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Show CON. WAGON AND MACHINE COMPANY PLANS BUSY SPRING A wonderfully prosperous spring and summer is anticipated evidently by the Consolidated Wagon and Machine company. com-pany. Not only is this big concern putting put-ting things in shape for conference trade here, but new branches are being established out in Idaho and Utah towns to handle its immense growing country trade. General Manager Odell said to a TELEGRAM representative today that the company had decided to increase its business on the outside, and was now establishing a branch at Twin Falle, Idaho, was also erecting new buildings for the purpose of doing business busi-ness at Malad, Ida., and Vernal, Uintah county. They have also just completed and well stocked with goods, a building 50x100 feet at Price. The Consolidated Wagon and Machine company will pnsh automobiles, in stronger fashion than ever this year. A number of orders have been placed, and cars . delivered, and the company has made a record in being the first to bring a gasoline or automobile truck to Utah! One of these trucks, a Knox-Waterless Knox-Waterless of three tons capacity, has drawn a great deal of attention in tho past i few days, as it carried loads to and from the depots. This morning it wentj loaded up the First avenue hill. The trucks are also to be used in running) run-ning) between Salt Lake and Murray, stocking the agency at that point. Manager Man-ager ;Oaell rightly says that there is "no doubt that the commercial ed of the automobile business will be the largest Eart I of it when once established, and e feels that the introduction of this truck will be the means, not of displacing displac-ing horses, which are valuable under many conditions, bnt of adding greatly to the convenience of concerns having transfer business, especially in cases of exigency or rush. The streets are all paved from the freight depots to. the business quarters, and these trucks ought to te employed, as they can be operated at no greater expense, and with,' far better results than horse vehicles.) vehi-cles.) The comrjany has on exhibition for conference the largest, heaviest and mo8ti most powerful plowing engine, manufactured by the J. I. Case company, com-pany, that has ever been put on the market in this country. Robert C. Haskins, assistant general sales manager of the International Uar- vester company, with headquarters at Chicago, 111., with his wife, has been visiting in this city for some days the guests of the Consolidated Wagon and Machine company. They were taken for an automobile ride and later to lunch at the Alta club on Wednesday, In addition to Mr. and Mrs. Haskins, there were present, Mrs. J. Fred Odell, Messrs. 8. J. Seal, Melvin D. Wells and George T. Odell. V |