Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-05 | Page 20 | Every Ninth Person in U. S. Has Auto

Every Ninth Person in U, S. Has Auto ' Growth of the motor vehicle In' the United State 1 ahown by th fact that there la now one motor vehicle for every I.I persons. New York holding first place. The total to-tal - number of cars and trucka registered tn the I'nited Ststes on July I, arcordlng to figures compiled com-piled by the motor vehicle department depart-ment of the stats, totaled 11.04$.-U'. 11.04$.-U'. or !.4o.0oi mora than were ) registered In th country a year ago. a gain of tl per cent. With figure mleslng for sis statea. the fees collected during i the first ! "months of the current year amount to 1147,111,4117. On July 1 th number of car and trucka registered in Ctah were 4,001. of which 44 550 were passenger pas-senger csrs snd 7461 trucks, with 111 motorcycles. Tha total fees' colleMed were 141! ill. Gains In tha registration of cars I July 1. 1022. to July M. 12. in l'tah ware lt.SOl, the percentsge of gain being 32. per cent. Gatns In registration In Utah, Pecem her II. lt.2. to July 1. 1I3. wr 4145, the percentage being t.t per cent. The persons pr motor vehicle ve-hicle tf l'tah on July 1 was The 'number of motorcycles In l'tah on July 1 showed a gain for the year of 70 over tha previous year.