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Show CANADA BEST AUTO CUSTOMER! Number Fast Increasing in Prairie Provinces of the West WASHINGTON' Nov 11 Canada Is America's best market for automobiles automo-biles "It Is conservatively estimated." says Felix 8. 8. Johnson, the United States consul at Kingston. 1 that the In viae m Canada at the present time Is approximately 600,000 " 1 1 Continuing, he says ln a report to Herbert Hoover, secretary of com- , inerce; "The number of motor vehicles Is steadily Increasing particularly ln the pralrlo provinces, where a more extensive ex-tensive sstom of good roads Is belnr urged The prospect for the present! year are exceedingly promising, duo to the large crop cf grain. ' A classification of owners of cars In the province of Ontario shows that 1 out of the total of 1S1.97S passenger cars registered ln 1921. over one-third were owned by farmers Tradesmen constituted the second largest clans, with over 23 000 cars to their credit, and merchants were ln the third placfl owning over 16.000 cars Com-merclal Com-merclal travelers own 5,311 cars, doctors doc-tors 3.984. real estate agents. 1.098; contractors 2 961 ; drivers, 651 "it Is estimated that the replacement replace-ment needs alone wll! amount to 80.-000 80.-000 cars annually ln Canada. Approximately Ap-proximately 600.000 passenger cars and trucks hae been turned out of Canadian factories during tho past six years, which represent a wholesale whole-sale value of about $500,000,000. As Canada is the leading: market for American automotive manufacturers, the coming- year should present a still !arrer market to produrers of automotive auto-motive accessories as well as to manufacturers man-ufacturers of motor vehicles and parts " |