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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE," SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE .4 II. S. BEHIND 4, 1922. Bingham Canyon Combination of Industrial Enterprise and Towering Slopes 111 Renewed activity of the Utah Copper company on Its holdings In Bingham canyon has again focused the sightseers attention to the worlds largest copper mine. Ths mountain of copper, it is correctly termed, presents a striking scene, with Its corrugated sides, evidence of the untiring diligence ef man, whoee genius has been directed to extracting ths metalliferous deposits. Top to shovwS model of one of the A cars to as of ths day; view of the steam and trains at work upon ths majority of ths twenty levels. Center (left sport (left right) popular up the canyon; hole gouged scores of feet Into the base of the mountain. Bottom Road construction about the workings of the mine has attained a high development Looking right) Top Little Attention Paid to Correct Construction of Stone and Soil Highways. Transportation Between U.S.and Europe Nest Serious Problem., Passenger Maintenance Now fo as Great Importance as the First Structural Methods. Difficulty Believed Jo Lie . in Finding Suitable Ma- terial By ERNEST F. AYRES. Who builds a road for fifty years that disappears in , Then changes bis identity so no one t left to eue Who covers all the traveled- - roads with filthy, oily smear? ThS bumpprov!ding, highway engineer. Probably the inspired genius who penned these pathetic lines Intended to be insulting to the highway engineers but he failed. Failed dismally. Hie He are almost complimentary. actually gives the road builder credit for construction that will stand up two whole Tar, whereas tpy taxpayer wlB tell him that two months Is nearer the truth. He doesn t need to ask about it, either. The Indignant duitA will volunteer the information if you give him half a chance. If the charges that are hurled at the highway engineer from ell sides are true, or even half reliable, it is high time that a radical change was taiade In our road work. With the entire country groaning, or cussing, under Its burden of war taxes no get of men can be allowed to waste money at such a tremendous rate. If all the funds spent during the paet three been thrown away on temyears have porary, makeshift roads, then the highway engineer must retire to the Sittrem rear and be seated. umph? These question were the bells of an Inquiry made by the Pari bureau ot Universal Service among aviation experts in France, admittedly the country where air travel hat reached Us highest stage - . nr development- - --. , Replies of these men constitute a contribution to the scientific of modern timet. This Is the last article of this series. -- m V' - the first Lets look at the facta In to pieces In place, the road does not goeven two centwo ftnonths, two years, or turies. Not all of it, that Is A large is permanent, part of the Investment Is stalled In a mud though the driver whotown does not stop hole ten miles from to consider that phase of the situation. Whan the surface (a gone the whole road is shot as far aa he la concerned and no one can blame him for hts point of view, however much we may deprecate his his trouble ha nothing to guage do with construction as a usual thing. Hie remedy Ilea in efficient maintenance, . and In that alone. In this western country one of the heaviest Items of expense is that of prop-e- r Is location, and the money spent here In the olden a permanent investment. out o'er any days, when roads were laid hill that happened to get in the way the The wae from far permanent. location eastern etatee have had to spend mil " the ilonS to Todsy a high-we- y valleys where they belong.much care aa a aa Is located railroad and the expense of this work investment, be charged should not to takes wir.yr ." v. !S-- i t.Vi j04. et - 5- ve - -t lr xf L i 1 - x . JfY - V . , wv- - .1 : t7 Vr I . K'l'- xy ipy f if, -- " ' 4 - S,: siic- - S - of 4.v. ? c X I J - MrrsvA,: MUFFLED MOTOR LATEST SCHEME Pr By JOHN OOLDSTROM. rntvereel Service. WASHINGTON, June 3 Silent flvine the roar the motor muffied. for een vears th aim of aeronautical eight engl nears, will be a fact in European aerial transportat'on this summer This is reported to the American arm air service by its foreign attaches. An other Important development in interns tlonal flying on the continentals an as-itsnt pilot for the large passenger p'a les An auxiliary pilot will greatly increase the factor of saietv In f v Not onlv will he he on hand In ing case of accident to the regular pilot, but will act as an observer to avoid such as that between Paris and Louden recently. Aside from fog, collisions in the air have occurred when pilots have been too much occupied with their Instruments and controls to keep adequate watch ahead This