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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-09-21

tenth of a cent a mile. General ave-
rage cost of upkeep over a period of
five years, |. e., six cents per mile.
I attach herewith a newspaper clip
ping which shows what uses trucks
may be put to in cases where railway
facilities may be inadequate. Gen
eral adoption of motor transportation
will solve the problem of intercourse
between the isolated portions of Idaho
and commercial centers and bring into
activity the dormant mineral resources
OF central Idaho, which have been rec
ognized for years as a veritable boz
| nanza, but without development fol
lack of transportation.
The public has heretofore felt that
the transportation problem could only
be solved and was wholly dependent
on railway facilities. But since the
motor truck has shown it's adaptability
in transportation of heavy supplies
and good roads are available it's uses
are now recognized as practicable and
sufficient to open up the great mineral
section of Idaho and care for the
transportation of ore from heretofore
isolated sections to railroad points for
| shipment to reduction centers.
STATE APPRoPRiATES MILLIONS.
/ A. farmer or dairyman. who by rea-
son of his location was handicapped by
distance to railway points. now uses
the motor truck for marketing his sup
plies. and he by reason of his orisi-
mel investment in lands not imme-
diately along a line of railroad. is in
position to clear more money than 9TH
crs whose lands are more valuable on
account of higher values pertaining to
so called near railroad" locations.
The state of idaho and various coun-
ties of the state have appropriated
millions of dollars for good roads
within the current year. Within the
next six months the state and counties
will let contracts for over 900 miles of
good roads: goodly portion of which
highway will be built of crushed rock
and cement
II take the liberty of referring to
these matters showing that the use
CT motor trucks Is but in its infancy.
The results being so apparent that
good roads and greater use OF motor
trucks will follow the evidently sue
cesswul use of them.
II the use OF trucks for handling Y. s.
mail VIII soon be popular throughout
the lower attitudes and flat sections
VI Idaho. where the snowfall in slight
ana bad roads do not obtain.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-09-21

with the coming of trucks to idaho the
Improvement of highways will proceed
at rapid rate.
POSTMASTER SUBMITS DATA
In compliance with the request
made by the fourth assistant post
master general Postmaster Davis sent
the following letter dealing with the
transportation problem, especially
mentioning how it can develop the
mining industry, to Washington:
THE Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General. Washington, D. c.
Replying to your letter Of July 81,
1913, in the matter of use of motor
trucks, would respectfully state that
have been very much delayed in
procuring reliable data and herewith
submit the result as far as possible. to
procure:
One-Truck Operators.
]. r. Compton Transfer company.
Peasley Transfer company.
Boise Transfer company.
Wilcox Bros.
Jack Taylor.
Henry Nolf
Frank Gray.
Frank Ashley.
Graves Transfer company.
CLANCY Bros.
Brassie Bros.
Jay Brogan.
c. M. Higgins, r. F. d. o. ..
(All of the above are well known
business men and Boise, Idaho, ad-
dress will reach them.)
Two-Territory Served: Anywhere
! ,,,,tl ~; -
mountainous area only about six
months in the year the balance for
twelve months, ul>less road conditions
prevent.
Three-As to Route and Service: In
most cases irregular.
Four-Show Towns Through Which
Routes Pass: See map attached COW
ering points reached from Boise.
Five-Number and Capacity Of the
Trucks in Use: Approximately 20
trucks in use out of Boise, Idaho. The
capacity nominal y tom but carry
ing 5000 pounds usually.
Six-How Long Each Operator Has
Been in Business? From one to five
years.
Seven-Charges Made for Service?
No published rates available. but rates
given as follows: First four truck OPP
orators listed under question No. I.
charge 80 cents per mile for any load
not to exceed. 5000 pounds, and $2,25
per hour for loading and unloading or
waiting time. Balance of truck oper-
ators same as above except they
| charge 40 cents per mile.
Neutrality-suspicious.: All towns in
this section of southern Idaho and
eastern Oregon have truck service to
supply the demands.
Many creameries have their own
trucks in operation for handling their
| cream receipts and for information I
submit the following as their expert
ence in upkeep of their trucks for a
! period of five years
One gallon gasoline good for Is
! miles. Lubricating oil costs one
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-09-21

