The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-06-21
AN UP.To-DATE GARAGE.
New Ford Service Station and Garage
of Estes 4 CO., One of tue
Best In Iowa.

Work of the remodeling of the
Ford Service Station and Garage of
Estes & Co., at Leon, is progressing,
and after being torn up for weeks
while extensive remOdeling has been
in progress, it is now beginning to
show what is being done in the way
| of new Improvements.
The main building is 6Ox9O feet,
two full stories without any posts in
! it, and the entire interior has been
remodeled, the driveway Deing mov-
ed to the north side, and a space
36x6O feet divided up, for the general
Office and show room, private office,
stock room and fadies> rest room.
will have red tile floor. laid in
white cement, which will make a
striking appearance, and the entire
interior of the big garage redecorat-
ed. The stock room has plate glass
around the top, so that it is as light
as day, and conveniently arranged,
ed in addition to many racks, for
Ford repairs and parts exclusively,
everyone numbered the same as in
the repair catalogue, and they will
carry in stock every part used in the
construction of a Ford, SO that Ford
owners can always secure anything
they want, in repairs, q. service pro-
vlded for by no other firm.
More than $1,000 has been spent
for new machinery and equipment
for their repair department in the
basement, SO that they are prepared
to do any job of repairing required
on Ford, and they give the Ford
system OF service, the price for all
repairs and repair work being fixed
customer can tell just what his
work will cOSt him
AS soon as the work on this build
ing is cOmpleted> Estes & Co., will
commence work on the annex to be
built to the east of their building,
adding second story to the brick
building occupied by. the Leon Bus
recently purchased the annex being
52x96 feet, and connected with the
main floor OF the garage, which will
provide them with a great amount
of additional storage room for their
cars.
A new 1000 gallon Bowser gaso-
line tank will be installed with the
pump five gallons at stroke, and
the present 500 gallon tank in use
will be equipped with a measuring
oil pump for lubricating oil, SO that
it will be measured and pumped
direct to the car. which will be a
service which car owners will appre-
ciate.
Estes & CO. commenced selling
f ords in Leon six years ago, the con-
tract. for the first year being 80 cars.
The second year it was 40 cars, the
third year 6U cars, the fourth year
80 cars, last year it was 15O cars and
they sold and delivered 1876 cars,
and this years contract was for 252
cars, and they have already sold 1893,
cars on this contract, and all this in
their limited territory, but with
their increased investment and facil-
tiles for handling the business will
probably be assigned additional ter
ritOry. The Ford Co. made no mis-
take when they secured Estes & Co.
as their agents at Leon, and they
now have more than $25, 900 invest
ed in their. garage, which is one of
A peculiar thing happened this
week, when the first car Estes e Co.
ever sold was driven into their gar
age for storage, and the owner Ros-
coe Hall, of Weluon, said he would
not consider trading for new car,
as the only difference was that the
old car was in need of little new
paint. This car was solu to Wm
Axes, and has had quite an expert
ence,. having been run off bridge,
smashed into big telephone pole,
used for tractor work on farm, and
finally a couple of years ago Axes
drove on the railroad track at the
Leon depot and tried to knock a
freight train off the track, but the
little old jitney is still in>good shape,
could have stood up under such
usage