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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1919)
TTTE SUNDAY OREGOX1AN, PORTLAND, AUGUST 3, 1919. BHD TIME TO TRAVEL LOOK THIS OVER CAREFULLY. FOR YOU'LL HAVE TO LEARN THESE SIGNALS OR EXPLAIN IN THE MUNICIPAL COURT WHY YOU DON'T. PEERLESS AGAIN PACIFIC Vast Amount of Grading and : Paving Under Way. 'HOT STUFF" BEING LAID Xespite Torn-TTp Conditions, Whole Highway from California Nortb. Speckled "With Touring Cars. BT JOHN W. KELLY. , Clinging to the Buromit of the Siakl yous Is a rock crusher, reducing to macadam -size ancient masses of blue fcasalt for the Pacific highway. Like a thin spider web, a wire stretches from the perched quarry across the mountain elopes, until it ie lost in the distance. This wire, attached to ragged pines, continues on and on for seven mllea, leaving the quarry plant in Ore gon and terminating in a power plant at Hilt, Cat Fuel is scarce and costly to deliver st the Siskiyou summit, eo Oskar Huber, who has the contract for paving the Pacific highway from Ashland to the California line, operate his crusher with electric power, drawn from Hilt. This is the most southern outfit work ing on the Pacific highway. From this summit, 4700 feet in the air. trucks loaded with rock for the pavement base roll down toward the state line, five miles away, eouthward. while the same plant furnishes rock for the northern section as well. A better position for distributing the rock could not be desired in a moun tainous country. The rock for the base is now being spread; supplies of as phaltum are being delivered by the railroad, and within a few weeks the "hot stuff will start. It is the inten tion of the contractor to finish paving this high part of the highway before severe weather comes, so that when winter approaches he can continue op erating in the milder climate of Ash land. Poor Tear for Toorlng. This Siskiyou section is the first road construction work that the motor tour ist from California strikes. From this point on as far north as the Multnomah county line there are contractors en gaged in improving the main traffic artery. No more unfavorable year for motor travel on the Pacific higiiway could be selected than this. Last year the roads were not so torn up, and next year the improvement will be so far advanced that there will be little in convenience. Just now, however, traffic encounters one detour or piece of construction after another for nearly 300 miles. Not withstanding these difficulties and handicaps, the Pacific highway is speckled with a continuous string of automobiles, moving north or south. So great is the tourist travel that it is impossible to obtain hotel accommo dations in such towns as Ashland. Med ford. Grants Pass or Roseburg unless reservations are made in advance. A step in the right direction is the establishment of camp grounds in towns afong the highway. The better these camps are equipped the more pop ular they will become, for not all the tourists wish to patronize hotels. Camps where there Is a good water sup ply, comfort stations, fuel and stoves will soon be known from one end of the coast to the other. In one such camp there are gas stoves, where a slot machine provides the fuel. Another thing needed along the high way ie service stations. There are such stations now, in the 'larger towns, but there is a good business opportunity for competent motor mechanics in al most any of the towns and they should be men who understand all makes of cars. Oskar Hnbrr on the Job. Reverting to the Oskar Huber job, which is a trifle more than 20 miles, 6.9 miles being the Ashland-Green Bprings mountain and 14. S miles being the Green Springs mountain to the state line, it will be next year before the con tractor completes this work. When finished It will connect with the pres ent hard surface, extending from Ash land to Medford and thence to Central Point. Everything from Grants Pass to ths state line has been contracted for paving. . From Central Point to Gold Hill there Is an 8.9 mile paving contract on which the Clark-Henery company is working. This will cost $231,689 and will be laid on an asphaltic concrete base. The base, as examined by State High way Engineer Nunn and R. A. Booth, highway commissioner, on their tour of inspection a few days ago. looked particularly good. It is referred to in the vernacular as "black base." Not only is the base being laid, but the top is also being put on and rolled. The main handicap on this job is shortage of rock, so tha progress is not as rapid as it otherwise would be. A contract to Schell & Calvert for the 12.2 miles from Gold Hill to the Josephine county line will soon be un der way. Mr. Schell has a paving con tract on his own account between Grants Pass and the county line and as soon as this is completed, which will be In about six weeks, Schell's equip ment will be moved onto the Gold Hill Josephine county line work. Between Grants Pass and the county line Mr. Schell has a 6.1 mile paving contract. Which is about 50 per cent finished. Sw Bridge at Gold Hill. At Gold Hill, the hottest spot in outhern Oregon, the contractors who will build the bridge across Rogue river at Rock point, are on the ground and assembling equipment. The bridge will cost $46,725. Proceeding northward. Commissioner Booth and Engineer Nunn examined the Sexton mountain section. Here is 7.6 miles of grading, to cost $123,055. The present grade is steep and the road winding. A new location has been made on the mountain side and the con tractor, J. E. Hildeburn, has his camps established and the clearing has com menced. This will evidently be the last section of the Pacific highway to be paved. The grading will probably not be fin ished before next year, and the fills will have to lay over a year before the commission will order the section paved. Between Wolf creek and Grave creek. 