorable alike
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