The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 29, 1919, Page 14

Governor Harrington of old Mary- land state has endorsed fully the re- Administrator Herbert Hoover, which follow: “Th ent of the rural mo- tor expres in my opinion, is in the line of progress, and should re- dcund to the benefit of the producer, the consumer and the railroads. This means of transportation should facil- itate delivery, conserve labor, con- serve foodstuffs and should effect de- livery of food in better condition.” All innovations are born out of necessity and out of this great world war the motor truck has come forth in a new light and the world is pre- sented with a new utility—the high- way motor express. If we stop to think a moment, we find that the first automotive vehicle to make its appearance in the streets was only 25 years ago, and that the advent of the motor truck dates back only twenty years. Its sudden de- velopment into a medium of long dis- tance hauling of anything and every- thing under the sun, over highways that have not developed as rapidly as it has, fairly astounds us. Some of us believe it should serve as cheap- ly as rail borne freight, even though it came yp in a moment, and had not the advantages of years of experi- mentation which other forms of trans- portation have had. Under certain conditions the: truck of today is operating as efficiently and cheaply as the freight car and in almost every case it is more efficient and cheaper than shipment by ex- press. Although the service rendered by the highway express can now be con- sidered efficient, as time goes on it will become more so, as ways and means are found to make for greater economy and.better highways are de- veloped. x War department order No, 38 es- tablished the motor transport ser- vice for war trucks. The. highways transport committee, serving as part of the National Council of Defense, was organized to divert all possible traffic to the highways. Government trucks running from cities in the middle west to the sea- coast are constantly establishing the practicability of overland delivery by power vehicles, The department of agriculture has encouraged the application of trucks to the moving of food. ae Hon. Jas. I. Blakslee, fourth assist: ant postmaster general is hauling farm products into dig cities distances of more than 100 miles by motor trucks. His program, presented ina bill now before congress, calls for the eventual establishment of 5,400 miles of new roads, which will ‘be built from the profits of motor truck haul- age of food to market. Mail Service Pays ‘Motor truck mail service showing & surplus of $200,000 for the first six months of operation warrants imme- diate. legislation for road construc- tion, that will extend the service | throughout the country. The United States senate has ten- tatiyely appropriated the sum of $100,- 000 .for; the purpose of transporting food products to cities, to experiment in the establishment of hauling food- stuffs over postal routes. Every truck put into service brings the farmer nearer the consumer, sup- plies, the equivalent of man-power lost: by. withdrawal of soldiers, and makes Jess serious the shortage of horses. The farmer, dependent as much on rapid access to his market as on the Productivity of his farm, finds the motor truck coming to his aid ata time when he cannot hire farm hands. A truck on a farm will replace from two to.four men. It will carry twice the. load in half the time. It will make available, for other production five acres of land whose yearly crop is now required to feed a horse. It has been estimated that in view of the greatly increased production of foodstuffs. wheat, rye, barley, oats corn. beef, pork. mutton. eggs, milk. poultry, and fruit, that 2,000,000 trucks, could” profitably be used ibe- RURAL MOTOR EXPRESS LANES ARE NEWEST PUBLIC UTILITIES AIDING DEVELOPMENT OF COUNTRY’S CROPS Agricultural Communities Greatly Benefitted by Establishment of Service to Connect Farms Directly With Markets Reducing Cost of Hauling, Thereby Lowering Cost of Living cent statement of United States Food; tween farms and markets. Only 450,- 000 motor trucks are now available for all lines of business. This is only 22 1-2 percent of what could be ap- plied to farms alone. The use of the truck in rural mo- tor express lines offers the best poss- ible medium through which farmers, truck growers and dairymen may get to their markets, Haul Hogs to Market Motor trucks delivered. over 1,300 carloads of hogs to the Omaha market during