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to radfum, easily leads the list at $tO.OU
| a pound. There are about thirty other
metals which have a greater value than
silver and gold. Gallium was discovered
| in 1875 in the Pyrenees mountains, in
| Spain, and is exceedingly rare. 1t fuses
| at so low a point (36 degrees Fahren-
| heit) that 1t readily meits in the naked
| hand. Nearly all the platinum used comes
| from the Trial mountains. and there were
only 400 ounces mined in the entire United
States last year and most of this came
| from the Pacific coast states-that is,
| California, Oregon and Alaska. press
| report last week gave out the informa-
| ton that a Philadelphia man had discov-
cred deposit in the Grand Canyon of
! Arizona, which will yield thirty million
dollars worth Of the metal. II this Is
true it Will tend to lower the price OF this
| valuable ignition metal.
| r \
| W. P. Barnhart on his recent trip to
| the Metzgar Motor Company's works
purchased three Everitt special show
cars, which are due to arrive tomorrow.
They include two six passenger sx-cylin-
| der cars and a 80 special.
| John H Kennedy is the latest purchas-
err of a Mitchell four-cylinder fourpas-
senger touring car
| Announcement has been made that a
| decision rendered by Judge Noyes of the
| United States court of appeals for the
second circuit has removed all question as
to the right OF the United States Tire
Company to manufacture and sell Nobby
decision Of the lower court in suit
brought by another tire company. in
which tho claim was set forth that the
| Nobby tread tire was an infringement.
having large. diagonally placed knobs
running circ,1nferentially around the
tread It was first manufactured at the
Morgan & Wright factory. one Of the
rubber plants now operated by the United
States Tire Company.
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News of a novel and enterprising meth
Cd of selling automobiles Is brought to
New York by Horace De IAsser, vice pres
ident, and Alfred Reeves, general sales
manager of the United States Motor
Company, who have just returned from a
western trip among the branch houses
and dealers in the states of Ohio. Indi-
ana. Illinois, Missouri, Iowa and Ne
braska.
AS farmers have been too busy blowing
to talk cars, the statesmen of this COM
pany are travelling with extra farm
hands who do the blowing and other
work while the farmers listen to the
statesmen or take demonstrations
Farmers will be the greatest buyers of
motor cars during the next four months
according to reports. For the past two
years the motor car has been giving
proof of its worth to the agTfcutursts.
with the power driven vehicles are now
buying them with enthusiasm.
George c. Shoemaker has placed an
order for a Rambler cross country"
five passenger touring car.
The latest arrival in local motordom
which has been taken by the PRODIGY
Carriage Company, 1890 Wisconsin ave-
nue.. This new car has wheel base OF
1O4 inches, with a four-cylinder motor,
cast en- bloc, and rated at twenty-five
horsepower. 1t has the Bosch system
Of ignition and splash feed The drive is
left-hand. with tho levers and steering
gear finished in enamel and nickel. The
gear shifting lever is located in the CEN
ter of the car. The wheels are of the
artillery type and the body of metal
f1ve-passenger, closed front Of the Eng
lish torpedo type. The standard color is
raven blue body, with hood and wheels
Of the same color. while the chassis Is
back, with black enamel lamps and nick
Ell finish. Two of the features are the
platform spring suspension and the full
floating rear axle.
Even France. with it's great system OF
national, state and county highways, now
realizes that the intense use of the roads
demands changes in construction, and
more thorough maintenance. This fact
was frankly voiced by Councillor of State
Chargueraud, who is the inspector gen.
eral Of bridges and highways and director
of roads and navigation of France, whose
admission came at the dinner given in
his honor in this city last week by Logan
Waller Page, director Of the United states
office Of public roads of the Department
OF Agriculture. who is also the president
ways Improvement.
1t has ever been argued that modern
road making should meet the new con-
ditions which have been imposed by
twentieth century locomotion, which
means not only automobile traffic, but
that OF all other vehicles as WELL The
national good roads board of the Ameri-
can Automobile Association has agitated
for this end, and the sum and substance
of the best engineering practice through
out all modern road building nations land
all are struggling toward the same END,
whether it be France, with the best roads
Guatemala, with equally good roads but
few, Is to take into consideration the
combined intensive trafhc of everything
that goes on wheels.
This was the argument put forward at
the Willard Hotel banquet. the guest list
of which included NJ Jusserand, the
French ambassador; Secretary of Agri-
culture WILSON and Chairman George I.
Dehl of the A. A. A good roads board
1t was in reply to a query propounded
by Francis Miltoun Mansfield, the A. A.
A. spokesman OF the occasion. who ad-
dressed the distinguished foreigner In MS
own tongue, that NJ. Chargueraud said
that while the automobile was primarily
not the road destroyer that its opponents
claimed, 1t, in conjunction with a heavy
horse-drawn traffic as WELL was bringing
about conditions which were we'll nigh in
supportable unless combated with the
best forces possible in the light of the
science of modern road building.
During the course of the speeches
one insistent thought reiterated by
NJ. Chargueraud, M. de Pulligny, the
head of the French mission of engineers,
and M. de Jolly, engineer-in-chief of the
bridges and highways of Paris, now visit
ing the United States. was that old-time
road conditions no longer obtained. and
that new formulas of road building and a
new application of public funds will nee
essariy be made by the central control
ling body of road building and road
improvement. which in France is the ma
tional government. as. indeed it should be
in connection with national routes in
any country where the interests of the
whole people are at heart.
1t matters little whether the medium