Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-25 | Page 48 | Miller Tire Agent Predicts Prosperity

MILLER II AGENT PBEDICTSmSPERITY Declare Wheat Growers of West Will Use Up Many Casings. Among the many factors that point to the biggest automobile and tire year in the history of the motor car industry indus-try is the reeord breaking winter wheat crop iu xiirb states us Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, JTo-braska, JTo-braska, Kansas, and Oklahoma, in the npiuion of some of Akron's leading tiro nun. With thin year's harvest at the government price of $2. 2j a bushel amounting to at least $2,031,000,000 they declare that the strain on tire manufacturing resources will bo acute, to express it, mildly. V. O. AT illhot'r', general sales manager of The Miller lfubbor Co., manufacturing manufactur-ing tires and druggists' suirdries, just returned from an extensive tour throughout, the west, declares that he has never before seen so much aetivitv among the Miller dealers. "It isn't a question of selling them more tires it is a question of keeping them slocked up, lie declares. "Although the grain has not been harvested, the farmers are so certain of the bountiful summer months that, with the backing of their banks, they are spending monev on improvements in tho way of buildings, equipment, etc., on an unprecedented scale," he continued. "When this situation prevails pre-vails it means an enormous demand for motor cars because tho motor car is now an essential part of the equipment on every farm. Obvioushr, the buying and using of automobiles necessitates tho purchase of tires that is whero Akron cashes in. "This optimistic spirit in the rural districts, from a financial standpoint is not to be wondered at. Look at Oklahoma with her estimated yield of fi-1. 134,000 bushels of winter wheat; Kansas with 137,330,000 bushels; Nebraska Ne-braska with 70,700,000; Missouri with 72,423,000; Illinois with 65,990.000, and po on. In practically all of the states it is the largest acreage on record, with the loss from winter killing, overflows and other causes extremely low 1.1 per cent. "Likewise the production of hay is forecast at 114,930,000 tons, compared with S9.S33,000 tons last year. In fact, it is going to be a big production year in almost every respect and big production pro-duction years under conditions that exist ex-ist today will necessarily result in big business. ' ' Millhoff also told about the growing eastern demand for the big heavy duty pneumatic tires. "All of the 'Miller branches and distributors would take more of them, if we could get our production pro-duction high enough," he said. "Less than 12 months ago we began sending a few of the 'sixes' and 'sevens' out to the branches for experimental pur- poses. The owners of large fleets of ' commercial vehicles were invited to try out one or more of them on their cars. As a rule, those who tried them out, wanted more and almost before we knew it our production was growing rapidly. Ve are adding -new equipment all the time for the building of 'eights' as well as 'sixes' and 'sevens' and we, hope to be able before long to answer nil demands." I