Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-18 | Page 35 | Here's Luck for Many Tire Buyers

HERE'S LUCK FOR llli BUYERS Inter-Mountain Electric Co. Gets Big Stock Before Prices Advance. With tlie present world crisis forcing up the prices of practically every commodity com-modity used by the general public, the announcement made yesterday by officials of the automobile accessory department de-partment of the Inter-Mountain Electric Elec-tric company of Salt Lake should prove extremely interesting to motor car owners own-ers throughout this section. The company has decided to make no advance in the prices of its Lee tires while the present stock lasts. The manufacturers have increased prices on all new shinmenf.R nnrl thf Inter-Mountain Electric company's automobile au-tomobile department is fortunate in having secured a sufficient supplv of Lee tires several months ago to be'well stocked at the present time. Till this stock is exhausted there will be no change in present quotations on Lee tires, according to Inter-Mountain officials. offi-cials. These tire-s are buOt of the famous J "Vanadium" rubber process, and the manufacturers call particular attention to the fact that Vanadium rubber is extremely tough and very elastic and long lived, because the process invigorates invigor-ates and refreshes the rubber, densi-fies densi-fies it by contracting and closing the pores, increases resiliency and gains greater resisting power and longer wear. Officials of the, automobile accessory department of the Inter-Mountain Electric Elec-tric company state that the Lee Tire Rubber company, through its predecessor, predeces-sor, tho ,T. L. Wood-Lce company, is one of the oldest manufacturers familiar fa-miliar with the workings of rubber, and that, it has i n f rnrTn-flH t tkB -..KU- that it has introduced to the public 'Vanadium" rubber with great suc-: suc-: cess. I "Vanadium" rubber is selected rub- ber. refined and chemically treated with vanadium. The manufacturers claim that the life, resiliency and wearing quality of this " new "' rubber is so far-advanced far-advanced from the regulation rubber that they do not, hesitate to state that a new era in rubber business has been reached. Officials of the Tnter-Mountain Electric Elec-tric company declare that, the opening rush on spring motor enr accessories is on with a eugeance, despite the verv i unreasonable weather that has prevailed pre-vailed during the past week or ten I days. The opening of the country roads will see one of the heaviest touring ! seasons in the history of the inter-j inter-j mountain west in full swing, declares j E. E. Bi aiier. sales, manager of the Tnter-Mountain Electric company.