Highways and Highway TransportationChatburn, George R.
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Highways and Highway Transportation
Chatburn, George R.
Roads; Transportation
“Indianapolis has shown the most conspicuous increase in truck
delivered stock of any yard in the country. During the last year more
than 95 per cent of all driven-in hogs to this yard were delivered by
motor truck. It is seldom that team equipment is seen at this yard.
At both Cincinnati and Indianapolis on an average day 100 trucks can
be seen coming into the yards, while as many as 300 trucks have been
counted at Cincinnati in one day, and as many as 450 at Indianapolis.”
From tables given in the Bulletin are extracted the following data for
the Omaha and the Indianapolis yards:
OMAHA YARD
----+------------------+--------------+---------------------
| | |Percentage, Driven-in
Year|Driven-in Receipts|Total Receipts| to Total
----+------------------+--------------+---------------------
1916| 46,542 | 3,116,820 | 1.47
1917| 65,922 | 2,796,596 | 2.36
1918| 188,417 | 3,429,533 | 5.38
1919| 179,036 | 3,179,116 | 5.64
1920| 181,946 | 2,708,482 | 6.67
1921| ....... | ......... | ....
----+------------------+--------------+---------------------
INDIANAPOLIS YARD
----+------------------+--------------+---------------------
| | |Percentage, Driven-in
Year|Driven-in Receipts|Total Receipts| to Total
----+------------------+--------------+---------------------
1912| 110,624 | 1,824,260 | 6.06
1913| 90,821 | 1,994,624 | 4.04
1914| 96,521 | 2,099,787 | 4.58
1915| 136,441 | 2,435,319 | 5.61
1916| 173,191 | 2,576,611 | 6.74
1917| 271,994 | 2,350,730 | 7.84
1918| 462,313 | 2,749,976 | 16.8
1919| 709,584 | 2,936,493 | 23.7
1920| 787,100 | 2,896,894 | 27.2
1921| ....... | ......... | .....
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