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Show RAILROAD SITUATION DEUMIPMEfiTS Both Raw Materials and the Finished Cars Held Up in the East. That the eastern automobile factories are not only experiencing dirfk'ultv in securing transportation of raw materials mate-rials to their plants, but that the delivery de-livery of the finished cars themselves has reached a point where the situation situa-tion depends to a very great extent upon the ability of the factories to secure se-cure cars of any description, is the word received from Frank Botterill at ( hi-cago hi-cago in a telegram to his organization in Salt Lake. Mr. Botterill left a week ago to visit the Chicago show and go on to the Detroit factories of the Hudson Super-Six Super-Six and Dodge Brothers cars if necessary. neces-sary. F.very telegram received by the Botterill Bot-terill organization in Salt Lake since Mr. Botterill's arrival in Chicago has ijHcated how serious is the car short-so short-so far as automobile factories are T concerned, and Mr. Botterill sends a W very urgent message tu his company here, asking that his salesmen communicate commun-icate immediately with those who have had the purchase of a Hudson Super-Six Super-Six or Dodge Brothers motor car under un-der consideration and urge a prompt decision, de-cision, in view of the fact that it now seems certain the factories will bo unable un-able to put as many cars into anv section sec-tion of the United States as originally was estimated for the 1917 season. So acute has become the problem of securing sufficient cars in which to ship automobiles that both the Hudson company and Dodge Brothers are using automobile cars, box cars, flat cars and anything else the railroads will give them. Meanwhile Mr. Botterill and the members mem-bers of his organization have made a careful analysis of the situation in Salt Lake and vicinity, with the result, that Mr. Botterill announced last week before be-fore his departure that there are today to-day in Salt Lake 50 per cent of the number of automobiles that were stored in Salt Lake warehouses last year at this time, awaiting the spring rush of business. There are 110 large surplus stocks of finished cars at any of the factories , represented by the 'Botterill company, and with these factories facing a critical crit-ical freight car situation Mr. Botterill predicts that with the melting of the snow here will go every available motor car now in stock in the city, and the real opening of spring will find every Hudson Super-Six and Dodge Brothers car now available at Botterill 's in the hands of new owners, while scores who decide they want one of these cars will he obliged to await new shipments from the factories. Before Mr. Botterill left he announced an-nounced he had evolved a plan where-Sby where-Sby those who desire a Hudson Super-Six Super-Six or Dodge Brothers ear between the present date and April 1 can have one of the cars in stock reserved and be sure of delivery, even though he does not ac-tuallv ac-tuallv take the ear from the Botterill tablishment at the present time. Since Mr. Botterill 's departure the members 'of his organization report a large number of inquiries and several cars sold under this plan. |