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Show AUTO BUGS HORSE HIS TK OF REST Varied Uses to Which Motor Cars Are Put Illustrated Illus-trated in Golden State. From statements in a letter received , recently by City Sales Manager E. A. Charron of the Utah-Idaho Motor company, com-pany, local distributors of Maxwell1 cars, it is to be inferred that "Old Dobbin' through the progressivenoss of the California rancher, has come into his own on a broader scale in that state than elsewhere in the country. In that great commonwealth much of the work 1 done on the ranches, both in the central valleys and in the mountain countries, which in the past has been accomplished chiefly by the horse, is now being done in the more modern way with tho motor car. California's farmers, from the beginning begin-ning of the auto industry in the west, have been tho most important factors in creating aud maintaining the pros- , perity of the motor car business. The fact that Californi 's annual crops are: usually of the ' ' bumper' ' variety at:- 1 counts in a largo measure for the tremendous tre-mendous and continuous growth of the automobile business in that state. The prosperity of the farmer there has always al-ways been reflected in the prosperity of tho automobile busiuess. Varied as the farm and dairy products of California are the uses to which the rancher of that state puts the automobile. automo-bile. They extend from the most common com-mon usage of providing pleasure for the rancher's family and hauling crops to market to towing other farm vehicles, operating farm machinery and actually furnUhing the motive power for the self-operating self-operating milking machines. During each succeeding season some new and ingenious in-genious uses are made of the motor car some calling for sheer strength of the car 's materials; others simply for a clever clev-er application of the engine's power. .John R. Leland, a prosperous rancher of the Santa Cruz mountains, furnishes a striking example of the uses to which the rancher puts his motor car. During the past haying season I, eland hauled all of his hay from the fields to the stacks, a distance of nearly one mile, with the aid of his Maxwell touring car. Leland would load the cut hav on an ordinary liav wagon, then tow the latter from the held with his Maxwell, Leland has many other uses lor his car anil says that hp would be alisolutely at a loss without In rmi'-liinr wln'. rt vn'U nn th- rtin. V |