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, TITE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, MARCH 21, 1920
THIS EVIDENTLY WAS MOVING ' DAY FOR THE HAY, GRAIN AND FEED DEALER AT WHITE
s . SALMON, WASHINGTON.
A Genuine Removal Sale Compare Prices
IN FUEL EFFICIENCY
GRAVITY
FACTOR
OVERliND 4 MAKES
HRIC
Impressicns-of Many Persons
Are AH Wrong.
HERE IS RIGHT ADVICE
The Lower the Boilinjj Point the
Quicker Gasoline Will Vapor-
ize for Use us Fuel.
A great deal Is being said regarding
the, gravity of gasoline. So much
stress has been laid on this feature
that many persons interested In gaso
line and Its use have come to believe
that the quality of the gasoline and
its efficiency as a motor fuel are en
tirely dependent upon its gravity.
This is a wrong idea, and for the
benefit of those interested in the use
of gasoline, especially in automobiles,
and with a view of helping them se
cure the best results at a minimum
cost, here is submitted some inside in
formation on gasoliie, explaining-
why its gravity does not determine its
efficiency as a motor fuel.
Not many years ago -most people
who owned cars thought they had to
have 74-76 , per cent gasoline and
asked for that grade. They wanted
the beat they could get and thought
the higher gravity gasoline would
give thcra better results, more power
and more milee per gallon than gaso
line of lower gravity. This is a mis
taken idea. We have been combating
It steadily and have succeeded in con
vincing a large per cent of the car
owners that the efficiency of gasoline
for use to autos is determined by dis
tillation it la not a question of
gravity.
Two Gravity Scale.
New as to gravity, which, by the
way. elmply means weight. There are
two scales in common use. Specific
and Beaume. They are used to indi
cate the relative weight of a liquid
compared with water. In the specific
cravitv scale, water is taken as a
standard at 1. Any liquid which is
heavier than water is expressed by
1, plus additional decimals, depending
on how much heavier the liquid is
than water. All liquid products of
netroleum are lighter than water,
hence their weight will be indicated
less thah 1. Thus .8764 means that
the liquid is 8764 ten-thousandths of
the weight of water. Therefore, the
higher the numerals or the more
nearly they approach 1, the heavier
the linuid. and vice versa.
That is the specific gravity ecale
and It is not used in expressing tne
gravity or weight of gasoline or other
' petroleum liquid products by oil re
finers, although a good many people
think it is, and that is one reason why
some who are only slightly familiar
with the specific gravity scale ask
for hirh eravitiy gasoline, thinking
they are getting a heavier grade of
;HSU1IIIC, " 1 1 J I. n wu.u,
tain a greater number or neat units.
This is all wrong, because tne spe
cific gravity Kcale. as above stated, is
not used by oil refiners in connection
with gasoline.
Gravity ot Quality.
The Beaume ecale of gravity is used
In this country by all chemists in oil
refinery laboratories to express the
gravity of petroleum liquids, because
it is more convenient.
In the Baume scale of gravity water
is taken at an arbitrary point on the
scale, being 10. A liquid weighing
less than water is expressed by fig
ures higher than 10; which you will
see is Just the reverse from the speci
fic gravity scale with the latter, the
higher the numerals, the more nearly
the product approaches the weight of
water, hence the heavier, as water Is
heavier than oil or gasoline, while
with the Beaume scale, the higher the
numeral tle lighter the product, as
the higher the gravity as indicated
by the numerals, the farther away it
gets from the weight of water.
Another reason why some people
ask for high gravity gasoline, and
quite a common reason, is Just be
cause they have the idea that high
gravity means high quality, and they
do not know that they are sacrificing
the most essential features, more
power, because more heat units, and
more miles per gallon, by passing up
the lower gravity gasoline; not only
that, but they pay more money for
the high gravity goods. In other
words, they have been stung.
Same Teat as for Coal.
Itow, just a few more words regard
ing heat units. Take, for instance,
coal.
If coal were sold by the space oc
cupied instead of by the ton, and the
price of hard and soft coal were the
name for the same number of cubic
feet, you wolud take the hard coal,
because you would know you were
getting more weight, hence more heat
units for your money.
