The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-08-06
NEARLY 100000 AUTOS.
Total Registration For Year-New
York Has 92,407.

York Has 92,407.
The growth of the automobile IN
America has been one of the remark
able features of the worlds CONNER
cial progress but few persons have
any definite idea of the exact f1gures
which represent this amazing indus
try. Each successive year seems 10
astound not only the public but the
manufacturers themselves.
AT the beginning OF the present
wear the United States government
and many commercial bodies allied
with the industry, announced ngures
that seemed nearly to mark the, limit
of production and use of the motor
car, but 1t appears from compre'
henslve article published in the Au'
tomobile that as yet only the surface
has been reached
The average percentage of increase
in the registration of cars in the Uni
ted States for the past six months
was 24.6 per cent, as compared Win
1876 per cent for the entire year pre-
ceding. At this rate the percentage
for the II months between January l
and December 81, 1912, would be Az
per cent. or an increase over the IL
months preceding January l, 1872, OF
nearly 10 per cent.
The total registration OF gasoline
passenger cars between January ana
July this year has been S59.S5S for
the entire United States. This is 1873
per cent increase over 1911. Between
July 1, 1911, and July of this year the
American manufacturers produced
252,569 cars of all sorts,
An estimate based on conservative
and accurate figures indicates that
there are at present in the United
States $4,000 automobiles in service,
allowing 1858 as registered in dupll'
cate. In the last six months there
have been registered in all OF the
states 31,574 commercial gasoline
vehicles and $4,000 electric vehicles,
at a total registration fee of $4,76s,S73'
Among the separate states New
York still retains the lead IN the
number of registrations, with a total
to date of 92.407, a gain of S,43S cars
since the first of the year. California
is next in line, showing the tremen-
dous increas of 19,401 between Jan
uary and July this year, and total
of 1868
New Jersey, perhaps by reason OF
its reciprocity bill, dropped this year
from third to seventh place and Ohio
moved to third place, with total TO
July / of $4,000, an increase from
the preceding year of 10000 Penn
sylvania moved TO fourth place, with
a registration of 52,257, an increase
of 1885. Illinois took fifth, succeed
ing Massachusetts, which dropped
back to eighth. The total registra-
ton in Illinois to July ! was 471O4, a
gain of 5000 in the year. Indiana sue
ceeded to sixth place, with 1926. a
gain of 10000.
New Jersey was seventh, as receiv-
ed, with a total TO July of 1882
which, in comparison TO her figures
of last year (42,266), seems to show
that 1928 cars belonging to non-resi
dents we're not registered this year in
New Jersey Massachusetts occupies
the eighth place, with a registration
of $4,000, a gain of 1898 compared
with last year. Iowa retains ninth
place, with a registration of 3S,OOs
cars, an increase of 10000 Michigan
is again tenth, with 34,5Ss, or gain
OF 6792.
The total registration in the other
states is as follows; Nebraska, 49,
7s1; Minnesota, $4,000; Wisconsin
2l,965; Texas. 20,5sS; Missouri, 90,
$40; Maine, 1885; Georgia, 1890
Connecticut 1900; South Dakota, 10,
492; Colorado. 1883; Washington
1859; District of Columbia, 10000;
Kansas, 9917; Maryland, 300; Ore
gon, SS72; South Carolina. 1856;
North Dakota, 1900; Tennessee, 1854;
Rhode Island, 6517; Louisiana, 6O67
North Carolina, 5000; New Hamp-
shire, 5000 Florida. 1864; Virginia
47s7; Oklahoma, 1859; Idaho. 1880;
Alabama, 1870; Vermont. 1882; Ken
lucky, $500. Montana, 1929; Arkan
sas, 1866; Wyoming, 1928; Utah
2290; West Virginia, 2244; Arizona
20S5; New Mexico, 1899; Mississippi
1900: Delaware, 1880; Nevada, 100.