Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 23, 1924, Page 17

FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1924 ue : he Casper Sunday Eridune ; PAGE THREE as 14 tons with gasoline back now to the case of Wyoming, in 1923 there were registered 39,563 motor vehicles, an increase for the Year of 9,194. These cars and trucks paid in fees a total of $414,- these expenditures at the present] 096.39, all of whicli goes to retire Show opens and come in a body to * F 5 the show. This company has taken Highways ar Exeeds Cost, Sevison 10c ‘on concrete. In other words, Whee i pf og Sethe successful season in 1924, and are view the greatest model the Dort company has ever produced. The Wyoming Dort Sales and Service company has been idle for al sens @ new lease on life, and this fact Makes Predicted by J B coupled with our new home at 434 OWS; concrete and starts down a gravel gravel and starts down the average confident that the merits of the Tt - tion: Have you seen the new Dort? : ——. If you haven't, you have a surprise Pesci Hiamiatiaw nei Cea in store. Don’t come down to the f i : «< show room to see it. Wait until the b] some time, waiting for the arr of the new models. Several of them . . costing a 2 Re now in Casper waiting for your ° Saving to Automobile Owners in ’ Surfaced 30e_ per ‘gallon, each alle of travel approval upon the opening nizne o {Busy Spring for All ‘reads, 1 1-3c on gravel and only West Yellowstone, should put a Dealer Here Dort car on every street in Casper. * surface the extra gasoling required We look forwar —_ ‘ 4 to an unusually costs as much as a tax of 10c a gal- SKIN lusion that Dort will serve to maka it one of | the ‘Rickenbacker will always be the Casper’s leading motor cars. We] subject of con are at present wrapped up in our ble comment at ¥y automobile show. As in the the traveler's tax caused by the “In all the world no car like this,” is the slogan that has made the Jewett Tamor poor type of road. You will be alms interested in the Jewett display at the show. Above is shown the Jewett Special touring a car|Plans for the auto show display,| past, you may be certain of find. time is somewhat critical but largely|the highway bonds heretofore Th tne ies Seine Mae test that anyone might well desire to own. The Lee Doud Motor company, can tell you all about it. y hope that recat ne iF . Mr < medi arcs 3H Cece aes directed towards securing a proper | sued. on poor roads there is the expense r balance between construction and Up to January 1 the gasoline tax of added repairs, tires and greater depreciation. You, owners of cars, are paying for good roads and their mainten- ance and if you do not get them it is because you are paying a mud tax instead of a gasoline tax. maintenance and placing the bur-|of .0lc per gallon had produced den for each where it properly be-| $140,146.62, for the eight-month longs. It is coming to be recognized | period in which this tax has been in by practically all authorities that| force. the cost of maintenance and recon-} The other tax paid by the motor struction is a charge against the/ vehicle owner is the property tax eroded and surfacing carried away.| opening of roads, is not carried on,| the road user through an adequate But by far the greater damage was| Mt only because funds are not| gas tax. caused by the loss of old bridges and|2Ylable, but it is not believed that culverts on roads taken over by the|‘"? very small amount of traffic at state and which, under normal con-|‘th!s time could possibly justity the ditions still had several years’ ser- large expenditure that would be vice, sufficient to last until they|®¢essary. A great disadvantage in sbile show at all t best ever held in the city of Casper. | mes each even- ——————__——_ Don't fail to see tt upon the 2 show. ealer ts © sell Rickenback- r, but in the entire The motorist must pay. The con struction and maintenance of a sys- tem of improved’ highways suf- ficiently comprehensive to properly Anti-Freeze Used the Rut A reper State of Wyoming as well. The : serve the Ruto owners is not ¢ 8 sale of these ca 1 de possibl road user. end in order to arrive at the total| The motor fuel tax, commonly| could be taken up under a regular| ing off the maintenance men in| play and Js not caine te he dona || AS Beverage By iy the tact that ti forecachig: mae Before taking up in Getail the eub-}I estimate the average valuation te] known as the gas tax, is by far the| program. The total cost to the de-| te fall is that the force is disor-| > ti short years. It can be done, ‘nite -Smappovaenadia: fer. the. schema. ject of financing highway mainten-| be $300 and the average tax rate 18| most scientific impost upon motor Partment of these floods has been| €*"ized and many new men must be| and will be done because the people | : ance in Wyoming let us consider for | $0.020. Hobo Does Work . ined each season. = vehicles. It meters highway service | $225,256.00, and about -100,000 is’ re.| ‘™@ want a moment the astounding figures The total taxes paid by the ve- fure of motor vehicles, the Ricken: highways—they need them backer seems always a atep in ad- and the benefits derived! from the/ flected in our maintenance expendi-|| An argument in favor of a suf-|and the motorist will largely pay for vance of its competitors. It has which represent the various phase’ hicle owners in Wyoming in 1923] use of the highwa: No factor} tures, so that the total maintenanco | ficiently high gas tax to completely | them. COLORADO SPRINGS, Col biting taped a open ne airy of highway construction and main- other than the consumption of fuel| cost for the year ending March 31,| finance the cost of maintenance is _—_—_———_ March 22.