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Show ONE AUTO FOR EVERY EIGHT AND ONE-HALF PEOPLE IN ALL U. S. Motor cars and trucks fegistered in the United States on July 1, totalled to-talled 12, 048,128, acording to a survey sur-vey just completed by Automotive Industries. In-dustries. This was a gain of 2,440. 000 over the July, 1922, total, an increase in-crease of about 23 per cent. Regis-trations Regis-trations have already passed the December, De-cember, 1922, high mark of 683,761, this indicating that the final 1923 figures will show another gain of 1,-000,000 1,-000,000 or more. Every state had more vehicles registered re-gistered than on July 1 a year ago, while thirty-seven states have already al-ready gone over the final 1922 total. There is now one motor vehicle for every 8.5 persons in the United States. High percentage of increases increas-es are shown in many of the southern south-ern states. California shows the densest automobile population, with one vehicle for every 4.09 persons. Ohio had the greatest actual increase in-crease over last July with a gain of 215,000, while West Virginia had the greatest percentage gain with 40.6 per cent. |