The Pulaskian., 1917-09-28
NEW WAY TO HAUL
 COTTON AND TIES
PAIGE COMPANY OF ARKANSAS SELLS FIVE TON TRUCKS AND TRAiLERS TO PINE BLUFF
 COMPANY FOR SUCH USE.

Slowly the picturesque scenes of the plantation disappear The rail- road shelved the river trafIis, put the four and eight mule teams enlivened the roads with their six and eight bale load bound for the railroad Now this mode of transportation is slipping, slipping fast The motor truck has invaded the cotton plantation, and it is sure to swarm to the country with the completion of good roads.
 A deal consumated last week by the Paige Company of Arkansas, through it's Little Rock office, gave the mule it's most staggering blow. The local office delivered to the Pine Bluff Transfer Company two Federal trucks with trailers. The trucks have ca pacty of three and one-half tons, and beds eight by fourteen feet One trailer has capacity of five sons, and the other three and half. Both have beds of eight by fourteen feet.
 These trucks will be used by the transfer company in hauling cotton from gins to compress, from cars to compress, and back to the cars, and if necessary, from field to compress. One truck will easily haul twenty bales of cotton, and a trailer will care for an equal load. They have been ar. ranged for this class of traffic, the size of q bale of cotton being taken into consideration when the beds were made
 To increase the speed of loading and unloading, the trucks are equip ped with a power hoist, derrick, which is operated by the motor of the truck. This picks up the cotton on the platform and deposits it on the truck or trailer much more rapid ly than wagon could be loaded. and the transfer company expects to handle the same amount of cotton with these trucks as it could move in a day with forty wagons. The moving of cotton has been 6 serious thing in a cotton center like Fine Bluff in the past. These tricks not only save here, but they make it pos sible for the railroads to receive the pressed cotton more rapidly and get them on towards the market.
 Cotton is not the only industry that has been invaded by the automobile truck. The lumbermen of Arkansas have been using them with great saw ing for some time, and now the kin dred industry, that of handling ties, knows the advantage of the truck. During the past week the Paige Com pany of Arkansas conducted dem onstration in a mountain county. Ten men accompanied the truck seven miles into the interior. loaded if with 52 ties weighing 210 pounds each, af ter gathering the ties from several localities. and returned to the railroad rode both ways on the truck, giving it an additional load of 1,600 pounds making the load 11,500 pounds
 This demonstration was a revela- tion to the tie contractors, for prior to this four wagons were reduired to haul this number of ties. and twice as long was taken, making the truck do the work of eight wagons. The truck would have done the work of ten or more wagons, but for the fact that it had the ten men to haul This demonstration sc convinced the tie contractors that a big Federal truck will soon be a familiar sight to the persons residing in this county.
 The Paige company sold two large Federal trucks last week to the Coop er-Dickinson Grocer Cocpany of Lit tie Rock.
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