4.9 miles contracted for paving, the Warren Construction company, whose bid was $105. 528. has rocked most of the distance and fully two miles are ready for the "hot stuff surface. On the entire highway this section is one which will probably give the state highway commission the most concern. The reason for this lr that the grade Is narrow and will be paved to the stand ard width. As a result there is prac tically no room. for shoulders on ths outside curve and little less for shoul der on the Inside. Heavy traffic can be expected to break down the dge In the future. The cost of making a fill to provide for two-foot shoulders would be heavy. Good progress is being made on the grading of Stage Road pass. The old road through the pass, on the south saae. will be abandoned and an ,ea- 1. 1 I'j-J - ' ' ' " o-- " mwyi. . J fcj r i " Or " I ii?- -4 1 .f -v Wi " - . -,- ' t IT j jr J . - - I . t Lssa. f " -v. , , u -ii-- S'Tif. :'-. -, r Vj ! """I ykrr , ad , 5 ,V i 1 ' r Ih'; i i : - i ' - - . 1 ? - t ' X ' . ' f' ; ' : :: :- - - : ; , , . . . r ,J:: J-jjj TWO-POWER RAXGE EIGHT SETS ENVIABLE RECORD. Average of 17 Miles Per Gallon of Gasoline Made In the Annual Yoscmlte Economy Ran. For the third time In a year the Peerless two-power rang eight has demonstrated Its powsr and economy capabilities In duly sanctioned com petition on the Pacifio coast. Its latest success was achieved In the annual Camp Curry-Yosemito valley economy run, when it averaged 17 miles to the gallon of gasoline over $74 V, miles of mountainous trail and consumed but lhi pints of oil. or an average of 1994 miles to the gallon. The car which made the run was a standard seven-pasenger model. It weighed 4900 pounds and carried five passengers and a Quantity of luggage. - Speaking of the enviable record, of the Peerless sight the Evening Herald of Los Angeles says: "When it is considered that the To seratte economy run comprises prac tically 375 miles of mountain grades, many of them both steep and tortuous, of desert roads and boulevards, these records, both In oil consumption and mileage, comprise a record any auto mobile may well be proud of.. "It was the longest, biggest and most severe event of Its kind ever held on the Pacifio coast and It Is donbtful If this year's event with the same number of entries has aver been equaled in the United States. "The record of the Peerless eight, by winning two firsts and one second In one year's time in Southern Cali fornia, speaka volumes for tha Peer less product. In tha 1918 Camp Curry- Tosemite economy run. a standard model 66. seven-passenger touring car, was driven to victory. In the 1919 Rlm-of -the-World hill climb, a stand ard four-passenger Peerless model, that had been driven on the streets of Los Angeles for more than a year, won. In the 1919 Camp Curry-To-semtte run a standard two-power range eight was used. This car bad seen several months' service around Los Angeles but had never been on an altitude run." The elevation attained In the Camp Curry-Yosemite run is 6000 feet. The greater part of the route, which leads to the peaks of the 8lerraa. is over trying grades requiring an abundance of reserve power in a car. The roads most of the distance are dotted with chuck' holes and replete with sharp turns. Frank 13- AVatklni of Oregon State Motor association, demonstrating from hts Stnts car new arm slgrnsl code approved by city council. At IfllJ-Arm ap: will tarn to opposite side. In center Ann straight outt Will turn, same aide. At right Arm down i Look: out for stop.. This is the system of signaling now part of the new California state motor law and adopted in various eastern cities. Prank E. Watkins. A. A. A. representative for Oregon and director of the Oregon State Motor association, and Harry Coffin, commissioner of public safety, last Wednesday urged its adoption before the city council In the new city traffic law, and the council adopted it unanimously, to be effective as soon as the traffic law is adopted. So watch out. tirely new grade established. The graders are now working at the very apex of the pass, this being heavy rock work. The distance is but 2.5 miles, but the job will cost $53,220. Joplin & Eldon have this work. Glendale L.eft Off Highway. The road built by the state under the direction of former Highway Engineer Bowlby. from the summit of the pass to Glendale. will be abandoned, the com mission having selected a direct route. This leaves Glendale off the highway and saves about three miles. Work is moving