The San Francisco call., 1909-04-06
Oakland. San Francisco and vicinity
doing work in their line.

Oakland. San Francisco and vicinity,
doing work in their line.
Robert Belcher. who has just re-
turned from flying trip to Ceallnga
-.::. and the Oil wells
Co.. 70 OH with his 1880
Ets1d- ESs % in Thomns Thomas. reports
Fle,o- IN -"D having made made the the
Francisco to Fresno. 2so miles. with his
car. using only a gallon Of gasoline TO
Is miles.
Norman de vaux has just returned
from an overland trip to Fresno He
left the city at s
tfw.r.. Ere.ro a. m. and arrived
in a Day at his destination ton
cylinder at p. m.
1t was the first car to come through
in a day this season. The roads from
Gilroy TO MADEIRA are very rough and
Pacheco pass is slow going
Don c. McCord of the wfllys-Over-
land motor car company reports tne
ov.rI,n5 Cars of a six cylinder
are De"---e1 Losss Of San Jose.
four cylinder touring car to Elmer Lee
of Watsonville and also 30 horse
power four cylinder double oucket
roadster. The company has also de-
livered roadsters TO Charles Goodspeed
of this city. Frank Woulff of Colusa
and Hugh Miller of Oakland Mrs.
Lane of San Jose took delivery of a
32 horsepower touring car.
Commenting on the point brought out out
recently in the matter of anti-sk1d
8, .. needs for automo-
cL-, n NJ biles. a contractor
Hurt Roads In has the had sa5a mach ~fo to
do with the con-
struction of state roads in Massachu-
setts called attention to the follow
ing comparisons:
When my men break up the stone
for road work 1 do not give them a
hammer made with a rubber head nor
one with a steel head and rubber
handle. Yet this Is just the compari-
son that the opponents to the use OF
tire chains are trying to use. As a
matter of fact the whole question is
looked at from wrong premises. To
begin with too many forget that roads
are built to take care or trarnc; tra1-
fic is not something that springs up be-
cause there Is a road. II this is not so
then why build roads at all? Why not
have trails, paths or what you VIII
and let any. one who wants 70 use
unshod animals with the loads on their
backs However. that is only illustra-
tive: the point Is, do tire chains In
Il
more than the hammer mention would
break up stone for the under course
in road building.
There is another point I would like
to bring out, and that is the claim
I often hear, in my line of business,
that automobile tires tear the surface
off the roads. If they do then IT is
because the surface is in a condition
brought about by horse traffic. 1t re-
ouires no deep thinking TO realize that
the calks on the shoes Of horses are
the things that tear up road surfaces
III horse traffic alone used the road,
then this granulation OF the road sur
face is pushed back and forth or else
washed off by heavy rains. Because the
automobile automatically carries this
granulation off the road we are too
apt to think the automobile is the only
thing at fault We Will know better
when we build roads up to modern
traffic, no matter what that may be
or the form that it takes.
I'm other words, it requires no abb
struse calculation to realize that four
sharp metal points driven against the
road with a force of three-fourths of
a ton will do more to tear up a sur
face than the rolling action OF any
type OF tire"