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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SALINA, UTAH con Liis . HELD ON FIRES t News Notes It' a Privilege f A PEND OREILLE DISTRICT SCENE OF NEW HAZARD; LIST MORE FIGHTERS NOW EN- Fire Jumped Control Lines Despite The Efforts Of Thirty Fighters With a New Fire Reported On Kootenai Forest Missoula, Mont. With the advance of the flames in the Blackfoot and Kanisksu forests checked behind control lines, the battle front against forest fires was shifted Thursday to the Fend Oreille reserve In northern Idaho, where reports said a cloud of smoke hanging over the area made it impossible to trace the course of two large fires which are spreading more men were rapidly. Twenty-fiv- e Fent to supplement the seventy-fivalready battling flames in one part of the region, while forty-fivadditional fighters were rushed to reinforce 125 attempting to control the blazing wall in another section. The Pen Oieille fighting forces now number 400 men. An additional 100 fighters were recruited at Missoula and Butte to aid the crews holding the Blackfoot fires, addtional men also will be sent to the Olney district, where flames are reported to be spreading over 6000 acres. On the Kootenai forest tlie Ruby creek fire jumped control lines and scattered despite the efforts of thirty A new lightning fire also fighters. was reported on tha Kootenai e e Sends Gold To United States Mexico City. It is learned that within the last two months the Mexican government has sent about 17,000,-00pesos gold to American banks, principally in New- York, for deposit for the purpose of stabilizing Mexican exchange, which has been adverse. These shipments are in addition to. remittances for tlie payment of the external debt. It is declared outhor-itativelthat the movement of gold to the United States began before the present religious crisis and that, therefore, there is no foundation for some rumors here that the action was taken to offset a possible economic slump because cf the religious Mexico condition Is The Instrument saved. board Is stripped, headlights taken off, fenders unbolt-ed-o- r ripped off, and the engine stripped of Its carburetor, distributor head, coil and similar parts. These usually go to the stockroom. Next the aluminum moldings In the interior and on the running boards are pried off. 0 Burn Off Wood to Get the Me'fal Only occasionally y can tlie cushions be saved in (heir entirety, but there Is often scrap value in the felt, hair, moss, leather and other material. When everything of value, scrap or salvage, ha3 been cleared from the body, a few hammer blows knpek off the body bolts and rivets, and the body Is pushed nre the autos of yesteryear? becomes of the thousands of after they have ontlhed their usefulness and nre ho longer able even to creak their weary way along boulevards and country roads? Worn out and decrepit, they cannot be turned out to graze, like their equine Wheie do they go? predecessors. A good many, of course, lie rusting in back lots in the cities and in farm yards in the country, mere memories of a long-gonday of splendor. Its on unusual farm indeed nowadays that doesnt post ess one of these battered relics, tires gone, top shattered, and hood and radiator missing, exposing tlit? remains of nn ancient mohir to snow and rain. Or perhaps the motor has been removed and now serves to prov ide ample power for the corn slieller or the feed cutter. Arother favorite resting place for ancient automobiles Is the abandoned quarry. Here the element of crime enters. Only recently the draining of a deep qunrry in Illinois revealed the remains of more than fifty automobiles, which, it was maintained by insurance companies, had been burled to a watery grave hy crafty ownets plotting to collect theft insurance. WHERE e Ancient Autos Go Under the Hammer other-than-tro- Disposing of Cars Becomes a Problem This is the side of the automobile industry which hitherto has attracted little attention. It Is completely overshadowed by the speed of the assembly line at the factory, the marvels of mass production, and the personal appeal of the new sr. both on the street and In the advertising. There is a saying that what comes out of the melting pot must some day return, and the automobile proves no exception. Each jear must kglcally see the passing of more cars. The dis In a specially-constructe- d the wood and other useless material la burned away. Then the sheet steel or aluminum is put through an alligator shear or otherwise cut wrecked and burned ears Is posal of worn-ou- t, nn expanding piohlem. Slightly more than 4,300.000 ears and trucks were manufactured In the United States in 1933. Stocks on dealers hands at the beginning of 1920 were estimated to he smaller than those on hnnd In January, 1925. With exports not quite 303,000 and Imports less than 1,000, the pet gain in domestic supply was approximately 4,000,000. Yet registrations in all states last year exceeded those of 1921 by only 2,430,000. This leaves 1,500,000 vehicles to be accounted