THE SUNDAY OIIEC. OXIA, rOITTLAXD, JJTSS 21.- 1917.
OREGON ROADS HOW
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System on Main Roads Felt
Keenly by Tourists.
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Jtalph J. Staebll Makes Trip to Cali
fornia Iiine ' and Return and
Talks Entertainingly About
' . Pleasures and Troubles.
r XVith countless numbers of machines
traveling In every direction over Ore
ton roads there still is lacking- an ade
quate marking system of even tbe main
foads, and travelers from north to south
or east to west still have difficulty In
finding their way across the state. The
Oregon State Motor Association Is now
about to take up the work- How badly
it is needed was demonstrated by a trip
undertaken from Portland to the Cali
fornia line last week.
Ralph J. Staehli made the trip by
way of the West Side Highway to
Falem. thence to Albany on the East
SMe and back to Corvallis, Junction
City and Eugene. From Portland to
about a mile this side of Wheatland
the road is fairly well marked, but at
a. cross road there, two very good
roads, which from general directions
might lead to Salem, are unmarked.
Neither is the fact that there is no
bridge to Salem and no ferry after $
I. M. placarded.
The same condition prevails beyond
Corvallis. In fact the road from Cor
Vallis to Eugene is practically un
marked, and if you happen to get there
after the farmers have gone to bed,
the chances of the stranger getting to
Eugene or vice versa are rather elLm.
Roads Not at Their Beat.
Roads for the most part are now
the best they will be at any time of
the year. The road from Portland to
Salem over the West Side Highway,
however, is very rough, Mr. Staehli
reports. Between Rex, Tigard and
Newberg he says great deep ruts al
most defy the most valiant of cars, and
until repairs of some sort are made the
East Side Highway will undoubtedly
be the one which will carry most of
the travel down the Willamette Valley.
From Eugene to within a few miles
of Cottage Grove the' road is now dried
out thoroughly, and a rain would only
settle the surface which has practically
all of the heavy ruts ironed out.
Pass Creek Canyon is really in good
driving shape. Much of it has been
regraded and surfaced with macadam
so that this part of the road can be
expected to stay in good condition the
whole season through. However, it is
very narrow still, and slow travel will
be the rule through all the mountain
roads between Eugene and Grants Pass.
The other -terror of the earlier days
In now in splendid shape. Cow Creek
Canyon is now a slightly rising grade,
mot as broad as it .might be, but wide
enough for two machines' to pass at
almost any point. Its construction will
fit in splendidly with the greater plans
of the State Highway Commission. The
descent on the southern side of the
mountains Is still steep and good
brakes on a car are a- requisite before
tackling the journey through the
southern ' part of the state. -
Condition Are Surprising.
Everywhere conditions are surpris
ing, it is said, for considering the rains
that have gummed up northern roads
for weeks back mud in some of the
shady roads -would not have been sur
prising. There is said to be not a soft
pot between Portland and the Cali
fornia line.
Douglas and Jackson counties have
Tiot had a drop of rain in a month, so
these roads also are excellent. How
Jackson is developing its road system
Is a constant marvel to the tourists
on their way north. To most of them
their mental picture places the limit
of trouble right at the California line.
This first touch of Oregon at least
starts them off through the state in
good humor and high hopes, almost
enough to carry thorn over the rough
parts without complaint.
Judging from the popularity which
the camping grounds at all these places
enjoy Portland might do well to stake
out a place and let the auto traveler
tie up his car and lay out his tent
somewhere in the city.
Jlr. Staehli reached Roseburg just as
the cars of the travelers were being
rolled under the trees and the baggage
being unstrapped from on top. under
neath and all the places where the
modern auto carries the chattels of
the family. Seventeen cars were get
ting ready to spend the night there
on the banks of the stream which runs
across the northern side of the town,
Ashlnnd'a Campground Popular.
Most popular is Ashland's Lithia
Tark campground, which is so inviting
that some motorists take a lew days
off there and stake out a place for a
week- The park is still being developed
and for the big celehration on July 4
will .have a great Chautauqua Hall
modeled after the great tabernacle at
Salt Lake City.
