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Show According to the Intest statistics, there are nt present one million, seven hundred nnd fifty thousand automobiles in uso in the United States. This represents nn increaso from two hundred thousand in 1909. In the latter year there wero many who publicly declared that the automobile industry had about reached tho zenith zen-ith of its development, nnd that many more machines ma-chines would not bo in general use because of tho price. Since that time, however, tho price hasateadily declined and tho quality of output improved, until In some sections of tho country thore nro moro automobiles than buggies, which used to be the standby of rural folk. Considering Consider-ing tho development of the nutomobilo Industry the reverse of tho picture nlso must bo viewed A large number of buggy nnd horse drawn vehicle ve-hicle fnctories have been driven to tho wall. Many of these factories wero in towns depending upon them for a good bit of their prosperity in the wages they distributed. Ten or fifteen years ngo tho buggy industry wns scattered throughout through-out the country in many scores of prosperous towns. Today a big dent has been put in thnt industry and what has taken its plnct! the automobile auto-mobile industry is largely concentrated in a few large cities. The enormity of the automobile automo-bile industry is something wonderful to behold, nnd with it the good oldfnshioncd buggy has about the way of clipper ships and tho wooden sailing "liner" of a bygone day. |