Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-02-17
Blakeslee Would Organize
Highway Industries Assn.

motor truck parcels post routes
There are 100 the United states 1920
rural mail routes and l6 600 star
routes, but the average number ~
pieces ~ parcel post matter carried
per day iu producers on these routra
iH only ciEDt per route. ana only one
piece per route from producer TO
consumer There is not single
parcel post route from New York
out into productive territory only
one from Philadelphia ana two from
chicago.
Motor truck phrcclp post routes
viii aid producers and eventually rc.
duoc the oost ot living Fourteen
hanGlinEs are nov required to do.
liyer eggs from tho producer ln Vine
land. y j. so the consumer In rhln
delrhia and this number is doubled
whom the eggs are shipped frozen
Philadelphia To consumers iu New
York Not we wonder that cRRs are
settling ~ go cents dozen AZ
against this only six landings VII
hc required hy tho motor truck sery-
'co between New York ana rhtla-
dciphia
There npc approximately 22OO 600
miles OF public road IN the l'hitcd
States ON more than half Of which
th,re is n0' mail service. and i66OO0
miles of improved road. on 90 900
miles OF which there is no scrvicr
70 develop The farmsto- table move
ntcnt II In only necessary to take ad -
vantage uf highways already existing
end improved with "A federal ap-
preparation ot ti25.OO0 and an ohio
state appropriation OF t25O.0O0 the
Columbus Zanesville road waa put In
good condition for motor truck serv-
ice year and a half ago. but the
first postofflce motor truck will hc
put In operation over this road with
In the next thirty days
Fivr years ago at public dinner
In New York, Mr. nlakrslce pro.
posed chain of motor mail routes
from New York to san Francisco
and II was treated ns "A monumental
Joke, To-day It VIII he dlrncult for
the country Ia present arguments
why such routes should not be
operated from portnpd Me to New
Orleans aA up 20 Chicago only
one seCtin ~ this route Is In doubt
siN- mile stretch through a swsmp
between Washington and Richmond.
Va
During the present winter postal
trucks have been operated daily ON
- ll0.mile round trip route from
oxford, Pa. to Philadelphia. With.
out missing q trip Growers at OK
ford were shipping from one to one
and a half tons uf mushrooms into
Philadelphia daily when tho express
service they had bacn using broke
heated motor truck for the buSI
ness In three days the pUstotfirc
prov ided one Tho first day II car
rtcd TOO pounds Of mushrooms aud
tho second day, SUNDAY. u carried
500 pounds In the FIRST three DAYS
tho truck earned $50 day This
nnr truck viii earn $4,000 year
and the service will cost $4,000. Here.
totore the growers had tn ship their
mushrooms { 20 miles 60 get them 10
Philadelphia. nfty-tiyc miles distant
\ motor truck route from Wash
iuEtou tn Iruuurdtowu has been IN
operation three yrars. with u two
ton truck ana one and one halt ton
trailer II carries the malt for iO4
pugtoffices ana l02 600 pcrsnnE
Revenue US derived from first class
mail as We'll as parcel post mat
tk-.
There is ALSO u motor mail route
between Baltimore and Gcttysburg.
and the postal revenue ls far beyond
the uuet uf operation
Through the most productive part
~ Georgia is q good highway par
uIleling the Dixie highway ana con
Meeting the coupiy seats ~ nine
counties, Yet thr@ producers thcrr
have mo- direct means OF yommunica
ton with Atlanta From Savannah
&" Macon. o. miles. not one Pre-.
1ucer is shipping 90 market Grow
rrs viii not raise produce without
snmc visible weaus of shipping
Many truck gardeners within ten
to fifteen mites Of yiti"s drive 90 the
markets with loads ~ produce and
think this Is a cheap way OF market.
iuE They do no, think OF their time