THE SUXDAT OREGONIANV PORTLAND, JUNE I, 1919.
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PIONEER "WASHINGTON EDITOR FINDS QUITE A CHANGE ALONG COLUMBIA RIVER HIGHWAY
ROUTE IN 34 YEARS.
TOTAL 486.85 MILES
IRoad From Pendleton to Ocean
to Be Completed in Spring.
MUCH WORK IS AHEAD
-Rapid Progress Made on West Side
' and Many Miles Are Sow
Under Contract.
GHWAY CONTRACTS
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Oregon has under construction and
contract 4S6.S5 miles of road work at
this date. Of this, 383.5 miles are par
ing.
It Is the intention of the state high
way commission to have the Columbia
river highway completed by . next
spring from the Pacific ocean to Pen
dleton. The Pacific highway will be
entirely graded and mostly paved by
next spring. With these two main ar
teries extending east and west and
rtcrth and south across the state, the
highway commission will turn its at
tention to the development of the sec
ondary roads and the materialization
of the many forest road and post road
projects.
.Virtually all of the Columbia river
highway has been located from Seaside
to Pendleton. There are a few stretche3
here and there which have not been
located, but these spots will be de
termined during the coming cummer.
There will be hard surface from Port
land to a point beyond The Dalles.
From the Deschutes to Pendleton
16-foot gravel highway will be laid.
Between Portland and Astoria the last
unpaved sections will be covered next
year. Contracts have been let thi
spring for more than half of the un-
: paved length and other contracts will
: voon be U.t to take care of every por
' tlon ready for paving.
AVork to Be Active la 1020.
On the west side rapid progress is be
lng made, and many miles are now
vnder contract. A few locations are
yet to be determined, however. There
are also a few locations on the main
Pacific highway to be settled. Aside
from these spots, however, the entire
progress on the Pacific highway is
moving forward, and the commission
expects to have the entire distance
from the California line to Portland
graded, if not entirely paved, next year.
Ur.paved sections will be cared for as
toon as they are advanced sufficiently.
The John Day hignway and the old
O,regon Trail and The Dalles-California
Jiighway will be scenes of activity next
year. Contracts for many miles of
work have already been awarded on
the John Dav and the old Oregon Trail.
As for The Dalles-California highway,
through central Oregon, extending
north and southeast of the Cascade
range, the various counties are prepar
ing to vote June 3 on bond issues to
co-operate in the construction of this
great artery. This road will have a
line running off from about La Pine to
Lakeview. The road between Lake
view and Klamath Kalis will also be
partly under construction within the
yi ar.
The commission is building out lines
to the coast from the Pacific highway,
the Yamhlll-Ne3tucca is really the Til
lamook highway, and the road from
Roeeburg to Coos bay is now under
construction in spots. By next year
there will be a good road extending
Into xvewport from the V ll lame tie val
ley. Coast Road la Proposed.
If the Roosevelt highway Issue should
fall to pass at the special election, the
state highway commission will eventu
ally build a coast road, as that is part
of the general comprehensive road pro
gramme for Oregon. Passage of the
measure and co-operation from the fed
eral government will make It possible
to eliminate that item from the com
mission's plan.
In the way of forest roads, there are
hundreds of miles to be built with state
co-operation. work starts this year
on the road from Prospect to Crater
lake, the contract having been let on
a two-year basis. Work will start this
year, al30. on the Mackenzie pass,
which will lead from Eugene through
the Cascade range to Sisters in central
Oregon. The contract for the Mount
Hood loop will be let within a few
weeks and work will start this sum
mer. Forest road projects, however.
are handled by the government, and
not by the state highway commission
but the latter must approve. Post-road
projects, of which there will be a large
number in eastern Oregon, will be un
der the direct control of the state high
way commission with the federal gov
ernment approving. Probably about 60
per cent of the post-road money will
he spent in developing roads in eastern
Oregon.
( Summary of Contracts Given.
