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Show MOTOR MOTIONS II The arrival of four car loads of automobiles lo- II cally the past five days has given the motor car II situation an impetus that has been sadly needed II for weeks. II The cars went fast and sure and today the II dealers are to the front with the cry that we are II getting more than used to no machines and tno II deliveries promised. Botterill, Randall-Dodd, fl Raymond-Bracken and one or two other agen- H cies have all received shipments the past week IH and as a result several deliveries and one or H two sales are reported. The Botterill people have H been unusually busy and the company Is now im H patiently awaiting the first delivery of the 1910 H Pierce cars, promised for the last of July and first of August. Mrs. Mary Judge has secured one of the new models. The baby tonneau, six H cylinder 1909 Pierce, recently taken by Gus H Holmes, has created a lot of favorable comment H for the Pierce make locally, as the machine is one H of the fastest, rangiest and prettiest looking cars H turned In here this year. H The big six cylinder seventy horsepower H Thomas flyers brought back by Mr. Dodd of the H Randall-Dodd company, following his visit recent- ,H ly to the Thomas factoiy, are objects of, a good ,H deal of envy among both dealers and owners, for H the two cars are unquestionably among the fast- H est and most powerful in the west. Mr. Dodd H drove one of the big fellows five miles in about H seven minutes at Ogden, Monday, and their hill H climbing ability is all the company claims and H more. Ray Walker has purchased one of the H seventies. S. N. Bourne, an expert from the H Thomas factory, has been in town most of the H week looking over the local situation and advising I the new Thomas owners on the care and running H of their cars. Mr. Dodd is in Pocatello directing H M the delivery of a carload of Buicks just anlvod at m the Idaho town. M The letters that are being received from the 1 George T. Odell party now touring Europe in Mr. M Odoll's big six cyllinder air cooled Franklin, ln- M, dicate that not only has that car been driven ap- Hjl proximately three thousand miles without any M serious trouble, but that before the party sails 1 for home it will have been driven as many more 1 miles with just as satisfactory results. It has M been a splendid outing, writes Mr. Odell and the m car has proven worthy of the confidence placed H in it for so long, hazardous and tedious a trip as a trans-European tour. The last word from the M Odell party was by cable dated Pompeii a, week B ago today. The trip across the Alps was made m by way of Mount Cenis, one of the highest and m most dangerous of the passes over the mountains. V The car took the grades safely, however, and Mr. ; Odell is quoted as saying the trip was worth the ' entire tour abroad. Al The Raymond Bracken people have received i the first of the Premier cars, the agency for which M, they secured recently and with the new Jackson's H on hand are busy demonstrating them. The Pro H miers are giving excellent satisfaction and will H probably prove fast sellers on the local, market, H' as they are first and last claimed by the m amis' ami-s' facturers as an endurance car. The other agents H are hustling their various makes and among them H August Stacker Is in the fore with Autocar, H Haynes and Peerless. Of the performances of the H latter cars in the west this year, the run from H San Francisco to Los Angeles a week or so ago, H by H. O. Harrison of the former place in his new H six cylinder Peerless, is among the best. A H twenty-four hour schedule for the entire d'stanco jfl was maintained and the performance of the pow-H pow-H erful, ihlgh-grade machine on the steep grades H was unusually good. On these grades a speed H of about thirty-five miles an hour was maintained D and on the level stretches the car did sixty time H and again without inconvenience to the party. Motor enthusiasm continues unabated on the coast, particularly in California, where the year has been unquastionably the greatest in the auto industry. From San Francisco comes the announcement an-nouncement that the Automobile club of California Califor-nia is arranging a two hundred and fifty mile road race in September in A'ameda county. The fifty-two m'le race in Santa Rosa ten days ago, was such a tremendous success that the latest . move of the California club is being received with enthusiastic approbation and the race will probably prob-ably be a big affair. |