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REPUBLIC TERRITORY
GREATLY ENLARGED
REPUBLIC TRUCK DOES HEAVY HAULING IN KLAMATH FALLS COUNTRY.
WHOLESALERS DICK
AUTO TRUCK LIES
HI
Light Weight and
Durability are the best
Guarantee of Quality
Roberts Motor Car Co. Gets
Truck Shipments Solve Prob
11 Counties in Idaho.
lems of Grand Rapids.
ALLOTMENT IS 500 TRUCKS
COMPETITION EASILY MET . I
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TlfE SUNDAY OREGOXLVX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 11, 1020
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and Cook & iill Policy. f
One of the pioneer motor truck dis
tributing: firms in Oregon is the
Roberts Motor Car company. Several
years ago this firm brought the Re
public truck into this territory. In
those days Belling trucfts was a good
deal like selling the first issue of
Liberty bonds it required a vast deal
of pioneering work. The prospective
purchaser had to be absolutely
"shown" before he would even con
sider the purchase of a truck.
But the Roberts Motor Car com
pany "showed" the merits of the mo
tor truck so thoroughly that today
there are about twice as many Re
publics in this state as any other
make of truck. livery county is
sprinkled with yellow chassis trucks.
Naturally, the factory has appre
ciated this aEgressive distribution of
its trucks. It has just indicated its
appreciation in a very' substantial
manner by allotting' to the Roberts
Motor Car company, as additional
territory. 11 counties in Idaho, in
cluding Boise, the state capital.
O. W. Roberts and H. I. Stoute
myer, for some time territory repre
sentative for the firm, are now in
Boise opening" a wholesale and re
tail branch there for Republic trucks.
From this branch will be handled all
wholesale business for eastern Ore
Ron. Mr. Stoutemyer will have
charge of the branch, which will in
clude .not only a salesroom, but a
part supply depot and service sta
tion for Republic trucks. These de
partments will be operated along the
same lines at the Portland head
quarters. To take care of the increase in its
Oregon business, its seven counties
in Washington, and the nw territory-
in Idaho, the Roberts Motor Car
company has signed for the delivery
of 5(10 Republic trucks in the' coining
season. In the year just closed the
firm sold 335 Republic trucks in Ore
' son,' and its business totaled $1,000,
000, which will be considerably in
creased this year.
Dave Crawford is general sales
manager for the company. The serv
ice end at the new Koise branch will
be in charge of Earl Bowyer, who has
had long experience with the Repub
lic line.
Cook & Gill, distributors in the Ore
gon territory for Paige cars and
trucks, who recently removed .into a
4-story quarter block at Eleventh and
Burnside streets, that is one of the
best equipped automobile plants on
the Pacific coast, go on the theory
that every employe is a potential
member of the firm. Owners of the
firm and all department heads once
a month hold a "get together" meet
ing with the employes, which is
mightily enjoyed by all hands. One
reason for this is that there is noth
ing -formal about it. In discussions
of the business and methods of im-1
proving it,- much stress is placed on
the value of suggestions from em
ployes. There is a standing offer of
$5 for the best suggestion and $2.50
for the second best, as decided at
each of these monthly gatherings.
After business matters have been
threshed out, all take on coffee and
sandwiches. At the monthly meeting
last week, they were further enter
tained by the prowess of "Kid"
Meeker, one of the Cook & Oill men.
who handled a sailor opponent rather
roughly in four rounds.
F. H. Xash of the Atterbury Truck
Sales company of Portland, will depart
in about a week for the Chicago
automobile and truck show. While
there he will meet his new service
engineer, Carl H. Charnquist, former
ly of Omaha. Mr. Charnquist was
recently sent by Mr. Xash to the At
terbury truck factory, where the fac
tory is co-operating to put him
through every department in the
plant in a three months' course so as
to insure his being familiar with
every process in the manufacture of
Atterbury trucks. He will also take
a shorter course at the Stewart fac
tory. M. J. Woolach, assistant manager of
the American Tire & Rubber company
of Portland, returned last week from
visiting the plant of the General Tire
&. Rubber company at Akron. O. It
was his first trip to big league ter
ritory, and he was amazed at the vast
business done in Akron. The General
plant, for instance, had no finished
tires left, everything having been
whipped out to fill orders made weeks
before. The factory already has one
big addition in full operation, with
another one under construction.
