Show I W T V v SISOTEOEfl Rfl©T®m£J3 ' ' AUTOMOBILES' i GOOD BOiUDS f 1 " a i - f - - MOTOKClUjtS EDITED BT HAlULT E irPHEB80W ’SALT LAKE CITY UTAH SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 9 1917 a - s m P M ?f”V V Motor Tourists'Demand Road Route to fr V- !Mlaii3irdii 4 4 4: - LAN IS MADE TO OBVIATE PRESENT Recognition by - ESERT FLAT BY the’ first tin "the Lincoln Highway association has decidedto log and officially recognize a feeder mad to the main highway and has done this with the Midland trail which branches from the Lincoln road atEl y Nev and leads to Lcs Angeles The reason for tms move it is explained was the heavy demand of auto tourists for routes to Los Angeles instead of San Francisco'- This picture shows tne Lm lert 'coin Highway officials in conference at1 Los Angeles with Standish L Mitchell secretary of the Automobile Club of Southern- - California asso77° (seated) are G S Hoag Nevada counselr — Lincoln - to consul the C 1L Highway chief Osterman Secretary Mitchell (standing) left right ' ciation and Austin C Bement secretary FOR - of All Western Officials in Identification Automobiles Su ggested by Sheriff to Utah j of Stqleri ii v Secretary of' State - - Co-operati- on - v r - " - : - - 4 A of all the --western secretaries of state and the interstolen of engine numbers to the end of putting a stop to auto change thefts in the intermountain' region is "a plan being considered by Harden bennion Utah secretary of state GO-OPERATIO- N Leading Officials of Associa tion Arrive in Salt Lake to Perfect Scheme - The plan evolved by Sheriff Jack Corless and as yet In but a formative tage Is to force applicants for auto licenses to give actual proof that they have the car bearing: the engine number for which the license plates are granted It is pointed out that many' license plates do not correspond with the engine numbers as shown In the state records Thieves knowing: that the en Sine numbers of stolen cars are listed and beins forced to sat new licenses for their stolen cars have been giving fske engine and serial numbers In all states when making application for licenses Maay Cara Are Gonf Sheriff Corless appalled by the grow-1n- s number of unrecovered automobiles In his Ust believes that every applicant should be made to prove that the car for which-happlies for license Is the one he owns Then by each western secretary of state’s office havlns a list of stolen engine numbers he be' lleves stolen autos might be much more easily detected ' Secretary of State Bennion while eager to undertake: any reform 'Which would make for better enforcement of the law Is Inclined to think that this would entail too much extra work but is willing: to try almost Jn reason to help the county anythlns officials recover stolen machines and capture the ' thieves “I have not grone Into this plan yesterday “but thoroughly” he said moment will do so at an early v I have several Ideas along the same line One 'Of these is that thglsw should be more enforced regarding - the interstrictly of licenses Motorists have bechange come careless of this and have traded cars and Interchanged license plates without regard for the statute which says that a license issued for a certain machine shall be for that machine and - tDER the law 'as it exists at present If a motorist trades in automobile to a dealer and buys thls a new one he must buy a 'new license the old one cannot ' be legally used The only thing to be done as the law now reads is for to allow the price of the license tag and keep it with the Idea of supplying It to a purchaser of the used car and having him make a transfer of the name ''rv of ’ Harden Bennion secretary state believes that-thiIs unjust —that a motor car owner should be able to keep his license by merely registering the new engine and serial 'number Vpf his '"machine and a transfer made for a small r consideration' "Among other things'- which I ' shall recommend to the next session of the Legislature ' Is that' a provision' be passed permitting this transfer of numbers the only transfer permitted Is when a car passes from one owner to another Mr Bennion said yester- the-deal- : t At-presen- - day mhjmIghs BRANCH OF PACIFIC NASH COMPANY ESTABLISHED HERE District Manager Simpson Arrives to ' Take Charge MARMONMAKE of-Territo- IMPORTANT developments in the of Nash' ami Jeffery automobiles and trucks in this territory were' made public yesterday lv Among' the Marmohs received during the last week by the W K Lovering company was a special "Job" a car which' Is said to be one of ‘ the most striking ' )n town —a 'gray - chummy roadster The car was delivered at once to Lee Charles