TOE SUTAY OREGOXTAX, PORTIiAND. -MAKCII--10, -1918.
LOIR HIGHWAY TO
BE OPEN BY JUNE 1
ROAD CREWS HURRYING WORK TO OPEN NEW COLUMBIA RIVER HIGHWAY TO ASTORIA BY JUNE L
Work Is Progressing Fast on
New Road Down Colum-
J bia River to Astoria.
CLIFF ATGOBLE IS BARRIER
Yrrea Construction Company- Tmk
Ing Oat Many Tons of Rock
I'rora 1 1 0-Foot Precipice to
, Make New Road Safe.
Py tnta tomlnr Jan 1. at latest.
nd perhaps befora that If tha present
rats of prorrcsa U maintained, the
lower Cotumnta RlTer HI Kb way will
h open all the war from Portland to
Astoria for automobile and motor truck
It will bo do makeshift road of patch
sjsorK construction when It la opened.
There will not be anr stretches of
bumpy corduroy, or of mud op to the
labs In wet weather, and all that.
The new road wtll be a real hiajhway,
wltH do fra'te of more than 5 per cent.
built on permanent lines and destined
to ba a arret commercial aa well
acenlo thoroughfare.
It will not ba pared for its entire
eiKth. but where It Is not pared It
will hare a flrst-clasa macadam sur
face. Crewa of men are now macad
mulnr I? mllea of new roadway,
which will be In perfect condition for
trarel when the highway Is opened.
There are on!y a few plarea where
the actual construction work on the
Dicaway has not already been complet
ed, and thry will all ba finished before
Juno 1.
One of tba last obstacle to the
epenine of the new hlrhway Is now be-
tnir remored by the Warren Construc
tion Company Just below Gobie. Or
where a crew of men Is tearlns; and
bleatlnc out the side of a rock cliff
ll fei h.ich to make room for the
hjrfcwer at the foot of It.
The writer went to GoMe last week
In an OrerLand Country Club roadster
with Harry Hayes. Oregon's famous
"(load Kin and territory man for the
Orerlacd Pacific branch here, to sec
how tnis work Is coram; slonc-
It Is enmlnc alor.r aood and fast.
J I. F. Wlrknrr. construction superin
tendent for tba Warren Construction
Company, who la personally on the
Job. says tba work of blaatlnc down
and haullnr away the JSOO cubio yard
approximately SZj9 tons of rock
that must be remored from this cliff
to rle plenty of room for the roadway,
Should be finished In sis weeks.
The crew has been wnrklnc oa this
Job only stnra February IS. but In that
time virtually 1009 coble yards of rock
hare been pried or blasted down.
This Work presenta an Interesting
little feat of engineering because of tb
fact that the track of the Spokane.
Portland A Seattle railway runs only
3 feet from the bottom of tha cliff.
.All the blastlns baa to b dope with
the greatest care not to block th
railroad track. Not one train has been
topped er even, delayed up to the
The highway grade wa buttt be
tween the foot of this cliff and th rail
road track two or three years ago. In
order to squeeze In th roadway be
tween cliff and railway, part of th
cliff wa cut away at the bottom. This
left a dangerous orerbanglns; preci
pice from which big plecea of rock
hare been falling erer since.
0 when the present Stat Highway
Commission decided to complete the
lower Columbia Highway to Astoria,
the contract was awarded to cut away
enough of this cliff, from th top
down, to make th road safe la future
from falling rorks.
Th roc k blasted down from th cliff
Is being used by the Warren Construc
tion Company in making a fill a few
hundred feet away, where th new
hichway crosses Gobi Creek.
The new part of th lower Columbia
Hirer Hichway. which will glre a di
rect all-Winter road between Portland
and Astoria, paralleling? th Columbia
J.leer. In place of tha present Inland
route, whlrh Is open only during the
late Spring, hummer and early Fall
months, joins the Portland-Gobi sec
tion of the highway about 'two mile
south of GoMe.
The arren Construction Comnanr
has built the grade from thi point to
past irooie. and Is now macadamising
r. The work la being don with great
thoroughness, and th road will be In
Tine soap when It 1 opened about
June 1.
Of tb 57 miles of this new road now
etng macadamised. 47 mllea are be
ing done on force account by th state,
usirvjr th Warren Construction Com
fanr s organization. Ten mllea of tba
lT.wy this side cf Astoria la Clat
sop ounty are being; paved by this
company.
