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Show CARRYING MAIL- IN " AUTO TRUCKS IS SUCCESS - Seventy Line. Now in Operation Op-eration Over the Country. By AMOCiaUtf 'rsss. ' WASHINGTON. Oct. :i. Cross eountry operation of mll carrying motor trucks, trid out by th po-offic po-offic department on an xprimrntal. but ncvsrthsless big scale, during .tha last year, has been a -roat auowas. James I. Blakalee, fourth aUlant poatmaater general, has found that on truck rout between Philadelphia and Wonhlnaton. . mittlnc rhlefly through territory without direct rait connection and coating $NO0 m month to operate, haa in eight montna developed de-veloped a revenue of lis ooo monthly. Another route. Into Washington, where 1 twentv-elght parcels a day were moved during ths first' month, now ahows one ton of traffic each way each twenty-four hours. , Seventy lines now operate over the' country, all but one' eaxf of VHssisslnnl. and there are visions of a I a mail n a-. It haa added uA entirely new factor in tinnacontlnental trnna-Iortatlon. trnna-Iortatlon. and we aha II Juat begin finding It out when more extenaive operation goef Into effetT during the neit two yeara." Juat why Mr. Blakalee aeea It that way ran h underatood from juat one commodity price lint. Milk retalla now In Waahlngton at 17 cent a a quart. Milk la coming in on mull trucks direct to mnaumera for 10 centa a quart. Naturally the trucka are being weighed down with five-gallon five-gallon cana aa onaumera learn of the poMiulllty. The trijeks lap milk producing territory outbid the uruhI hauling llneg and off t'te rail arterlea. Where' 1 1 the roada come from to run tooO trucka?" he aaka. "Well,, there are 64.000 rural mail and at ir routes being operated in the I'nited i Htatea now. Hornet I mea I think every one of them would make a truck line, food la Iteing handled ten tlmea on lt way to a, coniuroor.- Wacan cut that to five. "Watching theae ffgurea a I nee Te-remher, Te-remher, when we started, haa driven me a new sort of Inaplratlon. We shall be movlag the malls, and mails i will Includo a whole unexpected variety vari-ety of thlnga In new modes before tl.a generation finishes. Airplanes for the 1000-mile distances, trains for the 6oo-mlle And trucks for the 250. That's about the schedule." system which will furnish t3fto.000.00ti annually in revenue for road construction construc-tion or other purposes. WANT BROKEN TRUCKS. "Why. General Pershing has nfto trucks damaged or ruined over on the eHher sidsv" said Mr. Hlakalee. telling of the growth of the system. "I don't care what condition they are' - in. We want them all. and can fix tin and put every one of them to work. What's even more Important, he's fot some boys over there shy a hand, or an arm, or a leg, and we can use , them all, too. In good work at good pay, that they can do. Congress gave us $300,000 to work with, and if we had the earnings of the lines themselves them-selves we could expend almost Indefinitely. In-definitely. As It re. $9,000,000 will be requested by the division for next yeatr. and 1 think It will be appro-pristed. appro-pristed. People realize -what we are doing;. "Operating at nfglit la the moat profitable, aad we have but two machines ma-chines doing that, out of New York The typical route la about 10 miles long, ninety anllea out and ninety . miles back. "Almost always ths constant operation opera-tion of the lines" produces a return load, the universal character of the mall service allowing almost anything to be taken. The mall trucks go. come rain, storm or anything, and so the traffic develops- Hates are also pretty high, the lowest being about $10 a ton. That la what makes the surplus revenues. GOOD ROADS NILDCD. "Of course, we'll nava tq have crni- crete roads, but the business can product) ths money to build them. There ere some economies In dla-tHhiinonofirdjebre |