THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN', PORTLAND, JANUARY 21, 1917. CARS OF MODERATE PRICE ARE SURE TO INTEREST MANY Automobiles. Priced at $750 to $1000 Each to Hare Prominent Place in - Forthcoming Display. A CERTAIN percentage of those who visit the coming Portland auto mobile show will be interested particularly in cars that sell here tor less than $1000 and for more than $750. All of these cars, together with the few makes selling for less than $750. will be placed together In the ball room on the second floor ,- of the Armnrv where the purchaser of ' the so-called low-priced car cart wander to his heart's content without .having his gaze stolen by the lure of a $5000 rig alongside. The pocket-book holding between $750 and $1000 can find Investment In a wide range and variety of automo biles. The Overland model 90 sells for $755 at the Portland branch, while the country club model runs to $840 and the Overland model 85, four cylin der, to $965. Next to the little Overland come the Briscoe roadster and touring cars and the Buick four-cylinder roadster, which sell at the Portland branches of the Pacific KisselKar Branch and the Howard Auto Company, respectively, at $785. The Dort Is being sold these days at the Northwest Auto Company for $795, the little Buick touring car sells under the new price quotations at $800. All of the Dodge models except the sedan bring $880 at the Covey Motor Car Company. The Scripps-Booth road ster, bandied by the raiy auio com pany, and the Grant Six, sold through the Manley Auto Company, each bring $925 In Portland. The six cylinder Oakland now sells here at $975. the six-cylinder Saxon roadsters and tourlns cars at $980 while the Northwest Auto Company gets $995 for each Reo "four" touring car sold at retail. OVERLAND. Overland Pacific Co. 11 ranch. Of course the most recent Over land announcement Is the price change which has Just gone Into effect. . The new series la characterized particu larly by a larger motor with 3-in. bore and 5-in. stroke which is claimed to develop 31 Vi hp. at 1915 r. p. m. and to have a speed of from 2Vi to 63 m. D. h. Another feature of the car Is that It Is equipped with 4-inch tires. It has cantilever suspension, two-unit, six volt starting and lighting and the body is now fitted with a one-piece cowl which slopes back in a graceful curve. The new model on this chassis is the club roadster which is a four-passen ger job of rather unique construction The interior is strictly boat-shaped, having a well-rounded back Into which the rear seat is blended. The color of this new car is battleship gray, with upholstery of a delicate gray ...shade. Wire wheels are standard. V BRISCOE. Pacific KisselKar Branch. The 1917 Briscoe Is a very new ear in practically every detail. The body design is particularly interesting. Fol lowing the latest practice, it has a high narrow radiator and a sloping hood and body. There Is no transitory curve where the hood joins the body. The slanted windshield gives an added touch to the appearance of speed and power. The motor has a comparative ly long stroke, having a strdke-bore ratio which is somewhat greater than the average. Drive of the generator Is unusual, as It is from the read end of the cam shaft through gear connections. The clutch also varies from average prac tica principally in the fact that It Is of the Inverted type, that Instead of pulling back from the motor to release, it Is shoved toward the cylinders. It Is the leathers-faced cone type. In the clover-leaf model there Is an upholstered door between the. divided front seats which closes the rear compartment off or opens the alsleway as one wishes. rnonrcTs of" nine auto fac tories COST 75 A I) SIOOO IN PORTLAND. The cars which mar be pur chased in Portland automobile stores "at prices ranging from $750 to $1000 are as follows: ' Overland. Model 90 $ 755 Briscoe, roadster and touring 785 Buick, four-cylinder roadster . 785 Dort, standard model 795 Buick, four-cylinder touring 800 Overland, country club model 840 Dodge, all models except sedan 880 Scripps-Booth roadster 925 Grant Six, standard model.. 925 Overland, model 85. four cylinder ................. 965 Oakland, six-cylinder 975 . Saxon, six-cylinder roadster and touring 980 Reo, four-cylinder standard. 