Mr. Staehli drove a Reo Four, and
while the car was not tuned for a
special run it established a gasoline
average of 17 miles to the gallon over
mountains and all, and probably would
have done better than that had not a
minor accident to the petcock under
tho tank suddenly dropped alL of the
precious fluid in the road miles from
anybody having any or tne -motor-go.
The road to Crater Lake is expected
to be open shortly, and at Lithia Park
in Ashland several parties are spend
ing the time until they can go through
to the lake. The travel from California
is heavier than it has ever been at this
time, and tday there are more cars
In Oregon from that state than came
through to July la last year.
DIXXEIt SERVICE DISCOXTES UE1
Motor Association Will Serro Only
Lunches at Clubhouse.
The following self-explanatory no
tice was issued last week by th
directors of the Oregon State Motor
Association to all association members
"After June 30 the dinner service at
the clubhouse will be discontinued an
only cold meats, salads and sandwiches,
wltn hot and cold drinks, will be
served.
"However. arrangements may b
mads at the office for special dinner
parties of not less than 30 peocle.
"This decision was reached after
careful deliberation and was brought
about by the excessively high cost of
food stuffs, which makes it necessary
to either advance the dinner price to $
or to operate at a considerable loss.
"Your directors feel that it would not
be wise to advance the price of dinners
at this time, and they feel confident
that the members of this association
will appreciate their efforts in tryln
to carry the association through these
trying umca as economically as posel
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EE ODGERS $100 RICHER
ECONOMY TEST OV MAXWELL CAR
HANDSOMELY REWARDED.
Old customers are coming in entHusiastic aHout;
Chandler Six performance and dependableness:
These same facts, repeated from friend to friend;
have caused the oversale of our allotment: A
few cars we have to be sold at the old price until
Uune 30, $1545, Portland. ;
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Gerlinger Motor Car Company
75 Broadway, Portland, Or.
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Chandler Distributors.
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One Galloa of Gasoline. Wltk Sclem-
tlfie Ilamdllnc Drives Automobile
Over 30.4 Mile of Highway
Thanks.to the fact that he managed
to send a Maxwell car over 39.4 miles
of road on a measured gallon of gaso
line, Lee Odgers, a member of 'the
sales force of the C. Lw Boss Automo
bile Company, Maxwell distributors in
the Portland field, is now JIO'J richer
than he was a week ago.
Mr. Bosit last week received an
nouncement from the Maxwell Motors
Company that the Portland car had
won fourth place in the second class or
the National Maxwell economy proof
test and that it ranked fourteenth
among the 892 cars in the entire coun
try. Accompanying the announcement
was a check for $100, which was
awarded with congratulations and best
wishes.
True to his promise In advance of
the contest that whatever prize money
might be won by the Portland car
would be turned over to the driver and
the boys responsible for the victory,
Mr. Boss has turned the $100 over to
Mr. Odgers.
Inspired by the success of the econ
omy test on May 23, the officials of
the Maxwell factory are now conduct-
ng a J50.000 owners' contest. The BOO
Maxwell owners who make the best
ileage on one gallon of gasoline are
to receive 125,000 in Government lib
erty bonds... The other half .of the
$50,000 bonds Is to go to dealers assist
ing in the big competition.
New Car Owners in. County.
THE daily reports of M- O. wllkins,
publisher of the Automobile Rec
ord, show that the following temporary
police permits were issued last week
to the purchasers of new automobiles
pending the arrival of the official state
license tags from the office of Secretary
of State Olcott: .
Horace Mecklem, 6T0 Schuyler, Bulck. '
A. L. I-ambert, Oregon City. Or., Saxon.
Associated Oil Company. Portland. Or..
Dortge.
B. Douthlt. 4920 Thirty-third street feoum-
east, Chevrolet. -
T. C. Walch. 1470 East Morrison, Max
well.
('. S. Brereton, S..3 Kverett, Saxon.
F. Laukat. 1 Going street. Saxon.
R. W. Oreweiler, 640 East Fourteenth
street. Oldsinohile.
Apperson Motor Car Company. Portland,
Or.. Apperson.
T. R. Rostum. Portland Fish Company,
Maxwell.
Mrs. William Martin. 37 East Forty-
seventh street. Chevrolet.
R. T. Lung Company. 25 Korth Fifth.
Ford.
