Show ECONOMY IN USING I IIi Ii AN AUTO INSTEAD L I II Lot ot Of HORSES oss ON fARM ARM I I Colorado Farmer Compiles s sI Figures to Substantiate ate I the Contention I The economy of keeping an an automobile antonio automo bile in instead of a team of hor horses es on a 3 a. a country estate is given iven in demonstration ion tion by hr fi figures lIr's prepared by hr T. T H. H Pros e whose home is near Denver Den Colo Cob Sonie time timo a ago o he decided that as a H substitute for the family c carriage uria e used med chiefly between farm and city he would thoroughly test teAt the motor car test h hp he made a matter of oC book hook I keeping Buying 11 his he made a a. record of its upkeep for about eighteen months month This r. r record cord with the ori original nal cost of the vehicle is IS as follows fol fol- fol lows low One set of oC tires lf g rr cm It for old ones oneil taken In ox- ox change V 33 30 91 On One overhauling and varnishing hin 35 Average A cost cot of oC gasoline oil and batt batteries batteries bat bat- t teries rles p per r month 1 12 IS months monthA 16 Original cost of ot motor car 2010 Total This is i based on a daily avera average e travel tra of thirty five miles His vehicle ve ye- hicle hick was T a horsepower 28 Franklin He Ho J I decided to buy buX a 3 horsepower 42 machine of the same make and so FO o ho sold MId the II smaller one at t tho the end of the eighteen months getting ettin for Cor it This made the net cost 1136 or a littlemore little littlemore littlemore more than 5 G cents for every ery mile milc trae tray trav e led Sat Satisfied that tho tiro ori original inal cost of horses and anti carriages to fo do the same amount of travel would exceed d the original ori ori- ginal inal co cost t of the Mr Ir I fi figures res the tho upkeep for horses and und coachmen a as 5 folIo follows s Feed for two tuo ho horses es per month 35 18 IS months CCO Coachman boarding himself per month 75 S IS months 1350 Total Tota 1 II This This remarks this automobile statistician sta sta- is His not makin making any nY allowance for repairs to carriages arria es or depreciation or po possible sible death leath of horses It will T be seen cen from this that flint even if there was wag no sickness or heath death of bor horses es and arid no depreciation dp in iD equipment T r am still 84 1 ahead on the tho deal This result is is reached by hr deducting from front th the 1080 which maintenance e of a carria carriage e would cost the tire 1136 which the automobile actually cost ost for eighteen months Another conclusion reached by the same annie figures is that tho the cost for foJ him bun of maintaining a large ar e motor car i is little above that of a smaller one He Ho now uses a horsepower 42 automobile and he lie finds that tho the cost of upkeep docs does not exceed by hy more morp than 10 per cent that of a 3 machine maclin |