course, a very large number of used cars Is shipped out of the country; but by far the greater number Is scrapped. One automotive trade Journal estimates tlwt fully 1,000,000 ears were scrapped last yeur, but this figure may be a little high. In the country and smaller towns the Junk man buys old autos much as he does broken farm Implements. lie demolishes them In his own yard, classifies the scrap and sells It to the city dealers. The front of a city wrecking yard Is usually a largo salesroom for parts, truly a port of missing parts. Suppose sentiment or necessity compels you to drive an orphan" car such as the Ace, Carnation, Glide, Nelson, American, Thomas Flyer, Mitchell, Saxon, Elmore, Pathfinder, Scrlpps-Rooth- , or Lozier, Abbot-Petroino With Madison. Polly factory or distribution organization making or selling parts, such cars live only In the units obtainable at the wrecking yard. From time to time the owner of such a vehicle appears on the scene for a gear, pinion or cylinder head that will enable his ancient model to wheeze Jerkily through a few more painful miles. for. ) t, Py far the majority of worn-ou- t vehicles, however, go under the hammer not that of the auctioneer, but that of the scrapper and wrecker. The Iron Trade Review recently went Into great detail In describing Just what becomes of these derelicts. Every smallest unit that possesses any further utility in Its present form, the article said, is carefully salvaged for the second-han- d counter. The bulky metal finds its way to the melting pot, while glass, hair, felt and leather are saved when they still have value. Most of the larger cities, particularly New York , and Chicago, have their auto graveyards," which are veritable arsenals of "parts." Here your shiny model of yore la torn, hacked or melted limb from limb. Five years ago, more or less, it stood pride-full- y on the floor of the automobile salesroom, alluring In its fresh paint and marvelous coach work, spotless under hood and fenders, fleet of line and complete In every appointment. But now It Is through. Finish gone, fenders crumpled, upholstery soiled and ripped, lines ungainly when compared with current models. At the end of a tow line It creaks Its way to the wrecking yard. Here harsh, unsentimental hands attack it with cold chisels, hammers, and acetylene torches. The body is stripped, cut or burned loose from the frame and thrown over on its side. The radiator is removed, the universal Joints are severed, a chain Is run around the motor, a sledge frees the subframe, and the motor swings free. One less used car hangs over the new car market, but n there Is more steel, cast and scrap to burden an already glutted market. olf. er Three Kinds of Cars Go to Junk Yard ' Three classes of cars figure In the operation of these yards: the car that has been In a wreck and Is deemed beyond repair; the car that' has been through a fire, and the car that Is obsolete, or plain Junk. t How the larger and better equipped yards are operated may be glimpsed by following a car through the various departments of one of the establishments along South State row." When you first street, Chicago's "junk-autview this district from an elevated railway car, you are amazed by the magnitude of the Industry and appalled by what first appears to be a terrific waste in labor and materials. Why cant they fix up those cars and sell them whole?" yon ask yourself. And this question remains unanswered until you make a visit to one of these plants and get a better understanding of what Is going on and what Its all about. In due time the car to be dismantled comes upon the wrecking floor, generally located out of doors. Here It Is Inspected by those in charge of the body, motor, rear end, radiator, and other departments, who make one of two decisions save or scrap. As a rule any part that gives promise of profitable resale is saved, but occasionally there are already too many similar parts on hand in the stock room, and consequently good condition counts for nothing. Stockroom conditions, of course, are considered when the car Is bought from the owner, and If parts from any certain car are In good demand the price is adjusted accordingly. Very rarely Is an entire body saved. The wrecking crew, consisting generally of five men, now comes on the scene. Such a crew cun tear down four or five cars a day. If tie car Is a closed model, all glass in good worn-ou- o Phone To Show Photo of Speaker Paris. The Matin claims that it will be possible within a few months for persons telephoning not only to hear, but to see each other. Edourd Beliu, inventor of the telephotographic apparatus, and Professor Holw eck of the Radium institute, says the newspaper, after exhaustive experiments, succeeded in adapting the principle cf telephotography so as to transmit an image instantaneously and reproduce it on a phrosphorescent screen. The inventors for the first time transmitted vision in Beilins laboratory at La Malmaison in the presence of General Ferie, chief of telegraph ic service and M. Fabrey, professor The