K. -J.- Clay. Gold.nda.le. Wash.. Briscoe.
M. O. " W.tion. 2078 East Stark. Ford.
Thomas' .J. Marty, 167, King street. Snon,
Virginia Hampton. 612 East Twentv-sec-
ond street, Velle.
Mrs. F. H. Perry. 704 tovejoy. Dodge.
C. H Parvin. 342 Eaat Fortv-thtrd .tr..t
Dodge. -
Pearson Company. Portland. Or- Etude-
baker, i
W. 15. Bohle, Lebanon, Or., Chandler.
United States Rubber Company. Portland.
Or.. Dodge.
S. 11. Webb. Multnomah Hotel. Bulck.
lr. V. H. Brook. 67 Third street. Paige.
C. E. Grove, Morgan building. Cole.
S. -H. Moaierway. 776 Quimby, Dodge.
H. G. Sonnennan. 3? 7 East Burnslds,
Dodge.
R. Genserowskl, 341 Thirteenth. Briscoe.
R D. Crowe. La Grande. Or., Grant.
Mrs. F. A. Nitchy, Crane Company, Cole.
B. F. Lane. Vernonia. Or.. Grant.
Nicolai-Neppach Company. Portland. Or..
Grant.
Trackless Car Company, Portland, Or.,
Studebaker.
A. L. Levy. 274 North Twen,ty-fifth street.
Studebaker.
V. V. Mlkls, 489 East Fortieth .street.
Maxwell.
George C. Flanders, 5S1 Hawthorne, Cadil
lac. Dr. O. W. Mark. City Hall, Paige.
Airs. Eva Pointer. Byron -Hotel. Sftxoa.
Joi Emstad. Scappoose. Or., Maxwell.
Emery Olmstead. Korthwest National
Bank building, Packard.
' w. Keeby. Northwest Steel Company,
Dodge. -
F. -Senate. 104 .Tarrett. Overland. J
J. C. Hughes. 341 Sherman, Bulck.
F. W. Wappat. Maplewood. Or., Ford.
. H. A. Bates. 273 First. Maxwell.
J. M. Johnson, Rasmusaen 4k Co., Chand
ler. -
R. H. Chapman, Lower Bridge. Overland.
T. I.. Smith. Arlington. Or.. Overland.
K.N F. Vosburgh, Enterprise. Or.. Ford.
W. A. I-eng. Oregon City. Or., Hudson.'
A. R. Palmer, Olds, Wortman & King,
Case, t
J. r!hu11, 745 Thompson. Pierce.
A. M. Sherwood. 91 East Salmon, Bulck.
E. J. Squires, Eaat Sixtieth and Gllaan,
Overland.
K. -K. Ayer, St. Johns Lumber Company,
Bulck.
S. R. King. Spalding building. Bulck.
H. B. Walker. 415 Tenth street. Bulck.
Portland Trackless Car Company, Port
land, Studebaker.
E. P. Piatt. c:M .Clifton, Bulck.
F. E. Dooley. Hlbernia- Bank. Bulck.
c M. Harrison. 328 Pine, Chandler.
W. Y. Gray. McMlnnvllle. Or.. Chandler.
J. G. Richardson- Multnomah Hotel, Dodge.
C. Seeberger, b-- Hamblet avenue. Dodge.
M. Standifer, Northwest Bank building.
Dod ge.
D. A. Doty, 24 Eaat Twenty-fourth, Ford.
Charles E. Heltkemper, Uii East Gliian,
Chevrolet.
C B. Johnson, 579 Linn avenue, Dort.
Mrs. E. M. Smith. 817 Pettygrove. Hud
son. A. B. Clavton. 612 Lexington, Chevrolet.
Mrs. J. D. Stevenson, 678 East Sixty
fourth. Cole.
T. H. Grove, Oresham. Or.. Chevrolet.
E. A. Chrlstenson. Madras, Or., Overland.
A. B. Kramor. 7'tn Irving. Ford.
R. S. McKinley. Journal building. Over
land. H. H. Bradshaw, 0.-W. RAN. Company,
Dodge.
F. J. Hlssey, C69H Linn avenue. Chev
rolet.
. M. J. Maddox. GarlbaMI. Or.. Chevrolet.
