The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-10-21

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see whether it cannot be adapted to
asa on his farm.
For one thing, he has applied he'll
metoil cups to greasing wagon wheels.
He has score Of grain wagons, all of
them supplied with these cups, and all
of the wheels can be CREASED by means
of them in ten or fifteen Minutes
Job which would require an hour or
more without them.
All the blowing done on Chalmers
big ranch is doue with traction ell
CINE, and during the last blowing
season he ran the engine day and
night, having three shifts of men, A
locomotive headlight was employed to
illuminate the path ahead and another
was used to throw light on the plOws.
Now tho farmer IS hauling wheat to
town with his engine. He brought
load in recently and stored it at the
Stockton warehouse. There were nine
wagons In the train, and each carried
sixty-eight sacks OF grain. Each sack
weighs, on an average, 1877 pounds so
each wagon load was 0,316 pounds,
and the aggregate of all the wagon
loads 1884, or nearly forty-twO tons.
The farmer has $4,000 sacks Of
wheat to haul, some Of it belonging to
neighbors.
lis it much cheaper to bring the
wheat in this way than 1t would be to
ship by railP" asked u Mail reporter Of
Mr. Chalmers.
"Well," was the reply, II can't say
positively that it is any cheaper at all,
but think it is. You see, this is only
my third trip, and haven't been able
to cast up accounts yet The wheat
I'm bringing now comes from near
Pennington. which is seventeen miles
from Stockton, and it would cost $1.10
q ton to get it here by rail. Some of
the wheat I'm going to haul is farther
away, and to transport 1t on the rail
road would cost 81 80 ton. l don't
think it will cost me dollar ton on
on the longest haul"
"Where does the saving come imp"
"Well, one mas to load his wheat
anyhow, and If he ships it by cars, he's
got to unload and then load il on the
cars. That requires men and time.
This way all we've got to do is to load
it in the lield-tho warehouse men do
the rest. 1t requiIes only three men
to take care Of our train---an engineer,
q fireman. and man to look out for
the wagons and see that they don't get
'hot boxes The only expense Of haul
ing. therefore, is the wages Of the
men and the cost of the coal used."
"But," said the reporter, there's
the interest on the money in the en-
CINE, which cost"
"Four thousand FIVE hundred"
"And then there's repairs and the
steady wear Of the machine; and
you've got to have q lot of money in
vested in wagons. You would only
need a couple of wagons TO haul to the
railroad, but this way you need a
dozen"
"Oh, l need the wagons and the en-
CINE on the farm, anyhow" was the
reply.
"In further conversation, Mr.,
Chalmers said it would not be feasible
to haul grain as he is doing except on
level and good roads. They only
trouble he experienced was in crossing
small bridges, which he had to brace
up on tho first trip. The tender car
ries water sufficient for only twelve
hours consumption, but water is
pumped into 1t from watering troughs
along the road.
1t might seem foolish to say that the
wagons follow one another around
corners in the same path, since as a
matter of course they would do so,
but people often ask the farmer what
sort of gearing he puts on his wagons
to make them follow the lead.
The engine can haul the train at the
rate of four miles and half an hour,
but to prevent jolting the speed is re.
gulated to about three miles an hour
Stockton Mail
The RObbeF Coat BarrOns.
Away last summer it vas announced
that the coal barons had formed Q
trust and that the tlYst would nrocaet