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Show IP1 1 Motor Notions. i i The Sari Francisco Examiner of recent' date -has a large picture of Dick Colburn and "William Hughey of the Red Top mine at Goldfleld In a i Pope-Toledo recently purchased by them for use In the Goldfleld country. ! Mr. Colburn and Mr. Hughey are In the front of the car, with Dickie at the wheel looking desperate des-perate enough to beJ coming down Telegraph Hill will all the brakes off. Mrs. Colburn and Mrs. C. S. Marshall are seated seat-ed in the tonneau, looking happy and apparently oblivious to the fact that Dick is driving. In an interview the two gentlemen state that an automobile club is about to bo organized in Goldfleld where there are at present about a hundred hun-dred machines, Capt. McVichle being unable to get a Packard has purchased a Pierce-Arrow for Immediate delivery. de-livery. Another Pierce to arrive within the next ten days will be the property of James A. Pollock. t & & A carload of autos which Leroy Snow says will be in the aggregate the most expensive car ever brought to the city Is scheduled to arrive here ! next week. It will include among others, four I Pope-Toledos sold to Samuel Newhouse, Col. Wall, J C. E. Miller and Ray Walker, j The Newhouse and Wall machines are nearly j double the horse power of any other cars in the j , city. . j The sum represented in the consignment will ' run between nineteen and twenty thousand dollars. dol-lars. ' & t & Two Mitchells, the car with three s'peeds ahead, arrired at the store rooms of the G. W. & M. Co., and were the objects of a great deal of interest ' during the demonstration by Mr. Elliott. The Miller-Cahoon cmpany have on exhibit at the electrical show a Pope-Waverly electric car. j e g The Memorial day endurance race to take place between here and Ogdeh will be an event of great interest for everyone, and especially those who own automobiles. The arrangements are proceeding satisfactorily, satisfactor-ily, and the race will be free to all comers, with the condition that owners drive their own cars. The enterprising junk man should reap a harvest har-vest the following day. fcJf Two Reo touring cars were sold In Ogden this week, one to Albert Scowcroft and the other to John Smith. ' Both are among the leading spirits in the sport. at the Junction Ctiy, and have discarded discard-ed the machines they used last year. Mr. Sharman is expecting the Moline machines within a week or two, an excellent addition to the Wharman-Ottinger line. & & One of the swiftest, easiest cars in town is the Studebaker, and with added facilities for making machines, recently acquired by this famed firm, the 1907 models will give others a hard race for popularity. , tt t8 38 "The real offenders" were recently handled by the Motor Age in a well put argument that will appeal to the motorist who has a tendency to go some, and there are few who haven't. It says: It is only the layman who takes stock in all the rantings of the motorphobia press of this or any other country; those engaged in the automobile automo-bile business or those who happen to own and operate automobiles are too well aware of the unfairness un-fairness and insincerity of most daily papers. The layman is not to be blamed for not being informed of all that goes on he believes in his favorite paper and swallows all that is offered him, whether it seems reasonable or not. Some time ago Motor Age pointed out the fact that some daily papers were guilty of infractions of speed laws In the delivery of their various editions. Some use automobiles and others stick to horses. Nobody doubts that a horse "galloping through a crowded street at 15 miles an hour is more dan- gerous than an automobile traveling the same streets at 30 miles an hour. Here is a little incident in-cident which will show where the papers stand in the matter of speed. Sales Manager Rogers, of the Mitchell Motor Car Co., while in New York recently, tendered each of the New York papers the use of a light delivery wagon in order to demonstrate dem-onstrate the adaptability of the motor wagon in delivering papers to various parts of the city and to the railroad depots with something like speed and in order to show the superiority of the motor wagon over the horse for this purpose. .In each case the offer was politely refused, on the ground that if an attempt were made to operate an auto-mobile auto-mobile through the city's streets at half the speed attained by horse-drawn vehicles there would be several arrests for fast driving each day. All of which, reading between the lines, would indicate that the papers do not believe the automobile auto-mobile such a dangerous thing as they would like the public to believe. & Anybody who thinks Pennsylvania is slow had better read the record for the season. Over fifty five hundred autooinbiles licensed have been Issued Is-sued so far this year. di The man who goes to the Country Club this summer in a street car will have it all to himself. him-self. Out of a membership around the three hundred hun-dred mark, the "400" will all have buzz wagons. & The word "garage" has become Americanized, and the way to now pronounce it is to say carriage as though you had a cold. Frenchmen, however, will still continue to pronounce it correctly. W. W. Armstrong who left for Ely, Nev., during dur-ing the week, will make the trip from the last train stop to Ely in an automobile. It Is said that the road Is splendid, even at this time of year, and that In fact the automobile way to the great cop-per cop-per camp is the best. . " & & & . The auto car recently purchased by Dr. Beat-ty' Beat-ty' is working like a charm. The Denver Sun has an automobile story which has a local interest. It concerns the Packard, and the Sun says: "Charles Bilz, representing the Packard car . in Denver, reports he has disposed of his allot- $1 ment of four. The last one went to H. Livings ton Senter, of Colorado Springs, this week, and ' "t has been, delivered. This is an evidence that this territory has customers for good, high-priced cars these selling at ?4,500 each. Mrs. D. H. Mof fat's car is expected hero either tomorrow or next day. Mr. Senter's car was driven to the Springs through the great blizzard of this week, but behaved be-haved elegantly, plowing through drifts and cutting cut-ting the wind as if no obstacles were encountered. |