El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-15
MEXICAN RI|9INES IS CUT OFF;
MANY FACTORY MEN VISIT CITY
The Chaotic Business Conditions in the Territory South
If the Rio Grande Affect the Local Auto Trade;
FL Paso Sales Fairly Good; New Mitchell
eight Here Officer Buys Overland.

are now en- route to this city for the
, Buquor Motor Car company. There are
90 cars in the shipment 1t is one Of the
largest shipments Of real automobiles
ever received here.
is Hatcher n HumOrist:
H " Hatcher likes his joke as well
as any man in town and Pete" has
the motorists smiling over a new sign
on his used car establishment on Texas
street. It reads: automobiles and
Fords"
Mr. Hatcher has taken the distribut-
ing agency for the Meister line Of Jitne
and commercial bodies. which are
manufactured in Sacramento, Cal.
New Mitchell Is Here.
The much talked Of Mitchell eight"
made its appearance here this week and
manager W H Marsh. of the FL Paso
Auto Sales company, mas been kept
busy making demonstrations In gen
eral appearance. the new eight much
resembles the well known Mitchell
six except that it is OF slightly stur-
der build The chief improvements are
in the motor. which has won much IA
vorable commentator from local mo-
torists
The new Mitchell six" roadster has
also arrived. Mechanically, it is the
same as the six" touring car but its
graceful lines make it one Of the pref
test rOadsters in the city.
LOndener Is Busy.
Wolf Londener states that the Mexi-
can trouble has had the effect of shut
ting off an excellent market for used
cars but that business has kept very
good with him during the week He
reports the sale of seven used cars from
his big stock and says that he has
enough prospects" TO keep him hust-
ling for several days.
Storage is at a premium at the Haley
Auto company. During the past few
days. George Haley has had to turn
away some late Corners after storage
for the big garage has been filled
nightly The new machine shop has
been kept going at full capacity ever
since the new company opened
Comes From Alabama
Among the cars stored at the HALEY
garage is a 1913 Oakland -four which
Ala. The car is owned and was driven
by c. s Stovall. who was accompanied
by his wife and son. They left the Ala
bama city just a month ago and made
the trip to e. PasO by easy stages
They laid off altogether a days and
sections their car pulled through with
out trouble Of any sort Mr.. Stovan is
looking for a business opening in El
Paso as he plans TO make this city his
home
J. 5. Johnson. OF PecOs. spent several
days in FL Paso this week. looking over
various models He finally selected a
Franklin roadster, making the third
Franklin to be owned by his family.
Get Republic Truck.
Walter Long has purchased a Haynes
light six from the Southern Motor
company, which also reports the sale OF
a 150c-pound Republic truck to the Lion
grocery.
N. L Burkhead. Of the Southern No
tor company. took the white Haynes to
DeminE to meet the Arizona trade mo-
torcade and came in with it on Friday.
ply and their friends are wondering as
to their report that rabbits were con
tinually crossing the road between here
and Deming.
Mrs 6 Stewart has purchased a REQ
-four touring car. G. D. Sauman also
reports the sale OF three cars at Pecos.
one of which he delivered early in the
week while the others are to be driven
to Pecos on Sunday.
officer Buys Oakland.
The Oakland six" is a popular car
with army officers and the Oakland
Auto Sales company reports the sale of
a car of this model to Lieut. c y
Hodges, of the sixth infantry while ".
A. Hines has secured one Of the red
Oakland -four" speedsters. 4 carload
Of five Oakland skies has been
shipped 10 J. Breck Richardson. the
Phoenix dealer. and another carload of
three "fours" and one eight to Mr..
office at Tucson.
G. Z. Gavin, Saxon distributor. has