along on the section from John's place to Jacque's place. seven miles, grading and macadam, for which Joplin & Eldon will receive $70,957. From Galesvllle to Canyonville the highway runs through Cow Creek can yon, a gorge which is wild and pic turesque, .abounding with game, and part of a national forest, although none of the trees seen from the highway are very valuable. John Hampshire & Co. will complete within two months 10.1 miles of grading and J. Elmer Nelson will soon have his one-mile unit finished- These two jobs aggregate $252,510. Years ago this was a toll road and was constantly changing owners. The Canyon creek toll road was an issue In Oregon politics and the various con tenders for the control of this pass where all the travel north and south had to go had their own candidates for members of the Oregon supreme court, where the issue was to be de cided. The Canyon creek toll road be came a scandal. Canyon Open at Night Only. At the present writing, traffic moving through the canyon Is. permitted only between 5 P. M. and 6 A. M. Warnings are posted that .the road is dangerous and no responsibility will be assumed by county, state or government. A motorist with a regard for his life will attempt to go through the canyon only during the hours of daylight. This means he must move with dawn or promptly at 5 o'clock in the evening. For long stretches the grading has been roughly finished and the going is good, but there are other spots where danger lurks, springs are in jeopardy and wheels may be smashed. Traffic now has to go part of the time on the old road and part of the time on the new grade, and at other times right through the construction. This Is the most trying section for the motorist that now exists on the Pacific highway, but when completed and the commission will advertise for bids to rock the grade at the meeting August 8 it will be as safe and scenic as the Columbia highway inf-Multno- mah county. LOWER HIGHWAY NOT SO BAD Arnold Cohen Has No Trouble Witli Tires From Rock. Arnold Cohen of the Oldsmobile Company of Oregon motored to Seaside with his family last week in an Olds mobile eight, journeying via Goble, Rainier, Clatskanie and the lower Columbia River highway, which for some time has been in pretty bad shape for touring, due to rock laid for paving operations. Mr. Cohen reports that the road is very fair with the exception of three miles of the last Bix Just before enter ing Astoria. This is rocky and cut up. he says, but not so bad as to cauue much worry. He had no tire trouble en route. Cause of Knocking. In motors with detachable cylinder heads great care should be taken to see that the gasket used to pack the joint does not project into the combus tlon chamber. When this occurs the gasket is likely to become incandes cent, causing preignitlon knocks and even back firing in the carbureter. BIG CORD HAS ADVANTAGE IN CARLISLE TYPE, FRICTION IS AT MINIMUM. KLICKITAT ROADS ARE ROUGH Surveyors Busy, However, Planning Permanent Highway Work. HOOD RIVER. Or.. Aug. 2. (Spe cial.) Tha roads from White Salmon to the Trout lake district in Klickitat county, Washington, are getting ex ceedingly rough, according to Joe M. Johnson, who has just returned from a week-end tour to the scenic district at the south base of Mount Adams. "The roads are made of earth and they have been cut full of ruts, some of which are eight inches deep," says Mr. Johnson. "Dust often prevents ths detection of the holes until one has jarred into them. Surveyors, however, are at work, and plans are under way for permanent highways. Continuous Rope Construction In cased in Rubber Coaitng from End to End. "Every experienced motorist knows that a motor which overheats." says C. A. Gilbert, vice-president of the Carlisle Cord Tire company, "is struc turally weak. The same is true of a tire which overheats, but the average tire user never stops to take note of the temperature of his tires. "Heat in a cord tire means friction between the cord, which spells short life for the casing. "In the 'small cord' typs of tire It is impossible as yet completely to Incase each one 'of the thousands of little strands in rubber. In the 'giant cord' Carlisle tire, made from a continuous rope with a required tensile strength of 235 pounds, a thick rubber coating insulates the rope from end to end. "The absence of friction enables us to employ a rubber lining on the inside of the Carlisle casing. This lining makes a smooth protector for the inner tube, and extends Its life indefinitely. "Our claim for an absolutely friction proof giant cord casing may be easily tested by simply holding your hand on a Carlisle casing after a long run on a hot day. It will never be more than a few degrees warmer than the surround ing atmosphere, whereas a tire which was wearing itself out with internal friction would be so hot it would blis ter your hand." Don't' attempt to shirt the gears with out first releasing the clutch. THIS CROP WOULD MAKE A NICE ADDITION TO ANY MAN'S BANK ACCOUNT. Y j.-tfYTi l)i V ? h -fJ i " - " - - - - - - - ,-'- . tf i TIRE Standard Makes Firsts Tubes. Specials. Kon-akid Guano. Guaranteed. 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