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Show OFFICIAL CHECK ON 1,000-MILE IH DRIVE GIVE COST FACTS M How much money for operating up- H keep need the automobile owner ex- H pect to invest in running his car after H he has bought it? H In an effort to be of definite aid to H thousands of men and women who aro H balancing this question against their H check books, Milton J. and Mrs. Mir- j jH iam Thayer Seeley, tho latter a pro- H fessor in the Oregon Agricultural col- ' H lege, Corvallis, Ore , havo completed H a double transcontinental automobile JH drive, involving 9,700 miles, and havo H just put together for tho public gon- H erally what is believed to be the most H enlightening and complete tablo of au- H thoritativo statistics cvor assembled H on tho costs of motoring in the United H States. IH The tablo, which is to bo put on file H with motor clubs, throughout the coun- H try at once, is of great value to men H because of tho figures it cites, while H women will be much interested in the H knowledge that Mrs. Seeley kept the H books on the long trip. H Driving a Maxwoll touring car, the H Oregon fact hunters traveled from the H Pacific coast in Oregon to Boston, H Mrtss., and then returned to the Pa- IH clflc over a different route. Tho total H of their expenses, this including not H only the car's upkeep In gasoline, oil H .uid repairs, but tho cost of food in ( aM camping out, was surprising $245.47. VM Every condition of travel was en- , IH countered, observed and statistics IH kept on it. All cost details, as it was j JM felt thoso are sought by Uie intending VM motor car owner, are given in the of- j IH ficial tabulation. H Indicative of the spread of the mo- i H tor car's usefulness, tho table makes IH plain tho revelation that tho nutoino- ! M bile no longer is a luxury, but 1b to be ' H accepted as an economic necessity, wM these tourists having crossed tho Unit- k H ed States both ways by automobile at H a cost more than $100 less than would ( H have boon required in fares alone had IH the dlstanco been covered by rail. j JM |