Summary of the road contracts fol
follows:
Columbia river highway, 152 miles;
Factfic highway, 150 miles; West Side
Pacific highway, 59 miles; Yamhill
' Xestucca, 34.9 miles; John Day high
way, 11.1 miles; La Grande-Enterprise
highway, 9.6 miles; old Oregon Trail,
12 miles; Oregon-Washington highway,
15.3 miles; Coast highway, 19 miles;
Baker-Cornucopia highway, IS. 8 miles.
There are 15 contracts under way on
the Columbia highway, and a total of
6 miles of hard-surfacing is repre
rented, and 76 miles of grading. On
the West Side highway there are nine
ottracts. representing 44 miles of
hard-surfacing. The Pacific highway
bas 107 miles of hard-surfacing under
contract and 40 miles of grading, there
being 23 contracts. The Yamhill-Nes-
i.ucca highway has 17 miles of hard
surface contracted: the old Oregon
Trail, six miles of pavement; the Ore
gon-Washington highway, 15 miles of
pavement, and the Coast highway, 19
t miles of paving.
There is under contract, from Astoria
to Pendleton on the Columbia highway
contracts amounting to S2, 147. 785; con
tracts on the Pacific highway amount
to J3.517.461. and on the West Side the
contracts aggregate $1,189,449.
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Frank M. Dallam Sr. enjoyed unin up the Highway In nn eur-ridlng Willy Six lt week My better tkan e Aid
walking from above Cascade lock to Portland! through m aleet bllzmard in winter of 1SS4-5.
Mr. Dallam, who is editor of the Oroville (Wash.) Gazette and founder of the Spokane Spokesman-Review, is stand
ing beside the car. Last time he want over this route he did it on foot with the thermometer about zero in a shrieking
gale, with sleet beating against his face. It was just af-r Christmas of 1884 when his train from Spokane was snowed
and sleeted in above Cascade locks. He and two others set out to walk to Portland. It took them three days. The river
was frozen over, but thin on the edges. They were walking on the ice when Mr. Dallam fell in. He might have per
ished from cold had they not fortunately come to a section hand's cabin, where he was dried and warmed. It was a
terrible journey, and Mr. Dallam didn't for a moment care to trade It for the comfortable trip out the highway last
week in a Willys Six through the courtesy of Bert Kling. W illys-OverTand-Pacific manager, who is a particular friend
of editors. Mr. and Mrs. Dallam are visiting their daughter, Mrs. Lair H. Gregory, at the Rose Friend apartments.
RED GROWN WINS CLIMB
STANDARD OlTi GASOUXE T7SED
IX FAJIOtS COXTEST.
Both Peerles9 Eight and Essex in
Rim-o'-World Climb Have Red
Crown. In Tanks.
When Charles Basle recently drove
his Peerless eight over the famous Rim
the World hill-climbing course in
record time he was using Red Crown
gasoline. C. S. Stone, in his Essex, who
was second, also had Red Crown in his
tank.
Unquestionably this course, which
covers eight miles of grade ranging
from 5 to 18 per cent through the Wa
terman canyon near San Bernardino,
is one of the severest tests motor fuel
PACIFIC COAST MANAGER. FOR THE
WHITE CO.
again demonstrated under the heavy
strain of this hill-climbing event. As
a straight distilled, all refinery gaso
line it has the full and complete chain
of bailing points necessary for con
sistent performance. Low boiling pointa
give eaay starting, medium boiling
points quick and smooth acceleration,
and high boiling points give steady,
dependable power and long mileage.
GOOD ROADS VALUE IS" TOLD
Passable Highway Essential to Local
Welfare of Community.
HOOD RIVER, Or., May 29. (Spe
cial.) "Good roads make Salem and
Hood River neighboring towns." Such
was the expression of W. K. Witham,
west side orchardist yesterday, and
then Mr. Whitman told of a week end
surprise party attended by 30 Salem
residents, headed by the family of Mrs.
Mark Smith, prominent Salem citizen,
motoring to his orchard place for a
visit.
