Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-11-24
BUSINESS MEN WILL SPEND BILLION CASH
 ON TRUCKS THIS YEAR

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 Use of the motor truck for hauling
 merchandise and commodities ove,
 long and short distances is expanding rapidly from year to year. Expansion
 has been unusually rapid during the
 current year, and it is estimated that
 during 1922 induatrial corporations
 and mercantile firms will spend ap'
 proximately $1,OO0,OOO,OOO for the
 purchase and maintenance of trucks
 including the cost of machines, pur.
 chase of tires ,oils, gasoline, parts
 and equipment. The production o1
 trucks alone for 1922 is expected to amount to approximately $250, ,00O, ,O00 against $166,000,00 in 1921.
 Farmers in all sections of the coun. try, especially those within hauling distance of large city markets, in creased their demands for trucks this year. Operation of his own trucks gives the farmer the opportunity to sell his own crops at first hand and obtain better prices.
 "The growth in bus transportation which is now out of the hands of the old rough 'jitney' class of op- orator and into the control of sub stantial concerns which seek to oper- ate regular lines, will increase the demand for this class of transporta- tion," according to the Industrial Di- gest. Trucks will be needed to carry coal over comparatively long routes to help the railroads, whose capacities will be taxed to the limit. It has been computed that coal can be shipped economically by highway over a great distance, as that from Scranton, Pa., in the anthracite district, to New York City, because of the saving eff fected in loading, unloading and light craze charges. The coal delivery com panies in the cities, which have been idle all summer will need additional trucks in order to convey the winters supply to householders."
 To meet these expected demands for trucks, motor car manufacturers in the country are speeding up pro- Section as fast as conditions permit.
 Convincing evidence of the increas- ed use of the motor truck is furnished by the proposal to link all large cities by trunk highways the writer says. "The Associated Highways. of Amer ica, representing Interstate highways, plans to have national trunk high way system that will connect the tree largest sized cities in each state Many medium-sized cities and towns along the route would also be in cluded, so that much of the time now required to ship manufactured arti- cles even for short distances would be saved. It is believed that trunk highway system for the entire coun- try is not only feasible, but is be- coming necessity.
 "The extent to which the motor truck is being used at present is in dicated by reports from various cities where this method of transportation is in use. Less than 8 per cent of the milk that is brought into Cincinnati is transported by railroads even un- der normal conditions and milk and produce dealers in the vicinity of Cleveland are reported to be using trucks altogether. Milk coming into Philadelphia by trucks now amounts to 641169 quarts daily and it is esti- mated that trucks operating out of Ky, will soon be handling 800 tons of supplies, both on the out o0Rnd and inbound trips.
 NUnder normal conditions the trucks and interurbans handle 75 per ,ent of all perishable foodstuffs in Kentucky and Southern Indiana. The neat packing industry has also adopt d motor transportation. Fifteen motor express lines for handling live ;tock shipments within a radius of I5 miles of Kansas City have been established. Another Kansas City notor line is planning to extend. its 'adius of haul to maximum of 65 ailes."
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