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Show DODGE GAR Will 5 IIOI1W The first Bodge Broa. motor car is en route to Salt Lake by express from Denver, Den-ver, Colo., and It will be In Salt Lake Monday morning. The car will be placed on exhibition in the Botterill ealesroom here at 8 o'clock Tuesday morning. Beyond a question the phenomenal experiences ex-periences that occurred at the Tom Botterill Bot-terill company's salesroom in Denver, when the car was placed on exhibition there a week a'o, will be duplicated' at the Botterill ealesroom here tho coming week. The car was first placed on exhibition there a week ago Thursday morning at 8 o'clock. Four hundred and eighcy-one people called to see it during the first hour. Two thousand eight hundred and thirtypeople called the first day, and in two days, Thursday and Friday, the, total number of calls was 4G-4 0. These figures were, not guesswork. A man was stationed sta-tioned at the door of the salesroom with a mechanical counter all day Thursday and Friday, and the figures are part of a statistical report that goes to Dodge Bros, for their own information and not for advertising purposes. Perhaps no more interesting survey of the Dodge Bros, car and its features has been printed in the West than the personal per-sonal impression of Tom Botterill of the Botterill Automobile company in Denver. Mr. Botterill has gone on record relative rela-tive to the new car as follows: The first car was received in Denver Den-ver by express aarly last Wednesday morning. In the afternoon five, of us tested it out on street work here in the city and over a number of representative rep-resentative pieces of road, including the Lookout Mountain drive- Before v.'e made the trip and again after we made the trip I had our own mechanics mechan-ics take it apart and carefully examine exam-ine every part. I did not accept the agency until after these tests were made and until after I had had a night in which to go thoroughly over the ,matter with Frank Botterill, the manager .of our Salt Lake house, and my shop foremen. I was at entire liberty to reject the car at any time, and world most assuredly have done so if price had proved to be the only merit- I could find. I am, therefore, giving my personal impressions relative to the car, which represent, in a way, my personal responsibility re-sponsibility to many who may buy It, or who may, through confidence in this establishment, speak a good word for it. The durability of the Dodge is a feature of which we have not the slightest doubt. Everything about It su-sts thorough and substantial co;l(pirruction, and I feel perfectly free to predict and promise that ir will be a long lived car, regardless of the usage to which it is subjected, The price of the Dodge will be $785 complete, at the factory In Detroit. No other car In the United States possessing- anything like Its qualities Is sold at so low a price, but the i Dodge will not be exploited on the price basis, nor do we solicit a single purchase on the theory of its being a chea p car. The Dodge wa s ma cl e a, thoroughly good car and the price was wholly a secondary considera tion. If the Dodge Bros, had not been In a position to manufacture so economically, the Dodge Bros, car would have been put out Just the same and at a higher price. Every preparation is being made at the Botterill company h.ere for the arrival ar-rival of the car Monday and its display at S o'clock Tuesday morning. The car will be displayed in the main salesroom of the Botterill company, which will be cleared of all other cars for the next few' days. A. E. Houghton, district manager man-ager for Dodge Bros., will accompany the car to Salt Lake, |