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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAM), JUXE 1. 1919.
MITCHELL
Highway Good in Any Weather
Says Automobile Man.
CHAINS NOT NECESSARY
Mitchell, Iewis & Starer President
Returns From Seaside In Rain
Without Difficulty
of the popular Buick six. A larger al
lotment of cars has been obtained for
the coast, but the increase will be slow
and there appears to be little prospect
of catching1 up on orders for several
months to come. Until these new
homes are complete and night shafts
installed there will be little increase
in the production of Buick cars, al
though promises have been made of a
slight increase.
"The demand for Buick cars Is nation-wide
and that is the reason we
are not getting enough to go around
for this territory," said Mr. Dean.
BT H. W. MITCHELL.
President Mitchell. Lewis & Staver Co.
Never having motored to Astoria and
Seaside over the Columbia river high
way I decided that as early this spring
as seemed practical I would make the
trip. In view of the numerous un
favorable reports in times past as to the
almost impassable condition of the road,
especially If wet, I hesitated about
making it until we had fair weather
long enough to be sure of its being dry.
Such a condition existed Saturday
morning, a week ago. The wind seemed
right for continued fair weather and
we undertook the trip in a Mitchell
six. Therefore I venture to offer the
following account of road conditions
for the benefit of those interested, and
I know from inquiries made of me that
many are interested. Almost every
one seems to have the impression that
I had before going over the road, that
it was next to impassable, particularly
ax wet.
Some of It Ron Kb.
Tractlcally all motorists know the
road from Portland to Scappoose. The
first 20 miles out is paved; from Scap
poose to St. Helens it is gravel and old
macadam, fairly smooth, particularly
along the edges. From St. Helens to
Rainier it is gravel and old macadam,
full of holes, choppy and hard to get
over with comfort at a better speed
than about 15 miles per hour, though
there are spots where 20 is safe.
From Rainier on to within about 10
, miles of Astoria the road is generally J
good, smooth going, a good part of it
new macadam. From two miles this
side of W"estport the road is to a con
siderable extent rough and full of
holes, though there are some short
stretches in that distance where it is
pretty good poirifr. From about a mile
the other side ' "West port to within
approximately nlies of Astoria the
road continues yood, being either new
macadam or gravel, and about 10 miles
out of Astoria we found a stretch of
three or four miles of pavement.
At the other end of this pavement
and from there on in to Astoria we
traveled over coarse crushed rock
which has been traveled over consider
ably, making two well-defined tracks
which are easily traveled at a slow
rate of speed, say 10 miles per -hour,
without serious injury to tires. In this
stretch of coarse crushed rock it Is
necessary to make a detour back of the
John Day river bridge, where little of
the rock shows on the surface.
At places it seemed to be entirely red
clay and with some fairly deep holes,
but this is a short stretch and we were
assured that it had all been rocked;
the rock had simply gone down out of
sight in the mud but could be depended
upon as being in the bottom of the
holes affording a good footing.
From Astoria to Seaside it is paved
or graveled and is good going all the
way. We arrived at Seaside a littl
before 6 o'clock Saturday night. Just
as we arrived there it began to rain.
and rained steadily all night and until
we left a little before 11 o'clock Sun
day forenoon. It rained on us practic
ally all the way back. The road was
decidedly wet, but notwithstanding
this fact, we drove back the entire dis
tance from Seaside to Portland with
out chains and never at any point did
we feel the slightest need of them or
apprehension on account of not having
them on.
Fast Time Despite the Rain.
Notwithstanding the continuous rains
of Saturday night and practically all
day Sunday, and the fact that on ac
count of the rain we were obliged to
drive most of the way back with all
our curtains on, we made the run from
Astoria to the Union depot at Portland
id 6 hours.
With the road as it is now, I would
not hesitate to undertake the trip at
any time, rain or no rain. There is
some work being done along the road
and one should, for safety, carry chains
in the car to provide against heavy
rains and a possible dirt road condition
at such points where work might be in
progress.
While at Seaside, and after making
this trip over the lower end of the
Columbia River highway, I was im
pressed with the future great import
ance of this highway and what it is
going to mean to Portland, located as
Portiaad is, practically midway be
tween the two ends of the highwav.
with one end resting in the ocean, so to
epeak, and the other in the Cascade
range.
BUICK IS BUILDING HOMES
10OO HOUSES FOB WORKMEN
MOST ROADS IX GOOD SHAPE
Forest Service "Weekly Bulletin Is-
sties Information for Tourists.
