The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-28
Automobile News
Used to Sink Shaft.

An automobile is in operation on the Banner Mine, about three miles from Randsburg, Col, and owned by J. L. and O. O. Osborne. A perpen- dicular shaft was started and derrick rigged up, and the machine merely hooked on to the end of the rope. A 6OO-pound bucket is speedily hoisted with the machine running on low gear and all that is necessary is to keep extending the road out in front of the machine as the shaft gets deeper. The first thirty feet were sunk on less than one gallon of gasoline There are many of the same riggfngs in which a horse is used in place of the ma chine, but the machine is vastly su- perior and much more economical and also when not in use for hoisting is used for running to town for supplies. item and costs from $1.00 to $500 a barrel, the advantage of a machine over a horse is very apparent. It works with such remarkable success that the owners expect to be able to sink the shaft to a, depth of 500 feet before it becomes necessary to, install a drum, and even then the power of the engine can still be used.
 No More Alec Trucks.
 The manufacture of Alec automo- piles and motor trucks is to be dis continued, according to announcement sent out by w. H. Marshall, president of the American Locomebf1e Company one of the largest makers of automo- piles in the country. The announce ment says:
 '"rhe company takes this opportun- ity to assure all owners of Alec we hic1es that arrangem ents will be made to furnish them with repair parts for a period of not less than five years to come, and, further, that it will full | en under guarantee to it's customers" ,"
 College Girl Rides Motorcycle. Although she has ridden a motor cycle but a few months, Miss Laura V. Buelow of Waupon, Wis, is one of the most expert girl riders in the state. Miss Buelow lrst became in terested in motorcycling because of the enthusiasm of her brother for the sport. He owned a big twin machine and last summer often took her for long rides into the country. But though riding tandem is thoroughly enjoyable, Miss Buelow was anxious for the time to come when she could operate a machine of her own
 So, this spring when Miss BueIow returned from Northwestern Univer- sity, where she had been taking a course in oratory and music she found 1 a shining new motorcycle all her own awaiting her. It was but a few days until she was master of her mount and then began series of pleasure trips which has lasted the whole sum mer.
 My only regret" says Miss BueIow 'fs that there are not more girl rid CTS in our town so that we might go on long tours together. Often I arise l as early as 4:30 in the morning, don 1 my riding togs and take a spin into l the country before breakfast Secret Routes in England
 Secret route trials are giving Brit 1 ish motorcyclists lots of fun this sum | mer. The course to be covered is known only to club officials, and the riders start off on a, blind trail. They are guided from point to point by signs and traI1s of confetti. There
 are constant surprises for the riders
 in the way of turns and hills, and g
 nonstop record over such a course
 entities the rider to great credit
 To Curb Joy Riding.
 The only kind of a machine that ii
 is at all safe for Ohio joy riders tc
 take is ancient and antiquatec
 relic that is worth no more than $3E
 and hence is bound for the junk heap
 Any joy. rider who takes a, machine worth more than that lays himself
 open to the penalty of spending iron one to five years in the penitentiary
 with the alternative of a, fine of from
 $100 to $500. For machines wortT
 less than $35 the penalty is only z
 hne of from s25 to $50
 This is provided in the~ FeIIinges
 law, which went into effect on Angus
 g, much to the relief of the motorists who now feel that they have a req
 protection from the thief. The law 3 provides that any person who pur
 pose1y takes, drives or operates O. causes. to be taken, driven or operat ed, upon any public road highway O
 other public place, any motor vehic1 without the consent of the 0wne thereof may be sent to the peniten
 tiary from anywhere from one yea to five years The alternative pen alty is fine of from $100 to $500 O imprisonment in the county jail O
 workhouse for not more than fou
 months.
 Other sections of the law provid
 penalties for theft or parts and ac
 cessories from the auton obile, and fo tampering with a. standing machine i
 any way. For theft of anythin
 from machine a penalty of fror
 three to six months imprisonment o
 a fine of from $1o0 to s5OO@is provid ed. Tinkering with the starting de vice has a penalty of up to six month \ or $1oO fine, and the same is provide \ for marring the upholstery, paint c ! other part, draining radiator or tank \ placing anything in the radiator or lu bricating system, tightening or 1oos ening any connection, or releasing tn | brakes.
 Henderson Discovers New Fuel. M Cofncident with the return of tn \ Indiana-to-the-Co automobile tou1 \ lists to Indianapolis, the latest arrivs \ R. P. Henderson, motor car designe | divulged important discoveries result | ing from the use of kerosene for fut | instead of gasoline in two cars whic \ made the 1, ,01 5-nile trip.
 Ray Harroun, well known as a rac \ ing driver, and MT. Henderson bot
 drove cars that burned Kerosene \ Henderson De Luxe model and a ne \ Henderson SiX-1914 models of tE H