995 41 make It a better ear. A Wagner two- unit starting and lighting system re places the single-unit type and Remy ignition is fitted in place of that used in 1916 production. Stromberg car buretion gets a place along with a change in the fuel system from the cowl tank to a reservoir at the rear. from which gasoline is drawn by Stew art vacuum feed. The bodies are quite changed. The radiator is rather high and unusually narrow, and there is a boat-like sweep from thisrto the back of the rear seats. Grant has entered the lnclosed.-car field with a convertible sedan and convertible coupe. In all bodies particular attention has been paid to roominess and . provision for the comfort of the passengers. BUICK. SCRIPPS-BOOTH. Braly Auto Co. The four-cylinder Scripps-Booth run about is unchanged. Except for a few refinements, the new model is Identi cal with the original car of this type brought out two years ago. '' One of the mechanical features or this high-grade small car is the easy adjustment of the Inclosed overhead valves. This Is accomplished by turn ing a nut protruding through the top of the cover plate after the oil cap has been removed. Consequently, the valve may be adjusted while the motor Is running. , OAKLAND. Oakland Sales Co. The most recent announcement con cerning the Oakland model 34 Is a price Increase. The car differs considerably from the model 82, although the over head-valve-slx motor is retained with but very, few changes. Probably the greatest improvement Is In the body, which is much roomier than heretofore. Another attractive alteration Is found In the new semi-elliptic rear spring suspension, replacing the three-quarter elliptic in the previous model. The springs are now underslung and are carried low under the frame hy special hangings, so that they He very nearly flat when the car is under load, a feature which Is characterizing great many new models. . Delco light ing, starting and Ignition la. used in the same form as It was on the later model 82s, which replaced the other make used on a large number of the early model 32s. To give an Idea of the roominess of the new body, the front seats are 42 Inches and the rear seats 46 inches wide inside the upholstery. In the rear compartment there is a space of 46 Inches from the back of the front seat to the front of the rear seat back. v SAXON. Howard Auto Co. After a few seasons of sixes only. Buick -again has gone back to the light-weight four. This new car fol lows characteristic Buick designs throughout with perhaps more altera tions In the motor than elsewhere, al though that unit is a valve-ln-the-head type, as are all power plants of this make. In Its general lines, especially the ra diator, the new car Is typically Buick. It has a wheelbase of 106 inches and there is plenty of room for live passen gers. opecincauons or interest are pump cooiing, marvel carburetor in conjunc tlon with rear tank and Stewart vacuum feed. Delco starting, lighting and Ignition, cone clutch, three-speed gearset in unit with the engine, drive Bnait inclosed within a torsion tube, three-quarter floating axle, semi-elliptic springs both front and rear and 31 by 4-inch : non-skid tires all around. This Is the first Buick motor in which the cylinder, head is detachable as a unit with the valves. Ir the design of th cylinder head special provision has been made for proper cooling of the valves, the water passages sur- rounoing the pockets being of good Saxon Sales A Service Co. The new Saxon six is a decidedly better looking car than Its predeces Bor, although that car was a most at tractive vehicle. It has a somewhat altered body line to bring it Into ac cord with present-day body fashions, the stralgl-t-llne effect being well car ried out. The body Is 4 inches longer, wider and in every way more size. DORT. Northwest Auto Co. There have been no changes in the Dort models which were announced for 1916 production. It is not the Inten tion of this company - to bring out yearly -models, but simply to add from time to time such changes as are con sidered advisable or to the best In terests of its customers. The car is a conventional fouf-cvlinder nnHm nt light weight and has economy as one of Its leading talking points. In bodies there' are three new styles, the sedan, the sedanet and the fleur-de-lys roadster. The Inclosed models, which, of course, sell for more than the. standard vehicle, are striking in design, having rain-vision windshields, divided front .seats and a complete closed-car equipment. AKRON PRODUCED 11,522,650 TIRES IX 1916. More than 11.522,650 tires marked the total production from Akron for 3916. Business . for the year amounted to $203. 