Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-13 | Page 22 | Nine Million Cars Now in Use in All Parts of America

II 1 Nine Million Cars ! I 9! Now in Use in All 1 Parts of America Census Taken by Goodrich Company Shows That America Easily Leads World in Number of Gasoline Buggies in Use; Utah Gains 20 Per Cent in Number of Cars -M AKRON, Ohio. Motor vehicle reg-i M jm Istratlons for he last year Obtained 9 from the various Statea by the B. V $1 Goodrich Rubber company show there :uo now 9,274,920 passenger car and trucks in ittra thrpughoul the United HI .tntcs One for every lis persons j fa ilits la an increa.se of 1,670,904, or, i3 21.S percent over Deo. 31. 191ttj when I 3 riiere were 7,p4,0l6 motor vehicles 1 if I j registered. j The gain (hiring the paat rear was sBk greater than that of any previous year. IS The largest previous gain was i . 4 r. 7 . -. Ixfl H if Every slate in I'10 I'mon showed a 9 : sain during the yetir. Virginia lead-' . ing with 51.1 per cent, and Tennessee w last with 1.4 per cent. The majority M or states showed Increases ranging) JjjJ ) from is to 24 per cent, in a general! &1 1 way, the figures ihow agricultural 9 j States made better gains than Indus-' vk 1 trial States. Lsssl '9 M TMi rare between New York and m M I 1 hlo for supremur y in the numb, r ofj 9 ,1 motor vehicles has again turn., I In 9 1 1 New Yorli's favor. The mid - ear rcg- 41 titrations last summer showed riio 9 .'A leading by Sl.Omi ears, and it was 9 3 thought it would maintain Its lead for Hil the entire oar. Yhou.sunds of New 9 York owners registered later, however. 9 ""d the final figures nhOWSd New York 1 9 with 69'.M74 and Ohio with CIS. 000. in rhuiD i -1 -. i i i Pennsylvania strengthened lis hold! 9 m ' 011 third place, advancing from 482,-1 muM m i 1 7 to 684,114, while Illinois, Its cioe-j & est rival, increased from 178.43 '.'.s,t;g. Aithougli California did not show OS st eal a nuinerh a I gain this year SS he other leaders it still has firth place firmly secured wlt,h 50.-1 C!"0 j owe sgaln managed to win out in It.s trl-cornered race for sixth place. With Texas and Michigan. Last year Iowa had 3ij.nT: Texas .13 1, .110 and Michigan 3lT.,S13. This yiar both Michigan and Texas crept up u little, the final figures giving Iowa 437, 26'-. Texas ISlrllSi and MUchigan 412790. Which .stale will he ahead next year la n question. Nevada Is still badly mired lu the "cellar"' position, having only 10,404. i oinpared with 10.30.", a year ilto. Delaware is but 01 stride ahead, hov. -ever, with LB, 160. ' New Mexico and Wyoming are the only other states with leva than 30,000, New Mexico having hav-ing 22,04V, and Wyoming 23,924. An analysis of the registrations by states show ihm elpht have more automobiles au-tomobiles within their Individual confines con-fines than the entire continent of Europe. Eu-rope. Those states New York, uhlo, Pennsylvania, Illinois, California, own, Texas and "llehiciin have a combined registration of 4,296,686, more than 4.. per cent of all the cars registered in the countrv . FOI R N I M M l s Four new States entered the list of those having 100,000 or more cars. They were Virginia. Kentucky, Marvin Marv-in nd and Oregon. Of these. Virginia showed the greatest Increase, having advanced from 94.100 to 142.1." I ,i sain of 51.1 per cent. v