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TITE SUNDAY OREGONTAN, PORTLAND, JANUARY 19, 1919.
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Service Road Men Extending
Trade Arteries.
OREGON WORK IS PLANNED
Operations of Department in Open
ins Fp New Territory Covers
Twenty-Seven States.
Penetrating into the forest depths,
edg-inff their way along the sides of
dizzy cliffs, chancing the perils of
swamp and glade, the men of the
United States Forest Service today are
acting as the advance guard of the
road builders of the country. Where
under construction with the first touch
of Spring.
From Canyonville to Galesville, in
Douglas County, Oregon, is a trail to
day which leads through the heart of
the Umpqua forest. That trail must be
widened that travel may flow freely
along the Pacific HIgmway.
Again in Oregon there is a stretch
of road known as the Zigzag Govern
ment Camp Way. Two stretches of
that trail are impassable for machines
today. Completed, they will open up
for Portland a circle trip to Crater
Lake of surpassing beauty. It is hoped
the work will be completed this year.
Timber Belt to Be Tapped.
Down in Arizona there are two east-and-west
main highways but no connec
tions between them from the Rio
Grande River to the road from Phoenix
to Ash Forks in Westerrt Arizona.
Moreover, people living at Clifton, but
30 miles from the cool breezes of the
range, must travel to California to es
cape the blaze of the Summer sun. So
the Forest Service, in conjunction with
the counties. . has projected a north-and-south
road 94 miles long from
Clifton to Springville which will not
only let people into the hills but will
open a market for millions of feet of
matured timber which today can be
brought out only by pack saddles.
In New Mexico the Tijeras Canyon
runs down to the east of Albuquerque.
At its head lies a valley of grazing and
farming lands. Firewood can be had
there also in abundance. It must be
brought out and so a road 14 miles
CO-OPERATIVE SPIRIT
EXISTS III FACTORIES
Bond Between Employer and
Employe Strong.
PRODUCTION SPEEDED UP
Pride of Workmanship Gnarantees
Increased Output, National
Distributor Says.
In the American automobile plant, a
new spirit of co-operation exists.
This spirit, which runs through the
shops and then passes on to the execu
tive offices, came from the same source
as the handicaps and inconveniences
that were suffered during the 18
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a Chevrolet eoupe. A"hl-h la Proving to Be One of the M ost Popular Knclosed ModrU In Portland.
other agencies devote most of their,
effort toward the reconstruction or
improvement of roads already con
structed, the Forest Service is still en
caged in pioneer work and many a tale
of adventure has come out of their
work.
From the standpoint of expenditures
the work of the service is relatively in
significant, but just as the prairie
Echooners of the '60s blazed the way
for the traffic of today, so the Forestry
Department is opening up new fields
for the citizens of tomorrow. Some
times, it may be, they are occupied in
opening a route whereby a little farm
tucked off in a corner of the range may
send its produce to market, again it is
a. clearance for precious metals of tim
ber, or it may be simply a route along
which travelers may move in search of
health, diversion, recreation. Sometimes
It is all of these and more, for the men
of the service are a versatile lot and the
sound of their axes rings out in death
valleys and haunts of the wild beast,
that man may find his way into the far
edges ofethe United States.
Activities Will Be Renewed.
Last year the worn of the service
was the first to be cut down by the
war, since for the purposes of imme
diate war-making tTieir task was of
little importance. This year they will
be on the job again with renewed life
and wherever the national forests are
to be found, there will be seen the
forest gangs harder at it than ever. All
told, $5, 750,000 will be expended on this
work this year, of winch 12.800.000 will
be derived from the funds of the serv
ice, the rest from the co-operative
funds of states and counties.
The exact mileage will, of course, be
determined by labor conditions and cost
of material, but the policy of the de
partment will be to open up links of
communication wherever possible and.
if limiting conditions prevent more
than a few miles of construction on
some projects, these miles will be se
lected with an eye to making travel
able the entire stretch of road between
points.
It is not a question of durable, permanent-type
roads wlh the Forestry
Service; it is a question of any road
at all, and the annals of the depart
ment show that remarkable results in
the development of virgin territory
have been attained through their work
in the past.
Worts Pnea War to Bill.
