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Show Motor Motions It will be early this month before Salt Lakers will receive the new machines ordered the past ten days and two weeks. Every dealer in town handling high grade cars has sold everything shipped into town thus far, and orders have been placed for probably thirty cars on which delivery has been promised before May 15th. ISo great has been the demand that one or two sales rooms have disposed of even their demonstrating demon-strating cars. And that Salt Lake has taken its place in the estimation of eastern manufacturers as one of the best motor car markets in the entire west J this year, is pretty thoroughly evidenced by the ' statement of two of the biggest dealers in the city that they have already this season received fiom the factories they Represent more cars' J. than the San Francisco agencies of the Bame companies com-panies will be given during the summer. Prom the outlook there will probably be at least three new makes of oars represented by I agencies here before the close of the year. j Lee Counselman, sales manager of the Chal mers Detroit Motor company, spent Wednesday I with Frank Botterill on his way east after a I trip to the coast in the interest of the Chalmerb I Detroit cars. Mr. Counselman declares the com- ' pany has had the biggest business in its history this season, and that the automobile business throughout the entire west has exceeded the anticipations an-ticipations of all the big manufacturers. The San Francisco Motor Club has decided to hold its grand pri,ze road race on the 19th of this month, over the Santa Rosa, Heldsburg, Ceyserville, and Dry Creek course for a five hundred dollar bronze trophy. The course Is fifty-two miles long, with the start and finish at the same point In Santa Rosa. Five thousand dollars Is being spent to put the course in good -'-- condition, and the races will be a feature of the ' rose carnival to be held in Santa Rosa May 7th and 8th. The news of this meet has "brought up among local dealers during the week, the much-mooted question of some sort of a motor car contest here The prospects seem rather slim, as no one apparently cares to assume the responsibility of arranging for either a hill climb or a road contest. fcj fc5 ( H. L. Bracken, of the Raymond-Bracken company com-pany left early In the week for the factory of the Jackson Automobile company at Jackson, Michigan. Michi-gan. The Raymond-Bracken company have had so busy a season that to date they have been unable to secure shipments of Jackson cars fast enough to supply the local demand, and Mr. Bracken deemed It necessary to make a personal visit to the factory in order that during the next t few months buyers of Jackson cars may be as- ' sured of quick delivery after ordering. A carload of Jackson's will leave the factory consigned to the company here May 30th. The car will contain the machines sold to F. S. Murphy, of Salt Lake, land Mrs. Hartwlck. Manager Raymond, of the company, Is another an-other of the local dealers who are very anxious that a hill climbing contest bo arranged locally for May. "We are behind almost every other city in the west in this l'espect," he declares, "and our firm for one will gladly support any move for a hill climb that gives promise of being be-ing run under proper conditions." t & After a record-breaking month, in which every Thomas Flyer shipped Into town has been sohl, the Randall-Dodd Auto Co. are Impatiently awaiting a fresh consignment of cars from the Thomas factory. "We are cleaned out down to our last car," said Mr. Dodd of the company Friday. "Haven't a thing left, and it will be two or three days before we can get more." A carload of the popular machines will reach Salt Lake shortly after the first of the month. The car will contain two 6-70 Flyaboutsi and three 6-40 Flyabouts, two of which have already been sold, one to Frank Hastings of Ely, Nevada, Neva-da, and another to Dr. Ulman, of Salt Lake. The record Mr. Dodd and his associates have e since they opened a temporary garage at South Temple, Is as encouraging aS almost auy other feature of the automobile business in Salt Lake this year. The Thomas cars jumped Into instant popularity, and Mr. Dodd has wired the Thomas factory that he will take every Thomas car the manufacturers can send him this season. Joe Richards, who three or four weeks ago purchased a 6-40 Thomas Flyabout, left with Mrs. Richards Wednesday for Buffalo, where he will take delivery of the car and tour the east for a month or two before bringing it to Salt Lake. A. F. Savage purchased of the Randall-Dodd company Saturday the Ford Taxloab owned by that company. Ben Davis and B. R. Woolley have purchased 6-40 tour'ng cars also. 5 5 The big 6 cylinder 40-horsepower Pierce Arrow Ar-row cars ordered by Gus Holmes and ex-Governor Gooding of Idaho a month ago, were delivered de-livered here Wednesday. The car taken by Mr. Holmes is equipped throughout with electric lights, and is one of the handsomest Pierce cars in the city. Frank Botterill of the Botterill company com-pany received word early In the week from the Pierce factory that effective at once the company will open in Paris a garage and general Information Informa-tion ofilce for the benefit of Americans touring France in Pierce cars. In addit'on, the company is furnishing all European tourists a list of automobile au-tomobile garages throughout the continent where American-made cars can be taken to receive pioper attention. |