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Show UP AND DOWN SALT LAKE'S BUSY AUTOMOBILE ROW 1 Harry Elliott is now located on Automobile Au-tomobile row and has become a fixture among the bunch of automobile dealers who aro always ready to convince tho prospective buyer there is no sport tn the world like riding in an automobile. Elliott, is at the head of the Elliott Motor Car company whieli bundles the Oakland car. Tho new company moved into its quarters vosterday, taking tho garage vacated by tho Choosman company. com-pany. This makes a total of six dealers deal-ers located on Automobile row. The Chccsman company moved into its new quarters on Automobilo vow yesterday. Manager Alex Bcvcridgc says the new show room is not completed com-pleted as yet, but within a short time thcro will be installed fixtures which will not only be tho pride of the row'j but also of tlie entire west. In fact, says Bevcridgc, the Chccsman company will give the public something to talk about in the way of a show room as ;t is the company's inloittion to make it the Gncsf between Chicago and the const. F. T. Newton, sales manager of tho Jackson Automobile company, is in the city. ITc shipped a carload of .lack-son .lack-son automobiles to Salt Luke with the intention of locating a distributer for this territory. After sponding a week with Packard Pack-ard owners, T. D. Irving, factory representative rep-resentative for the Packard company, left for the cast on Friday. Mr. Irving Irv-ing has spent tho past few weeks on tho coast from Vancouver to San Diego and is enthusiastic over the prospects for next year. AThile here ho expressed ex-pressed himself as pleased over tho Packard business and prospects in this territory. O. A. Quigley, manager of the Studebaker Stude-baker company, is home again after a hurried trip to the Studebaker factories facto-ries in Detroit. Tho demand for cars far exceeds next year's output, says Mr. Quigley and the Salt Lake braucli will ho unable to get the full quota of its contract. T.n fact, (ho Detroit offico has cancelled ajl contracts for cars and compelled its agents to make now ones for fewer cars as it -will be impossible to fill tho demand, gays Mr. Quigley. Thus far the local "Studebaker "Stude-baker company has received but two cars and these were shipped in by express. ex-press. Frank Bottorill, manager of the Tom Botteril Automobile company, 3S absent ab-sent on a business trip in Denver. He expects to bo back in the city not later than the coming Tuesday. A. W. Stregnell, service expert for the Stoddard-Dayton, spent the past week in Salt Lake, making hjs headquarters head-quarters at tho Chccsman company. While here he visited Stoddard-Dayton owners with, a view of testing their cars. Manager M. L, Smith of tho Allure-Smith Allure-Smith conipaii3' received a wire 3'es-terday 3'es-terday stating that Charles Kendy, manager of the Ford branch in Den-vor, Den-vor, would be in the city next week for a visit to tho trade, "Wc are preparing lo take care of transcontinental tourists noxt year," said Manager J. 11. Hall of the Campbell Camp-bell A.ntomobilc company, yesterday. "A fellow can not attend these gootl rouds mooting. without getting tho fever and T toll von the public will bo surprised at tho number of cars that will conio through the city. During Dur-ing the season just past, we had an inkling of what their trado amounts to, as we had cars in our shop and garage from early in the season until the snow began to fly.'' "Motorists are not slow to leurn. the advantage (o bo gaiucd iu having their smooth tread tires rctroadod with non-skid non-skid treads this kind of weather." says Manager G. Tl. Pumphrcy of the Utah Tiro & Rubber company. "While this knocks the tiro salesman out ot many sales, it is a boon to the tire repairman who doe3 this kind of work. Nearly everything need in tiros during dur-ing tho winter months is non-skid and this retreading with non-skid treads is becoming a busincsa by itself." After spending part of the past week in Cache county, Manager A L. Taylor of the Salt Lake Automobile Automo-bile company is home again. Mj Taylor Tay-lor roports tbe sale of cars in Cache county rather slow at the present time on account of tho poor road conditions. Ho says, however, that evorybrJy is optimistic and a largo sale lit sure to follow the opening up of spring. W. H, Eaymiilor, manager of the Millard County Transportation 00111- Sauy, was a 'visitor at the United tatCj Tiro company the past week. Mr. Bn3'niillor is building a now garage gar-age at Delta, Utah, and says there is a good outlook Sot the automobile business in that section of the country next year. Eugene Eembe, Pacific coast salesman sales-man for the Hudson company, and R.. W. ICclly, traveling service- man for the Hudson, returned to the coast Thursda' after spending the past two weeks at the Bottorill company, where U103' helped out during the recent re-cent Bottorill show. "The story in The Tribune on automobilo auto-mobilo trucks a week ago seems to have created an intorest in the truck game," says Manager J. C. TJilev of the Goodyear Tire.& Rubber company. "Anyway, we have had a number of business men in this week talking truck tiros, tho cost and probable life of truck tires on Salt Lake streets, r believe, as tho article stated. Salt Lake is on the verge of a big auto truck boom." Manager R. M, Austin of the Austin Tire & Rubber company, says he wishes automobilo users would learn ,RS their chains oil in dry Tvcath when running on drv pavementr-MS 11 common idea of putting on ckiSTTw the first snowfall and lcavine Kv" on all winter is had for Kvtvmk Mr. Austin. Running cliaioj oiBtftl over dry pavements causes iheWiij to hack tho tires and nianv j lSf rcsulls when a little tinie.uiMJtai removing chains would lenstheiWS hie of the tires. jK&'tt A new garage for Ogilcn i5 ijffb formation brought to Salt LiSE m past week bv II, ( .lames of n7H(j, Auto company and agent for tbiHklk car. The new garage will he iJHi.l on Washington avenue and xriltRiti a frontage of fortv feel with rpO1 of 1-10 feet. Tt is the infentiVREj .lames company t0 install a 3Bfrn repair plant, run a first-claMjiBr & and carry a full line of afce&'! The new plant will he one of IhK in the west, says Mr. .fame;, |