The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-29
May Be Reduced by Use of Mo
tor Trucks.
Farmers Should Haul Produce
by That Method.
so SAYS A CLEVELAND MAN
Would Mean Reduction in Ex-
pense of Marketing.
Could Haul From Greater RAJ
dius Than at Present.

For the higher cost of living in
vestigators hold several factors re-
Sponsible. An important one is the
cost of getting products to market.
d. S. Humphrey of the Cleveland
Automobile club says the motor truck
will solve this transportation problem
for the farmer. He says: I saw very
early in life that upon the road and
the means of transportation, as well
as on the products of, the, soil, must
the farmer depend for success" Mr..
Humphrey owns an amusement place!
about ten miles from Cleveland He
has been doing the work. of hauling
foodstuffs and other supplies between
the city and the park, and SO achieves
solve the farmers problem and there
by assist in reducing the cost of liv-
ing. The Humphrey company is
using a one and one-half ton White
truck to do it's hauling.
Mr.. Humphrey speaks of this ex-
perience and it's bearing on rural
transportation in general as follows:
I'VE found from personal ex-
perience last year at the beach that
our White truck could do the work
of four teams. The time is coming
and is only a few years distant when
the farmer, provided with good ROADS,
fifty miles-and 100 miles is not much
of an xaggeration-from his mar
ket, can pack his produce on his truck
and deliver it direct, either to
D1un1clDdl
be with but one handling, make his
sale and return to his farm in time
to do a Sretty good days work. We
load our t. NJ up to the top and make
twenty miles an hour with 1t without
any trouble at all We make from
two to six trips of this kind a day
and that means $50 miles travel, and
think nothing of it.
1.-THE result of all this is going to
be that the masses of. the people are
A0 find fhniT fn IA ~
try. There will always be crowded
cities, but there is not going to be
any serious congestion if good roads
are provided for quick access to the
country and the farmer makes use of
modern methods of transportation.
The farmer, so miles away from the
city, where the land is certainly cheap
er than four miles away from town,
by means of the automobile truck
and good roads is just as sure of a
market as the man near town. That
ride from 4 to o'clock in the morn
ing gives him a chance to dispose of
his produce and be back on the farm
at half past IL o'clock, and he is all
the better for his trip.
IT don't think anybody need be
afraid of these electric freight cars
CVercrowding city streets. The auto
mobile truck can save the farmer all
the trouble of hauling his stuff to the
car and having it handled two or three
times before it reaches the consumer,
and I believe that the city manufac-
turer and retailer will be able to de-
liver his goods to the farms and in
land towns more economically than in
any other way and quite likely will
take the products of the farm back to
the city when we have good roads
Five people became owners of Over
land this week, two in Topeka and three
out of town. The purchasers are A. w.
Whitsett' Topeka, model SGT: F. A.
Brigham, Topeka, model SGT; Henry
Porter, Auburn, model GIT; c. r. Walt
mire, Carbonate. model GOT; Frank
Hook, Carbonate. model SIT.
DR.. Dorothy Nicon and daughter
motored to Wichita yesterday.
They will visit relatives there.
Don A. MounDay left yesterday for
Las Vegas to look after land interests
there. He is driving through in a
motor car.
The Valveless Elmore Auto Agency
will locate its garage at 515 Quincy
street. 1.-The building will be remod-
eled soon" explained William Wolfe !
one of the members of the Gilmore
firm, land we will occupy it as soon
as possible