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Show oo ONE SIGN OF MUCH PROSPERITY. Thr west must be a innst prodUCth I field, or it could not hold UP under the drain of t ho dollars that constantly flows eastward Here is an exam pie: One western state spent last yeor 1(16,000,000 for automobiles. California has 107,000 registered machines The people of that state purchased 1 040 machines last month, according to the state register. Opden has 400 automobiles, cos' inp from ?70ti to $5,000, The average price is not far from $1,500. That r. presents $600,000 that has pone out of this one place In the last three years. Two or three skyncrapers ould have been Imllt on that mon;. Notwithstanding this expenditure. Or den people have the money with which to buy automobiles at the rate of nine to tPn each week, which is the record of the last two weeks as disclosed in the list of state num hers as published weekly. Opden and the west must have a large surplus of wealth to allow of this outlay of hundreds of thousands of dollars for a machine that is not n necessity except in one or two lines of business |