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U' i:' I J MAINTAINED ALL two views of the Monroe machine which surprised the Monroe representative by making the ' large mileage of 74 miles on a measured quart of gasoHne an average of nearly thirty! miles to the gallon ‘The test run was officially observed by the motoreditor of The The car at the wheel Jn the lower photo the observer is meas-upper picture shows Jud Fowler driver Walter Brothers Follow Same Trail They Pedes-- : trianed Backfinl907 IManagement to Devote Dull ' Season to Disseminating BACK - Dope on Utah Harold- r HERE are i' THE YEAR ROUND NOW PROPOSED Herald-Republic- an of-th- iitnnM a inn a sa mh m 4m1 ' CONCRETE highway from Salt Lake to Bingham — a stretch of pavement which would shorten the present long stretch between the city and Utah’s such ia the suggestion that has been greatest mining camp by a half-hourmade by the Bingham Commercial dub to the Salt Lake county commissioners With such a road traffic between the two communities wonld be doubled it is estimated thus accruing to the advantage of both In addition the road could be opened earlier in the year each spring and dosed later each falL Because of the fact that the present state road commission has never been MOTOR DEALERS OF especially strong for concrete roads although autoists and other road users la are particularly ardent advoSALT LAKE PROTEST general cates of them It Is likely according PROPOSED AUTO TAX to all present dope that the state will not be asked to participate financially the improvement The read If built the Injustice In Protesting against will be merely a county highway the of the proposed national tax of I financing of It being split between per cent on the gross sales of auto Bingham City Salt Lake City and Salt manufacturers as well as S per cent Lake county as It on the gross sales of dealers many Although the road to Bingham condiIn Is at exists present passable motor car distributors here last tion and In many places is good so week wired Utah’s congressional much of it Is had that the need of an delegation improved permanent highway Is a cryD M Shaw manager of the ing one Paige Motor Sales company re-of The fact that stage lines rum over the Utah was tbs first dealer to roads and that most persons depend ceive Intimation of such a plan on auto limes to take them to and these XL M Jewett presiIn a wire from fro is another argument advanced by company dent of tho Palgo-Detro- lt advocates the concrete road It of the was the of advised Shaw Tuesday out Is the stages on conthat pointed He Immediately proposed tax crete much better schedcould maintain wired Senator Smoot as follows: ules and would not cat up the reads as ' “We desire to register protest present tax on they do at against proposition to levy Build la Spring May manufacgross sales of automotlle members of the county manias Although turers and dealers being commission not have to an both makers definitely injustice festly dealers and Inclined to hurt theld attitude on the proposition stated it Is and understood that they are favorable to business at this time” It As soon as some sort of a plan W K Manager Mayne of the distribcan be worked out t9 finance the ImMormon Lovering company utors also received Information of provement work will be started likely tax and wired a slml- - next spring the proposed ' Members of the Bingham Commercial worded protest to the Utah club— larly the live business organisation of delegatlon tho copper camp— are enthusiastic over the scheme and believe that it should be undertaken the first thing nest spring and rushed to completion in ' 1907 the Walker brothers Oklahoma V City John and H Walker pulled a stunt - V : which attracted nation-wid- e attention They pushed a wheelbarrow from coast to coast— New Terk to San Fran-ds-co —taking six months for the trip Deport of F V Owen Shows 600 Tourists Routed in Sixty Days They passed through Salt Lake at that time coming vla the Pike’s Peak highway which pierces the Uintah basin "I Just wahted to' see how the old read looks now and from the seat of an automobile”:- remarked John Walker last wesk as he stepped from the wheel of hie big touring car and walked Into the office of the A' A As In the Boston building ' Walkter told Manager F V Owen that In most places the road la much better than It was in 1907 but that In many places to his Intense surprise it was worse the ' route having been changed from a natural to a section line course From here he went’ te Yellowstone park and will then tour the Pacific northwest and California returning home via the southern routp Ocean-to-Oce- an ‘ 1 accompaniment WINTER withtourits slackening’ will not affect