They are the educators the men
whose work makes possible the intro
duction of such a bill as that now be
fore Congress and providing for the
expenditure of $500,000,000 on roads in
the next seven years, and while, their
work will profit only indirectly through
the release of state runds by the pass
age of this measure, it may safely be
said that whole communities will press
this act who could not have understood
the economic value of the road without
the work of the Forestry Department to
guide them.
The department operates in 27 states
and two territories the last Alaska
and Porto Rico and wherever it had
a road to build, there may be found a
' story of absorbing interest. Space pro
hibits the unfolding of the background
to this work in detail, but by glancing
briefly at a few of the projects, some
thing of the romance which rests be
hind the work may be'glimpsed.
In .Washington, for example, we find
A crew engaged in clearing a way for
a road along the south side of Lake
Quinialt in the Olympic peninsula. Trees
of enormous diameter block the way
but back of this timber is production
nd the world needs food, so in the
face of uanaard ot difficulties the work
goes u4k-
Colorado Link Projected.
In the southeastern part of Colorado
rest the Needles of the San Juan, rated
as among the most rugged paints in the
United States. There is a section of
country which has never been opened
to travel, through solid rock and skirt
ing a roaring creek. Seventeen miles
of cliff must be dropped into the val
ley below, switchbacks and hairpin
curves must be located but the road
will complete the last link in a 1200
mile trip and the men of the service do
not turn back.
On the north side of the Columbia
River in Washington locations have
been completed for a connecting link
in the main state trunk highway. A
railroad must be relocated, cliffs must
be tumbled down, dynamite in carload
Jots will be needed. TJie work will bu
long will be pushed through the
canyon.
Where the Humboldt forest rests in
Northern Nevada, will be found one of
the most promising new gold fields in
the world. Isolated in the Winter., but
poorly linked up in Summer, Elko
County is not anywhere near capacity
production. But it will be ,for a road
50 miles long, known as the Charles-ton-Jarbridge
project will probably be
under way with Spring.
One of the chief difficulties which
travelers have encountered in entering
Yellowstone Park from Wyoming has
been the lack of good roads, so a
project has been drawn up which will
improve the road from rubois to the
western boundary of the Teton forest.
This in turn will be linked up with the
highway through the Jackson Hole
country. At Dubois the road will con
nect with three transcontinental routes
and will thus afford the traveler an
optional route of great charm in his
journey to the famed park.
T tail Boad on Programme.
Another line in a transcontinental
route which has been seriously needed
will be constructed in Utah when the
highway is pushed through from
Ephraim to Orangeville, a distance of
46 miles. This will link up with the
road through the noted Paradox Valley
of Colorado, where are mined the pre
cious carnotite ores and will give the
through traveler an outlet both to the
east and west.
In Idaho there is the Galena-Summit
section of the Ketcnum-Clayton road,
not only a link in an important trunk
highway but a route which will open
a new district for grazing, agriculture
and mining a land of beautiful back
ground, diverse scenery and resources.
r inally, the service is planning to
evade the notorious Nigger Hill west
of Missoula in Montana and by a heavy
construction operation will open a new
roaa on grade.
In Arkansas and In Florida as well
as other states where the national for
ests are located, the work is projected.
Through it, millions of dollars of
wealth will be added to the Nation's
valuation, hundreds of miles of road
opened for traffic.
And with the release o'f state funds
made possible through passage of the
Bankhead bill, new sums of money will
be at hand to aid the servlco In its
great work.
CYCLOMIZER INVENTED .HERE
Device "Will Be Marketed by Wesco
Sales Company.
A device placed between the carbure
tor and the manifold to catch the gaso
line Just as it leaves the throttle valve,
throw it away from the manifold wall
and cut it into fine vapor, has been in
vented by E. E. McClaren, Portland
architect. The mixture formed is said
to b such a high explosive gas that
practically no carbon is left in the en
gine. The inventor says that numerous
tests have shown that it will clean
spark plugs and cylinders, effect a
saving in gasoline and lubricating -oil
and prevent the engine from smother
ing and choking. The device is called
the cyclomizer and will be placed on
the market by the Wesco Sales Com
pany. Curing Brake Squeaks. -
Squeaking brakes may be cured by
washing the lining with kerosene ap
plied with an oil gun. A drop or so
of oil on the, drums is also efficacious
in some cases, and soapstone is recom
mended. None of these remedies will
help very much, however, if the squeak
ing is due Jo brake lining rivets scrap
ing on the drums. In this case relin
ing probably will be necessary.
