The following appeared in the Rock County Herald on August 29, 1924:
ROCK COUNTY USED 1,223,002 GALLONS OF GASOLINE IN 1923
Report of State Oil Inspection Department Shows Rock County Generous Buyer of Gas
Rock county used 1,223,002 gallons of gasoline during 1923, according to the annual report of the division of oil inspection of the Dairy and Ford Department. In addition to this quantity of gasoline, a total of 247,197 gallons of kerosene was used in the county in the same period. The report shows that the total number of gallons of gasoline used in the state in 1923 to be 185,785,042.
While Rock is one of the smallest counties in the state, in only forty-four of the eighty-seven counties was more gasoline used than in Rock county. Thirty-two of the eighty-seven counties used less than a million gallons. Hennepin heads the list with 34,034,833 gallons, while Ramsey comes next with 22,957,407, and St. Louis next with 13,954,546. Stearns takes fourth place with 4,936,887, and Blue Earth fifth with 3,480,472. No other county in the state reaches the three million mark.
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