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Show UP AND DOWN SALT LAKE'S BUSY AUTOMOBILE ROW Tries Deep Creek Routo -L. A. Vidv, m:i minor of tlie Bertram Motor Supply company of Officii and one ol' the chief boosters Tor the Northern transcontinental transconti-nental rontf, ooeretl tlie Deep Creek routo to V.W last week and admits H is not a bad as he thought. Vidy says tho roads aro all rifrht. but that si. person per-son is liable to j:et lost at any tune. Vidv neglected to supply hiiusiclt: with a Tribuue loer and took the wroiiff road after leaviujr Deep Crock, jo'iiiix to Gold Hill instead of Callao. Tic made tho trip from F.ly to Salt Lake in a .lay and a half, which is fair t ravelin ravel-in ff. Franklin Engineor Here A. C. Rf-flaul Rf-flaul engineer from tho Pranklhi Jac-torv, Jac-torv, spent, tin past week with the bolt tjako Automobile company. Mr. Ttal-flaub Ttal-flaub acts as traveling adjuster for the Franklin people and while hero visited Franklin owners with a view of looking look-ing over their cars. Manager Taylor of tbe Salt Lake Automobile company say? arrangements havo boon made to have Mr. ifafflaub test all cars in this territory at least once every two months. Looking After mites -C. E. Denser, Den-ser, western sales manager of the "vvhito Automobile company, and "B. A. Grosser, representing the same nrm in Denver, spent the past week in 'Salt Lake with tho local White agency. Their object was to get a line on local conditions with a view of branching oui for tm;i. Mr. Grosser drove to Smt Lake in a car from Denver and savs he had no trouble- in getting through. Vacation in Hospital P. VT. Alkire, of the A 1 Wire-Smith company, is back in harness again after a. second siege in the hospital during the past summer. sum-mer. Mr. Alkire nays he took his va-wit.inn va-wit.inn f-his vcar in bed. that he foels fine ficain. and is readv to tnlk about 191". Fjrds. Takes Southern Trip After spending spend-ing the greater part of the year in northern L'tah and southern Tdaho, where ho has had remarkable snoccss, .1. W. Duffin. road salesman for the Studebaker Brothers, left for southern Utah on Friday. DulHn expects to looK after a number of prospects and get a line, on the 1013 business in this territory. terri-tory. New Garage Opens -J. L. Bell and Ifalpb "Wilson of this city announced vesterday they had completed arrangements arrange-ments to tnko over tho old Flanders parage on State street and would open in a few days with a netv garage and repair equipment. U is their intention I to make rhc new place one of the lending lend-ing garages of the west. Returns From Arco L. O. Laugford. salesman for the Salt Lake Automobile company, returned home Tuesdaj' from a drive to Arco, whero he delivered a car. Arco is off the main lino of travel through eastern Idaho, but Mr. LaDg-ford LaDg-ford reports the roads in fairlv good condition. Off to Denver M. L. Smith of tho Alkire-Smith company, left yesterday for a short business trip (o Denver. Returned- Without Scratch Assistant. Assist-ant. Manager .1. A. Groesbeek of the Studebaker company, spent Thursday in Ogden, whore he went to look over to car recently stolen and recovered through The' Tribune. Groesbeek says the car was recovered without tho slightest damage or oven a scratch of any kind. Tho stolen car was driveu Dearly a thousand miles before it was .returned to Ogden. Reo Man Hore "R. 13. Ruescham, sales manaccr of tho Reo Automobile company, spent part of the past week hi Salt Lake. Mr. lluoscham was looking look-ing over the local field with a yiow of establishing his car in this territory. Cheesman Opens in Ogdon Tho ChccHinan company opened a branch house in Ogdon duriug the. past week. Their new store is locatod at 25156 Washington avenue, where the company will always be ready to take care of both Salt Lake and. Ogden customers. Walker CheeBinan goes to Ogden as the branch manager. Rubber Men Here W. C. TJcndrio, manager of the Hendrie Rubber company com-pany of Denver: S. V. Dodge of the Dodge Rubber company of San .Francisco .Fran-cisco and Norman .Ballentrne, a Denver capitalist, arrived in Salt. Lako yesterday, yester-day, and expect to remain iu the city for several days. Just what iB the nature na-ture