Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 7, 1923, Page 15

: Markets AALA. OFFICIALS PLEASED AT. FEDERAL ROMD APPROPRIATION Fifty Million Fund for Highway Construction In- _ cluded in Deficiency Appropriation Bill; Or- ganization Made First Contribution. Officials of the American Automobile association are high- ly gratified at the action of congress in assuring federal aid for highways for the next two $50,000,000 authorized by years. The appropriation of congress in November for the fis- cal year of 1928 has been included in the deficiency appro- priation bill recently adopted by the house of representatives. DENVER TIRE MAN SAYS 192d PROMISES 10 BE GREAT YEAR FOR TRADE Mr. Smith, ranch manager for Kelly-Springti: ed Casper from Denver a few days ago. Mr. Smith says: “All indications for 1928 point to an exceptionally prosperous year for the automotive trade and its allied lines. “There are now about eleven mil- lion cars registered, and this car mar- ket will be added to by next years’ production, which will probably ex- ceed all previous records. “The automotive industry ts now in ® generally strong financial position and car-makers everywhere are plan- ning to bulid to the limit of their pro- uetion possibilities. “Tho present congestion of traffic, not only in the cities but on the high- ‘ways, has led to an extensive pro- gram for new-roade in practically all states. With hard surfact-road: cars may be used the whole year armind instead of seasonably and with this in mind, car builders are turning out more closed jobs than ever before... “All this means additional trade *for the tire manufacturer whose business will also be distributed throughout the twelve months instead of half that. period “We have ended the year with the greatest volume of business in the history of the company. This increase is both in doliars and in units: so far as the latter is concerned, the in- Grease is over 100 per cent. “We confidently look forward to a substantial gain this year over that of 1922 and we have planned both our sales and advertising campaigns ac- cordingly. A fact not generally known ts that an A. A. A. club contributed the first $10,000 for the promotion of federal aid of highways, this contribution be- ing made in 1903, about the time the first agitation for federal ald was started. Since that the A. A. A. has worked consistently for the federal “id and the fruition of its plans and hopes in this connection is most grat- | itving. | The Federal Highway Act of 1922 carried an authorization of $65,000,000 4 Tire company visit-| for Federal Ald to highways for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924. A clause in the Agricultural Appropria- tion Bill recently passed by the house of representatives carries a cash ap- propriation of $29,300,000 for 1924 and obligates the mt to provide an additional $35,700,000 which may be placed under contract before the end of the fiscal year 1924 and which may de paid out of the treasury in the three years following. Thust $50,000,- j 000 4s providea for the current fiscal year and $65,000,000 for the fiscal yenr 1924. These sums have been recommend: ;ed by the budget commissioner and | consequently have the approval of the | President and the administration. . In November 1922, congress auth- Forized an-appropriation of $75,000,000 for the fiscal year 1926. ‘This’ amount | Will not be appropriated until next year. \ sie Se Pee aE AMBULANCE AND X-RAY | A000 TO EQUIPMENT OF CASPER PRIA One of the most attractive motor! vehicles to appear: on, the streets of Casper is tiv new ‘650 Ambulance ' Service” car, ve property, of Dr. I. which went into operation Fr! And CASPER, WYO., SUNDAY, JANUARY 7, 1923. FACTS AND FIGURES Of the Automobile Industry for 1922 by Alfred Reeves, General -NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PRODUCTION Cars and trucks 2,527,000 Cars. 2,287,000 10 ehicle production (1920) _ Number of new cars needed for replacements in 1923 Production of closed cars 2... — Total wholesale value of cars and trucks Total who'esale value of cars _. Total wholesale value of trucks — Estimated average retall price of car, 1921 _. Estimated average retail price of car 1922 Reduction {naverage reta!l price of car Estimated average ratail price of truck, 1921 Estimated average retat! price of truck 19: 35% $1,558,567,000 $1,374,487,000 184,080,000 900 770 14% 1,326 1,050 Reduction in average retail price of truck . 