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Show ONE CM TO EVERY 42 PERSONS-Ul TRE COM? One car to every 12 persons in the United States is the way the figures of population and automobile registrations registra-tions compare, according to C. '.Z. Cook, Pacific coast manager of the B. F. Goodrich company. "The unofficial unoffi-cial registration figures are 2,123, 7SS automobiles and trucks for this country, coun-try, an average of one car to every -12 people. In number of cars in proportion pro-portion to population, Iowa is in the lead, with one car to every 16 people, or about one to every four families. The number of people per automobile in the next 10 follows: California IS South Dakota 23 Kansas 24 Minnesota 25 Michigan 20 Ohio 2S Indiana 29 North Dakota 29 Wisconsin 31 Nebraska 21 "Arkansas is the lowest In the list among all the Btates, having only one car for every 250 people. However, they are not last in total number of cars, Nevada having only 2,177. "New York led the list in car registration reg-istration last year, having 212, S l l cars. The next 11 in order are: Illinois 181,315 Ohio 175.5S2 California 170,157 IBM Pennsylvania 161,10$ Iowa 141.111 V& Michigan 114,779 Indiana 95,501 Nfl Massachusetts 93,734 lBN Minnesota 'q-m JH Wisconsin 7o!392 "It is estimated that there will ;be NJ over 3,250,000 cars in use in 191G. Nfl Figuring five tires to a car, that is, HI four on the wheels and one spare, to NJ each automobile for -this year, or a to- BJ tal. of 16,250.000 tires, and figuring an NJ average cost per tire at $12, we come NJ to the astounding .figure of ?195.000,- oo I |