I". H. Hearsch, western division
manager for the Kelly-Springfield
Tire company, waa a recent visitor
in Portland with C. U. Meade, man
ager of the new Kelly-Springfield
factory branch here. Mr. Hearsch had
Just returned from a visit to the fac
tory of the company at Akron, O.,
and Its new factory at Cumberland,
Md.. which Is to turn out 10,000 tires
a day when completed. The company
is starting something new in building
Its second factory outsi'de of Akron,
but iS dnlnir m nn ri 1 1 t"i. i-i. 1 I :
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that Akron has reached its limits as
. isaurj center. .several hundred
trained workmen will be transferred
from Akron to Cumberland when the
new plant is ready.
"W. S. "Wells, president of the Mar.h.
field Auto company and his brother
ana partner. Hank Wells, were hosts
at a dealers' get-together banquet in
Marshfield recently. Guests inclurinri
C. Chancy of the Coos-Curry Auto
company, Banaon, Or.; p . L. Greenough
of Coquille. Or.: T. R. Harr-l,,t,,
Maxwell service manager at Portland;
Charles Hall, president of the bank of
Southwestern Oregon and of the Ore
gon state chamber of commerce, and
Ted Herlihy, Chalmers manager of
wholesale sales for Oregon. One fea
ture of the evening was a banquet,
the menu of which was made up en
tirely in automobile terms. Guess for
yourselves what some of the follow
ing items indicated: Oregon gasoline
cocktail, specific gravity 66, Marsh
town bootleg special, warranted seven
years old and made in 1919. under
slung canvas-back duck, retreaded
yams, non-skid salmon, Jiot timken
pudding, cotter key of cigarettes,
pantasote dressing miracle oil sauce,
thernio-siphon pimentos.
Buttery I'll lor.
A very convenient filler for putting
electrolytic in battery Jars is made by
steaming an old jar until it is soft and
then forming a sort of spout at one
side by means of two pieces of board.
When th( Jar cools It retains the
etuii-'C Lliat lias been glvcu it.
ZZT "'yri "r-nn.W- - VT'V.
fno and one-half-ton model owned by City Transfer company of Klamath Kalla, with four-ton load of nay." Thin
truck nam sold by the Jloberts Hot or Car company 'of I'ortland tkraogk the Dunnnm Auto company of Klamath
KhIIm.
"This truck," says a letter , to the Roberts Motor Car company here, "is making the run to Blich. 60 miles, under
extremely bad road conditions, the snow being about one foot deep on the level and drifting until the truck has to
break its own track. Recently It made the round trip in one day", carrying 6200 pounds one way, and is the only
truck making the run, as others have been taken off, unable to handle the grades."
OWNJili CAX SAVK HIS CAR BV
I'Olil.OWIACi D1RECTIOXS.
Uriseoc Mail Points Out the lm-
liortaucc to livery Motorist of
Keeping Car Lubricated.
"Instruction books are really a part
of the sale of the car that they go
with," says Warlne Sherwood, ad
vertising manager of the Briscoe
Motor corporation, Jackson, Mich.,
"because the instruction book, if read
and followed, will greatly increase
the appreciation of the owner of the
car and, from an otherwise indiffer
ent owner, make of him a booster.
"It does not follow that everyone
who buys an automobile is person
ally going to keep his car in run
ning shape. Especially is this true
among the high-priced cars. But
among cars of medium price, such as
the Briscoe, the owner will take it
upon himself to attend to the small
adjustments necessary, and he will
take pride in understanding the me
chanical features of his car. That is
where the instruction book plays an
important part.