21% Tire production —~..__.. 36,340,000 Number of persons employed 2,431,400 REGISTRATION Motor vehicles registered in U. 8. approx.) — 11,500,000 Motor cars. -. 10,250,000 Motor trucks 1,260,000 in U. &. registration over 1 1% 12,750,000 r 81% Tegistration on farms 8,500,000 Motor cara — 3,800,000 Motor trucks 200,000 Motor, cars serving suburban communities — 780,000 rr 7,500,000,000 Passengers carried annually bv motor car , Automobile’s Relation ot Other Business Number of carloads of automobile freight shinned by railroad Per ‘cent of rubber supply used by automobile industry _ Per cent of plate glass supply used by automobile industry_ Per cent of aluminum supply used by automobile industry — Per cent of iron and steel supply used by automobile industry 4 Number of doctors using motor cars _. Number of motor cars owned by corporations -. jasoline consumption (UT. 8.) 1922: (gain) __ verage monthly surplus of gasoline (galss) 784,261,000 Gasoline consumption (U. S.) 1921 (gals) -- 4,506,706-01m: Per cent of cars used more or less for business 909; of total car mileage usec. entirely for business — 60% sortie: MOTOR BUS AND MOTOR TRUCK FACTS , Number of cities using bus lines Number of motor ‘busos in use ~. Number of schools using motor buses _ Number of street railways using motor bu Number of rajiroa4s using motor vehicles on shi Teiisiber of:mbton sxnress: ines Jn UE. wy 8 hauled by motor transport annual 5, Proighe hauled tanenye by motor trnck« — tons ~+ 1.430,000,000 ‘Value of motor vehicles and parts exported (inclurling erigiri and tires) — Number of motor! cars’ exported — Number of mptot trucks | exported Value of motor cars exported — i 108 49,000 23,742.000 66.000 10,000 52,125,000 % 8,381,000 He a RAIDC HETATC: BCGINEAS’ IN ye: Passenger car dealers bees Moter truck. dealers 35.008 Public garages 63.000 Service ‘stations specs Supply stores ber to call to get this partiular am- bulance service. day. ‘It is the last word tn ambu- lances and is equipped with every modern .appliance fcr. medical atten- Aqa'tional equipment. which Dr. tion and service, The machine Will Frost has added to his office is a be In use 24 hours of the day. powerful machine which is The name is obtajned.from the tele- hot which is the num mving ¢x Our New Shipment of Goods Will Be Here Soon WE NEED MORE ROOM For this reason we offer our present stock of Compression 20 PER CENT OFF Guaranteed Puncture Proof Will Outlast Our stock is limited and we will be able'to accommodate only a MPRESSION | INNER TUBE Tubes at Several Casings few at this price. AMBULANCE FOR CASPER A new modern, up-to-date ambulance has been added to the hospital equip- ment of Dr, I. N, Frost,. local phy- sicjan and surgeon. The car, which is a Hudson on a Super-Six chassjs, is said to be the \Jast word in comfort for the sick. It UNPLATED THIRD ANNOUNCED BY C0, WITHIN YEAR'S PERIOD The Hupmobile price reduction, an- , nounced January 1, on all models, is, the second that the Hupp Motor Car Corporation has made in the last six | months, and the third within a year. | The latest reductions range from $35 on the touring car, roadster, recently Announced special touring and spe- cial roadster, to $100 on the coupe and $110 on the sedan. An official statement issued by the corporation last week declares that the price is beir= lowered in the face | | of rising costa many {tems entering into automobile manufacturing and is only possible because of the assur- | Ance of an even greater Hupmobile business in 1923 than in 1922, when domestic sales more than doubled | those of any previous year. | “The cost of both raw and partially | manufactured matorials has increased steadily the last few months,” the! WYOMING COMPRESSION TUBE & TIRE CO. 426 East Second St. statement says. “Iron, stecl and sev- eral other metals, as well as some of the textile products that motor car } manufacturers require, have not only increased in cost, but indications