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Show I ments from branch line to trunk line is also inevitable. "Tho short haul logically belongs to the motor truck. When good roads and other conditions are such that this business busi-ness can be. taken over by the truck, perishables will get to market quicker and at lower cost. Furthermore, a larger percentage of the total shipped will get to market in condition for sale. The consumer should gaiii by the fuller markets and the lower freight. M market. . The truck docs it. The cost to move the truck crops has increased from 100 per cent on pome items to 300 per cent on others. Labor is hiffh priced and hard to get and not first class where it is to be had at all." E. "Fan, chief of the Firestone ship i by truck bureau at Akron, Ohio, in a letter to the Salt Lake branch of the bureau at '61 West Fourth South street, invites attention to the fact that a report re-port recently has been mafle public which shows that almost two million pounds of foodstuffs shipped to Chicago Chi-cago in 1918 went to waste. ! ''Undoubtedly an appreciable part of j this waste was due,"' he writes, 4 to ; delay in transit of the perishable food- ; stuffs, and this delay must have result- ; ed in most cases from congestion -and j much handling of shipments at ter- : miuals. This waste can be eliminated, it seems logical to believe, if motor trucks are used not only in the cities : in receiving from the trunk line railways rail-ways for delivery, but also in the country coun-try in carrying to the trunk line railways rail-ways in other words, if the motor truck working on schedule replaces the branch line railways. Hauling Cost Heavy. ' ( According t transportation experts, ex-perts, the cost of hauling freight per! ton mile by the short line railroads is ! often ten or twenty times as great as 1 on the trunk lines. Belay through j much handling in . transferring ship- Sewioto Automobile tires aro often called upon to undergo a wide range of vicissitudes In the service required of them by their owners, siys T. R. Trent, local manager of the Goodyear brand, but it is doubtful if any other tire has had the same service demanded of it as that reported by Otis Stevens of Forest City. Ark. H called at the branch of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Rub-ber company at Memphis, Tenn., the other day, just after having had Ji is Overland car fished out of the Mississippi river near the Harahan bridge, south of the city. His interest, however, seemed centered In one tire, and not in the car itself, and the following is his story of the tire in question: "Several years ago T purchased a Goodyear Good-year all-weather tread tire for the Wt rear wheel of my car, and ran it about 3000 miles over the rough roads of Tennessee Ten-nessee and Arkansas. Then 1 was away from home for two-, years, during which . time my car rested in the garage, witii the tires pumped up and. bearing th. weight of the car. "Upon my return I bought another oar, and transferred this tire from the old car to the new one, because of its good condition, con-dition, and ran it 34u0 miles without any tire trouble whatever. I will Mdmit that I often glanced back at the 'old faithful' when driving over baking-hot roads, expecting ex-pecting a blowout any minute but the tire kept on going without complaint, day after day. "Tii en someone stole my car. Two months later a policeman noticed a prj.rt of a car projecting out of the reeding waters of the Mississippi, .''nd nftr-r havimr It hauled out of the v.-;' ter, identified it as my machine. The first tiling I hioke. at after I had been called by the police to come and 'view the remains.' was the Goodyt.-ar tire on the left rear wheel. I found it in good bhape and as fu'.i of alius ali-us on the day of it-- disappearance c-v.-n after h.--m:r iibm rwd i"f . months in tin- depth.-' of the l-'aiher of Wale:-.-. I urn still using the tire ou another car." |