Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 28, 1923, Page 15

Casper Sunday . VOLUME 32. SECOND NEWS SECTION :-: Markets :-: Editorial :-: Church News :-: Autos :-: Theat Detours Mean Nothin LINCOLN WAY IN BEST CONDITION FOR MOTOR TOURING THIS YEAR More Than 90 Per Cent of Long Thoroughfare from New York Is Well Paved; Recent Improvements in Far West, Particularly Through Wyoming. With the many desirable improvements along the route of the Lincoln highway in 1922, which will add materially to motor traveling enjoyment during the coming year, Secretary Austin F, Bement reports that this popular continent thor- oughfare is more than 90 per cent paved from New York City And WYOMING WEEKLY REVIEW CASPER, WYO., SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 1923. Mourning Cribune SECOND NEWS SECTION NUMBER 27. g to This Auto-Plane cu mocmae, ers :-: Classified LIFT TAXES ON CAR AND PARTS, A.A. A. ADVICE Resolutions denouncing the contin ued levying of discriminatory war ex cise taxes on automobiles, trucks, parts and accessories were unani mously adopted at the semi-annual meeting of the American Automobile Association at Jacksonville recently, and steps were taken to launch a concerted fight for the repeal of these taxes. Discussion of th!s subject was pre cipitated by a report made by Colonel Sidney D. Waldon of Detroit. who OVER BILLION TONS IN FREIGHT HAULED BY TRUCKS IN ONE YEAR Record of Motors Considered Epochal in Transpor- tation History; Use of Trucks Gains in Farming, Mining, Oil Fields and Deliveries. _. The last year will go down in motor-truck transportation history as an epochal one in many respects. More than 1,400,000,000 tons of freight, including 134,- 000,000 tons of farm productss, were hauled over the high- to fifty miles west of the Mississippi river. Construction to be accomplished during the season of 1923 will leave less than fifty miles of unpaved road out of the first 1,100 miles west of New York city. Iowa and Nebraska are further behind, but making every effort to catch up. A paved road acros Iowa for 400 miles can be fore seen. At present, weather conditions affect the road across both Iowa and Nebraska and tue tourist must be wary of rain from Mississippi river nearly to Cheyenne, 900 miles. The road is well graded and drained, and in both states receives constant at tention. Wyoming will this year complete her entire 450-mile section of the Lin- coin highway, 2 boulevard of red granite gravel from Cheyenne out over Continental Divide and across the great plains where, ten years ago, the chance traveler picked out any pair of ruts on the range his judgment or his fancy ¢ictated. West of Salt Lake City, Utah, re- mains the only serous barrier to through travel between the two coasts. The difficulties of proper road construction between Salt Lake city and“Reno are “great, but under the new federal highway act, passed in 1921, Utah and Nevada will re- ceive necessary aid from the federal treasury. The Lincoln highway across Ne vada is completely financed. Only lack of cooperation from the pres- ent administration in Utah prevents the early completition of the road from Sa‘t Lake City to the Nevada Une. This important problem, com- prising the construction across the Great Salt Lake Desert, is now being considered by Secertary Wallace of the Department of Agricuiture, who has under his Cisposition the admin- istration of the federal ald funds for road building. It is hoped that a proper road will soon be constructed across the Utah desert, providing the | last link in an adequate highway be- tween Salt Lake City and Reno on the California borderland. The association has extended finan- clal assistance to Wyoming, Utah and Nevada to alc in the early elimination ‘of the more difficult sections. The trail today is rough in places west of Salt Lake City, but once the seven- [teen miles of desert is bridged no conditions will exist which at any time in the summer will prevent ; through travel. From Reno or Gar son City to San Francisco bay !s a perfect road. When the figures for Lincoln high- way improvement in 1922 are com- piled, it is expected that their total, | added to more than $41,000,000 ex- pended on Lincoin highway improve- ment from 1914, 'will show that close | to $55,000,000 have ‘been ‘invested in the work. Today there is available for high- way construction in the United States considerably over a billion Collars, ‘The bureau of public roads estimates that fifteen years more will see the completion of a basic American high- way system comprising about 180,000 miles of the most important’ connec- tions, if present appropriations are continued. While working to bring about the improvement of the Lincoln highway as the shortest and most direct road consistent with the typography of the country between the two coasts, the association has endeavored to |impress the need for more road monoy, better construction, more ade- quate maintenance and more bus!