PORTLAND. AUGUST lb, 1912.
MORE WONDERS OF
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Portland-to-Lakeview Trip Is
Full of Magic Scenery,
Says C. C. Chapman.
HANLEY RANCHES ARE LURE
la Land Where a Thousand Springs
Gash and Millions of Dollars
Lay Unclaimed, Autolst Can
Find Rare Outing.
(This ! the second article by Mr. Chap
man on the Portland-Lakevtew trip. In hl
previous article he described the route from
this city to Bend. In this story ho take
p the drive from Bend to Lakeview.)
BT C. a CHAPMAN.
It is only a few miles 'out of Bend
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TESTER SEXDIXO LITTLK MACHIJIBS THROUGH TREACHEROUS STRETCH OF SAND.
to the 4100-foot level, and we are on
the great plateau of Central Oregon. By
traveling south along this high level,
the road is entirely through the forest
all the way to Fort Klamath. There
are only two hills to climb, the grades
are easy and the height only 00 feet.
One in awhile there is a break in the
forest some open glade which reveals
again the vast panorama of the Cascade
Mountains, snow-topped. Crater Lake
Mountain, or Mount ilaiama. is only a
few miles to the west of this road and
the rim of the crater stands out clearly
against the sunset sky.
Fort Klamath and the Wood River
Basin are the center of a country which
abounds in crystal streams of most
amazing clearness. Not even tne
slightest tint of green or blue is in
the water, not a particle or even a re
flection of color Just clear water
through which the tiniest pebbles can
be seen on the bottom, 10, 12 and 20
feet from the surface.
ElKbth Wonder Seea.
The Wood River Basin is a natural
grass prairie where the wild hay grows
and yields abundant crops yearly. It
Is beginning to be farmed in a more
intensive way. The completion of one
of the prettiest creameries in the state
at Fort Klamath is quite an aid in the
local dairy Industry.
The Crater Lake road is crossed here,
and of course every automobllist will
spend as long a time as is possible on
the rim of this eighth wonder of the
world. Every motorist in this vicinity
should also visit Harrlman Lodge and
Klamath Falls. The trip from the lodge
to the falls is made via steamboat on
upper Klamath Lake, one of the most
scenic inland bodies of water in the
world and abounding in rare water
birds and rainbow trout.
Harrlman Lodge was recently
acquired by the Wendling-Johnson
Lumber Syndicate, which also has built
one of the finest tourist hotels in the
state at Klamath Falls. A vast sum
has been expended on improvements
so that all the niceties of city life, such
as hot and cold running water and a
complete sanitary system are at every
tent.
From Harrlman Lodge at Pelican
Bay, one of the best roads of the state
goes across Klamath County through
the Indian Reservation, along the Will
iamson and Sprague Rivers, beautiful
streams where leafy bowers and nib
bling trout beckon the motorist to
dally.
Lakeview Needs Day.
At least a day should be spent In
the vicinity of Lakeview. at the upper
end of Goose Lake Valley. This great
valley at an altitude of 4700 feet is
so favored climatically that fruits, early
vegetables and other fancy products
of the lower altitudes grow here in
profusion. A high mountain range
surrounds this valley, so that a climb
to 6100 feet is necessary to reach the
Warner Valley, Summer Lake Valley,
Sliver Lake Valley, Catlow Valley and
the Harney Valley. The climb though
is through a forest, the roads are be
ing Improved and the trip will be
found Intensely pleasurable In spite of
the heavy grades. The prettiest road
out Is that to Adel and the Warner
Lake Valley.
Warner Lake at this point looks like
a wide river. Rim-rock ranging from
3000 to 3500 feet high rises on each
side, and between these beetling can
yon walls are the fresh blue waters in
which Pelican abounds. Its shores are
lined with pretty ranches.
Thonaaada of Springs Gush.
