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Show IS lUGHUCCESS Large Increase in Car . Sales Shown; Celebration Well Attended. Word comes from Denver that the auto show held there during the week of November 17 ivas the most successful success-ful ever held in that section of the mountains and plains. The show was well attended and statistics sta-tistics given out were to the effect tbat a total of 30,650 cars had been sold during dur-ing the ton month? of 1917 in Colorado, "Wvominp, New Mexico, which com- S-ises the main territory worked out of enyer. The narrator, writing in tho Motor A-re, also gives out tho following iD-tcrepting iD-tcrepting information: This is a pain of 50 per cent over last vear's total registration nf t50,-224 t50,-224 for the three 6tatcs. Besides, It is more than twice the "21 per JL. cent gain of 12,W predicted eight months aco by officials of the three states at the time of the show here last March. The 1917 increase is made up as follows: Colorado. 31,-130 31,-130 cars, or 47 per cent- New Mexico, Mex-ico, 5645, or 6S per cent; Wyoming. Wyo-ming. 3S7. or 54 per cent. Last year's registration for the district showed a pain of 2,677 cars, or lio per cent over tho UU5 total of 37,5-47. It would require a pain of onh' 3S per cent to plvc next year S.OOO more cars than the present 1M7 total of 90,57:1. and Rocky mountain distributors expect to see at least that bip an increase. There is now one car for every eighteen of the district's l,(300,iHlb people A total population equal to half that of duciign. The territory terri-tory has one city of 250,rmi, about a dozen T:inrin from 50'to to 50.-000, 50.-000, and scores of scattered smaller towns. |