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Popular Scirncr Motithhj Government Guide-Posts Give Detailed Information

AS a jTuiiie to pcrs )iis luit familiar with the reservation, and as a means of conveying to strangers information with regard to its limits, there have ijeen erected on the outskirts of the Ashley National Forest in Utah, at points where main roadway's enter it, maps showing the boun- daries, roads, trails, streams, lakes, and other points of interest within the forest. The maps are enclosed in glass-covered frames and are attached to sign-boards where copies of notices and regulations concerning the reservation are displa\'ed.

On each map a tack indicates its position with regard to the reservation. The topographical features of the coun- try also are indicated, as well as the

���Much useful information about the surrounding country can be gained from these guide-posts

location of the headquarters of the forest supervisor and of his numerous assistants. The maps ha\-e proved of great value to stock grazers and others desiring to know the boundaries of the forest. : .,,;i^,.,

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��End-Door Automobile Express Cars

FREQlfENT recourse is made to the express service for shi(>[)ing auto- mobiles and motor trucks as rapidK- as possible in emergency cases. Detroit manufacturers, for instance, usually send their new model cars in this way, employing special trains of eight and nine express cars for the purpose. The very best possible time is not too fast for purchasers of new model cars, who

���Cars with end-doors for shipping motor- trucks by express

��Usually wait for their arrival in Netv York, gasoline can in hand, taking- the cars as fast as they can be remo\'ed from the express trucks.

One express compan\- has emphtyed specially constructed cars built with two swinging doors that permit loading from the end. Automobiles can l)e put into the cars under their own power on a rising platform, or the\- can be pushed in, on the level platform.

One of the largest trucks handled in an express car was a five-ton dum[)ing cart, sent recently by a Los Angeles automobile concern to a mining company at Tucson, Arizona. On account of the iiigh prices paid for all kinds of mineral, the mine operators were working their properties night and day.

Three hours after the order was re- ceived, the truck was loaded into an end- door express car by its own power and went out on a train lea\-ing at 3 o'clock. The next morning, it reached Tucson, with an express charge of S41K) attached. It was so badly needed th.it the first twents-four hours' use of the truck paid for the transportation expenses.

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