Show ORE HAULING AND BAD ROADS Mexico Is Experimenting With Auto Automobile Au Automobile o mobile Freight Machines At this season of ot the year reports from the mining camps indicate the usual handicap due to poor roads and lack of facilities for freighting says saya Denver Min lIln Mining ing jag Reporter Manifestly the first re requisite requisite for tor successful freighting Is a good goodroad goodroad goodroad road This rIds fact Is recognized by no in individual or community more moro strongly than by the national government which In its paternal oversight of or the conditions ex existing existing exIsting in the Interior has provided val valuable valuable information on the subject of road building free to those who are sufficiently sufficient Interested to ask for It The greater por per portion portIon tion of such information is based on di dir direct r ct experiment and is valuable not alone for the positive directions which it gives but also for the record of unsuccessful schemes chemes which have been proposed and found wanting Undoubtedly r many con conditions annually recur which will always baffle the mountain road builder bu but there is room for improvement The second requisite for successful freighting is the means of transportation In this line the traction engine has proved its worth and has 1188 been almost almos without a competitor In suitable local localities localities ties this means of or ore haulage Is cheap rapid and of large Irge capacity and Its lIml limi limitations are not HIi a s narrow as has some sometimes sometimes sometimes times been thought The advent of the freighting automobile has produced the only competitor of ot the traction engine and The outcome of or the first experiments with these th ge machines will be watched with Interest In Durango Mex ex the first experiment with automobile over mountain roads is to be tried In the near future automobiles autom of power will be bl ased to transport ore from the mines to the th railroad Special roads are being prepared and there is no apparent reason nason why the undertaking should no not prove The The climatic conditions are arc not unfavorable and if a route free from too heavy grades can be selected there should be no difficulty difficult In freight freighting ing ore by this method The meaner meager de description of the cars car now DOW available in indicates indicates that heavy grades will be taken with the assistance o of at cables cable anchored J t the crest of the hill or other suitable stations and wound onto drums placed on the he cars What advantage If any this system s stem will have over the steam traction will be awaited with Interest by byboth byboth byboth both manufacturers and miners |