are considering the addition of trucks
to carry their products to market.
GOOD ROADS NEEDED
In the opinion Of Colonel Olson the
Improvement of the north and south
highway is one Of the big works be-
fore the state and the counties per-
tinent to it. Plans already have been
adopted for the building of a road
which will connect Boise with Mccall
and intermediate points have willingly
offered to do their share of construc-
ton on the project. State and fed
eral aid will be solicited in this work,
and on August % the contract will be
let for the link north Of New Meadows
Kootenai county, in the northern
part of the state, is one of the first
counties to put into effect a road i'm
provement program. but others are
lastly shaping their plans to float
bonds for the much-needed work
There seems to be no force working in
opposition to the expenditure of vast
sums for highway improvements. Ban
mock county has taken the lead in the
permanently constructed road move
n.ent and will biuld macadam high
ways. 1t is estimated that the initial
through the saving on maintenance
which dirt and other temporary roads
require.
SOUTH TAKES STEPS
Bonneville, Bingham and Twin
Falls counties in the southeastern sec
| ton of Idaho have become active in
road building and with the voting OF
large sums will within the near future
be better supplied with smooth, long
roads than any other portion of the
state. 1t is in this territory that the
permanent construction idea has taken
such a strong hold and the results
Will be watched with considerable in
terest.
The Idaho-Pacific highway through
Ada Canyon and Payette counties is
one of the best pieces Of road in the
state at the present time, but even
additional work is being contemplated
to make this route still more adaptable
to truck and passenger traffic.
TRUCKS WILL HELP
1t is stated by Colonel Olson TIA.
tilS tOllliilS VI the ~ StlitI al
Use in Idaho will do more to cause
permanent improvements on the roads
than any other agent. and this also is
GRANTED to b. true by other well in
formed officials and business men who
| rier throughout most of the state.
heart
The United States mail is now being
transported by auto truck between
New Meadows and Whitebird, and II
is the opinion that if the truck is
adaptable for this important duty in
this section of the state over roads
which have little or no improvement
then it will be possible to employ mo-
tor transportation of both a light and
heavy character as the common car
rier throughout most fthe state.
In order to economically operate
trucks however, good roads are neces-
sary, and it is this idea upon which
! Colonel Olson bases his prediction tina,
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-09-21

0enssal adoption Of motor transpor-
tatton to solve the problem Of inter-
course between isolated portions of
Idaho and commercial centers Is Civ
ing the permanent road movement
more impetus than any other argu-
mont in the opinion of Col. Dewitt Oh
son. state highway engineer. In fact,
It IL considered of such great impor-
tanee that the government has taken
cosnixance Of 1t. The highway trans
port committee of the council of ma
tional defense recently called upon P.
NJ. Davis, postmaster of Boise. through
the fourth assistant postmaster gem
eral for data relating to the subject.
The government is anxious to see more
development of the motor truck in
solving the rural transportation prob
lem. Whether or not the large num-
Der Of trucks now in its possession
will be diverted for that purpose is
not disclosed.
GOOD roads will do more for the
state than anything else, as it is only
by means Of easy and economical
means Of access to all parts of the
country which are now prohibited by
their mountainous nature from rail-
road facilities that Idaho will make
the advancement in the mining, indus
trial agricultural and commercial
world tina. knocks at her doors al
this time, states Colonel Olson.
MANY IMPROVEMENTS
There are perhaps few men In Idaho
who have traversed the same number
Of miles over all kinds of roads, state
county and prairie. as has Colonel
Olson. Only recently has he returned
from a trip of over 1000 miles and to-
day leaves for the Sawtooth forest
country, where he will inspect the
construction of SO miles of highway
between Salmon and Challis.
The highway engineer is not back
ward to admit that road improvement
Is something that has not yet been
seriously considered in Idaho previous
to this year owing to the lack of
funds by the state department and
the necessary initiative on the part of
the various counties in the state.
This winter, however, it is given
out by Colonel Olson, one of the
largest road building programs which
/ has ever been attempted by Idaho will
be inaugurated when contra cts for 900
miles OF highway will be let. OF this
large total $50 miles will be con-
structed Of crushed rock and concrete
which 10 Of permanent character
It y the hard surface roadways which
are being considered as the logical i'm
provement by the highway department
because Of the many features such a
ROAD Possesses. 1t is known that II
coseo much less to operate car on q
harA surfaced road than on a dirt
highway. The sterling feature of the
idea. however, is the fact that it IL
always available in all kinds of wealth.
or md heavy loads are carried as cas-.
lily - passenger traffic. This argument
10 meeting with favor among tn,
farmers of the state many of whom
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-09-21
PISTON RING LOSSES