the operations here of the American Automobile association touring1 bureau The bureau is an ea- -: tablished institution now and will be kept open the year" round During the duller season coming the world will consist of general publicity on - 1 - Such In ‘the Information contained in an official report to the American Au- -' tomoblle association general Washington I OL completedbr F V Owen local manay 'yMterda ger SIT Owen reports that ho haw sufflelent data eollected to dato on western roads and scqnla attractions ' parti oular fax Utah to make aoourats he&d-Quart- ers YOUNGSTERS GO reports during tho lato fall and win-v ter to tho 900 other A A A bureaus Thus will next year's crop of transcontinental lets westward bound bo well posted early in 101Scn Just what they may see In this state' In tho last sixty days— or the time has been in operation at 343 the bureau S Main —a total of 600 auto tourists has been routed they being1 sent to all Staten Comprised points of the United in the total were autoists bound for British Columbia and the Mexican border Bangor Me and Miami Fla Pacific coast 'points from north to south Urged to Stop Here Most of this number according to Owen arrived in Utah with but one thought— hour to get out the quickest and best way It was always that question first propounded to his office He explains that most of them had heard of Salt Lake and the wonderful Mor-non temple and tabernacle But havseen those they wished to leave by ing tbo most direct path making this city but the merest sort of baiting point This idea has been fought by the Three A bureau by the giving of free lnfqrmatlon concerning some of the wonders of Utah—scenic and Industrial —and the best ways of 'getting there Ae a result hundreds who would have sped onward as rapidly as possible have lingered within the gates of this state to see such wonders as Little Zion canyon Monumental- valley the north rim of the Grand Canyon and a dozen and one world' wonders here In addition to tho fertile valleys and prosperous towns of the stats outside of Salt Lake and Ogden Figures compiled by Owen show that tho average expenditure of a motor tourist for each additional day stay is about $10 “That $10 Is simply like finding it It’s foreign money and money that should bo spent here for ws really have something to offer in exchange for It’ Owen declares TO PEACH DAY FETE BY AUTO Paige Machines Bear Herald- - Republican Newsies to B righam Celebration Barring the fact that a somewhat officious “taown constabll” broke up the newsies parade section In the Brigham City Peach day pageant by reto permit some of the autos to fusing enter everything ran smoothly at the Paige party ' Last Wednesday was Peach day at Brigham City and The Herald-Repub- ll can newsies guests of the Paige Motor Sales company of Utah were taken to the Box Elder capital calebrtalon In big Paige machines ears and drivers being supplied by Manager D M Shaw and Sales Manager J B 'Windle - ' of the Paige distribution firm But lnregard to the' Brigham boya believed that the fun V nleat thing they saw The police department was on the Job that day and he evidently thought he was a regular cop for he stationed and himself at1 the' street Intersection refused to permit some' of the'bo-bannerPaige cars to get into line He only allowed the boys to have their when the city attorney rightful place explained where he was “at” - Brigham City did Itself proud though and saw to It that the visiting youngsters had all they wanted of watermelons and peaches In fact tome of so much fruit to eat that the boya had 111 to a degree they became The ‘caravan left here early Wednesday and returned late the same night pollee-man—t- he - - Loe Angeles Co-operat- ion ed - Tho manager states that an Important element of the bureau’s program now worked out Is a beneficial with the association’s Los AnIn return for routing geles bureau autoists so they may reach the Angel : -- -- seven-passeng- er Utah and its attractions and the distribution of literature on this state and its beauties to the other Three 'V A" bureaus- By HABRT E MacFHEBSON rn HERE have been so many mileage L brags made by various motor car dealers to me recently and' so many estimates of how many miles a car can on' a gallon that I had just' about ecame convinced that practically all mileage statements were lies So that when I visited the J P Fowler establishment last Monday and heard Jud Fowler auto department manager boasting of high mileage I was ready to make him prove it' “Truthfully now Jud” I said ?Just how- far will this Monroe of yours go on a gallon of gasoline” “To' Ogden” grinned Fowler with great promptness T really “Im not kidding I said would like