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fredk, I was thinking more about the saddlers located in the western towns, not the cities "back East".

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Even they had sewing machines.

As soon as a town was set up, even when the businesses were still in tents and half built wooden buildings, the newspapers had their presses, dentists had their foot-treadle drills, saloons had their ice-making machines. Do not think that just because it was the 1880s/90 they were 'backward'. In fact they were more advanced than parts of Europe. They embraced and used any technology they could

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Al speling misteaks aer all mi own werk..

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And before electricity there was water power. Nearly all industrial towns are located on waterways for a reason: the flowing water was used to power equipment used in production. I have watched a water-powered trip-hammer machine used to forge steel rifle barrels; no reason at all that the same power source couldn't be used to run any type of industrial equipment.

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