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Show HORSESARE SCARCE, MOTOnWOUGHI I Craze for the Chug-Chug Wagons Wa-gons Has Passed Solid Demand Now. ! MANUFACTURER OF AUTOS TALKS ABOUT FUTURE Figures That by 1915 Autos Will Have Entirely Supplanted Y Horses. H. G. Mitchell, vice-president of the Mitchell and Lewis Wagon company; William Mitchell Lewis, general manager man-ager of the Mitchell Motor Car com-R com-R pony, and J. W. Bate, deslgnor and I general superintendent of the latter U company, are guests at the Knutsford, I Just up from Los Angeles, en route I homo to Racine, Wis., the home of their I great Interests. Speaking of Incidents I in their Itinerary, Mr. Mitchell Lewis I said: , Crazo Has Passed. I "The craze for motor cars Is gone I by, and a solid demand takes Its place, I buflt upon the real service theso cars R are to all who use them. I "I predicted, In 1900, that by 1916 pco- I pie would rush to their windows to see I a horse go by, Just as they now rush I to see an auto go by, and I still hold 1 to that prediction. I "In our factory at Racine we employ I S50 men and pay a monthly wage list I of $14,000, and wo arc but ono of twenty I concerns doing tho same thing. I Through California by Auto. R "We landed In San Francisco a few I weeks ago with ono of our care, and I made the trip of 500 miles to Los An- geles, via .Paso Roblcs and Santa Bar- I bara, and found It an ideal outing. I Good roads and kind people all the way I down. You will pardon me if I say I that. In a recent endurance contest in I Los Angeles our car made a perfect I score. I "Our wagon and carriage works at I Racine employ 600 men and pay a I wage list of-$25,000 per month. Salt I Lake is one of our largest markets, and I throughout the Northwest the de- I mand for good farming wagons proves 1 how great the coming harvest will be. H All our hardwood comes from the I South, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas, I but we shall yet have to come West I for your pine. Railroad rates have I kept us from it so far. I Heavy Freight Motors. I "I believe the heavy freight car is I soon to be a feature in business cen- I ters, and our designers are at wxrk I now on models for that purpose. The I horse will always be useful for small I undertakings, but you will yet see I heavy work, such as hauling sand, I stone. Iron and other heavy stuff, done I by electricity. I "Business all over the country Is very I prosperous, and we find Utah Is up to I date in all that goes to make good I times." |