InndenraUy. Construction Superin
tendent Wlckner. who under it- D.
Jloyt. of Portland, was In charge of all
this work last Fall, mad a good start
m mat line oa a road record that
wouia nsre neaten erea Ilarrr Harm'
mark of :."0 mile In a year that won
Mm th tul of "Road Kin.-" of Or-
When Mr. IVIetmer met Hay for the
first time at Gobie the other day. he
tnld how h had trareled In a Ilttl car
tip and down th new highway at th
rat or 100 mile a week for a few
week last FalL Rut about th time
f was getting really warmed up. along
ram th rains and Hays record wa
are ior another year.
Tn rtad between Portland and Go
Me is now la fin shape, with the
pina-ie esrepeion of a stretch of about
inree miles this side of Peer Island,
where th going Is very rough. The
highway Is pared from Portland to
rrprKw. is m excellent condition as
.-. -.. n-iens, iair tor tore or
ionr mues Beyond that town, poor on
the Der Island sector, and then first
clae on- th last fir mile Into Gobi.
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MaiipmolbOllej
Tie Comfort Car
Economy is comfort, too.
'This Hupmobile is 600
pounds lighter. Its tires last
longer. It goes 24 per cent
farther on a gallon of gasoline.
t,
Manley Auto Co.
llth and Oak at Bumside 'j
Miiiipinniolbille
stunts on th radiator of a Maxwell car
m front of his hotel. The car has the
U. S. flag painted on it and Is used by
the Navy recruiting officers.
i This I2-Feot-ni Cliff. Jast Below nble. I Oae f th Last Barriers t the Opening of the New Highway. The 'Warren Construction Company I Chisel
lac Off th Side ef th Cliff i Make Raasa for th Highway Next to the Railroad Track. 2 H. J. Wlckner, Construction Foreman, on the Job. Tola
Reck. Pried er niaated Dawn Kroaa the Cliff, W 111 He Hesaoved From the Roadway After Enough of It Haa Been Shared Off the Cliff to Make the Highway
Safe. X Maradamlalas the Xtw Highway. The Car Beside the Road Roller la an Overlaad Country Clab Roadster, First Automobile on the Sew Grade,
la th Center la saperlateadeat VYIrkaer aad at the Left la Harry Haya. Road Klag of Oregon. 4 An Attractive Spot on the Road to Gobie. Harry
Haya and Ills Overlaad Ceaatry Clab Roadster.
GRANT EASY FOR OWNER
ACCESSIBlLtTT- AMD bIMFUCTTT
. FEATI RES OF CAR.
Factory Engineer Telia - at - Palna t
31 ah .Grant aa Nearly Aataxtle
aa Car Can Be.
While tber may har been a point
to th song. "Get Out and Get Under."
that was ao popular a few years ago,
the motor car of today has been so
greatly Improved In accessibility that
It Is bard to believe that there ever
could bar been automobiles of. the
old-fashioned type.
Accessibility of all part a that require
Inspection, adjustment or lubricant Is
desirable not only for the convenience
of th car owner, but for the safe
guarding of th manufacturer's repu
tat Ion.
It wasn't a question merely of sav
ing th car owner a lot of work. and
trouble, though wa wanted to do all
we could In that direction." aays George
8. Halzraan. bead of th engineering
department of the Grant Motor Car
Corporation, of Cleveland, "but equally
matter of Insuring that Grant Sixes
would be properly taken care of. that
led us to pay a great deal of attention
to the matter of accessibility.
We knew that most ownera of Grant
Slxea would attend to their cars them
selves. Thla la unlrersally true on th
farms of course, where the Grant Six
la on of th most popular cars, but it
Is almost as true In tha cities.
t rur problem was to protect avery
working part .as completely aa It can
be don In the moat expenslre car. yet
without compelling tha owner to take
bis Grant Six to a garage and a com
plete machln shop to inspect, adjust
or lubricate It.
ln the lstt Grant fix the ensrlne.
th fly wheel, the starting; pinion, th
clutch and clutch throwout are boused
and protected, yet the owner can get
at any of .these parts almost Instantly.
When he lifts the hood be finds no
overhead wiring In the way. the
vacuum tank Is against the dash, the
electrical system, the oil pump, the
carburetor, every part of the power
plant Is easy to get at without Interfer
ence with anything else. There ia arm
and elbow room to spare.
