THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTXA, JULY 27,. 1919.
WHEATLAND FERRY IS
ROAD SCOUTING IN A NEW MAXWELL TO FIND THE BEST ROUTE TO SALEM.
m TRUCK TRAIN
AT THE MISSISSIPPI
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Tire Go.
BEST WAY TD SALEM
St. Paul Route Has Dust and
Great Convoy Covers Third of
Way Across Continent.
Is Main Truck Artery.
Corner
SIXTH and
BURNSIDE
KEEP OFF EAST SIDE ROAD
ILLINOIS ROADS NOT GOOD
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-OUR-
fen Miles of Pure Dust on. Detour
From Salem to Aurora Due to
Paving Work on Highway.
BT L. H. GREGORY.
Taking it tore and aft and ty and
large, the best road to Salem these
days, despite new construction work. Is
styi the old reliable Wheatland ferry
route.
This is said with due consideration
for the alternate road to Salem yia St.
Paul. There is some ground for differ
ence of opinion, perhaps, but alter hav
lne traveled these two west-side
routes and the one on the east side via
the Paclfio highway or rather, what's
left of it Just now the writer in
clines to the Wheatland ferry route via
Newberg and Dayton, to the run
through St- Paul.
But of the third route, that on the
east side, there can be only one opin
ion and one advice. And that is, keep
off It.
Motorists traveling to Salem or from
It over this route see the main highway
at times in the far distance, but that
Is Just about all. . Between Salem and
Aurora the highway is no. open at all,
and care are routed over ten miles of
the dustiest road Oregon or any other
state can produce.
Ten Solid Miles of Dut
Dust? Between the hamlet of St.
Louis on the Oregon Electric and Au
rora, 1S.2 miles, coming this way from
Salem, it is nearly all dust. This is
not exaggeration at all. Counting in
little patches of macadam and a half
mile or so of pavement in the back end
of Woodburn, through which this de
tour route passes, there is only 8.2
miles of passable road between St.
Louis and Woodburn.
All the rest is dust. Dust over the
tires, and in some places pretty near
to the hubs. Tou breathe dust, eat
dust, spit dust and curse dust. Keep
off the east side highway to Salem
until paving work between Aurora and
Salem Is completed.
This stretch between St. Louie and
Aurora is only part of the long detour
on the east side between Salem and
Aurora. Right at the city limits of
Salem motorists encounter a fence
across the highway and read a sign di.
recting them to take the river road and
follow the red signs to Aurora. The
signs are called red, but as they are
paper and have faded out, they are only
pink and not very pink at that.
This river road, which is also the en
trance to Salem over the Wheatland
ferry road, is in pretty fair condition
for 14.8 miles out of Salem. Then, still
following the pink signs, cars are di.
rected to the left toward Woodburn.
The road is still good to St. Louis, 17.3
miles from Salem, and for half a mile
beyond that. But then begins the dust.
and it continues, abated only by tan
talizing 100-yard sections of fine ma
cadam every couple of miles or so sand
wichod in thus for some reason inex
plicable to one not in on the secret, to
within two miles. of Aurora, S0.6 miles
'by this' detour from Salem.
Run Made In Maxwell.
Thence into Portland the main Pa
cific highway is all right and paved
much of the way. But keep off this
east-side route at present.
The writer last week drove to Salem
in a new Maxwell car with George V.
Adams of the C. L. Boss Automobile
company, going there over the New-berg-st
Paul route and returning on
the east side, to ascertain which of the
three routes is est. The Wheatland
route had been traveled a few days
previously.
No matter what road you take to
Salem, it's impossible just now to avoid
at least one detour. This is a 3.3 mile
circuitous entrance into Newberg by
way of Springbrook. made necessary
by the tearing down of the old wooden
highway bridge at Newberg. which is
to be replaced by a modern viaduct. As
this detour is graveled, it is not bad,
though rather dusty from much travel.
The main route into Salem by way
of the Wheatland ferry leads out of
Newberg over the main west side high
way to Dayton, thenoe turning left and
In a few miles coming to the ferry.
