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Show BIG PNEUMATICS CONQUER TRAILS The old Apaene and Tonto trails of v M7. no are no better now than they have been in the past, bm today a motor tiurk on pneumatic tires Is making mak-ing prompt hauls over these racky defiles for a trio of ranches, totaling 7".' acres owned by the Barbour brothers, near Roosevelt. Formerly rb trip on trucks equipped with si lid tin -to Phoenix and return, involving 127 miles, required thirteen hours, but now on standard cord tires this has been cut to ten hours, and a gallon of gasoline, gaso-line, which formerly propelled the truck three and a half to lour miles, now allows it to travel seven miles, xnd the pneumatic tires have now delivered de-livered twice as much mileage as the discarded solids. |