the first six months of 1918. The total was 92,708 hogs, an increase of 180 percent in comparison to 33,- 084 delivered during the correspond- ing months the year before. The ‘Dusiness ‘is growing and increasing daily every day owing to the relief in transportation gained by the use of the motor vehicle. Experience has shown that marketing by truck is just as feasible''during the winter months as it is in summer, as more than 26,000 hogs were delivered di- rectly from the farms to the Omaha market during the months of January and February. An increase of 180 percent in the number. of hogs transported to market by motor trucks in one year has brought matters to the point where the motor truck business has become so important to’ the west that com- mercial organizations {n Omaha are taking active measures to utilize the trucks on return trips to country points for hauling various kinds of freight. Railroad transportation is being re- lieved of part of a great burden’ in this manner, as it is in the eastern states. These tests demonstrate the motor truck as an, economica} method of hauling foodstuffs, and has result- ed in the formation, by leading busi- ness men of Mason City, of a com- pany, with a capitalization of $50,000. This company will use ten or twelve trucks, and will operate over five routes, varying from 90 to 159 miles in length. ‘It Will handle all kinds of freight, going, and ptincipally veg- etables and other farm products, in- cluding butter, eggs and poultry for the return load. < These people believe that as time goes on they wilt have to have addi- tional trucks, and, hence, additional capital. Governor Interested Governor Harding of’ Iowa has’ be-. come deeply interested in rural motor express lines. He hag heen particu: larly interested wn the methods em- ployed by J. D. Eggleston at Mason City. He called Mr. Eggleston ‘before a@ meeting of the ‘state council of de- fense, and he was asked to give a like service to every other part -of the state, with the result that lines Into Minnesota Experiences A rural motor express line called the Overland express is now in ope- ration between Austin, Mimn., and Blooming Prairie, Minn, On its first trip it carried 3,940 pounds of food- stuffs. They report that “this was the first of what will pe known as Overland, express, whi will prov- ably be instituted by wholesalers and manufacturers of this city to carry goods to other places and bring back the produce of the farms to the city.” The highways the the natural lines of communicatidn’ between the rural districts ‘and’ the centers of popula- tion. The wealth of our soil can’ be ‘Drought over then with dispatch, ‘in- suring ample . food supplies at all times, * 4 With the extension of rural motor express linés will’ come better and safer highways, The highways. gre the arteries through which flow our commerce, the life'blood of the nation. They should be built strong enough to carry that commerce, and in times of war serve as military highways, that commerce. may, never for a mo- ment céase, but flow op uninterrupt- edly, supplying the nourishment nec- essary to the sustainance of life, to the victory of our arms and the glory of our flag. For Information A plan of organization, known as Form No. 2—“Organization of a Rural (Motor Express Line’? hag been: pre- pared’ by the national motor truck committee, which may be procured} on application to that committee at 7| East 42nd street, New York city. Hon, Emerson, C. Harrington, war- time governor of Maryland says: “You hear occasionally of the “back to the farm” movement. Nothing has aided this movement like the automo- bile—the automobile, with its great utility, power, speed * * * has be- come a great factor in keping young men. on the farms. “* * *The efficient use of the motor truck hauling both ways—relieves the will soon be in pperation from Sioux City, Cherokee, Carroll, Atlantic, Fort Dodge, Des Moines, Marshallton, Ot- tumwa, Davenport, Dubuque, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo and Council Bluffs. At the present time there are 155 trucks running out of Council Bluffs, and during the past two months. 