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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY ora tin Cleared Transport Bureau Ures Main Highways cAc Duchesne TitvsPOiiEAxjox WELLJECEIUE COMPANY Says Removal of Snow From Trunk Roads Is Motorists Show Preference Necessary to Growing Traffic; Results in Big Maintenance Saving. for Product Handled by TIB removal "of mow from main winter the hlghwaya during month to eliminate serloue damage to the roada and to allow text fc to continue without hindrance being urged by the Goodrich travel and transport bureau, with headquarter at . Akron, Ohio. The bureau baa recently distributed booklet giving etatisllce regarding anow removal In several of the eastern states nnd telling of the advantagee which have been derived from such action. It Is pointed out that If highways are to be in per cent efficient. It te eeaentlal that traffic be not obetruqted try enow Of course this statsment la confined to only main traveled roads. It la stated that the larger part of tonnage of all railroads is transported over highways In a part of Its course of distribution. Mall, parcel poet and expreae service Is just as Important In the winter aa tn summer. The transportation of some commodities, such as coal. Is even more Important In the winter. Hence, the necessity for a method and organisation for repair maintenance and removal at the time the road la made ready for traffic. Is seen. If enow Is not removed from a trunk highway the traffic will gradually break Ite way through when thaw begins and 111 create one or two sets of ruts or tracks, according to the booklet. The constant tracking in the same rut produces disastrous results to the road surface, making repairs difficult and expensive. A larger percentage of road Is made necessary by wtntar traffic than by summer trarflo. This Is due to neglect of highways during anow tlpie. Keeping the road free from enow allows more uniformity on the acrlon of frost end other elements and tends to neu ' ' Trstlie their effects. 'The Connecticut state report shows dur-.Ing snow cost that the total of remora) the heavy snowfall winter of 117. a slightly over ItO.tbM) on a total of 970 miles Including the equipment, the rate per mile would be about $45. t'nder normal conditions of snowfall this figure would probably not reach 1,70 per mile. xrost'Xif snow yemenra!, therefore., ! considerably less than the cost of damto the road Itself If the enow la alage lowed to remain on the surface. In Pennsylvania, during th same the cost of keeping enow from the je.r, state highwsvs. used mostly by army trucks, was from 50 to ISOS per mile, t'onslderlng that the highest figures were for the cost of keeping the state roada clear on the Allegheny mountain ridges, ft ill readily be seen . that even this amount Justified the saving that would be made In the regular maintenance coat of the mountain roads. 1 rs Organization Outlined. The control of enow removal can be vested in the state highway department, division of maintenance or repair, for those roads comprising the atato highway svsiem. The county can bo vested wdth powers that make It mandatory to remove snow from all county, food and commer- sl hlghwavs not on the state svstem. 7 lie cit-can have an organization for snow' removal and extend Its area of work to the city line on those streets or toads that connect wdth the main county or eta te highways, and should not confine cltv snow removal to the congested i . sections onlv. In Pennsylvania the state highway division of maintenance, composed of the assistant engineers, superintendents, foremen, caretakers,- labor, etc., assumes roinplete charge of tho snow removal work under the direct supervision of the deputy commissioner. Stations are established along the lines of the main highways at the larger towns where motor truck equipment with snow plow attachments, road machines, drags, shovels, etc., are located. Tho caretakers or patrolmen, who are regularly employed on the road are used as a nucleus to create tlie forces to handle the work. Fys-teof reporting are devised by telegraph and mall, depending i.pon conditions, to convey to the central office the exact statue of work at all times. This Information fa Immediately charted and made available In bulletin form. "The elimination of snowdrifts is found v - rei-on- d tele-Tdio- of vital Importance tn keeping truck roads clear. It Is essential for thorough work that a study he made aa to where drifts usually Occur and the reason therefore. There Is always a cause (or snowdrifts and If the same la removed or preventive meat, urea adopted, the drifts at the specified locations will not form. local people or county engineers can usually furnish tn