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Clark, Plant & Norrs
| Name | Clark, Plant & Norrs |
| Ortssitz | Saint Louis (Missouri) |
| Straße | North Main Street 14 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Machinenfabrik |
| Anmerkungen | Lagerhäuser in der No. 14 Main Street und ein weiteres in der 203 Fourth street und 218 Broadway; die Fabrik ist an der Ecke Main und Biddle streets. Hersteller, Groß- und Einzelhändler von landwirtschaftlichen Maschinen und Geräten in endloser Vielfalt. |
| Quellenangaben | [Taylor/Crooks: Sketch book of St. Louis (1858) 241] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1845 |
Gründung |
| Produkt |
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Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| landwirtschaftliche Geräte |
1858 |
[Taylor/Crooks] |
1858 |
[Taylor/Crooks] |
wie Forken,, Rechen, Sicheln |
| landwirtschaftliche Maschinen |
1858 |
[Taylor/Crooks] |
1858 |
[Taylor/Crooks] |
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| ZEIT | 1858 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | One of the most interesting places in St. Louis to spend an hour profitably is the Agricultural Factory, Warehouse and Seed Store of Clark, Plant & Norris. They have a store - the principal one - at No. 14 Main street, and another at Nos. 203 Fourth street and 218 Broadway; and their Factory is situated at the corner of Main and Biddle streets. This house commenced business in the year 1845, for the purpose of furnishing to the Western farmer all the necessary implements and machinery for the easy and successful pursuit of his business. Such a house was needed to keep pace with the increased number engaged in agricultural pursuits; and as a natural consequence their business has grown with the agricultural interests of the West, until from the beginning of only one store, they have increased to two, and established a Factory for the manufacture of many kinds of agricultural machinery, giving employment to a large number of men in their several capacities of salesmen, book-keepers, clerks, mechanics and laborers, and investing a large capital, establishing the fact that they may truly be considered one of the principal houses of the city. We visited this house for the purpose of getting some items and data from which to form a sketch. We were shown some of the machinery of their own manufacture, the most important of which was Selby's Wheat Drill and Broad-Cast Seed Sower, a hand Hay Press, Moffett's Thresher and Cleaner, and Page's and Childs' Portable Circular Saw Mills - the latter is equally adapted to either horse, steam or water-power, having two saws so arranged that logs of any size can be sawed in quantity from 1200 to 10,000 feet a day. Our attention was next arrested by the great variety of Plows adapted to all modes of culture and calculated for every variety of soil found in this section of country; conspicuous among which is the celebrated steel Eagle, manufactured by machinery, each part so adjusted that in case of repair any part can be furnished, with the assurance that such part will be certain to fit, and besides, insuring uniform operation in each size or pattern of Plow. We next noticed the Harrows, Horge Hoes, Cultivators and Rollers, among other tools for cultivating the ground, which class of implements was most ample and complete, judiciously adapted to the saving of labor and the increase in yield of crops - forming a class of tools of the greatest use and value to the agriculturist. The assortment of harvesting tools and machinery was complete, presenting to view Mowers, Reapers (single and combined, with and without self-rakers), Horse Rakes, Rakes, Forks, Scythes, &c., &c. Then the assortment of miscellaneous tools and machinery was perfectly bewildering, surpassing our limits to describe; we shall content ourselves by only enumerating some of the most conspicuous and useful, namely - Cider Mills and Presses; Corn and Cob Crushers and Grinders; Portable Flour and Corn Burr Stone Mills; Garden, Horticultural, Haying, Harvesting, Hydraulic, and Mechanical Implements and Tools; Seed Sowers; Corn Planters; Hay and Straw Cutters; Ox Yokes; Bow Pins; Apple Parers; Cattle Ties, &c., &c. In fact we never beforehad an idea of the extent to which the ingenuity of man had exerted itself in the invention and production of labor-saving machines. Farmers visiting the city for their supplies should not fail to look over this establishment, where they will find a depot for the supply of a large portion of their wants. In addition to which, this house does a large business in Seeds. - comprising Garden, Grass, Flower, and every other kind which the wants of the country demand. This department is unsurpassed, having an enviable reputation for furnishing reliable sorts, as to freshness and purity - having, beside their large retail trade, an extensive wholesale trade with country merchants - their facilities being such as to enable them to put up garden seeds in papers for the country trade in a mannner to compete with Eastern garden prices. We would respectfully recommend to the farmers throughout the west, as well as country merchants, when they wish to procure a supply of seeds, or obtain any agricultural implements, to call and examine the stock of Messrs. Clark, Plant & Norris before closing bargains elsewhere; they will be found to be courteous and reliable men and worthy of patronage. |
| QUELLE | [Taylor/Crooks: Sketch book of St. Louis (1858) 242] |
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