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Show ALCO TRUCK WILL I ARRIVETOMORROW I The Alco truck people have sent the H Standard the following. VM On its way to the coast in the first H transcontinental delivery of goods by H motor truck, the Alco truck Is now H at Salt Lako City. It will be In Og- H den on the 22nd on its course to Petu- luma, CaL JH The truck, with three tons aboard, H is hauling the cargo from the factory H of its ownei'B, Charles W. Young &, H Co., soap manufacturers of Phlladel- H phia, to a customer in Petaluma, flftv H miles north of San Francisco. H By the route to he taken 3.917 miles H will be covered, much tfritroVe'r roads H never before traversed except by ,H touring cars. Business men in every i section of tho country hare evinced jl an Interest In this trip, declared to be IH the greatest demonstration In history fH of the efficiency of a motor truck In !H actual service. iH The course taken by the truck in- 'jH eludes cities and towns between Phil- !H adolph la, New York, Schenectadv, !H Buffalo, Cleveland. Chicago, Des IH Moines, Omaha. Denver, Salt Lake 'H City, Reno and San Francisco. '1 According to E. L Ferguson, a Glid- 'H den tour official who is accompanying M the truck, the mechanism is working M well, and it Is expected that the H vehicle will successfully negotiate the jH long journey For tho most part ho M reports Improved road conditions over M a year ago. He says this trip should jH be productive of further betterment. lH The crow consists of Frank Morin j and Walter Colburn, drivers, who al- j ternate on piloting the truck on ita overland journey. M Indescribable road conditions were fl encountered all through Wyoming, JH due to the unprecedented succession of cloudbursts across the entire state. H The first relief In the road situation H came after reaching the Utah state H |