are ; that they will go still higher rather |than lower. Phone 1125-M omen in ns mo perfected purchased recently from the R.! WYOMING WEEELY REVIEW SAVING OF GAS Don’t Wait Till Last Minute on Hill, Advise of Auto Experts. Here is a suggestion to motorists for the saving of gasoline, which may be small in quantty for a single @ay's drive, but which will be worth while tn a year's driving. The common practice of waiting to shift gears on hills until the car has almost come to a stop fs one of the causes of waste of small amounts of gasoline each t'me. Accortiing to the bureau of public roads, this fact ts shown by tests conducted by Prof, T. R. Ags, of Iowa State college, in co- operation with the bureau under tho| ausp'ces of the National Researc} council. The tests were made primarily to discover the effect of vatous kinds of highway surfac'ng material and different grades on gasoline consump- tion. The conclus’on with reference to faulty driving /s merely incidental to the tests, but {t 1s one which will mean a small saying to every man who drives a car if the advice of the; bureati is heeded. | The vehicles used fn the tests were equipped with an ingen'ous device which makes a continuous record of the gasoline consumed as the vehicle moves. over the road, and another} which makes a simultaneous record! of the speed at every instant. The! ispectally equipped . vehicles, both! ‘trucks and I'ghter automobiles, were! driven over the var'ous sections, tak- ing the gasoline consumption records and the’ speed records. The bureau offers this advice: "In ascending a hill don’t walt un- til the Inst second to shift to «lower gear. If you do, you will nationly Tome speéd and: overtax your. engine, but “you will also consume more gaso- Ine." | With more knowledge condepntng! economic dr'ving, a considerable. re- duction can be made in the 4,000,000,-| 690 gallons of ganoline consumed each! year, it is pointed out, | — | | Ed today’s Hupmobile tho greatest value j we have ever offered. | “Since January 1, 1921, when Hup- mobiles were at their highest price, | Peductions varying from $570 on the | touring car and roadster to $1015 on ‘the sedan have been made. In tho j intervening two years, prices have | been lowered six other timei News Item of September 17th, 1903, Up to the date of this writing sixteen Buick cars haye been shipped and orders for eleven more @re now on the books. The Buick car is one of the pure- ly American type of moderately priced touring cars, and is a large, roomy highpowered vehicle, the extreme length over the spring ends belng 130 inches. )Pany is known as the one company! | Which did not fail to pay a single divi-| | dend on both common and Preferred | ok, THE WORLD DOES MOVE sified : Cla GARONER URGES Profits Must Be Found in Ins creased Business, Auto Man Avers. i News Item of November 27th, 1922. The Buick story, culminating in the record-smashing output of s'x- ty-one thousand cars in the last three months, is one of the. amaz. ing successes in the history of In dustrial Ambrica. “Didn't you read about Buick building nearly 20,000 cars in Oc- tober?” the old Flint. resicent asked. Pricing automobiles at the approxf mate cost of producing and marketing © specified number and taking profits from the volume of business in excess of this quantity is a sure way to force manufacturing economies and stor since the formation of the com. larger returns, declares Rusegil =, | pan: | shows that.quick arsets are sixteen th a one” phrase At the annual meeting of the Gen-| eral Tire’ and Rubber company, just held at Akron, Ohio, the balance shect! and report of General Manager O'Neil showed a condition rather un- usual among rubber compantes at ° ding” they have had since the col- lapse. of the post-war boom. For 1922, General shows earnings of $1,021,739 on a sales volume of $7 £00,000. Sales were about $6,000,000 | for 19212, so that the increase in dol- lars means a very substantial in- crease in unit sales the difference to be accounted for by the reductions in prices that have been announced from time to time through the year. In_ 1922 the company’s surplus was tu built up from $200,000 to $1,121,7339.