Oregon Rancher Praises Truck.
A. C. Sidney, prominent Oregon
rancher from the Hood River district,
has estimated he has saved more than
$500 in the four months he has been
using a Chevrolet one-ton truck in
place of the five horses he formerly
employed on his apple properties.
months when the United States was
preparing to crush the Hun and ac
complishing such an achievement.
It is the war.
"Never in the history of the industry
has the automobile mechanic had a
greater sense of loyalty toward his job
and his employer." said A. B. Manley,
local distributor for the National Motor
Car and Vehicle Corporation, of In
dianapolis. War Teafhei IinonR.
"The lessons in patriotism he learned
while the country was at war are be
ing applied to peace-time tasks. He
realizes that the company he works for
is one of the Nation's many vital re
sources, and not merely a source of in
dividual revenue. He understands that
if he fails to do his full part, his com
pany also falls short of its maximum
intent and that his country, which
many of his fellow-workers fought and
died for, shares the burden of hie in
efficiency. "And there is a stronger bond be
tween the employer and employed than
ever before as a result of the war.
Each knows how much the one is de
pendent on the other for success. They
have labored together and sacrificed
together for a common cause the tri
umph of America on foreign battle
fields. They have met, as American
citizens and American patriots, on
common ground. They have had com
mon obligations to fulfill, the conser
vation oi iooa, tne purchase or war
savings stamps, the subscriptions to
liberty loans, Ked Cross funds, etc.
"ater Work Reqnlred.
It Is fortunate for the automobile
industry that such a spirit of co-oper
ation exists at this time. For it will
speed the reconstruction work that all
motor car factories must comnlete he
fore production is restored to normal.
Present and future conditions require
a closer co-oraination between the var
ious departments of the automobile
Plant and . between the shoo and office.
A irreater pride of workmanship alone
guarantees an increased output with
out a sacrifice of quality. Each oper
ation must De performed belter and
quicker than it ever was rrrfnrm.H
before if American automobiles are to
serve more people than they do now
ami as wen.
"The National company, for example,
is relying a great deal on factory
teamwork to build in 1919-20 one-third
again as many National Sixes and
i weives as were made in the most pro
ductive year in the organization's hi.
tory. Such an output is necessary to
supply the demands of distributors In
this country and the expanding foreign
Beat the Car Crook.
One of the best ways to foil the car
crook is to neglect your tires. He would
h singularly inept and inexperienced
who would attempt to steal a car un
less the ehoes were in good running
oraer, . .
BIG MOTOR SHOW SLATED
SAX
FRANCISCO'S EXPOSITION
OPENS. FEBRUARY 6.
Tractor and Truck Displays AVill
Augment Big Display of
Passenger Cars.
San Francisco's automotive exposl.
tion is announced for February 6 to IS
in the Exposition Auditorium.
It will be the first big style-trade
congress of Northern California since
the coming of peace. Befitting the Im
portance of the industry, the display of
motor cars and trucks, tractors and
accessories of all kinds that go to aid
the kings of the highway and the field,
it will surpass anything of its kind
hitherto attempted in the West if pres
ent indications do not fail.
While the announcement of the show
caused more or let's surprise, it is
logical that there should be an early
resumption of orderly affairs in the
motor world. In a business so highly
sensitive to popular demands, and tak
ing front rank in the social and busi
ness life of every community, there has
developed with the progress of the
automobile a demand for annual shows.
The public wants to know about the
various mechanical and body refine
ments: tbey like to eee their favorites
ranged alongside of their rivals in mo
tocracy. Above all do they like to see
the latest creations in special dexigns
put out la limited numbers for those
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Post -War Prices
I Post -War Prices ;
y jujjtiw uurijig, 44vu 4 passenger Koaasier, j2yoo j
4 passenger Coupe, $3320 7 passenger Sedan, $3530 i
7 passenger Sedan-Limousine, $3720 t Jj
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Compare these priceswith
those of other ' cars which
you might think of in con
sidering the purchase of a
car of this class.