Losses through leaking piston rings
commence with the suction stroke,
when there IL vacuum OF as much as
ten pounds per square inch, slightly
decreasing and dsbasing the incoming
charge. On the compression stroke
the LEAKAGE increases. under q pres
surs OF a much ~ 90 or 70 pounds. On
the power stroke the pressure is quad
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-09-21

very satisfactory battery connections
by soldering about a foot Of insulated
wire .one nail on each end. The nails
are then driven into the battery post
under the connector. If the nails get
dull or bent they may easily be sharp
ened or Strengthened again.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-09-21
KEEP LEATHER SOFT

Contrary to very frequent advice the
leather of the clutch shoupld be kept
soft by liberal application of meats foot
oil so that it will engage slowly in
stead of with a jerk
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-09-21

rupled and here occur the greatest
losses through leakage. The moral Of
al, this is to keep the piston rings in
condition to perform efficient service
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-09-21
MOTOR TRUCKS MAY SOLVE PROBLEM Of RURAL Development
IND Transportation IN THE STATE OF IDAHO SAY OFFICIALS
Government INDICATES INTEREST BY ASKING FOR INFORMATION


Highway Engi
Remote
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-09-21

BATTERY CONNECTIONS
Horseshoe nails may be made into
Arizona republican., 1919-11-23
GRID FANS WILL FALL EASY VICTIMS ID THE SQUIRRELS
 r THIS THING CONTINUES

bet a good dollar on the high schoolers.
 One of the strangest feats of the season is the downfall of Pennsylvania at the hands-and feet-of it's ancient enemy, Penn State. It was overwhelm- ing. Another specimen of similarity was the West Virginia haymaser to Princeton's solar plexus. And the Dart mouth stunt of holding Colgate even Stephen is a. small shock in itself.
 And then skipping over the Allegheny mountains westward let us lamp the Minnesota victory over Wisconsin and the Chicago retreat before the HIini.
 But it is all good entertainment for the sport fans and no one, excepting the defeated team, is sore. It is good thing for the sport to see the little fel- low slamming the huskies to the greens ward and scampering on across the goal line winner.
 The big schools-the ones with the most money and the biggest enrolment have had things their own way a long, long time. And it is refreshing to see some one wiggle out from under and plant his spikes on the crest of the moleskin clad athletes.
 It will make the job or picking All American stars difficult one and the fans will look forward to the annual "pickings" with much interest. And whoever is picked will be cause for much argument.
Arizona republican., 1919-11-23
HALL, PACKERS STAR PITCHER HEREFOR WINTE

Herb Hall, star slabman for the Kan sas City Packers in the American asso- ciation, has returned to Phoenix with his wife and will spend the winter in this city. During the past season, Hall finished with a percentage of 500, hay ing won "A of his 40 games.
 Although the prospects are bright that when the 1920 baseball season gets under way he will be wearing the uni form of the Philadelphia National league club, Hall is anxious to retire from professional baseball in favor of a more staple and lasting business. Baseball, he explains, affords employ ment but five and one-half months out of 12 with a result that a man is obliged to secure other means of liveli- hood after the season closes. And in most instances, he states, the other means are not renumerative enough to provide a decent living.
 Herb expressed his desire to get into some kind of business, preferably in this city, and stated that if he suc- ceeded. he will retire from professional ball, and, during the summer months, manage team in Phoenix
 Hall is well known in this communi- ty, being a graduate of the Phoenix sandlots. His first professional ball was played at Long Beach in 1913 with the Southern California league. The next season he went to the Milwaukee club of the American association and by that club was farmed out to the Rock ford club of the Wisconsin Illinois league. The 1915 he started with Phoe- nix in the Rio Grande league but when the league broke up he went to the Kansas City A. A. club. In 1916 he was member of the Topeka, Western league club and in the following year he was with Joppa in the same league.
 His first trial in the majors came the following year when he went to the De- troit Tigers. After a very creditable start in the spring, he lost his grip and was finally turned over to the Packers, where he was the leading hurler of the circuit, allowing but 1.51 per nine in- inng game throughout the season.
 The Quakers are now endeavoring to secure his services, it is stated, and it is probable that he will be a member of Cravath's hur1ing corps when the season opens next spring.
Arizona republican., 1919-11-23
HuES ID GO FAST
 IN SEARCH IF B|G
 CAME TRAINS TO-DAY

