The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-19
THE AUTOMO-
 BILE WORLD

| taking the mud tax off the price If foodstuffs." Such is the slogan adopt ed by the Detroit Board of Commerce Tn prosecuting its campaign for good roads in Wayne County, Mich.
 The "oil war" which is raging in several Western and Northwestern States has struck Milwaukee, and in- dependent dealers are up in arms. It is claimed that the Standard Oil Company has been cutting prices be- low cost Tn order to regain bushes. that was lost to independent dealers Although rich enough to buy any | make of automobile he desires, Tony Oeklnea, farmer, of Hastings, Neb, IS also eccentric enough to disregard conventions. He wanted an automo- bile and constructed one out of various odds and ends among his farm machinery. Strange to say, the machine works, and was recently awarded first prize in a Hastings au- tomobile parade. Ockinga has been using his machine all summer for business and pleasure purposes, and has not been held up for repairs since he put his novel car in oom- mission.
 According to some of the Maine hunters, flying machines will be 1n- troduced next in the woods to cap ture game, and about that time the deer, moose and birds will begin to see the beginning of their extinction So many automobiles are being used this season that it would not be Sc very surprising if some effort was made to introduce legislation at the coming session relative to it. It is claimed that young boys are shooting all the cartridges they can scare up, and then sell them to motorists along the road. some of them having regu- lar customers.
 Crude rubber, which touched the lowest level of the year in London, England, on October 31st, when the best grades were quoted at $135 a pound as against $1.3s and s1.4o the previous week, is expected to drop still further, as a large quantity of plantation rubber is on its way to the market New York prices were a little ahead of the London scale, fine Para being held at $1.40 and spot boom in London in the summer the price ran up to $2.s6 a pound, and two years ago 1t was going begging at 69 cents a pound. As a result of the easier tone prevailing in the rub Der markets, several of the tire com panies have cut their prices about 15 per cent.
 The enormous growth of the popu- lation and the influx of tourists at all times of the year in southern Caucasus has resulted in the Russian Government making arrangements for the esta blishment of an automobile line from the port of Novorossisk and the final point of the Vladikavkas Railroad to Soukhoume a distance of approximately 375 miles. An auto mobile service has already been put into operation on part of the route, but the government intends to push the matter of extensions. The under taking carries yearly subsidy by the government of $36,000. On TO versts of the route the automobile com iC O dxy o,,So II. cars are in service, and the under taker for this part of the country re- ce1ves $10,00o yearly subsidy from the government. The remaining 33O versts (220 miles) are to be organ ized without delay
 Little did D. Edward King, the in ventor of the split-log drag, dream of the fame that idea would bring him, or of the favor with which this simple and inexpensive device would proved veritable God-send to the road maker and repairer, especially those in rural communities. The United States Government, some time ago, issued a pamphlet describing and Illustrating it, and thus gave it comes the Pennsylvania Railroad with similar pamphlet. It is en- titled Good Roads at Low Cost" and it sets forth the benefit of the King drag as the most feasible of all inventions to produce good roads without any material expense. The Pennsylvania road has a definite pur- pose in issuing this pamphlet; it hopes that the farmers along it's lines will improve their roads so that districts now inaccessible will be opened up.
 For the first time in the history of the Yukon Territory the automobile Is about to supplant the horse on the frozen, snow-covered trails. The first automobile ever to be put into stage work anywhere in Yukon Ter ritory invading the trails on which pack horses and dogs have long been shipped from Seattle, Wash, and will be put into immediate service upon it's arrival at White Horse, Yukon Territory The automobile, a power full 4S horsepower seven-passenger machine, will cover the snow-covered route from White Horse to Dawson all through the winter, and it is ex- pected to do away with tedious de- lays. The automobile will carry the mail each trip, as we'll as passengers, placing Dawson in quicker communi- cation with the outside during the winter. The car is equipped with a special carburetor to withstand a temperature of 60 degrees below zero without freezing.
 A new Japanese automobile fac tory has built at a cost of S2,500 an automobile which seats twelve per- sons, according to the American Con- sul at Tokyo.
 Henry M. Owen, president of the San Francisco (Cal.) Motor Club, has asked the Department of the Interior at Washington. D. C., to open the roads in Yosemite Park to automo- piles. He has been notified that the government is considering his re- quest, and that it is, looked upon with favor.
 As a result of the Democratic sweep and the election of Dr. Wilson, for mer president of Princeton Univer- sity, as governor of New Jersey, the motorists of that State are now con- fident that a much more liberal mo- tor law will be adopted by the State Legislature which will convene in January. Dr. Wilson pledged his support to broader legislation and a reciprocity clause extending greater use of Jersey roads to visiting motor ists is expected to be passed.
 The iron and steel division of the standards committee of the Society of Automobile Engineers recently consid- cred specifications for materials for automobile construction. It is likely that the standard form of specimen used in testing automobiles probably will be changed. Carbon steel in varying percentages; carbon nickel steel, carbon chrome nickel steel,