formation as to these locations Snowdrifts cannot always he eliminated; therefore, (he beet method of dealing with removing snow during the period of precipitation as well as after cominer, $1245 Roadster Batteries of all kinds are pouring into the new service etstion of the Utah Electric and Motor Equipment company for recharging and repairing," according to the manager. Since we opened our service station a few weeks ago motorists have showt os through their pstronsge,- - that they clai highways have been obstructed by appreciate our efforts to provide same should be determined. Experience service that means thorough efficiency. has proven that unquestionably the beat One of tho outstanding features of Is to fight snow during tho time our service station is the complete method It te falling and not wait until It has acdrive-iserviee bv which motorists who cumulated to such a degree that the work want a battery changed, punctures rebecomes laborious Snow up to twelve Inches In depth can paired, chains put on, ete., esn get this be handled advantageously with road ma- done protected from inside, chines, end from twelve tp thirty-ei- x weather. Inches, If not too moist, can be removed Speaking about batteries, we are by motor trucks with plow attachments extremely gratified with the reception Imexcellent with results. On the less Vesta batportant roads In the extreme northern that baa been aeeorded the eectlona. tho snow Is compacted bv the tery, for which we are official distribThe materials uso of a heavy roller, five to six feet In utors in this territory. diameter and ten to twelve feet long. This used in all batteries, of course, are very rolling process however. Is not univernearly the same. Any manufacturer sally satisfactory wbers there Is considbuy the best antimony: lead oxerable motor trafflo, for reasons before can hard wood stated, i. e., due to tracking of vehicles ides, tested rubber jars and do. and the ultimate destruction of the rosd battery boxes. Most manufacturers batBut. materials alone do not make surface s teries. The secret of a good battery Plow Types Discussed. lies inside the battery itself, in the "TVhere there Is a greater depth of snow unseen construction, and therein lies The Duchesne Transportation Comtop quality mathan three feet, a large A shaped plow Vestn supremacy. The batteries Can be Is used. In Pennsvlvanla this Im'plement terials used in Vesta pany operates an Oldsmohile Economy (e thirty inches high at the nose end six and are duplicated in ptber makes, but yover feet at the back with twenty-foo- t Truck from Helper to Duchesne to lege Vesta experience, which extends Vesta and atxteen feet wide at the back, made a period of eighteen rears, and of two and one-ha- lf Venial. inch oak plank and patented improvements cannot be du'Over roads that at host art four-Inc- h by four-inc- h framing, held to- plicated. t of none with braces and drawn movable gether rgood'and Yvhl h, two-thiit- ls The three great Vesta improveby a heavy tractor. This has proven a ments in battery making are: Inde almost are the tinil, very economical and effective device. The impassible the movable braces are provided for the pur- structible isolators, impregnated mats, has a big problem in propose of permitting vehicles to pass during poro-harplates snd the use of titanicompany tho operation. Tho plow can be made um. All of these improvements are to vary In weight as the conditions of tho covered bv U. 8. basic patents and esn viding safe, dependable, year-rounenow will warrant. In order that the be used manufano other battery by transportation for passengers. That plow, wilt net, be driven in a straight line cture. on the road, tho length of hitch should Oldsmohile .Economy Truck lias the Indestructible The isolators, by be as short aa can be conveniently made. Mechanical devices are preferable In the locking the plates apart, prevent short capably met these needs- is borne out majority of cases, although If there Is a circuits of the plates. It also prevents continuous drifting In cuts, hand shovelthe plates from moving a fraction of not only in the statements of ing Is sometimes the only solution. an inch and rubbing the wooden mats. A snow plow attached to the front of but also by the fact that they made of celluloid, are isolators As the officials, motor truck has a big advantage tn being speedy and can be advantageously s material not affected by'battery acid, used to keep tho road clear while the they remain in place, keeping the snow la falling. Tho truck la run along plates apart until the' battery is enSee the one side of tho highway and hock on tirely worn out from natural causes. tho opposite aids at tha rate of four to Vesta impregnated