Show AUTOS WILL WIM LL 2 COST at MORE moi i E AS mi AC M AIE ADVANCES BECAUSE dinv inv OF GREAT r i K r 4 A rp WAR that the ivr will havo have to pay more for his 1916 1016 car than he lie expected and that tho the price will steadily increase if the war continues to cause an advance io in the material used in auto manufacture ture is the an no of more than one factory J B middleton has re received elved a letter telling hirn him to prepare for or a general advance in the price of bakers next week and the chalmers company has already announced higher prices and given she the public the explanation in telling why the advance waa wa s necessity necess iry hugh chalmers almera Ch sid I 1 predict a gs serri upward revision of motor car prices all till along tho the line before many months there Is no other way out for the automobile manufacturer the european war has been re spon aible in a greit degree for the big increase in creaso in the cost of raw materials the tremendous demand for foi steel copper tin lead aluminum leot metals and other materials fol ws use in tho the manufacture of war munitions has made prices high and deliveries 11 uncertain vanadium steel which sold at 0 a pound a year ago age has jumped to 8 60 50 a pound aluminum has ne irly tripled in price going from 19 cents a pound to 63 53 cents a pound other sens increases aru steel st I 1 bars b a r s from a hundred to saen 2 a hu hundred n d red high speed from froni a pound to leather from front 20 10 1 cents a foot to 33 cents a foot ca copper from 14 cents a pound to 24 cents a pound added to the many troubles of the motor car maker Is i t alc tlc difficulty in lit securing machine tools and automatic machinery of tho the latest type fac tories turning out shrapnel and other munitions of war have practically corralee corr aled iho the output of the machinery makers steel mills are making no prom aises of delivery within the six borths period and parts manufacturer ti are accordingly held UD in their production almost every concern concerti in the metal industry is turning down orders having accumulated a quantity sufficient to keep them at tep sri eeds for months to como come the actuation can result in only one thing higher prices on car cars carst s t within the t hp next sixty days just what will be done in regard to the opening reopening re of tho the price city laundry which was voluntarily closed last monday by b G D holgate has not yet been decided F P E dole former manager who stall h etian in interest in the plant wae was in tho the city a 0 couple o uple of days lays looking things over it is poss possible 1 ablo that holgate may reopen tho the place himself |