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Show Vermont Governors Stick to Franklins. ''In Vermont, recognition of the Franklin Frank-lin car by officialdom is apparently bestowed be-stowed In due course of evente. For" years the governors have all been Franklin owners." pays C. W. Newton, local Franklin distributor, 754 East South Temple street. "The Incumbent, Governor Clement, drives a Franklin limousine, while three of the ex-governors show their preference tn touring cars Mr. Fletcher and Mr. Mead both own two and Mr. Stlckney one. In the family of ex-Governor ex-Governor Proctor there Is one Franklin sedan and one roadster." Not only in this intermountain terri-J tory. but all over the world, more people peo-ple ride on Goodyear tires than on any other kind, according to T. B. Trent, local branch manager of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber company, who says, for that reason, it is necessary 1 1 construct ! ;'.ie building shown herewith. I This building, 50 ie.-t by IPo feet ilcn. is being built and arranged entirely en-tirely according to the plans of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber company through the personal activities of Paul F. Keyser of the A. Keyser company, at an approximate cost of $75,'l00. It will be one of the most thoroughly fireproof fire-proof buildings of this city. Its wonderful won-derful construction and artistic beauty are assured when it is known that Billy Larkin is the contractor in charge of building operations. A few years ago the Goodyear Tire " Fubbcr company opened the local branch in a small place on Fast Broadway, Broad-way, with about three people. As the business grew, an office was opened at the present location, 342 Smith State street. For the last year and a half it has. been necessary to carry a large part of the stock in a separate warehouse. This new building, on which excavation excava-tion has already begun, is to be ready for occupancy next July, and will give ample room for the entire stock, besides be-sides commodious offices to accommodate accommo-date conveniently the employees, who increased from three in number a few vears ago, to a force of more than forty, including general line salesmen, ma-chanical ma-chanical goods salesmen, inside office force and shipping department. Owing to the fact they do strictly a wholesale business, it is not further necessary for them to have a location on Main street in the retail section. Mr. Trent says one of the most pleasant pleas-ant members of his organization is Charles Post of the mechanical goods department. What pleases him is to see how appreciative Akron is of the mechanical me-chanical goods business of the mining and other industries, and they have proven and shown their appreciation by giving the Salt I.ake branch a large, modern building. Manager Trent has recently returned from a month's stay at the factory. He says tire prospects never looked brighter in the history of the country. Last ' ear the Goodvenr Tire k Kr.bber company com-pany did a total volume of ,131,)00,-OilO, ,131,)00,-OilO, oven in the face of heavy restrictions restric-tions on production by the government. This year's business is expected to surpass sur-pass all former records. Production is up to -0,000 tires a day at present, which equals the largest average daily production, which was year before last. Every few days a carload of tires is received at the local branch, but, owing to the heavy demand by the dealers who, for inanv months were unable to get all the Goodyears they dcMred. thev are being rapidly shipped out. With a production of 2").00o a day. the factory can assure all dealers that they will get plenty of tires this year. Faeh year the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Rub-ber compnnv, owing to their tremendous grov.'th, find it necessary to build new branch buildings for their business. Salt hake Citv is one of the three fortunate for-tunate cities in securing u new building, build-ing, the other two being Cleveland and I Cincinnati, Ohio. |