of their business here is not known, but it is intimated something new in tho rubbor coods line nmy be announced an-nounced within the next few days. Pierce Sales Manager Arthur Ladd of tho sales dopartmont of the Pierce Arrow Motor Oar company is viaiting this week with the local representative, the Tom Botterill Automobile company. Mr. Ladd states that never in tho history his-tory of the Pierce Arrow company has it iifcen so swamped and so far behind with orders for the new models. Mr. Ladd further states every ear that can be manufactured by the Pierce company up to .Tunc 1, 1913, is .already sold. What he meana by being sol1 is that actual deposits have been placed by ! tho dealers and specifications for each individual car has already been placed with Ins company. Mr. Ludd is very enthusiastic over tho outlook for Pierce cars in the Botterill company's territory, terri-tory, which includes Colorado, Wyoming, Wyom-ing, Utah and Idaho. President Botterill Here Tom Botterill. Bot-terill. presidont of tho Tom Botterill Automobile company, arrived in Salt Lake Saturday, and will spend soveral da. with Frank Botterill, inanacrer of the local organization. Mr. Botterill reports re-ports business very satisfactory both iu the Denver and Salt Lako stores. Ho furthermore states that approximately 70 per cent of their allotment, of Pierce cars for the Denver territory this year has already been sold. The Bottorills are the pioneer automobile dealers of Holorado. where the established a branch of the Pierce Arrow company in Denver in the year ISO". Fall Prospects Bright 'Tt rc-I rc-I marknblc tho way tho fall sales in motor mo-tor cars keep up," says Manager J. R. Hall of t.ho Campbell Auto company. fTbis is not only true of our lino of cars, but othor doalors arc in tho same boat. I can say without fear of contradiction con-tradiction that three times as many motor mo-tor cars will be sold in Salt Lako this fall as there has ever beon in any year in the past. Tt means that tho peoplo aro taking to winter motoring in Salt Lake, a custom that has been in voguo in the East for tho past two years. Hitcman Returns A fter two weeks' absence in Boise, Manager R. b. Flito-man Flito-man of the Diamond Rubber company returned home Friday. Mr. Hitcman spont his time in Idaho getting a lino on new business for 10151, and, liko all who return from there, ho reports excellent ex-cellent prospects for next vcar. Secure Regal Lino Manager A. 13. Hevcridge ol the t heesman Auto company com-pany announced yesterday that his firm had taken on tho Regal lino for 1013, and would make it the leader for a low-priced low-priced car. Formal aniiouncemont; of tho models and price will be made within with-in a few days. Secure More Room Manager A. 13. Tourssen of tbr Randall-Dodd company makes the announcement that his firm has ius t closed a contract for a now addition to their present quarters. This has been made neccssarv on acoount of tho increase iu businoss during the past couple of months. The addition will be equipped with a modern repair shop. Says'.!. C. Riloy "During a recent trip to Xcvada," says .T. C. TJiley. man-ager man-ager of the Goodyear Tire company, "we wero traveling over a sparsoly sot-tlcd sot-tlcd country near Deep Springs. An enterprising rancjiman had just built a now road and was collecting toll from everybody who passed over it. Ours was the first automobile he had seen, and, after lookiug it over, wanted to know how much horsopower the car had. We told him it was a sixt' ami could go some. When it came to paying toll we asked him his price. lie shook his head for a minute and then said: 'Well. 1 charge two-bits for every horse that goes over this road and T guess T will havo to charge that ma-chinos ma-chinos the same a? 1 would stxtv horses.' " Sharraan Is Willing Sam Sbarman takes oxception to the statement in last Sunday's Tribune, which In substanco doclared that Lee Ellerbock of tho Guarantee Guar-antee Tiro nnd Rubber company wa.s tho best duck shot on Automobilo row. In order to settle for all time just who can bring down the more ducks in tho shortest space of timo, Sharman issues an open "defi" to any person in the city connected with the automobilo business for a duck shooting contest, |