Show ry t SECTION automobiles good roads MOTOR TRUCKS MOTORCYCLES SALT LAKE CITY UTAH SUNDAY MAT 27 1917 STEMS cimCofc 8 Scout OF Comeback T TIRE MAN GETS INTO HERE it ' as SENTRY HEED CAR - - J TWELVE MTS RUT BUT FIRESTONES 01 HOAD IS ‘Toughest Trip I Ever Took Says Veteran Driver and Mechanic who Is branch manthe Firestone - company ager for here had occasion to take a part through tripstate that he of the Knowing rough going would encounter some he equipped his machine with tires that Firestone cords The had all four he used however 1000 miles cone better than the tomain Sewell didn't follow go highways he had occasion In order to into many his business reach the towns where the car into He got carried him a rut in one place and foundasthat an It extended for miles Just away would stone grind roadsa emery the iron rutty piece of away theuntilAd'7alls ground Firestones the cords those despite were actually exposed But by this and further wear caused the and sand in spinning driving car came back wheels in mud the in all tires with original air branch manager The Firestone Milvisited Cedar St City KanoshKanab GeorgeHis ford Beaver Eureka and Pangultch showed he had covered 1033 miles 1000-mi- le the-souther- TOURISTS ARE WARNED - the national highfrom Salt Lake and on ways leading all feeder roads such is the plan of Charles E Wood deputy sheriff in charge of automobile thefts investiIt is the plan of Deputy gations Wood backed by Sheriff John S Corless to have the state aid the city and county in the establishment and financing of such guard houses Tile matter will shortly be put up to Governor Bamberger as it is believed the state board of examiners in view of the auto license revenues will Roth Lincoln Highway and Midland Trail Now Ahso- lutely Impassible by-pat- hs peed-omet- t and glory The COVERED with mud Cole t scout ear Is back in Salt Lake after having taken what Is declared by Harvey Travis driver to be the “toughest trip” he ever saw And Travis having driven motor cars in all parts of the country for the last six or eight years knows tough trips when he meets er GLORIOUS RIDE HAD BY VISITOR IN HOUR’S TIME es City Creek Canyon’s Springtime Beauty Impresses Tourist From the East PRAISES CITY’S ROADS S OVERLAND FIRM MOTORISTS NOW READYTOMOVE SABE BATTERIES EXPERT STATES INTO NEW HOME an Enthusiastic Booster of Scenery ng BODELL TAKES - NEVADA AGENCY up-to-d- ate - ns ‘ the-Chevrol- ’ ii These Are Awful Good Roads Yes You Bet! Good and Awful ng of road conditions between Salt Lake and Denver HERE is a compilation car and obtained by the trip of the Cole 8 further checked within the last three days by telegraph and telephone meet-agHerald-Republic- J Walter Leaves Salt Lake ever-changi- them The machine arrived late EYlday evening too late to meet the San Francisco Ad club caravan But Travis telephoned from Price where he was on Thursday night and gave information that resulted In The routing the caravan out of here by way of the Lincoln highway “Is the Lincoln highway better than the Midland trail?” the Cole 3 expert was asked over the phone “No but it is not as bad aa the Midland trail” was his reply' The actual running time of the car was twelve days —six days going and six returning On the Lincoln the going route the car washighway delayed several times for back Coming via Midland trailrepairs waa no stop there The start was made from Colorado Springs morning Arri was Sunday val here early late Friday Although the Midland trail was a sea of mud lt was only necessary to haul the car out once For the benefit of motor ear owners who contemplate any sort of transcon-tlnentalibetween here and points east it might be said that no such should be undertaken at present by trip route— they should wait until any the weather clears in both Wyoming snd Colorado and there has been at least a week of sunshine The trip of The naa shown scout car season that the backward has made the even worse than front highways the various towns along reports route the would indicate Accurate information concerning both highways Li given herewith The Cole 8 taken on the trip was furnished by the Shank Auto company Intermountain distributors for the Cole The scout car was an old machine when he started —had gone many already thousand miles — but stood like gaffaccia new car only suffering thesuch ae dents any car must of necessity suf fer under such trying road conditions The car Is on display today at the Shank Auto company salesroom — broken frame mud and all The frame was broken after a series of particularly hard Jolts ninety-fiv- e nules east of Price One of the features of the which has astounded all whocar's saw trie machine yesterday was the way the the I tires look Just before the trip was