Furthermore, six miles per hour and carries a small heavy- - mecrew of men with shovels that are used mats, while relieved of the the plates, whan the snow piles up In front of the chanical duty of separating blade, which It will sometimes do when perform a very important function. wood is of wet. the impregnated The fiber The use of a power driven rotary with a ehttnieal that positively presweeper similar to that used bv electric vents the passage of metallic lead railways to clean their tracks, or the ul through it. No ordinary wood sepof a side elevator machine fof opening virtue. up largo drifts would seem to bo a pos- arator" has this use of titanium, a Through th sibility. Owing to tho fact that there Is a greater demand each year for cleaning rare metal which is now coming into the road of snow It Is possible that some use, the lead plates are strengthened such machinery will be developed for this and stiffened. In solution in the batpurpnsa In the futuro. A number of man- tery acid, titanium has the ability to ufacturers are experimenting with this minerals and There Is every precipitate all other type of snow remover. in solutino, thereby purifying reason to believe this tho most eoonom Inal method where the snow is excepthe special purpose for which it is dethe acid nnd adding tq the efficiency tionally deep or on heavily drifted roads. of the battery." , signed. The city of Chicago has a rotary snow plow, used In conjunction with tractor. Bod Bepalrs. Connection OAKLAND DEALER HAS Their success with tha same will be a connecting Tn cases of emergency watched with Interest. , out burned may has DECIDED ADVANTAGE An Improved road wav should be rod tearing that cleared the entire width of Improvement he patched up bv removing the connectAIDS SALE OF solo as thta will reduce the tracking of ve- ing rod cap. cutting a piece endof then Though a Car Shortage Is Prevalent, hicles No one side or section of an Im- leather to the proper size rod cep to the proved highway should be allowed to sus- clamping the connecting Eharman Can Make Immediate tain all traffic, no matter what the type connecting rod Itself. of construction may be. We should preDelivery. vent vt all times water pockets to form and freeze under or alongside the road, anew from the highway bv the use of a While it is almost impossible to make thus eliminating the resultant explosions road grader, or snowr plow attached to Says Motorists Anxious to more of the spring when thaw begins. immediate delivery on most of the vathe front of a truck. It may le beconsidIn scraping and shoveling snow from economical when later work Learn Chemical Qualities rious automobiles now on the market, tho ao&d It is very desirable that tha re- ered, to scrape the enow In but one dlrec-- , moved anow, so far as possible, be piled tlonin order to reduce future drifting tho Sharman Automobile company is on the opposite side of tho road from the on the highway. It must be remembered of Lubricant in a serf advantageous position placed to a enow will cause drift prevailing direction of the wind, In order that a pile of of its ability to make d to reduce future drifting on the highway. form on its lee side, just as much as will because In tha first operations of scraping the other obstruction." The extent to which manufacturers of certain commodities, such as lubricating oils, may discuss the composition of their products with some scientific detail, in order to show their merits, has grown greatlv during the past few years, in the opinion of A. 8. Brown, assistant Bales manager of tho Utah Oil Refining company. lie declures that his company is meeting with quite marked success in explaining in this manner Vico motor ml and Simplex Ford oil to automo-bilists- . Has Met the Needs of This Coiftpany ... Four-do- or $2045 Coupe $2045 r. .It means that uuemnatio fprd tires and general media ideal excellence are steadily meeting the needs of ALL businesses which require speedy, economical, eomany the Oldsmohile Economy Truck in Our Shop SO 1 Immediate deliveries can now be made on Oakland cars. AH you must da is give us your order if you want to drive down your home street this coming week in a Sensible Six. The amount of honest material and conscientious' workmanship put into the building of an Oakland machine which can results in a hold. its own with. the more expensive cars in. both appearance and durability. e performances are the rule with Oaklands. Strength is built into them, and adaptability and beauty as well. This is the reason why the car appeals to everybody in every walk of life the farmer, the merchant and the professional man. These people have found that the Oakland will fit snugly into their daily requirements of a motor