SECTION SIX
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VOL. XXXVIII. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUXPAJT MORNING, DECEMBER 28, 1919. NO. 52.
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-Loading the apples in the orchard. The trailers were taken wherever needed and when loaded one of the Federal trsctor-trsclu, shown In the picture,
would come along, couple up to It and haul the apples away to the packing house while another trailer was loading. 2 Some little band of horses!
But these are only 104 of tbe 120 horses displaced in apple-hauling from this orchard by three tract of--trucks and nine semi-trailers, a Unloading
380 boxes of apples from a semi-trailer by means of a roller conveyor. 4 Fleet of seven-ton Federal tractors and Lee six-ton semi-trailers used by
Dufur Orchard Co-Owners' company, with extra semi-trailers In background.
THREE big tractor trucks and nine I
semi-trailers have replaced 120 I
horses as apple-hauling equip- !
ment in the big orchards of the Dufur J
Orchard Co-Owners company near
Dufur, Or. Not only that, but they
completed the hauling of the past
season's crop in far less time and at
less cost than was possible with the
former horse equipment.
The experience of this orchard
company, which has 400 acres in ap
ple trees, mostly Jonathans, but with
a sprinkling of "Winter Banana, New
town and Roman Beauty varieties,
presents an interesting issue to firms
that are still struggling along trying
to solve haulage problems with old
fashioned horse equipment.
Until this season the D lfur Orchard
Co-Ownera company has had the ut
most difficulty with teams and ordi
nary auto trucks to keep pace with
the pickers and packers In handling
the crop. Last spring Donald Camp
bell, secretary-treasurer of the cor
poration, decided to try the experi
ment of tractor trucks and semi
trailers, each tractor truck to have
HUPS AS CHRISTMAS GIFTS
FOUR CARS BOUGHT FOR THE
CHRISTMAS STOCKING.
Santa Claus, Through Manley Auto
Company, Deals Liberally
With Portland Folk.
Who said Santa Claus Would boy
cott the automobile?
Having delivered four brand new
Hupmoblles last week as Christmas
presents, X . rl. Ireland and li. r. Blil
ingsley, salesmen of the Manley Auto
company, believe they can conclu
sively refute the theory about Santa.
Ireland had three Christmas eve de
liveries to his credit and Billlngsley
had at least one, with others In view,
A complete surprise greeted Mrs.
J. H. Jones and her daughter when
trailer equipment enough so that it
could be kept continually in operation
without loss of time for loading and
umoauing.
He purchased from the William L.
Hughson company of Portland three
7-ton Federal tractor trucks and nine
6-ton Lee semi-trailers. These semi
trailers consisted of trailer bodies
fitted on two rear wheels, the front
end coupling to the rear of the tractor
truck.
By having nine of these semi
trailers each tractor truck was pro
vided with three of them. Tne wis
dom of this provision Immediately be
came apparent in the picking season.
During this time it proved easy,
through use of the three semi-trailer
bodies for each truck unit, to keep the
three tractor trucks in operation
without let-up, day and night.
The procedure was simple enough
While a tractor truck was hauling one
loaded semi-trailer another one was
being loaded, and on arrival of the
tractor truck : t loa-'. destination its
semi-trailer was disconnected for un
loading and the third semi-trailer,
empty, at once attached. With loss of
not more than five to six minutes for
uncoupling the loaded semi-trailer
and coupling on the empty one the
a new Hup touring car was parked
bright and early Christmas morning
at the curb in front of their residence
at 3000 Fifty-fifth street southeast.
Mr. Jones, the donor. Is custodian of
the Franklin High school.
Dr. M. A. Holmes, in purchasing
aTHupmobile roadster for Mrs. Holmes,
oould not keep the secret entirely,
but the presentation was Intended
nevertheless as a holiday gift.
The fact that O. E. Harkness? of the
Fairbanks-Morse Scale company, in
tended his Hupmobile purchase as a
Christmas present was revealed when
he stipulated ir. placing his order
that the car be delivered at his rest
dence, 370 East Fifty-Bixth Btreet
north, on the evening before Christ
mas, without fail.
