An Iron Post For A Wire Fence - Pictorial Broadsheet

THE AMERICAN IRON POST AND CONSTRUCTION COMPANY

Publication: Printed For The American Iron Post and Construction Company, n d (ca 1880's), New York

First edition. 11" x 8 1/2" pictorial, printed one-sheet printed on both sides. The company promotes this iron post to be both stronger and cheaper than wooden posts. The company claims the posts are economical, durable, safe, beautiful, and strong. The posts are covered with a special coating to prevent rust, fires do not affect them nor do floods carry them away, and the posts and wire do not fill up with snow banks as with ordinary fences. The posts are manufactured by The American Iron Post and Construction Company at their manufacturing plant located in Wellsville, Ohio and by special arrangement with the well-known iron firm of W. D. Wood & Company of Pittsburgh. The company further states "It is now conceded that in the great West the wire fence, for the purpose of extensive cattle ranches, for prairie farms and for railroads, is superior to all others; and a want has been long felt for a post whose strength, cheapness and durability would make this iron fence system complete, -- one which the forest and prairie fires would not burn, -- one which would do away with the expense and tedium of hole-digging, -- one that could be cheaply and quickly put up, and which would last a life-time." Faint fold creases else a near fine copy of an interesting and very scarce range item.

Inventory Number: 52092