Miller prominent farm loan broker who has had his order in for the Marmon since late in July This Is Mr- Miller’s third Marmon he havto come into Salt Lake ing had the first Marmo'ns were on the before the long market here The story of Mr Miller's Marmon ownership dates from a European trip many years ago He was there told by a friend who had shipped his Marmon across the ppnd that it was "the only Mr Miller came back to the car states bought-- car in the middle' west and had It shipped to Salt Lake The Loverlng company officials an4 tlclpate that the classy hew 1918 in- closed- model will arrive 'here about - ' C J Simpson who has just arrivie'd to take charge of the business here' Thef' developments are these: The line will 'be handled through a Utah-Iduunit off the Pacific Nash Mo- - i ' ho tor company - - - offices ? : - ' i C ’ ' It makes a portable' power plant out of your automobile whereby you can use from one h p on up to the maximum power of the engine Speed and power controlled auto matically by a governor - ' ' £ r'" carp abouts --Vn 375 SW6st Temple states - 1' inter-mounta- in - : ' ‘ t 7 “Henryk Is an ill the rest of the motor cars ' ' which are of the feminine gender ' the lit- -' always call 'em she) (they ' tie-' dressed-u- p in his- foxy flivver raiment has : to be - “he’ because' named after Hank Ford Well anyway' the de’luxe Ford V the Imperial Motor ''body which Is showing Is getting a 'company whole 'flock of attention and folks are eagerly asking when 'the rest the bodies —speedster touring of " car and chummles— : will arrive' The sample! Is a clover leaf chum- -' my with linea like 62000 and plen-- ’ s:' of comfort' " ty“You can’t tell it Is a Ford Is 'the average remark 'when visitors : see It first ' " like : - - ’ - -- ' Ton-Truck-Ma- n ‘'i :S ' ' ton-truc- ks ker ton-truc- ks - 4 fc Only" $380 installed 4 'r 'tv THE OHIO Motor 'CO 377 : 8 West Temple' Phone Was 2573 V - ' ker of are-thos- e 's - QUITS ARMS COMPANY - ss -- - -- : - - - - : have a Few standard trouble-promore! more powerful or power plant than1: the : Max-f-er he Ford motor is raed as 22J5 horsepower while' the average of all (average price $1459) is 21 J horsepower v '' - - MANAGEMENT CHANGE - GIVES CAR HARD TEST La years the tain for the Winchester CUMMINGS 1 - 44 V : TRUCK IS MANIPULATOR OF A BIG TWO-TOLOAD N How much can a f — p ! a Colt ing - r- car-modeL- " T V : - ' ' truck - carry? Like the question’ as to what time the 5 o’clock train leaves' this But when may sound ridiculous the answer reads “two tons there Is an occasion to stop and ponder Anyway Charles Tyng who runs a warehouse hereabouts has 'a Smith Yesterday this truck was seen humping its merry way along Fourth South street It was loaded with flour There was a ton and a half load on the truck Itself and a half ton on a neat little trailer Which proves the contention of Barney Sorensen Smith distributor here that Smith Is some truck: one-to- n ' YES WE GAUGE THE PACE - s- fm9-- ONE-TO- N - i - - - ! cars -- - IntermounRepeat- -- - - nine the-las- t' region Arms company of New Haven ing Conn has resigned that position to become manager for the Utah-Idah- o Motor company Mr Cummings who Is financially Interested In the big auto corporation In addition to actually having the firm’s steering wheel In his grasp took active charge early last week ' Regarding his plans Mr Cummings said that the company will retain the distribution for the Premier and MltchelL He would make no comment on whether or not the firm might take over any additional line or lines of t 4 kfor salesman In - Nash-almos- L A CUMMINGS t s f-- remarks - Manager Slsen- ' vine of the Imperial company “not till you find out' how economical it - Is to run one of them’ The bodies built by the' Ames company ' makers of the fa- jmous AmesrJton truck y 'Can The : Maxfer alFconLoads under PulLCapacity f “No t : a-pl- enty Ton-Truck-Ma- i - FIRM HEAD ? v Power “Society' Henry Is making quite a splash in thq' social whirl here- - - ' ' ' ' Exclusive distributors in’four : -v s vhi - - aad-truck- Jeff--ffe-ry I - Stewart & Young Sales Co - HIS FOXY NEW CLOTHES ¥ r A v who ' vrlH have’ Utah-Id- ie the ' Paeifle ltash : Meter pany dlstrllrators off Naak aad t What Is the - Slmysou off GLORYPATH HEREWITH1 v J charge ef I the f - - - HENMAZES road report received yesterday from the Automobile Club of Southern California of particular interest The report in full follows: This route has now been thoroughly signposted by the ' Automobile club of southern California as far east aa Salt Lake Also the ' road from Big Pine north through Bishop and Mono Lake to Carson City ' The signs