Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-07-16

ways. lack of landing fields and the
! considerable indiffe tanee of the
middle Atlantic states. New Eng
! land is accepting it with customary
| conservatism; the south is using it
mainly for private purposes and
Florida and the West Indies have
come to recognize flying as a most
D important method of communica-
ton.
| AT present there are in the
! United States fifteen manufacture
ers of aircraft and aircraft motors
and eighty-five manufacturers of
accessories. Dur ng the past few
/ months twenty new afrplane dis
trihuting agencies have been es-
tablished throughout the COUNTRY
and new aerial transport operating
companies have been formed in
! New York city, san Francisco,
Long Beach. Hollywood, Los Ange-
les. Oakland. stockton and Alame-
da, Calf; Minneapolis, MINI;
Philadelphia, Pluefields, w. Va;
| Pettendorf, and Shreveport, La;
Ponca City. Okla; Seattle and Spo-
! kane, Wash; Detroit, Mich; Ar
Kansas CITY. Ark. Bridgeport,
Conn; Aurora, ILL.,; Fargo, n. D.;
Cincinnati, o.; Newell, s. D.: Bir-
mingham, Ala; Asbury Park, n. J.;
Livingston, Vt; Brooklyn and SYRIA
cuse, n. Y. and Railway, n, j,
"Aviators are convinced of the
| practicabilitv of establishing pas
senger and express lines through
out the entire Pacific coast, which
roughly speaking, consists of two
great mountain ranges and series of
! valleys. The plans for such lines,
now in preparation contemplate
connecting San Francisco with Los
| Angeles, San Francisco with Del
| Monte, San Francisco with Port
land, Ore, over the Cascade range,
and Portland with Tacoma and
Seattle, Wash, with an almost GER
tain extension of this line eastward
to Spokane. A n-passenger air
plane service already is in opera
Los Angeles and a seaplane mail
and package express line between
Seattle and British Columbian
points will begin operations within
few weeks
AT present there are some $50
airplanes in commercial use in
California and fifty more in Ore
gon and Washington, while a num-
Der equal to that of California are
in operation in Texas. Most If the
machines in Texas are privately
operated by persons who made for
tunes in oil, but contracts recently
were let for aircraft to be used in
transporting supplies between
cities and oil fields. Mining and
oil companies desiring emergency
supplies or the replacement of
special tools have come to depend
on the airplane which, with the
level lands and natural landing
fields of the country and the long
distances over which the railroads
are. unable to make quick time,
has provided an impetus to COM
mercial adoption of the airplane in
Texas.
"A score of flying boats are in
operation on the Mississippi and |
other rivers of the middle west, and |
fifteen on Lake Michigan, with |
every indication pointing to sub
stantial increase of the number be-
fore winter. Negotiations also are |
underway for ten American built |
flying boats of the recently pro-
duced twelve and eighteen-p assen-
ger type for use over the Great |
Fakes and the st. Lawrence. river.
Two companies that last winter
operated flying boat service from |
Florida to Bimini, Havana and |
Sassau, and carried more than 5000 |
passengers, are now employing be-
tween ten and fifteen machines in
a fairly regular service between
New York, Boston and Atlantic
City. Both of these operating com
panies have been financially sue
cessful and have announced that
they will double their equipment
this winter"