"Six automobiles, loaded to the
guards bore down on us Saturday
afternoon. We had a pleasant lawn
party Saturday evening, our guests.
having brought camp equipment, re
tiring at a late hour In the orchard.
My neighbors and I were given op
portunity to become well acquainted
with those Salem people.
"I believe that visit was an excellent
argument for trunkline roads, and as
result of the incident I am now
boosting for the Roosevelt highway."
COLE STANDARD IS RICH
AERO-TYPE
TORES
EIGHT HAS FEA.
OP AIRPIjAXE.
One. of the best-known truck authori
ties in the country is G. A. Urquhart,
Pacific coast manager for the White
company, with headquarters in San
Francisco. Mr. Urquhart, who has
grown up in the automobile business.
emphasizes the importance to the whole
coast of the good roads movement.
can hav.e anywhere in tne country.
There is hardly a straight etretch of
road in the whole distance and the in
numerable sharp curves and twists.
combined with the grade, present diffi
cultice which can only be overcome by
car using the best quality of gaso
line.
This Rim o the World hill-climbing
contest is one of the few stock car
events regularly held in California.
That the two winning cars should have
both used Red Crown is a tribute to
the quality and steady power that it
possesses in every-day use.
The high quality of Red Crown wae
STDTZ MAXES GOOD TIME
BULLDOG MODEL RTTXS TO SAX
ERAXCISCO IX 37 HOURS.
Design and Construction of Body
and Motor Distinctive Departure
From Old Models.
The manufacture of aeroplane en
gines under stress of war required me
chanical exactness and a grade of
workmanship in keeping with the tasks
which confronted these fighting ma
chines of the air. The higher standards
thus established will react favorably
upon automobile construction, accord
ing to an automotive engineer who,
during the conflict abroad, wae promi
nently engaged in the development and
building of both the aircraft and the
automobile.
That the Cole Motor Car company of
Indianapolis not only has already im
proved its standards of workmanship
in keeping with the advances of the
times, but has adapted most success
fully principles of aero-type construc
tion for which the aircraft is respon
sible, is indicated In its Cole Aero-
Elght models.
The determination with which Cole
engineers originated and adopted aero-
type principles of construction at a
time when radical moves were frowned
upon by the remainder of the Indus
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BROADWAY 2492
Sixteenth and Alder Streets
BRANCH AT VANCOUVER, WASH., AT 707 WASHINGTON
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Better Time Would Have Been Made
but for Being Held Up Three
Hours in Cow Creek Canyon.
With J. H. Wade at the helm, a Stutz
car belonging to Charles S. Cohn, eon
of A. C. Cohn, president of the North
ern Grain & Warehouse company, made
the trip eouth from Portland to San
Francisco over the Pacific highway a
week ago in 37 hours' running time.
Leaving Portland at 3 P. M. the first
day. the car, a bulldog model, made
Eugene that night. The second day's
traveling took Mr. Cohn and Mr. Wade
through Cow Creek canyon to Medford.
They would have made much better
progress but for the fact that they
were held up from 2 to 5 o'clock at this
end of Cow Creek canyon waiting for
the road to be opened to them after
the road crews knocked off work.
The third day's run took them 300
miles further, to Williams, CaL, and
from there a brief run next morning
brought them into San Francisco. Mr.
Wade previously to this trip had com
pleted a coast-to-coast tour in a Pack
ard Twin-Six from New Cumberland,
Pa, to Seattle.
Testing for Shorts.
When the switch is open yet sparks
are seen upon disconnecting and touch
ing lead wires there is a short some
where along the line. By repeating this
test In different locations it is possible
to locate the position of the short.
try speaks well for their ability and
foresight. They are responsible for
numerous changes which in time, no
doubt, will be adopted by the industry
as a whole. It has been said that they
are more than a year in advance of
contemporaries.
Numerous features Involved in aero
type construction have been adopted
to attain perfection in the Cole Aero
Elght. Just as principles used in the
automobile, have influenced the devel
opment of the tractor, the aeroplane
has influenced the further development
of the car of the hour.