100.000. an increase- of 65 per cent over the preceding year. Some Idea of the vastness of the industry may be had from the fact that 158,315 freight cars are necessary to carry the year's production to the various desti nations. - The city, which In 1910 had a population of only 69,000. now has 51,150 people employed in rubber manufacture. Floor space covering 88 acres and machinery costing more than $2,500,000 were added In 1916, and 12.005.000 square feet of floor space are now devoted to the rubber in dustry. The present capacity allows a daily output of 54.000 tires 19.837,750 for 12 months. This is approximately equal to existing demand, and it is a safe prediction to state that Akron will manufacture more than 20.000,000 tires in 1917. DODGE. Covey Motor Car Co. Although Dodge does not announce yearly models, a number of changes have appeared in these cars within ih. last two or three months. Notable among these are the addition of a con vertible sedan of a type which permits lowering of the windows for Summer driving. Changes in mechanical parts of the car are in the installation of a multiple-disk clutch in place of a cone clutch and spiral-bevel gears In the rear axle In place of straight bevels. The brake arums have been Increased in size, slanting Another change is found In single wir-' jer ano ids i" ma starting system instead or double wiring. This affects the start ing svstem onlv. I car, roomy, and has a slanting windshield and new style crown fenders, makin Its body lines modern to the highest degree. In addition to greater comfort, due to softer and deeper cushions, new cantilever springs are fitted, which are the full instead of the half -cantilever type. These new springs -are 41 incnes long, which, contrasted with those In the previous model, which were of 30-inch length, shows one that the riding qualities are considerably improved. Several changes are to be found the motor, perhaps the most important of which is the Increasing of the size of the crankshalt. li 3 ViuiiitiuinumsHiiiuiiiHnn H IN. S ml 1 Jr son. b (? - A '"fl fciiJI Ol ILliJi MOOT .ROW TTv : p 7 if s A . S " - f . -k x - . ' r Tilth T lnlTTlia f 1 X'&iw&.-tf'S i IwYitwyi'iW.Ti The largest-selling front-rank car Holder of all worth-while records The pride of 25,000 owners, mastersof the road The bestv performer, in all respects, that the world has ever known Winner of the Pike's Peak hill climb Breaker of the 24-hour endurance record by 52 per cent 1 Twice the breaker of all ocean-to-ocean records in one 7000-mile round trip Solver of the problem of motor vibration Reducing wear and friction to almost nil Adding 80 per cent to motor efficiency by one epoch-making invention That isj to power and endurance The car that stopped4 the trend toward Eights and Twelves when the Six limita- tions- proved disappointing. - The car which, through its patented motor, gave the ruling place to the Super-' Six - The smoothest-running motor built i 1 The most powerful, size considered Possessor of the only supreme feature which one maker has ever controlled The Jiandsomest car, the most luxurious car that modern skill can create In eight beautiful open and closed -body types. Show. It was then as now the Now it appears with all the chief A year ago the Hudson Super-Six made its debut at the center of attraction., But then as an unproved stranger. laurels of Motordom. As conceded ruler of the finer-car field. As the one car for men who take pride in the best car. As the only permanent type on exhibit." VHUDSONf HUDSON MOTOR CAR COMPANY, DETROIT, MICHIGAN Boss & Peake Automobile Co. 615-617 Washington Street 3C In REO. Northwest Auto Co. Reo Is continuing Its four for an other season with a few changes. There Is a new stralgnt-llne body with a windshield. The body Is room more luxuriously upholstered than the previous one. In fact, the a whole. Is a much more com The BDnearanca nt th na. v, . tx fortable one for the passengers. . Improved by a height increase of two i Throughout the chassis no changes inches In the radiator and hood. There 1 of importance will be noted. Here and Is now a mud