OCR Text |
Show BOTTERILL RETURNS FROM Ml TRIP Popular Automobile Sales Manager Man-ager Js Back in Salt Lake ' After Long Tour. Fmrik Bottsrill. manager of the Tom Botterill Automobile company, has .lust returned from an oxtenplvo trip through Ul east. Ho ann nls brother from Dnnver havo been looking Inlo the automobile auto-mobile business very thoroughly. Mr. Kottorill is very optimistic regarding the future of tho automobile Industry and Gtats that ho flnd business conditions In splendid shapo throughout the east. Tho Plorco Aitow Motor company, manufacturers of tho Plerco-Arrow, have built extensive additions to their fnr.tory and are entering Into the manufacture of trucks very extensively. Their r-porls r-porls from their agents are very encouraging. en-couraging. In the larger cities, such as Chicago. New Tork, Boston and Philadelphia., Phila-delphia., their agents .have already sold for future delivery on an average of o0 per cent moro cars than they had during dur-ing tho samo period last year. Tho Plorco Arrow Motor company are working rogularly 3800 men and turning out seven complete cars even dny Mr. "Botterill says the Chalmers Motor .company .com-pany have already delivered to their agents 2fi00 cars, which Is Just one-half of tholr output for 1911. The Pope Manufacturing Manu-facturing company, manufacturers of the Pope-Hartford, are entirely sold out. Beside.? visiting these plnnts, a complete com-plete tour to tho larger manufacturers of the cast was made. Tho report? given by these concerns show that fully as many hlgh-grado cars will bo sold this coming year as In the past. Mr. Botterill Bot-terill believes that if there Is any falling fall-ing off In the sale of motor, cars It will bo In the lower-priced cars, ns conditions condi-tions have permitted the purchaso of better cars in the past. While in Xew York Mr. Botterill saw tho Vanderbllt cup faco. which, without with-out doubt, was the most exciting and Interesting In-teresting automobile road raco ever held. Cars aro belng'grcatly Improved, an tho results of thlH"raco will how. as there was practically no mechanical trouble In any of the cars. Tiro trouble caused nlne-tonths of the tvtiublo and mishaps. Tho business of the Botterill company locally and In Denver appears encouraging, encourag-ing, and while- tho allotment of Plorc cars for both pities has been increased over the past year, it Is not expectod that the least troubl" In disposing of all tho machines will be experienced. Sales locally havo been Increasing very much during tho past thirty days and It Is expected that a better business for the season of 1911 than the ono during 1010 will he had. |