Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-11-15 | Page 8 | Cuba Discarding Mules for American Trucks

CUBA DISCARDING MULES FOR AMERICAN TRUCKS "Goodby to two wheeled mule carts and welcome motor truck," is the way Senor Silva, a prominent Cuban auto motive dealer, now visiting the United States, expresses he adoption of tho motor truck on he ('uban isles. "Cuba Is the home of bir sugar ir j das try mule carts loo sl-w and cos; much American uiotor truck mor speedy and costs little saves much time and money," is Senor llva's ra sons why Cuba is tapldly becoming motorized. From Silva's flowing description Cuba is the home of yood roads Wid. white streets, plazas, boulevards and avenues in the country a? well as Ihc cities, fairly cover the Islands. It did not take the Cubans, especially especial-ly the sugar plantation owners Ion; I to realize thai they vere producing ?ugar faster than ih ir transportation II methods could daliver the sugar cane to the mills or the finished product to shipping points. Tourists, as well as representatives of business interests from the United States began telling f in? wonderful economies in tini, labor and monev , motor trucks made possible in th: states. resulting in a few trucks be ing ordeied for d-montmtinn pur- pOlS It wasn t long before the advantage of the truck over ;re slow moving mule cart were seen by the Cuban business bus-iness interests, and since then motor trucks have become 'he most popular ! means of transporting materials, 1 goods, etc.