Williams, Sherman · Boston, Ginn & Company · leaf 91
ost of transportation to market by wagon was more than 82 SOME SUCCESSFUL AMERICANS the value of the product, during the panic of 1837 theirventure ended in disaster. Then young McCormick, withhis father and brothers, began to manufacture reapers intheir own shops on the farm. How often it happens… … 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,…
