Show SEES SS A BIG FIELD fILD FOR MOTOR II TRUCK f Jt 40 If uy every automobile Jo fact factory in tho the United States to Pr produce ll o. o d double 1 lc i the number of machines machi cs it t is now pro pro- producing ducin anti and Ovary every ory m. machine chine were a a. a commercial com coin mercial vehicle there would then not bo be I enough h made rondo t to ako care carp of tho increase c alone Jone iu in n ou our commerce ni t tho the Ire r rate to of growth wUi i if tho government Ro o nt statistics sta Ma- ta I 8 can cnn can bo be taken as as s a guide cs W. W E E. Eri ri and aud Wright ht vice president general gen eral manager of the tho tho Knox Automobile company Mr Wrights Wright's follows follows fol fol- lows s Tho ew New Year book of or the department depart ment of a agriculture discloses c some startling figures It shows a n t on wonderful wonder wonder- er ful fiul increase in horse stock In 1900 there thero were ere horses iu in the United Stat States s find and ten years rears later Inter or orin orin orin in in 1910 there ro horses These Thes numbers are are arc the tho largest larest on record record rec rec- ord in the hi history ton of the country Compared Com pared with thos of ten years ago 30 thc they show a R gain of 01 GO 60 per cent ont 1 It While horses have Inn jn in mum num boy bOT the they have havo al also o increased in value all In 1900 1000 tho the e estimated value of horses ou oil farms was as 44 14 a n head with a steady tead rise rise interrupted only by the tho panic of ot 1907 lOOT These The o values mounted up HI iiii year ear after year car in 1010 1910 tho tho n rage price W was TOS e a gain ain of or nearly bearly per cent centi The the value o of oC the horses horse and ana mules in this country ten years cars ago o was as pine while hilo today it exceeds ex ex- a gain nin of more than At A t the present mt rate of increase in our commerce in iu 1020 O it would take nearly fort forty million horses to supply the thc demand If tho horse is il to be he superseded super Super- sod d by h trucks or tractors it would take allowing that ono truck will win do dothe dothe the work of six horses seven million trucks and tractors Estimating EstImating- the life of the truck to be bo fi five years i ii Lt would take a production of trucks per year to supersede tho the horse entirely in 10 ten years The rhe upkeep of horses bOr 3 is is increasing faster than the value while tho the upkeep of the automobile is decreasing In n the Ibe face of these fi figures ures how bow can ean an any ono one say the thc automobile business is being overdone lA Jt is really just now coming into its own I |