Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-03-23

as the Essex branch where will be
built during the present year an esti-
| mated production of 10000 cars carry
ing the Essex trade mark and valued
at $24.00O.O00
A like number Of Hudson super
| skies will be turned out from the par
ent plant, amounting to sS2000,ooo,
which is $4,000, 900 in excess OF its pre-
| vious high mark in 1917. This is an
increase OF II per cent over the COM
pany's banner year.
At recent meeting of the board OF
directors the expenditure of $1,000,000
was authorized for additional machin-
cry and other manufacturing facilities
Since Hudson began the building of
| its super-six it has never been able to
i catch up on orders. With the produce
ton at zero, caused by munition work
and war conditions in general, the or
ders continued to accumulate With
production rapidly getting back to nor
NAL and plans for the year fully made
shipping will begin April and by June
| is estimated the monthly output OF
super-sixes will be about 1000.
Government purchase orders Tor
peace time materials, aggregating $lS,-
100000 have been placed with Detroit
manufacturers during the past few
weeks. n
| Other contracts are being issued dali
ly and are going long way toward
easing the situation created by the
government holding up some $780,
100000 in payment on verbal contracts
entered into here during the war per-
iod. 1t is felt that the orders now be-
| ing apportioned will serve in a meas
ure to keep Detroit workers employed
while post industrial adjustments
| are being made. Among the contracts
| now held by Detroit automobile manu-
| facturers are many orders for the
| Ford Motor company, the Packard,
Dodge Bros. the Standard Motor
Truck Body company, the Cadillac Mo-
| tor Car company, Detroit Tractor COM
pany and others.
with the efficiency of the truck as
a means of transportation thoroughly
established as a result Of the world
| war" said President r. A. Williams,
Jr, of the Garford Motor Truck com
pany, and it's necessity as common
carrier admitted it is time to turn to
the subject of better roads. While it
is true that they have demonstrated
their ability to serve over roads torn
by shells and where there were no
roads at all. yet it was not for this
that trucks were intended.
THAT the roads in this country,
ALTHOUGH greatly improced since the
coming OF the automobile are not yet
universally developed to the point
where they should be, was demonstrat-
ed during the stress of war. In sew
eral instances shipments of essential
war materials were seriously delayed
because of deplorable conditions alon g
some of our supposedly important
highways, conditions that might have
been improved at little cost.
1T behooves US to take advantage
of the lessons we have learned and
we who are interested in good roads
foresee an era in which much stress
will be placed on their improvement.
The influence of good roads on social
and economic conditions, development
of industrial pursuits and the promo
ton of business is recognized in the
majority of communities of this coun-
try. Now comes a problem of trans
portation which was never more acute
ly felt, and communities are awaken
| ing to the necessity of improvements"
| Retail grocers in Seattle, Wash. de-
cided To discontinue giving credit to