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Show & COUNTY COMMISSIONERS SHOULD STUDY THE QUESTION OF THE MOTOR TRUCK t I ' Now thnt the election has onded and ' 1 ' the smoke ot battle has cleared) away ' i N'ow jhat thq bitter feelings have been : done away with; and now that the poo. ' ' lile by their votes have signified who shall and who shall not run the affairs of this city, It Is our duty hot tp waste time In Idle repining, but to be busy, busy, busy. No one will hao the temerity to ,ay' that those who havo been given tho power of offlco will not want the affairs of the city run on n partisan basis, or under unbuslncss llk$ cor.-dittons. cor.-dittons. Far from It. They are na'inuch In tho lino of progress, Improy.tnu'ht and advancement as thoso who were defeated, and they nre going to do Iho best for this glorious llttlo' eliy ' of ours. Therefor It Is to bo' doojt, boost, boost from now on. .Under tho new form of government it Is hoped that great things will ho accomplished for Logan and that a business like administration vail not only tut down the expenses ot thy city, but they will see to It that work that needs to bo done will be done, - and that expeditiously. Now while wo havo, the question of city business under discussion, wo desire to bring up tho matter of motor tmcki.workand transportation again. Tho c,!ty wlll,need a great deal, of wok done on, tho streets, ,.nd ,thut too, before long. With both the city and cbuu'ty it is to bo a continual round of Impio'yement. Why, we -Will1 Venture Ven-ture to pre'dfet that within ftjio .next ten yeais the entire roadwaV and sidewalk from tho depot up'bn Center, Cen-ter, and the whole ot Main street 111 ys bo done, and lu order to do this tho jtftS city will lmvo' to become -Its own j W f roa(j nntj Billow alk maker and Install up to dato machinery. 'It is not outsldo tho realms of possibility. Logan Is growing and so 1s tho whole county of Cache for that matter, and we bclicvo tho city com-miBBlonei8 com-miBBlonei8 as well as the county commissioners are going to study this vital saving question of motor truck haulage. "In heav work, draft animals practically prac-tically cease to offer competition to or (.ompnrlson with motor wagons," says one man, "once the Journeys exceed ex-ceed clecn miles from tho l.tsn of active operation, that vital point seems to mnrk tho limit of profitable haulage for horses In the heavier class of wotk, only enables us to observe ob-serve tho shadow bf motor wagon economy." ec-onomy." This Is pretty btrong evidence- and shows the dividing lino between the usefulness of the draft horse and the motor truck. A prominent UobW n furniture flim has sevornl of these trucks and they take In a radius of one hundred miles or mere from the Ilean City. In a recent re-cent test the territory Include a sweeping radius of over one hundred miles. Two of n prominent make of tiuck tsaveled 5000 miles for that concern In the last year, at a saving ot $9,823 as compared with tho use of horses' "Whllo that saving looks good on paper, It falls to convey tho real meaning," snld on officer of tho company. com-pany. "Tho compnilson Is mado on a basis of six teams but It would bo Impossible Im-possible for six teamsto do tho work accomplished by our "motor trucks. Wo nre now able to cover In our" dally deliveries territory, which, under tho old system, was reached only by freight and express. Wo have probably prob-ably eliminated nt least 51,200 h, shipping and cartago charges." "During tliTo period dt flvo days In Apr)! of this year, tho two trucks ran a total of one thousand miles, nn average av-erage of one hundred miles u day for each truck, tlccnuse of tho bulky nature na-ture of its goods, tho Paine Furniture' Furni-ture' company does not catry over two tons In the usual load, although at times tho trucks havo carried capacity capac-ity on long hauls. Tho range of delivery deliv-ery service takes In many other towns, Providence 4f miles, Worcester Worces-ter 45, Now Red ford fifi. Fall River 05, Holyoako 107." So that you can see it not only covers cov-ers greater distances but saves prac-tlcally prac-tlcally 51L000 a year for the two trucks, la there any tvonder that they aio rapidly supplanting the horse In every avenue of work? "In ten days, one hundred and eighty five motor trucks were sold," tepoits one great motor concern. "It Is surprising to obseve the num.-be num.-be ot people who have fallen Into tho Idea or habit of considering tho motor wagon merely as a vehicle. Its true classification Is as a labor-saving machine. ma-chine. Machinery of any kind which Is worked to 40 or GO por cent ot its capacity will inevitably make a poorer showing than If worked to Its fullest capacity. This should be taken Into consideration and tho machine made to work full time If they want to get the surprising results which tho larger and more progressive rtrms arc getting. In the cuse of the county a motor wagon could be worked to Its fullest extent. Rain or shino tho truck could be kept in use and a telophono call to the man In charge that a certain piece, of road needs filling In or building up would mean that a ten ton truck could be sent out with ballast In short ordt'i- to fix up tho damaged thorough-fate, thorough-fate, whereas It would Hike a borso practically all day. j The lesults fiom the use ot motor wagons are so surprisingly largo that It seems to us to bo only a question of tlmo when all civil work will not I be done in any other manner than by means of these wagons. An afternoon snow storm with a quick thaw, then followed by a sudden sud-den freeze makes hauling dangerous for horses, nnd in some Instances nb-solute!) nb-solute!) Impossible. Unu day last winter, six horses were spiuwled flat on the Icy pavo-nient pavo-nient between Sixty-first and Sixty-! Second streets, Now York. Ono1 broko a leg and had to bo shot It was more than a team .could do to! draw a ton. Slippery streets are no hindrance to motor trucks. Tho heav-' lor tho load, tho hotter the traction The wIbo consideration ot a vohlclo of this kind will go a great way towards to-wards u thorough understanding ot up to dato Idons In city and county gov ernment. |