"Take oiling, for instance. Once
a month the average car owner takes
his car to the garage man for a thor
ough oiling. He would rather trust
this matter to a competent mechanic
than undertake the unpleasant task
himself. But there are bearings in
his car which need attention every
-50 miles of running. By reference
to his instruction book these are
easily .located, and these grease cups
are, in the Briscoe, readily accessible.
The oiling chart will, show also the
cups that need a twist or two every
500 miles, and so on.
"If the oiling instructions alone
were followed the instruction book
would well pay for itself in saving
the owner repair bills caused from
dry. bearings. That is. in effect, the
importance of the instruction book to
the automobile manufacturer and
dealer. Mr. Brown finds by reading
nis instruction book that the fan
bearing should have grease every 600
miles, and, simple though it appears,
the bearing will run hot if neglected
and serious damage will result. Mr.
Brown in ignorance will blame it on
the car rather than on his own neg
lect. "Batteries and ignition also require
constant attention and the complete
Instruction book treats these items so
that tne novice can understand. Then.
if he fails to have his battery exam
ined according to instructions and
the gravity is too low.' he cannot
reasonably blame anyone but him
self."
utor can accumulate any quantity of
cars.
"There are . 30.000 dealers in the
United States. If each dealer secured
only one car for storage, the factories
would have to produce a surplus of
30.000 cars bey.ond the present de
mand. That is entirely out of the
question.
"I expect to see the demand for cars
increase after the New York show
and pass beyond all possibilities of
production following the Chicago
show."
TOCKIST CAMP AT JLKWISTOX
Delsol Park Is Chosen and Im
provement Will Be Installed.
LBWISTON, Idaho, Jan. 10. After
more than a year of planning by the
commercial club and the city coun
cil, action has been 'taken by the
council looking toward the immediate
location and improvement of a site
for an automobile tourists' camp.
The site chosen is known as elsol
park, a wooded stretch along the
Clearwater river about two miles
east of the city. The city owns this
property, and will carry out improve
ments which will make it one of the
attractive camp sites in the north
west. City Engineer Burns has prepared
plans and blue prints which will be
used as a basis for the improvements.
These include the Installation of a
pressure water supply, with Bhower
baths, the planting of more trees,
building of benches, tables and out
buildings: and the construction ofa
new lateral road that will give three
entrances to the park. The park
commission Will visit the Delsol park
site and determine the extent of im
provements needed.
USE FOR J! DCDGE
KNtilNJi FUMES USED TO BUMP
OFF PESKY RABBITS. .
ENCLOSED CAR SHORTAGE
JORDAN' SAYS DEMAND CAN'T
POSSIBLY BE 'MET.
Lack of (ilass Crop Vp to Add to
Diriieulties of Much-Harried
Auto Manufacturers. '
Edward S. Jordan, president of th
Jordan Motor Car company, urges Jor.
can dealers to safeguard, their spring
business by taking now all Jordan
cars- they can get from the factory.
Jlr. Jordan sends this message from
England, where he went to attend the
Olympia motor show and visit the
principal foreign motor car factories.
"We are now producing BOO cars a
month." says Mr. Jordan, '"with orders
from dealers for Immediate delivery
of ten months" production at this rate.
There is every indication that the de
mand, will increase steadily through
out the winter.
"The closed car situation from the
standpoint of deliveries is most dis
couraging. No one can begin to pro
duce enough closed cars to meet more
than a fraction of the demand. No one
could possibly have anticipated such a
demand. Even if it could have been
anticipated producers of plate glass
for windshields, top lights and closed
car windows would be unable to sup
ply sufficient glass for months to
come, furthermore, the production of
closed car hardware is far too limited
to satisfy the demand. Besides all
this, the number of body manufac
turers is very small considering the
demand, their facilities are limited,
and they cannot get enough men
qualified to build high-grade closed
bodies.
"It will be impossible for any fac
tory to include closed models in their
shipment of open cars. Any dealer
who shows inclination to hold up
shipments of open cars for closed
cars will have to pay the penalty in
the spring through the shortage of
open cars when he most needs them.