The Summer Lake country is reached
in one day's easy motoring over moun
tains and through valleys from Warner
Laae. To refer -to the Summer Lake
district as a "country" la almost a
misnomer, for the so-called "country"
is merely a narrow strip of highly cul
tivated ground, covered with orchards
and farms between the winding shores
of the lake and the high precipice to
the immediate west.
From this precipice gush thousands
of springs, warm and cold. The larg
est of these the Anna River Spring
is said to be nearly 100 yards across. It
looks as big as a city block in Port
land, and the amount of pure, clear
water pouring from it is larger than
that which supplies New York City, and
nearly eifrht times that which flows
into Portland through our enormous
pipe line system.
Across another mountain range,
through a low pass brings the motorist
Into Sliver Lake Valley, still devoted
to enormous livestock ranches on ac
count of the remoteness from railroad j
transportation. To the northeast Is a
great agricultural plain, the Christmas
Lake Valley, now being homesteaded.
This region certainly should be visited
o the conditions under which the
homesteaders are subduing Central
Oregon for us may be observed.
Haaley la Uacrowaed "Klag."
From the Christman Lake country it
Is only a day's Journey, mostly over
vast plaias to the Harney Valley. Ore
gon's largest level valley. Like nearly
all the large valleys of Central Ore
gon, this Is as level as a floor, and
at the prevailing altitude of 4100 feet.
A very small part of Jt. has been pri
vately owned and operated for live
stock ranches. This is along the rivers.
A great bulk of this level plain is still
Government land, although much of it
has been homesteaded within the last
Ave years. It is only a matter of time
before the Harney Valley will be pro
ducing millions of bushels of the finest
wheat annually. The railroads are on
the way there, and when they come
another empire .will have been added to
the productive area of our state.
William Hanley, president of the
Central Oregon Development League,
Is an uncrowned king, although only
a small part of his holdings are in the
Harney Valley proper, most of his
acreage being in smaller valleys which
are tributary to it. No motorist should
leave the Harney country without vis
iting several of the Hanley ranches.
Each one Is a principality, and each
one extends a hearty welcome to the
visitor.
v P" Ranch Is Historic.
The largest of the ranches Is that
founded by old Peter French and called
by him the P . Rancn.- rrencn was
assassinated by a homesteader, but be
fore he was shot down he had accu
mulated over 150,000 acres of meadow
land, green the year round, and the key
to millions of acres of grazing lands in
the nearby hills. This enormous hold
ing with its fine buildings, many of
them designed like stately old man
sions of the South, was acquired from
th. French estate by Mr. Hanley, who.
prior to that time, had been the second
largest land owner in Central Oregon,
and he by virtue of his purcnase oe
came Oregon's largest land-owner.
Several days can be spent motoring
arannv thA Hanlev ranches, and on one
of these trips the autolst should visit
the summit of Warner Mountain. The
road to the summit is by an easy grade
and automobiles can go right to the
brink In fact can go down the steep
grade of the western side. From the
brink of the mountain Is one or. tne
most memorable views of Oregon. The
drop is sheer 2075 feet and below lies
a veritable Inferno, the blue waters
standing out in sharp contrast to the
salt, soda and brimstone deposits.
Comparatively few people have ever
seen this view, probably not over 20
Portlanders have stood at the rim of
this profound abyss. Ultimately this
view will be world-famed, as will many
others of the scenlo features of the
Central Oregon country, too numerous
to mention here.
Except at The Dalles and Klamath
Falls, the sleeping accommodations are
still rather crude. Excellent country
hotels are found at Prinevllle and Bend
and elsewhere throughout Central Ore
gon small hotels are encountered that
really surprise one with their good ac
commodations, considering bow thinly
settled the country is and how far ma
terials of every kind have to be hauled
by team. Many of the ranches take
In "traveling" and everywhere the mot
orist is certain of whole-souled hospi
tality and a cheery evening. The Cen
tral Oregon people appreciate visitors,
perhaps for the reason that they have
so few.
