Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-04-05 | Page 21 | Motorists Pay Big Sum for Licenses

MOTORISTS PAY BIG SUM FOR LICENSES Owners of passenger cars and motor trucks paid $44,496,232.33 in license tees to the commonwealths of the United States during 1918. according to figures collected by the B. F. Goodrich Good-rich company. The amount collect 4d in each state is as follows 191$ State. License Fees Alabama $ 259,361.00 Arizona 142,827.00 Arkansas 414.580 00 California 3, 336,072. $S Colorado 340,000. Oij Connecticut 953,680.41 Delaware 232,195.00 Florida .'33,000.00 Georgia 319,000.00 Idaho S75.242 21 Illinois 2,763,865.Q3 Indiana 1,203.128.50 Iowa 2,547.595.80 Kansas 97,363.00 Kentuckv J02 234 28 j Louisiana 240,000.00 Maine 570.119.50 Maryland 845.660.13 ; Massachusetts 2,156,845.87 Michigan 2,875,266.2 Minnesota 1,018.63500 J .Mississippi 23,584,00 I Missouri 1,393,528.19! Montana 350,913.50 1 j Nebraska 525,000.00 Nevada 31.S02.75 New Hampshire 438,576.73 New Jersey 2,415,039.69! New Mexico 105.631.35 j NVw York 4.207,228.30 ' North Carolina 394,738.67 I North Dakota 432,587.67 Ohio 1,990,427.50 Oklahoma 1,300,000.00 Oregon ; 461.122.00 Pennsylvania ... 731,027.00 , Rhode Island 58,793.00 South Carolina 300, 216. 7L' South Dakota 282.742.00 Tennessee 400.000.00 Texas 2.036.588.00 I'tah 229.23.24 Vermont 398,753.79' Virginia ( 684,636.35 Washington S75.39l.25 .est Virginia . CSO.75n.oo Wisconsin 2.002,745.00 Wj oming 7oi3S4.00 $44,496,232.33 New York paid more money for tags than any othpr state, the license fees ' collected by Secretary of State Hugo. ' of New York, amounting to f 4,207,-228.50. 4,207,-228.50. California ranks second with receipts totalling $3.536,072. SS. The ' smallest amounts were eolected in j Mississippi and Nevada, with $23,-584.00 $23,-584.00 and $"1 802.75 respectively. A big majority of the immense rev- J onue received for tags Is converted into state road building funds, thereby there-by benefiting the operators of motor vehicles directlv.