Arizona republican., 1919-10-05
TRUCK |S SAVING DOLLARS IN LAND
 IF MOVIE PLOTS
It's as Prominent as the Heroine or Bad Man ID Present Day Logging Camp Reel Setting

Tales of truck tonnage are coming out of the woods of the North and Northwest in groups as thick as the bevies of movie plots for which that land of the lumber jack is famous. The folk who market the big trees and save heroines are not ayerse to saving dollars, say the ship-by truck people.
 Here's a reel, the scenario for which is founded on hard facts vouched for by ship by truck investigators:
 A big logging camp. Stacks of fir logs, each log running three to six feet in diameter. No bustling activity.
 Shift to interior showing office with usual rough-boar walls. Manager upstage reading W. U. message and emoting grave concern. Closeup of message reads: Sorry unable to de- liver steelrails suggest you order again when war ends"
 Exterior thrown on with manager swinging out of office door without smile for hanging moon. Halts at stack of logs, rests elbowc on one big fellow and looks up the road" Closeup showing dejection giving way to an idea, big idea, with smile gradually stealing over face.
 The fans are told that three days have passed.
 Same exterior, but with bustling &C., tivity. Scores of men engaged in loading logs on three 5-ton trucks. Happy manager looking on.
 Those who paid to see the reel are informed that Is months have passed.
 Interior showing office as above. Prosperity evidenced. Manager smil- ing as he bends above desk in writing message. Closeup of message reads: Thanks for offer, but we won't need your steel rails" Manager dictating to pretty stenographer as she writes on machine. Closeup of what she has written reads: ITO Board of Direc, tors: I have decided not to put in railroad switch. We are moving 65,- 900 feet of logs one and one-half miles daily by our three trucks This method is as cheap as by rail so far as operating is concerned, and the in itial cost of the railroad switch would be much greater than of trucks"
 The title might be Tried and Proved by an Emergency"
 Now let Phoenix resident who is closely in touch with things in the trucking world speak.
 'The motor truck is daily proving luDlDeI are handled" said A. N. Yoder, direc- tor of the Ffrestone Ship by Truck bureau at S36 East Washington street. yesterday. Tn logging camps, at saw mills and in retail lumber yards it is giving striking proof of it's usefulness and economy.
 l "A Michigan lumber firm has kept close records of trucking costs. A 3Ih ton four-wheel drive truck is used by it with a 6-ton semi-trailer. In mov- ing logs from the rural district to the plant-12h miles--it handled 56,4Sl feet in 22 days, or an average of over 2,50O feet day.
 "The average total cost was $11 .91 a day, or s4.25 to move each thousand feet distance of 121z miles, "An Oklahoma concern finds tha with three 2-ton trucks and one O smaller size it can handle a retail bus mess that would require twenty teams Taking into consideration the invest ment for trucks and the investmen
 for teams and wagons, the conceri states that it has cut it's drayage cost, 40 per cent.
 At sawmills in the Northwes
 trucks ranging from one ton to 91 tons are being extensively used. II
 the yards the small truck has show that 1t can do the work of severa
 horses. Data on deliveries, based oI
 a number of instances, shows that
 truck has the capacity of not less thal
 two teams and that it saves the wage of one man.
 The motor trucks capacity fo ] greater loads, it's extreme mobility an its tireless energy. have already eff fected remarkable changes in the lum Der industry, both in taking out tn logs and in distributing finished lum Der. Some authorities believe it wi entirely supplant the horse in thi
 field. Others say it has already revo lutionized the industry.
 \ "Ship-by-Truck respons to the de mands Of an era of reconstruction. links with the markets of the worl new productive areas of timber whic
 the railroads have not reached. It of
 fers unprecedented opportunities f
 the lumberman to put his haulage o an efficient basis, to speed up pro auction and to expand his business.