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Show i INTERESTING WORK OF REPUBLIC TRUCK - 4 " & V J ' - . C ' 5". Load of sheep skins totaling 3800 pounds on iy2-ton Republic truck recently purchased by the J. W. Siuuuicihays & Sons company from the Randall-Republic company. Hntering a field of activity which is unique in this section of the country at least, the Republic truck, which the J. YV. Summerhays .t Sons company bought last week from the Randall-Republic company, has already denmnst rated unusual un-usual efficicni-y and adaptability to exec ex-ec it ion a 1 eond i tin us. This truck is in be usrd in hauling sheep r-lts In a pullery b.'-afed at Miltr.n, ab-.tit twnly-eighf. r.iil-s wt nf S;.it Lake. :ind will niso convey wr.r, !;.; i Salt I.nk". I! may bn rf int.T.t to ob-I ob-I servo that th- pulb-ry npernt'-d by the j J. YV. SummerVuiys Sns company is the only pkmf of tine sort in th intrr-mountain intrr-mountain re c i n . S h ' p s k i n s a t-r . -n i -lectori f nun this t errit nry and a r.- loaded on the Republic truck ;i t Salt Lake, from which point they are, haulnd In (hp pullery pul-lery at Milton. Here a force of twctPy- five men is engaged in pulling the woM from the pelts. The hidrs, known as "fiats." are sent to tanneries and the wool is shipped to mills. An important part of the work done at the pullery (s In grading t he wool, no less than twenty-two different grudrs being turned out at the Sumnn-rhays plant. VYhfn working at full cn parity, from 12.000 to 14,000 shfep skins are handled han-dled each month, and it is expected that all the transportrtMon connected with the pulbry will be done by this one Republic Repub-lic tru.-k. T)v first If '.-if I pl.ir-rd upon this one and one-haif truk toinled ;;,Sn'j pound. Mr. Duncan, sab-sma nagep of the Kandail-Rrpublic Kandail-Rrpublic co m pa ny. staled that, alt bough he does mil recommend overloading as a rr-nular thing, all Republic trucks are n Mnunchly constructed tha.t in car-en of -mcrgeney they may be depended I upon to can-y considerable weight above capacity without injury. He nnnounfes I that l:e is able to make immediate de- I livery on practically all models ot Repub- I lie trucks. |