Arizona republican., 1917-10-21

Arizona is going to have good roads, this commonwealth is going to have a development generally that win bring. it iorclhly to tlIc front as a result of it's wonderful natural wealth and it's motor buying ability. Thus sums up Martin X. Lelch of the Leach Motor Car company who has just completed arrangements for the establishment of branch ( his company here for the merchandising of his eight cylinder King, Liberty "6' and aluminium Pre- miel.
 Glowing with enthusiasm MT. Leach predicts a most wonderful future fo1 this commonwealth. He points with pride to the fact that in the past two months there have been 2G00 new regis trations taken out at Secretary of State Osborn office. And he declares that Arizona motor buying public are se- lecting good cars, he says that in com- parison to the general figures expected on the Ford his informa ton shows that cars cf higher price are more in use than Fogjs of course there are Fords and plenty of them. says Mr. Leacn, ard the more f0rds there are the hap rier ali automobile men should he as the Ford car is the greatest prospect gettcr in the country But what l mean to say is that there are more cars of higher price and then in the lower price class there is a profusion of Dorts. Dodses. MaXwells, etc But what surprises me is the number of big cars. powerful cars with passenger ca pdcity. t is astonishing
 Arizona Profits By War
 Arizona" MT. Leach said, lis one of the states that is profiting by the wal with her large natural resources. Jp to July 1, 1917, the state registrations for automobiles showed Is COG On October lst this number had increased to lS.79l and everyone of these owners will De good roads boosters. Arizona July 1 stood ninth among the states oi the union automobiles per capita only being led by Iowa, Nebraska, Califor- mia, Kansas, South Dakota, Minnesota North Dakota and Montana. This is not in number of cars in the state but in numbers of cars per population.
 The states estimated 1917 copper output is s210,000,O 900. while other Ari- zona metals will add S60. .000. 900 more to the figures. And Arizona mines have a payroll of S5,000,000 a month The year 1916 had q 123 per cent in crease for the output of gold. silver copper. lead and zinc over 1915 ant thlS increase for 1917 will be wonder fully larger. And with prices as higl as they are today with record output. of metals. Arizona cannot help but bt in the national eye for development
 Autos Are Necessity
 There is a population of 340, ,00( souls in the state with bank deposits at present of close to $70,000, 000. An, bankers today are looking more favor a hlN on the automobile bI SiUpss In 4, ever before. They have had their mis haps in doing business in the infanc, with the automobile and bankers alq slow to recover from bad loans, bu the bankers today feel more assurance m the automobile merchants and ar. coming to look upon the automobil more as commercial asset rathe than liability. They realize what tn, motor car has done to bring the coun try te the city and vice versa, what i has done towards speeding up induSu, and in d state like Arizona where ther is q lot of territory to cover, inf 9 quent railway connections they lznoy the automobile to be a dire necessit in development.
 In MaricOpa county alone there ar 10.0e0 dairy cows yielding s6,500, ,00 annually; 3S.500 acres of long stapl cotton estimated value S6,000, Q00 an this iS the long fibre cotton which tn automobile tire manufacturers are in