Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-10-28
THE DRAFT HORSE
BEING ELIMINATED
Trucks and Good Roads Fur
nish Cheaper Hauling
Facilities.
LIGHT TRUCKS ARE POPULAR
Specialized Motor Carriers
Handle Freight Faster Than
by Horse Power.

MOTOR trucks nCgan SeNcfal years
ago TO compete with the horse on city
streets where big loads were hauled
ali day long" says a writer in the Dal-
Las News This activity of the motor
truck has been acccntuated every
month until now the horse as draw
wagon motive power IS almost In the
minority and has been replaced by all
tho big haulers who have regular
work to be done
'It is no, in the city alore that the
motor truck has been making head
way. Good roads, wherever thcy have
been found. are being used by trucks
In Transportation OF freight. There
are several freight-carrying lines In
Texas where regular trains are made
up OF motor trucks, and the success OF
these lines is leading To the establish
ment of others. In the oil fields and
throughout the long reaches of level
country In west Texas that Is not well
supplied with railroads the motor
truck has "A rural field that is being
developed and which Is found worthy
the attention Of dealers In the hofse-
less wagons that are used for heaV@
traffic.
THE light trucks are most popular
in the country. as they are better
adapted e. country roads than the
heavier vehicles and they carry loads
enough for their purpose. The one
ton truck has been received by the
country freight line with a degree of
enthusiasm that made Its success sure
from tho start.
80 important has become the
freighting industry through the me-
dium OF automobile trucks, that Ear
Mayfield, member Of the railroad
commission of Texas saws the consol-
idation of departments that Is suggest
ed as a part of the work of the legis-
| lature following the investigation soon
| to be made ought to bring the high
way department under the wings OF
| the railroad commission. The reason
| given by Mr. Mnyfield Is that motor
| truck frelghting lines are growing 10
n point where the commission will
! have to take control of rates charged,
7 and for that reason construction or
roads and administration OF the state
| highway law ought to be under con-
! Il oil OF that body"
The Selling Argument.
THE selling argument for automo-
| bile trucks--that is susceptible of Ner-
| ification and demonstration--is that
the truck Is cheaper from every point
| of view where the employment Is
steady than the horse or mule team. "A
|
as twelve teams viii do in the same
time. one truck regularly employed
/ In Dallas at a gravel pit hauls four
| yards of gravel at a load. A team
would haul one and one-third yards
! The load Is three times as big and It
moves four times as fast.
80 the work Is exactly twelve times
as much as is done by team of
horses. a motor truck will go for
] o.. n A tgn NJ
! horses will not 20 for more than eight
/ hour. a lay without impairing their
usefulness A three-and "a half ton
truck costs SIS 4 day to operate, in
cluding all overhead and liability and
/ other insurance, deterioration and re-
pairs one team of horses costs s.
"a day. Twelve teams would cost $50
a dav-and the amount of work done
| would he the same for each outfit.
That's why the automobile truck Is
gaining All the time on the team Of
horses where the task is steady and
the work hard.
Large Tractor Plow.
"One big thing about automobile
trucks is their pulling power as COM
Pared with their capacity for carry
ing loads. three and halfton
| truck will easily pun trailer that car
ries n load of twenty tons. The load
would not go On the truck, but the
truck can handle II. If the freight Is
bulky several tralers are hooked on
behind the truck and a train of freight
is taken across the country Just like a
train OF freight is carried by rail on
tracks It's a great thing, this motor
truck business, and II is as much
success as anything ever was at its
stage OF development And that is not
saying that the comemrcial truck
needs any Improvement. It's the roads
that are alone In the way OF much
greater u.e Of the truck off the paved
streets-and the roads are getting bet
ter because of the truck and automo-
bile.
IN Texas the demand for trucks is
said by dealers 70 he equal TO the sup
ply available for Texas-and manu-
fncturets OF motor vehicles are not
stingy in the allotment for Texas thi ,
year, because Texas people are pros
perous, save where the rain refused To
fail.
trucks have been designed b.
manufacturers for many specialized
employments Coal dealers have a
great variety OF them to choose from
and they are in general use In deliver
ing coal TO customers I'm the cities. A
big truck will back up to the coal
chute on busy street and discharge
three tens of fuel into the basement
while under the old plan negro
driver .would be Just splitting on his
hands 10 grasp the shovel that was
TO make a cloud OF black dust In the
vicinity for an hour.
"A recent motor truck catalogue
has pictures of a truck drawing rail-
way locomotives that were to be
moved while they had no steam up: of
a truck with dozen trailers carrying
heavy freight and of many other
stunts that would make team Of
horses seem incompetent"
school Methods Ia the Home.