Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1927-10-08
WESTERN AIR MAKES
GREAT ADVANCES
Company Pays Two Per Cent
]. DVidend.-Gets New Mail
Contract. - Plans Model
Line Between Los Angeles
and San Francisco.


during the past week with three
outstanding developments.
A two per cent dividend was
declared last Saturday, was the
official Innour cement. For the
first time company which is en-
gagged exclusively in air transpor-
tation has declared a dividend.
An announcement made jointly
by the Western Air Express and
the Guggenheim Fund for advan-
cement of aeronautics of the es-
tablHhment of a model air line
is 1928 which will carry twelve
passengers and ton of mail be-
tween San Francisco and Los
Angeles IN tnre9 hours, making an
average OF 120 miles an hour.
Further expansion 0f the West
zrn Air Express was assured when
that company was awarded a con-
tract to carry mail from Cheyenne
to Pueblo, via Colorado Springs
and Doaves.
The price was SO cents pound.
Model Airway
The following article, taken
from the Los Angeles Times, gives
a splendid description of the pro-
.0sel project: -
Los Angeles and San Francisco
are to be the terminal points OF
a model airway over which multi
angined airplanes will carry a
dozen passengers and ton or
mail and express at two miles
minute. for which all government
tai aeronantical agencies will unite
to make the finest airway in the
world, according to announcement
made simultaneously in New YORK,
San Francisco and Los Angeles
Yesterday by the Western Air Ex-
press and the Daniel Guggenheim
Fund for the Advancement OF
Aeronautics.
Starting early in 1928 planes
will leave Los Angeles and san
Francisco daily at 10:30 am. ar
riving at San Francisco and Los
Angles, respectively, at l;3O pm.
thus making the run of 365 miles
in three hours or at the rate on
better than 120 miles an hour. The
planes will be multi -motoned, TOR
safety, and Will, haVe high speed
of better than $50 miles an hour
in order to maintain this sche-
dule regardless of wind.
Every convenience for the pass
engers will be provided. Lunch
will be served en- route, radio en-
tertainment and market reports
will be available The close-in
airrorts viii permit passengers to
go from the business center OF
t,ne city 10 the business center OF
the other in four hours as COM
pared with the thirteen and one
half hours now required by the
best trains. By taking the air
plane one way ana returning by
fast night train, the round trip
NAV be completed in twenty-four
hours. including six hours stop
over.
Safety Factors
Safety will be guaranteed first
of all by the use of multi-engined
aircraft, which will fly with one en-
CINE dead. The Department OF
Commerce. through Secretary Mac
Ciacken in charge of the division
of aeronautics, will cooperate by
installing every known device
which might contribute to the
safety of the planes. The record
ofthe Western Air Express in fly
ing passengers, express and mail
between Los Angeles and SAT-
Lake without an accident of any
kind has been broadcast to the
world generally.
The action of the Guggeheim
fnnd is its second and most i'm
p1rtant move for the advancement
OF commercial aeronautics IN the
Tlited States. Its first great ef-
fort consis ed in reScuing Colonel
Charles A. Lindbergh from those
who were attempting to exploit
him and in sending him ol his
tour of the country under It's aus
pices, during which he could speak
for the cause of commercial ava
ton without having his own name
commercialiZCd
Last July the GuggeIfhelm
Foundation, Through Harry F.. Gug-
genheim, it's pre- dent, announced
that i'm it's estimation the greatest
need of commercial aviation in
This country is a top-notch pas
sanger air line Mr.. Guggenheim
announced his willingness to back
sneh a project by means of an
eouipfnent loan exactly as rail-
roads and Other means VI trans
portation are financed, the Gug-
genheim foundation to purchase
the necessary aircraft and turn
it over to the operating company,
taking back mortgage ON the
eouipment as security. 7"
Survey Made
. The decision to make It's flrst
loan of this nature to the Western
Air Express Company followed a
survey of the entire aeronautfcal
industry of the United States,
which developed the fact that the
Western Air Express is the out
standing concern from the stand
point of sound organization, safe
and reliable operation and finan-
cial standing.
Expansion plans by the local
concern have been considered Tor
some time and yesterdays an
nouncements substantiate the ru-
mors that have been prevalent.
Operation of the Pueblo-Denver
Cheyenne air-mail route will be
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