Show I Figures Figur s Sh Show w Tremendous us Growth of Auto uto Industry i I Sit down hold tight to your our chair and get ready to believe belleve the incredible credible For Tor here come F Facts and Figures compiled complied annually by the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce enough Commerce enough to make a fellow dizzy at the thought of them and have him realize what a small part the I I i Ii R individual plays plays' in this scarred motor world Your automobile is only one ne out of 6 now in the United States States' That excludes the trucks which make the total number of motor Vehicles Ih th the country Think of them lined up five lve feet apart along the equator and you will have a complete ring of motor cars around the earth Or figuring figuring- another way now now hold tight tight tight-at at a conservative average motor motorcar motorcar car mileage of the total mileage 1 is t 67 g ewh l annually I which multiplied i I Iby by an average of three passengers means a a total passenger mileage of whew ot-whew- whew i gs 68 During 1919 alone manufacturers pro- pro du d M Jf a ed d 64 trucKs The Tle value Of this output is Is' placed at And this amount r says sa Facts and Figures Is equal to to third one-third the money money- in circulation in the United States States' at the end of 1918 or double double dou dou- ble bie the amount of gold in the United States treasury at that time Adding the cost to wholesalers of motor vehicle parts tires and accessories accessories accessories you sou h have ve the astounding volume of in in total output for 1919 Connected with this is Js gasoline Of the 77 barrels produced In 1919 52 were consumed by motor vehicles And in passing tires produced last year amounted to After playing with Avith these figures one tire manufacturer has calculated the total mileage for the yeat at 99 miles miles enough enough to tomake tomake tomake make round trips between the earth and the moon So the city folk may not swell sell their I I I i heads too much about their part partin In these big figures let it be known that one- one third of all automobile owners In Jn the country are farmers In proportion to the population the farms of Iowa and Nebraska Ne Ne- braska compete with the fruit valleys alleys I of California for the thel greatest number of cars |