- nesslike and comprehensive legisia- tion, combined with the aid and su- pervision of the federal) government. In 1913 the &incoln highway was a red ine traced on the map between New York and San Francisco, tra- versing eleven states and ninety-six counties. semblance of a through l Closed Car Comfort— At Open Car Prices If roads are too rough or muddy, William W. Bradford, Jr., of Baltimore can leave them very easily. ‘This auto-airplane which he has invented travels 25 miles an hour on the road and 75 miles an hour in the air. connecting road existed west, of Pitts. | burgh. It was estimated that twenty | years would be required to comp:ete the proper construction of an ade- quate highway 3,300 miles long from the Hudson river to San Francisco bay. It will not take that long. The road will not all be paved with concrete, Many years must pass be- fore traffic across Wyoming, Utah and Nevada, or even in western Ne- braska, will warrant the investment necessary to produce a paved high: way, but it will fill all requirements for the traffic it is called upon to carry In each state. Among, some of the we'l-known mo- torists and early good roads advo- cates who have been actively inter- estes in the Lincoln highway {m- provements are Carl G. Fisher, Roy D, Chapin, Henry B, Joy, Sidney D. Waldon, F. A. Stberling, John N. Willys, W. C. Durant, Easel B. Ford, C, B,Segae find: J. N. Gunn. Mr. Gunn 1s now president of the asso: ciation. —— CANADA GREATEST WHEAT, COUNTRY MONTREAL; Quebec.—Canada fig- ures as the greatest wheat exporting country in the wortd in the latest bulletin of the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome. With a salary of $10,000 a year, Jullus Kruttschnitt, chairman of the Southern Pacific system, is sa'd to be the highest paid railway executive in the world. San Meet_me the Smoke Hi good work can simply PROPER BODY ON CAR IMPORTANT Builder Points Out Error of Not Paying Sufficient Atten- tion to Matter. “In buying a motor car few per- fons realize the importance of hav- ing a proper body on that car,” says Fred J. Fisher, president of the Fisher Body corporation. “Because of the’ confidence they have nisced in the manufacturer of the chues's when they buy his car, purehasers take it for granted that the! body, if it is the style they. pre- fr, will meet every requirement im- posed upon ft. Aside from the body's &rfieral style, appearance and cap:- city ihey dismiss further thought of It. ‘While Fisher fully appreciates the compliment thus paid it by those who purchase cars carrying its bodies, nevertheless; this attitude does not in| any sense lower its responsibility to- ward the customer. If anything, !t increases it. Study of Chasis Essential. “In the first place, Fisher realizes that.no body manufacturer who does build a body mount it on a chassis ant expect it to give equally as long and as good service as the chassis itself, He must study: the body and chass!s in their entirety, as they will appear and op-| erate when combined into a un't.| Only by such study can be produced a wel balanced and harmonious whole “Every Fisher body 1s ‘designed with the requirements of the chassis! in mind, whether it be for a car that sells for more than $5,000 or less) than $1,000. Engineers who special-| ze in ths work apply their science to secure the utmost ease of riding the maximum of comfort anc conven- ‘ence and the most pronounced re- finement of line and general appear- ance, “Very few persons know that the same preeision of manifacture found in any good chassis !s carried out in every body Fisher bu'lds. The same micrometer methods of measurement which govern the making of chassis parts obtain in the manufacture of Fisher ‘bodies. Every. wood and | metal part, bolt and screw, every item of upholstery and hardware is the part in the same model. All Parts Interchangeable. n other words, the parts of one counterpart of every other similar Fisher bocy are perfectly interchang: able with those of any other body of | the same model. When the body 1s | assemb'ed, each part and unit fits with the same exactitude as if the craftsmen had shaped each piece in- y to fit its place. his. method, of course, has many advantages. It makes possible the manufacture of better bodies at far than would otherwise be The cost ot closed bodies, particularly, would be several times higher than it is.toCay were it not for the methods of low cost manufactur ing originated by the Fisher corpor- ation “Tt also enables owners to obtain body parts quickly and at low cost s’nce they don't have to wait until these parts are made and fitted. Even though he may not have them in stock, each dealer seling cars mount- ed on Fisher bodies is able to secure the pecessary parts quickly.” AUTO WRECKING REBUILDING CO. SUPPLIES NEED With the opening of the Auto Wrecking and Rebuilding company at 1117 East. Yellowstone under the management of “Scoop Nighswon ger, Casper's long felt want will be supplied. Nighswonger has had 14 years ex- perience in the automobi'e industry, during that time, holding various posi- tions from accessory salesman to ser: vice man and garage owner. Although he bas been in the auto- mobile salyag'ng, business more or léss for the Jast year, he just recently Mason Tires MUST Wear Out pointed out that such taxes had been Ways by about 1,250,000 trucks, removed from musical instruments hair dyes, and other similar articles while being retained on the automo- bile, truck