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Show GUEST INTEREST IN AUTDIVIDBIII CONTEST Many Owners of Machines Will Participate in Run to Garden City. Two thousand postal card3 were mailed to automobile owners all .oyer the state, last evening by the .Automobile 'Club of. Utah, asking them to take part in the automobile excursion to Provo the coming Saturday. Chairman W. M. bl-lison bl-lison of the committee in charge wishes Tho Tribune to state that the-meeting is for all auloinobolists, whether members mem-bers of the club .or not, and all are invited in-vited to attend. Several new features have been added to the run which Is bound to prove attractive. at-tractive. The Salt Lake Automobile company announced yesterday thai it would run a Franklin car to Provo taking tak-ing part in the scaled time contest, but with an economy run test added. A committee com-mittee will he appointed to measure the gasoline going into the cur before leaving leav-ing Salt Lake and then measjirlng the gasoline loft upon reaching Provo in order or-der to ascertain the exact amount of gas used on the trip. Manager Taylor says he will be glad to have any other car In the dtv enter against his cur to see which ina'kcs the trip on the least amount of gas. The White Auto company announces that It will send a truck on the trip and load Jt down with tires and air bottles to take care of any puncture or blowout troubles that may occur to any of the cars. Several of tlie automobile firms have already announced special prizes and others are getting ready to niako announcements. an-nouncements. Alklrc & Smith will give a trophy to tho Ford coming the nearest to winning the trophy. The Chccsman Automobile company offers the same kind of a prize to the driver of a Chalmers, Chal-mers, Stoddard-Dayton or Locomobile that comes nearest to the official prize. Tho Camnboll Automobile company, through afaiiager Hull, will give an order or-der on the Bertram Motor Supply company com-pany for $10 to the driver of an Overland, Over-land, Michigan or Premier car that comes nearest to tho ofllclnl prize. The Botterlll company Is running a sealed time contest in addition to the one run by the club. The Aulomobilc club offers an automo-bllo automo-bllo robe to the winner, donated by tho Bertram Motor Supply company, while the man reporting the greatest amount of grief will get a tire repair outllt plv-cn plv-cn by tlie United States Tire companv. Chairman lSlllson expects to announce today the speakers who will give short talks on Important automobile topics, principally good roads. Several new features fea-tures will be announced before Saturday according to Chairman ICIIIson- |