| business for “Two years ago" said General Man-! ager O'Neil in his report, “we had to| write off what were reaily losses due to the purchase of high priced ma- terial, on which prices declined after we had made our contracts, All such materials have been used dp, long} ago, Despite the fact that the price of crude rubber and cotton have re- cently more than doubled, we are well covered: for the adyances, though tre cannot ‘write on! profits we will’make because of our buying, to-compensate| reelected. Wm. O'Neil, boldt and W. L. Bec oe president and general BE. Fouse, secretary; W. J. Cahill, as-| tained without increasing | this time, because of the “hard sled-| si treasurer. independents.”” statement of sales and earnings was | Ward. made, ® number of the financial pa-| ‘pers of the country referred to Gen-|ness reached t eral as the “Studebaker of the Tire Industry.” dently clinches the makes only pneumatic cities of the country in 1916. ‘The balance * sheet| Gardner, Jr., vice president and dic rector of sales of the Gardner Motor company, Inc., St. Louls. He further | Predicts that this method of establish. The officers and directors were ant ee willbe universally adopted Directors: — M. O'Neil, | "°° day. W. BE. Fouse, 7. F.| Sales Must Be Increased. | "Nell, G. F. Burkhardt, J. A. Die.| <The automobile industry is ew ley. Officers: M.| Well into the stage reached by ev Neil, president; Wm. O'Neil, yice|!ndustry, sooner or later, when costs manager; \.| Can not be lowered nor profit maine the sales “Every healthy business is built on progres- com- sive increases in volume. It 1s, aixlo- mes as large as fixed investment— new application of the “sixteen to stant secretary; Charles Herberich,| Volume,” Gardner asserts. The General Tire & Rubber pany is known as the “largest of the} M™atlc that a business can not stand | When its half yearly | Still; it either goes ahead or goes bagk- 4 and wagon bi he highly competitive @ the Gardner - company found The annual meeting evi-|that the secret of making profit was ttle. General] by increasing volume, In. establish- casings and) ing prices we figured the estimated no manufacturers’! cost of producing a certain number “original equipment,”| of vehicles which’ could be taken as lis all of its product through|a minimum output for the new year. scattered among the larger | This cost figure included sales, adver Using and administrative expen: As in Vehicle Business. “When we entered the automobile business we fixéd prices exactly BERLIN (By Mail'to United Press.)| We did in the vehicle busin “When the buggy ubes, accepts eee ad FOR HEALTHY MARRIAGES | as Wo 7 Germany will’ take steps to avoid! have made our profit solely by in- Physical and mental degeneration hy} creasiig production each’ year. means of hygenic examinations before! pricing the Gardner Four for 19: Marriage if proposals of the Welfare} took our cost figures for’ this year, ministry In 23 we are adopted. In a report|made such revisions as were called for our ‘writing off'.losses due to buy-| Presented to the Landtag, the min-|for by changed conditions and fig- ing In the flurry. Our business has expanded remark- ably'in the past year, and our faith in What {s before us is shown by the} fact that we are now building three, factory additions that will enable us to practically double our output in a month or two." The General Tire & Rubber com- | th: the now Italian cabinet, what do you|ed by large volume. istry points out that Germany must! ured the actual cost of producing the take steps to insure its posterity a|same quality of cars in 1923. healthy body and mind by legislating| Was taken as our new price. proper marriage standards along hy- Bienic lines, This “Our sales quota, however, is about 50 per cent higher and if we reach PPE sree | this mark we shall make a satisfac- Now that you know the names of tory profit out of the savings effect- And we are cons unk about 1 or.‘ fident that can do thi harlotte Ob: Three Beautiful Cars OF DISTINCTION These Models are all in our show rooms. Let us demonstrate their - worth. Among these models you will be sure to find one to suit your individual taste and need. The Kennedy Motor Co. Phone 909 236 W. Yellowstone * ” nt