We therefore urge all distributors or
dealers to safeguard their epring
business by preparing for it as we
have prepared for it by notifying all
our suppliers that we are ready to
take any quantity of material they
can tihip at any time.
"There is already a shortage of
1.00O.000 cars. There will be a short
period during the winter -when every
dealer cannot sell every car he can
get for immediate delivery. But de
liveries this year will be so widely
distribtitad an.t production so far short
of demand ibat no dcalw ot ilisUih-
MOTOR TRUCKS RELIABLE NOW
Different Story rrom Trucks First
Built in Early Days.
"'It's a far cry from the motor truck
of today to the first models at the
start of the industry," says H. J.
Mclntosn of the Mcintosh Motor Car
company, local Kissel distributor.
'When trucks were first placed on
the market for general sale, they
were far from being reliable hauling
units. In fact, most of the trucks
then sold were simply express bodies
mounted on passenger car chassis
with lower gear ratios.
"Today trucks are built of the best
possible material obtainable on the
American market. Steels have been
developed especially for trucks, so
that lightness and strength are com
bined. "Motors have been specially built
for trucks, where formerly they were
only developments of passenger car
motors with few changes.
"Dealers are selling trucks along
business lines, where formerly men
bought trucks because they thought
they ought to buy them. Now trucks
are sold on their merits alone."
TIRES LAST FOR THREE YEARS
Car Goes 32,54 7 Miles Over Sands
"Without a Puncture.
The west provides many pitfalls for
the tire user, soft sand, ruts and sharp
rocks testing pneumatics to the ut
most. Often there are no roads to
follow, cross-country driving being
necessary. Added to other, disad
vantages is that of burning hot sand
throughout the desert wastes, which
sound the doom of many a tire. Re
cently H. T. Alexander of Ban An
tonio, Tex., reported that his car,
carrying three-quarter to one-ton
loads between Castroville and San
Antonio and over other rough roads
ran 32,547 miles without- a puncture
during three years of operation.
Australian Turns Exhaust Into
Rabbit Burrows and It's Good
Night for Poor Bunny.
Early in. the lth century, the pio
neers of Australia, confronted by the
problem of obtaining fresh meat at
low prices, began to breed rabbits
for table purposes. The experiment
proved a success from the very start,
but It was not many years before the
blessing of plentiful rabbits began
to take the aspect of a plague of the
most serious character.
Multiplying with amazing rapidity,
they began to overrun the rich ranch
and farm lands and the damage re
sulting from their feeding on the
crops ran into millions of pounds
sterling a year. To combat them, or
ganized drives in which all the set
tlers in a wide area would participate,
were staged and thousands of the
pests were killed from time to time.
But the problem has never been com
pletely solved, and today the Austra
lian farmer looks upon the extermina
tion of rabbits as part of the routine
of farming.
The customary method of extermi
nation is by digging out the burrows,
but Walter Hawker, a rancher of
Anama station, Clare, has devised a
means which enables him. to kill rab
bits quicker and more cheaply by
using a pick and shovel. He uses a
Dodge motor car.
His method is described in 'the fol
lowing letter:
"You will be interested to know a
new use for the Dodge car. I am
fumigating Tabbits with it. I remove
the silencer and fit on a piece of 1 14
Inch pipe with a reducing socket and
a water pipe union, six feet of one
Inch bore hose, go to a burrow the
upwind side, face the car to the wind,
put the hose into the burrow In the
most upwind hole and fill that hole
up with dirt. As the smoke comes
out of the other holes, fill in till all
are packed. If a large burrow, run
the car for five minutes, when every
rabbit will be killed.
