Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-05-05 | Page 30 | 10 Duplex Trucks Sold by Grady Motor Co.; Beet Growers Sugar Co. Invest $40,00000

10 DUPLEX TRUCKS SOLD BY GRADY MOTOR CO.; BEET GROWERS SUGAR CO, INVEST $40,000 00 LLLI LlLiULXLULU umiiMiari - I ' - ii.ii . I ii I . The new sugar factory, nearing completion at Rlgby, Idaho, will utilize a fleet of Duplex four-wheel-drive power wagons to gather the beets from the farms. The first order was for ten trucks of SVc tons' capacity, with an option on five more. This will be Idaho's first fully motorized beet sugar factory. Sales Manager W. H. Bayers has just returned from a three weeks' sojourn at Eigby, Idaho, where he was the successful suc-cessful contestant in a big motor truck demonstration, lasting for about two weeks, and in which the powerful Duplex four-wheel drive wagon walked off with the persimmons to the tunc of $40,00 This constitutes the largest single sale of motor trucks ever recorded in the intermountain territory, and the Grady Motor company and Sales Manager Say-ers Say-ers are to be highly congratulated on their good work in advancing the day when all business concerns, big and small, will he motorized to the fullest extent. A word about the big sugar factory that the farmers of the Kigby section of Idaho, bordering tho Teton mountains, moun-tains, and lying in a snug little valley, watered by the sinuous Snake river, with many acres of fine black and sandy loam soil on which to grow beets and all other farm products in great abundance, abun-dance, will not be out of place. This company is a home concern. It is financed largely by men who will help feed the beets into its great bins; and, the profits, if any, will be utilized to build up the wealth, population and the glory of Rigby and the surrounding country. The Idaho state chemist has reported that the farming section around Kigby is ideal for beet growing, and that it is not surpassed by any other beet growing section in that state. Aside from this, the factory has an ideal location about a mile north of the thriving little city, and there will soon be a spur track from the Oregon Short Line 's main tracks to Yellowstone, built out to the factory, Director General of Railroads McAdoo having set the seal of approval upon the project, which means its earlv completion. The directors and officers of the Beet Growers' Sugar compauy are all well-known well-known local men. J. ft. Hawley is president; A. G. Goodwin and A. W. Gabby are vice presidents, and Senator George E. Hill is treasurer and general manager. The new plant is now over half-enclosed, half-enclosed, and the big beet bins and the mighty inclined dump which will accommodate ac-commodate several tracks for cars, will soon be finished. The company will invest in-vest close to $1,500,000 before the plant is ready to receive beets from the farmers farm-ers next fall. It is understood that the next su"ar plant will be the most modern mod-ern in the state, and for that matter, in the intermountain section. It will have a daily capacity of 1000 tons of beets every twenty-four hours, and there has been pledged" an acreage of about 3500 un to the present time. Sales Manager Sayers is, of course, somewhat elated over the big truck order. or-der. He tells how he got it as follows: "We went after this big order hard, but we realized that in order to get it, we would have several Missourians to show. We certainly did show them what, the fore and aft driving power of the mighty Duplex will do, both on wet and dry roads. For instance, on May 4, when the roads were a foot deep in black mud we took a capacity load of lumber, lum-ber, 3 tons, and two ordinary Stude-baker Stude-baker wagons narrow tread - each loaded with three tons, and pulled the full 9 tons out to the plant from the lumber'yard in Eigby, through nine inches of slush. The Duplex did this without once stalling or showing any signs of grief. "The facts about the Duplex four-wheel four-wheel drive truck are not generally known, but it is possible to stall the Duplex truck when it is operating on the rear drive alone, then disconnect the rear nower, hitch up to the front drive and pull the load out of the rut. "We expect to receive orders for five more trucks from this same concern as the result of our demonstration."