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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1919)
. ...... f SECTION FIVE Pages 1 to 12 Automobile and Highway News VOL. XXXVIII. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1919. NO. iS. LOGGING THE ROUTE TO SALEM STATE FAIR IN A BUICK When You Drive to the Fair This Week, Take Capital Highway to Newberg and From There Travel Over St. Paul Route, Which Is in Much Better Shape Than Others. . at - ' 1 r ' iii mi f i'ii 1 ii iii mnf Tmriiii1 Y .' v .-. , . -. . . . . . ig-TTcn t SiS'V "j TiJHS jWwlSTI . - , . . ' " . ' " ; --v; ,v-.,-.. ...... : i . i . ' ' - " '"x -'-. - - . -i ,Jr .' -K -r - - - - r 1 . --fx'- r-i'i?,' hy. , 5it ll.W 1 4 5 yjttirtrtf . .it '5 .f' 1 : 1 1 nVtt . 1 .4 4 ' ,.r. - n , - - ? "X A t. f Bi tu H. GREGORY. THIS is the week of the annual Etate fair at Salem, and naturally the question arises. "What is the beat automobile route to Salem?" At this writing there is only one good automobile route from Portland to Salem. That is the one by way of Newberg, St. Paul and Hopmere, usu ally spoken of as "the St. Paul route." It crosses the Willamette river on a long- and high wooden bridge at New berg, whence it traverses a level farm country with not a hill on it and enters Salem over the river road from the Wheatland ferry. A lot of motorists seem to have the idea that the east side Pacific high way Is now paved and open to travel all the way to Salem. This is de cidedly erroneous. Unless you have enough of a drag with the contractors to drive through the barricades and get' away with it, you have to jazz over a lot of bad detours on this route, bump over rough stretches that would make Job curse and, in short, make a long and hard trip out of it. Keep off the east' side highway until paving operations are completed. The same - is true, though to much less degree, of the west side Pacific highway, by way of Newberg, ayton (Concluded on Pag 3, Column 1.) 7 i -'- T " . ' ,''. v! '- :;-v v-h-;f- bad shape for the aame reason between Dundee and Dayton, motorists bound for Salem and the state fair this meek will find the Nen berg-St. Paul-Hop-mere . route by far the best. These views on the St. Panl and east side rostra were photographed laxt week an a road-loKjclna; trip la a Bnlrk six with Fraak V. Smith of the - Howard Auto company. The upper pleture shown the I lamette rlvc from the high bridge across It near Newberg, on the St. Paul route. In the left crater Is a field on $ Js one of the uumeroua tletours on the east side route, with Kim. Frank Smith1 prised bird dog. in the f ore Kronnd. Jvlm had a nice workout In th field. To the right ceater Is a view of Kim, Kim's master, and Kim's mih -ter'a llulek, at an attractive bend in the St. 1'iul road. Below, left. Is a atretch of new pave ment now open on the east side high way. But most of it Is not open. To the right, a big oak tree In the road be tween St. Paul and Hopmere. i immmissm