Across the ferry, it enters Salem over
the so-called river road.
The one fly in the ointment to this
road is a two and a half mile detour
beginning 4.1 niiies from Newberg. to
EVER TRY THIST
Oils and gasoline are deadly
enemies to automobile tires, ac
cording to C. B. Cadwell, Portland
manager of the B. F. Goodrich
Rubber company. He suggests
this test: Take a small piece of
rubber. a rubber band for instance,
and immerse it in gasoline. Watch
it swell grow before your eyes.
Then after allowing it to soak for
a short time, just stretch that
rubber no life or vitality left.
Gasoline has a similar effect
on automobile tires. "Gas" eats a
weak spot into the tread or side
wall, as the case may be, starts
deterioration. Oil and grease have
the same effect on tires as r;aso
line. Great care and vigilance
ehould be exercised in the use of
oil around a garage.
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TAKE THK OLD RELIABLE ROUTE VIA NEWBERG, DATTOJT ASD THE WHEATLAND KERRY, ADVISES GEOFGH
V. ADAMS. .
With George V. Adama of the C. L. Boss Automobile company, the automobile editor of The Oregonlan went to Salem
the other day to find out which of the roads from Portland to that town Is best Just now. It was unsnimously decided
that, despite some construction work, the route via the Wheatland ferry is better than the others. The run to Salem
was made over the St Paul road, which ia fair but rough and very dusty in stretches. The east side Pacific highway route
is almost impossible, with ten miles of detouring over dust roads. Here's the key to the pictures above-
1 Harvesting Is In full swing now, and this hay wagon was one of several met In the St. Paul road.
2 The Maxwell and George Adams, snapped in a nayfield near Newberg.
3 Bridge across the Willamette near Newberg, on the St. Paul route.
get around new construction work in
re-grading a portion of the highway
for pavement.
An even mile of this detour is very
bad. being thick with dust and quite
rough, but the remainder of it is good
erraveL And this Is the only bad place
at present on this route from Newberg
' to Salem.
Favorite With the Tracks.
Of the St. Paul route, not as much
can be said. True, there are no detours
on it, but there are sume rough patches,
and some very dusty patches with only
a dirt bottom, which has been cut up
and scattered about by heavy truck
travel.
This truck traffic Is one of the
main drawbacks to this run. Owtng
to the condition of the east side route,
trucks from Portland to Salem or vice
versa take the St. Paul road. A good
way to realize something of the grow
ing extent of this truck traffic is to
drive along behind two or three heavy
trucks kicking dust into your face for
a mile or so. They have cut deeply into
the dirt portions of the road and made
travel over it by passenger car dusty
and unpleasant, on weekdays, at Veast.
To reach the St. Paul road from New
berg, drive to the Newberg end of the
now torn-down highway bridge, and
tufn right for two blocks to sign,
"Willamette river bridge." Follow the
direction of the sign for a mile, and
you'll find yourself crossing the Wil
lamette river on a high, long bridge
that you probably didn't know existed.
If you haven't made the trip before.
Then follow the main road In front of
you. .
This is really a very attractive route,
through a fine farming country, with
4he harvest now In full progress. Much
of it is in fine condition, with grsvel
bottom. At speedometer mileage 34.2
Is the town of St- Paul, which has
some mightily attractive homes.
Between mileage 37 and 39.5 there Is
a rough, very dusty section of road
that takes all the joy out of life, partic
ularly if you meet three or four huge
dust clouds concealing trucks on the
way. There are othr comparatively
short strips of dirt beyond this, though
mostly the road is very good on into
Salem, w,hlch is reached via the same
river road as on the Wheatland ferry
route.
Los; for St. Paul Fans.
A brief log of the St. Paul rout for
those who prefer it:
00.0 Oregonlan building. Portland. Follow
Terwllliger boulevard and Capital
highway.
33:9 Detour left off highway. -23.8
Springbrook.
26.2 Main street in Newberg. Turn left
two blocks to end of torn-down
bridge, then right two blooks to sign
"Willamette river bridge," and follow
the road.