vehicle. Prices are O. B. Salt Lake This fact is significant. "one more company has joined the ranks of Oldsmohile Economy Tnick enthusiasts. It means that the valve-in-hea- d motor, intenial gear axle, big - Long-sqrvic- Sedan recently purchased their second Economy truck. d well-balanc- ed $1245 TOiomlts Worth U. E. and M. E. Co. Your New OAKLAND Is Now Waiting For You Touring Car 0 23, 1920. Buy an Oakland This Week They take great interest in lit erics of Oakland cars without delays of any kind. Manager Fred hartnn of the company is now in the east attending the Chicago automobile show and limiting the Oukland factory with a view to further perfecting trade relationships and shipping arrangements between his eomnanv and the manufacturers of Oaklands. When he returns it is expected he will have many new ideas the automobile business, regarding many of which he will use in connection with the bharman Automobile companys policies for 1920. Bales of the Oakland ear have advanced tremendously this xjear over those of last. This is due, undoubtedly, to the adaptability of the car for it it of such build as to make it desirable for either a farmer, a merchant, or a professional man, according to Mr. Hharmaa. Battery rfller. Many car owners have euffered the annoyance of trying to pour distilled water Into their storage battertee end having much of It elop over. Here is little device that makes this operatbin thv accurate and easy. Prill a hole In botcork thaf fit an appropriately siied tle. Into this hole thrust a quill or glass tube. Next drill a email hole In th nek of the. bottle Just about where It swells out Into th body. Th flow of water can be regulated by covering and uncovering this hole, which admits air to the bottle. learn- ing just what ronstitutes the difference between good oils and bad oils, ana particularly in learning why a certain lubricant may be good under some circumstances and entirely bad under others," Mr. Brown say Scientists think of a liquid such as oil as being composed of tiny drops called molecules. These molecules are held together tightly enough to give the substance consistency and yet loosely enough to permit it to flow, Just what force holds them together, is a subject much too lengthy to bo discussed in a short article. In some oils the molecules are held together much more tightly than .in others. Consequently, when the oil is put in motiou, or, in other words, is caused to flow, there is considerably more friction between the molecules where they are heid tightly together than where they are held loosely. For example, thero is a good deal more friction between the molecules of molasses than thero is between the molecules of water. In the case of oil, the more fnc tion there is between" the molecule the heavier the oil. Now, one of the big problems of lubrication is to make oils hold together closely enough to maintain a lubricating surface no matter how much external friction and heat thev have to endure, and yet have them fluid enough to keep down to the very minimum the internal friction; thnt is, the friction between the molecules. To go to the extreme in cither of these respects, is to make a poor lubricating oil. That is to say, if the oil vou put in your motor is too loosely held together it will break up when, under high speed, you create extreme heat and friction in your cylinders. On .the other hand, if the oil is too heavy, or, in other words, if tho friction he 'tween the molecules is too great! the that should be used in propelling your ear is wasted in dragging vour "vlinderg over the lubricating surface. Tho oil retards, rather than accelerates tho action of the motor. In this respect Vleo motor oils and Pimples Ford oils are markedly sup 'nor. They are made from a paraffin base oil. a fact which aids immen-el- v .in giving them eohexinmc aoiaWjtv to stand no under tcirifie heat and Their merit 1, further en friction.bv the most careful rcf.ning hanced methods, each one being prepared or n Yes, Efcs a Fa'5 TXTEVE put over the biggest deal in our history, and now offer the Motoring Public High Grade, Straight Run Gas at 29c the gas with a punch, has come to stay. Pep ftp EP, means the end of your starting troubles; it means less A carbon, it means more power and flexibility pep for every user. upEP 52 Salt Lake South State Street Bone lllh and Bannock Streets Denver 1245 Broadway in short, more comes from the house of Culco Oils; sufficient guarantee of - ffnEP A being sold at our curb, and by all Culeo Dealers throughout tha intermountain territory. is now FILL UP WITH PEP PEP station nearest you TODAY AND NOTE THE DIFFERENCE Phone Wasatch 3104 for name of j Sharman Automobile Company jit; I ULMI 776 SOUTH THIRD WEST 1 |