Arizona republican., 1919-12-21
TRUCKS ANSWER ID
 LUMBERMEN'S CALL
By H. s, Firestone

By n. S. ftreStone In the logging camps, at the saWmlll and in the retail lumber yards, the motor truck is giving striking proof of its usefulness and economy. It's capacity for greater loads, its extreme mobility, its tireless energy have already effected remarkable changes in taking out the logs and in distributing the finished lumber. Some authorities believe 1t will entirely sup plant the horse in this field. Others say it has already revolutionized the industry.
 Logging Camps Experience
 The Barker Logging companys s camp at Bellingham, Wash, has been using trucks successfully and profit ably for over sixteen months. In one day 65,00O eet were handled from the loading point to the dump, mile and a half away, with three five-ton trucks. The timber that this concern is taking out is fir logs running from three to six feet or more in diameter. While the Barker company originally installed trucks because of the diff culty of getting steel rails, it is now their belief that the truck is as cheap as the railroad as far operating costs are concerned, and the initial cost of the railroad would have been much greater.
 Ship by Truck for Mill and Yards
 At the sawmills of the northwest, trucks ranging from one to 3 and one half tons are being extensively used. In the yards the small truck has shown that it can do the work of sev- eral horses. Data on deliveries based on number of instances, shows that a truck has the capacity of nos less than two teams and saves the wages of one man.
 A Michigan lumber company has kept close records of trucking costs. A 215 tons truck is used with six-ton Semi-trailer. In moving logs from the rural district to the plant, 121a miles 56,4S4 feet were handled in P days. or an average of over 2,500 day.
 The average total cost was $11.91 T day, or it cost $4.25 to move each 1000 feet a distance of i21A miles. By any other power it would have cost SIP per 1000 feet.
 An Oklahoma retail concern reports that with three two-ton trucks and one smaller size, they handle a busi- ness that would require twenty teams.
 Taking into consideration the in vestment of trucks and the investment of teams and wagons, they state that they have cut their drayage costs more than 40 per cent.
 The Importance of the Trailer
 The value of the trailer as an adj unct to the truck in numbering should be clearly understood. At little ad- ditional expense a traider or semi trailer, by greatly increasing the ca pacity of a load, will cut down expense 
 Where timber to. be hauled is of great length the trailer is a necessity. | A Pennsylvania company uses a 5-ton 1 truck with a two wheel trailer for | mine props which run from 30 to 5 | feet in length These loads average | between eight and twelve tans and are | brought over mountains with grades | as high as per cent.
 Ship by Truck responds to the de- | mands of an era of reconstruction. It | links new productive areas of timber | which the railroads have not reached | to the markets of trade
 It offers unprecedented opportunities | to the lumber man to put his haulage | on an efficient basis, to speed up pro- duction and to expand his business.