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Show TEN MILLION H MOTOR VEHICLES. H No industry has grown more rapid- ! fl ly than the making of automobiles H Not many years have passed since the I H first motor car successfully was oper J ated in this country. Today there are H more than ten million cars in (he, fl United H At tne head of the slates in motor H vehicles is New York with 754 000.: B closely followed by Ohio with T-in.Ofio H Pennsylvania is third with 689.000 and. H though other states are larger in popu H lation, California ranks fonrtli, with 675.000, whieh is only 11.000 less than H the state of Pennsylvania One of the II trade journals, in commenting on this. H note? that, m the proportion of cars to j H i population, California lakes the as-1 H cendency. having a car for every 5.19 j H persons. Last year her ratio was 6.02 H South Dakota, while still holding sec i H dnd' place, has one car for every 5.33 ' H pci suns inslead of one for every 5.24. H Iowa, formerly one of the banner H: stales, has dropped back. h i reglstra- H tlon decreasing by 7297 In 1921. and H Instead of the ratio of 5 5 persons per H I I car there is now a ratio of 7.31. Ne- H braska takes third place, with one car H for every 5.34 of population. New H York's average Is one to 13.77 persons. Hj while the national percentage is one LaaaaaaaH automobile to every 10. 10 persons. H Five states showed a decrease dur H ing 1921. Georgia, which lost 12,480; H Iowa, 7,297; Montana. 6.471; South ft Carolina. 2,272, and South Dakota, f 1,133. West Virginia made ihe largest K percentage gain of the year, 33.14 per H cent, followed closely by Florida. H 32.39; New Mexico. 30.07, while yie Hj following all made gains exceeding 20 H' per cent Ohio, Maine, Pennsylvania, H New Hampshire. Louisiana. Massachu- B setts and Indiana. H That is a falsi) cood showing tor H 1921, a year considered dull, during Hi which luxuries were being avoided. H Utah has 47,500 motor vehicles H whlcb is a little above the average for H the United States according to popula B tlon Idaho has 51,300 and Wyoming H Although New Hampshire is a much H larger state In population. Utah has j 5000 more autos The 47,500 motor H vehicles of Utah represent an invest H moot, of not less than 186,000,000, or sj- H Jmoi-t equal to the assessed valuation I of the entire city oi Ogden. Had the money spent for autos bctn Invested! in homes, many now without a place to call their own would be possessors of cottages. But human nature cannot be made over and, while there is money to spend, a percentage of the people will Indulge in luxuries and the things of pleasure and amusement, even though they deprive themselves of necessities. The motor vehicles are not all pleasure pleas-ure cars. They include trucks and other cars which have displaced the horse and they do a great service for) man. |