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Show paratively little additional maintenance expense. Hence it is cheaper in the long run and that is the reason why we now list a largo number of farmers and ranchers among Apperson car owners own-ers in the west. "Having the need of a motor car brought home forcibly, as it is to the stock man and the farmer, is one way of realizing what a car can do for yoii. Sitting down and figuring out the problem prob-lem is perhaps a better way and will lead you to consider first the car with the pep, the reputation, the factory behind be-hind it and we believe tho Apperson with its eighty less parts." SMITES BUY MDSTOF IUTDS Statistics Show Larger Percentage Per-centage of Motor Vehicles in the Country. " Instead of associating the ownership owner-ship of a motor car with the city dweller, one ought to think first of the rancher and the stock man when speaking speak-ing of automobiles. For statistics prove that a larger percentage of farmers, ranchers and stock men now own cars than do residents of towns and cities, ' said Manager J. O. Gates of the Gates-Horn Motor company, fi.j South Second East, intermomitain distributors dis-tributors for the Apperson Anniversary eight and Standard, models. "Recent statistics indicate that one out of every two farmer, ranchers and stock growers owns some sort of an automobile. A very few years arn . the percentage was one in five. While the prosperity that lias come to the fanner and stock man has played some part in the incrrase of automobiles in rural districts, there is a bigger reason. rea-son. "A motor car is a vital transportation transporta-tion unit to the f armr-r and t ho. stork man. Years ago even the poorest among the lot owned a horse. o had to. The f-arno is true today regarding tho automobile. auto-mobile. It isn :t a matter of pi ensure with the farmer and stok man, it is a matter of speeding up business. "Also the farmer or the sto'-k man has grown out of the early i r 1 1 a h e i once held, in common with many other men, that any sort of a ear would do. ' Experience has taught t h u t 1 he higher priced an t omobile hi . s lo:. "M . :i mN up under the hard strain of ro;:L'h roads and long drives better, rides ra sier and gives much more iZ'. i; f action at com- |