Show UTAH lOSES UNDER J ITS AUTO SYSTEM lY Because of at Utah's peculiar ec Ilar system of ot o licensing automobiles t the state fate and Salt Lake L e City as its Us principal town to suffer suffers s from the opinion of ot observers from Cram other states s that there thero pre aro fewer oer Automobiles here In ratio to the tho population than else- else where here Statistics show allow that this opinion is false and that as ns a a. matter of or fact Utah has more marc machines per capita than most states stales Cars from such states as 83 California or New York crone into town bearing numbers numbers numbers num- num bers running running- over the hundred d thousand mark mark whereas herus Utah's highest number toe to data data e Is about The Tho trouble lies with the tho licensing system 51 tem tern As It now no exists a company compan may take out one number for fol as many many cars as as It owns even ven en though It owns o twenty or thirty and by the use of or a R. different letter Jetter for each car it makes the tho same license number do for all of them Taxi Taxi- Taxicab Taxicab cab companies and ani man many garages e avail themselves of pf this opportunity to have all aU their cars cars numbered alike sUk and tho the result 1 Is that the state tate appears ars to have ha I fewer ever cars than it really has haft Another factor tending to the same dl discrepancy dis- dis Is 15 the rule rulo which allows an to use the number he ho obtained for his hh first car ar on his second or third car ar after the others have haC e bee been discard discard- discarded has ed or sold old back to o th the company from which the they were they were purchased That Is It wh why I I man many brand n new w 1914 model cars are seen on the streets b bearing numbers that wO would ld indicate that they ther had been purchased purchased purchased pur pur- I chased man many years eRrS ago aaro BY Bv requiring all companies handling more Ih than n one car to take tak out a separate license number member for tor each Mch car and end by requiring re requiring re- re quiring that a 11 ne new number be obtained for ever every nc new car purchased It Is estimated estimated estimated esti esti- I mated that tat the number of at auto licenses issued would b be Increased by about 2000 |