"The exhaust fumes are mostly car
bon monoxide, which forms a certain
compound with the blood of the rab
bit and poisons it. I worked the
Dodge car for six hours for a con
sumption of two gallons of petrol,
and fumigated 17 large burrows. This
would have taken seven men eight
days to dig out. I reckon that one
day's work saved 20 pounds at least,
as the seven diggers and one cook at
2 pounds 2 shillings a week, one boss
at 4 pounds a week and feed fqr nine
men at 17 shillings a week conies to
28 pounds and 9 shillings a week.
Ded.uct the cost of petrol, oil. wear
and tear, and two men to fumigate,
you will get an easy saving of 10
pounds, and the rabbits are killed so
much quicker."
Cleaning Celluloid.
The celluloid windows that are so
much used in motor car tops have
always been difficult to clean with
out scratching the material, so that
Its value is impaired. There is on the
market today a cleaning compound
designed for use on the imitation
Ivory which is used for making
combs, brush backs and other toilet
articles, and this crearr Is Ideally
adapted for cleaning celluloid win
dows In the ear top. The windows
and the imitation ivory articles have
the same bas. celluloid.
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I DIAMOND) I
Toatl of 85 Tons-of Freight Now
Handled Daily From Large.
Central Terminus.
"What . ship by truck" can mean
to wholesalers is well illustrated, its
advocates point out, in Grand Rapids,
Mich., where 19 truck routes, operat
ing 22 motor trucks, have the staunch
support of wholesale dealers in fruits,
groceries and drugs. These Grand
Rapids dealers are backing "ship by
truck" because. - by speeding their
consignments to neighboring Michi
gan towns. It permits them to com
pete with Milwaukee wholesalers.
Last spring- the Grand Rapids men
found that the Milwaukee whole
salers were making substantial in
roads on their, business. . Lake trans
portation waa making it possible 6pr
the Wisconsin dealers to get their
shipments into the territory more
quickly than could the Grand Rapids
houses. They were shipping into the
Michigan port cities that had the best
railroad facilities.
Ship by Trorlc to Rescue.
Grand Rapids dealers, dependent
entirely upon the railroads, were not
eo fortuuato in obtaining quick de
liveries. Then the ship-by-truck idea
came along, they adopted it and now
they claim to be far outdistancing
their rivals.
In Grand Rapids "ship by truck"
operates through a central terminal.
This terminal, which-was fostered by
the local Klrestone ship-by-truck bu
reau, operates under the name of the
Associated Truck Lines of Grand Rap
ids. It was started In. June. 1919.
By the first of September It had
outgrown its original quarters and
wan forced to move to a larger place.
Today more than 170.000. pounds of
freight is leaving its two loading
platforms daily. Incoming freight,
representing return loads, is per
cent as -great. The shortest route is
22 miles long. The longest Is 50
miles.
Quick Deliveries Made.
Deliveries to Muskegon and Grand
Haven, the principal cities in which
Milwaukee. competes with Grand Rap
Ids, are made by 5 P. M. of the day
an order is received in Grand Rapids
provided .-the order is telephoned in
before noon. Deliveries are made to
Kalamazoo the same day on orders
received if it is telephoned to the
wholesale house before 10 A.'. M.
Delivery by the wholesaler to the
terminal station saves the motor
truck the time that would be required
in making a "pick up." This is the big
advantage found in the central ter
minal system. It expedites the han
dling of incoming freight in the same
manner, the consignee or hl3 agent
calling at the terminal for it.
In addition to that at Grand Rap
ids, central terminals for motor
trucks are successfully operated in
Minneapolis, St. Paul and Louisville.
IDAHO MOTORISTS APPEAL
Busses and Truck Freighters Now
Required to Furnish Bond.
BOISE. Idaho, Jan. 10. (Special.)
An appeal has been filed in the Idaho
supreme court involving the constitu
tionality of the motor carrier law,
chapter 106, section 3, of the revised
codes. The appeal is the case from
Ada county against Frank Crosson,
operator of a motor truck, and J. F.
Koll, operator of a passenger car.
Motorcar operators contend the law
is class legislation as it requires
motor busses and freight trucks to
rurnisn a bond, whereas no such re
quirement is made of railroads, street
cars and other common carriers.