imof the physics at Sorbonne. and the were small ages transmitted distance short, but the inventors of the apparatus, according to Le Matin, declare they are perfecting a machine that will shortly be able to transmit large images over greater distances. Into convenient size for sale. Next the radiator conies off. While the lugs are being loosened and the tires made ready for removal, others of the crew cut the universal joints and loosen the spring shackles. A chain Is wrapped around the motor, the subframe freed and the motor hoisted out. The motor Is trucked to an elevator which lifts it to tlie motor room. After the tires are removed, the springs unfastened from both front and rear axle and frame, the frame Is ready either for the shear or the torch. Almost always these frames are In excellent physical condition, but for just this reason no one ever needs to replace one, and they are valueless except as scrap. Light frames are cut with the alligator shear,- - while the heavy ones get the torch. In either case, the scrap provides heavy melting steel. The propcllor shaft Is left attached to the rear axle. If the springs are not to be stocked for resale, they are thrown in with the heavy melting steel. All bolts, nuts, washers and similar small parts cans are saved. They are put up in twenty-pounto be sold for 98 cents. Spark plugs are collected and put on the counter at 5 cents each, and so on. In the motor. --department the scrap parts are carefully assorted. Rubber hose connections are thrown Into one pile. Aluminum crankcases are separated from the cast-irocj Under blocks. The bronze or brass water pumps are sorted. The babbitt metal In the bearings Is removed for Its somewhat higher scrap value. the-arm- d Systems Studied for Australia Announcing in the Australian parliament that the government proposed to send to the United States a party of Australian industrialists to study industrial methods and achievements, Premier Bruce said investigation would be made into the American system of combining great business expansion and at the same time increasing the prosperity of the wage earners, says a dispatch to the U. S. London. Motor Blocks Must Be Smashed Flat flat pieces. If a million cars were scrapped last year, as one estimate puts It, about 900,000 tons of scrap, the bulk of It Iron, was yielded. Most of the passenger cars being scrapped now range between the 1918 to 1922 models, Inclusive. It Is rare that a car earlier than 1918 makes an appearance. Those from 1918 to 1920 are usually the higher priced ones, Into which the makers npturally have built more life and durabilcars ity thnn in cheaper cars. Many of 1922. and occasionally some as young as 1924, are Junked. It Is true of almost every car, of not too ancient origin, that It has considerable potential service left In It, but the cost of rehabilitation is too high when new car prices are considered. Our last two years of prosperity have been responsible, too, for the flood of cars Into the stream flowing toward the wrecking yards. Almost everyone would rather possess a bright, mechanically perfect automobile than a used one If by any means he can afford It, And with the popularizing of the installment plan of purchase, almost everyone can at least bring Into his possession, If only temporarily, this bright, new car by making a down pajment on it of almost less actual cash than would be demanded for a used car. So he buys the new car, trusting that he will be able to continue to meet the. payments, and consequently the used car he might have purchased gets the Impetus which finally lands It, often pre maturely, lu the auto graveyard." low-price- d Utah Salt Lake City. Tourist camps throughout the stae are exceptionally well kept, according to L. H. Maje, sanitation engineer with the state board of he'alth, who has just returned from an inspection trip of sanitary conditions through southern Utah. Mr. Male left Salt Lake May 26 and returned last week, jubliant over prospects in the state. Brigham City. Following a thorough Inspection of the peach outlook situation in Utah this season, David F. Smith, chairman of the state board of agriculture and manager of the Growers exchange, makes these obser vation: The quality of Utah peaches this year promises to be large and extra fine In every way. We are quite sure that the estimated yield as has been published is more than true. Salt Lake City. Utah has an opportunity to outdistance Ohio, leading cattle state In the Union, in the opinion of George D. Deyo of Urbana, Ohio, who has been importing large consignments of Jerseys into Utah this summer. Mr. Deyo makes this prediction after a study of conditions in Utah, which he says, are far more favorable to efficient dairying and dairy breeding thar are conditions in Ohio. He says: The high altitude in Utah makes for quick heart action and a faster blood flow which produces more milk. Utah produces the best alfalfa hay known. Roosevelt Second crop alfalfa seed is rapidly going into the burr, and this fact in pleasing the farmers, because cutting