We believe that a very
real margin of greater value
in the Peerless Eight is
readily apparent, even with
out considering the advan
tages of its Two-Power -Ranges.
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And its two sharply con
trasting power ranges give
the Peerless the most disj
unctive comparative ad
vantage possessed by any
motor car today.
The Peerless Motor Car Co.
Cleveland, Ohio. U. S. A.
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D. C. Warren Motor Car Co.
5-60 North Twenty-third Street
Portland
who are never content with the com
monplace. And an automobile show is the only
place where they can have their fill
of such things.
While the passenger car displays will
hold the center of public interest, this
year will ee an added interest in the
motor truck exhibits. War deeds have
focused the attention of the merchant
and the manufacturer and the farmer
on the commercial vehicle. The truck
has taken Its place among the great
aides of commerce, for the herculean
tasks imposed by the conflict of na
tions found the power wagon from
the giant 10-tonner to the midget de
livery car the inastrr ot every situa
tion. It is estimated by conservative
authorities that the mammoth truck
production of America. which has ad
vanced beyond the average person's
conception eince the thunders of war
were loosed will not begin to take
care of domestic and export demands
for this year.
Indications are that there will be a
representative exhibit of tractors,
which will lend further attraction to
the display. The tractor emerged from
the war one of the "best advertised in
ventions of modern times. Despite the
fact that it is purely an engine of
work, it is clothed in a cloak of ro
mance which had won the interest of
thousands who can never hope to have
use for one. The tractora probably will
draw hundreds who would otherwise
stay away from the show.
MITCHELL OX FACTORY VISIT
Portland Dealer Will Attend Anto
Show in Chicago.
H. W. Mitchell, of Mitchell. Lewis &
Staver Company, left last night for a
visit to the Mitchell factory. While In
the East Mr. Mitchell will attend the
auto show in Chicago.
MOToiHIlNTEO
SOLDIERS' SERVICE- DEPART
MEXT IS OPEXED.
soldiers' service department, designed
to aid these men in. getting positions
upon their return to civilian life.
Quite naturally, the Hendee Manu
facturing Company knows of quite ex
cellent opportunities for competent
men in these various lines in the mo
torcycle field. There are at all times
a demand for good repair men by mo
torcycle dealers, and the men who have
"been through the mill" in the Army
arc particularly well qualified for this
work. Salesmen and demonstrators are
also in demand at the present time by
some of the largest dealers. Doubtless
some of the motorcycle enthusiasts re
turning from the war will have saved
money, or will have the means neces
sary to becoming dealers, and for such
there are openings with good territory
available.
All soldiers returning to civilian life
minus a Job, but with Army motorcycle
experience, are urged to communicate
with the soldiers" service department,
Hendee Manufacturing Company, of
Springfield, Mass.. immediately with a
view of obtaining a good position "in
the game." Every effort will be made
by the factory to place all applicants in
I the niche in the motorcycle field they
seem best fitted to take up. Appli
cants should give full particulars in
their first letter about themselves,
what branch of the motorcycle busi
ness they are Interested in. whether
as repairman; salesman or as dealer,
where they have been stationed and
what form of motorcycle work they
have been doing in the service.
Addrss ail communications to Hen
dee Manufacturing Company, Soldiers"
Service Department. Springfield, Mass.
Manufacturers or Indian Will Help
Former Army- Cyclists Find .
Civil Life Positions.
Recognizing that there are thousands
of men who have become motorcycle
experts through their services in the
Army and that many of these men will
be open to opportunities to become re
pairmen, salesmen, demonstrators and
selling representatives as'soon as they
are discharged, the Hendee Manufac
turing Company,, manufacturers of In
dian motorcycles, baa established a
When in -a hurry don't cut In short
on another driver after passing him.
Take up all lost motion in your tleer
ing gear, and oil.
HUPM0BILE
EXPERTS
General
Auto and Truck
Repairing
Rodhain & Vollum
Auto Co.
93 X. Park St., Corner Flanders
Phone Broadway 609
Feature Dependable Power
Heavy loads must be moved fast
er business demands this. The
pulling- power of Federal tractor-semi-trailer
is helping- solve the
business man's problem. Perhaps
it's a Federal tractor you need
Our engineers will help you call
on us.
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