XEW PENDLETON' TIRE FIRM
L. A. Dare of Seattle Has Agency
for the Diamond Line.
pft.N'DLETON. Or., Jan. 10. (Spe
cial.) The Dare Tire & Rubber com
pany Is the newest member of Pendle
ton's automobile colony. The concern
is headed by L. A. Dare, formerly
vice-president of Piper & Taft of
THE difference between
a Maxwell and a larger
car is largely a matter of
weighty
, Each carries the same
average passenger weight,
travels over the same roads,
and at the same speeds.
Per pound of metal the
cost to make each is about
the same.
One lasts just about as
long as the other.
The mission of the
Maxwell is to carry the
same load, over the same
roads, and at the same speeds
at extremely low costs.
That is highly efficient
transportation.
It is expensive to haul
dead weight. Therefore,
every superfluous pound has
been eliminated.
Light but strong metals
have been used.
These are the quality
metals. They provide the
"toughness," the wear, the
ability to stand any strain
and shock; and yet they are
light in weight.
This is the secret of the
Maxwell. It explains why a
Maxwell delivers a mileage
that is inexpensive
that is troubleless
that is almost endless.
The greatest efficiency
economy record ever made
is held by a MaxwelL
It ran 22,020 miles con
tinuously without one single
stop of the engine, carried a
full passenger load, averaged
22 miles to the gallon, at a
speed of 25 miles an hour!
The story of the Maxwell
and its great acceptance by
the world is a story of its
metals.
For in five years 300,000
have been built, and these
have made many friends.
1920 production increases
to 100,000 Maxwells. Which
will supply 60 of the
demand.
Price Advances $75.00 January loth
C. L. Boss Automobile Co.
11 615-617 Washington St.
Portland
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Seattle, one of "the large sporting
goods houses of the northwest. The
company will distribute Diamond tires
for iilliam. Morrow, Wallowa, union.
Umatilla and Baker counties. For
the present its headquarters are in
the Penland Bros, warehouse, but a
location in the business section is
being sought.
Seized Spark Plug-.
When a spark plug has been
screwed in too tightly and has then
rusted It is very hard to remove. Here
is a method of doing it. Build a shal
low dam of putty around the top of
the plug and then fill it with kero
sene. Let the kerosene soak in for
12 hours and it will loosen the rust
so that the plug oan be unscrewed.
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-the
nation's
freight
car
Ask
W.H.Holt
54 East.79th St.
what he thinks of
'Diamond T Trucks
and Service.
Diamond T Truck Sales Agency
89-91 North Ninth Street. Phone Broadway 176
torage
With the machine pasted plates and
nonbreakable jars are guaranteed
for 15 months.
Investigate before you buy your
new battery.
We test and repair all makes of
storage batteries.
See us about your electrical troubles.
Sunset Electric Co.
Phone Broadway 126
48 North 8th Street at Davis
(Note The carrying capacity of a Reo
34'ton speed wagon is never exaggerated
or misrepresented. It is sold strictly on
its rated capacity of 1500 pounds. )
Portland Bolt & Mnf g. Co.
Their Experience
The commodities manufactured by the Portland
Bolt & Nut Manufacturing Co. frequently make
delivery loads small in bulk but heavy in weight.
Mr. J. M. Llewellyn, president and general man
ager, states that the REO -ton Speed Wagon,
purchased by them over a year ago, has many
times carried loads exceeding of a ton fre
quently as high as a ton and a half.
Their Speed Wagon has never been in the re
pair shop and has "been on the job" every
working day. The service the REO SPEED
WAGON has rendered has made Mr. Llewellyn
justly enthusiastic
We might add that the experience of the Port
land Bolt &. Nut Mfg. Co. is by no means ex
ceptional rather, we would say, ordinary.
Statements from owners should be suf
ficient evidence for any intending pur
chaser. Northwest Auto Co.
Portland, Or.
Distributors
"The Line Complete"
Alder at Eighteenth
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