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Show IN THE FAR WEST. How FrolKhlcM Kiit tho-VhUI8 Weight anil Quality Unlmimlroil. A. innn tit one of the hotels the other .night told nn interesting story of how the freighter; of the far west used to supply themselves with whisky, says the JLouisvjjlo Courier-Journal, lie' said that some years ago when all freight wns hauls, in wagons, he Imp-pened Imp-pened to mnke a trip of several hundred hun-dred miles with a train of wagons carrying car-rying merchandise to remote stations. Ncnr.ly every wagon contained one or more "barrels of whisky. 'The that night out I noticed," said he, "great activity around tho whisky barrels',1. The wagons each had n hatchet. and a gimlet. They would knock up a hoop,. bore a liqle, draw all the whisky they wanted, then put about an much fine gravel in the barrel ia they had drawn out whisky, drive a plug in the hole and put the hoop back in plac. "I 'learned afterward that the barrels bar-rels were weighed and the whU-ky tested before it wa turned over to the freighters, and that when it arrived at its destination it was again weighed nnd tested. Tho gnnel supplied the weight pnd bulk and the quantity remained re-mained the same, and this is why it was used instead of water to supply the place of what had been taken out." |
