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Show 20.324 MOTOR K LICENSED !l 5M Truck and Passenger Vehicle Vehi-cle Registrations Are Increasing In-creasing Rapidly. Rapid increase in the number of passenger pas-senger cars in use in he state of Utah Is proven . in a very conclusive manner when the record of registered cars is consulted. Since the first day of last March there have been issued from the office of Harden Bennion, secretary of state, 17,316 passenger pas-senger car licenses. Approximately one-third of the total licenses issued were for Ford cars and fully one-half of the total covered cars ranging from $400 to $1000 in price. The small cars vastly outnumber the big speed demons classed above forty-horsepower and costing as much as a modern home. All Utah owners are familiar with the registration fees that obtain in this state, but for the enlightenment of those who contemplate joining the ranks of the rapidly increasing motor army it may not be amiss to state that the annual fee for a Ford car . Is $5; for all other cars from twenty-five and up to forty-horsepower forty-horsepower the fee is $10. .The annual fee for all cars with more than forty-horsepower forty-horsepower is $15. Surprising as has been the increase In registra tion of passenger cars since the beginning of the fiscal year, the increase in-crease in motor-driven commercial cars, which has jumped to 2078, is decidedly more astonishing. There has been an increase of several hundred over the previous pre-vious year, indicating that the power wagon has taken a leading position in the state among business men, large and small. The truck is also filling the gaps occasioned by the requisition of man power and horses for the war. Light trucks are giving satisfactory service on farms, as well us in the cities and rural towns. Thes large and powerful gas wagon is being more and more requisitioned by mining companies and corporations. Where heavy duty is needed the big truck has not been found a "slacker," and every truck commissioned in the state lias meant that more of the young manhood man-hood of i he state has been released for war duty and additional horses for the artillery and for other military purposes. pur-poses. The close of the fiscal year, March 1, 1IUS, will no doubt show another big increase in-crease over the present number of all cars in uso within the borders of tne state. |