Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-02
SECTIONS WANT CARS
Sales Manager Says Business Condi-
lions Are Good in the West.
STEADY DEVELOPMENT NOTED
Farmers Rave Plenty Of Money IN
the Banks with which tO Bay
Automobiles and They
Are Buying.

Returning from a five weeks trip through
the farther western states and across the
border OF western Canada taken for the
purpose Of looking into automobile trade
conditions and prospects. F. r Bump.
sales manager Of the IT. II. franklin Manu-
featuring company OF Syracuse, Is conf
den Of steady development of the motor
car field throughout the territory visited.
Among the cities he covered in his trip
are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Fran
cisco, Seattle, Portland, Vancouver, Vic
toria. Spokane. Wslla Walla, Pendleton,
Boise. Salt Lake City, Colorado Springs and
Denver, with stops on the way at Chicago,
ST. Louis, Kansas City and Omaha. Speak
ing OF the conditions he found. Mr.. Bump
said:
Generally speaking. business conditions
are very good, particularly In those sec
lions supported by farming districts.
Throughout the territory merchandise lines
are complained OF as being a little slow,
but on the whole business shows signs OF
steady Improvement. The panic OF 1908
was not so keenly felt as in the east e%-
cept by the coast cities. and so long as
good crops continue the conditions in the
west will be favorable.
AT present there is every indication OF
this, as the immense amount of rain and
snow during the past winter and spring
will fill the reservoirs and insure ample
water supply for one year and possibly
two. we may therefore reasonably look
for continued IA, orable business condi-
tions in the west.
Naturally the west Is a good automobile
market; any growing country is. In fact II
is being demonstrated more and more every
day that the automobile is almost a neces-
sity as a means OF transportation because
Of the great distances.
.sThe country west OF the Mississippi
naturally divides itself into three section
that east OF the Rocky mountains. thS
Rocky mountain region itself and the Pa
cific coast states. The first OF these Il
purely agricultural. and small towns are
the rule. The farmers are well-to-do, bu'
have made their money slowly. They have
their farms paid for and a few thousand
dollars in the bank. To some extent they
are buyers OF cheap cars, although motoI
cars Of higher grade are making head
way.
THE second section Is a wonderful com
bination of mining and agricultural dis
tricts. Small farms are not the rule. Zea
to get rich quick through mining ven
lures. large grain and cattle ranches or tn
rapid advance of real estate is evidence
time and again, Men in these condition
are free buyers, and II they can get wha
:. they wsnt and what is suited to their con
ditions the price is not a first considers
ton. There is less Of an opportunity TO
cheap cars.
The third section includes The coss
cities. oacked up by agricultural. mimi.
ana lumber regions. In the cities cc>ldi
lions are much as they are in the east
but in the country districts there is a bi
field waiting for the car hat can do II
work over sand, bad roads and hills. A
together, the automobile prospects, in tn
farther western states are most promis
ing
The product NE send out from Syracus
is handled by a force OF dealers giving u
representation al a greater number c
points by far than any other makers c
high grade cars. and the prospects 10
increased FrAnkli business from this tim
on are great in view OF the peculiar adaT
tltude of Franklin light weight motor ca
for the rough conditions encountered !
that section