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Show two mile thoroughfare is simply crowded crowd-ed these days. -Visitors to Salt Lake this week will not fail to note many changes in the city's business world, and nowhere will they find a place with more to interest the man that has use. for any sort of vehicle or implement than on State street. The old-timer who followed the oxen in the early days has a splendid opportunity to measure the progress of humanity "by studving the new, air-cooled air-cooled Knox gasoline truck that will 1 bear 6000 pounds up any hill in Salt I Lake without difficulty. New Machinery; New Inventions Interest Many. All visitors to the home of the Consolidated Con-solidated Wagon and Machine company, where the big Knox truck is, will find much to interest them. They will find vehicles and machinery to be propelled by almost every motive power known' to man. j The company has made unusual prep- arations for a fine exhibit this weekj and unless the weather prevents it, the! display will be something to remember.! In addition to it usual fine line of implementst the company will make a feature of its line of automobiles, both1 air and water cooled, as well as of, electric automobiles, including .the Buick and Columbus. ' For a comparison of the present volume vol-ume of trade with what it waa when the firm of Grant, Odell & Co. began business where the Consolidated Wagon and Machine company is now, George T. Odell, general manager of the present pres-ent company, referred to an article in Farm Implement News of March 7j which reads as follows: "In 1883 Mr. OdelVsud others formed the firm of Grant, Odell & Co., at Salt Lake City for the purpose of handling agricultural implements, wagons and carriages. 'The implement trade was at first devoted de-voted largely to harvesting machinery, but other lines wera gradually added. In 1888 the firm was reorganized and. incorporated under the name of the Cooperative Co-operative Wagon and Machine company, com-pany, Mr. Odell being chosen assistant assist-ant manager. Five years later he was given full charge of the business as general man ager. In 1902 this concern was merged, with the Consolidated Implement com pany of Salt Lake City under the name of the Consolidated Wagon and Ma-j "chine company. I "Besides the parent house at Bain Lake City, the company operates seven, branch houses and twenty-five storea throughout Utah and Idaho. "The success of the business is an eloquent tribute to Mr. Odell 's execu-j tive ability." - State street has blossomed out into! one of the liveliest streets in Salt Lakej Particularly ia this effect striking dur-i . Jse cesiiicaca stt)u Xaa his Quit f - . -. , . t |