la believed to have been the cause of the crash ef two navst seaplanes over the Xfj. i -- yWwj -- structures also are Proper drainage Underdratna of any kind fOt permanent. outre little or no outlay for maintenance and and correctly designed culverts Once yeare. bridges will endure for many were few when a plankk a time, upon nailed together to carry water across the of the road, the only permanent leature ai the endless string of damage work suit brought against the county authoristepped ties. Every time old DobBin hi owner came through the top plank for tho price of down on the treasury Than they would Rail a tboreughbied. on a now plank, thereby setting a surefire trap for the next victim. Rights of way. clearing and grubbing guard rail, riprap qnd ornumberUs so,other and nearly Hems are permanent, all cost money. they Final1'-- , there is the surfaolng, which It most decidedly is not permanent. wears out in short order, unless the state an afford to rich enough or oounty is even this wears expensive pavement, and out in time. Most of our high ays can-is the so surfacing not afford paving, the total cost but a small percentage of funds In goodof the work Maintenance ly quantity must be provided te keep yet in the surfacing in good condition, many states and counties all bond Issues have distinctly levies tax and special must be specified that all the money nothing spent on new construction andwill Show elsa. A glance at the highways too been has tax road the ordinary that small to keep the old roads in good shape, that demand yet the taxpavers cheerfully no further funds shall ba appropriated In other words, don t for maintenance new one shingle the old barn. Build a every time It rains. f'1- - The highway ergtneer gets a chance, semetlmes. to build the new road. Does necessary any county ever feel that It te ask his advice about keepingonethatn Not same road In good repair a thousand, let it takes an infinitely that highway rratntaln to man better tpe first place. than It took to build it in have too come Our highwav problems claim fast for any one man to be able tobut at them, that he knows all about of engineer has the advantage ).est themad a careful study of having conditions. What the future will bring tell. can forth no one theThe engineer has seen all his petsomeories exploded, but he has learned local The each catastrophe thing fromacts on the principle that what supervisor in grandfather was good for the roads todav. Then he time is Food enough wonders why his roads resemble a plowed field soon after he Ims run the grader over them, and the next session of the to keep legislature is deluged with bills solons all traffic off the highways. Thaand do. esn, but they cannot do thgt. hen adjourn raise the license fees and the f that they have done well by 1 .fling TVnforiunateIv. the average highway knows little, atid cares less, about makes as cre-fu- l the earth roadof When he of construction this type a study the for light traffic as be has mads oftraf-ftc for heavy highwavs will ba the roads of this country Tha much better than they are today. it worth trouble Is that no one thinks salary to Investigate while to paw-h- ia any earth the best methods of building road end he has neither the money nor the time to finance the necessary research himself. hard-surfac- Auto Causes Movement. -- cross-couuc- v Potomac last month of the airplane motor mufrer re8mp!s expected In the Lnited States shertiv xnd wlir probably be Installed in min American planes Muffers developed during the war for purposes of secret flvtng were usuad" found to reduce too greatly the efficient af the motor, and their use did not be come general, but t Is reported that the use In apparatus to he put into generalovercome Europe this year has largely this drawback. . . L - v". r r- - sv , ' - - VlrA - - . T v Vr-'- - PASSENGER CARRYING RECORD SHATTERED Spoeltt te The Trlbuat. NEW YORK. Jurf Lack, of Knowledge of State Auto Associations Work Deplored by W. D. Rishel Engineering Scored. . . By CHARLES RICH IT, Famous Solent let! Member ef Erench Academy. It seems to me that the teohnleal preb-leof aviation have been ail more or ! realised and that the only thing now preventing the establishment of a regular service between Europe and the United States is the enormous cost of the great airplanes which would be necessary to Insure the success ot such a project. It seems to me that the great difficulty aside from this lies in the landing; the enormous weight of huge passenger-carryin- g Airplanes would naturally make this a dangerous matter. It would be hard to Lnd a material at once strong and light enough with which to build the landlrtbw gear of a heavier-than-aship capable of transporting several hundred pagsen- gars. The solution of this problem seems t me to be ths hydro-avlo- n Landing on Is naturally much less dangerths ous than