The same thing applies to gasoline
the heavier the gasoline, the more
heat units you get and the. more
power and It is cheaper.
So nfuch for gravity and heat units.
As previously stated, the right way
and the only way to determine the
efficiency of isasoilne as a motor fuel
s by a process of distillation, by
means of which the refiner deter
mines its boiling points.
; The rapidity with which a' liquid
will evaporate or vaporize is deter
mined by its boiling points. A liquid
Ohat has a low boiling point will
evaporate quicker than one with a
Irlgh boiling point it takes less heat
to boll it, that is, to cause It to go I
off in a vapor; consequently It re
quires less heat and air to vaporize it.
: Gasoline Boiliofr Points.
The lower the boiling point the
quicker the gasoline will vaporize or
atomise under ordinary temperature.
Therefore, in making gasoline for use
in autos we keep the initial boiling
point, that is, the point at which it
commences to vaporize, as low as pos
sible, and at the same time, produce
a product suitable for use in an in
ternal combustion engine.
The starting of the engine is of
-course dependent on this Initial boil
ing point. If the initial boiling point
is too high, you are bound to have
trouble starting. Now, while we have
seen that low boiling points are re
quisite, proper maximum points are
equally essential; but this rise shoul
be gradual.
This 1s why the Intermediate' boil
ing points are taken. The low initial
boiling points start the explosion
quickly. The gradual rising boiling
points form 'the connecting links be
tween the lower and higher boiling
points, just like a fuse, giving ever
increasing power and force to the ex
plosion. The ideal gasoline for use in autos
is the product with the low Initial
boiling point, ' which means easy
starting and low gravity, whph car
ries with It more pounds per gallon,
meaning more heat units and more
power and gradually rising points.
Aata Trades Bulletin. .
it. r.
Car Driven 5452 Miles in 168
Hours' Continuous Driving.
20.24 MILES GAS AVERAGE
However, it might Itave beea a lot worse, for he was eavea all the usual trouble of moving; when these two Master
trucks with trailers hitched onto the building and hauled the whole thins; to a new location.
WHITE SALMON.' Wash.. March 20. (Special.) Elimination of heavy grades and great Improvement in county
roads has wrought a revolution in transportation througout the White Salmon valley. Nine years ago a two-ton
Speedwell truckwas brought here by a resident of the valley for general trucking, but after a few months on the
rough mountain roads and grades was found impracticable. Its tires were chewed up in almost no time. Today
nearly every commercial bearing orchard section has itsi trucks, of one to five tons, operating virtually the year
round. Likewise, there are passenger automobiles all through the district until it is rare to meet a cayuse on the
road. Without trucks, this valley would have lost fully 60, per cent of its apple crop last fall. Where the ouput of
the lumber mills In the valley was formerly hauled by four-horse teams, today trucks and trailers are doubling
and trebling deliveries to points of shipment, at substantial saving in cost. Recently the building shown in the
picture, 24x37 feet, was underslung on two logs which rested on two aiaster trucks and trailers, and hauled several
blocks, part of the way over an 8 per cent grade, with ease, all in one hour and with only one man to each truck.
Is this district sold to motor trucks? It is- '
STILL, THERE'S HOPE I' IM
PROVED METHODS.
VYltile Shortage Is Acute, Chicago
Refiner Says More Gas Will
Be Tukon From Crude.
CHICAGO. March 20. Joseph M.
Cudahy. new head of the Sinclair Re
fining company, has issued a state
ment that will do much to relieve the
anxiety- concerning gasoline-driven
machines. He does, not believe a
gasoline famine is in sight, but ad
mits the situation is acute. Owners
of automobiles had begun to fear that
gasoline would soon be so scarce its
use would be practically prohibitive
and Mr. Cudahy's announcement does
much to relieve this apprehension.
Among other things he suld:
"The gasoline situation in the
United States is acute. The public,
however, need have no fear of a gas
oline famine, because new methods
and processes for the extraction of
greater percentages of gasoline from
cruifts oil are already being used. To
day many of the refineries are selling
oil to be consumed as fuel, which by
the use of more scientific methods can
be further refined so as to be convert
ed into gasoline, fancy lubricating
oils, paraffine and medicinal products.