175,- 000 head of hogs have been hayled over this route. One rural motor express route run- ning out of Austin, Iowa, started with one truck on August ist. Since that time another has been added and a third will be running within a few days. si i Out in Deadwood, South Dakota, a line of rural motor express is being started from that point to ‘Sundance, Wyo. George H. Kilker.of Deadwood reports that freight for Sundance via railroad is ‘billed four separate times, thus necessitating a delay in: trans- Portation of from three to five days. He finds that the running time ‘be- tween ‘these two centers by motor truck is six hours and that the hanl- ing charge is practically the same as freight. From. Kalispell, Mont., comes ‘the report: “Even in this remote part of our union we are developing the very conditions which you seek to est: Ablish throughout the counfry; although in a small way and our country oule- vards are relieving the situation, Mo- tor passenger trucks as well. as rural express are competing with the Great Northern railroads to points . revi about Kalispell.” Linge tnd Bismarck.ND. | The Oldest and Largest Bank in this sectionof the State You Will Never Be Too Old © to.spend money but some day you may be too old to earn it. NOW — TODAY — is the time for you to save money for future needs. The First National Bank welcomes Savings Deposits in any amount from one dollar upwards and pays 4 percent com- pound interest. Your Savings Account is welcome no matter what the size of your de- posits may be. Established 1879 cry for man-power somewhat. It al- lows the farmer to delegate his haul- ing, leaving the man of the soil to his real work. Loads from many farms can be consolidated into one big load in a motor truck: “A splendid: thing, is ‘the rural mo- tor express, which proposes to use the motor truck in regular daily service over a fixed route, with‘a definite schedule of stops and charges, gath- ering farm produce, milk, livestock, eggs, etc., and delivering them to the city dealers, and on the return, carry- ing merchandise, machinery, supplies, etc,, for farmers and others along the route. In other words, this rural mo- tor express brings the country nearer the city.” Pneumatic Tired Truck.Taking in Big Load of Grain to Be Turned Gold PRIGE OF GAS NOT EXPECTED TOBE LOWERED Not Look for Any Decrease : for Some Time The price of gasoline and kerosene will remain at present levels and will advance before declining, according to R. R. Smith, manager of the Marsh- all Oil company at Bismarck. The price of lubricating otls, however, Mr. Smith believes, will ultimately ‘come down, b x “Whereas: there has been a slight increase in the production of oil in this country,” said Mr: Smith today, “yet, the demand has increased more rapidly than production: Tie Euro- pean demand must also be met, as oil production abroad’ has been~great- ly ‘curtailed because ofthe war. “According to the American Petro- leum association, the number " of trucks and automobiles. in the country was $5,000,000 in 1918 and it predicts hat in 1921 they wii number 7,000,- 000, The ‘oil centers’ of the country heve failed to develop as rapidly ‘as ‘is increase in, the use of internal combustion engines.’ Complete Line of Oils The Marshall Oil company carries a complete line: of. fuel, lubricating, lighting, ‘cooling, cleaning, floor and dis- infecting oils in various: grades. Its best’ grade is known as Rex and less- €r; grades are known as Moco. The leading -brand~ of - lubricating oil is. the’French Auto made in four grades. ‘Its- high ‘test “kerosene is known. as. Roseine, while the other. grade is known as Searchlight. Mon- arch gasoline is used for individual lighting systems. The company has at Bismarck eight 12,000-gallon tanks \ of which. two'ere used ‘for Searchlight,/one for Roseine, one for Monarch, one: for: ‘erich, Auto and three for gasoline. Four hundred: 55-gallon drums. used. for shipping: purposes are also used. The company furnishes oil fora radius of 50 miles, Mr.’Smith said, and.all the garages in Bismarck, with the exce tion of. one; according tb’ Mr, ‘Stith; use he Marshall. 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As the im- porters, most of whom are British, must pay not only a 83 1-3 per cent dty,.but also part of {the freight charges: and. ‘insurance, . the machines probably will be ‘sold for. 40 or 50. per cont more than in the American niar- ket, bud even then they will be much cheaper than British makes, ” Moré than two-thirds of the import- ers of American ¢ars ‘are British, and titey have strongly protested tq the Government that their business has Leen almost’ kiNed during a period when British manufacturers have had an opportunity to place their’ carson the: market. ‘ eset Partly due to“ labor troubles, this of his tire consequelice. have been the , grossest kind of profiteering. 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