OREGON IN 27TH PLACE IN
J '.-'.., AUTOMOBILE REGISTRATION
Si
Hie
&ay of the Knight
is Here.
WILLYS KNIGHTS are selling because they have the
- onlv motor that improves With i
use.
Just stand on some street corner and see how many Knights
there ate bn the streets of Salem. You will be surprised.
"Ask Any Knight O
wner
MIGK BROTHERS
QUALITY CARS
High Street at Trade
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Is Idea of Olds Motor Works
Equivalent "One Hoss
Shay".. '
Built before "horseless car
riages" were even dreamed of, the
Deacon's "One Hobs Shay." famed
in rhyme by . OIiverv Wendell
Holmes, today Is the Ideal to
which the automobile industry is
striving. Automobile . manufac
turers hope sometime to build
cars so well' balanced, and the
wear on each individual Dart bo
carefully calculated, that the cars
will run for many yeaTs without
the replacement of even the small
est part, according to R. K. Jack,
chief engineer of the Olds Motor
Works, Lansing:, Mich.-
: "Of tonne, the perfection of
the ' 'One Hoss $hay, which ran
for more than a generation with
out repairs, is mostly the license
of ' literature and will never be
fnlly'reallzed," said , Mr. Jack
"But each year the automotive in
dustry is coming nearer to it
tnrougn intensive scientinc stuay
In fact this .'approach to perfec-tors
tion in the inter-relation of auto
motive parts is on of the" answers
of how it is possible to build a
six cylinder car like the new Olds-
mobile at the unusually low price
it is sold for.
"In designing: the new six, the
engineering department of the
Olds Motor Works spent months in
calculating; the strains and stresses
on each individual part. Them
through past experience and the
assistance of the research, met
allurgical and chemical depart
ments of General Motors, each
part was designed fully capable to
do its allotted task, and the best
material for the purpose was se
lected. In this way unnecessary weight
has been eliminated from parts
that were heavier than need1 be;
metals better suited to designated
tasks have been substituted, and
additional strength given where
needed., Not cnly does this better
relation of all parts improve the
balance and performance of an
automobile, but it also reduces
wear and waste.
The research work on the
Oldsmobile Six would have totall
ed a prohibitive cost had it been
borne entirely by one factory. j3ut
a large portion of it was the result
of the work of the great research
and experimental departments of
the General Motors Corporation.
Added to this i3 the tremendous
purchasing power of General Mo-
These two factprs were
great aids to the Olds Motor
Works in designing and produc
ing a car. whjch, if not the equiv
alent of the '"One Hoss Shay." will
operate for many years with a
minimum of repairs."
Among the.4S states'of therm
ion Oregon stands 27th in the
number of registered automobiles
for the year 1923, according to a
compilation of . statistics by Sam
A. Kozer, secretary of state. New
York stands first. California sec
ond, Ohio , third and Pennsylvania
fourth. The state of Washington
stands 18th.
While the state or Arkansas
stands only -34th, it is first in the
percentage of increase in 1!2?
over 1922. the respective figures
being 115.000 and S6.614,.an in
crease of 44. u per cent. Oregon's
increase was from 13.4, u6G- to
ICC. 412. or 23.6 per cent.
"A recent compilation snows a
total of 15,221,272 passenger cars
and' trucks registered in the vari
ous states during 1923." said Mr.
Kozer. "This is an increase of
or 23.09 per cent over
1922. wehn the total was 12.281.
4 4 5. Nearly 90 per cent of all
the world's motor vehicles are
found in the United States.
"There were 4,014,060 now cars
produced in the year 1023, an in
crease of 50 per cent over produc
tion of the year 1922. Today
there is a motoj. car . for every
seven people in the United States.
Ten years ao there was one tar
for every seventy inhabitants, Jn
Oregon there is a motor, car. for
every Vive persons of its', popula
tion. There were 166,412 motor
oars registered in Oregon in 1123.
Subtracting the increase in remiss-;
(rations hk1:I2S of ?.:!!. S27 over
the total number of registrations
In 192 leaves a result of 1.071.
3."l. This latter figure represents
the .approximate .number of earn
discarded during 192:! and leads
to the assumption that the aver
age life of a motor car is approxi
mately seven years. It is estimat
ed that in the year 1 1) -! 4 more
than l,ru0,000 cars mimt he pro
duced for replacement purposes
alone. . L
"In. the operation of these mo
tor vehicles reliable data indicates
that more than ."..404,000. 00o gal
lons of gasoline were' consumed.
In "Oregon the consumption was
substantially 73.00o.O00 gallons
of. jasnline in the operation ot
more than 16C.00O vehicles li
censed during that year.
"The increase in the number of
licensed vehicles in 19-3 'over the
registrations in tlje year 1922 in
some of th state has been almost
T0 per cent. Especially has there
been a great growth in the num
ber of licensed vehicles in the
southern states The following
table presents an interesting study
of the extent of the employment
of the motor vehicle, both in the
pursuit of pleasure and in the
transaction of business, and rep
resents not only 'the extent of th
motor vehicle industry but tin-
use to- which it has been adapted
by the citizens of our country."
