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Show PESSIMISTS SCARCE, other line of business is good, and that rule holds good now more than ever. "Millions of dollars are being spent throughout the state and throughout the United States, in fact, for motor equipment, equip-ment, and the dealers and distributors are In good shape to handle the increasing trade. Of course, there is bound' to be a shortage of cars, but that condition is being remedied as rapidly as the factories can increase their trade."- j DEGLARESARRUTHEflS Car Shortage Only Thing Preventing Biggest Auto Season in History. Enthusiasm throughout the intermountain intermoun-tain country is running riot Just now and all because conditions are better than they have been since the automobile industry in-dustry was born. The farmers are all wearing broad grins that will not come off. The rural districts are more prosperous pros-perous than they have ever been before. be-fore. C. N. Carruthers, sales manager of the Gates-Horn Motor company, distributors of Apperson cars, has just completed a trip through various parts of Utah and southern Idaho. In Pocatello Mr. Carruthers Car-ruthers stopped off to have a chat with a banker friend of his and this man told him that a few years ago his bank refused re-fused to handle the dealer's paper, but now automobUe paper was their one best bet and quickest moving item of trade. "I have found tlrat every farmer and business man throughout the territory was optimistic to the extent of being joyous," continued Mr. Carruthers. "I have never heard a single pessimistic statement In the whole journey. The water supply is plentiful in Irrigation districts and the weather has been ideal in the dry farm territory. The farmers are happy this year as they have never been before. The only thing bothering motor car dealers, in the rural communities communi-ties is the shortage of cars the main problem that confronts the largest distributors dis-tributors here in Salt Lake. "Now that winter is over, touring Is becoming more general and the demand for cars is increasing by leaps and bounds. Wholesale men are frantically i wiring in to the distributors to send them a carload lot, and the distributors, on the other hand, are wiring their factories to ship them all the cars they can as : quickly as possible. j "During November and December of last year we put in a large stock of Apperson Ap-person cars and we have been able to keep pace with the demand, but I doubt if the next ten days will find us with a single car on the floor, if it keeps up. "The shortage of the last two years is nothing compared to the lack of cars now. During the war the shortage was not noticed no-ticed so much, because there was a smaller volume of business done, but now with the whole nation crying for cars there Is a greater demand than the motor mo-tor car builders can supply. "The whole automobile industry is entering en-tering upon an era of unprecedented prosperity. pros-perity. This means, of course, that ev- |