the first crop and making seed out of the second crop is rather new in the Uintah basin. It is too early to make comparisons with last year, but present indications seem favorable. Salt Lake 'City. An unusual development came to the hog market Thursday v hen three carloads of hogs were sold on the market at the Salt Lake union stockyards for $1 75 higher than the top price for the day at Omaha. This lot, all from the corn belt, were sold to a coast packing company through a lodal commission company for $14 75 a hundredweight. One mixed car was sold at $14 top with tlie over prime heavies in this lot going for $12. Richmond. Though crops yet unharvested throughout the state are badly in need of rain, weather of the past week has been exceedingly favorable for harvesting in those sections where it has already stahed, according to the crops and range report issued Wednesday at the local weather bureau office. Livestock on the higher ranges is reported doing well, though pastures in the lowlands, and particularly in the vicinity of Richmond, are in need of rain. Salt Lake City. Utah sheep flocks contributed their share of the increase of $14,794,000 pounds of wool in the 1926 clip over that of the preceding year it is shown in a wool report issued Thursday by the U. S. department of agriculture through the office of George A. Scott, regional livestock statistician. The 1926 wool clip for Utah amounted to 20,322,000 lbs, compared with 18,040,00 lbs. last year, and 16,884,000 lbs. in 1924. The clip for the whole country is figured by the department at 269,054,000 pounds, compared with a 1925 clip of 254,260,-00pounds, and a 1924 clip of 242,405,-00r The average, pounds. for the United States is 0 0 five-yea- n Inclusion of all low steel parts In scrap for eastern Pennsylvania furnaces has been of sufficient volume to compel melters to watch their purchases, and considerable attention is being given to the rising tide of automobile scrap. Most foundries object to receiving entire motor blocks, and frequent rejections occur. The situation Is remedied by first smashing the heavy blocks Into y to Live in I ! AmeriDaily Mail from Melbourne. cans have proved, the premier, said, that high idealism and the highest commercial wisdom amount in practice to absolutely the same thing. Flames Spread To Glacier Park Missbula, Mont. Racing before a strong wind, the conflagration which leaped the control lines in the Black-fee- t forest Tuesday was unofficially reported Wednesday to have spread Into Glacier park at five different points. The report said the flames were scattered over 5000 acres. were being rushed to aid the crews fighting the flames in the Kaniksu, which are reported to be burning out of control over 60,000 acres. Half a dozen supervisors from other districts were detailed to aid in the batle against the flames in the Kanisku Wednesday, district forestry headquarters announced. California Town Has Fire Loss Marysville, Cahf. Three buildings were destroyed by fire here Wednesday. The fire was brought under control only after virtually the entire business district had been threatened. Loss was estimated at between $350,-00- 0 and $400,000. The blaze started tack-stagin the National Theatre building, and later spread to the Elks temple, a five-sorstructure, and to the building occupied by Lipp & Sullivan, undertakers. The cause of tha tire has not been determined e y 1919-192- and for Utah 230.983.000 pounds, 16.732.000 pounds. is Price. H. S. Kerr, assistant chief engineer of the state road commission and Engineer J. S. Young of the United States bureau of public roads completed an inspection of the survey federal made on the Castlegate-Nolaaid project, and left for Salt Lake City recently. Moab. casing will be run in the John H. Shafer No. 1 well on Oil Refining-Midwethe Utah Southern-UtaExploration companies site on the Shafer dome, located about seven miles southwest of the Frank H. Shafer No. 1 discovery well on the Cane Creek dome. The pipe will bo set in a lime shale at 1735 feet. n Ten-inc- h h st Salt Lake City. Information was field Tuesday in the federal court for seizure and condemnation of 120 cases of canned blackberries, said to be la the possession ot local a wholesale grocery. It is charged that the food is unfit for human consumption, being adulterated and decomposed in part, and, under the pure food and drug act, condemnation is asked. The blackberries are said to have been shipped here from Chehalis, Wash., about April 12 of this year by the Pacific American Fisheries company. Duchesne. There is going to be good fishing some day in the Uinta river and in Ashley and Brush creeks. Eastern brook trout In great quantities have been planted during the past few days fro mthe state hatchery at White Rocks. In some cases the fry had to be transported across the Uinta range qf mountains at the head of Lake Forn and Uinta rivers by pack horses, reaching an elevation of 10,500 feet. The planting was done by Jack Tingey, chief deputy state fish and game commissioner, and Warden Lea Burnham. |