Eddie Hues, welterweight champion of the Pacific coast and for the past two months a Phoenix visitor, is soon to leave for the east in quest of the welterweight crown.
 Hues has met and defeated every boy of his poundage of note in the far west and because of the lack of new timber, has decided to seek higher laurels in the east against the pick of the 145 pounders on the other side of the Mississippi
 Bouts with Mike Gibbons, Jack Brit ton, Mike O'Dowd, Soldier Bartfield, Benny Leonard and others are sought by the coast boy during his eastern en- gagement. He has already written east for bouts and has told promoters that he will meet any boy they may desire to put against him.
 Hues has been working hard in Phoe- nix for the past five weeks getting into good physical trim for the trip. He has planned a big athletic carnival for this afternoon, to be staged at the old P. A. c. training quarters on East Washing ton street, starting at o'clock sharp.
 At least 10 rounds and probably 15 will be staged this afternoon with Joie Jenner, Bob Gardner, Charley Daley and Lee Anderson as sparring part ners, together with any others who may desire to don the gloves.
Arizona republican., 1919-11-23
CRIMSON DOWNS OLD ELI IN ANNUAL CLASH
Football Results

At Easton: Lafayette 10; Lehigh 6.
 At Pittsburg: Pittsburg IT; Car negie [.
 At Cambridge: Harvard 10; Yale 3.
 At Buffalo: U. of Detroit 25; U. of Buffalo 0.
 At Columbus: Illinois 9; Ohio State T.
 At Chicago: Wisconsin 10; Chi, cago 3.
 At Milwaukee: Marquette 1s; Wa bash 6.
 At Ann Arbor: Minnesota S4; Mich igan '.
 At Washington: Washington and Lee 6; Georgetown 27.
 At Iowa City: U. of Iowa 10; Ames O.
 At Bloomington: U. of Indiana F; Syracuse 6.
 At Sioux Falls: South Dakota State Is; U. of South Dakota 6.
 At Newark: Rutgers 2S Northwest ern 0.
 At Lafayette: Notre Dame 33; Pur- due 13.
 At Reno: Nevada Al: Santa Clara [. At Columbia, s. C.: Florida 1S: South Carolina o.
 At Lincoln: U. of Nebraska Fresh men 0; York College 0.
 At Swarthmore: Swarthmore A; Haverford O.
 At Lewisburg: Bucknell 2O Sus- quehanna '.
 At Chester: Pennsylvania Military College 26 Washington 0.
 At Gettysburg Gettysburg q; Mount St. Marys 0.
 At College Park: Western Maryland O; Maryland 20.
 At Rochester: Rochester O; Hamil- ton o,
 At New York: New York Univer- sity 27; Columbia 1S.
 At Baltimore: Johns Hopkins 15; St. Johns 13.
 At Newark: Delaware 21; Lebanon Valley '.
 At Washington: Villa Nova 20; Catholic U. A.
 At Philadelphia: Penn Freshmen [; Cornell Freshmen 2.
 At Atlanta; Georgia 0: Alabama D. At Washington, Pa: Washington and Jefferson 33; West Virginia Wes- leyan O.
 At Portland: Oregon Agricultural College s; Washington State College O.
 At Manhattan: Oklahoma U. 14; Kansas Aggies 10.
 At Stanford University: California IA; Stanford 10.
 At Louisville: Centre College 56: Depauw o.
 At Grinnell. Ia: Cornell [; Grinnel !. At Dubuque, Ia.:. Dubuque College 46; Chicago Y M. C. A. 0.
 At Ripon, Wis: Ripon College 12. CarletOn College
 At Claremont, Cal: Pomona College 20; Occidental College :.
Arizona republican., 1919-11-23
By FRED TuRBYvlLLE N. F. A. Shorts Wrfter.

Social unrest. the labor problem, the league of nations and other first page form upsets have nothing on our 1919 football situation
 East and west resemble two well mangled and omeleted hen fruits. With the season two Saturdays to go what chance has a football fan got to end the year of 1919 outside of the well known nut house?
 Harvard. Dartmouth and Colgate in the east and Ohio State in the west are stfll struggling in the whirlpool. The others have bobbled below the surface in the greatest season of upsets grid iron experts ever attempted to expert
 If we can figure the remainder of the seaso mas they have performed in the games already played, we can look for ward to the defeat of tn quartt of sur vivors.
 Thus. why not a Purdue victory over Ohio the coming Saturday, Or why cant both Yale and Princeton wallop the Harvard Johnnies?
 Coach Blank may well fear any and all of the remaining games of the season. Just how a coach can manage to snatch an hours sleep between sun set and sunrise is one of the mysteries of the day. If high school teams were scheduled to meet the collegians we
Arizona republican., 1919-11-23
SYRACUSE RUNNERS
 CRAB FIRST H0NORS