"In 1910 the United States pro
duced 2OD.O0O.O0O barrels of crude oil
and consumed 205,U00,0U0 ,barrels. In
that year the United States consumed
14.UOO.000 barrels of gasoline. In 1919
the United States produced 388,000,
000 barrels of crude oil and consumed
48.000,000 barrels, the deficiency be
ing made up principally by imports
from Mexico.
Manufacturers of motor vehicles es
timate that in 1925 260,000,000 barrels
of gasoline will be required to meet
the demands for automobiles, trucks,
tractors and airplanes, not to mention
gasoline required for motorboats, sta
tionary engines, eta This will call
for 800,000.000 barrels of crude oil and
will require much higher processes of
refining than are in use at present.
MORE GOOD ROADS SEEDED
II. J. Mcintosh Would Develop the
Entire State.
The creation of more good roads.
restoration of those highways that
have received more than their share
of travel, maintenance of all im
proved byways will do more to put
business on a stable- foundation and
keep it there than any other one
thing," says H. J. Mcintosh, of the
Mcintosh Motor Car company, local
Kissel distributor.
'Plenty of goed roads in proportion
to , the nation's transportation re
quirements is the solid foundation of
national .prosperity, because it keeps
the great arteries of motor transpor
tatlon free from congestion and is
conducive to maintaining schedules. A
network of good roads in this country
would open up hitherto inaccessible
sections of the country, the small
towns, the agricultural communities,
the industrial and raining centers,
that can only be reached by horse
team or horseback.
"Therefore let us tackle the good
roads problem with the same Ameri
can push and pep that have character
ized our activities in other lines of
national progress. The result will
more than compensate for the money
and time spent."
M FIRE IHN BOUGHT
TRADE FUTURE BRIGHT
FIRESTOXE SIAJT EXPECTS EX
PORT TO BE BRISK.
Europe Soon Will Regain, lis Old-
Time Aggressiveness,
He Asserts.
Trade with Europe will soon as
sume many pre-war characteristics.
with the added feature of being many
times more brisk7 in the opinion of
A. C. Frank, export manager of the
Firestone Tire & Rubber company.
Mr. Frank recently Teturned to New
York, city after three months In Eng
land and continental Europe.
Although they are still suffering
from the industrial difficulties which
were the inevitable result of the war,
the European nations will soon regain
their old-time commercial aggressive
ness, I believe," Mr. Frank said. "The
resourcefulness they showed in the
war will reassert itself in peace and
they will again demonstrate their
stamina by reclaiming a share of the
world's trade.
"The industrial activity of Belgium
is particularly noteworthy. This
plucky country, undaunted by its tre
mendous hardships, is now rapidly
placing its factories on a quantity
production basis and is doing much
toward the rehabilitation of the dev.
astated districta
"International trade, after the re
sumption of European Industries,
should develop, I believe, to a degree
heretofore considered Impossible. I
look for an unparalleled era of trade
among all' nations."
Frank believes over-seas business
holds untold possibilities for Amer
ican industry.
MARSHTTELD BFSIXESS
SUBSCRIBE $3000.
MEN
City Council Couldn't Raise Funds,
So Merchants) Put Up the
Money for Equipment!
If the road is the only place to walk
to school, walk on the left side facing
the traffic. If you walk on the right
you will be in the path of cars coming
from behind.
Efficient Contractors Use the Best
. Atterbury Trucksf equipped with dump bodies, are
daily establishing records for efficiency. 1 !"
Any size to meet your requirements. -
We carry large stock of parts and are particular to
give good service. . v
Atterbury Truck Sales Co.
TRUCK SPECIALISTS
343 OAK, Near Broadway Phone Broadway 354
Distributors for Oregon, Southern Washington, Western Idaho
and Northern California
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TOY
MOTOR TRUCKS OF V MAXIMUM SERVZCB
Business men of Marshfield. Or., are
setting an example that might be fol
lowed by many other towns. They
wanted fire-fighting equipment, but
the city council had no funds for its
purchase, so the business men by
voluntary subscription have raised
about $3000. With this they will buy
a Reo -ton Speed wagon chassis and
equip it with chemicaU apparatus.
hose, ladders and the like.
