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Show : PACKARD TRUCK BEST If! TESTS t t i Nevada Mine Operator Gives Unstinted Praise for Service Shown. Accords Palm for Both Hauling Power and Long-j. Long-j. Lasting Qualities. E. H. Piatt of Ely, Xevada, secretary of the Nevada United Mines Leasing company, and a miuir.r; engineer iind 'i mine operator of ex, oriencc, liarj, in a signed letter to the Sims eorayeny, 173-79 Social Hall avenue, Packard distributor dis-tributor for the intermonntnin district, dis-trict, told something of how Packard trucks Tvere tried out and '"'made good" at his property. Mr. Plait, under date of September 16, writes: "It may be of interest to you to know of the performance of your Packard 6 E trucks on an ore haul from the mining camp of Ward to East Ely, Nevada. Roads Are Difficult. The road is on a ten per cent grade for the first three miles from the mine and then' fourteen miles of desert road through slightly rolling country wit ii no adverse grade exceeding six per cent. In the dry summer months the road is exceedingly dusty, but we at- temptea to Keep it 111 shape iy surfacing: sur-facing: -with gravel. For two years we exicrienced the greatest difticulty in hauling ore, and tried six types of trucks and tractors before Packard trucks "U'ere installed. Nearly HkhOuu of truck, tractor and trailer equipment was used up on this road before your trucks were tried. As a mining company, com-pany, we had givien up the idea of company com-pany ownership in the haulage equipment equip-ment ; furthermore, we had become skeptics as to accuracy of estimates and figures given by truck salesmen. "The first Packards tried wore five-ton five-ton trucks, each credited with nearly 50.000 miles of desert work, and 1, for one, thought that we were probably getting more junk on the haul. Due credit must be given to Ilol.v-rt Xichol?, the contractor who installed thse trucks, for he kept them in satisfactory satisfac-tory service spite of age. These old machines did so well that we cooperated cooper-ated with Mr. Nichols in the purchase of two new 0 E trucks, and these made ' three round trips per day to the n.in- hauling seven to eight tons per trip. Praises Efficiency. 1 Our record 011 the f i rst hundred trips made by one of these trucks . showed that it lost only three trips, in other words, its efficiency was 07 per cent. Comparing this performance with the experience the previous year when frequently we had difficulty in moving thirty tons daily with Truck and trailer equipment of nearly three hundred tons rated capacity, you can see how much the performance of the Packards meant to us. "The difficulties of operating a mine seventeen miles distant from a railroad with such spasmodic output as we first experienced, made U3 feel that it was nearly impossible to run the property. After our firt season with trucks we wentack to teams for th-winter th-winter months. Last winter, however, the Packard trucks managed to operate oper-ate with the r:lp of teams used in plowing out the snow road down the ridge that first three miles from th mine. When thee roads were K-y they also helped the trucks up the hill. "I have not at hand ti? eon data and other fr.cts relative to our op-ra- 1 tions in recenr months, for. due to low metal prices our production has be.-n irregular. My rei-ol'eetion is the brakt linines on your trucks lasted at least six weks, whereas in the preceding season brake linings on another truek had to be renewed about every third rv "RraVe dut v on the rid to? road round 'rip, prrodieallv one ealhm per mile. The 6 K I'acknrds used di.-.fih late and haub'd dglit tons w'nh an average av-erage disTjlb-V eon - ii m jd ion of icvcn trailons for The round trip. Thin means jthat '. operafed a almost one-tenth j the fuel cost of th'- other machines. ! ' ' 'A'" cannot sp'-alc too highly as to the j service given by your truekn, and I nm sin,, in e.-d.iga rion would show that there was no .-.eriom breaI;aL'f: on anv j of t Ik I'aekard tnieh.n n-.ed oil our haul. i'aekarfl transportation has enabled us to operate our mine.'' with its 10 per cent down grade Tvas severe for any truck, and trucks of other makos could not keep on the road due to burning out drive shaft bearings. Faulty lubrication was the seat of this trouble. The other trucks in question were decidedly outcla-.-.-d. The man in charge of the oMkt trucks would not line distillate, claiming that it pitted the cylinders, and on some occasions J know that these trucks consumed thirty-five gallons of gasoline on the |