The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-01
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The practical use of the big motor
truck for transporting merchandise
from large cities to nearby towns is
being demonstrated in one case at
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
A wholesale grocery dealer has
found it is better and cheaper to de-
liver groceries by motor truck to q
retail grocery in Belle PLANE, thirty
two miles from Cedar Rapids, than it
is to ship them by freight. When
the wholesaler receives an order on
one day and ships by freight, the
goods must be delivered to the freight
house during the day and are not
tran ported by the railroad until the
following day. They must be deliv-
ere d. by motor truck to the freight
house at the shipping point and
again delivered by motor truck to
the retailer at the point Of destina-
ton. If the order is sent in by mail
the retailer does not get his goods
until the second day following the
date of his order.
BY motor truck the goods can be
started ON their way early in the
morning and delivered at destination
by nine or ten o'clock on the day
following the receipt Of the order. II
necessary, they could be delivered
on the same day that the order is re-
ceived. There is but one loading
and one unloading.
The use of the motor truck between
towns for the transportation OF:
freight has barely started. It is des-
tined to undergo an enormous de-
velopment on the. Jefferson Highway
as the road bed is improved.
In years to come it is not unreas-
enable to- prophesy that large motor
busses and jitney BUSES running be-
tween towns on the Jefferson High
way will be very numerous. At Ger
tain seasons of the year it would not
be impracticable for these large mo-
tor buses to make interstate trips
regularly carrying vacationists to
summer resorts on the efferson
Highway. 1t is possible that in vaca-
ton seasons, motor buss excursions
might run to the beautiful lake dis
tricts of Minnesota from as far south
as Kansas City. In the fall and
winter they might run to tn win
ter resorts of Louisiana and the vicin-
ity of New Orleans, from as far north
as Kansas City. These motor buses
tof modern type afford almost as much
comfort as railroad trains and would
give much greater opportunity for
sight seeing. They would gather
travellers at the hotels and deliver
them at other hotels and eliminate
the unpleasantness of transfers at
destination.
Every hotel and every garage along
the Jefferson Highway as soon as the
road bed is sufficiently improved to
invite tourist travel, will enjoy an
increase in prosperity on account of
this great highway. This flow of
travel will indirectly. benefit every
other interest in communities which
can serve as way stations or supply
points or tourist, centers. It will be
moral and educational, advantage to
the people of the north and the south
and the middle west to intermingle
with one another, by. travelling back
and forth over the Jefferson High
way.
AS to the farmers living on or near
the Jefferson. Highway, they will ire
ceive more or less benefit perhaps
than any other class of people. The
Automobile, the motor truck, rural de-
livery and the telephone have placed
the farmer in close touch with the
city, providing he has a road on
which to travel back and forth.
Enough has been said of the value of
the automobile to; country life. The
next thing in order is the adoption
by farmers of the motor truck. The
acknowledgements farmers practically
residents OF Observation-Disclosures So
cial purposes. The. motor truck
with the Jefferson Highway. and
other good roads will locate the farm
ers practically in the nearby tewns
and shipping centers for business, and
commercial purposes.
A dairy farmer in Michigan hauls
cream. once every day.: thirteen, miles
to. a creamery. It, takes eight hours
each day to make the trip and he did
this for twenty=one years. Recently
this ~dairyman did, a little figuring to
see if he could lengthen his life by
Ieconomizing on time and crowding
a. little more into each day. He dis
covered that in the past twenty-one
years which had required eight hours
in 'each" day to make the trip to the
creamery, he had spent total Of
one-third Of his time. or just seven
years in the wagon. This labor was
more or less productive, in! as much