The San Francisco call., 1913-09-01
CALF ORN|A
LEADS IN AUTOS
More Gasoline Cars Here
Than Any Other State
in Union
10000 MACHINES
SOLD IN 1s1 DAYS
United States Buyers Spend
More Than S75O,o0o
Daily for Motors


California now. holds the record for
the largest number of gasoline auto
mobiles of any state in the union.
This state has registered 1os,15s ma
chimes. and Is far in the lead of all its
sister states New York in the regis
tration list is given credit with the
largest number of all classes Of auto
mobiles solely because of Its .exces-
sive number of electrics. $50. to Cali
ifornia's 4.I56.
But even with twice as many cleo
tries, the Empire state is steadily los
ing the :Tnotor Leadership. A large num-
Der OF experts are. of the belief today
that California is actually IN the lead.
Figures which have been carefully
compiled give this state a gain of
10000. cars from January 81 to July l..
New York in: that time increased its
total only 5000. New York on: July
was credited with 1lo.61s cars. lead
of only 2.462.
1t is brought out by the experts
who have complied the figures that IN
the 1S1 days between January 80 and
July / the number of cars in use had
increased '147,163, making the grand
total for the United States 1.1So.2 .240.
This Increase made a daily average Of
S13.5 cars. Using $1,000 as the aver
age value, multiplication shows the
daily investment: In motor cars was
more than sz5o.000.
@Undoubtedly the Golden state rep
resents the grand hope OF the auto
industry for the. immediate future"
comments The Automobile. "Califor-
MIA does not stand alone as q demon
strator of the growing buying power
of the west, however. Iowa, now
ranking as the sixth state in order of
total registrations, was seventh six
months ago. and Nebraska rose from
twelfth TO tenth position. Missouri,
Wisconsin and Washington show sim
liar advances
'with,regard to gasoline cars. Cali
forria is undisputedly in the lead.
This applies to both passenger and
commercial vehicles, and 1t indicates
The Importance of local natural re-
sources for; an. industry the products
Of which utilize these. This is once
more. shown by the tremendous plu-
rality. OF. electrtcacars in New York
state. where. especially in the north
. western. section, electric power
abounds.: New. York is ahead of Cali
fornfa, however, in the use of motor
trucks" -
There are. today. 1,o95.1s1 passenger.
cars and SO, S53 trucks registered as IN
use IN the United States. or. classified
by their method of motion, 1.122.221
gasoline and 52,S13. electric vehicles.
Number: Passenger, 1,os5,1S1: COM
mercials, so;s53;s gasoline, -I,122,221:
'electrtess 53.sIs.
G0ssIPs ALONG: "CsAs ROW,
Fred Bowman, factory. representa-
tive for the American underslung cars
for the Pacific. coast will depart to-
day for tour of the: southern por-
tion of the. state. He VIII visit all
American. agents and arrange a new
system of checking.
George .Osen OF the.:Osen & McFar-
land Attic Company this city; writes
TO his. Office here from the east that
the 1914 Empire car. viii be equipped
with a new starter. =.
E.. E. Sandovs OF Fresno and a
party OF friends arrived in San Fran
cisco yesterday.
The Empire car. which Is making a
test run from Los angeles to this
city. will arrive. here today. Ar.
rangements nave been made by o. c.
Mcfarland. the local representative
to have the machine taken apart for
an engineers examination :inmedi-
. etely upon its arrival j..
Leo Nevis, prominent auto agent
from Sacramento. :. arrived in this
city this morning. He will make q
study of local conditions along gas
row while. here.
c. S. Howard ot,the Howard Auto
company. this city. who. has. been at
the Portland branch OF his firm, will
arrive here today: While. In the
north Mr.. Howard held a conference
with the mana gers. Of. all. the north
western branches for the Buick and
National cars.