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Show Motor Motions f.v.fS.gm I The early spring rush for automobiles has begun be-gun with such an impetus that the dealers are preparing f6r far and away the biggest automobile automo-bile season in the history of motor cars. Before the automobile season is fairly open, trainloads of machines will 'have been sold in Salt Lake and Utah. An evidence of Ihe spread of the automobile automo-bile fervor is the fact that numerous orders for machines are coming to the dealers from the mailer cities of the state. With the enactment of good roads legislation, every , prosperous resident resi-dent of even the smaller hamlets will own a car, and use It for travel throughout the state. In remote re-mote sections of the state, where railroad building build-ing is impracticable, the good roads movement makes the use of automobiles an easy and comfortable com-fortable means of travel. The purchase of a large number of automobiles in Ogden and Provo. this spring brings up once more the question of building an automobile boulevard from Ogden to Provo through Salt Lake. The level stretch of country through the Salt Lake valley would make the construction of sucn a highway easy and practicabe. The building of an automobile speedway between be-tween Salt Lakje and Saltair is now an assured reality. As soon as possible work will be begun on the enterprise and automobile fans may look for rare racing sport, as well as ideal recreation on this boulevard. J8 & & The flood of business that is coming in on the automtobile dealers is well illustrated by the early spring business of the Consolidated Wagon and Machine company. Seymour B. Young, Jr., sales manager of this firm, has already contracted for the sale of several new machines in Salt Lake, Ogden, and Provo. The Consolidated Wagon and Machine company com-pany has received during the week a carload of Buicks and a carload of Fords. Early next week the company will receive a carload of Model 17 Buicks and a car of new Franklins. 2t & c Despite bad roads and beastly weather, Wesley Smith of Denver, lenown to motorists all through the west as a careful and speedy driver, broke the automobile road record between Denver and Colorado Col-orado Springs last week. The record was made in a big Thomas touring car, and at a speed ranging from forty-five to seventy-nine miles an hour. The exact time made for each stage of the trip was: From Denver to Petersburg, 7 minutes; from Denver Den-ver to Littleton, 11 minutes; from Denver to Se-dalia, Se-dalia, 33 minutes; from Denver to Perry Park, 55 minutes; from Denver to Palmer Lake, 1:12; from Denver to Colorado Springs, 1:50:32 2-5. Inside of Colorado Springs, over an excellent stretch of road, the speed of the big machine went to seventy-nine miles an hour, and as tho automobile crossed the timer's chalk line in front of the Antler's Hotel, the members of the party were promptly arrested for exceeding the speed limit. The tiip against time was made under the auspices of the Denver Automobile club. & & &. Owners of Euick cars in Salt Lake are interested inter-ested in the announcement of the entry of the Buick cars in the Mardi Gras speed carnival in New Orleans, to be held under the auspices of the Now Orleans Automobile club, on February 20, 21, and 22. The announcement was made of the entries by William J. Mead, a high official of the Buick Automobile company. The star driver of the team, which will consist of six men and four cars, will be Robert Burman, the sensational Buick pilot. Burman is to drive a- M new Buick racing car of a model never beiore M seen in action. It is being specially constructed M with a view to breaking all previous circular track M records. L H Other companies which are considering enter- M lug cars in the speed carnival are the White, the M Stoddard-Dayton, and the Studehaker. The con- M tests will be held on tho Fair Grounds motordome and should be intensely Interesting. M Paul A. Kohn, cashier of the Denver & Rio M Grande railway, of Ogden, has purchased a thirty- fl horsepower Model 10 Buick Touring car. & c & H Electric vehicles for commercial use are com- 1 ing into demand more and more. Tho extension of M the paving limits of Salt Lake as contemplated by the board of public works during the coming sea- fl son will make it possible for business firms to use electric trucks and delivery wagons for every M practical purpose.- M Charles A. Qulgley, general manager of the Studebaker company in Utah, speaking on this H subject said: M "The east has awakened to the fact that tho H electric vehicle is far superior to the horse-drawn wagon, and tho west is rapidly falling into line H with the east in this matter. The popular theory H that electrics cannot negotiate hills is fast being H dispelled by remarkable demonstrations and tests H of the electric trucks and other kinds of electric H vehicles. Electrics are destined to be as popular here as they are in any city in the east, and in a H very short time." jH j? & & H From Kansas comes the report that the spring H wagon has been replaced on the Kansas farms by H tho automobile. A series of good crops has placed H the Kahsas farmer in a position to travel com- H fortably and expeditiously. The spring wagon is H relegated and the automobile, the product of mod- ern farming, is becoming as necessary as the hay- rock. M jt & H The Utah State Legislature is rushing through H all good roads measures in a manner highly grat- H Ifylng to automobilists. There is a community of H interest between tho city legislator who loves a H drive through the country in a motor car and the H country legislator, to whom good roads means u H bettdr and quicker market for the products of the H farm and tho mine. H During the week the memorial to Congress ask- H Ing for a land grant of 3,000,000 acres of arid and H semi-arid land, to be sold for tho purpose of build- H ing a new State capitol and improving the roads of H the Stato, passed both houses and will bo signed H by the governor. If Congress grants the petition H of tho people of Utah, It will mean that for the H Improvement of the roads of the State the people H of the State will have at least three million of H dollars, a;;d probably more than that. H tovC $ t H Five good roads measures, approved by the H good roads convention held in Salt Lake recently, H have passed the house. The bills are in the hands H f the committee on highways and bridges of tho H senate, the members of which are all good friends H of the movement, and their ultimate passage and H approval is practically assured. H One of these bills creates a state road commis- H sion, a system of state roads, a system of unl- H form construction, and a state road fund. Another H amplifies the system of standard construction. A H third provides for annual road tax, a fourth for a H special road district tax, and the fifth for a vehicle H tax. H $ H A bill has been Introduced by Senator Hulan- H iski providing that one-half of the money collected H for liquor licenses shall be expended for the improve im-prove ent of the roads of the district in which it is collected. J. A. Ballinger of Bingham has purchased a thirty-horsepower, five-passenger Chalmers-Detroit car from the Tom Botterill Automobile company. 5 t? O W. H. Smith, of San Diego, claims the western record for pleasure driving in an automobile. During Dur-ing 1908 he traveled 70,000 miles in his big seven-passenger seven-passenger White Steamer. tC Among the local automobile dealers who have returned from the New York and Chicago automobile automo-bile shows are Charles A. Quigley, general manager mana-ger of the Studebaker company in Utah; Tom Botterill, Bot-terill, of the Tom Botterill Automobile company, and Samuel H. Sharman, president and treasurer of the Sharman Automobile company. |