South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-03
WAR MATERIALS
NOW AVAILABLE
FOR ROAD WORK
War Department AIlotS Sur
plus Automobiles and Ma
Chinery to States.

WASHINGTON. D. G. Aug. o.
An interesting communication set
ting forth the amount Of war ma
terials available for improving high
ways in Indiana and other states
has just been sent to congress by O..
F. Marvin. acting secretary OF agri-
culture.
The communication sets forth the
number of trucks. Fords and other
passenger automobiles which the
state will receive from the govern
ment -Four allOtments of trucks
have been made, one allotment of
Fords and one allotment OF other
automobiles. The allotment as
shown by the said list is final" says
the letter.
The allotments Of trucks follow:
First-15S.
SecOnd-70.
Third-117.
Fourth-250.
The ailotments Of passenger cars
follow.
Fords-2e.
other cars-I5.
To Deliver Equipment.
A request for construction and op-
Grating equipment, based on the esti-
mated needs of the several states,
was sent TO the war department.
The secretary OF war in replying to
the request. stated that the war de
partment would deliver 10 the de-
partment Of agriculture out of the
! surplus I'm the United States or
France a sufficient amount of equip
ment to meet the estimate, which is
as follows:
Four hundred road rollers. steam
and gas driven; 700 concrete mixers:
500 road graders; 400 elevating
graders: 200 sprinkling wagons; 200
road oilers: 125 derricks. 80 to so
feet boom: 100 pile-driver outfits
complete; 200 complete air-drin out
fits: $50 steam pumps up to four
inches; $50 centrifugal pumps up TO
four inches with power; IS dia-
phragm pumps. gasoline driven: 500
rock-crushing outfits complete. ca
pacity 125 tons 70 200 tons per day;
200 clamshell. orange peel and bot
tom-dump buckets: 125 road scarf
fiers. 90 caterpillar and drag-line
excavators: 700 road and railroad
plows; 800 rooter plows; $50 auto
motive cranes; $500 trailers for
tractors; 900 miles Industrial rail
way track: 200 industrial railway
locomotives: $500 industrial railway
dump cars: is. 900 feet rubber hose;
5000 feet steam hose; 40 portable
asphalt plants: 200 steam shovels,
capacity one yard or less; $500
dump wagons: ESQ conveyers. grav-
ity and power; 50 donkey, 200 hoist
ing and 10 gasoline engines. to 80
horsepower: 375 complete steam
drill outfits: $50 portable air-com-
presser outfits with power; 100
boilers, Is 10 40 horse power; 275
electric motors, 2 TO so horse power
1900 pulley blocks; 5000 drag
scrapers: 1000 Fresno scrapers; g.
600 wheel scrapers; 500 Nancy four
wheel scrapers; 800 stump pullers,
500 road drags. 5000 wheel barrows:
10 dredges; 10 ditching machines;
10 trenching machines; back
flling machines: 200 screening
plants: 100 wagon leaders; 400
blasting machines complete; loo. 600
feet hosting cable from one-quarter
TO one inch In diameter; 10000 feet
air hose: 100. 900 linear feet Manila
rope, one and a half to two inches
In size.
Asked for Estimates.
In order 10 determine the amount
OF equipment and supplies that the
states would need for the purpose
OF highway Improvement, a letter
was sent TO each state highway de-
partment. with a request that esti-
mates be submitted with as much
detail as possible. In response 10
this inquiry a number OF the states
submitted detailed statements and
descriptions OF the items they would
need. Others took the position that
they wished 70 receive their quota OF
any OF the items which might be de-
clared surplus by the war depart
ment