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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1918)
,TUE SUA DAY OREGOXIAX. POItTLAXD, 1 Eli It LAKY 3. 191S. 14 HIGHWAY POLICY IS I0L0 BY CHAIRMAN S. Benson Reviews Work of Commission in Giving Ore . gon Better Roads. TRUNK LINES COME FIRST In SlMtrt rrrtod of Il KxlMrncc, Male Highway Cummlloa 'lias Alrradj Accomplished Mot Important Achlrrrmrnts. BT S. BENrfO.V Caatrniaa Orion jtt Highway Com' The highway department of the sate of Oregon wu created by the Legislature of 191. the law Vecomtna; effective in Juno of tha' year. The law creatine the highway commtHioB designated the Cotemor, Secretary or State and State Treasur er as members. These officials. In ad dition to the duties of thetr respective of fir, serve as a board of control, prac tically administering the affairs of the tale, serve on IS different boards or romnussion. rendering tt physically Impossible to cue hUhway develop ment the attention tt merited. The law lo provided that tha de partment should have at its disposal the amount raised by a one-quarter-mill tax on each dollar of assessable property In the state. The average amount netted from this source la ap proximately 1220.000. With an id-a of extending Us use fulness and realising the Importance of road and highway development, the commissioners appointed Sw Benson, of Portland: Leslie Butler, of Hood River, and J. 1L Albert, of ha.em. as an ad visory board, hoping that the members would give the Important subject their personal attention and all contemplat ed construction and improvement per sonal supervision. aWglaalag Mad la 113. During the Summer of IMi the ad Vlsory board traversed the state, seek ing to ascertain the. wants and needs of various sections. At every point the board was met by the residents tf the community and county officials, all seeking aid fur the Improvement of their higher. It waa simply Impossible, with the limited funds at the duposal of the commission, hardly to make a begin- I rung in this great work. treat i stretches of imputable roads, such as 1 Cow Creek and Pass Canyons, Wolf and Roberts Kill, on the Pacific High way, the entir stretch from The Iallee to the luttnomah County line on the Columbia Kiver Highwet, the relocation and 'alignment of the Central Oregon Highway from fiend to Klamath Kail any one of these projects would require more than the annual amount the commission was supposed to spnd all over the state. The advent of the auto vehicle had revolution tsd the construction of roads. The old dirt and macadam roads no ledger would stand the strain f traffic and the cost of maintenance bad reached a prohibitive totnt. A an fronnmii n--lt it wa evt I LIST OF EXHIBITORS AT PORTLAND AUTOMOBILE SHOW. PA.KX.KK t All. Km Mfcl tar. Mmhr ! C ar. JApp. ron Motor -r Co. Apprron ". L Hum Auto Co Hudion and Maxwell Ursly .AutoCo Franklin J llrunn Motor Car Co. Ix-xincton iCook l-.IU Pair Cnv.jr Motor Car Co. Cadillac and Dodg W. H. Ioane Olympian Ford Dalrr Ford jr L.Ollbrt Kluln and Harroun ! Manlvr AutoCo. Hupmobile. National and Grant I Mltrhrll Lrwli Staver MitcheH ! Northwest Anto Co. Marmon. Reo. Dort. ole, Roamer, Stearns . Oldsmobllr Co. of Ors;on Oldsmoblle J Oreaon Motor Car Co Studbaker Overland I'aclfic Co, Inc. Overland and Willys-Knight I'arlftc KlrsclKar Hranrh KlnselKar Plerce-Arrow Pacific Salrs Co Plcrce-Arrow I !lenr Fields Chevrolet . A. i Stevejia Haynea and Wlnton Twin h'tatea Auto Co Chandler W. M.Valllnicford Premier and Liberty I. C. Warren Motor Car Co, '. Velle and Peerless Western Motor Salct Co "Hal" Twelve and Chalmers . MOTOR TRICKS. Rmhlblt.r. Track. Hallou A Wrlaht Smith Form-A C. L. Boss Auto Co Maxwell Camelford Company of Oregon ... .Camclford Attachment J Covey Motor Car Co. Podge . Ford Dealers Ford International Harvester Co International ManleyAutoCo Xelly-Springfleld McCraken Motor Car Co. Moreland Northwent Auto Co Reo. Indiana. Duplex.Bethlehsm I Orea-on Motor Car Co Denby and Studebaker Overland Pacific Co Overland Pacific KisselKar Branch Kissel and Federal Plerce-Arrow Pacific Sa.es Co. . . . Plerce-Arrow Portland Motor Car Co Packard and Nash J Portland Tire Truck Co Master , Roberts Motor Car Co. Republic , I. C Warren Motor Go. Velle Wentworth A Irwin G. M. C. MOTOR TRACTOR. Kmklblt.r. Tractor. Larnmona isidoi irai.