started upon the advice of the late of the Shank Harry Wilson president Auto company It was fully equipped with Goodyear oversized cord tires There Is at present three of them with i Salt Lake air in them only one pv mature having occurred and four look as if they had just been all put on tho machine are tires — wonderful —and then great tiresThey Cole Is mighty easy the on tires even on such roads as It over Travis explained passed When The motor editor reached Denver he was asked whether or not the tires had "just been on” put“Sure new” he answered they're the questioner meant the ac-thinking tual age of the tires “We put jm on at Salt Lake’ Well the tire man there who had asked the question simply couldn't be- -' lieve they had gone through that way from Salt Lake to Denver he see them now he might haveIfsomecould real reason for astonishment The car was driven around Salt Lake yesterday and the motor Is hitting perfectly “Fix up the frame and she’ll he as good as new” the Cole mechanics at the Shank Auto company said Herald-Republic- an That no city in the United States can offer within one hour of an automobile ride as much scenery of an variety as Salt Lake is the opinion of S J Walter a tourist who spent several hours in the city before leaving for the east Mr Walter said: ‘We left the Hotel Utah iii an automobile with the promise that we would be In mountain scenery within ten minutes I hardly believed it but here is my impression: We went was the what my Salt Lake friend said through Gate He pointed out to me the Eagle former homes of that great pioneer and then within five Young Brigham were In a canyon with minutes we roads so perfect I thought I was in a Pullman on one of the great railroads Up the canyon we went with an ever! view Then down the canchanging yon for a few miles and up an Incline and I was informed that we were on Eleventh avenue “I shall never forget that scene —the all of its spring valley layAsbefore us in as we could see far south beauty It was a mass of the glories oI spring The air was pure bracing and clear we could see so much so that the valley for what I was told plainly thirty miles Then as we turned towards the south and Fort Douglas we could see the Great Salt lake glimmering In the far distance with the at our a force of feet At the fort we saw city more than 100 carpenters who are camp On building an Internment we went If there the post through was ever an Ideal spot for a government post that Is one of them with its pure air and water to say nothing of the strategic position which it would mean to a nation in time of a great war “Then southwest the auto went passed your state prison and —then northeast through Liberty park one of the finest and most Race Driver its size to be found in the parks of The Popular Road man who has that park country In charge Is entitled to a prize from Will Handle Paige Cars the united 'vote of the people of the From the hack to the hotel city at Ely one hour I wonder the trip was justpark If all of the people of Salt Lake know the joys and wonders of such a trip G E Bodell of Ely Nov generally at this time of the year— the fine roads are not paved and all where and popularly known all over the west even makes they life worth living that as “Bud” Bodell has decided to enter the selling end of the motor car game Bodell who is a veteran road racer Is RUBBER PERCENTAGE now in 8alt Lake He has Just signed HIGH IN MICHELINS company up with the Paige Motor Sales fours of Utah to handle Paige ears in — Earner-IdNevada counties White Pine E E Darling Says Tire J Previse to Nye and Elko ' Be One of Most Popular The distributing company here has had White Pine county for some time Market as part of Its territory With the over the of Bodell 'The fact' that there is IB Paige line cent taking are by three counties added more rubber in Miehelin tires per the other in than he has ordinary ones and that they are about The Nevada dealer that says of orders for 16 per cent heavier is declared by E E amachines large number and that be can place a Paige Miehelin tire agent to prove large Darling as soon as he gets delivery of the superiority number of these tires some cars Mr Darling is manager or the 'Monarch Motor company 139 E Second : GO TO TRAINING CAMP South street He says that the Mlehe-liare proving- one of the most popMalcolm R MrAdoo Jr and Wallace A Coleman of the sales department of ular tires on the market partlcul&rlv Motor company of New since the tread was standardized All M J Correy of the material new Michellns are equipped with what and rYork ' Is known as ''the 'Universal have gone to ' a department reserve series of letter “Ms”made in tread members of th officersPlattsburg as a tough corps wearing surface