STATK.
Woman Fighter Seeking
v Match in This Country
(By The Associated Press)
SAX FRANCISCO, Jan. 2 6.
Perhaps in Germany, where there
are women pugilists, benorita
Carmen Lucia de la Rosa may find
a match, but probably never in
this country, though she appeared
recently in this city, presented
credentials to show she was a reg
ular tighter in Mexico, and told
promoters that instead of a suit
able female opponent she was per
fectly willing to tackle a man of
her weight.
Senorita Carmen said she also
was a promoter, and staged the
recent Sam Langford-Kid Savage
tight In Mexico City.
The fair boxer is 21 years old,
weights. 147 and stands 5 feet 7
inches. Her nose has been brush
ed a bit to one side; otherwise she
shows no marks of her profession.
"I'm considered pretty speedy
in the ring," she said.
But local promoters could give
her no encouragement, inasmuch
as women are not even admitted as
spectators at San Francisco bouts.
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Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California . 2
Colorado 24
Connecticut i.3
Delaware 48
Dist. of Columbia s.,37
Florida ...29-
Georgia : . . . 26
Idaho ....42
Illinois "
Indiana S
Iowa . . . . ; 9
Kansas 15
Kentucky .........22.
Louisiana 30
Maine , 36
Maryland 21
Massachusetts 10
Michigan 6
Minnesota 13
Mississippi 3S
Missouri v 11
Montana 40
Nebraska .17
Nevada ....49
New Hampshire 43
New Jersey 14
New Mexico ' 47
New York .1
North Carolina .19
North. Dakota ..vt;.35
Ohio
Oklahoma 16.
Oregon 27
Pennsylvania 4
Rhode Island 39
South Carolina 32
South Dakota 31
Tennessee 25
Texas 7
Utah 41
Vermont 41
Virginia ,2
Washington 1S
West Virginia . 28
Wisconsin 12
Wyoming 4
Total
A .-'
Ah Overflowing Measure
of Service and Value
Measure v the dependable, comfortable service
trie good Maxwell Club Coupe delivers for
every dollar invested, and you vili find nothing
to match it..
The Club Coupe superbly serves the business
man or the busy woman. Being a good Maxwell
in every particular it serves with the greatest
economy and reliability.
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lt-!:is. lipsis. Tor Ctnt
'I r'-'ion. Traction. Ini-rfnn.
90,052 126,642 40.6
38,034 48,303 27.0
86,614 125,0O 44.3
S42.66S 1,085.940 '28. S
175,000 189,500 8.3
149,659 191,467 26.0
24,560 29,977 22.1
S5.425 105.680 23.7
120,000 160,000 33.3
144,504 173,844 20.3
53,907 62,030 15.3
786.190 969,234 23.3
470.530 587,342 24.9
499,446 540.120 8.1
327,194 375,571 14. S
163,500' 197,151 28.4
102,284 13S.500 35.4
91,710 106,847 16.5
162,570 208,934 28.5
385,640 483,150 25.2
578,980 728.527. 25.8
383,000 448,689 17.1
75,470,. 104.350 38.2
388,699 475.028 22.2
62.64S 73.S17 17. S
26,654 285.4SS 11.2
12,647 16,700 22.2
48,576 59,849 23.2
341,626 423,000 23. S
26.473 32,000 25.6
1,02,293 1.214,090 21.1
182,067 247,308 35.8
99,100 109,244 10.3
S39.000 1,074,000 25.0
250,444 318,000 26.7
134,566 166,412 23.6
829,737 1,064,625 28.3
66,500 93,124 40.0
95,978 128,636 34.0
125.238 131.720 5.2
133,745 175,000 ,28. 9
526,569 689,136 30.9
49,156 66.000 34.3
43,881 53,623 22.2
169,000 222.237 31.5.
217,111 262,180 20.7
112.752 162.000 43.7
3S8.044 452,717 16.7
30.709 39,550 28.8
1 2,281,445 15,221,272 23.9
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BE BEST EVER
Complete Display of Latest
Models to be been at
Annual Event
Flans for the fifteenth annual
automobile show to be held by the
Portland dealers for eight days
starting February 9 in the Munic
ipal auditorium, are rapidly round.
ing into sha-pe. Portland and the
Northwest will "see this year an
exhibition of cars and accessories
the like of which has never been
before shown in the Northwest.
Advices from the factories in
the East and a canvass of the
dealers themselves predicate some
unusual displays of cars and work
ing exhibits designed to interest
the public.
The auto show will open on Sat
urday and continue through to the
following Saturday. The opening
day will see the show opened to
the school children of the city
who show as much interest in car3
and know more about them in
many cases than their elders. Sun
day will be given over to music
by several organizations. Wednes
day will be known as state deal
ers' day, when the local dealers
will be host to the out-of-town
dealers and representatives of the
automobile industry. The main
feature of the day will be the an
nnal convention of the Automotive
Trades association, which it is ex
pected will attract hundreds ot
garage men from all over the
state.
The following program will be
followed out by the convention:
Welcome by M. P. Cady, presi
dent of the association.