-iv.Kuii International Harvester Co Titan and Mogul McNeff Tractor Co Cleveland Nllson Tractor Sales Co. .NIIson i . initn. Pin. Mnl i ne-1 7n 1 vernal ... . - . i , . i r ..mk Wentworth Irwia Samson Western Farquhar-Mach. Co Best. Wallia Cub and Trundaar rs l Warie A- Ca Helder dent that some drastlo measures should bs taken to meet tha requirements of existing conditions, particularly when California, on tha south, and Washina; ton. on tha north, both were committed to policies that were destined to rive each a comprehensive system or im proved highways. Various propositions, opinions and ideas were advanced, one of which was the creation of a non-salaried highway commission and the Issuance of bonds to the amount of $10,000,000. This proposition waa first put forth on .the tour of tha advisory board in ISIS and. while ail were fully cognisant or the necessity for drastic action, the amount and the departure from the rootina of Oregon affairs tended to create ap prehension. The press, however, at once realised the Importance and the necessity lor action and took up me proposition, with the result that the Leclslaure of Il passed what Is known as the highway act. virtually adopting the recommendations of the advisory board. - The law created a hlghwa. commis sion, to be appointed by the Governor, consisting of three eiiembers. one mem ber from each Congressional district, to serve without compensation. In ac cordance with the law. Governor Wlthycombe appointed f. Benson, of Portland: W. L. Thompson, of Pendle ton, and t J. Adams, of Kugene. mem bers of the State Highway Commis sion. The commission held Its first meet ing March and elected sir. Benson chairman. CI KH. ?toe wss appointed secretary and auditor. A month later Herbert L. Nunn waa appointed high way engineer. The Legislature also provided for two bond issues for high way purposes. The first one provided for a bond issue of 11.819,250.55 for co operation with the Federal Government road fund on post and forest road work. This equals the amount which It is expected Oregon is to receive from the Federal Government during the next five years. The second bond Is sue was for $6, 000.000, to be used for general highway purposes, II, 000. 000 to be Issued the first year, $2,000,000 the aecond year and the remainder at the discretion of the commission. The latter measure provided for its ratification by the voters at a special election held June 4 and the verdict was favorable by a handsome majority. As soon as the result of the election was ascertained the commission pro ceeded to organize lta constructive and administrative forces and within 60 days had adopted standard specifica tions for its department as well as the various counties, made aurveys. advertised for bids and let contracts for work In every part of the state. S700.00O Provided Yearly. The bonds are in serial form, to be redeemed in 20 years, and to provide for their amortization the Legislature doubled the license fees of all auto vehicles and provided that the sum aor rrulng from the one-quarter mill tax should apply with the amount re ceived from the auto fees to the pay- TRAILER BIG SAVER Motor Truck Wastes Energy When It Runs Alone. PRINCIPLE IS SIMPLE ONE It Is Scientific Fart, Abundantly Proved, That Truck or Other Vehicle Can Pull Heavier Load Than It Can Carry. The automobile or motor truck that runs singly and alone on the street or highway wastes two gallons of gaso line while utilizing: one. This fact has given rise to an in creasing; demand for "trailer" trucks as a means of economy both in "gas" and labor, since bv such means the motor- engine will transport three times the weight that it can carry. In other words, by the application of the same principle that enables a man to drag on wheels a load far In excess of what he can carry: or that enables a horse to draw a wagon bearing a weight that would crush the animal if it were placed on its back; or that en ables a locomotive to draw a train of heavily-laden cars or a. little tug to tow a battleship, an automobile or mo tor truck will pull three times its car rying capacity, says an editorial in the Atlanta Constitution. This has been proved under every conceivable condition. More general employment of this Bimple scientific principle the drawbar principle by farmers and by commercial firms having- bulky commodities to transport over country roads and city streets would mean a proportionate saving expense to them and in the country's supply of motive power energy, of which the world now stands so ur gently in need. The principle works" the same with the most demure runabout as with the biggest truck manufactured. The farmer with an ordinary automobile or an ordinary farm motor truck, let us say, has several tons of produce to cart to market. His chief transportation cost lies in gasoline consumption on the road, and second, perhaps, comes the time consumed. It is easy, then, to compute his saving if he equips himself with the means of transporting three tons with the same outlay in motive power and time that would otherwise be required to transport one ton. Or, the merchant or the manufac turer who has goods to transport be tween the freight depot and his place of business uses a truck that can carry. say, a ton at a load. What a saving would be effected were he to treble the transporting- capacity of his engine simply by hitching to it a two-ton trailer truck!' 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