Tne rourin i-ortianaer to shove a
Hup down the fireside stocking was
Clyde - O. Rogers of 304 New York
street, at. jonns. He surrendered to
the salesmanship of Mr. Billlngsley
who employed the proverbial Santa as
his Rales lieutenant.
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tractor truck would be on its way I
back to the field or packing house,
where the operation was repeated all
over again. The three Federal trac
tor trucks kept up this endless chain
of work, both day and' night, all
through the picking and packing sea
son. They never hauled less than 360
boxes of apples, weighing 7 to 9
tons, at a load. This meant at least
1080 boxes of apples for the three
tractor trucks at each combined trip
of the three. And many trips were
made each day and night- .
During the day -they iiauled apples
from the pickers In the orchards to
the packing house, a distance of four
to five miles, depending on what part
of the orchard the pickers were work
ing in. A crew in the packing house
assorted the apples as fast as they
were received, according to size and
color.
At night these graded apples,
packed in toxes, were hauled from
the packing house to Dufur, on the
railroad. 3 miles, and 15 miles from
The Dalles. The arrange: ent went
like clockwork all through the pick
ing season.
The apple crop of this one concern
handled in this way in the recent
MANY CARS IN CALIFORNIA
1019
AUTO TOTALS REACH
MARK OF 420,227.
State's Income From Auto Licenses
for the Year Amounts
to $4,072,570.
SACRAMENTO. Cal., Deo. 27. De
cember registrations usually mark
the low total of the year, but they
continue to oome in surprisingly fast.
In the last week there was a total of
27B2 new oars, with 491 registrations
of used cars.
The receipts are reaching a new
high mark. The total to date la
$4,072,676, which will be rebated half
to the counties after the cost of oper
ating the department has been de
ducted. Tjos Angoloa county receives
picking
season totaled
somewhat
more than 250,000 boxes of apples..
The company employed 300 persons In
the packing plant alone during the
packing season.
'The three hearvy-duty Federal
tractors and nine Leer trailers have
been in constant operation since their
arrival," wrote Donald Campbell,
secretary-treasurer of the company,
to the William L. Hughson company
at the close of the season. "Up to the
time they reached us we were hauling
our fruit with teams and ordinary
auto trucks and "with everything we
had and with all the trucks we could
hire in this district we were unable to
keep pace with our pickers and
packers.
"As Boon as the tractors and trailers
were In operation we were able to dis
pense with the teams and other
trucks and easily handle our entire
output. There Is no question that the
tractors and trailers have solved our
entire transportation problem, which,
SB you know, was a difficult one.
"At first we were of the opinion
that delays would be occasioned by
the changing of trailers, but found It
is really a very simple matter and a
question of only a few minutes for
the change."
the largest share because it has more
than double the cars of any other
county. The latest figures are:
Receipts 14, 072. 676
registrations
Automobiles 426,227
Substitute automobiles 63,534
Motorcycles 23421
Substitute motorcycles l23R
Chauffeurs 83,902
Motor car dealers s'soe
Motorcycle dealers igo
MURCH NOW WITH C. H. S. CO.
en-anown Automobile Man to
Sell Moon Cars.
George Murcn, formerly with the
William L. Hughson company, and re
cently territory sales manager for
Nash cars with the Portland Motor
Car company, has Joined the sales
organization of the C. H. 8. company,
Dixie. and -Moon distributors." He will
devote his attention to selling Moon
Vara In this territory.
NEW YORK, Dec. 27. Unless Imme
diate steps are taken to save it, the
great Sheepshead Bay speedway, king
of American speec bowls, will be dis
mantled, and lost forever to motor
racing before the spring season opens.
For some time past it has been
known that the speedway was
"white elephant" on the hands of its
owners, principal among whom is the
estate of the late Henry S. Harkness
millionaire sportsman. Although rec
ords have been smashed there and
many great races have been run, the
course has never been a paying prop
osition. The sole reason for disman
tling the oourse, according to C. J
Sullivan, counsel for the Harkness
estate. Is the great financial drain
that the huge plant has been on the
estate. Bids for the wrecking of the
bowl and the sale of the material are
being solicited.