"Oregon Motor Vehicle Legisla
tion," W. B. Dennis, chairman Or
egon motor vehicle licence revi
sion committee.
"Co-operative Insurance," H- F.
Bonesteele, Salem.
"Cost Accounting, " Seth L. Rob
erts of E. Q. Shorrock & Co,
"Tire Problems," T. E. Conway
Portland Tire Dealers' assocla
tion.
Ejection of officers.
"The Problem of the Used Car
and the Need of a Satisfactory
Merchandising Pdlicy," A. B. Gra
fham, Braley tk Graham.
"The Appleby Plan." Otto A
Pnulus. Covev Motor Car Co. A
"The -' Boston and New York
Plan," .1. A. Crittenden, Portland
Motor Car Co.
"The Central Appraisal Sys
tem," A. B. Manely. Manley Anto
Co.
-The Portland Plan." J. W. Al
fred. Willys-Overland Pacific Co.
Portland Telegram.
Over 90 op One- Mi
Still int Service:
ON
Since delivering their
first car, early In De
cember, 1914, Dodge
Brothers have in a mi
factured and sold one
million motor vehicles.
Over 90 of all these
cars are $till in active
service. .
: y
This striking fact stands
alone a unique and
a overwhelming tribute to
the principles and meth
ods responsible for a
product of such enduring
worth.
BONESTEELE MOTOR CO.
171 S. Common i.il Slrcet. riiorte 42.1
"but I felt that I had to have them, three new Dodge Brothers cars in
anyhow, even though numerous
other manufacturers' had offered
to supply me. I had penetrated
Mongolia before and I knew just
about what would be required of
a car.
"So I bought three Dodge Bro
thers cars at full list price -ton
commercials. I tried every insur
ance company in China, I believe,
in an. effort to insure the cars be
fore starting the ttip. They only
laughed at me, even when I ex
plained that I cared for nothing
except insurance against total de
struction. We had our mechanics
and service parts and knew that
we could survive any accident ex-
Cnt h nn h i In finri Tli't tlio insur
ance companies said no car could J to Mongolia occupied two years. I formation was turned over to the
the United States.
"The Chinese were eager to get
these cars. They had done some
thing that no other car had ever
done. The company that bought
ours now has 25 in operation, car
rying from seven to 15 passen
gers 800 miles across the desert
from Kalgan to Vrga. This trip
formerly required 30 tedious days.
With their Dodge Brothers cars
they do it in 4 8 hours and there
are no roads."
Mr. Andrews added, as a matter
of course, that he would again
take Dodge Brothers cars on his
next expedition, which he plans to
start in June. 192 4.
The expedition which he led in-
taken 20 or 30 years, It is estim
ated. Among the discoteries
which; science bails as one of the
most important in centuries wer
several" nests of dinosaur eggs
the first ever found. In all, 256
crates of fossils were brought
back, including skeletons of rep
tiles fully ten million years old.
Some of these ttptiles," according
a A 1 t r
io Anarews, ive odviou traces 01
having been ancestors of a strange,
species being uncovered from time
to time in North and ..South Amer
ica showing that the two hemis
pheres were at one time connect
ed. . Important mineral desposits
were also discovered and this in-
When a mother says horrid men
are ogling her 14-year-old daugh
ter, she may be either worrying or
bragging.
SCIENCE GIVES
CAR CREDIT FOR
GREAT DISCOVERY
The startling discoveries of. the
Third Asiastic Expedition, with
their priceless contributions to sci
ence and commerce, would have
been impossible without motor
earn.
That is the blunt, unequivocal
statement: of Roy Chapman An
drews, leader of the, expedition
which returned recently from a
two-year search of innermost Mon
golia, with the largest and most
valuable collection ever brought
into the United States.
When the party started from
China, Mr.xAndrews(was told that
camels and horses were the only
means of transportation known in
the interior of the country he was
about to penetrate. To cross the
Gobi desert alone was a feat to
test tne i endurance of the most
rugged carr and had been accom
plished but seldom. To ford the
streams end cross the hilly, road
less wastes of the unknown land
beyond the desert, however, was
considered an utter impossibility.
Nevertheless, Mr.. .Andrews had
made up his mtailf . '
., "Dodge Brothers rules prevent
ed them from Contributing their
cars to our expedition," he said,
get in, much less get out and so
we traveled at oiir own risk.
"What those pars did was a rev
elation to the whole eastern world.
We crossed rivers, plunged in and
out of deep ruts and thumped oyer
boulders until we thought every
thing mrtst shake to pieces. Bnt
those cars kept going. Terribly
overloaded, they did the impossi
ble day after day. Sometimes we
chased wild animals, across the
roadless plains 'at high speed.' I
remember once the speedometer
was, registering 40 miles an hour
when we were in hot pursuit of a
drove of wild asses. One would
think no car could survive such
abuse, as the plains were natural
ly full of ruts and mounds. But
we drove them back to China, af
ter 10.000 miles of this sort of
usage, and sold them without dif
ficulty for more than the price of
Without motor cars, it would have Mongolian government.
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