Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-24 | Page 12 | Favours Building Auto Truck Lines

FAVORS IM AUTD TRUCK UNES H. S. WooIIey Submits Suggestion to United States Officials. Minuirmi .hat ire ci.tMisIimcn ! o: auto truc-Jc transportation lins oners tlie best and cheapest method 01" timulatin.-1' mineral production in many mining districts dis-tricts of the western country, H. t. TVoolley, president of the Underwriters' Trust company and a well known mining man of Salt Lake! has embodied some of his ideas on the subject in the form of a communication which he has addressed to J. F. Caribreath, secretary of the .American Mining congress, also to the National Council of Defense, to the War Industries board and to the sood roads department of the department of ajrrieui- ture. ! In the course of his communication Mr. Woo) ley says in part: j "It certainly will be conceded by aM "who are acquainted with the possibilities j of the mining sections of the western j states that cheap transportation to new . and outlyinp mining districts will ac- , compiiso far more toward increasing the . production of sold, silver, lead and o.her j essential metals than can be accomplished by irivina: $10 per ounce as a bonus for i nw gold production or ?L.i0 per ounce ! for all new silver produced. I "Whv attempt to build a-nd maintain a i fourteen to six teen - foot wide highway. j when better results with less than one- , baif the cost can he accomplished with j two and one-half feet of well surfaced road, if the auio road is properly constructed con-structed ? "The principal part of ail material needed need-ed to build auto roads is close a; hand, the work can be done with unskilled lahor j and much of it by the farmers in the ; near-by districts between harvest and cropping. j "The materiaJs for these auto roads i would not draw upon the steel industry , for rails and railway equipment and the f construction of the road can cor. form to j conditions suitable to any public hiirh- j ay- Fifteen in cJ i es of m a ca d a m i zed track for the auto truck wheels on each: s'de of the road w; th ' a properly eon-siructed eon-siructed rise in the center as a .ccide is aJl tha t is required to make a sroou, durable auto road. '"These roads can be built inm any minins: district, according to the physical; onditions existing, at a cost of from SC'X'O to Si000 per mile. j "In what better way could ?UV!0O.O00 1 from the S.V'.OOO.Ot'O fund it !s nropo-ed to ' set aside to stimulate the production of gold and precious metals. 50 badiy needed for the present war requirements, be spent, than in providing" cheap transport a- , t:'on to the new and partially developed ; mining districts of the w est em states." j