X - - Mr Sewell AUTOMOBILE sentry stations " been put on t Sheriff’s Office Would Have State Help Pay Eight Officers Necessary be-Ilev- 7— an Did you ever get into a rut? Not mind you' but a a figurative-ruone of the kind rut regular rutty on a road that can find that you when wet and as traveled been l has dried out Well W L Sewell in got into one of them while now he and southern Utah recently — knows more about them also he knows more about Firestone tires NUMBERS back up the county In the suggestion In brief the plan is simply this: Deputy sheriffs jointly paid by the city county state and insurance companies will have registry stations for motor cars on the four principal outhighways At these stations all going cars will be required to stop and allow — unless the driver be well the officers known — to personally look at the ena brief descripgine numbers and tion Particularly get will this be required of cars equipped for touring By such a method Mr Wood successful thefts of motor cars 9 could be cut to a minimum here and It would be much easier to capture stolen cars that had been driven here from other states Four Guard Stations Roach's roadhouse in Parley's canyon the LIricoln highway exit going east: a of the state road just north of point the point of the Lagoon mountain on the Lincoln highway narsouth and west of here and the rows on the road to Provo — these would be the places where the guards should be stationed Is the belief of the deputy sheriff Mr Wood points out that persons leaving for Evanston must go out either way of the state road or Parlfv'sbycanyon those en route to San Francisco Los Angeles or Denver by the Midland trail the road to through Provo Put eight men would be needed he says two shifts of twelve hours each at all four points Successful thefts of automobiles are on the increase according to the sheriff's office despite the fact that one of the most complete and careful follow-up systems ever devised has been installed When machines are reported all stolen the first move is to phone the nearby out of city points —Garfield Ogden Provo Coalville any of ton ns to which a thief might start the once That done from twenty-fiv- e at to thirty postcards giving descriptions of the car are mailed to nearby terrinext day’s move is tory towns ofThe about 125 circulars givthe sending ing complete information to a list of communities including practically all towns of the fntermountaln region Many Autos Recovered With such a system it seems difficult to understand how thieves can get away with machines successfully and are many they do no yet there mostly tvho do Since October 28 last a total of eighty has been recovered However there are at the present time about six unaccounted for thefts are Many of -- the reported but borrowings' by wild young really men of Salt Lake who do not realize or do not care to realize the seriousness of their offense Last Sunday a total of four cars was reported miss-- k Since then the number reported ing is as follows: Monday 2 stolen dally 3 and Thurs1 Wednesday Tuesday 3 day if they had just Herald-Republic- FAIL TO BE BOTHERED Outgoing Roads From Salt Lake to Be Watched for Thieves READ scout car— snapped yesterday in front of this newspaper office with the lettering almost obliterated by and: tltah soil' Harvey Travis ’driver is at the wheel "The Goodrich cord tires went the whole distance and 'came back looking is— The Distinctive Motor Car Estab- Time of Car Electrical lishment Will Be Occupied Equipment Neglect Said to Be Past by Browning Company an es LINCOLN HIGHWAY Salt Lake to Evanston —Canyon roads wet and dangerous bridge out in Echo canyon almost impassible washes just this side of the line and heavy clay mud road new construction outside of Evanston about three miles Evanston to Rock Springs —Deep mud in the flat section just outside Evanston drifted snow across the road in the mountain passes and road washed out where snow has melted wide detour necessary between Lyman and Granand unsettled desert country beger wet' alkali flat near Lyman dangerous In tween Granger and Green River good road all weather from Green River to Rock Springs Rock Springs to Rawlins —Only a fair road under the beat of condition It there being many steep grades and soil of a character which would make and Impassible in wet weather Reports indicate there is a storm dangerous over that section- now bad Rawlins to Laramie —Natural gravel road most of the way and fewsnownow that circumstances Reports road under Fine ordinary grades storm has made road bad “and getting worse” Laramie to Denver —Fine improved graded and gravel surfaced highway all the way Good under all conditions Utah-Wyomi- ng That the average owner of a motor “Every little