"We believe the Grant Six Is as near
to being absolutely automatic as
motor car can be. It has been our aim
to build a car requiring; a minimum of
attention. In our engineering depart
ment we work months to Improve some
small detail which the average man
would consider perfect already. No
sooner do we finish designing and re
fining one car than we start all over
again to see where even the slightest
Improvement can be made. This Is one
of the reasons why the automobile h
developed more rapidly than any other
piece of mechanism ever Invented by
man. But we shall probably never get
to a point where a motor car will work
as well or last aa long when the owner
forgets to screw up tha grease cups
or change his dirty oil as It wtll when
he Is thoughtful enough to give his
car the very slight attention that Is all
It asks for."
Motorcycles In -Army.
At any of our numerous Army can
tonments th visitor la quickly im
pressed with the large number of
motorcycles flitting about the spacious
camp, evidently performing errands re
quiring the greatest dispatch. Tbe
motorcycles In 'the country's various
training campa are In great demand by
officer whoae .presence Is urgent In
different parta of the cantonment with
in a short period- of time. .
A new style of automobile tax has
been brought Into effect In the Province
of Alberta, Canada, where the tax Is
now charged on wheelbase Instead of
horsepower.
GAR GETS TO TILLAMOOK
DODGE STAKES REMARKABLE TRIP
i '. , AFTER DARK.
Hlllsboro Man Drives In First Car of
Season, and Does It Between
A. M. a ad 6 F. 31.
A Dodge car driven by Wilkes Or
ville, an employe of M. P. Cady, garage
man and Dodge dealer at Hlllsboro, not
only made the trip into Tillamook, but
made It after dark, according to infor
mation received by Howard M. Covey,
Podge distributor at Portland.
This car was evidently the first one
to drive Into Tillamook this Spring.
The feat of driving over by daylight
would b unusual this early in the
season, to say nothing of doing it after
dark.
According to the word reeclved by
Mr. Covey from Mr. Cady at Hlllsboro. I
the car was wanted by the Tillamook
dealer to deliver to a purchaser. Or
ville left Hlllsboro at 6 o'clock last
Saturday night with the . car and
reached Tillamook at 6 o'clock the fol
lowing morning.
DUPJLEX FACTORY MAX HERE
Alex Smith,, of Lansing, Mich., Is
Looklne Over" This Territory.
Alex Smith, factory representative of
the Duplex Truck Company, of Lansing,
Mich.,-was In Portland last week to be
in this territory for two' or three weeks.
He arrived here Just in time to find
that the Duplex had become famous
through the feat of a Duplex truck sent
ou"t by the Northwest Auto Company
in going "through Pass Creek Canyon,
Douglas .County, en route on a drive
way to Gold Beach. Mr. Smith has
gone to Eastern Oregon to look over
that territory for a few days.
.Doug Fairbanks Stars. v
Shortly after arriving In San 'Fran
cisco recently Douglas Fairbanks was
photographed executing one of his agile
TVALUSGt-OKD MAKES CHANGES
Alteration Give Additional DlspUj
Space for Itrlscue.
To make room for a proper display of I
tn nrteo car. which b recently took
on f.,r this territory In addition to the
Fremler and th Liberty. W. H. Wal-
rfngford Is having alteration made lis I
nts sales quarter at Alder and Six
teenth streets.
I'ndrr th new management, addi
tional space for display will be pro
vided, and th stockroom, containing
ran tor a!l three rare, haa been en-
urgea. i n service station win remain
nxt to th salesrooms, aa at present.
and three rooms on tb second floor
will also b used In which to stock
parte.
Ran 10 Milrs Dally.
Tt 3. llensley. of Weatherford. Tex, I
ron his Maxwell truck 10 miles dally I
dsltrerina oil to customers. Hi load I
average, jooo pounds, but he make IS
mile on a gallon of gas. ' This truck
is doing th work of six horse and I
three wagons at one-third th expanse I
1
One UNITED Tractor Can Dp the
, Work of Several Big. Trucks
ONE UNITED at $2490 gTvXsyrxr the service -of
a fleet of trucks. It hauls semi-trailers.
When one is in transit a second is loading and a
third iinloading. . As additional equipment is
needed, it is only necessary to secure trailers at a
cost of a few hundred dollars as compared with the
purchase of motor trucks at several thousand dollars.
ROBERTS iMOTOR CAR CO., Inc.
