Arizona republican., 1921-04-10
OPEN ROAD CALLS
 TRUCK INDUSTRY.
Q1y H. A. Faulkner, Advertising M snaoer, MoreIand Motor Truck Col

eRy H. A. Faulkner, Advertising >Manaqer, MoreIand Motor Truck Co.)
 There is a call of the open road and a call to preparedness to the truck owner and the truck industry quite as powerful as the seductive lure of the canyon. beach, mountain and other glories of the great out of doors, to the passenger car owner and to the passenger car industry.
 This call of the open road is the call of better transportation with all that that great combination or social and economical development depend- ing upon it, means. Where the open road leads there goes the truck, and with it increase in values and general Community prosperity.
 In this great state of California with it's tremendous area it is inn possible to serve all the people by railroads or the street railways over 800 cities and towns have absolutely no railway facilities, not to mention thousands of people on ranches and farms outside of these cities and towns who must depend upon the highways. For proper business as well s social development, the people of this state must have transporta- tion both for person and supplies. Their crops and products of various kinds must be hauled to the con sumers, the markets. or street raIl- way terminals in the most economical efficient and speedy. way. For this great constructive work dependence must be placed upon motor trucks. The railroads can offer no refer. Railroad experts estimate that any where from three to five billions or dollars must be spent by the rall- roads in the period covered by the next six wears to keep at all abreast
 de costly extensions as would be neces- sarv to properly cover the outlying and rapidly growing sections of the country The open road in comblna- tion with the truck must, and will, furnish the solution.
 The entire coast and particularly California, has had tremendous erowth in population. It is under Soinp a. process of development of it's jrdustries and resources truly amaz- ing It's great hydro electric possl- hiiities are being developed, meaning cheaper power and plenty or II. US great agricultural acreages are beine mad to grow rapidly, thus promising Increased crops. Its mines are yield un their ores in great quantity Its oiI fields, it's forests, its shipping
 eya,-v one of it's vast potentlaltes ara springing into concrete reality.
 Established Eastern manufacturing co1Cerns and new manufacturers arc ,ooJ, tnp into the industrial advantages of Aalifornia. Some Of the larger ones are already converted to the be- ,;as mat decentralization of manu' facturine is necessary, that many d;fficulties of transportation, lapol end others may be made easier or en ai,a,y overcome through the estap ,ilbment .m of sectional branches. II nanseouence where once the coas eo s hardly looked upon as an indus s.ss, district, 1t is really reaching Sa~eIonment that few even coas s5l
 esidents themselves, realize: m e, tends to the building up of an Tn alondent ail condition and that condl sia' ,,1eans in correlation wltn man o'bar eiJ conditions, wider ana eve eye othtt 1n of motor trucks and othe .utAmotfve machinery .,-,
 impossible in brief aftlcl e,
 wore than suggest what thls ca .o ihe omen road to the truck lndus ol ,. r,,eans to California. It means sInIinnce, trX iiy real life and real prog S,s SUI in inst so far as the caH IS lls tsnsd to and realized