Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-03-09 | Page 46 | Federal Trucks Solve Fuel Problem

FEDERAL TRUCKS 801 FMOBlfM. "What the motor truck Is doing to alleviate alle-viate the coal situation Is Illustrated by the case of the Dixie Bee Line Coal company, com-pany, Morton's Gap,- Ky., which, through use of one motor truck, has been enabled to supnlv the nation with li.ioO tons ot oal which otherwise never would tiaxe left the mine,, according to a letter to the Savage Motor Truck company, written writ-ten by G. E. Henry, secretary of the mining company," says Manager Savage of the Savage Motor company, Federal distributors. "This truck hag been our salvation In the coal business," says Mr. Henry in his letter. He adds: "The fuel administration administra-tion ordered the railroads not to furnish cars to 'wagon mines' as the mines using teams and wagons for haulage from the mine to the car are called. As we were a wagon mino, we would have been compelled com-pelled to close down, as other wagon mines, If It were not for the fact that we were able to get a Federal truck In time. "We haul In this Federal fifty tons a j day over"a mile of common dirt road, and i are able to do the work of hauling as ' economically as the big mines." Mr. Henry states that his company saves $334.26 a month on haulage, the figure being arrived at by comparing the i costs of their present truck haulage with I that of team and wagon haulage, j Another mining firm, Browning, Med-I Med-I lock & O'Briant, is operating a Federal truck and is loading on the same spur j as the Dixie Eee Line company. In event i of true trouble with the trucks of either j mine, the other truck is thrown into the j temporary haulage gap.