37.6 Willamette river bridge. Road beyond
. it rather choppy tor some distance,
but rook bottom.
30.0 turn left at fork.
30.3 Turn left t fork. Good gravel.
34.3 St. Paul. Good to mtleago 37.
37.0 Dirt road, lots of dust, to 30. g.
42.0 Turn right.
46.7 Straight ahead.
49.5 Intersect Wheatland ferry road Into
Salem.
53.3 Main street !a Salem.
SIOUX BIAS S ACRE DESCRIBED
Automobile Bine Book Gives History
of Outbreak in 1883.
The Automobile Blue Book'rakes up
some early American history. Man
kato, Minn., in pioneer days was the
domain of the Sioux Indiana.
In 1862 this tribe, according to the
tour bible, became dissatisfied with
the slowness of the government In pay
ing their annuities.
Taking advantage of the fact that the
civil war had taken so many men from
the country, the Sioux inaugurated one
of the bloodiest massacres in the his
tory of Indian warfare.
The Indians were ultimately over
come by troops and 300 of them sen
tenced to death or imprisonment in
Mankato.
BRITISH MAKING LIGHT AUTO
Car Intended to Meet Stiff Compe
tition From America.
LONDON. July 26. A Urge , British
engineering company has announced its
entry into the field of motor car pro
duction with a model which ia openly
regarded as an attempt to meet Amer
ican competition by adopting American
methods of mass production. The com
pany hopes to put 20,000 cars on the
market in the first year. This car, aays
the American Chamber of' Commerce in
London, is to be of IS to 20 horse pow
er, to carry five passengers and sell at
approximately 31490. Thus far only
one car has been built and this was for
testing purposes.
RAPID LOADING IS VITAL
IX MAKES BIG DIFFERENCE IN
TRUCK PROFITS.
Del Wright Points Ont Some Labor-
Saving Device Truck Owner
Should Investigate.
in selling motor trucks dealers
soouia impress upon the buyer the ad
vantages of rapid-loading devices, while
vice versa the truck buyer should take
pains to investigate the possibilities of
saving money and time by speeding up
bis trucks and employes through the
use of mechanical or electrical loading
and unloading devices.
This is the advice of Del Wright of
tne w imam L. Hughson company, local
distributor of the Federal Motor Truck
company.
"Every truck user must have thought
at one time or another of the economies
in time and money which could be
brought about by use of mechanical or
electrical loading and unloading appli
ances, wmca will either enable the
driver of the truck to do all the load
lng with a minimum of effort and in
the quickest time, or at least reduce
the size of the shipping gang, says
Mr. Wright.
"Perhaps an owner has already fig
ured out that with more efficient
methods or hauling devices at the load
ing or unloading station the truck
could almost double up on the num
ber of trips per day. depending, of
course, on the distances and how un
wieldy the packages really were.
"There are appliances which will save
the truck owner labor, time and truck
time. One device I have in mind is
the link-belt affair, which uses a small
motor and is of especial utility in coal
yards. Pushed up against a coal pile
and with a man shoveling coal toward
it, it will feed its endless chain of coal
containers into the pile and load the
coal truck at a rapid rate as low, I
think, as ten minutes for an eight-yard
truck.
"Tere are also devices which can
pick up huge wrought pipe and load
240 tons of this heavy material in a
ten-hour day; overhead power hoists
for interior loading: overhead mono
rail trolleys, which handle commodities
in large lots and deposit the loads di
rectly on trucks; simple endless belt
conveyors; spiral loading conveyors.
and many others. One of the simplest
arrangements for rapid loading at
crowded loading platforms is the saw
toothed construction, enabling the
driver to back up more trucks at a
time in a better position than by the
straight design."
ONE CAUSE OF WATER LEAKS
Bits of Carbon Often Prevent Tight
ening of Cylinder Head.
Sometimes the owner of a car having
a detachable-head engine, after scrap
ing out the carbon and getting the
motor to going again, finds that there
is a water leak at the bead and that
the power plant does not run as well
as before he operated upon it. The rea
son for this is Drobablv that nrtii.i
of carbon have got into the stud holes
or aruond the studs. With bits of
carbon lodged here the cylinder head
cannot be properly tightened, with the
result that there are leaks at this
point. The remedy is obvious.