' It was after the Marshfield city
council had several times debated the
question of adequate fire protection
and was finally compelled to pass it
nup that the movement to raise funds
by voluntary subscription was start
ed. Gorst & King, Marshfield deal
ers for the Reo Speedwagon, origin
ated the Idea, and besides offering
to supply the truck at actual cost,
subscribed 1100 to the fund. Further
than that, they agreed to take it back
any time within two years at a dis-
count of" not to exceed $200 if the
city should in the meantime decide to
purchase equipment from the city's
funds.
The chassis was ordered through
the Northwest Auto company, dis
tributors of the Reo, and will be
equipped with body and apparatus at
Marshfield.
Don't advance the spark lever when
crank in jr.
Speed of 32 y2 Miles Per Hour Is
Maintained for Seven Days
on Triplex Springs.
Driven continuously for seven days
and seven nights, ever ordinary sub
urban roadways, an Overland 4 stock
car has established at Indianapolis,
Ind., a new unofficial world's mileage
record for a light car under 168 hours
of Incessant driving.
The Overland 4 in the seven days
and nights of this remarkable endur
ance run piled up a record of 5452. IB
miles. The car finished the grind on
the same Fisk tires with which it
started. To make this nei record,
the drivers of the Overland 4 main
tained an average speed of 32 H miles
an hour, 24 hours a day. Gasoline
mileage was 20.24 miles a gallon.
The consistency of the Oveiland's
performance is shown in this tabu
lation of each day's run. The first
day' and night the speedometer reg
istered 749 miles. On the second day
the mark was 778 miles, on the third
747 miles, on the fourth 793, fifth 809,
sixth 823, and on the last lap of the
new unofficial worlds record isi
milea
The test, the first of Its kind to
be tried and actually accomplished by
a light car, started at S A. M. Febru
ary 25 and ended at 9 A. M. March 3
The run was conducted Ay the Gibson
company of Indianapolis, distributors
for Overland cars. The mileage and
gasoline records are certified by the
following observers:
Howard F. ("Howdy") Wilcox, win
ner of the 1919 Indianapolis speedway
500-mile racing classic; Munroe E.
Boblet, secretary of the Hoosier Mo
tor club of Indianapolis, and R. 1L
Scrogin, editor of the Hoosier Mo
torists
Although the new Overland 4 with
triplex springs had -been tested 250,
000 miles under all possible weather
and road conditions before it was
placed on the market by the Willys-
Overland company, officials of the
company declare that the Indianapolis
endurance run Is one of the most
convincing demonstrations yet made
of the reliable, economical perform
ance of the car and the road-comfort
qualities of the now famous triplex
spring suspension.
Officials of the company witnessed
the start and the finish of the seven-
continuous-day run. Careful exami
nation of the car and its power plant
after the run convinced the Gibson
company that it was ready to repeat
the endurance tect of the 168, hours
of furious driving, and largely be
cause the car had been protected by
the new triplex springs. . The run is
considered the highest possible veri
fication of the ability of this new
spring suspension to protect the car
from road wear and provide big car
riding comfort in a motor car of short
wheel base.
In the entire run there was but
one puncture. A new inner tube was
placed in the tire shoe.
It Is conservatively estimated tnat
5452 miles of driving over the ordl-
USED CA1I
BARGAINS
We must dispose of practically 11 of our used cars before
moving; to our new building:, now in course of construction at
Broadway at Everett.
We want to go into this building with as few cars as possible
and to move our present stock quickly we are disregarding
the money we have in it and cutting prices to a point which
is bound to attract those who know real used car bargains
when they see them.
Our used car stock is in splendid shape. We have more than
forty cars 6f various standard makes, Mitchells, Jordans,
Velies, Overlands, Chevrolets and many others. These cars '
are exceptionally good, most of them overhauled, many of
them repainted, all of them rare bargains as priced for this
sale.
Look through the list in the Classified section of this paper,
then take your first opportunity of viewing our stock.
Open Sundays from 10 A. M. to 4 P. 1L
EAST MORRISON AND FIRST STS.
New Cars, Broadway at Oak.
