The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-16
SALT LAKE CITY'S
NEW DISTINCTION
Now Possesses Biggest Car
rage Repository in the
World.
HOW BUSINESS HAS GROWN
Remarkable System of Studebaker
Bros. Company.

business, a business so big that COM
paratively few Salt Lakers have true
appreciation of its vastness or of its
value to the community. 1t is a story
of the greatest carriage repository in
the world
That's going some," you are saying.
with a smile that contains hint of in
cFedulity. 1t is going some" but it is
a plain statement of plain fact. Salt
Lake City has the distinction of pos
sessing the greatest carriage reposi
tory, from the standpoint of floor space
and with practically every available
inch of the space Occupied-in the
whole world.
This is the repository of the Stude-
baker Brothers company, of which G.
A. Quigley is vice president, and, in
the intermountain country, general
manager. Yesterday a representative
of The Herald, under the personal
guidance of Mr.. Quigley, was privileged
to make a tour through the establish
ment. The word tour is used advis-
edly. To make an inspection of this
great establishment time is necessary,
but the visitor, whatever his calling in
life, will feel that the time spent in
going through the Studebaker mansion
is time well expended.
From Push Cart to Brougham.
He will see everything that runs on
wheels. everything from a push-cart
to a brougham, from a freight wagon
to a high-power automobile, from a
phaeton to a furniture van He will
see a splendid business office. where
the wheels whir without friction, where
the system is so perfect that IL is EOS
sible to compare in five minutes the
business done yesterday With the bust
ness done on the corresponding day a
dozen years ago, or more.
The initiated visitor, as he walks
through floor after floor filled with
traps, spyders, phaetons, surveys, road
wagons, brOughams, runabouIs, bug
gieS of every type, gasoline and cleo
trio wagons, mail carts, furniture vans,
mountain wagons, farm wagons, yes,
and push-carts, finds himself wonder
ing, as did the writer, whether or rot
it would ever possible to sell all those
vehicles. Mr.. Quigley smiled whom the
question finally came out.
We can't keep them" said he. "All
Of our departments are busy all the
time, and in many of them our great
est difficulty is, not to sell tile goods,
or jobs as a vehicle is known TO US,
but to keep I'D with our orders. We
must keep vehicles on hand Tor show
purposes, but it is sometimes necessary
for us to sell the show vehicles in order
not to disappoint our customers.
TT may interest you to know that
some types of Studebaker vehicles are
as staple in our business as is sugar to
the grOcerynan. I mean that there is
a steady demand for them all the wear
round. Particularly is this true Of the
standard Studebaker buggy. Other We
hicleS sell better at certain times of the
year than at other times, out we are
selling enough at all times to keen us
busy, enough to keep us jumping 70 re-
plenish our stock"
Wagon Harness Factory.
The vehicle industry, enormous though
it is, is not the only thing that con-
Germs the great establishment over on
State street. There is a factory that con-
sumes more heavy leather in the manu- |
facture of wagon harness than-well, |
more than half the people of Salt Lake |
City combined will wear out i'm shoes
in a year. There is a great department
given over entirely to buggy harness, |
though harness of this type is not made !
at the local headquarters of the Stude- |
baker Brothers company.
Then there is a repair shop, where
repairs of any sort may be made to a |
vehicle. including the painting of au-
tOmObileS, with an expert of years ex-
perience in charge of the work. Here. |
too, is the best equipped rubber tire |
plant in Salt Lake City, a plant con- |
tanning machinery that is up to the |
minute and that has involved the out
lay of a considerable sum of money.
In the business office all the accounts |
Of the sub-branches in Utah, Idaho. !
western Wyoming and eastern Nevada |
are handled. There are thousands of |
these accounts. yet, so thorough is the /
system by which they are kept that at |
a moments notice Mr.. Quigiey can put |
his hand on any Of them Ask him
what John Jones. residing near MaIad. |
Ida, owes on the mountain wagon he |
bought some time in the early part Of /
the year.
information at Hand.
If you are entitled to the information |
Mr.. Quigley will show you in a minute |
what Jones owes, if anything, the ex- |
act date of the purchase, the terms of /
the sale and such other information as
may seem desirable His business has
been reduced to an exact science, the !
possibility of error has been placed at /
the minimum and the organization is /
the organization of trained and eager |
soldiers ready at a moments notice to |
intelligently obey the orders of the /
commander-in-chief.
More. Suppose a man should walk /
INTO the Studebaker establishment and /
ask for a pair of shafts of a certain |
type In one department of the i'm
mense building are thousands of pairs
of shafts of every type. To the novice |
they seem hopelessly confused. A
stranger might hunt the building over /
for ten days without finding the tyne |
of shafts desired, but down in the |
heart of the establishment they know. |
and they fit the inquirer out in about |
the time it takes the average clerk 10 |
find collar Of cri,-c1, liz, |