It will not be long before this coun
try is settled up. The time to see it in
the making is now, when so little of
It is occupied and when such vast ex
panses of it are still in the condition it
was left by the vast geological change
which emptied the great lake that once
occupied Central Oregon, its level bed
cut here and there by mountain ranges
now before its face is changed by the
plow, harrow and the abode of man.
Every Portland voter owes it to the
state, bis family, his health, and his
pleasure to visit this great country and
see St before the building of railroads
makes it commonplace.
CHEMICAL PROCESS DOrBTFTJL
Tire Trade Skeptical Regarding Sub
stitute for Rubber.
The recent arrival in the United
States of a German chemist whose con
cern abroad has been working to build
motor tires from rubber produced from
coal tar, calls attention to the attitude
of the American tire trade toward the
synthetic rubber Idea. What the feel
ing is toward the artificial stuff is ex
pressed by Horace de Lisser, of the
Ajax-Grleb Rubber Company.
"In synthetic production of rubber
the knowledge, which scientists have
added to this recurring Industry com
pels great interest," said Mr. de Lisser.
"Not yet. however, has there been as
surance of commercial value from the
standpoint of practical manufacturing,
wearing qualities under the brutal
usage to which tires are subjected and
the reduction of tire costs.
"A long time will be required to
prove these qualities. It must be borne
in mind that it has taken years to build
a good motor car tire from natural
rubber, to say nothing of a chemical
compound."
Legless Man Drives Auto.
The ease and simplicity of operation
of the modern automobile is pertinent
ly Illustrated In the experience of V. E.
Young, of Vallejo. Cal. About a year
ago Mr. Young lost both legs in a rail
road accident, and, being thus inca
pacitated and an enthusiastic motor
ist, he has occupied most of his time
touring the country. His Kissel "40" is
fitted with special levers by which he
can operate the clutch and brake by
hand Mr. Young has recently returned
from a 80-day trip through Southern
California, covering more than 1600
miles and doing the driving himself.
He says be has never failed to control
his car perfectly, .
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$1810,000 ROAD
PROJECT STARTED
New Hiahwavs in California
' Will Be Big Boost for
Good Roads.
RICHEST DISTRICTS TAPPED
Plans of Enormous Road Building
Company in South Call
for Improvement of Pa
cific Highway.
RUN- FRANCISCO. Cal.. Aug. 17
From the midst of figures and blue
prints there are gradually growing into
reality magnificent highways through
out the state of California. With the
turning of the first spadeful of earth
at
San Bruno last week by Burton Towne,
head of the Highway Commission,
actual work on the good roads provided
by the 118,000.000 bond Issue, the much
disoussed perfect highways are becom
ing as real as certain unnamed cow
paths out of San Francisco.
Tha looal motorlnsr Dubllc will appre
elate more than any other group the
advantages to be gained by good roads.
Where, at the present, one must take
his life in his hands and leave the life
of his car to the kind hands of Fate
whenever he wishes to get down the
oanlnsula. after the state highway is
-completed and San Francisco has done
her share, motoring from this city will
be no more of a hardship than leaving
Oakland on the Foothill boulevard.
California's plans for highways carry
out the Ideas of the great Pacific Hlgn
way project, which is to extend from
British Columbia to Mexico City. Join
ing the main highway of Oregon at the
boundary line, tne new roaa wm ieaa
over tHe Siskiyou mountains and down
Into the valley, where the choice of the
east and west side roads can be taken.
The new highway, which will tap all
the rich valley country, win in a large
measure follow existing roads, cutting
out bad turns and building up worn
out patches. From this city the tourist
has the choice of two roads to the
Southland: one out down the peninsula
to San Jose and through Castrovllle
and the Coast road the El Camino
Real; the other by starting from Oak
land, nicking; up. the new State high
way at Nlles, going through Niles can
yon, and on down into the valley
through Fresno and Bakersfleld.