landing on hard ground and the difficulties of appropriate floats weuld be less Being a scientist and not a technician, however, 1 give this suggestion In all Facts Considered. . Craft FAR18, June I. Whst i th future ef tviatlen? Will the airplane eventual) replace the train, the steamship and the automobile? It the astounding air development of the patt few year nearing it end? The nutomoblU, say expert. I now perfection It cannot be Improved. How near la the airplane to similar tri- rough-on-rldln- g. Drainage Vital Big y Cat venal Service. ivr iqn-V- for During the past wek there haa be-some agitation toward the establishment of the tourist bureau In Salt Lake City The matter was brought to the attention of W. D Rlshal, manag.r of the touring bureau of the Vtah State Automobile association jesterday and he said. I am surprised there is a single person In Salt Lake who is not aware of the fact that the Utah State Automobile association conducts a touring bureau. The tourist are. and of course they are the ones to be considered Whenever a tourist starts from anv point east or west north or south, for a crosa country tour, his local club always calls his attention to the fact there Is a hlghlj developed touring bureau at Salt Lake which will take care of hts wants The fact that twelve thousand tourists found their way Into our offke last year, all of whom were given free map and fre literature, would indicate that Salt Lake has a pretty well Known tourist bureau In connection with this I might state that Salt lake not ontv has a tourist bureau hut it has the first automobile tourlat bureau established In America H gives automoInToimallon to more anv bile tourists than other hurrau in America It Is conceded that It his the beet developed strip map aervl-- e of any bureau in America and let me add further It Is run atrtctly In the Interest of the tourists and is not dominated by any commercial organization who would detour the tourist from their natural line- of travel for commercial benefit of one town at against the interests of another. The Denver tourist bureau Is often mentioned, yet the main offic counter map used In the Denver offtca to route automobile tourist was mad and published by the Utah State Automobile Tourist bureau. "I would suggest that some of those who are talking for a tourist bureau wake up and Join the Utah State Automobile association and find out what is going on In their ow n town. If thev have not town pride enough for this, they might vlst Denver. Los Angeles. Seal tie. Portland or Ppokane and see wuat these towns think of the Salt Lake Tourist bureau. I te - The highway engineer Is a comparatively new species In this country. No one heard of him until the states began to build roads surfaced with macadam. Then the authorities picked up any young chap who looked reasonably intelligent and sent him out with a roll of blueprint and set of standard specifications to Im prove the hlghwaj. The contractor knew as little about the game aa the engineer, them they managed to build but betw-eework. some first-claWhen excessive movement of the These macadam roads were fine for throttle is needed to get response from horse-araw- n traffic and bicycles The the carburetor, the trouble may be due stones would work loose or the entire to excess play In the linkage from the steering post bottom to the carburetor Cwtlaned ea Eollewtag Fagw butterfly lever. ss vk i When the huge aeromarln flving cruiser Menrtoia ' arrived at the airport of the city of New street and the HudYork, paventv-nlnt- h son river, recently, she was greeted with Cheers from hundreds of Invited guest and thousands Of sightseers who lined the shores of the Hudson to witness the second annual official opening of the Aeromarine Alrwaja flying boat service The Mendosa" flew from Kevport. N T , a distance of approximately thlrtv can-vinminute miles In twentv-on- e en people, th largest number twenty-s- e ever taken Into the air tn the United Sstes by a commercial flying boat Many armv and navy officials Present amassment nt he ceremonies at the feat and congratulated owners et the boat upon th splendid performance on the bank- of the Hudson oiw the 'argest fleet of flvifig boats ever ssemHe-in New York tBat afternoon to the Mendoza They were. In addition the Veromarlne fourteen-rasseng- r cabin fhing boat Santa Marta three raw HS boats, Vanderbilt," and Ambassador", also one sport seaplane exp-ess- ed - Sii; PROGRESS Bilt-mo- Idaho State Official to Inaugurate few System in Highway Department. Camp Stove Derives Fuel From Portable Gas Tank Auto and Truck Gain 13 Per Cent in 1921 I the future BOISE. Idaho, June the state highway department will keet a photograihlc record ef all highway work Everything that make f,,r alditionil comfort of the motor camp tour Is being j dong in the gtate, it was announced resupplied by manufacturers eager to