P. Anderson. 4r04 Fifty-second street.
Southeast. Chevrolet.
H. c. Ulrica. Lents. Or., Boute S, Chev
rolet.
W. H. Blber. 068 Hawthorne. Ford.
H. F. Taah. Heppner. Or.. Knight.
C. Beckwith. Buckeye roomlng-housa. Max
well.
Marlon Butler. OOtA Fifth. Brute oe. -
K. P. Evans, 26 North Second street.
Dodge.
Western Transfer Company, Portland, Or.,
Dodge.
H. A. Clodfetter, Park and Davis. Stude
baker. .
Edna Sherrlll, M. D 549 Plttock block.
Marr Frlsby. McMlnnvllle. Or.. Hudson.
J. B. Kramer. 1312 East Eighteenth,
Chevrolet.
J. D. Mitchell. Burnslde dock. Chandler.
J. A. Prouty. 702 Seventh street. Chandler.
H. W. Kaupisch, Twentieth and Salmon,
Chandler.
M. A. Darland, 116 West Webster, Chev
rolet. M. E. Hart. 769 Third street. Grant.
C. V. Smock, 107 East " Thirty-seventh
street. Paige.
Pacific Auto Accessory Company, Port
land, Or.. Overland.
llt H. Jenkins. 12S0 Macadam. Oakland.
CRATER IiAKE SOOS ACCESSIBLE
Route Over Slskiyou Now Traveled
by Hundreds.
MEDFORD, Or., June 23. (Special.)
The recent , warm and dry weather
has placed the Crater Lake road in
such condition that the first trip to
the lake will probably be made the
first week in July. Several cars have
been as far as Union and Whisky
creelee. the last ten days, and it is
possible to get to Arant's camp, five
miles from the rim. but beyond that
the roads are at present impassable.
The first portion of the trip, from Med-
ford to Trail is still rather heavy go
ing. but work on the road is promised
in time for the Summer travel.
Hundreds of cars are going over the
Siskiyous every week now, the slides
have been cleared away and a crew of
men is putting the road in splendid con
dition. From Central Point to the
summit of the Siskiyous there is
permanent paved highway except for
a few miles south of Ashland, and cars
can negotiate the trip through the
Rogue River Valley to California with
out the slightest difficulty. Tiw worn
on the Ashland hill cut-off will start
in a few days and State Highway En
gineer Nunn has a crew of men work
ingon the southern slope of the Sis
klyous. which insures easy travel
throueh the Summer.
Kroin Medford to GoldHlll the road
is excellent as far as Central Point and
is fair to good from Central Point
through Oold Hill to the Josephine
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roads in six widely different regions of our country.
,'Sand, rock and gravel, and every
1 freak of climate are testing out
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miles of roughing it.
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Broadway at Burnside St. Phones Broadway- 850, A 6505
Tn Owe It it Mro at th Frost for Yon.
Jom tke Rest Crosa Give lour LCsaost Mow.
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made all the dirt roads very dusty.
however, and until there Is a break In
the balmy weather the pleasure of
travel off the permanent highway will
be somewhat affected.
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Well-Known Racine Di-Irer Is TTsing
Saxon on Second Trip.
"Eddie" OTonnI1. one of the best-
known racing- drivers In the country, is
now makine hi nwnnd trip across th
country, drlvlnj? a Mitchell Six, with
one arm in a elingr, according to infor
mation received last week by 11. S.
RodebnuKh, who has charge of the au
tomobile department of Mitchell. Lewis
& Staver Company. Oregon dealers in
the Mitchell. ' i
O'Donnell has not fully recovered
from the accident sustained at the Kan
sas City speedway race July 22 last,
when the plucky driver and his mech
anician went through a fence and hur
tled a 12-foot embankment.
Although the accident dates back al
most a year. O'Donnell's broken arm
hn been "Flow in henltng. He nlnn.
however, to have it removed from the
sling in another aeven weeks.
If, by that time, the arm should he
sufficiently strong to warrant his re- .
turn to the racetrack. It is probable he
will be seen in action in charge of tho
Duesenburg racing team.
It Is possible that O'Donrtell may de
sert the racetrack to join the aviation
corps, provided he is assured of being
sent to France and. given an oppor
tunity to ee active service.
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