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Show UP AND DOWN SALT LAKE'S BUSY AUTOMOBILE ROW J. L. ISIlcrheclc. traveling salesman of tho Diamonil Tire company, lias returned re-turned from a business trip through Nevada. N IJ. Bertram lias been kept busy tliis spring looking after tiie interests of his throe braiiclios at Salt Lal:e, Boise ami Odon. JVeil Sliarman left last week for Montana. Mr. Sliarman lias tie-eifled tie-eifled lo enaje i dry farming and has purcliased a laipe plot of yround in that section of the country and will adopt modern mctliods'of farminc on a lnrjr scale. Axel Tliellernann. special shop systcmati'.int: aireiit. of tiie Tierce company, com-pany, loft for Kansas Pity, after spend, in" (lit better part oi" a month in .Salt Lake. While here he installed a lot of now special machinery in tho Bottcrill mechanical department. Rid Tlipohnld, manager of the United States Tire company branch in this city, reports u busy Tveck with visiting tire salesmen. Among those who dropped in were .1. A. Scars, manager of the Flsk branch of Butte, Mont.. and : K. Grand, traveling inspector for the United States company. Theobold says he is thinking of having leather covered settees installed in the Io'al branch to take caro of visitors. K. Ij. Iliteman, manager of the Diamond Dia-mond tiro branch in this city, left last night for Boise on a business trip. S. II. Sharman is back from a trip to the Cadillac factory nt Detroit. While away Mr. Sharmaii attended the annual an-nual meeting of the Cadillac agcnt.1. Tom Bottcrill, niauager of tho Tom Botterill Automobile agency of Denver, spout part of the week "visiting his brother, Frank Bottcrilk He left for Los Angeles Fridaj evening. . 0!. IT. Humphries, manager of tho Utah agency of the Firestone tire. hTtd a business call this week from liddiu Campion, manager of Hit' .Seattle branch of tho Firestone. Campion is an oldtimcr ami well known in the western trade. Harry Elliot, who talks Bniek to prospects and occasionally "slips" one over, is one of the oldest salesmen in the game today. Hardly a week passes by that sonic of his old acquaintances do -not drop in this city. During last week Flliot renewed friendships with Sam Samuels, former manager of tho National racing team, and .Tack Payno, traveling representative of tho Moon company. Tommy Davis, salesman for the Studobaker Bros, company, took 'a string of five F,. M. F. cars south this week. All were delivered to their new owners. L. A. Yidy. Ogden manager of the Bertram Motor Supplv company, speut Thursday in Salt Lake. J. C. Jtiley. local manager of tho Goodyear lfubbor company, was busy wearing a smilo yesterday on receipt of a. letter from the factory notifying him that tho output wouid bu "5000 tires per day from now on. Ifiley says tho output, of his company this your would equip a string of automobiles from San Francisco to Now York. T. E. Becraft and .Sales .Manager Horn of tho Becraft Automobile company com-pany of Ogden, were in Salt Lako on Friday loolcing over the local trade situation with a view to establishing a branch house in this city. .L "W. Duffin, salesman for the Studobaker Bros., sas he would like-to like-to see an automobile "route goiug north from M'ontpelier through Star valley. Duffin says &omo of the, best roads in the west are to bo found in that section sec-tion of the country. Walker Cheesinau- of the Cheesmau Automobile company says his company is now contemplating tiie building of a new garage. Although tho firm has been in its new building but a short month, thov find it too small and expect ex-pect to build a now and larger gnrage on tho corner of Fourth South and West Temple streets. Definite plans will bo announced in a few days. Jack Gilmer, manager of the Utah Motor company, has just completed arrangements ar-rangements to furnish a new automobile automo-bile stage lino with its cars. Gilmer says a now company will shorth- bo incorporated in-corporated and will operate n stage between Salt, Lake and the town of Lark. Two round trips will be made each day, one returning io Lark after midnight to take care of tho theutcr crowd. K. K. Knnlzer, local manager of tho B. F. Goodrich Uubber company, is back in tho city after a short business trip (o the factory at Akron, O. Mr. Kantzcr'a trip was in relation to the recent cut in the prices of tired, tho announcement of which was made as soon as he returned to Salt Lake. W. S. Montgomery, manager of the Automobile exchange, received word from the American factory that a new model, known as the American Scout, had been aded to the American line for lfH2. Montgomery promptly placed an order for one of those cars. Elmer K. Darling of the Monarch Motor companv reports that the first Stearns Knight will rench Salt Lake the coming week. F. V. Aikirc of the AlkircSmith Auto company ir.ado a trip through tho southern part" of tho stats this week in the interest of Fords, lie reports great activity in this section of thn state and says tho people are fully alive to tho need of good roads. Mir. Alkire says a great amount of road building build-ing has boon planned for tho coming sammor. Elmer ncclor, sales manager of tho Utah Motor company . holds tho record for transporting a valuable cargo in an automobile. Last week Hector used a big six Packard" to haul 50,000 in gold through the streets of Salt Lake. Tn the car were three Pinkertons. one bank president, C. S. Burton, and one bank cashier. T?. T. Badger, The monev was taken from tho vaults of tho Utah Commercial bank to the vnults of tho Utah National bank. J. Murray Page, western representative representa-tive of tho Docomobilo comp'anj, has been iu the city for a week pa3t. Tie reports good business prospects for t.he Locomobile sinco it has been added to the line handled by the Cheesman company. |