serve) cently at the office of D P. Olson, state the motorist with the last woicl In equip-- ) director of highways This 5 stem of menL record is entirely new In Idaho, as far One of th features being cored for is The National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, ss is its annual custom, as keeping set ef p, times of ono proiect camp cookerv Many are the funny has compiled the newest important facts of the automobile industry in the is concerned. toPhotography hat been used stories of spol'ed inedible megls prepared ueia.w of wrho. In to eamrer his lei hurrv the by Tinted States for tho vear of 1921. There figures and information have been many eara of lurnen censtrui turn, such ns po.nts six which cover in' into condensed compiled form the croups, nns ? coirtygod dry of Upw hrirtve site. progress gnu bui a the nation a secomf largest industry. Tnese tntoresting facta will bo released a complete photographic record.Mief highthe right kind of cook fie ' wceklv the BundavuTribune automobile section. in way projects beloie A small pocket stove, collapsible and Special folders have been prepared In Number of car and trucks is tho United States, 10,443,632 a gain of 13 easily operated, whlcn is fed by fuel fioni are kept the photographs of one which a recent invention over cent J920. the gas tank, per particular piece of work under construcThe salient feature claimed for this adMotor vehules produced, 1,668,830 Number cars, 1,514,000; Dumber None but pictures of this tion. dition to motor tour comfort is that it trucks. 154,530; decrease from 1920, 4 per cent. are pasted in this book, aqd forproject each gives a steady, hot flame, enabling the! I 1921 output, 12,212,063,420 Wholesale value a different book. Each Value there car and project la complete tollring to make camp by the roadside j' truck numbered a haa and title value of 11,260,000,000; gtv. picture and output, accessories parts output, ana have coffee and steak within ten Ing a description of the work shown. value of tire replacements, $542,358,420. minutes, and an entire meat in no mors Difficult of on Construct which pieces Motor vehicle manufacturing business Capital invested, $1,423,500,000; than half an hour offer a problem for tho in the Lighting may he obtained from the eost of material bought, $1,053,230, OuO; number of employees, 186,000; wages field are shown In variousengineer stages First, same tank through the e of an inexand salaries, $299,093,780. Is moved, and land before the any drt pensive double control valve with stem Tire and fuel figures Gasoline produced, 5,153,549,319 gallons; gasoline then several pictures showing the progand burner attachment, it la aaUU 'Vtilh ress of the workost various stages of the this attachment light and cooking gas consumed, 4,516,012,979 gallons; tire casing produced, 27,273,000. Job. Bridges In tho course of construcmay be used simultaneously tion are shown, to give the state office an idea of the progress being made en a STEAM CAR PERFECTED. structure The system aso offers cars. Built manufacturers expect to be able to mar- certain Fast experience with steam cars haa as equivalent gasoline-engm- e a check on contractors as to the speed shown that, while some would operate at in many respects on the lines of a gasoline ket for about 1000 Viewed externaiiv, with which the work is teing Carried on, economically, it has been d.fflcuit to car, there ts now being constructed a it i difficult to distinguish it from any for all th picture are dated. manufacture them at as low a first cost commodious steam touring car, which the ordinary gasoline ear. believe the record Highway official . ht ou I $409.-710,00- Soap Bubbles Are Aid ip Engine Efficiency Tests Every on who buys gasoline for his automobile has a direct concern in the efficiency ef engtnes, the study of which Is being assisted by soap bubbles. These are newt- - being used at th bureau tgtgndrfls in deter mining th tat of propagation ot in combustible mixtures ot flam gases. Btrangely enough, for jears there has been sought a mean whereby explosions could be studied under pressure free from complicating circumstances, but It wss lust recently pointed out at this institution that soap bubbles afford in ideal fashion just what is wanted. Con-Kta- nt great value to tho department, because on a proposed highway over unbroken ground pictures may be qiade at the time of the eurvevs. and this infordata mation. with the mathematical office, will complied from th engineer both the bridge be of Inestimable value to designer and the highway engineer. The cost of maintaining this record will he only that of deve'oplng. printing and purchasing films a th district engineer In whose territory the project la located takes all the pictures will be of Seventeen thousand miles is the a erage service car owners put their aulu mobile to In three years ft |