movement has a mean- ing all its own’ in Salt Lake’s busy car is rapidly becoming far better Inmotor world and the coming movement formed than at any time in the past reof the Browning Auto & Supply com- garding the attention necessary to the pany to its new home 570 S Main storage battery of his machine If he means one big thing with a capital “S’ expects to keep it In good running or— Success der is the statement? made by C M In the spare moments which they McDonald superintendent of automomanage to get from sales activities on bile service stations for the Tntermoun- rainy days and sucharemembers of the tain Electric company whose automoBrowning company arrang- bile accessory department has grown for moving day It busily is anticipated to ing one of the largest between Chithat the event will occur some time cagobe and the Pacific coast MIDLAND TRAIL about Friday next The floor of the In discussing the matfirm’s elegant new home has been in- terMr McDonaldhad —Here will be found one of the longest and deepest to Lake Price Salt to this say: yesterday stalled and the finishing touches will "We men in the battery service sta- stretches of mud found on either road road in Willow Creek canyon muddy be put on the interior the early part tions are Very quick to notice any washed out and dangerous of this week in the public sentiment toward The Browning company —intermoun-tai- n change Price to Grand Junction— Road muddy as result of the recent storms and our and the attitude product public distributors for Overlands and toward the battery has impassible Willys-Knig—has done a deal changed a great practically automobiles to Glen wood Springs —Some parts of this road good the Grand Junction two the last g during years business here and parplaces “It was only a short time ago com- rest wet and washed out In many since the inimit- paratively ticularly this spring to Wolcott — Part of the road good Many mud holes not one moGlenwood that Springs speaking able Club” and other new and torist “Country In a thousand knew that dis- as a result' of storm Not so bad as other stretches different cars of class were put out tilled water had to be added to his Fresh snow In the pass and d Wolcott to Buena Vista (via Tennessee pass) —and the For by reason company curves dangerous as reThe average car a cave-iGrdaes regularly n to be have that bridged will which it was necessary to obtain battery wouldowner run his snow to find road trade literally shovel to battery and of better place ouslness bigger sult of banks having crumpled Necessary death and then blame the battery — Surfaced gravel road moat The new establishment Denver a floor to “Very has and Colorado to Buena Springs Vista few motorists Indeed even spaoe of 90 by 165 feet and was erect- knew what a hydrometer syringe was of the way Good ed at a total cost of 320000 Rest to use It All this has rooms for patrons private phone booths let alone- tohow a great degree until today and other conveniences feature the es- changed average car owner either owns a MUI? tablishment The occupancy of the the himself or he hydrometer syringe be will observed a with formal does not goes place to the service station opening celebration and has the battery expert use a hydrometer syringe on his battery " the bat“Starving and overheating SMALLEST ELK BUYS broken-dow- n and tery MAKING THINGS HUM Insulations were things of which the BIG ELGIN CAR HAS i average motorist knew nothing a little while ago Today he is at least with these terms IT FITTED TO HIM familiar “And the motorist of yesterday reIN SALE OF JEFERYS his battery as a practically nongarded C W Dierdorf of Grand Rapids Motor Car Equipment Com wearable part of his machine someMich who is known as the world's to be classed with the thing smallest member of the B P O E or Now he bearings to Distribute U S L is grad engine or chassis pany has just purchased an Elgin Six of the With to the At is that reorganizationcoming recognize ually from the Elgin distributor ' for his ' an aocessoty of limited life something Jeffery distributing agency the Lighting Devices alcity be renewed-likmust which tires Motor Car company things In altitude Mr Dierdorf extends Tracy tor so so not at great though frequently but four feet into space Alhumming down at Jefa cost 7 ' thefrom shoulders down though coursesta“Of d service the The Motor Car Equipment company battery fery headquarters- J E McDer-monhe is not am big' as most people ' tion by word of mouth has had a great “Doc 169 as known G Broadway a new firm which has popularly neck different deal-tup it’s a yet from his do' in' this education of the car can make a battery service! station has that This little man ls’th boy things opened owner proposition It of think a