anc parts and accessories for these machines, which constitute the individual transportation of the nation, M. LL. Hemingway, general ager of the Motor and A y Manufacturers’ association, called at tention to steps already taken by dif ferent organizations for a general re real for war excise taxes. The as soc'ation ——™1 to lend its support to such legis'ation, but to stress par- ticularly the removal of such discrim- inatory taxes on everythng relating to motor vehicles, Similar action has already beer taken by the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, the Nationa: Automobile Dealers’ association, the RubLer Assocation of America and other interested organizations associated some of Caper’s business men with hin They have laid plans for a 50x140 foot coneréte building with the expec: totion of supplying the states of W; em'ng, Idaho and Montana with guarantecd used automobile parts. At the present time they have about 30 standard makes of autos sa!vaged and have purchased several hankrupt stocks of auto accessorics. leading 1 man HH The signifi stood when one realizes that {t means assistance to rail truck shipments | as well as motor In Cincinnati true! im a year the release for the main line movement of the railr of 66,000 cars, the elimination of 300,000 switching outs, and advanced the average freight movement 52 hours, Shippers Seeing Advantage. ‘The reason for this widespread sue- cess in the development of supple. mental facilities to the railroads by the trucks Is that the shippers are beg ing to appreciate generally the fact that in proportion as the r heve the railroads of less-than-car' shipments will the railroads be able to render them more efficient and cheaper service on their long-haul consignments. | ‘There has come about pretty gen: eral agreement among railron’ off! cials that motor truck operation can be substituted for railroad operation | in phort-branch line service, in trap ear work, and in terminal and sub urban distribution, In fact, more than forty railroads, inciuding New York..New Haven & Hartford, Great | Northérn, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesa-| peake & Western Cleveland, Cincin mati, “Chicago & St Louis, Canadtan| National Ra!iways and Philadelphia! & Reading, are using motor equip s made possible Pe 8S ru, mM ate Fee ml ance of this movement can be better under- ment with flanged wheels in branch- Ene service The tonnage involved in this inter- change movement between railroads and trucks originates In widely scat- tered section of the country, a great- er portion af which is now being moved in trucks than ever before, Large Market in Oil Fields, Today approximately 75 per cent of the work in the Texas and Okla- homa oll fie'ds is carried on by means of specially designed truck and trailer combinations. It Js estimated $948, 000,000 will have to be spent on new | productive oll acreage and new well operations, which will obviously tail large-scale motor-truck tions within the current year. Approximn 75 per cent of the copper, lead and zinc mining opera- ators are under the necessity at the present time of transporting both thetr products and supplies to and from thelr local supply stores in trucks, {inasmuch as the tonnage shipped from any oné mine ta not great enough any one season of the year to make {t profitable for the railroad to establish, diract. connec: tion in most cases. In the mining of coal, also, there has been a pronoune- ed tendency to motorize all the proo esses of extraction and conyeyancs, (Continued on Page Two) en: opera- ely A} Elin; i ni toe A Nation’s Tribute to Buick The Columbia Light Six Sedan is a five-passenger enclosed car of the Bees type—built strongly and handsomely, with four doors and metal back. The body is of exclusive design and offers every desirable feature of the true Sedan—strength, beautiful finish, roominess and year-round driving comfort that is independent of weather conditions. Yet the price, because of a new type of co-operation among the great specialized manufacturers of standard automobile units, is no greater than you normally expect to pay for a six-cylinder car. Under this body is the Columbia Light Six Chassis, with a 50 horse- power Continental ‘Red Seal” Motor, Timken Axles, Durston Transmis- sion with Timken Bearings, Auto-Lite electrical equipment, Borg & Beck Clutch—standard specialized units throughout. ° We are now showing this new Sedan. A thorough demonstration can be arranged to suit your convenience. 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In occupying first place at both national shows for the fifth consecutive year, Buick continues the position in the industry awarded it by universal Those long experienced in buying tires have grad- i public opinion. ually discovered in Mason Cords those fundamental things which make for month after month tire satis- faction. Wyo. Compression Tube & Tire Co. 426 East Second St. Phone 1125-M Day by Day in Every Way Business Is Getting Better and Better D-30-24-NT L. D. BRANSON AUTO CO. AGENTS FOR BUICK AUTOMOBILE 132 North Wolcott Street F, O. B. Detroit Phone 1741 WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT, BUICK WILL BUILD TH : fe