| Show HAULING ORE BY TRACTORS A dispatch from bishop california says at the wild rose antimony mine six moreland auto trucks are carrying two and one fourth tons each trip in transporting the ore to the station at trona to the end of economy and to more readily fill the urgent orders for their product the mine has placed in operation in addition to the auto trucks two renard auto trains capable of hauling from thirteen and one half to twenty five tons per trainload over desert and the mountain ranges these trains have been successfully operated between trona and a point half way to the mines where large ore bins have been built twenty five tons per train have been carried over this part of tile the road last week one of the trains made a complete trip to tile the mine carrying thirteen and one halt half tons this new auto train or tractor consists of a gasoline tractor with a series of trailers all connected to the engine by a flex flexible iDle shaft the engine striking a bad piece of road where the wheels block or turn the power is transmitted by the flexible shaft to the trailers and the trailers push the engine out of oc the mud or sand to more solid ground fast time is made the method of mining at the wild rose is that of quarrying antimony ore being found all through the hill in lenses it is hand sorted and the 50 per cent ore brings about per ton the mine is situated forty five miles from the railroad shipping I 1 point the autos make a round trip each day at the mine in de death ath daliey valley auto trucks make the daily trip hauling ore to station the ore is in the neighborhood of 30 grade lead and silver the slow and expensive ten and twenty mule team freighting of a few years ago is rapidly disappearing where auto trucks and tractors can be used |