to make a test” “Well It will go so far on a gallon that —It will take all afternoon to get back thirty miles I guess” he said Test on the Square The suggestion was then made that a test be made with a quart only so as to save time To this Fowler agrreed manager less enJ P Fowler generalson thusiastic than hls expressed the opinion that the car would go six miles on: the quart Jud Fowler declared it would go between seven and ' eight The proved hls knowledge trip There was no trickery about the test —no fllmf lamming to make the test greater The gas tank was drained vacuum tank was emptied and dry the every ' drop was taken from the carbureter There wasn’t a drop of gasoline in the machine when I took a quart measure full of commercial- gasoline and poured it in We rolled the machine from the garage set the speedometer at zero and started her Over to Second West and north over t the paved state road we rolled with the machine ' traveling between twenty and thirty miles an hour on the gradea at all times— no ' coasting Up up crept the mileage until the speedometer showed 6 “Well :weve done as well as J P : CONSERVEFOOD BY TRUCK USE ADVICE GIVEN Grady Motor Company Head Shows Advantage in Use of Duplex - - - - - said we’d do” 'laughed Fowler but the machine ' hummed on Right at seven miles she spluttered a little and the engine almost died We thought the gas was surely all gone But then she took heart again and ran for another long stretch Finally with the odometer showing exactly 74 miles she' chugged down to a choked stop and would not be restarted The gas was completely gone ' USED AUTO IS CALLED HAPPY - ' - makes a portable power plant out of - your automobile whereby yon can nse from one h p on up to the maximum power of the engine Speed and power controlled auto- rustically by a governor It ' - - t- i ' ¥v Exclusive distributors in four states ' V ‘ inter-mounta- in vy - Cottonwood - 0" See Us First ' ' For all kinds of Tire Trou-Ible- s We make a specialty of - CELTIC ms : - A college professor remarked In the presence of hls Irish gardener “How OrlOn is tonlghtl” bright - “So that Is O'Ryan la it?? replied I’at “Well' thank the Lord' there’s' one Irishman in heaven anyhow” ' - V I r - lcaw W' Coverdlll Probate Judge J was on1 'his way- to Staff ordville his car ran over a big fish in a flooded stretch of the read A fin punctured the tire and the Judge had to give xp the trip The fish was swimming la about a foot of water which was runroadway This la probning across thecase on reeord of a mofirst the ably torist running over a1 fish treepassing on' the public highway: - : ' that they are getting here” People' are gradually becoming educated to the money saving value possible In used cars according to' C A' Quigley who reports an unusually busy week In the used car department of hls establishment oh Exchange' Place Mr Quigley says that most of his sales were to people who hesitate about putting an exorbitant sum in a new car hut who find a "hrfppy medium” in the used ear' “The desire for an automobile Is universal” said Mr Quigley yesterday ”but men are hesitating about paying tbo Increased prices' that are necessaridemanded for new cars For such a ly man a reliable used car is the logical thing He saves half or more than half of hls money and when you come right down to real value he doesn’t have to sacrifice much “We exercise the utmost care In' taking used cars on exchange If a car Isn’t In good shape or capable of being put Into good shape' we don’t want It The first thing we do when a used car la received In stock la to thoroughly overhaul It and make it a really reThis coata us liable automobile money but it makes the car a satisfactory purchase to the man we sell it to TThls has been a busy season for Hala CHANDLER WINS GRADE LAURELS Service Our ' Motto ' ' - Is : ' ‘ Whan yoti want Gas Oils and Fres Air drop in and see ns Wen just off Main in the Automobile Center mgsiim 15 W Fourth South Was 3267 “Motorize and conserve the food supasserted “Gene” Grady manager of ply” the Grady' Motor company distributors of the Duplex truck ae he called attention to an announcement of the United States ‘department of agriculture to the effect that It takes nearly double the acreage to supply feed for a IN GEM STATE “Some car Mr Quigley!” Such Is tho way a Western Union message to CoL C A Quigley from J A Andrews of Arlrao Ida finished The reference was to the Chandler It seems that ear won over all competitors in a high gear hill climbing contest at Arlmo But the message speaks for itself Hero it Is: “CL A Quigley S3 Exchange Plac Salt Lake “In one of the classiest exhibitions of high gear hill climbing ever staged In Idaho Chandler chummy