PACKING AND SHIPPING 317 
one word of these requirements. Near Du 
rango, in Mexico, there lie practically all the 
parts of a large plant, not made according to 
the instructions given the man who took the 
order. In the draughting room of the shops 
which constructed the machinery, they could 
not understand why the fly wheel of the en 
gine should be made in so many sections 
adapted to be bolted together, and so they con 
structed it as if intended for shipment to Buf 
falo, and not so that a mule might carry each 
component part on his back. The entire or 
der was executed in the same manner. As a 
result the equipment they turned out is gradu 
ally resolving itself into iron oxide, at the 
railway station nearest to the mine it was de 
signed for, while the people who purchased it 
are filled with contempt for American meth 
ods and the American machinery company 
that received the business has long since 
vowed never to accept another Latin Ameri 
can commission. 
If the packing instructions read:—“Each 
case to be made of half-inch pine boards,