Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-11 | Page 25 | Autos Increase Rapidly in Past Number of Years

AUTOS IKE RAPIDLY II PiST NUMBER OF YEARS "Just twenty-four years afjo there were only four automobiles in the United States," says L. D. Foreman of ilhe lntermountain Motor Car Co. "Barnum & Bailey's circus at that time was announcing-.the exhibit of a 'horseless carriage' among its freak wonders to be seen under the'blg top.' In 3 807 one of the New York papers pa-pers printed a sensational story describing de-scribing an adventurous journalists's first ride in an automobile 'in quest of a new sensation.' In 1S98 a .plant was built to turn out 'motor carriages.' The first four-cylinder car was brought out in 1900, and the first New York motor show held that ame year. "And now less than a quaiter of a century, two million cars are scheduled sched-uled for production this year. It is such figures as the foregoing that give the layman a little Idea of the astounding as-tounding growth of an industry that rnks with those industries that have been leaders since the Civil war. "To quote a certain publication in answer to the question 'What has the motor car done for us?' consider the following: "It has stimulated the building of thousands of miles of permanent highways, high-ways, brought commercial prosperity 10 hundreds of cities and towns formerly for-merly out of communicatlton with industrial in-dustrial centers, created wealth by in creasing land values and making more valuable allied Industries, saved time and money in all sorts of transportation, transporta-tion, brought Into existence a new .industry .in-dustry employing one million people and thus increased economic wealth, brought the farm close to the city and thus" made farming more profitable, and furnished new and healthy recreation recrea-tion to seven million car owning families." fami-lies." ' er 12345 7S90? 12315 7S90$' 7S90J