Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-08-05 | Page 11 | The Automobile Builds Suburban

THE AUTOMOBILE : BIDS Sill I - ! Gasoline and Oil Aplied to Machine Makes a City-Country City-Country Home Distance Dis-tance Is Annihilated. The relationship of the automobile ' to the up-building of suburban districts dis-tricts in all sections of country is significant, as the use of the motor machines virtually annihilate distance and bring the rural home Into metropolitan met-ropolitan life with Its many pleasures and conveniences. A country home ir the city is made possible by the ad I vent of the automobile, affording the quietude and comforts of the out-of the-city home and at the same timt getting near to the city life. It reallj is a very great pleasure and convenl ence to live in the rural district and yet be able to run into the city in r few minutes' time. At a recent meeting of real estate agents who deal largely in rural dis trict properties it was stated that the automobile is one of the most important import-ant factors in the development oi that line of real estate business. It was said that it Is not necessary any longer for the salesman to spend a long period of time in explaining the beauties of the rural life, as it Is readily seen by the man who loves the country home and who has an automobile, au-tomobile, that he is really living in a country-city home If his gasoline and oil hold out. He knows, too, that the 'expense of getting in and out of the city is quite Inexpensive. "In my city," said one of the dealers, deal-ers, "most of our suburban property is being taken up by those who have owned homes In the more congested portions of the town. A few years ago that type of buyer represented a most difficult problem. As the downtown down-town property had Increased In value, taxes and up-keep had eaten up practically prac-tically all of his capital and in too many cases there was a mortgage attached at-tached to his home, which kept him hustling to meet the interest charges. We would show him where he could bU3' a suburban home at much less than the cost of his city home and then would arise the objection about tho long ride back and forth from tho office. At that time automobiles were so expensive that even the mention of them to a buyer w:th limited means was out of the question. "Today, however, It Is not a difficult diffi-cult task, to show the future suburban subur-ban home owner that by disposing of his down-town home and purchasing on the outskirts of the city he will have at least six or seven hundred dollars balance which, if invested properly, will obtain for him an automobile auto-mobile fully equipped and capable of getting him down to his office In less time than when he lived in he city." oo V