The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-08-01
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AUYOVSYS 1870

VIA. new Pierce 6-4S purchased by
- Tom Kearns arrived this
- and is the sensation among the
grtouobilists The machine is con-
80 one of the most expensive cars
~, brought to Utah. II is of the Ian
,l,,lo+ tvpe. and is an exact duplicate of
-sr rsed by President Taft - the
I-.fto house. The car represents the
,,rbest type of body building in Amer
ca.
,-cordiug TO advance information, the
st15abaker people viii have great
a, fbe new Studebakor- Flanders 90.
n is a l0w-priced car, and VIII sell IN
10 reiehborhOod Of $500. The car is
,,,ut bv some Of the best automobile de-
,sgners i'm the country. and their reputa-
ION has already caused a big advance
.rdsr for the cars. As soon a S the new
-,odeI is completed a demonstrate ton car
rim he shipped to Salt Lake.
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a. the annual race meeting of the
-rand Rapids club, Grand Rapids
Mich July %, Louis Chevrolet and
-sorqe Dewitt, with their Buick stock
.srs. swept the card, winning all the
vents in which they were eligible. De
Uitt Won tn price class race at a dis
.srre Of FIVE miles with a model 10
gulck while Chevrolet captured the
svs-r7ile price class event, the ten-mile
stock chassis, and the fifty-mile free
,or-aU. driving a model Is stock Buick
,rasking the worlds competition record
Pr ffty miles. Chevrolet's time for the
7fv miles was 51:22, and the previous
mark 52.i5.
Frank BOtterill. manager of the Bot
.zrU Automobile company, says he has
established a record for the past week
m the use Of gasoline. Just 5000 gal
.ous were used i'm his garage during the
week. which he thinks easily establishes
record for the intermountan country.
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4 consignment of Z. F. NJ S is due at
tho local Studebaker garage the coming
week
Dr. 4. r.. Irvine joined the army Of
Maxwell drivers in the city during the
mast week. having purchased one of the
shalman Automobile company.
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Fiay-mie speed races for stock cars
arc tine most popular events ON a racing
program these days. They are the most
1otIv contested. Although competing in
.NIINE MY -tIflft IdLE1 ttilo SEctEgti- ttO
member of the Buick team has been dc
-aateJ 10y any other car. At Columbus.
d. July 8, Lewis StranC covered fifty
1il.- ia 52:l5. A week later, at Spring
f.f5. IT,. STang won the ffty-milc
event in J2:iS The same day Burman,
a. Montreal. covered fifty miles in 52:4g.
ht Grand Rapids, Chevrolet broke the
record as above. covering the fifty miles
u 5.:-2. Al Lansing, Strang made the
iis.au-c i'm 52.14. A model is Buick
Stock car was used in all the above
events.
The Tom Botterul Automobile COM
0an- reports tue sale of a 6-56 Pierce TO
Mayor ErauEToTd, also al 646 Pierce TO
D~ S. Fl Piukartor Both arc 1910 mod
sls The same firm has placed orders
Ter two Chalmers Detroits, 1910 models,
Coz Or. Garter and L. c. Martin.
The StudobskeU company report the
s4I7 of tV-o eIecuics during the week
One goes TO Mr.. Anderson of Boise, Ida.
and the other to Proprietor Dewey Of
The Dewey hotel at N5mpa, Ida.
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one of the Yer yeXciting incidents in
Connection with the New TOrk-Seattle
race transDired at PTosseT. Wash. where
the Ford car wa nearly destroyed By
fire. Scott and Smith had successfully
crossed Horse Heaven, the name applied
10 Jnat section Of the western plains on
the west side of the Columbia river out
IF Wallula, Wash. II may be q heaven
for quadrupeds, but no automobiles
would refer to it as such. They were in
the lead and hustlinS to increase the
distance that separated them from their
.r.. al to N
with gasoline, a crowd collected. One
boue-beaded northumberland it's sur
prising how little sense some men have
struck a match on the side of the
tank. Instantly the tank was ablaze,
and an alarm sent in. But nothing
could be done until the fifteen gallons
nj gasoline had burned and ali the
equipment destroyed. This caused the
tank to leak and for the balance OF the
Journey an extra ten gallon can of fuel
had to be carried OH the foOtbOard. But
'J took more than a fire to make ScOtty
rCrnQuish his grip on first place. The
fre-scarred victor. excited considerable
comment i'm Seattle, where It remained
for q week as one OF the features of the
A-asha-Y uSOu-Pacific exposition Now
the car is making the return trip, haV-
Ing already covered the states of Wash
NlsLql- oregon and OalTOfnldr ana IN
creased its total mileage for this trip
from 400 to 800.
L. H. Reynolds. head salesman for the
Botteriu Auto company. left this week
for trip east. lie viii visit all the irQ
poryant factories, make a visit to New
York and look UP the trade in general
To Is plan of the BotteTill people TO
have the best there is in the market,
and each year the head statesmen are
sent TO the factories to wise up on
new developments in the automobile
line.
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The question Of priority in the cleo
trIc field has been much discussed in
me papers of late, and some claims
have been advanced that seem to be not
Tully justified by the facts. The follow
ing items bearing on this question are
taken from a history of the automobile
by ". J. Morgan, published in a recent
number Of the New York Globe:
In the early winter of 1900, the first
exclusive automobile show was held in
o.. atrl.-r H.