Although built at a cost of nearly
t 760,000, the Sheepshead Bay speed
ray is now said to represent an in
vestment, of 13,500,000, Including the
land it occupies. There have been
various rumors as to what the land
is to be used for, when the course i
removed, principal among which ha
been that it Is to become the center
of a great home-building operation
However, the counsel for the Hark
ness estate stated that the land is to
be surveyed for this project.
Manufacturers of automobiles inter
ested in the maintaining of the speed
way for testing purposes, and racing
enthusiasts are talking about a plan
to save the speedway by taking it
over and guaranteeing the Harkness
estate the full expenses of Its upkeep
and a fair income on the investment
Concerning this Mr. Sullivan said that
he had heard indirectly of such
move, but that no proposition had
been received by him.
Despite the fact that all indications
point to the immediate dismantling
of the speedway, prominent racing
authorities in New York insist that
there may be a means of saving It,
and that the next few weeks may
develop a plan to preserve the course
for some time to come.
REPUBLIC MEN PROMOTED
Thomas M. House, Former Port
land Man, Now Sales Manager.
The Republlo Motor Truck Com
pany, Inc., of Alma, Mich., announces
the appointment, effective December
1. of O. W. Hayes as general manager
and of Thomas M. House as general
Bales manager. Both these men have
been connected with the Republic
company almost from Its beginning,
Mr. Hayes having formerly been In
charge of the purchasing department
of designing and engineering. Lat
terly he has been ractory manager.
Mr. -House was formerly eastern di
vision sale manager, with hendqusr
ACCESSORY FIRM GIVES BONUS
Employes of Ballou A Wright Get
Fund of 10,000.
Employes of the wholesale and re
tail automobile accessory firm of
Ballou & Wright, which has branches
In Portland and Seattle, drew down a
fund of $10,000 as a Christmas present
from the house.
About 100 employes in the two
branch houses shared in the distribu
tion of Christmas checks. Every em
ploye received something, no matter
how recent had been nis employment
though the older employes, of course
received the larger sums. The Christ
mas bonus system is part of the policy
of Ballou & Wright.
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BORG & BECK COMPANY NAMES
DEALER HERE.
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United Motors Company Made Dis
tributor for Oregon and South
west Washington.
The United Motors company of
Portland, distributors for Westoott,
Elgin and Harroun cars, "has been ap
pointed Oregon and southwestern
Washington distributor for the Borg
& Beck clutch. This announcement
was made last week by E. O. Dah!
manager of the company.
As every motorist knows, the Borg
& Beck clutch Is standard equipment
n nearly all automobiles and trucks
made. It is included in the speclnca-
tlons of an even 100 passenger oars
and nearly as many trucks. Up to
the present, there has been no ais
trlbutor In this territory for Borg &
Beck Darts, but the company has in
stltuted a new policy of having parts
carried In different sections of the
country. The United Motors company
has been made distributor for this
territory.
A large stock of Borg A Beck clutch
parts Is now on. the way to Portland
from the factory at -1011ne, 111., r
Dahl announced. They will be han
dled here at both wholesale and
retail.
Loosening Valve Caps.
Occasionally a valve cap will stick
and refuse to yield to ordinary ef
forts. In these circumstances, run
the engine for a few minutes until
the cap la heated and then pour
little water In the recess of the cap
This causes a sudden contraction
which allows the cap to be un
screwed.
NIKE TRAILERS
Difficult Transportation Problem
BIG OPENING FOB HIGHWAY"
COURSES IN COLLEGES.
Chief of Bureau of Public Roads
Declares 15,000 Trained Men
Can Be Absorbed.
ST. LOUIS. Dec 27. W anted Men
competent to spend one billion dol
lars."
This is the condition confronting
the country today In constructing na
tional highways, according to Harry
G. Moock. business manager of the
National Automobile Dealers' associa
tion, discussing the plan approved by
the executive committee of the asso
ciation to take up with various col
leges and universities the subject of
motor transport courses. One such
course already has been installed by
the University of Michigan. Mr.
Moock was Instructed to co-operate
with such other organizations as may
be interested in this development.
