The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-07-01
Susie DeKol
Crusoe
who has an
established
record of
l9 lbs. of
butter
per week


which they are bought running
into market, and making and carry
ing back purchases that are needed in
the farmhouse or farm-yard, and for
that pleasure to which the farmer is
entitled, after working hard all day,
and still further to show humane
feeling towards his horses by letting
them rest after their hard days work.
There is no danger to the financial
world from this class of purchases. 1t
is rather from the men who pay the
big prices-from men who want ma
chine as good, or little better than
the one owned by the neighbor. Too
often, if / have been told correctly, is
the word passed on: Mr. has a
nice car; why can't we have the same,
or better one," and Husband has no
rest until he gets such a one.
AS Popular as Bicycles
That automobiles will be more num-
erous than bicycles when the bicycle
was in it's palmiest day is admitted by
most of the manufacturers them
selves. The makers of the high-priced
automobiles are not willing to admit
this. Neither were the makers of the
high-priced bicycles when the break
occurred.
The makers of the high-priced bicy-
cles were the losers, passing almost
out of a business existence. The
makers of the high-priced automobiles
will pass through the same period.
The lower-priced machine makers, and
after all, there is not such vast diff
ference in the material in the two
classes, are already preparing for the
break. Henry Ford of Detroit, max
err of the Ford car, which has a regis
tration of nearly 25 to one of the 9TH
er makes, is providing for assembling
plants in all of the big cities of the
United States.
i Excavation for one of these plants
two blocks from the Minnesota Capt.
toll Building is now going on. Like
wise plant is being erected in Min
neapolis. The machines will be
shipped in parts from Detroit, and as.
sembled and sold to northwestern pat.
rons from these stations. Mr.. Fort
is expecting to put one of his popular
two-passenger cars on the market fol-
$500 next year, and this price viii b
within range of thousands who fee
that they cannot afford to pay $6Ot
now. In addition it will cause TIT
prices of other machines to drop, ant
the stampede will be on in 1914 sure
| if the money market does not go t.
pieces entirely in the meantime.
But this is not the only cause fol
the general buying of the automobile
1t is known that up to two years agt
gasoline, and other by-products o.
petroleum were drug on the mar
. ket. At that time we were able t.
buy gasoline for machines here In st
Paul at IL cents per gallon, almost q.
low as it could possibly be delivered
here. In 1912 the price jumped to 1:
cents gallon, the oil men, STANDARD
and the Independent refners, insist
ing that they were entitled to fail
! profit in return for losses of previous
years when therewas no great deman.
for the commodity. The early seas
on of 1913 opened up at 1914 cents b
this city, where it has remained I
was thought that this high pric'
would stop the buying of machines
but the refiners were busy to find an
other product that would keep dow
| the price
Cheaper By-Prodncts Found
They are still engaged in invest