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Show prosperous ran fflEDram COLE "Thcro is every reason to hold an optimistic brief of tho future. Crop conditions, steadily increasing orders and the general increase in prosperity hold forth a bright huo for automobilo manufacturers." This is tho opening paragraph of tho Btatomont of J. J, Colo, presidont of tho Colo Motor Car company, rh the current iBSUo of a leading automobilo magazino The Indianapolis manufacturer's manufac-turer's opinion concerning the motor oar i outlook, in part, follows: During the first quarter of tho present season moro cars by thousands thou-sands wore shipped than in tho samo period of the provious season. sea-son. Our sales, for instanco, showed an increase of more than $1,000,000 over the same period of tho 1913 season. I can soo no good reason why tho samo conditions condi-tions should not obtain later. Government statistics are interesting. inter-esting. These authentic figures for tho loading crops of the Unitod States give a comprehensive idea of tho wealth of this country. Farm lands produced an aggregate yield of $9,000,000,000 this year. Crops totalod $6,000,000,000, tho romain-ing romain-ing $3,000,000,000 being mado up in animal products. Analyzing this report -wo find that, while some productions have not been bumpor ones, tho prices generally havo boon much higher than any provious year. A short-ago short-ago in production, whore thoro is any, is amply made up in tho higher high-er prevailing prices. Taking tne season as a whole to date, it has been a. prosperous one. I am 6ure that when spring and Bummer sales havo been totalod tho samo truth will hold. I am Biiro that the 1911 soason will go down in th6 annals of automobile history 08 being a very successful and a vory prosperous ono. |