which we formerly erected on the Midland "trail ‘between Los Angeles and Ely have been thoroughly renovated and are now In first-clacondition Big red white and blue metal signs were placed on the Lincoln highway between Ely and Salt Lake on galvanized iron posts These were erected at every questionable Intersection and contain mileages- as well as directions so tlat it Is now Impossible for motorists making the trip over this route to get off the road at any point Road conditions as reported by tbe signposting crew who made' this trip are as follows: Los Angeles to Saugus' via San Fernando boulevard ' paved From that Lake by way of point to Elizabeth Bouquet canyon - excellent dirt road From Elizabeth Lake to Willow Springs very good desert road will be found with the exception of the last two miles Into Willow Springs This stretch is extremely poor— --in fact It ' was the worst piece of road encountered on the whole trip consisting of dust andt deep chuck holes From Willow Springs to Mohave' the road Is In very air condition In going from Mohave to Little Lake It is advisable to send all travel by way of Jawbone canyon- In preference to Red Rock canyon as this latter route Is In very poor condition Culverts have been Temoved from the road and the holes have never been filled-I- n and are very hard to ' (Continued on Page 6) The headquarters off the distributing agency will be Salt 'Lake la' tlie same place on Aato Row that the Tracy Motor Car company former Jeffery agents occupied' 'tThe Nash name plate will within a brleff' timei substitute for the' name “Jeffery” on all tracks and cars Including the famous quad' The Tracy Motor Car company hav-In- g gone out of business the new1 Nash distributing agency will be opened Monday morning Mr Simpson who Is1 h veteran automobile sales manager and publicity director looks forward to great things In this section He 1 parthusiastlc over the outlook ticularly enthenew lines of machines and over that the Nash company will announce ’ within a week or two Discussing the new Nash car for which the auto' public has been waiting many months Mr Simpson says: '“CW Nash and his associates have been 'laboring for months In the perfection: of a motor car embodying their ideals and principles work cting has been compl tbo first cars are ready for public exhibition V “In the " announcement of no other car probably 'vhas Interest be'en keeneslndle the autoMr r1 mobile business started-habeen one of Its dominating figures He has produced cars of all prices “When the Nash Motors company was formed last August work ' was started on the construction of a hew car to bear the name of Nash and speculation was rife as to what kind of a car It would he " “The price and design of the car has No hint has been closely guarded come from :the Nash- plant as to what Mr' Nash and his associates considered When it comes to furnishing 'authe ideal motor car Automobile peothe tomobile perform We supplies that exout the that ple pointed previous them of functions expected perience of the' executives of thq Nash have some speed when It comes to Motors company ‘in building all types giving satisfaction Whether you and prices of cars made it doubly difwant to be tlreshod or tosundrled we show you the best ficult to guesa - just what particular can pick from All ' possible appurtenances to the And slse of car they would build type at prices that represent “It Is now generally known that the automobile new-erIn a money saying prlco’ol the Nash 'will be well under 62000 and will be built In the four Co Geo D passenger roadster the Sedan as' well as the standard ftvepassenger tour14C Waa MR Away — “ ‘ addition' has undertaken plans factory addition to the office building for an to be 40 by 145: feet two stories and SOCIETY basement conforming with the present Los Angeles will find the following - ' FEDERAL RUBBER TO ADD r The Federal Rubber company Cudarecently awarded conhy WIs which tracts for the erection of another large October ' desiring to take the BECOMES TOURISTS trail from Salt Lake to - - -- ' ry - if- arrived with the two national officials having accompanied them over the Midland Trail from Ely to Los Angeles and return the purpose being an official log of this Important feeder road Details of the proposed cutoff across the Great American desert by which It Is hoped to obviate fifty miles of bad road and make a saving of thirty-tw- o miles were officially given out by the highway officials Friday Hers is ths plan: Build s soud from Black petit at the ueuth of Overland eanyuu tu the uerth end uf Granite mountain a total of 17J miles of actual desert and ten miles nf approach