"With few exceptions, roads in the
Pacific northwest are. in fair condition
for tourist travel, according to a bul
letin issued yesterday by the united
States forestry service. This bulletin
contains information for motorists,
campers and sportsmen as furnished by
field men of the service. ,
"Open and in good condition" ap
plies to most of the roads to mountain
retreats and summer camping: grounds.
The Santiam wagon road, however, is
closed to all except foot traffic, and
several dangerous bridges are reported
on the route It is expected the road
will be open about July 1. The Ban-
don-Goid Beach road is open lor light
traffic The Barlow-Oak Grove road is
closed by snow between Clear Creek
and Twin Bridges, this side of Govern-
HOW LOOK OUT, YOU
SPEED-BURNING BOYS
Revere Car's Coming to Town,
and It's a Go-Getter.
DAVID PEPP TO HANDLE IT
Daniels Sales Agency Distributor for
Car Warranted to Slake at lieast
85 31 lies an. Hour.
How would you like to put your
self at the wheel of a big car that is
positively guaranteed to make at least
85 miles an hour any time you feel like
steDDine way down on the throttle.
vet is so flexibly motored that you can I
drive around town at the gait of a I as far as Barclay Springs beyond Al
be somewhere between June 25 and
July 1. perhaps a little earlier. In which
case all the better, f or he Is crouched
for a runtng start in selling them as
fast aa they get here.
The Revere comes In three body
styles, two and four passenger sport
style and 7-passenger touring. It has
four speeds forward, the fourth speed
"Cannonball" Baker, the road driver,
recently drove a Revere car to all the
state capitals of the country, covering
17.000 miles. In 42 days less than the
best previous record for such a stunt.
HIGHWAY SURVEY IS RUSHED
Crew Ixx-ating Highway From Kla
math Falls to The Dalles.
KLAMATH FALLS, May SI. (Spe
cial.) The survey of the proposed Kla-math-Dalles-Eastern
Oregon highway.
from Klamath Falls southeast to the
county line below Malin, has been
started by Engineer McKlssick of Port
land, with a crew of five men. The
work will be pushed forward as rapidly
as possible, according to Earl Withy
combe, engineer In charge of a large
force of state highway engineers at
work in this district.
As soon as the survey is finished It
will be turned over to the government
for approval and it Is probable that the
construction will go ahead and that
this part of the road, which is to be
macadamized, can be completed by the
end of the working season.
The survey has been completed north
TWO OF FAMOUS AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS WHO WILL RACE AT TACOMA SPEEDWAY ON JULY 4,. AND
ACE OF ACES WHO WILL REFEREE.
GOIXG FT AT F1XXT.
Forced to Increase Production, Big
Company Prepares Accommoda
. tions for More Workers.
"Word has been received by George
W. Dean, manager here for the How
ard Automobile company. Pacific coast
distributors for Buick cars, that in or
der to carry out its Increased manu
facturing- programme the Buick Motor
company has been forced into a new
line of activity. The company planned
to work day and night shifts, but found
It could not get workmen and could
not bring them into the city because
there was no way to house therm
Undaunted by this obstacle, the
Buick company entered the building
business on a large scale and imme
diately started construction of 1000
homes for its men. This new home
district will be a small city in Itself.
The houses will extend two miles along
a scenic drive, with streetcar service
and every modern convenience. They
will be of the bungalow type, complete
ven to the lawns in front and back
An extension of the streetcar line is
now being built and will be ready as
soon as the houses are ready for occu
pancy.
These homes will be sold to the
workmen at cost and on easy terms,
thus insuring a comfortable abode for
the thousands of men who will com
into Flint to work in the Buick fac
tory.
This home-building project is only
one part of a huge expansion plan be
ing worked out by the officers of th
company. More than $5,000,000 will be
spent within a short time on plant 1m
provements and additTons that will per
mit a greatly increased output of Buick
ears, the plan being to produce 140,000
Buick cars for the coming season.
"While this is good news for the
Buick distributors, it does not promise
much relief Xroui the present shortage
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ment camp, and no detour is possible.
From Twin Bridges to Portland tne
road is open.
The McKenzie pass highway Is closed
by snow between Lost creek ranger
station and the summit, and the Wil
lamette hiKhway is closed by snow from
Boulder grade to the summit. The Row
river road is blocked by slides ana
fallen timber betwen Disston and
Champion mine, but is expected to be
open again June 15.
The M'drord road to Crater lake is
closed by snow between Union creek
and Crater lake park, with no detours
possible. This will be open about July
1. plans being on foot to cut through
the drifts with scrapers, which may
permit travel even before the first of
uly.