but I greatermore part or less than owns a large cigar factory - in Idaho have to as and is due secured hum Utah the exclusive Utah state nothing Grand Rapidsand-irecognized as learned by this time Well Doo for - the distribution and servagency advertising i thatnas appeared In the one of the city’s keenest business Is the new sales manager ice station for the star ting and papers” men He is known among' tobacco ' Territory men have been sent to The Willard Storage Battery station batteries lighting manufacturers throughout- - the en- the- Intermountain controlled maintained- by all parts of the section As they know what kind of service tire country one of sevthe agency— all of Utah and part a company-ionly by storage battery wiil'give they Mr Dierdorf expects to tour ex- - " Electric or Nevada and Wyoming These eral automobile service stations -the sell it on 8 definite fifteen months summer 'in his new-men-arA tensively this Is at up company present agencies featuringhas Just been esguaranteed adjustment plan An exno trouble idinisigning new service : station and are busy Elgin toOf course it has been nec- the man in is who has pert battery charge remodel the driver’s seat' tablished for the Connecticut Ignition eseary of the Jeffery had nearly ten years experience in reputation general In order to fit this little man’S: 'excellence other1 created a testing repairing and recharging bat service stations for system and f the having demand- all over the proportions maintained Include the following: According to Mr widespread terles and it is claimed he knows j rStewart-WarneDierdorf he selected bethe Elgin Bosch magneto service station territory out storage batteries from the inside comtruck-madcause of the ease with which The famous Quad it is service - station Ray-fiel- d products service by Another feature for which the truek-whicthe operated rJg station Gray carburetor has taken the state agency is pany &: Davis starting and lighting system drives brakes and steers on all Tlolene —“the motor- oil that’s dean” 30000 AUTOS II CANADA-Estimate- s four wheels is selling faster than service ‘station and the Westlnghouse Tlolene 'is a lubricating oil made the demand canbe suppli which have been made of service station for fine gas and automoespecially the 1917 sales of automobiles ln Can- I bile and is scientifically re" engines ON' MAP HUGE SALE TRUCK LETTERHEAD ada place the figure at 30000 A total from fined the Penn highestIn quality was ' of 28000 sold last year The National Midland Trail ‘associa- sylvania petroleum ‘Frank 'Miller" special representative words other of the White company Is in Salt Lake tion with general offices in Grand every refining is strictly alike and GOODRICH MANAGER 'HERB deals for Junction Colo has some new letteroil is made a paraffin base handling ' several Important H B Houstpnof the Seattle branch the them a single trans- heads which bear a complete map of theThis companyfrom among also installed d has factory of the B F Goodrich Rubber company action by which one customer in the the Midland'' trail’ The letterheads gasoline pump and while their patrons was In Salt Lake last week on : buii- intermountain territory a' lumber com- state that the jtrail is the "shortest mo- are getting their gas tanks filled 'they tor road from coast to coast pany takes ninety White trucks will gladly extend the facilities of their - ht record-breakin- -- Willys-Overlan- - - NEW FIRM TAKES - if-’- - short-circuiti- BATTERY AGENCY ng ' - e are-fairl- - - - - ! - - ' s - - - - U-S- -L - - U-S- -L - - ' - e - - - - f - - - y-- c Jeffery-people-th- n e - - ‘ - - ( - -- :- - - -- - - - - - - -- Herald-Republic- an I Herald-Republic- an J J WILL DEMONSTRATE GOOD ROADS TRUCK The famous White “good a veritable road building all in truck” one machine is to sent to bs Salt Lake company for a special by the White to Governor demonstration The governor members ofBamberger the state road commission city and county officials will be Invited to the demonstration The truck is one with wide iron wheels which act as combination wheels and roller At practically tho only place in the mountain region now where the roads are at all passable Rock Wyo the county uses one of Springs these road trucks Frank Miller special representative I of the White company has arranged with the local distributor for tho dem- - j' onstration in- - j service station such as battc of distilled spectlon and addition handle the fa- - t ter gratia They also which throws a mous Nite-Llt- e beam 2000 feet bestraight cause of parallel Its specially prepared re- ' an improved flector the windshield wiper lamps and fusss for i any make of automobile 1 - -- 7 —besides sories pf all kinds i Clear-O-Sco- pe i 1 ft 4 b |