. History of Texas; Fort Worth and the Texas northwest edition. ll AND THE TEXAS NORTHWES1 537 them together and wound the finished wire upon the reels ready forshipment, each machine having a capacity of twenty reels daily. Such was the inventing and manufacturing side of it. But, as hasbeen the case again and again in the history of machinery, a really excel-lent device may be lost to the world because sufficient aggressivenesshas not been employed in its introduction to the public. The man selectedby Mr. Glidden to show the merits of his barbwire was Mr. Henry Conservation, if no
. History of Texas; Fort Worth and the Texas northwest edition. ll AND THE TEXAS NORTHWES1 537 them together and wound the finished wire upon the reels ready forshipment, each machine having a capacity of twenty reels daily. Such was the inventing and manufacturing side of it. But, as hasbeen the case again and again in the history of machinery, a really excel-lent device may be lost to the world because sufficient aggressivenesshas not been employed in its introduction to the public. The man selectedby Mr. Glidden to show the merits of his barbwire was Mr. Henry Conservation, if not prejudice, worked against the first saleof this article, only two or three reels being sold at Rochelle, Illinois, andsome small orders coming during the following months. In the springof 1875 Mr. Sanborn and Mr. Warner both set out to introduce the wireinto the Southwestern and Western States, where its field of greatestusefulness lay. In the meantime a half interest in the DeKalb plant wastransferred to the well known wire manufacturers, Washburn and Moen. Herefords Manufacturing Company of Worcester, Massachusetts, the contract withSanborn and Warner being reaffirmed by the new partnership. In September, 1875, Mr. Sanborn made his first invasion of Texasterritory in the interest of the barb-wire industry. He soon found outthat fencing material was much needed in this great cattle country, butthe prejudice against the use of barb-wire seemed to be very a sample of the objection, one large cattle owner told Mr. Sanbornthat the barb-wire fence would never do; that the cattle would run into itand cut themselves, thus causing endless trouble from the screw worm,which invariably attacks cattle in Texas when blood is drawn. ButMr. Sanborn was proof against all such discouraging sentiments, andhe knew that once a wedge of sales entered the entire people would bein time brought over to the new fence. He had a carload of the newwire shipped to various points in the state,
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