(United Press). rice germ abe pric eagep recone tenance, and highway transport and $414,096.39 | varies with the weight, the speed,| 1924, will approximate $580,000.00,/ to be found in the increasing use George Meyers, box-car tourist saad Pie Spparatsat ce i the development of the motor vehicle. - 237,378.00] and the mileage of the vehicle. Total for calendar year 1923, $567,-| of our main highways by the tour. SURPRISE P OMISED told the judge he didn’t want his | thorot y over every part of this Jn, 806; there) were in. operation i - 140,146.62] Thirty-seven states now collect a| 423.95, or $227.00 per mile. ist and in no other way can they be radiator to freeze, That was why, the United States about 58,000 auto- ee! ta 41,111,889" motor ve. 7. | tax on gasoline varying from 1c to mobiles, ih, a 4c per gallon. It is probable that hicles and in 1923, final figures for] we may safely assume 5,000 miles| other states will adopt this form of which are not available, approx!- as the average car's run, the licens-| collecting for the service which their mately 14,600,000. ed cars then traveled 197,815,000 car| highways render with the object of Fifteen million cars at the be:} mies, If the road improvement al-| placing all the charge for mainten- sinning of 1924, place them end tO| ready accomplished saved the car| ance on the road user. It may be end, can you visualize 10 solid ines! owners .01c per mile (and I firmly| expected that many of the states reaching from New York to San| believe the saving is at least .03c)| will have a gas tax of Sc per gallon Francisco? The investment of the year's Rick Our maintenance budget for the|eduired to pay for value and ser- © said, he drank a pint of de- ational and lo- » Ind c 2 vice received, and do it as pain- natured alcohol. CAL GaIne t's ; : ear beginning April 1, 1924, has| vice al point to a busy Spring for every Rot yet been made up, but {¢ will| ssl. A traffic census on some of Meyers was found unconscious | machine, and in you may be certain probably be about $550,000 in order| °Ur main highways will dobtless give a car in the local railr that the Benskin agency will be “in to cover increased mileage and also| *°me interesting data as to the use yards. His recovery fre the swim,” 5 ite tua aare wl es oer angenee toric ost] TN NEW OORT MODEL pars to those pei really appreciate a quality automo- ? 1 Kenbacker i poisoned hooch, however, ap gradual increase in the total cost per| hope this information can’ be obtain- complete, and now he {s servir year for a number of years to come,| ¢d this year. out a $50 and costs fine in t y 8 ity jail. robably at about the same rate as It is my conclusion that the entire a 3 ce the total saving was §$1,978,150,| and some states which are behind in| the incceate in gas. consumption.| cost of maintaining the state high. By CHARLES SARNS. —_- _- | American people in this one item! which is over twice the total taxes| their programs of construction and Winter maintenance,” including the’ ways of Wyoming should be paid by! T'll open by asking you this ques-! ‘Tribune wantads bring results. | is over $10,000,000,000. | ‘The annual! pata by those owners, I believe the| maintenance.may even find it ex-| Dinter maintenance.” including the ways of Wxyomini cost of owning and operating them} saving waa more nearly six times| pedient to impose a tax as high as in 1923 was no less than $5,600,000,- s their total tax bill and in dollars and | 10c. 000, and they were operated a total! cents, approximately $5,000,000. We are now maintaining 2,605 Of Bt least 56,000,000,000 mil ‘We Unfortunately not a great deal of | miles of state highways in Wyoming. are living in the greatest transporta-| research work has been done to de-| For the fiscal year ending March tion age of all time and who can)termine accusately the effect of var-| $1, 1922, the cost w: $383,296.09 ‘ predict what will be, and when the} ious road surfaces on the cost of|on the slightly smaller mileage of most vital problems in the economia} motor vehicle operation. At Ames,|2,428 miles. In the year 1923 wo and engineering phases will belia extensive tests have been made| included in our budget $431,869.92, reached. A year or so ago it w8s/t, determine fuel consumption and| which would have been sufficient if common pastime for many writers it was found that we get 14 ton miles | normal conditions had obtained. In in discussing the motor vehicle or} per gallon of gas on an earth road,| July and again in September, cen- highway transport to predict | 21 ton miles per gallon on a gravel| tral and porthern Wyoming was saturation point at about the num-| road and 31 ton miles per gallon on { visited by two of the worst floods ber of vehicles now registered but} a concrete pavement. ever known in those sections. A my perdiction is that such @ polut} ‘Translating these ‘figures into cost| small amount of damage was done will not be found within -lmits| of gasoline per mile of travel and} to our constructed projects, such as which would now be considered | taking the weight of am automobile approach fills washed out, “ditches sensible. certainly there will be 20,- ———————— 000,000 vehicles in the compara- tively near future. 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