NEW YORK, Nov. 21.-John Sim mons of Syracuse University, won the intercollegiate individual cross coun- try championship today over the six mile course at Vancortland park from a field of "A starters. His time was 32 minutes 55 4-5 seconds.
 W. K. McMahon, of the Massachu- setts l. T., finished second. Robert Crawford, Lafayette, third; T. c. Me Dermott, Cornell, fourth; Louis G. Wat son. Syracuse, fifth.
 The team championship was won by Syracuse with 49 points. Princeton was second with 69 and Cornell third with ST.
Arizona republican., 1919-11-23

Fighting bitterly from the first min ute of play, both elevens displayed ragged football in the first half, while brilliant play marked the final two
Arizona republican., 1919-11-23

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. 22-Harvard today de- feated Yale in their annual football classic Playing be- fore 900 spectators in the stadium which crowded as never before the Crimson eleven trumphed 10 to B. The game, marked by several striking plays, the climax of the first football season at Harvard under the coaching regime of Robert T. Fisher It was the first time in twenty years that Yale team had gone down to defeat in its two big games with Princeton and Harvard
Arizona republican., 1919-11-23
SUBSTITUTE QUARTER
 HELPS BADGERS WIN

CHICAGO, Nov 22-A brilliant O. yard dash by Allen Davey, who entered the game as substitute quarterback in the last three minutes of play, gave Wisconsin a 10 to victory over Chi cago before 26.O00 persons. Davey squirmed through the entire Chicago team for the touchdown.
 Both teams had scored field goals from the 25-yard lines during the first half and until the closing minutes, the struggle gave every indication of end- ing in a to tie. Then almost before the big crowd realized what had hap pened. Davey caught Chicago punt on Wisconsin's 40-yard line, and, shaKinA off at least seven tacklers, sped acros. Chicago's goal
Arizona republican., 1919-11-23

Ina season of advanced develop ment of the forward pass and the field goal as weapons of football at tack. &oday's game stands out with notable instances of each. Spectators will long remember the field goal kicked by Braden for Yale's only score in the last period. The ball carried fifty-three yards with 25 mile wind blowing through the center of the Harvard goal, after Braden had booted it with his line bending under a strong Crimson attack.
 Scarcely less notable was Casey's touchdown for Harvard, gained in the second period, through the surprise accomplishment of a forward pass. The Harvard star, catching a pass thrown 16 yards by Felton, ran from Yale's 22-yard line to the goal, using all his qualities Of elLsiveness and speed to avert overriding by the Yale pursuers Kempton and Reinhardt. The Crimson's touchdown was com pleted by goal kicked by Ralph Norween- The latter in the first per- iod had sent Harvard ahead with a field goal booted from the 40-yard line In a game that contained no Braden, Horween's feat would have been considered remarkable, but it be- iame ordinary in the light of the Haie's mans drop-kicking performance.
 Harvard's backfield, as represented by Casey and Ralph Horween. furn- ished the punches which registered Crimson victory. The Crimson line supplied a defense which under menace of a Blue touchdown in the third period. held fast six inches from its goal, and robbed Yale of a tie and of the ball.
Arizona republican., 1919-11-23
FOOTBALL TEAM OF
 U. s. s. ARIZONA IS
 DEMANDING NOTICE

The football team representing the U. s. s. Arizona is winning wide recog- hilton by it's remarkable fast play in the east. A recent issue of large eastern sporting journal had the fol- lowing to say of the squad:
 ''On the bulkhead in the wardroom of the United States steamship Ari- zona is brass plate with the ships motto, "At Elm Arizona
 "On the gridiron the Arizona's s eleven
Arizona republican., 1919-11-23

is living up to this motto. Led by Pop Perry, Walter Camps choice for all American back, they startled the foot
 ball world by holding the strong Colum- bia university eleven to 0 to tie. Be- sides Perry, there is Lawnmore, who
Arizona republican., 1919-11-23

[ made several spectacular runs during
 the game; Gendreau, the plucky young ster who was knocked out twice dur ing the game, but who came back
 twice and was still on the job when the final whistle blew
Arizona republican., 1919-11-23

periods. Unable to gain through the Ohio line the Illini effectively used long forward passes which eventually cost