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Show HIGHWAY BUILDING ' MADE EASY BY BIG MOTORS Garford Road Machine It : a Model of Power and Efficiency. If there 1 any on unit In the big Una of Garford motor trucks, ' In which C. A. Quigley, sales manager for that agency in Salt Lake, la more Tltally Interested than In th other product of th company. It I th new Garford road builder. Thla 4a . because th Garford road builder. It I aald. I an Important factor In the tusking of good road a, and Mr. Quigley Quig-ley la on of th city' beat known food road advocates. In a statement eterday. Mr. Qnhrley emphasised the necessity of using the moat suitable equipment Tailable If roads are to be con-' con-' structed nd maintained at a minimum mini-mum cost Just at thla time road commissioner all over th country ' r meeting with contractors and glTtnc special attention to theOTer- hauling and the purchaslug of new equipment for road work, during th current year. "The taxpayer rarely appreciates." aid Mr. Quigley. "what an Important Influence the use of th most sult-- sult-- able equipment ha upon th general cost of the road work. Neyertheleea. with labor wage mounting higher and higher and workmen becoming more and more difficult to obtain, the equipment situation 1 one which ahould receive the careful attention ' of every road builder In the United States. "Only the other day I noticed aome Interesting figures showing tha in-' in-' crease In cost of Eastern road work during tha last few years. Kor example: ex-ample: In 1905 gravel waa generally quoted at about 11 cents per cubic yard: today. It Is about 30 cents, at the pit In 1905, ordinary labor waa available at from fl.TS to $2 It day, and a man with a team could b obtained ob-tained for approximately 14. Today, common labor costs from ,2.26 to 3, and the man with a team get from 6 to t. "Th modern road builder, however, overcome this Increased cost to a large extent It aot only does th work of several team and men, but a groat deal more actual work 1 accomplished ac-complished In much less time than bv tha old method of road construction. construc-tion. Ar an illustration of th point I mad, the new Garford road builder la especially designed for the beat type of road work at a minimum coat la other words. It waa constructed to answer all requirement of road building build-ing conditions as they exlat today. Tha shortage In manual labor Is being be-ing counterbalanced by tha mora efficient ef-ficient and more economical mechanical mechan-ical process." |