It's Better to Buy a Good Used Car Than a Cheap New One
nary run of suburban roads Is equal
to the usage and punishment to which
the average motor car owner would
subject the car he drives In. a year's
operation. That markes the Over
land 4's achievement all the more
noteworthy in indicating to what high
standards the manufacture of light
weight, economical, easy-riding motor
cars has teen raised by an American
automobile manufacturer.
Xew Garage at Eugene.
EUGENE, Or., March 20. (Special.)
Lester G.. Hulin of this city, who is
cashier of the First National bank of
Springfield, this week began the erec
tion of a new funding on Oak street.
between Ninth and Tenth avenues, in
this city to be. occupied by an auto-
moblle-tire vulcanizing works and an
automobile electrical supply house.
The walls of the building will be of
hollow tile and yie dimensions will
be 80 by 80 feet. "
Don't attempt to run the car on the
electric starter.
Demand for the New Grant Six
Grows Swiftly
Thousands of orders, orders from every territory in this country
and abroad; countless telegrams; hundreds of dealers visiting the
factory. All these attest the immediate and overwhelming popu
larity of the new Grant Six. And its splendid performance is bound
to increase this popularity, for everybody writes that the Grant Six
is a wonderful automobile a truly fine car. v
It is pleasing to record the ex
perience of the Halifax, N. S.,
distributor who drove his dem
onstrator home from the fac
tory. He gave it a gruelling
test. "We covered 1409 miles
200 miles of it the worst roads
in America and that's going
some," he writes, "and she went
through without a squeak or a
rattle. Never sat in an easier
riding car in my life."
That's typical of the expe
rience of alL Everybody is prais
ing the new Grant praising its
looks and its performance, its
speed and its easy riding
qualities.
This is the logical result of a design
fundamentally correct a motor that's
unusually fine a chassis that's built
for endurance and a body that's built
for comfort.
By all means see the new Grant Six
at your earliest opportunity.
Fine-paMiengt Touring Car, $IS9St Thrtm-paengtr Roadster, flSSSi t .
Fiae-paMcngcr Sedan, (2450 1 Four-pattenger Coupe, $2450,
- ' F. O. A. Factory '
MANLEY AUTO CO, Distributors
Eleventh and Oak at Burnsidc Phone Broadway 217
A. B. Manley, Pres. " E. C Habel, Sales Manager
GRANT MOTOR CAR'CORPORATION CLEVELAND, OHIO
AUTO ACCESSORIES AND PARTS
SPEEDOMETERS
and BIG TEN NECESSITIES
They're Mote Than Accessories
Official Service Genuine Parts .
Product Service Station, 333 Ankeny Street
Sayers Six Dz5
Motors Co.
SAYERS Aut? FuncrJ
Equipment
irst and t
Washington
State Distributors
ARCHER & WIGGINS
Distributors of
AUTOMOTIVE ACCESSORIES
Sixth Street
at Oak.
JACKSON
Twenty-first and
SIX
TOURING
FOUR WHEEL
DRIVE TRUCK
nty-f
Washington
State Distributors
David Hodes Co.
103-107 North lHh SL
AUTOMOBILE GEARS
PARTS AND ACCESSORIES AT
JRF.Dl'CEI) PRICKS
ENGINES A SPECIALTY
KE3 AiiTO SP2L1G C0
JLA
10,000 Springs Carried in Stock.
Let Us Repair Your Springs
Where You Get Service.
15TH AND COUCH STREETS
Northwest Auto Co.
Distributors
Miller Tires, Miller Ad-On-A Tires
Repair Materials and Tubes
Alder at Eighteenth St. Portland
men
J!
AUTO DIRECTORY
New Light Six.
Mitchell, Sevrn-I'asHf nger Jordan
MITCHELL. LEWIS & STAYER CO.
Broadway at Oak
RAINIER
Worm Drive TRUCKS
SALES 'AND SERVICE
SERVICE GARAGE
331 First St. Phone Main 2417
BETHLEHEM TRUCKS .Electric Lights and Starter
Northwest Auto Co, Distributors, Alder at 18tfc
Franklin'
offers more of "what you actually need and want A
in an automobile.
BRALY AUTO CO.
Main 4880, A 388L 19th and Washington SU.