owned by Louis Henderson of this place and driven by J B Henderson went over the famous Glover hill a 56 per cent grade one quarter of a mile long “The Chandler finished ahead of Oakland Six roadster which was second and Hudson Super Six which failed to make the hill on high geare Speed of tho Chandler was twenty-thremiles per hour at tho summit Some car Mr Quigley “J A ANDREWS” (Signed) horse that it takes to maintain a hu man being with f oodstuf fa “With state and federal government officials urging farmers throughout the country to Increase their acreage and raise more potatoes and grain1 the deof the partment's statement Isforone' motorized strongest arguments transportation that has been advanced" said Mr Grady Just consider the Immense volume of grain that Is consumed by horses svery year ' “There are 34000000 horses In the consumes an avcountry A work horse 196 oats bushels of of erage per year BOXEHEAD BROS This means that the horses in this moot mo as Boob— Why country are fed a total of 3364000000 you promised? didn’t you bushels of oats every twelve months In Simp— It was my meatless day addition to tho thousands and thousands of tons of hay for the raising of which a tremendously big acreage Is required There is no more nourishing food for human beings than oatmeal and other oat products end steps should be taken to conserve every bushel of grain that Is grown In this country while 'the threatened shortage pf foodstuffs continues “Of course the high cost of keeplug horses would concern only those who Do not want to lose your aupay the feed bills except for the fact Yet thousands are tomobile that horses eat the food human beings need And It has been proven time and stolen each year which are never the most thorough tests that by again horse-draw- n recovered" haulage and ' delivery cost much more—in many equipment Instances double the cost of operating The Christie' Combination' motor trucks and tractors Auto Lock not only locks the “When we consider that one motor vehicle often replaces as high as fifty motor but the hood as welL It’s" mules and horses the fact Is forcibly impossible to move the car —imbrought to our minds that millions of bushels of grain could be saved for possible to wire around the dehuman consumption by substitution of Thieves and joyriders vice trucks and tractors not only In tho cities but In the rural districts cannot get away with a Christie “Substitution of machines for horses should appeal to the selfish side of men Combination Anto Lock car because their delivery and haulage costs will be reduced Safe asj a bank vault ' “Then too substitution of trucks and tractor should appeal to the patriotic side of men because they will be helping to conserve the country’s food supply and perhaps obviate the necessity of placing the people on half rations 417 Kearns Bldg ' Was 5139 as has been done In some of tho war- YOU : Sri Ben Kan—While Falls Br International - Stewart & Young Sales Co 375 S West Temple KANSAS REPORTS NEW: DANGER TO MOTORISTS Chandlers and Dorts” continued Mr Quigley ’"and as a consequence we have rather neglected to push the used car end of our business until recently The result Is that we have accumulated a good sized stock of these used cars which are taking up a lot of valuable space in our garage and show rooma The closed cars for the winter use which are- beginning to come in from must be taken care of and the as a factory consequence we have been slashing prices on all of our used care so as to dispose of them and make room for our enlarged stock of new cars The way the public has responded Indicates that they appreciate the genuine bargains BUYING MEDIUM 1 What Is the — - : there will see to it that city the bureauwho go to the coast by the thousands other routes come back this way en-It la estimated that 5000 cars have tered Los Angeles this year over the National Old Trails highway alone and that at leaat 10000 more have entered other route which doea hot by some touch Utah In line with the publicity project for the coming months and to make possible the proper completion of this huge task additional office room In the present quarters of the touring bureau has been taken' The road bureau like all those of the A ‘A A Is financially made possible by memberships in the American Automobile association to Be Made by Salt Lake City Bingham Improvement ' Municipality and Salt Lake County With no State Help Is Tentative Plan j : - Auto Supplies De Luxe The best procurable A guarantee goes with everything We can replace any injured part Come around to our establishment today and get the benefit of rode bottom ' prices ’ ' Geo D Colt Co - 146 E Breed1 Wi SS7S WR GRAHAM ring nations" i |