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Show PACKARD TRUCKS BUILDING WEST Tho motor truck lm taken upon Itself tho building of tho inotlorn west. Its specialty seems to bo aid In tho accomplishment accom-plishment of tho great engineering foata which havo to do with tho hurnosslnj? or convoying of water. Packard motor trucks wero called Into notion on tho Great Western Powor company's com-pany's dam at B!p Meadows In tho very heart of tho Storms of California. A haul of fifty-two miles, where thoro wcr continuous con-tinuous grades of 4 unit 5 per cent for ten mlle3 at a time, ami grades of 17 lo IS per cent nt other points, did not deter the trucks. The freight was steel Birders welshing 1S00 to 2000 pounds, and generally gen-erally weighted to tho truck by heavy bass of coment. In the shadows of ML Hood and Adams In the Cascade range Packnrda havo engaged en-gaged In another huge undertaking. Tho Northwestern Klectrlc company of Portland, Port-land, Ore., had to harncsa Its power from tho White Salmon river In Washington 100 miles away. They called on tho motor mo-tor truck to help build tho big powor plant and t lion specially equipped this r-ame truck lo set. mom than 4000 polos over Into Portland. In tho mountains. It carried lengths or pipe so long that It took 1500 pounds of cement on the front half of tho truck's platform lo keep It from tipping over on tho 10 to 15 per rent grades. Tacknrd trucks havo covered 20,000 mlle3 In this mountalnoua work, whero formorly only mulos could bo used. |