Balky Starter.
When the starting motor stalls easily
and fails to spin the crankshaft aa it
should, it Is a safe bet that either the
storage battery does not test up to the
necessary 1275 or that the contact
points of the line switch are not making
proper contact.
When the brakes are not adjusted
equally, not only ia there danger of
skidding, but tire wear will result.
When the brake on one side locks Its
wheel while the other is still revolving
the casing on the locked aide la scraped
along the ground, to the detriment of
the tread.
Half Dozen More) Track Join Train,
Including Packard on Regular
C roes-Continental Ron.
BT FRANK KANE.
CLINTON. Ia.. July 28. (Special)
The victory truck train of the United
State army 1 parked on the west bank
of the Mississippi tonight. 1000 miles
out of Washing-ton and a third of the
way to it goal, the Paclfio coast. ,
Tb 68 warrior truck under com
mand of Lieutenant-Colonel W. C- lie
Clure rolled down to the big river
through 182 mile of Illinois road,
mostly dust-filled ruts.
In the last two day of going, a good
many detour from the Lincoln high
way, because of paving and repair
that artery ia undergoing. Increased the
mileage appreciably and on or two de
fective bridge gave the engineer corps
some practice. But these difficulties
were steadily surmounted and the ex
pedition arrived with all the trucks
that got through the Alleghenlea a
week ago and a half dosen more taken
on by Colonel McClure at Chicago
Height yeaterday morning.
From all the farmer along the way
the soldier driver heard repeatedly of
the luck that attends the convoy a re
gard continued dry weather. The na
ture of the road themselves proclaimed
danger to a heavy train such a this in
a rainy season.
Pacing the run to the Missouri and
out over the great plains, the army
trunk have with them the experienced
transcontinental carrier of the Good
year company, a fire-ton Packard, to
which the croeo-country haul la famil
iar, and a Ftreatone service truck of
the same make that hold all sort of
records on southern roads.
Moreover, in the train Itself are three
light duty Packard of the sort that
distinguished themselves In army serv
ice on me uexican border before they
went 10,000 strong on the battlefield.
of Europe aod Aeia Minor.
SCISSORS TEST SEVERE
XORWALK TIRES MADE UNDER
SPECIAL FORMULA.
Factory Chemist Only Man Possess
ing Secret That Make Rnb
' ber Used So Tough.
"All bridge have been burned behind
u by featuring the scissors test for
ascertaining the quality of rubber used
in a tube." declares the general man
ager of the local Norwalk service sta
tion operated by the Auto Part Supply
company.
'In Introducing and making the scis
sor test the manufacturers of Norwalk
tires nave committed themselves to a
quality product, nd any deviation from
the standard of tuality now represent
ee; wouia prove a catastropn to their
reputation.
"The scissors test reveals the aualltv
of rubber In a tube with precision. It
is mad by taking a piece of tube one
quarter inch by three lnchea long and
stretching it to nine inches, three times
Its original length. If. when slightly
nipped on the edge, it tear apart, the
rubber la inferior. If. when snipped, it
does not tear apart. It ia positive proof
of quality.
"Dr. David Spence. directing chemist
at the Norwalk factory. Is the only man
In the vrorld in possession of the formu
la for producing the rubber used In
Norwalk tires. His method of refining
and strengthening the ru ber used, la
these tubes ia a deep secret. The Nor
walk factory ha been built around
this method. No more dramatic or final
proof of quality for any type of mer
chandise than the scissor test of Nor
walk 1 in us today."
Proper Idling.
Owner of car containing small bore
six-cylinder engines sometimes com
plain of the difficulty of obtaining
proper idling. The owner usually as
sumes that the carbureter is at fault.
A a matter of fact the trouble Is
usually caused by the spark plug gaps
being set too close. This causes the
motor to roll when Idling with all the
symptoms of loading. By Increasing
the spark gaps and cleaning the plugs,
the trouble will be cured.
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