Indiana: Conforms to the schedules
of the motor vehicle conference com
mittee, provided in the uniform motor
vehicle law, on which the committee
has been steadily working for four
years. This committee was formed at
the Instigation of the National Auto
mobile Dealers association on plans
provided by It. The committee has
functioned well for several years and
WAS BORN A GEM HUNTER
Arkntumn Man Finds Productive
Ground By Instinct
When the Investigating scientists
ot the government went to Adkansas
to study the extent and richress of
the diamond field there they found
Lee Wagner, a native, who has nc
technical or scientific knowledge,
their principal aid, as he was able
to pick out the places where the
stones were found, explaining his
decision by saying the place "ap
peared to look promising" and they
learned he had been using that na
tural knowledge for years and had
made it pay him rather handsomely.
—Boston Transcript. •
is gradually making its influence felt
in national state legislation.
Minnesota: Increased from 2 per
cent to 2% per cent of value; greater
percentage of depreciation allowed.
New Mexico: Provides trailer fee
of $5 plus 60 cents each hundred
weight or carrying capacity over 1,000
pounds. Taxation ^on commercial
vehicles changed from horse power
to weight.
Tennessee: Reduced fees pn electric
vehicles by 60 cents.
Texas: Gross weight and horse
power, rating 17% cents per H. P.
fee graduated from 40 cents per
hundred weight for passenger
vehicles of 2,000 pounds to 76 cents
for 4,500 and heavier: commercial
vehicles 6,000 pounds solid tires, 40
cents; pneumatics, 30 cents; 10,000
pounds to 12,000 pounds solid tires,
80 cents; pneumatics, 60 cents; 22,001
pounds and more, solid tires, 9b,
pneumtic tires, |4.
