Show I THREE TRUCKS on DO WORK OF I HORSES i iI I Federals Used by California California Califor Califor- nia Lumber Company Over Mile 60 Road Splendid feats o of hauling IJ by motor truck over torn shell-torn roads In lii tue war ar warzone arzone I Izone zone do not greatly reath overshadow tho the performance per per- of or motor trucks In the far I western lumber camps camp o II W. W Shuman of or orra Madera ra era Ca Gal Cal Has lias the contract for hauling frel freight ht for th the Madera Madera Ma Ma- Ia- Ia dera sugar pine mills which are located sixty miles from Modern Madera back up UT jn m the mountains This mill is 18 one of aC the largest Jar Jar- gest on the Pacific coast producing be between he- he tween OOOO and feel feet of lumber humber I owning the tile mill per da day The company operates about twenty miles of ot logging railroad with five locomotives fifteen Ti- Ti teen 10 logging donke engines and em em- employs hundred ploys ploOs between seven even and eight IT meno e ii When it 1 la hI understood that ab absolutely I everything over that Is used USel by this Immense I lumber camp from locomotives cM to provisions pro pro- visions Including men Is 15 hauled sixty miles over mountain roads roas sonic some idea of the enormity of the hauling can bo be ob ob- ob- ob tamed The lumber is sawed pawed at tin the mill then It Is la clamped together with will steel clamps clamp and sent down a n flume sixty miles to Madera where it Is finished and shipped These steel clamps clamp are I au eel back to the mills by b motor trucks 8 and used over a again aln Mr Shuman says tays O that before he Installed installed In Installed In- In stalled motor equipment to do OIS work worl It took at tho the hc beginning 0 of or trio tIle season cason from ten len to twelve 12 l teams and never Hever less hess than thai seven at any time litre or the thc year earo For lie tho past two years carM he has handled this work with three e Federal trucks but hut has added two more hi big Federals Fed Fed- because e of o Increased amount of materials ma run- necessary alO for the thc mills These trucks truck arc of or 3 ton tOIl ton capacity Such Suh Instances as this ono one show how ho the motor truc truck la is I making possible an an new development ana a general Ial broadening ot of industry It Is dOI doing work worl that neither the l railroad or 01 horses aro arc capable of handling says Arl Arii ri Savage l a e manager of or the Savage hU S lJ local dl distributors of ot Federal trucks |