P ifteen thousand trained college
students can be absorbed in spend
ing this billion dollars," according to
Thomas H. MacDonald. director of the
United States bureau of public roads.
A recent survey conducted by this
bureau shows that of 127 technical
schools In the country 116 are giving
courses of one kind or another in
highway engineering, but as yet there
is no standardisation of this instruc
tion. Most of them provide only an
elementary grounding.
"There are more than 7,500.000 mo
tor vehicles in the United States," ac
cording to Mr. Moock, who says: "If
we are to arrive at a full economic
use of this growing fleet of vehicles,
highway transportation should be re
duced to a science, as railroad opera
tion has been, and highway operators
should bo trained In all the intricate
factors necessary to a successful con
duct of this Important business. Real
izing this the dealer association plans
to designate a national committee to
study the requirements and to work In
turn for the formation of similar com
mittees In the local automobile trade
associations. The work will be taken
up on this general plan:
"First, contact with the division of
education extension in colleges to
have them extend their courses in
highway engineering. Standardisa
tion of this work.
"Second, that this contact shall be
developed to a point where highway
transportation shall be taken up bv
the educational extension division of
the colleges, both as a short course
and as a supplement to the course
in highway engineering.
"Third, to further the work of the
colleges by interesting the automobile
men in Ihe several states where they
will be willing to aid the college
boards In founding these courses.
"We believe that within a few years
it will be possible to have every state
university follow the lead of Michi
gan and institute, this course in mo
tor transportation and highway engi
neering." Distilled Wafer.
Distilled water is. of course, abso
lutely essential for the storage bat
tery. Tt Is not always possible to
Automobiles, Road Trips and
Northwest Highway News
procure this easily and any car owner
can make his own distHled water by
means of a .very simple apparatus.
Have a length of annealed copper
tubing coiled.- so that it will fit in a
dishpan. . Connect the end of the cop
per "tubing with an ordinary tea ket
tle by means of a short piece of rub
ber tubing. The other end of the tube
Is curved so that the water passing
down will drip into a bottle or other
container. The dishpan in which the
coll rests is filled with cold water,
frequently renewed to keep it cold.
The water in the tea kettle Is boiled
and the steam so produced passes out
of the spout into the tube, through
the coll, where it is cooled and con
densed back into water again and la
finally collected for use In the bottle
at the end of the copper tube.
MANY TRUCKS AVAILABLE
32 0,000 COULD BE OBTAINED
BY GOVERNMENT.
Great Britain Saved by the Motor
Truck During the Recent
Railway Strike.
As a precaution against the possi
ble tie-up of the railway transporta
tion of the country in future strikes,
the council of national defense has
prepared a statement for the war de
partment, showing there is available
approximately 320.000 motor trucks
belonging to the government or that
may be commandeered.
Motor trucks saved the day in Eng
land during a railroad strike and as
tonished every one in the country by
carrying home In record time the peo
ple who worked in the loop during
the Chicago streetcar .strike.
Statistics prepared by the depart
ment of agriculture show that there
are 6.000,000 farms In the United
States, yet there are less than 100,000
trucks in use on farms.
The figures emphasize the fact that
the motor truck is coming intq its
own, and will face the biggest year
in the Industry during 1920.
While it is not regarded possible
to use motor transport In substitution
for rail-borne freight to the extent
employed in Great Britain during the
strike of railway operatives, never
theless the 320,000 trucks of various
sizes may be expected to relieve to
a considerable extent the elimination
of rail facilities.
One of the most popular long dis
tance freighters used In motor trans
portation is a truck designed by the
Goodyear Tire & Rubber company,
Akron, O.. and used exclusively by
that company on its Akron to Boston
express line. These trucks are being
sent all over the country to demon
strate motor truck efficiency and mo
torization of the farm. The multi
plex cord tire so- generally used to
day was first tried out on these
Goodyear trucks.
Oil for Bronze Bearings.
Never forget that in cooling a
bronze bearing that has been running
hot, about the last thing to use la
water. The best method is to wait foi
the bearing to cool in tbe ordinary
course but if this Is impossible, use
oil to cool the part.
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