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For the record, it is worth mentioning that the Remington Museum archive room at Ilion, New York, has fortunately retained a single sample of the Model 1902 Salvadoran contract in near new condition, the only one known to the author in such condition. Though production numbers of the El Salvador contract Model 1902 were less than half the total of the larger quantities of the Mexican contract of Model 1897 rifles, the reason so few have appeared on the surplus market is due to many having been discarded by the Salvadoran government sometime after 1934. During this time, a large, anti-government revolt was in progress which saw some 10,000 to 30,000 peasants and revolutionaries massacred in an event known as the La Matanza. Many of the anti-government factions used obsolete military rifles and machetes during their struggle, and it was reported that thousands of their weapons were dumped in the Gulf of Fonseca following the government’s victory. No doubt many rolling block Rifles were among them.