apron on the front, and there little details have been altered, the, front renders hnv hv imnrnuH : More forgings are used than horeto- th.R. timr t.rx.H i fore, these being used In the AUTO INDUSTRY GROWS OEEG05 NOW HAS APPROXIMATELY 23 PUBLIC GARAGES. sheet steeL. -X GRANT. Manley Auto Co. Although the most noticeable change over the previous Grant six Is in the body lines, there are a number of me chanical improvements that help to spring hangers. The new springs adopted are the patented Marshall type. The Ray field carburetor has been adopted. The Reo might rightly be termed the 50 per cent oversize car. In every part where a strain is heavy there is oversize construction. An example of this is in the spokes, which have a section about B0 per cent greater than is ordinarily used. Aggrek-ate Value of Investments 1 Garages Repair Shops In State la 34,330. From the standpoint of labor proba bly no other single Industry in-the state has made such, rapid progress within the past few years as the auto mobile. There are approximately 250 public automobile garages and repair shops in Oregon. A careful tabulation of data from statistical reports re ceived from these institutions shows that the aggregate value of invest ments involved in machinery, equip ment, etc, is $54S.530. During the past report year, ending September 30. 1916. these garages, re pair and assembling plants gave em- world. ployment to a total-of 258 skilled and 252 unskilled laborers and a combined office force of 90 male and female clerks and stenographers, and paid out in wages and salaries an aggregate of 677,938. of which amount $84,894 was paid to the office help alone. The range in wages to skilled laoor was from S3, the lowest, to $7.28, the highest, per day. or an average of $4.25. while the range In wages paid to un skilled labor was from $1.50 to $3.60 per day. or an average of $2.25.. The total amount of power utilized in the operation of the plants was 685.! S horsepower, of which 569 was electric, 101 gasoline and IS water power. The figures given above do not In clude the amount of investments in volved in automobile transfer, livery or taxicab companies or institutions, nor the wares Dald to drivers of trucks. chauffeurs, etc., 6f which reliable data are not available. MOTOR GAR EDUCATES HIGHWAYS IHFROTED WHERE ALTOS ARE COMMON, Purifying the air by chemical means, a German Kiventor says he has per fected a diving suit which permits man to remain under water tor hours without connection with the upper More ProsTreas for Goo4 Roads Is Made In lsl Tnaa In All Rest of Bls. , tory of Country. Perhaps not one motorist tn 50 real izes that the year Just closed has seen the greatest single accomplishment In the cause of good roads since the Revo lutionary War. When President Wilson on July 11 placed his signature to the Bankuead Shackleford good roads bill $85,000,000 of Federal funds and a like amount to come from the various state treasuries was dedicated to the cause of better American highways. This means that for the next five years $34,000,000 will be spent annually tn making the road system -of the United States comparable or superior to the .present fine roads of Europe. No more splendid tribute to the edu cational value of the automobile could be paaid than this action on the part of Congress. Cntil the coming of the mo tor car the good roads issue possessed little vitality. For 75, years the Gov ernment has exercised a passive policy toward building permanent highways. Railroads pushed into virgin territory, cities sprang up along the right of way, but the rural arteries of travel re mained In the same hopeless condition as when the pioneers ploughed through thera afoot or on horseback. ' With the first motor cars cam the first feeble Impulse to the good roads movement. The first cars were sold to city men. who very quickly found out that where city pavements ended there ended all hopes of further travel. Pneumatic tires availed nothing against tracklets stretches of gumbo mud or corduroy roads. To promote the Industrial and techni cal utilization of alcohol the Russian ministry of finance has offered prizes totaling shout $136,000 for the best in ventions in this respect. AUTO WHEELS and BODIES BUILT A5D REPAIRED. HIan Grade Work Specialty Raymond Auto Body and Wheel Works , S4 Flrteeatn Street North. Phoae Mala S . . ,