Another territory which up to the
present time has not been taken ad
vantage,of to any extent by motorists
will be opened by the Improved high
way. This Is the territory of the
northern coast counties to Eureka
This road at the present time, while
not a dangerous one to any driver
other than the proverbial fool handler
of a car. Is In rather bad shape, espe
dally along the Russian River, where
a new roadbed will be made cutting
put many of the winding turns and
sharp climbs. This entire distance is
now dotted with surveyors stakes,
which follow in the main the erlglnal
road, but cut off many useless and dan
gerous stretches.
The building of the state highways
will have greater results than the
actual mileage of road completed with
the $18,000,000 bond issue. The new
roads will create a desire for better
highways throughout the Pacific Coast
States. Counties of this state are al
ready planning bond Issues for Improv
ing branch roads. Many of them have
already completed magnificent stretches,
noticeably San Joaquin. which has
roads equal to any in the country. As
a boost for the great Pacific Highway
there Is nothing which can equal the
network of good roads in Callfornla.
The Northern state will follow Cali
fornia's example, and by 1915 the trunk
road from at least the Mexican line to
far into British Columbia will have been
completed.
Automoblllsts, both dealers and own
ers, have been one of the main factors
In bringing about better road condi
tions. By using the state roads where
they were good they have brought
business Into the cities and towns on
that road, and other cities not so fa
vorably situated or so accessible to the
motoring public Immediately set up a
cry for their share of tourist business
and showed their desire by Improving
road conditions.
California Is not alone in the good
road movement. The automobile in
dustry throughout the country has
created a demand for better highways.
and there Is not one state in the Union
whose legislators have not consid
ered or have not settled the question
of Improved state highways.
Powell Made Coast Manager.
W. T. Powell, who has been the
Northwest manager for the Goodyear
company, with headquarters In Port
land, for the past year and a half, has
been promoted to the Pacific Coast
management of the same company. Mr.
Powell's new headquarters will be In
San Francisco. He Is considered one
of the ablest men In the tire business
In the West and his promotion does
not come as a great surprise to the
trade here.
O. C. Learned, of Portland, and a
party of friends left Wednesday morn
ing in an Overland "30" for Tillamook.
A complete camping- outfit was taken
along by the motorists, who planned
to stop at several xavoriie nsning spots
along the road.
tory, or
TESTING IS HARD WORK
AUTOMOBILES PUT THROUGH
SEVERE GRIND.
Bad Boads Sought by Drivers In Ma
chines Gruelling Test Before
Sending Them Away.
rtn motorist who delights in rather
than objects to bad roads is the auto
mobile tester.
There is no more picturesque ngure
i the automobile Industry than the
rnl tester mounted on a stripped
chassis with a frail looking seat. He
speeds along city streets ana ODe"
country roads, the worst he can find,
subjecting his car to all kinds of tests
and tuning it up so that it may leave
the factory in perfect running order.
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from districts where motor-car
manufacturing Is not established, the
men who try out the cars are always a
source of great interest.
rri .,,fAn,AhUa tn thA teffter Is aS
the broncho to the cowboy, and it seems
as thougn tne testers can upon '""
machines to do about as many feats.
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him to una il. j. uv nn
upon bad road conditions.
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that would strike terror to the heart
of the average moionsi. x-uciinsr a car
..n-K thla f nnA of th hardest, feat
ures Jf the test. Through the strip of
seemingly fcottomlesi sand the R-C-H
testers laae tneir cars. iret uiej wm
th inn An hlff-h c& r tro in a
through the entire length without shift
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We also make a complete
and deliberately stop in one of the
worst spots and give the car the task
of pulling out of the sand. At first
the sand flies in clouds. A slip would
mean the landing of the car in a ditch
far below the road level. It is dan
gerous, exciting and strenuous, but it
Is all in. the life of a tester and the
supreme test for a chassis. It Is far
more strenuous than any car would be
called upon to do in anything like or
dinary conditions, but its extremeness
makes it more efficient. Every R-C-H
that goes out must be able to negotiate
this sand strip under all conditions.
