Show ore hauling problems solved contributed 1 I owing to the high price of metals min ing compass companies have been facing a serious I 1 problem blem in in getting their ores to ane amel and various methods of transportation have been tried in a good many cases when the roads were dry and hard almost any system would do the work but when it rained or snowed traction was a serious problem the hauling of the cardiff ore down big cottonwood canyon utah has been the downfall of most equipment during the stormy season but within the past two months banks brothers with two jeffery quad trucks have been running day and night through rainstorms brainstorms rain storms and snowstorms snow storms and find that the quads will go at all times each truck uses three sets of drives day and night each driver making his round trip in eight hours the fact that the quads were not put into use until the fall storms commenced and the roads were not in the t best condition makes the showing of these trucks more wonderful as it demonstrates their remarkable ability to stand thard hard work banks brothers say that the trucks are running as well at this time as they did when first put on and that they are perfectly satisfied with them in every way they can go practically anywhere with their loads the reason banks brothers are so well satisfied with their quads is that recently when the roads from the ore bins to the mines were slippery with ice and the up freight was congested they went to the mine with both quads with pounds on one and pounds on the other without any trouble while this was a hard trip on oil the quads they proved what they could do as greens hill is a 23 per cent grade and a quarter of a mile in length and tar baby hill is a 29 per cent grade these trucks carry an average of two tons on each up trip of supplies for the cardiff reeds peak price big cottonwood consolidated and american copper properties when the roads are good the trucks handle a five ton trailer bringing down seven tons to the trip the utah nevada mining milling filling company with its quad and trailer has made three trips with from four and a half to five ton loads in the past six weeks from salt isalt lake city through tooele thoele over lookout look out pass and across fish spring flats fiats into eastern nevada a distant of miles this is a trip no one thought a motor truck could make but the quad showed what wha t it could do by pulling a trailer with its load ralph langford who is in charge of this truck said that he has helped all kinds of cars across fish springs flats by giving them a tow and at one time he towed a five ton rear driven truck a distance of five miles but mr langford says that the fun was at the mine when he used the quad to go up on the side of the mountain to drag down logs for the mill succeeding in doing as much in one day as four men and eight horses could have done in a week in fact he said to the jeffery distributing company salt sait lake agents for the quads 1 I have been in all kind of places with this truck and places you would have thought it impossible to go but now I 1 dont hesitate to go anywhere and at present I 1 am getting ready to start in this storm for nevada across fish flats with a load on the truck and trailer since R W brown demonstrated what lie he could do with trucks in hauling ore from dugway to faust utah his company the mines abines development company has purchased a jeffery quad and a three ton los angeles trailer the western utah copper company has also purchased similar equipment for use in deep creek district quite a number of mining companies are investigating quad trucks and several persons after investigating what banks brothers are doing are bidding on contracts for ore hauling and freight as they are convinced that the quad trucks will do the work the year round |