The design and construction of the
aero-type body and motor are distinc
tively different in the Cole Aero-Eight
because they cannot be reconciled to
any past experiences. The same fact
is true of Its performance.
It is said to be the first car whose
design not only contributes to the ap
pearance and comfort, but adds very
definite advancements to the actual
performance and engineering effi
ciency. It represents a distinctive de
parture from pre-war ideas of motor
car construction.
Many Cars in Michigan.
The growth of the Industry In Mich
igan is shown in statistics compiled by
the secretary of state. In 1909 11.718
licenses were issued, while last year
the total was 282.125. and estimates for
this year indicate a registration of 310,
000. During the first four months of
the present year 63.10g licnses were
issued in Wayne county, 1C,607 in E.ent,
6598 In Oakland, 6325 in Otttce ua
5628 in Ingham. -i-ie- 4
Don't start your car wiin a jerk. Al
ways engage the clutch -rRrl"lly and
see that the car starts off easily. 1
DOUBLE CABLE
BASE
PORTAGE TIRE XOT TO REDUCE
Quality Output Rightly to Bring
i Higher Price, Says Manager.
'Our market is with tire users who
hold that quality is of greater import
ance than price. states B. J. lld-
mn, Pacific coast manager of sales
for the Portage Rubber company, tire
manufacturers of Akron, O.
"We have our high standard to main
tain. Quality conies first with us al
ways. We firmly believe the Portage
is the best tire value in America today.
Htld we're going to keep it ho. We I
cannot consider a reduction in price
that would compel a lowering in qual
ity."
Guilty or Innocent.
Is a man entitled to tell his life's his
tory to a pretty young lady because he
- favors her with a ride in his car to
work in the morning? Two-pound box
of chocolates for best answer. Harris'
Peanut Puffer Store. 5th and Wash
AN OPPORTUNITY
For a man of proved executive ability, experience and a mod
erate capital to secure a substantial interest and active manage
ment of a prosperous automobile sales and service business in
a substantial and fast-developing coast town. The business at
present controlling a large volume and completely equipped and
modern in every respect.
Correspondence will be invited only -with a man of high type and
one who can qualify as to the above requirements. The matter
of securing the capital investment is not the first consideration,
but is required by the owners to assure the proper interest in
the active management.
AV 30, OREGONTAN
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TKe Federal Rubber Co.
of Illinois
Cud.hr.'
The Firm Grip Insures Durability
Federal Double-Cable-Base Cord
Tires are made extra durable by the
four twisted steel cables running
through the base of the tires, holding
them firmly to the rim.
This eliminates rim wear; prevents
the toe of the bead pinching the inner
tube, thus preventing blow-outs and
rim cuts, and relieving the side walls
from undue strain.
Our method of moulding our cord
tires, with their separate layers of
cords thoroughly impregnated with
live, supple rubber, by air pressure
instead of the old system of solid
moulds, adds greatly to the resiliency
and durability of Federal Tires.
Federal Double-Cable-Base Cord
Tires axe saving money for those who
use them. They will save you money
as soon as you begin to use them.
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and the cost of upkeep
We "believe that a greater number
of MACK trucks are operated at a
less average cost of upkeep than any
other make of trucks.
Ask the owner of a MACK truck
how much he has paid for repairs an
nually. Or, ask him what his bills
have been for every 20,000 miles,
50,000 miles or 100,000 miles set
any basis you prefer.
Ask him how many and what parts
he has had to replace. Ask him about
the transmission gears and axles. Ask
him if a spring ever broke or a steer
ing spindle or if any other part ever
failed in stamina.
Have you ever heard of a MACK
crankshaft breaking? We never did.
The MACK truck is a thoroughly
manufactured product in the first
place. It is properly designed and
made of the best materials procura
ble. Everyone acquainted with motor
truck uses knows the MACK always
is found where the job is the tough
est. There must be a good reason for
this.
lrfACK construction'
that? the reason.
International Mack Corp.
Twenty-first and Washington Sts.
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