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��driest lumber which open-air drying can fur- nish, and, besides this, they have their own pat- ented steam-drying apparatus, by which they can take out even the Uttle dampness which at- taches to all lumber dried exclusively in the open air. The coming season, a large propor- tion of the ash and pine they use in the most important parts of their goods will be over four and a part of it over five years old, and there- fore about as dry as a bone. They are now in- creasing their stock of lumber constantly and very largel}', and, before man}' months are past will have a supply of lumber, such as has never before been dreamed of by thresher build- ers. They are often asked, " Does it pay ? Do not interest, insurance and taxes make it very costly lumber b}' the time you use it ? ' They answer that it does pay, and they believe other manufacturers besides themselves would find it pays. It paj's in increased reputation for their goods, in an enlarged demand, and only this last summer the}' have found a new profit in it. As is well known, the climate in some parts of the Far West Territories is so ver}' dr}' and trying, that lumber in machinery which will stand the climate east of the Rocky ^lountains will not withstand the atmosphere there. They sold a number of machines there last year, and the unusual way in which the lumber in their goods withstood exposure there seems to have excited almost as much wonder as satisfaction. The}' repeat, '■ It does pay." It always pays to have the best thing in the market. They would say to all, they are always in market for choice lumber, and when any particularly nice ash, hickory, poplar, rock-elm, oak, or pine is for sale, write them, giving lowest cash price, delivered free on board cars at Mansfield. But it must be strictly first-class in every way, free of knots, heart, sap and checks, or if not free, will have to be measured free, as they cannot pay for or use any lumber not strictly up to standard.

As the business grew, it became evident that new and more and enlai'ged engine-shops would

��be needed. They were immediately erected. Until some one builds better ones, which, in such an enterprising land as America, will not, perhaps, be many years, The Aultman-Taylor Engine Shops Avill be not only the most com- plete, but really the model engine-shops of the country. Every process connected with turn- ing an engine out, from the bending of the boiler-plates to the painting of the finished en- gine, is here done under one roof, and Ijy a sys- tem of division of labor, aided by the newest and latest machinery, and the whole facilitated by small railroad tracks and cars, all carried on under one roof Visitors engaged in various lines of manufacture go away saying they never

���THE HOME OFFICE OF THE AULTMAN .t TAYLOR COMPANY FROM 1868 TO 1879.

saw so complete a shop, even on paper, before. It will be surprising if, with these new shops and their wonderful machinery and many con- veniences, the Company will not be able to in- crease their present reputation as the builders of the leading farm engines in the American market.

Those who have visited Mansfield have often spoken about the Company's old office — of its inconvenience, crowded condition — and won- dered how they ever carried on so large a busi- ness in such cramped and hampered-up quar- ters ; and, indeed, they have often wondered at it themselves, and now, when they have left it for new (piarters, their wonder is increased.

In 1 my ing the land for the new engine-shops, the Company also bought the large brick residence

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