Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-08-03
STATE AUTOS
COULD MOVE.
IN
SINGLE TRIP
More Motor Vehicles In Me-
braska Per 1000 Popu|a-
ton Than Any Other State
In Union.

There are enough automobiles in
Nebraska to carry every man, wo-
man and child in the state at the
same time.
There are more automobiles in
Nebraska per 1000 people than any
where else on the face of the globe,
according to figures compiled by
the bureau of publicity of the Cham
Der of Commerce.
If all the 1887 automobiles in
Nebraska were lined up and all the
l,353,000 people in the state wanted
to take ride at the same time they
could all climb aboard and there
would be on y seven or eight per-
sons in each car When you con-
slider that large part of the popu-
lation consists of babies and chill
dren it would be easy to accommo-
date them.
The figures show that Nebraska
has an automobile for every seven
and four-hfths people in the state.
California ranks a close second.
with an automobile for every seven
and ninetenths people in that state.
The next highest is Iowa, with an
automobile for every eight of its in
habitants. South Dakota has Ca,
for every nine persons.
Few Cars in East.
We usually think OF New Eng
land as rich. But if all the people
in Massachusetts, wanted to take a
ride at the same time in the 1913, 497
cars in that state there would have
TO be 10 passengers in each car. 1t
couldn't be done.
The great state of New York
stands 35th in the list and they
would have to put "a people in every
one of the states AL, lS3 cars to &C
commodate the population. Penn
sylvania would have to load 24H
i'll every one of the states cars
And "'way down south" they'd
have an awful time. Alabama has
only one automobile to every 81
people. Arkansas has one for every
63 of its inhabitants, and Mississi-
ppi at the bottom of the list has
only one automobile for every 1853
of its inhabitants.
Progress and prosperity of the
people are indicated by the number
of automobiles owned. And in these
pleasant things Nebraska stands at
the very top, while hio immediate
neighbors are almost at the top.
1t is only Fl years since people
were paying 10 cents to ride in the
"horseless carriages" at the Trans
mississippi and International expo
sition in Omaha. 1t was as much of
curiosity then as an aeroplane is
now.
Leading Jobbing Center.
Today Omaha is one of the lead
, ing automobile jobbing centers as
we'll as manufact turing point for
automobiles and tires and access
cries. The annual jobbing business
in automobiles here is about $40,-
100000. The exhibitors are organ
lied into the Omaha Automobile
Trade association which holds an
annual show, the big motor show
of the west. The Omaha Automo-
bile club is the first organization OF
Il its kind west of the Missouri river.
1t has placed more than 1000 road
signs and routes more than 10000
tourists a year.
The automotive equipment bust
ness done in Omaha annually
amounts to $15,000,000.
The total number of pleasure cars
in the United States January /,
1919, was 5,352,350. The total num-
Der of commercial cars at that time
was $4,000. The total motor We
hicles was 5,945,442 or about one
for every lo people in the country
Four years ago January |, 1915
there were only 1,71l,338 motor We
hicles in the United States, or one
for every e. persons in the country
Statistics for the nine leading
| states follow: