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GAS RESERVES
'c ON INCREASE
Records for Output and
Consumption Are On
Upward Grade
WASHINGTON". July 1. The na-
k ftion's R.is'illni rfsrrvi' Is continuing
; j,M rffonl-lc iking climb, accord I rig
k ! to figures compiled by the United :
i ' ' States bureau of mines which show
Jg that on Mav 1 the total stocks on
W r hand amounted o 892,267,766 galloni.
B 1 an lncrra.se t C8.000.0ftn gallons over;
WM I he previous high record mark of April
M I While production records ar e being
W (-"-(.ken Ih- figures for the consunip-
CIL ;ion of gasoline arc also on an up-
V v nrd spurt Thus while domestic
V production for April, 1922. registered
H an Inrrciuv of 10 s ij por cent ovr the
production in April. 1921. domestic
Ymfl .-onsumption of this product in April.
UK i;'i22 shows . n js" 1 1 ' 7 pel
KM cent over the consumption figure for
IN ' Vhlle the figures for domestic pro-
nlm ,, .;, tion plus Imports of gasoline for
il l IprU 1922, registered an increase of
Ull , . 'i .it uvfr similar flgurns for
Sl t V-Pril 121 The figures for domestic
Ml . "'-I ship
IB I i.. ril for A, rll of this year show an
MU t , .-ent over slmi-
lH l.i licures for the corresponding per-
lM i -t vf-ar.
The production of gasoline during
nl I which amounted to 472 920,
III c , I , : re prai tica lly no in
Ill. I , ,,wr M.irch Total consump
H . ...n im-ui-.-s-, including exports ai.d
I . ipnients to inular possessions, how
l.,r show an increase of 12.000,000
K-'loins ?:ports for April amounted
l -.v mi: 1:15 u. '-' n- shipments to in
lU , , -,rsc)i.iis, 1.8 94,426 galolns;
i) I' I j ..ports. 10. SKI 720 gallons; domestic
I 0 iiinption. T5.r.,?..x70 gallons.
I I . average of 1,3 57,000 bar
f '( .. la of "il run thorugh the stills of the
, .-! : 1 1 parted to the bureau
" o' mines as operating during the
I n'h of v.prll. Tf-c figures show
I ,; -. oi 30 In th s
Huaily average run, and also three loan
,., i-rafive plants than the report of
I 1 ,r -. loua mont h The Vpi r- -
Ml orts -how operative rl i. ft t.to bo run
hi iing 77 per cent of their dally lndl-
II , fll IpTClt
The seasonal decline in the gaso
1 1 up stork ruive. occurring generally
I j . il- X" 1 ' or .M:i h.ts 11J, V-'t
rl ,. :i is i v-:.lcn. ' 'J liy Mi ' hi-' p
IIIH -eases I n 1 eservet
II Both production and stocks Oi kero
llll ne showed an increase during tlio
month of April. Stocks of this raa
I terlal on hand in May amounted to
, I 1SS.s09.386 gallons Exports and
' Shipments during th month consis,
ill I I ' :'0, 000.000 galion-v this being Ihi
I I largest amount since December, 192U.
Iy J'roductlon of gas and fuel oil de-
III I j 1. eased 68.000.000 gallons during
I Mlpril, and stocks increased 32.000. 000
Jill ' tailons. Indicating a substantial de-1
i l l w crease In the consumption of this j
lHH product. The month's output of gas 1
III' A "d fLHl 011 an'ounte l" '''' 1 1 1 " !
bIRI u lions, and stocks on hand May 1
m ;. mo. noted to 1,282. SOO. jfi gallons.
f! Production of lubricating oil in
j! I April amounted to 72,945.168 gallons,
; I I the daily average production increas
ll ' ir M "oO gallon during the month. ,
I Stocks of this product remained prac- ;
I w tlcally stationary, amounting on Mav
I III 1 " 23 7 2n'S1 1 f;"ll"ns-
1 KANSAS TOWN IS
REAL ENTERTAINER
TOPEKA. an., July 1 The city of!
I Wamego, Kan., on the Victory high-
it way. through Pottawatomie county, la
setting a pace which other Kansas
HI t'jwiis of larger copulation are flnd
II I lag it difficult to match, In the niat
I ii i of entertainment of motor tour
i Wamego has spent thousands of!
I dollars on a city park Which is a'
l model for small towns of the state,
m and to which residents of other
I towns for thirty miles resort for
j ft pleasure
Included in the park is a swim
's ming pool, with baths, toilets and
njk dressing rooms, all of which are avail-
able for motor tourists A splendid
I camp ground le also supplied, where
HI thn motorists are welcome to pork
HI their cars and to pitch their tents as
1 1 1 g ne;-' s of t lie city.
Ivess than a dozen headlight devices
hae been approved for use In Bfasea
I I phusetts,
n Wheels should bo removed and tho
j '; bearings repacked with grease about
II I eer' '"000 raises
1 Test
Questions
! for
I,! Car Buyers
1 in i Before you buy any car
reix"" get the answers to these
questions:
ib ev
ayj Has it been tried out,
nin K, and developed, and bn-
y, aai proved, over a period of
years?
;rawj
olo, " Do people, generally,
speak highly of it?
pit Is its re-sale value low
d fT or high?
and We believe that the an
aod swers to these questions
Irs, tafeguarl your
Kn'ud pocketbook, and lead
J v you straight to the
Hupmobile.
AS We will be glad to help
1 you answer these ques-
coiov tions. Telephone for a
it p demonstration now, at
Ji once.
hni Naisbitt Motor Co.
rani 432 Twenty-fifth Street
le 3 Ph0Iie 387 Ogden, Utah
i
half (
ll I
MUNICIPAL AUTO CAMPS
I '
Fl6UgES fi
By IMQN A. MC0BXN8ON,
Manager Touring nml Transixrtation
Biirran, American Automobile
Association.
One of the most remarkable out
grov. ths of tho new fad of motor
camping lies In the establishment of
a vast number of municipal and semi
private camping grounds in all sec
tions of the country for the comfort
and convenience of the rapidly in
creasing army of motor campers.
When it became eldent that this
new form of outdoor recreation was I
destined to attain a. degree of lm-j
portanco not dreamed of a few years
ago, some of ihe more progressive
communities in the western states saw
the commercial possibilities Involved
and determined to try for their share
of the tourist ' trade by establishing
ready-made camping grounds as near
as possible to the business center of
the town in each case
Mahy of these municipal camp sites
were sponsored by the local chambers
of commerce, though occasionally tho
movement had Its Inception In auto
mobile Jubs. and, ven in some cases,
they were ianugurated by the town
authorities themselves. j
FUEL ECONOMY
TEST IS MADE
I Sixteen Cars Make Run
From Los Angeles to
Yosemite Valley
Transformed by the fates from an
economy run into a dyed In the wool
reliability contest, tho sixth annual
Los Angeles to Camp Perry, Yo
t,emite Valley Economy run offered
tie motoring public an opportunity
I to judge with all fairness the stamina
as well as the fuel economy ot tho
Iminy motor cars entered in the
e ent.
Sixteen curs left Loa Angeles and
the samt sixteen checked in at tho
I Una I control in Yosemite valley with
only one slight mishap to mar an
lothervise perreet performance on all
'scores One entry' lost a rear wheel
In making a sharp turn and a new
I wheel wa rushed out und the car
continued on Us way
From Los Angeles to Fresno, a
distance of 2 mile., the course is all
la paved boulevard, but twice in this
1 stretch the jroad winds upward to an
I elevation of" more than 4.200 feet, A
hundred and fifty miles Is oer the
smooth valley floor where tno sun
beats down relentlessly.
From Fresno into Yosemite, the
route took the cars by way 61 Raj -mond
and Grub Gulch, iiamcd only
for ghost cities that struggled in vain
for an existence and crumbled away
under the storius of winter and the
heat of summer. One hundred and
tWelves miles Is tin distance and
sixty-live miles of this is over dirt
roads, winding upwards, always up
wards, over a series of vaulting
1 ranges, soaked for days by a pouring
1 rain and torrents of water from melt
ing snows.
The hard grind from Fresno into
the Yosemite '.alley told on many a
contender. Mileage averages went
to snMsh on every side. Just outside
of Raymond the muddy road were
encountered Chains were employed
by all but three of the entrants in
spots tho axles were dragging out of
sight In the soft slusn dunk cases
and low gasoline tanks were men
' aced in every mile. Steep pitches
j that took all of a car's power under
1 tho best of road conditions had to be
'surmounted with wheels spinning
'and searching for traction.
An elevation of 6,300 feel was
reached and then an abrupt dip down
: into the canon of tho South Fork
' of the roaring Merced river to Wa
1 wona, then up again, almost verti
cally it seemed, grades from 14 to 20
per cent barring tho way, to Chin
quapin, 6,900 feet high.
I And then from Chinquapin the al
most impassable roads wind down
wards to Inspiration, 1,700 feet above
the floor of tho valley. Irom which
! point tho road drops down an almost
perpendicular cliff in a three-mile
elido to tho government control
station.
A gravel road traverses the valley
from this point up to Camp Curry
whore each oar waa officially checked
In and its consumption of fuel, oil
and water officially measured and the
results computed.
Awards are made in regard to the
ton miles established by the cars. To
determine this it la necessary to mul
tiply the mileage by the actual
1 weight of the car with passengers
and tanks loaded to capacity and di
vide by the number of gallons of gas-
lolltie consumed on the Lri multiplied
by 2,000.
USE NEW METHODS
TO STOP SPEEDERS
Oakland county, Michigan, has
adopted a new system of motorcycle
police which carries with It a require
ment that the traffic officers treat all
fast drivers with due respect and so
licit their co-operation in making the
Oakland highways safe. The county
officers bellevo that the exercise of
common sense by traffic officers will
do more toward stopping excessive
BpeedlnK thiin the old plan o hauling
the Bpeodstera before tho court and
subjecting them to a heavy- fine.
Those who violate the speed laws
arc put upon their honor to obey the
laws and to assist the officers to do
lther duty rather than to Invite their
antagonism.
The first camps established natur
ally wore somewhat crude and defi
cient In everything but the fundamen
r.als of successful camping, such as
water, firewood and some form of
outdoor o en or grate.
DEVEIXPME1NT OP RIVALRY.
A the number of camping motor
ists Increased, however, the compe
tition between various municipalities
became much more keen, with ihe
recall that man., additional conveni
ences were added.
First one town and then another
added rest houses and comfort tui
tions to their camp sites, while others
went still further and installed such
things as completely equipped kit' h-n-ettes,
laundries with electric wash
ing machines and lorns, tent floor,
electric lights, gas for cooking and
HcYilng, lining stations, supply stores.
and even free touring information bu
reaus. Recently two independent investi
gations were made to determine the
number and distribution of these
municipal camping grounds, on of
the- by the. American Automobile as
sociation. The composite results of
these Inquiries show that there are
in the country today 1850 of these
AUTO TRAFFIC
i IS ENLARGING
i General Motors Head Pre
dicts Demand Will
Increase
"Until that time arrives in the prog
ress of civilization when man admits
that he can do no more, there will be
use for every mechanical appliance
which annihilates time, space and dis
tance," says John J. Raskob chair
man of the finance committee of Gen- j
eral Motors corporation.
"There have never been enough I
Pullmans so that every traeler could
have a "lower." There have never
been sufficient freight tars to carry
tin- crops to market, nor tho raw ma
fcerlalfl rfom our mines nor the fin
ish' d prdoucts from our factories.
When airplanes blacken tho sky
t arrying freight and passengers across I
I land and sea and relatively that day;
lis not far hence there will be no ap
j parent dimlnultion In the use of exist
ing transportation facilities.
'From the day the first New York
subway demonstrated its feasibility,
I engineers have been busy building new
ones, extending old ones and planning;
future ones. There Is no decrease in j
the travel upon the old lines ot transit, I
yet our citj streets and country roads!
are black with motor cars swiftly car- I
rying passengers and freight where
formerly were only slow moving'
horse-drawn vehicles.
"The telephone, telegraph and ocean
cables have never been able to hcndle
the traffic thrust upon them. As new1.
facilities are created much business
; handled by mail Is transferred to the
Wires. The radio and the wireless
I have not lifted the burden from the i
1 cables.
"There are, according to the United
States Bureau of Public Roads, 10,-j
148,000 passengei and commercial
cars In use In this country, For pur-1
I poses of our calculations, let us take
an e.i-n ten million.
"if each car carries an overage of
but two people 1 most of them can '
carry five) and operates but 300 days
18 year ( most of them could operate
3tfi days) the equivalent of six billion
passengers are carried each year In
addition, according to the National
! Automobile Chamber of Commerce,
1 .200.ooo.nu0 tns of freight are car-
i ried by the motor trucks. This is four!
1 to six times the number of passengers I
carried by all the team railroads In '
I the United States and about half the 1
.amount of fi eight hauled by the rail-j
! roads.
"The National Automobile Chamber
of Commerce has made a survey and'
I ascertained that the average travel of
I the passenger car lu 6.400 miles an-J
nually. That would mean approxl-I
I rnately sixty billion miles traveled
yearly by all the passenger automo- I
biles in this countr, which Is about1
1 164 million miles a day. The chamber
is authority for the. statement that 90
I per cent of all automobiles are used
more or less for business purposes.
Further, that 66 per cent of tho total
number of automobiles In the United
States are owned by people living in
communities of 6000 inhabitants 01
less. Also, that one-third of all pas
senger cars and one-sixth of all motor
trucks are owned by farmers. Con
trary to popular opinion; these facts
1 show that the automobile Is more gen
erally used In the country and small
' towns than In the city. They further j
emphasize the great need or a network
of good roads covering all parts of'
'the UnlSed States.
'The automobile was born Into aj
! roadless world. Compared with the 1
, millions of milen of telephone wires i
and the thousands of miles of steel I
rails which make these other two
great Inventions effective, the automo
bile Is still In a roadless world The j
automobile was the creation of brains 1
1 which dreamt of thousands of miles
of boulevards where once existed mud ,
I holes and ruts. Once more by com- 1
Iparison we have only commenced to!
ocver up those mud holes and ruts. I
J Yet a good roads movement which
promises incalculable benefits to man- '
kind Is well under way. In this move- :
) mont the automobile has been the
1 most powerful mlsnlonary, emphasiz
ing as nothing else has done tho uni
versal advantages to be derived from j
adequate highways."
j Automobile associations are con
ductlng courtesy campaign for tru k ,
and passenger car drivers.
I prepared camp sKes, and new ones
j are being established so rapidly that it
I is safe to predict that the gTand total
I will pass the 3000 mark before the
1922 touring season Is over.
An analysis of the distribution of
these camp grounds shows California;
leading all the states, with a gran.ii
; total of iCv Next comes Illinois with
1129, followed closely by Iowa and!
Kansas with 110 and 105 camp sites
respectively.
Broadly speaking, the Middle West
excels in this new feature, because.
practically every state in this groupj
contains at least r0 of these camp
grounds, und nine of them have 75 1
or rrrbre.
As yet the movement has made very
! little headway In the east, most of
the states in his latter group hav
imr loss than 10 established camping1
places, while at least three of them, I
Rhode Island, Maryland and Dela-'
I'ware, have none at all. The Rocky
mountain states are likewise deficient
I as compared with the relatively large
i number in the middle west and along
the Pacific coast, but even here the
I showing is appreciably better than in
the Atlantic states from Maine to
I Florida.
HAVE RECORD
AUT00UTF0T
Hudson and Essex Com
panies Complete 205 Cars
During Day
The output of the Hudson Motor Car
company and the Essex motors on
June 20 reached the largest number of
cars ever made by the companies in
their history' in a single day 305 Hud
son and Essex cars being produced In
nine hours.
Th largest rrpvious single day3
production was on April 7. when 300
cars were turned out in 10 hours and
20 minutes.
On the following day. with less than
six months of 1D22 gone, Hudson and
Essex surpassed their tUl 1921 pro
duction of 27.143, according to word
just received from the factory at De
troit by L. L Hains, manager Ogden
Motor Car Co., local Hudson-Essex
dealer
' Hudson and Essex are now out to
beat ?heir output, for their greatest
year V"?tol'ore. 1920." says Mr.
Hain.- 'They plan to do it by early
fall. Even after all records are brok
en, officials inform me that the com
panies' big plant Is certain to con
tinue heavy production "
oo
Test the wheels for side play about
everj three months.
Keep th- garage door open whilo
working on the machine.
j MOTOR oia.
one is
IT IS FREE FROM
CARBON
Through filtration through
Fuller's Earth jt tho re
finery insure thia unvary
ing quality of this superior ff
I lubricant. 1
Thlc gives you a clean and 1
cool engine, furnishing max-
Imum power. a
ISOLD IN OGDEN BY I
Alklre-Smith Auto Co. 1
Browning Auto Co I
Consolidated Wagon &. 9
Machine Co. 1
Felt Auto Supply Co.
Mack-Robinson Garage J
Naisbitt Motor Co
Guy M Olsen 1
J G. Rend A Bros
Gus H Springer 2
W.-tson-Bulck Auto Co f
Hill Filling Station
Always m I
ico (
UtahOaiingGx
Studebaker Bodies l I
Don't Rattle or Squeak I
Studebaker bodiea rest squarely on the chassis '
frame - not on the body sills. The body and the I
frame form a rigid unit that successfully resists
I Hi I I L tie racc road 1
I i r f""tl Studebaker bodies are built in Studebaker
II U I I rj shops by men, many of whom have been build-
ing vehicle bodies for Studebaker for upwards
I I of 30 years and their fathers before them. IS H
J11"!"! Studebaker has been building fine bodies for I
I 1 I I seventy years. I
Studebaker Special-Six bodies, because of their I
1 quality and soundness, weigh more than those I
MM I IMI j of other cars around the Spectal-Sbc price. You
f I 1 0 cannot skimp in material and build a body that I
km I will not rattle. I
Jk Freedom from rattle or squeak is just another I
of the fine-car refinements that emphasize the
extra value of the Studebaker Special-Six.
The Spectal-Sbt chassis B 1
f S&S&SSl MODELS AND PRICES-A o. b. octori. I
front to 41 in the rear.
so that the sides of the UGHT-SIX SPECIAL-SIX BtOJJX 1
body fit perfectly without 5'p" jj ' $'AV'B' 7.. 136' W. B.
overhang. Five cross- jjj j
members prevent the d is- Cbasd. $ 875 CWu .51200 CWmm $100
tortien tfc-t eventually j& J-h... JJjT. IIP
causes bodies to squeak. Ccrupo-RWrtcr Ro.Wtcr. -Pui 1475 4-P. 165 m
2-PtM. 1375 Cowpa. 4-FW . . 215 Ce. . 2500
SUo 1750 Man 2150 S 2 70O
Cmrd Tircj Standard Equipment HH
yR. T. MITCHELL CO. I
354 Hudson Ave. Phone 331
S IS A STUDEBAKER YEAR I
MILLIONS FOR
ROADJpiia
Federal Aid Assured for
Next Three Years
By Congress
Federal aid In the construction of
highways was definitely assured for
three years more when members of
the house and senate voted last week
to authorize appropriations of $50,
000,000, $65,000,000 and $75,000,000,
respectively, for the fiscal years of
1923, 1924 and 1925. Further sum of
$6,500,000 were voted for each of the
fiscal years 1924 and 1925 for forest
road construction, the funds Tor this
work for 1923 having been cared for
in earlier legislation
The authorization for 1923 carries
with it definite authority to the sec
retary of agriculture to enter into
j contractual relations with state high
i way commissioners for road construe
I lion.
The appropriations will be made
; under the provisions of the federal
aid act of 1916 as amended in 1919
and 1921, which means that the ex
' pendlturcs inust.b made on those
highways comprising the 7 per cenl
system of main roads
The most important change In the
organic act la an amendment which
limits federal aid participation to 16f
L'50 per mile for 1923 and to 15,000
pel- mile thereafter This contrasts
with the $20,000 per mile maximum)
I of 1919 and the $10,000 limit of 1916. j
!The limitation will work no hardship
! In average conditions, but for spe-.
I clal situations where traffic has be-1
come very heavy it is not improbable
that some changes will have to bej
made at a later session of congress to
'prevent tho waste resultant from too1
low a type of construction. Other;
changes In the law permit the govern
ment to Join in the construction of
railroad underpasses, and provide
heavy penalties for misuse of govern
ment funds.
The government has now appro
priated or authorized a total road
fund of $587,000,000 since the pas
sage of the federal aid act in 1916 ;
Figures of the bureau of public load
sho wthat construction has been pro-'
ceeding for the last three years at
the rate of approximately $SO.00O.00O
aunually in federal funds and as state
organrzaitons have now become well .
stabilized, it is anticipated thut this
rate will be exceeded in 1923 and sue 1
ceeding years.
U. 8. RADIO EXGEXjS.
LONDON. Lirnisii government of
ficials are ffivin oloss study to Amer
ican methods of wlreleag broadcasting
and gradually are adopting som of,
i them W hile the wireless telephone is,
not as popular In England as In tho
j United States, due largely to govern-!
ment licensing and control, the peo
pe are beginning to -how Intense in
terest In It. Some of the. big London
jdepartmet stores have established
wirelesH departments and aro boiling
receiving ets for as low as ?10 Radio
terminals are rigged up on their
roofs, and crowds of shonnrrs arc en
tertained each day with wireless con
certs, speeches and weather reports.
IMree: contact with Arlington mid
oUier Anmericafl stations Is easily es- J
laUitshcU. I
BATTERY CARE
IS NECESSARY
I
Prospective Tourist Should
Inspect Electrical Part
Of Car
' "Before you get too far Into th!
job of looking up maps, picking out
hotels, and deciding which points ofi
lntertst to visit, It might be well to
tako a few minutes to look over the
electrical system of your car, and as
sure yourself that everything Is shlp
ahape and ready to do Its part towurd
making your tour a succm?,' says the
local Wlllard battery distributor
"Loose connections may mean that,
tho battery does not receive the proper'
supply of current from tho genera-1
itor, or that It Is not able to dollvor.
It properly when wanted. Nuts and
screws that hold the connections in
place should be clean und should be
screwed tight, so that there Is no
possibility of their working loose eith
er through jarring of the car on the
road, or the swaying of the wires
themselves. f
"Begin with the battery and follow H
each ono of the cables through the H
switches, assuring eourself of every H
cdnnection as you go along. If this
jojj is done thoroughly you will have
n.". reason to worry about loose con
nections At the same time, make
sure that there are no short circuit'
' ,r,t by the wearing through of In
sulation or by the bits of wire thai
sometimes drop In where they do not
belong. iKj
"So much for the wiring: but at the
-..il,'.- time, It Is a good thing to h H
the starting, lighting, and ignition H
unis, and the storage battery looked H
at by the service stations specialising H
In these parts." BSP
no B. I
HORSES MORE POPULAR
CHICAGO In what has been t&;;
termed a horseless age more than 611
miles of bridle paths are in use in KjtSf
thirteen of the leading American cities fl& I
and their vicinity, according to figures Bfv
of the horse association of America, fty -J
Chicago leads vlth approximately 20u ff;
miles; Boston has 100; Washington s
trails are In the first rank in quality IB.:
Eight of tho leading cities have i'ort - BKA
three riding schools. Horse shows are Bp?:,
springing up In all parts of the coun- Re;"
try, especially In the neighborhood of BbJ:
summer resorts. Bfr-
Nash Leads the World in Motor Car Value Wf' 1
NASH I
AOUwill find the I
A Nash ruggedly I
impervious to the Kg
common mechanical mm
ailments that befall
less finely built cars. mm
Fours Mi Sixes Hbq
Prua range frmt $p6j to $2JQOtf. a. t. factory H9h
i i. Ml
PACIFIC NASH MOTOR CO. H
2200 Washington Ave. Phone 1347