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Show TRUCKS GIVE GOOD , SEiCEMlCIP More Than One Hundred Power Wagons Are Kept j. Constantly Employed. k Volubly the best example of the inarnLtudu of tlio work in tlie building of a. cantonment and the efficiency of motor trucks ia transporting materials y . is found at (.'amp I'unston, Kan., says i the Power Wayon. This is the largest f t'iunp in America and lias ru'eominodn- W turns for r(U)i0 uren. Three thousand . freight cur loads were received and nn- i loaded at eleven Mi; warehouses in sixty ilays, an average of fifty cars a day. Five hundred workmen wore eu-gfigsd eu-gfigsd i" removing 1 he mat eriji I- from the cars and transferring them to r Vnited States Motor Truck companies No. lb (Mid .V.. The heroic work on the ' part of the'fai-.lories in turning out the r ma 1 erials, and t he rai Iraods in rushing ? the freight ears to the sidings in the j 1 en mp, was inure than matched by tlio p efficiency of the motor truck's in de- IVivering the materials to the different buildings in the it 1 St square miles of mi litarv rosorvat ion. Over -J 000 buildings were under con struction at the same time, and materials mate-rials had to be hauled in sufficient quantities to keep 10,000 carpenters and other workmen busy. Kvervthtng from the boxes of toothpicks tooth-picks for the mess ta bles to concrete mixers, electrical machinery, water mai as, boilers, bakery and laundry equipment were hauled bv the motor trucks in record time. Vorty-two ad-, ditional machines of three and five tons ' eapaci ty were rushed from the factorv to trausnort the heavv loads. . The' hauling of 27.000.000 feet of lumber in three months' time was one I of the notable achievements. Almost everv day several of the machines made trips to Manhattan, Junction I'ity, To- poka, and other points twenty to sixty i miles distant, for the purpose of briug-J briug-J in jr to the camp some much needed ma-j., ma-j., terials or to unload "stalled" freight Ji ears in order that there might be no dclav in the progress of the work. Fro-J Fro-J quentlv these trips were made at night. f Over $-1,000,000 in currency in wages C- for the workmen was hauled by the V'.' 4, machines under the heavy guard from P J&'S the banks in Junction City to the camp. When the troops began pouring in I the work of the motor trucks was di-I verted from the hauling of construction materials to transporting foodstuffs, clorhmnr, equipment and supplies for the 1 renimental depots and enmp exchanges. Mention of a few of the quantities hauled will explain the seopo of the work: 1.300,000 pounds of flour, 60.-000 60.-000 pounds of butter, 352,000 pounds of supra r, 30.7li0 cans of jam, "500,000 pounds of potatoes, 5,000,000 pounds of ice, 30,000 uniforms, huts, shoes and underwear; 150,000 cakes of soap; 50,-000 50,-000 pounds of tobaceo; 100,000 towels: 53,000 combs, ete. As might be expected the fire hazard in the city of 4000 wooden buildings is very great and even- precaution has been taken to guard against this enemv. Three davs after a combination hose and chemical wagon was installed it extinguished ex-tinguished a blaze in the center of the j spacious lumber yards which for a time threatened to destroy the entire camp. This experience caused officials to purchase pur-chase another unit, of motor fire apparatus. ap-paratus. Tt is a machine equipped with a high efficiency pump. |