Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-01
GREATEST JOB LOT SALE
IN HISTORY OF NATION
Uncle Sam Is Selling Vast Quantities
Of Material to Highest
Bidders.
SCATTERED ALL OVER FRANCE
Stock Consists OF Steel Paint by the
Barrel, Guy Cable, Iron Pipe, Der
ricks, Pumps and Much Other
Equipment.

ricks, Pumps and Much Other
Equipment.
PARIS, May 31.-Uncle Sam has be
Enn The greatest joh 10, ,h sale IN tnf
"a afvS at 81 billions Hi 9 Of dollars IS being
offered for sale. Representatives OF
the foreign governments are looking
over the stock with view TO buying;
DO you wan, to buy 2i0o barrels OF
structural steel paint?
Or l2,ooc,ooo feet OF guy cable?
stock? Or 3.S0000O feet Of saivageable
or $4,000 feet OF new iron pipe in
used pipe 10 he taken apart or dug up?
or $50 ,hrst class concrete mixers. 200
Gao second hand electric motors?
There are sixty new ones in stock
or $50 road rollers that have seen
service? Or $50 engineers tractors In
good condition It's a very small lot
teriai Of American victory lies await
ing bidders. We cannot take IL home:
We would hate 10 scrap it-stock and
fixtures OF our ideals! on the other
hand. the Europeans know tina, We
have organized United States lpui-
dation commission Of the War Depart
The liquidation commission has just
ssri'ed IN Pa ATS !, VIII organize and
"ho!e "ork ~ up TO them.
New Gnsoiine Engines.
Here's a job lot OF $50 brand-new
gasoline engines; but what viii We get
Tor $40 others that have seen service?
~ 10 greatly 10 the credit OF our war
chiefs that they stopped orders so
promptly after armistice famous q. o.
such moderate proportion OF new
STOCK on hand Out OF 1900 electric
our OF sixty steam shovels. only twelve:
"ut OF a lot OF thirty-Hve pile drivers
only six But they got caugh, on der
iicks-25o new derricks TO .if,y in use.
ana power pumps-bOv In use ar.ins,
500 in stock Who wants 10000 hand
ana and trench pumps. less than half nav
pressers; only MY are ne" stock.
Even those American built a!rplanes
IN France. which they talk about
tcrapping. are not numerous In All
.yerybody knows. the boys used French
we had '"dds siiHeres Up 70 November s.
others made in America. except an
r 11np.fT; ind 90 2;sos Liberty motors
there's the hi,ch. Isn't i; beneath p ta.
ads Gf a i!1uidatins commission 10
Many Motor Vehicles.
neai popular Interest in France con-
"aen l was RI Tours. hobnobbinS with
generals. many citizens approached me
eonhdeniialiy How could they pick
up. for song. one OF those nne
American touring cars, or HANDY
two-ton truck? And more ,han one
honest American in France dreamed
OF au!ck turnover. 1850 francs
rfoht ana all worries liquldated
Nothing dong. Already, French
syndicate. optim site as TO home ;arin
BARRIERS, had bid for the entire Ameri-
motor vehicles, rich affair. These
ere not WORKOUT cars. such as the
French War Department tries to un-
load on farmers They're the fine new
:
rent use, each with lis honest record
or miles run. and some scarcely more
man !imbered up The French syn
dicate had bright prospects Why?
Because the American expedjtlonary
forces cannot sell retail" SAID gene
raj. and there was no other whole
The Belgian government sailed in
Belgium. stripped by scientific rob
hers. needed complete restocking in
motor cars. and begged 10 buy the lot
Then the French agricultural Jed
Grafton came out frant.caI!y. France
TOO. had been robbed wholesale; and
France could absorb 100000 foreign
Suit cars without injurlng tn. bus,-
ness O, French makers Incapable OF
meeting the demand for Years. And
so 1t rests.
What United stntes Oner..
How many American evolutionary
forces cars are there7 There have
heen wild Guesses. Here are the true
figures:
Passenger Observation-Disclosures 1890;
motorcycles. 1925; motor cars. 1.5Oi:
ambulances 5,5ls: total $3.50.
Cargo trucks-Three tons and over
1880; under one and one-haE tons
s3s3; one and one half TO two tons
Of military discretion. let US not de-
tail the remaining total OF s,932 spe
cial type trucks. including ammuni-
ton. light aviation. artillery supply
n
ply But there are %? three-ton trac-
tors. 245 dump trucks. ls4 Nsh; re
pair trucks. 1871 artillery repair and
ION miscellaneous and special
Who will get them?
The little nations are hot for
sharon credit. naturally; Serbia
France and England want to buy for
cash but the army cannot sell retail!
Selling OF stock Begins.
The big selling has already started.
M. Baruch. technical delegate of the
United states to the peace conference"
according 10 the official "Innrmations
Belges" OF March y has signed a con-
vention with the Belgian government
collected In France and New York for
the f. f. toge5her r;n with Il, other 9th ooo ma nao
francs 1l00,0OO. O00)."
A. f. +. engineers expended or issued
in France LOO miles of track material,
and have 500 miles Of 1t now in depot
The forestry, besides paying good money
for the fuel wood. telegraph poles and
railroad tics they cut in France. pro-
duced from French forest tand paid
fcr) lumber and piles for eighteen new
ship and lighter berths in French ports.
the vast port development covered
storagel which you will hear Of, 225
miles OF standard troop) living bar
racks. 127 miles of standard hospital
wards. eighty miles of standard ware
houses the animal shelter at remounts
and in advanced zone. and all the lum-
her which is at present junk in trench
es, dugouts, etc.
Large Storage Equipment.
Add 100000 square feet Of covered
storage In advanced sections: 4.SO1.O00
SQUARE feet OF air service covered stor-
age and 77S.000 square feet in advanced