By this cutoff to ellmlmate fifty miles of bad road laeludlag the present terror—Xsh Springs flat touring To make this rood a snrfaeed highway with natural concrete gravel from an old beach lino found on the west side of the desert Total cost of the projected route estimated at between flSOAOO and IllSy 000 part of which Is said already tu bu In Salt Lake bonks Natural Concrete The old beach bed with its gravel of size — about as big as small a uniform marbels—cemented together with a natural concrete was discovered by Mr Hoag and the Lincoln Highway association It Is stated has already taken up claims for a stretch a mile and naif long and a half mile wide In four places where the beds have been dug into it waa found that the formation Is 10 feet deep So solidly were the pebbles cemented that It was necessary to blast them out “Of course our plane for this road are In but a formative state” aald Mr Hoag “but it Is my belief that this gravel used for a surface for a road thrown across the great desert flat will because of the nature of the nat- ural cement binder form a ’ veritable' concrete road The capillary attraction of the water will make the road even harder as the years pass and the upkeep will be nil - - be-mad- TO MAKE AIRPLANE PARTS - - 'that one "only” The National Cash Register company Dayto O has received a large order for airplane parts and It Is expected that 'by September 1 about 6000 workers will be employed It la possible that tt domestic Engineering comCity will be pany plant at Moraine utilised by the N CL R for manufacturing complete airplanes May Cut Off Flag Iloag of Ely Nev state consul for the Lincoln Highway association O S er ' - The Welling Motor Equipment company St Louis Mo Olympian distributor held a dealers’ day and drlve-awa- y on August 28 Dealers from many points In eastern Missouri and Illinois visited St Louis with Messrs Welling and Speany and then drove from one to four cars back home Austin F Bement secretary and If Osterman chief consul and field secretary both of Detroit arrived In Salt Lake early last week Here they were to have been met by Henry B' Joy president of the association On Friday however Joy wired his Inabilto get here Bement and Osterman ity have gone fishing for three days on the Weber and ’will return In time to meet Ft A Selberllng president of the Goodyear Tire company and a leading director of the Lincoln Highway association' Mr Selberllng has never gone over the route In Utah and such Is the purpose of his visit ’He will arrive It Is anticipated about Wednesday CL' s - DRIVE-OU- T Springs route of the Lincoln highway in Utah —that flat road being considered the worst spot on the entire highway —is the purpose of the visit of leading o ficials of the Lincoln highway asso ciation to Salt Lake Harden Bennion - Secretary of State Would Permit Transfers of Plates - HOLD BIG J-- -- e thefts' it possible of tio Elimination 1 Fish flat from the Lawsvfor Auto ‘ Mr Bciuilon explains that It should be emphasized that by the payment of $1 an exchange of licenses In the event of a change of owrters may and the records thus kept straight Thirty Stolen This Year “More than 'thirty automobiles have been actually stolen this year and never recovered the sheriff’s records show and there are about ten unrecovered cars from last year "Many auto owners are inclined to be careless with their machines— to believe that most thefts are merely by Joyriders Sheriff Corless said ’’They should realize that many cars are acand never gdtten back tually stolen reason we are so anxious It is for this to have something done to stop the Goodyear President Highway Backer Expected Here This Week Will Propose ? ' SURFACED CUTOFF ’ i Form-A-Tru- ck - Form-A-Tru- ck E A Robbins president of the Olympian Motor Car company of Boston Mass gave the Olympian car severe tests before signing the Olympian contract Not only was tho ear tested for power speed economy and ability but the Olympian The final company was Investigated was the made test given Olympian when Mrs- Robbins drove a new stock car Olympian was from Buffalo to Boston made without troubles The trip of any kind and ths car averaged miles on a twenty-tw- o and gallon of gasoline hlll-cllmbl- ng - five-tent- hs ¥OU Do not want to lose jour an-- tomobile Tet thousands are stolen each year which are never recovered The Christie ' Combination' Auto Lock not only locks the motor but the hood as welL Its impossible to move the car —un--L possible to wire around the device Thieves and joyriders cannot get away with a Christie Combination Auto Lock car - - Safe as a bank vault WR GRAHAM 417 Kearns Bldg Was 5139 |