Then and not until then Is It given an
O. K., and when the car Is tuned up to
this point and turned In Dy tne roaa
tester, it can be depended upon to ce
liver the goods.
OREGOX ROADS ARE PRAISED
Long State Tour Is JIade In Trans'
Continental National.
Fred Groner'has lust returned from
a trip through Southern Oregon, vis
iting Crater Lake, Klamath Falls and
Medford, and back to The, Dalles by
way of Central Oregon, through Bend
and Burns, In his National. This is
the same car that the Washington
County motorists bought at the Na
tional factory in Indianapolis' and
drove acros the continent to Portland.
Mr. vGroner declares the roads are
In fairly good condition for the most
part. He met scores of parties out
for a vacation in motor cars. He found
no roads that gave him serious trouble
and the drivers he talked to along the
route had few complaints to make.
Anto Men Visit Portland.
Among the automobile men who vis
ited Portland during the past week
were W. C. Garbe, of Seattle; Harry
Doherty, of Tacoma, and G. C. Nicholls,
of Spokane, agents for the Studebaker
Corporation. These gentlemen were in
conference Tuesday with A. H. Brown,
Northwestern manager of the abovef
named company, planning the Fall
campaign for selling E. M. F. and
Flanders cars.
r.amt tn, on the British railwav. onlv
one passenger was Injured, out of every 480.
000 carried; but of the employes one was
Injured out of every 1680. In other words,
the employe has 6000 chances of losing his
life to the passenger's one chance.
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OLD AUTO NAMES GO
STUDEBAKER COMPANY DROPS
"FLANDERS" AND "E. M. F."
All Motor Cars Made In Plants of
Detroit Corporation Now La
belled "Studebaker."
To change, by one bold stroke, the
name under which is annually marketed
a product valued at $50,000,000, Is a
feat of daring new to Industrial his
tory. Yet it nas Just been performed
by the Studebaker Corporation, or De
troit, which has sent notice to Its deal
ers all over the country that. In the
future, all the motor cars built at its
mammonth Detroit plants will be
known as "Studebaker" cars.
The change went Into effect with the
opening of the current month. A big
battery of machine tools is now en
gaged in turning out the Initial lot
of 100,000 "Studebaker" script radi
ator name plates, which will replace
those at present In use, not only on
the cars now being marketed, but also
on all cars sold by the Studebakers and
their predecessors, the E-M-F Company,
which was merged into the Studebaker
Corporation some time ago. As soon
as' It is possible to supply the mono
grams to Studebaker dealers all cars
now In use will be equipped with them.
The change though startling, Is
thoroughly logical. Since the beginning
of the automobile plants around which
the present Studebaker system has been
built, members of the Studebaker fam
ily have been heavy stockholders. Two
years ago they acquired a controlling
Interest. The automobile plants are
now owned outright by the Studebaker
Corporation. Practically all the cars
built have been sold through the Stude
baker branches. Studebaker policies
have dominated the- firm for the past
two years.
With this condition In evidence It
seemed to the executives of the corpora
tion, as well as to its dealers, that the
change was not only advisable but vir
tually essential.
'From some points of view we re
gret the passing of the old E-M-F '30' j
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and Flanders '20' radiator monograms,
said A. H. Brown, head of the North
west division. In discussing the change.
"A desire for uniformity Is, however,
very strong among dealers. They all
feel, too, that there is a marked ad
vantage in the old trademark that haa
been borne by the poods made by th
Studebakers for three generations
These conditions, and the fact that the
old monograms had long ago lost their
personal signlfcance, are the real rea
sons for the change according to which
every car the company makes and havg
made will boar the Studebaker name
henceforth."
As the result of many years of experi
menting In England a new substitute for
hard rubber, gutta-percha and leather liai
been announced. It Is a product of sea
weed. The new material is said to be es
pecially useful in the electrical Industries,
being a non-inflammable Insulation of hlgl;
dielectric strength, proof against heat, cold,
oils and weather.
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