DISTRIBCTORS.
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TRUXTUM'
THE TRUXTUN UNIT converts - prac
tically any pleasure car into a modern,
sturdy, internal gear axle-driven truck.
It gives to second-hand' cars'a new value, a
new life of usefulness.
The TRUXTUN makes it possible to obtain
trucks quickly . and in large numbers. " 'It
makes the thousands of used cars an available
National asset in our transportation crisis.
One man with a TRUXTUN, Unit can do thev
work of 3 drivers and 3 teams and -do it
quicker, cheaper, and better.
May we demonstrate? A phone call will re- -
ceive our best attention, or call at your con
venience. .
Model A, VA-Ton, $390 Model B, 2-Ton, $490
WESTERN MOTOR CAR SALES CO.
BROADWAY AT BURNSIDE, PORTLAND. .
v a Distributors for Oregon and So. Washington.
Phone Broadway 5368.
TERRITORY OPEN FOR HUSTLING DEALERS
AUTO DIRECTORY
((HANDliR
4-pass. Rdstr $1745.00 7-pass. Touring
All Chandlers are equipped with Bosch magneto
TWIN STATES MOTOR CAR COMPANY
514-516 Alder Phone Main 851
ELGIN SIX HARROUN CARS
PACIFIC MOTORS, INC, 23d and Washington Streets.
Franklin
offers more of "what you actually need and want in
an automobile."
BRALY AUTO CO.
Main 4880, A 3881. 19th and Washington Sts.
MINUTE MAN SIX
Brunn Motor Car Co,
444-46 Stark St.
Phones: Broadway 2958, A 2958
LIBERTY SIX
The car which sells best in direct compari-
son with others. .
W. H. WALLINGFORD, 522 Alder St
MACK Trucks
Capacities, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 5 Tons.
Complete Stock-Repair Parts.
F. C. ATWELL, Sales Agent.
Washington at 21st. Tel. Mar. 440
SIXES
New Light Six, $1250 Factory
Mitchell, Seven-Passenger, $1525, Factory
MITCHELL, LEWIS & STAYER CO.
Broadway at Oak
OAKLAND
Oakland Motor Co. of Oregon
344-50 Burnside, Off Broadway.
Phone Broadway 80.
Oldsmobile
Distinctive High Grade. Light Weight,
OLDSMOBILE CO. OF OREGON
Broadway and Couch
Phone Broadway 1640
is ready to serve your requirements with suc
cess, , Touring $2340. Roadster J2340.
D. C. Warren Motor Car Co.
68-60 A. 23d St. MAIN 780.
PREMIER
The car with an aluminum motor. High-grade con
struction throughout. A car for particular people.
W. H. WALLINGFORD. 522 ALDER ST.
EIGHT CAPACITIES -34 TO 5 TONS
Investigate Oar Trailer and Tractor Proposition.
ROBERTS MOTOR CAR CO,' Tark and Flanders Sts.
Smith-Form-a-Truck
BAM.OU WRIGHT,
Hrnailnay at Oak.
Distributor tor Orriton.
Some unorcupied territory
open. Write tor proposition.
The "Blltwell" Series Represents the Latent and Best
lm Motor tars, .its value at .11 rum in 1-rices.
C. WARREN MOTOR CAR CO.
58-60 North Twenty-Third Street. Phone Main 780.
AUTO ACCESSORIES
Auto Theft-Signal
PREVENTS AUTO THEFTS
See the Auto Theft-Signal at Our Salesrooms
Archer & Wiggins
Distributors of High-Grade Automobile Accessories
SIXTH STREET AT OAK
BOWSER
GASOLINE and OIL TANKS
STORAGE SYSTEMS FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
GARAGES. S. D. Stoddard, District Sapt.
Sales. 719-20 Corbett Bldgr. Main 147o.
SATISFACTORY
MOTOR CAR
REPAIRING
COOK & GILL GO.
Phone Broadway 26.
409 Davis Street.
D
R. SPARK
SPECIALIST
fin the treatment
of 'crossed wires',
"sparkless" b a t
teries.etc. Offices
with Gibson Electric
Garage & Storage
Battery Co., Alder at
12th. Marshall 1752.
We Stock Them. We Repair Them.
We CharK-e Them.
Kree Advice and Inspection.
AUTO ELECTRIC EtlIPME'T CO,
Sixth and Burnside Streets.
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