Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-25 | Page 37 | Gates Tires Pile up Amazing Mileage

GATES TIS PILE UP IfZiniEtGE Five Half-soles Score a Total of 95,000 Land Leagues. . i Like an old truck horse that has outlived out-lived its usefulness and has been retired re-tired to a life of tall grass and ease, five automobile tires today arc making a tour of the United States by rail. They- have retired after livii.; a fast but useful life, and have been signed up fur the exhibit, circuit. Henceforth their only job will be to attend automotive shows. Between seasons sea-sons they will rest, literally on their laurels, in the windows of dealers in different ports of America. This quintet of Gates Ilalf-Rolo tires left actual service after hanging up a total mileage record of !)5,0U, or an average of' 19,000 miles. The best individual in-dividual record was 23,000 miles, made on one of the trucks of the Roderick Hardware company of Dallas, Texas. This star tire traveled under conditions condi-tions as severe as would have been encountered en-countered on the. wheel of a racing car. None of the battered veterans ever was punctured. , One crossed the continent, holding the same air when it reached San Diego, Cal, Hint it had swallowed before be-fore leaving lloboken, N. .T. After touring southern California any parts of Arizona, another member of the record-breaking company journeyed into Yosemitc valley, thence to the Mount Shasta country, Klamath lakes, (rater lake and Harrinian lodge in Oregon. . -r Another rolled from T.ewiston. Me., to the Electra oil fields of Texas, traveled over much of the Lone Star state and got as far as the Missouri spur of the Ozark mountains on its homeward journey without showing any , signs of fatigue. ' The fifth member of the caste vdnved mileage "stunts" alternately on 'paved streets and mountain trails. After six (lavs of heavy duty in Denver, it was the' regular program of this tire to s-iend Sunday climbing Lookout mountain, or 1 raversing Buck I reek ,.ino hack into the hills until the highways became flint-strewn mountain traits.