The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-26
AUTO EXPORTS ARE
SLIGHTLY DECREASED
Hawaii Is the. Best Market
Enjoyed by the Local
Trade
By R. R. L,HoMMEDIEU

The report or the exports from san
Francisco of automobiles and parts for
last month has been made public. This
report shows that nine cars were
shipped to Hawaii, with valuation
of $16.1sS. and parts to the value of
sS,127. This is falling of for the
same month of last year. as during the
latter time Il automobiles were shipped
to the islands, with valuation of
SAL, 932. and parts to the value of IS. SOC.
Last month one car was shipped to
England valued at $500. one to
Canada valued at $685., one to the
Philippines at 50, 400 and one TO Japan
at 5000. For the same month last year
the only shipment outside of Hawaii
was one car to Japan valued at $500
The total export of automobiles for the
last month was.13 cars with total
valuation of s21,2S3 and parts valued
at $3,127, as against for the same
month of 1908. % cars valued, at
s42,7S2 and parts valued at s5,sO6.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Crump of Stock
ton, in their Franklin motor car, re-
Gently made a trip
lI.OuY Run over m u n i n
In Franklin roads to an eleva
--------.. tion of 1894 feet.
They started from
their home and made a circuit of Lake
Tahoe, going into Nevada. The high
point reached was at the summit of
Placerville grade. The only trouble of
the entire trip was puncture, despite
the rocky and steep roads which were
encountered The record of the car is
now over $4,000 miles.
Mr. and Mrs. ]. r. Edwards of Santa
Rosa recently made the run to Del
.:.- Monte in their
Buick Owners b buiek as car fbs,r s Thsy
O- Miss Katherine
Rockwell of Kan
sas City. Another Buick party who
have made the visit to Del Monte re-
Gently is Miss Alice wilkins and Miss
Virginia Belknap of this city and Mrs.
J. l. Sabin and Miss Irene Sabin of
Mountain View,
The holding of the flag to flag enc
durance and reliability contest from
Denver to the city
Fif Ead to E.ss Run Mexico Sanction SRfs5
an assured fact
The rules, which are practically iden-
teal with those governing the compe
tition for the Glidden, Hover and De-
troit trophies. have been issued. The
been fixed for Monday. October %. and
the contestants will arrive at the
Paseo del Reforma in the federal dis
trict of Mexico the week of November
Is. The route will be from Denver by
way of Trinidad, Colo; Amarillo and
San Antonio, Tex, crossing the border
at Eagle pass instead of at FL Paso as
was originally planned, and touching
in Mexico the cities of Zacatecas.
Aguascalientes. Celaya, San Juan del
Rio, Tula and the City of Mexico. At
the end of the tour the competing cars
will be exhibited at a monster auto
mobile show in Mexico city.
Additional interest is lent TO the
contest through the fact that the gov
ernmen of Mexico, which is using for
eign cars almost exclusively, is in the
market for 200 cars for the mail serv-
ice and for so trucks for the military
department, deliveries TO be made with
In the next two years. Upon the show
ing of the American cars will depend
to a large extent the sending of this
contract to Europe or TO the United
States.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. T. Murphy and Mrs
Eugene Murphy of Burlingame, in their
...--- Renault ear, spent
RenauIt Owners several days at the
at Del Monte popular summer
Monte. Another
party also made the run in Renault
cars They were George A. and Mrs.
Pope, Miss Pope, W. K. Pope and G. A.
Pope of Burlingame.
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