Some of the routes to summer eamp-
lns grounds are reported to be rough,
but passable.
CITY'S BIGGEST GARAGE SOLD
Portland Garage Xow Is Handled by
Don and D. C. Bates.
The Portland garage at Fifth and
Taylor streets has been purchased by
D. C. Bates and his son, Don Bates,
from Jack Ruegg, who built it about
two years ago. This Is one of the
largest garages on the Pacific coast.
if not the whole west,, having lour
floors and a basement, with a total
of 500,000 square feet.
Of this, virtually all is given to car
storage purposes except for space re
quired for wash racks, vulcanizing
plant, repair ehop and office. It is
built of reinforced concrete and Is
thoroughly equipped with the most
modern garage appliances. It cost to
build S65.000.
Don Bates, who will be manager or
the garage, recently returned from
the army, where he served for 23
months. He formerly handled cars for
the old Keats Auto company, and has
had much experience in the automobile
business. Me promises every courtesy
and service for car owners using his
garage.
ELKS TO HAVE GOOD THEVG
boy on his way to school If you care to?
Such a car Is the Revere, which is
soon to be represented in Portland. The
agency for the Revere has been placed
with David A. Pepp, of the Daniels
Sales agency, by the Revere Motor Car
corporation.
Already a carload of Reveres Is
rolling from the factory for Portland.
Mr. Pepp expects them to arrive in two
to three weeks, and then he says be
will step out and show the boys who
want a high powered car of the sport
ing type what the word power really
means.
The Revere gets Its power from the
famous Duesenberg racing type motor
with which it is equipped. The Duesen
berg motor? No need to explain about
that to any person that knows auto
mobiles at all, or 'Who has followed
the records of the autpmobile race
tracks.
The Revere factory at Logansport,
Ind., has been looking around for
some time for a live distributor out
this way. Mr. Pepp at the same time
has been looking around for a high
powered car like the Revere. Along
came Tom T,rumheller, of Walla Walla,
who knows quite a thing or two about
high powered cars, and brought the
two together.
Presto! "Twas done! The Revere
people looked Mr.' Pepp over, decided
that his organization was lust the live
one they wanted, and signed blm up
as exclusive distributor for oth Ore
gon and Washington. - 1 -
Railroad freight, schedules . are the
most uncertain things these days next
to guessing how much bread will cost
next week, so Mr. Pepp isn't sure Just
when the first carload of Reveres will
reach him. But he figure It should
Hot and Cold Water at Auto Camp
for Visitors to Klamath Falls.
KLAMATH FALLS. May 31. (Spe
cial.) A large auto camp ground for
the visiting Elks, with hot and cold
water piped to it, for the state conven
tion here in August is one of the fea
tures arranged by the Klamath Falls
lodge.
Arrangements have been made
through the courtesy of the Klamath
Development company for use of the
Modoc parkgrounds. The hot spring
near this spot will be utilized for the
accommodation of the visitors. There
are to be 250 camps blocked out in the
park and a total of 800 in that vicinity.
Each will be of sufficient size to ac
commodate auto, tent and other facili
ties. The ground will be charted so
every camper can be located quickly.
Four guards, two at night and two
by day. will patrol the grounds to In
sure the safety of the visitors' .property.
goma. This route will follow the Shlp
pington highway for a short distance,
cut through via Pelican City, go north
through Terminal City, and connect
with the old road to Algoma.
The ' permanent location of the east
and west road of Lakeview has now
been made as far east, as Dairy, which
follows the present route with few de
viations. A preliminary survey has
been made from Dairy to the top of
the divide between Dairy and Beatty.
Another crew of surveyors has been
put to work in Lake county on the
route from Lakeview via Pine creek to
ward Alturas.
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Contracts Awarded for Xew Unit by
Tractor Company.
JANESVTLLE, Wis.. May 31. Con
tracts have been awarded by the Sam
son Tractor company, subsidiary of
General Motors corporation, for the
construction of the second unit of the
new tractor plant at Janesville. Wis..
where a total investment of $4,500,000
is contemplated. The first unit. 200 by
500 feet, was finished late . in March.
The second building will be an exact
duplicate of the original unit. When
it is completed the assembling of Sam
son tractors will be done by the end
less cnain memoa. immediate con-1
plates a third unit, which probably will
be erected In Auerust or September, J.
A. Craig is general manager.
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If gasoline leaks from the carburetor
when the car is standing and the en
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the dripping p-rFiPts, the valve 1akff
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