Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-30
Local Dealers Distributed 1850
Cars During the Season
Just Closed.
PROSPECTS ARE BRIGHT
FOR THE COMING YEAR

The sale of 1850 cars during the
year 1915 promotes Bismarck to Sec
ond place among North Dakota cities
as an automobile distributing center.
Gains ranging all the way from 100
per cent to 400 per cent are reported
by all OF the local garages ana car
dealers for 1915, and for 1916 an even
greater increase is predicted. Not
only is Bismarck selling more cars,
but it is selling better cars. The av.
erage price per car of all machines
sold through this point in 1915 was
$3.50, the years business representing
a total motor car investment Of
S1,312,50O.
No city in the state Of North Da-
kota, with the exception of Fargo,
and Fargo only because of its having
the state agencies and assembly
plants of several we'll known manu-.
facturers, can display q record equal.
-as5 sgoed 'sai sl.:E
Bismarck, within a radius OF 200
miles, is generally recognized as one
Of the best fields in America for the
sale of standard medium-sized cars.
Within this district good roads are
more general than in any other sew
tion of North Dakota. The demand
in this area is developing rapidly, not
only through the great annual In
crease in wealth per capita from the
product Of the farms and mines, but
from the new settlers and new wealth
which each year brings from outside.
Car For Every 20 People.
It is estimated that every twenty
third person in North Dakota now
owns a motor vehicle of some de-
scription. In the Bismarck territory
it is altogether probable that accu-
rate figures would place car in the
hands Of every twentieth person. 1t
is difficult today to find farm with
out at least one good car. Many
have two or even more. The city
dweller is finding cars an increasingly
convenient, economical source OF
pleasure, business necessity.
The coming of the Red Trail has
stimulated interest in motor cars all
along the line, and nowhere to a
greater extent than in Bismarck and
surrounding territory. George N.
Remission, travelling agent for the Ma
tional Parks Transcontinental High
way association, who was in the city
from Beach yesterday with business
at the state house, in commenting up.
on this condition remarked:
Value of Red Trail.
"In view of the fact that the Vel.
lowstone and Glacier national parks
have been opened to automobiles, and
inasmuch as the railroad companies
are advertising with more energy
than ever before the parks and the
coast country, and from the fact that
tourists who have gone over the Red
Trail have been delighted with 1t, ex-
cept for the two ferry crossings,
which now have been reduced to one,
we may anticipate unprecedented
traffic over this route in 1916. This
tourist travel will mean a great deal
to our hotels, garages and service
stations, in direct results; and indi.
rectly it will be the means of Great.
ing more interest in motor cars and
motoring. The Medora bridge is now
ready for the paint; the grades were
established and made last fall; less
that a weeks work will be required
after this springs thaw to put the ap.
proaches in shape. From coast to
coast there will then be but single
gap in this great highway. The Twin
City hotels, garages and clubs have
their eyes on the Trail, and an un.
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