OCR Text |
Show TRUCKS HOLVIi " Big Tire Factories Utilize Power Wagons, Says White Manager. The AuLuniohilr Tra-Jo Journal for tbfl past s;vit;i! montln ban earned many .-itori'-s written of th? ns? of motor mo-tor truck-) in rcli-rving t))0 freight utin-yiatioris utin-yiatioris on shorter haul of from too to fifty trj j 13. In the oast tho freight fonf'.-.Lion during tho pa at win-tor win-tor liiiM Yif'a extremely severt; and motor truck routrH of from "fifty to -jmj miles arn r: p'niJ v ri ni i Dto exi.-tfrn-e. Haviird 'W. Mrnd:iihall. mauar of tho hit Motors companv, who rc-cfjitlv rc-cfjitlv r"1urn-d from the White factory, rr-purtri that a laro numbir of th(? tiro coinpanio at Akron, Ohio, are u-in motor mo-tor trucks iractic;dly nxclu-i voly to haul their product. from A k nm to Ch'volaml, a dirttan.-n of about forty miles, vhrn thry aro transferred to t)io rftilroiids for delivery to I'.uston, New VnrU, Chicago and the nior distant dis-tant points cast, and west. Ken the exprert eompanicM are uMtig motor trucks to traiusffr their expro-s between be-tween Alwron and ( :levn!and. The motor truck contracting t'imiH nro doinf this hauling at the name pricw as the hx press companies idiaro and are making the dclivt.'ries at from one to threfl days quicker. Undoubtedly Hi is syHtem which h;iw worked ho suc-:0ihfully suc-:0ihfully in the oust will sprel rapidly to all parts of the eouutry. The only t hing which can retard this development develop-ment will bfl the inadequacy of maintenance mainte-nance of existing roads and the discontinuance discon-tinuance of new roarl construction, "X cannot help believe," Mr. Mendenhall declared to a Tribune reporter, "that a drastic, curtailment of road construction construc-tion and maintenance io this western country would be u serioun mistake. Many mining and agricultural sections must depend entirely on motor truck? to move their products to market and good roads are a prime essential to the successful and economical accomplishment accomplish-ment of this object. It costs two or three times as much money to put a road back in condition after it has been permitted to wear out as it does to maintain it in a good condition. The users of horse-drawn vehicles suffer as great a loss through being compelled to operate over bad roads as do the motor mo-tor truck users. The millions of dollars which have been spent in roafl construction con-struction in the intemiountain country during the past ten years will be almost completely lost if our road system is permitted" to deteriorate. It seems to nie that it would .be tho best kind of war economy to keop the roads up because be-cause it may be absolutely necessary , at some time later to spend considerably consider-ably more money on the roads and at a time when this money could not be spared as readily as it can now. ; ''Mr. Herbert Hoover, food adminis- j trator, is strongly advocating the con- ! tinuaiK'c of road maintenance and con- ; struction. Jn a telegram to F. A. j Cannon, secretary of the Wisconsin j Good Roads association, he says; 'Speed- ing up construction of good roads is an j integral part of government war work. Efficient transportation is necessary to reduce margin between producer and consumer.' ' ' |