The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-08-27
PUTTING ALL THE FARMS
: ON HIGH GEAR

In the process Of making Bingham
county better place to live, and In
|. getting better roads and q more ade-
quate fuel supply we need to do some
things that will aid us in economic
ing man-power and railroad equip
ment. All of these several things
will work together and will pave the
way for reducing farm expense while
increasing or making It feasible to
increase the income of each farm.
Some of these things will come more
easily il the others are done first,
and this little sheet asks considera-
tion of the subjects in the following
order.
1t would be too big a job to dig
out gravel and shale along the edge
of the bench at Goshen and Presto,
and haul 1t by wagon to the various
parts of the county to spread it on
the road to crown it. 1t would be
too big q job to load it into cars by
hand and shovel it out into wagons
by hand at destination. That would
take great deal of man-power, and
we can do better than that.
A system can be devised by which
the gravel can be put into dump cars
with steam shovel, and the dump
cars run down by gravity and bumped
on the chute connected with the
screens. A railroad train ploced SO
that different car stands under each
outlet to the screens will land each
grade of material in different car
without any hand work. When the
cars are loaded the brakes are loos-
ened and the car moves down to let
the next empty get into position to
be loaded. In this way a trainload
is made up with very little man
power. The steam shovel works on
a perpendicular bank, so that in cold
snowy weather there is little him
drance from frost as there always
is on level surfaces when teams and
scrapers are used to move 1t in cold
weather.
Unloading the Cars
Railroad cars are being built with
devices for dumping the cargo out at
the sides as sugar beets are dumped
at the. factory. If this kind of car
il used for hauling the gravel, and
it is dumped out on the ground 1t
would be q big job of hand work to
get it into the wagons. If wagons
were brought under the side of the
car and an effort was made to dump
into the wagon direct, there would
be difficulty in releasing just enough
to load each wagon. There would
generally be spilling on the ground
and a.. blocking of the traffic. 1t
would be better to have SPECIAL
crib to dump the gravel into from the
railroad cars and then draw it by
gravity into the wagons as desired.
The High Line
A trestle can be built to run cars
up on with their load, and bins or |
cribs along the side on lower |
.restle. A still lower roadway below
his for wagons, enables them to |
lraw by gravity from the cribs into |
he wagons. Suchsa system is called
| high line. and is coming into use
or handling ore, road materials and
;oal. Blackfoot needs a high line
or coal; SO does Shelley and Aber-
leen. and there is some need for
hem at Firth, Moreland and other
mall stations in the county. It
nables the railroad company to un-
Dad its coal cars within the hour of
rival and speed them on their
vay to the mines again. 1t saves
unloading cars and it
peeds up the delivery of coal, for
1agons can load quickly instead of
landing in line for hours. Long
mes of teams with drivers have
TODD in line for hours at each town
a the county, and have sacrificed