Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1910-09-19
MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1910

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/ will have seats for fourty- four pas
sengers They are of the large. closed
type with twelve seats outside, set
crosswise with an aisle down the
| center.
The cars on the Indian and Brill
| lines win be overhauled and repainted
| in the same manner as soon as the
work can be accomplished though it
may be two or three months before
| of painting has all been done in spec
| ial jobs and il has been rather a
! troublesome and expensive way for
the reason that ii takes several weeks
to put the various coats on. dry them
and work q car out of the shops in
good shape. The company has not
had work enough to keep its own
painter so has been compelled to
have the work done whenever it
could The result has been that many
of the cars have been neglected at
times and were not kept up in the
il was an unavoidable condition for
which no one could be blamed. With
the added rolling stock and the prob
ability of it's continuous increase as
the line grows, the company expects
to keep one and perhaps two painters
busy all the time overhauling each
car as fast as it needs it and keep
ing them all in good appearance.
To a large extent the same has
been true of the repair work. AT
times the repair man has had more
than he could do and cars were not al
ways given the prompt attention they
really should have had. Again work
would be slow and the repair man
would busy himself i'm the construction
of a new car AS mentioned, four
new cars have in that way been
built here and the fifth is well under
way With this increased amount of
rolling stock Mr.. Mitchell says he ex-
poets to keep one and perhaps two
carbuilders busy all the time. That
viii keep all the cars in good condi
ton and perhaps give even more time
for car construction. While the IA
as complete as in = large factory and
il probably would not pay to under
take car manufactuoe on a large scale,
such cars az eaffAaDe built between
times" as il were, will prove a good
investment and enable the company
to keep competent men available for
repair work when ii is urgently
needed or required on short notice.
Mr. Mitchell says he believes the
most satisfactory color for the cars
in this climate and i'm connection with
car repairs and construction he says
that hereafter wherever it is posi-
bic, sheet steel will be used on the
sides of the closed cars instead of the
thin Wooden panels on those shipped
in. In some of the repair work men
toned above the sheet steel or iron
has been used and the observer
viii never know the difference be-
tween the metal and wood after il is
painted, so far as appearance goes.
IN CT frI1R-
ture. The chief reason for the change
however is that in this climate the
wooden panels dry quickly and crack.
In each of the three new cars that
have not been out of the barn since they
arrived here, there are cracked panels
due to this cause, that the paint will
hardly cover up. The cars are not in
jured any more than that the cracks
do not look good and when metal is
employed there will be none.
The Washington street line is now
operated on light steel that has been
due great deal of the rough riding
that the uniformed attribute to flat
wheels and old cars. 1t will be greatly
eliminated when new and heavier
rails are put down. The west end of
the line was replaced with heavier
steel last spring, except section
between Seventh avenue and the Ii
brary building. Mr.. Mitchell says he
has been wanting to better the line
through the business section for a
year or so but kept waiting in the
belief that the city would do some
thing in regard to paving and he pre-
ferred to make all the improvements
at once to save a second tearing up
of the street which would be both ex-
pensive and inconvenient for traffic.
But the new rails are needed so bad
ly he will wait no longer on the city
but begin the work just as soon as he
can get to it in the orderly conduct of
business.
1t is the purpose of Mr.. Mitchell to
overhaul the whole system as indi-
Gated put IL i'm the best possible