THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND. MAY 9, 1920
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FORD INTERESTS IN
FINANCIAL DEAL
Huge New $100,000,000 Cor
poration Is Formed.
BUT NO STOCK IS FOR SALE
Tractor and Automobile Interests
1 Combined Under Arrangement
Just Made.
DETROIT, May 8. That the Ford
automobile and tractor interests are
to be combined and reincorporated as
a J100,000,000 Delaware corporation,
was indicated last week by papers
hvUbmitted tn thu HArtmtarv nf ntnto
The corporate powers of the company
west and extending back 700 feet on
Boyd street. Each building will be
80 feet wide. Progressive assembly
Is provided for in the plans. Horace
H. Lane, engineering architect, Is in
charge of construction.
A few months ago the "Company
moved from its original plant on Jef
ferson avenue to much larger quar
ters at Mack and Beaufalt avenues,
which have already been outgrown.
The latter plant will be retained for
manufacturing and storage. x
OLD FERRY IS STEARIC ALL IX
New Boat Must Be Built for, Har
risburg Highway Crossing.
EUGENE, May 8. (Special.) -A new
ferryboat will be built at once to
replace the old craft on the Willam
ette river at Hamsburg, where the
Pacific highway crosses the river, ac
cording to members of the Lane coun
ty court, who met the Linn court at
Harrisburg.
The old ferry is in bad shape. Heavy
motor trucks have almost wrecked it.
Traffic on the ferry was stopped
Tuesday night at 6 o'clock so the
boat can be patched up for use until
the new one Is built. -
Both courts are waiting to see what
the highway commission will do In
regard to the selection of a perma
nent route for the main trunk of the
Pacific highway, whether it will con
tinue to extend through Harrisburg or
E BHOLY FUMES
EXHAUST FROM EXCIXE CON
TAINS CARBOX MOXOXIDE.
Motor Should Xever Be Operated
in Small Garage, for Death
May Result.
..Specific instances where deaths
have resulted from inhaling poison
ous exhaust gas fumes from motor
car engines in close garages are set
forth in a recently issued bulletin of
the United) States interior depart
ment. Two cases are citedi ini which
men were found deadi on the floors
of their garages, and one in which
a man and his wife were overcome,
the woman sitting stiff in. the car,
the man leaning over the door. In
all cases the engines were running
and the garages, which were small,
had become filled with fumes from
the engine exhaust.
These accidents are traceable to
poor combustion and the presence of
carbon monoxide, a poisonous gas, in
the exhaust gases. Carbon monoxide
Is formed when gasoline vapor, or
. any other fuel, is burned without
' enough air (oxygen) for complete
combustion. As little as 0.05 per cent
,anuuw
ill rzr tic
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"MOTORIZE THE FARM" TOUR ADVERTISES WASHINGTON PRODUCTS.
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One of the entries 1b the second MoUirlip-thr-Frm totir Ty Seattle and Tacoma dealer, photographed in
fuyallup last Monday, the first day of the run.
The truck, a Maxwell, is loaded with Paul's jams, a product of the famous Puyallup valley, "Washington. '
The tour covers a week from the two Puget sound cities to and through southwestern Washington. This
Maxwell and its load of Puyallup products is demonstrating to farmers of southwestern Washington not only
the utility of the modern motor truck In handling farm, products, but how their fruits and berries are
going to the markets of the world under the label of this established berry section. All trucks in the run were
equipped with pneumatio tires, the Maxwell having United States Royal cords fore and aft.
will permit it to engage in the manu
facture of aircraft, internal combus
tion locomotives and railroad cars,
and all manner of devices used for
getting from place to place, as well as
to carry on the automobile, truck and
tractor business now conducted by
the Ford Motor company and the
Henry Ford & Son corporation.
The reason for incorporating under
Delaware laws is that Michigan does
not permit more than (50,000,000 capi
tal stock. The capital stock of the
new company probably will be held by
the incorporators of the Henry Ford
& Son corporation, Henry Ford, Edae!
B. Ford and Mrs. Henry Ford. The
change in corporate organization is
not to open the stock to public sale,
but simply to consolidate the Ford in
terests and enlarge their activities.
Failure of Michigan laws to provide
lor organizations like that proposed
by the Ford family will prevent the
etate from collecting an incorporation
fee of $100,000.
" State to Get Bis: Fee.
Michigan, however, will receive a
record-breaking fee when the reor
ganization is completed, the hew com
pany being compelled to pay the usual
fee of one-tenth of 1 per cent on the
proportion of its capital that repre
sents properties held in Michigan.
The (100,000,000 corporation will be
formed by consolidation of companies
that have a total capitalization of
only $3,000,000.
The present capital of the Ford Mo
tor company is (2,000,000, paid in ca3h,
property and patents. The capital of
the Henry Ford & Son corporation
is (1,000,000, paid in cash.
The original Ford Motor company
had a capitalization of (150,000, al
though only (100,000 of it was ac
tually paid in, and one-half of this
7100,000 was in the form of property,
only (49,000 being in cash. The Ford
patents formed (40,000 of the remain
ing (51,000. The company was or
ganized June 18, 1803. In 1808 the
articles of incorporation were amend
ed and the capital stock Increased to
(2,000,000. The additional stock was
distributed as a stock dividend on
condition that stockholders renounce
their claim to the (2.000,000 surplus
the company then hold.
First effects made public of ' the
proposed merger were learned when
announcement 'was -made that the
Fordson tractor hereafter will be
manufactured in the new plant at
River Rogue, on the alte of the agle
boat plant.
Gray Car Announced.
The Gray Motor company of Detroit
forms the nucleus of a new (4,000,000
organization known as .the Gray Mo
tor corporation, which will produce
a four-cylinder, 30-horsepower pas
eenger car. The new corporation Is
headed by F. F. Beall, for the last
seven years vice-president in charge
of manufacturing at the Packard Mo
tor Oar company. William H. Black
burn, formerly production manager of
the Cadillac 'Motor Car company, is
to be factory manager.
A New York and Chicago banking
syndicate, headed by W. G. Souders
& Co., has underwritten the corpora
t ion's securities. These consist of
400,000 shares of olass A stock of the
par value of (10, and 400 shares of
class B stock of no par value. A syn
dicate offering will be placed on the
market. The plant, equipment and
business of the Gray Motor company,
builders of the Victory motor, have
been acquired and the body will be
designed by Briscoe & Storey, under
plans originated by the Benjamin
Briscoe and Stahl Engineering " com
pany of Detroit.
It is planned to produce 30,000 cars
annually, upon which production the
management estimates net earnings
of over (3,000,000 after full allowance
for taxes and depreciation. After
allowances for good will, expenses of
organization and financing, the com
pany will have in addition to the De
troit plant and equipment, a sum in
excess of (2,500,000 cash. Each of the
ten subsidiary companies will have a
working capital of (300.000 on which
it is estimated each company can nan
die 3000 cars annually.
New Plant for Colombia.
Columbia Motors company, whloh
recently Increased its capital stock
from (500,000 to (7,000,000 through a
700 per cent stock dividend, is having
plans prepared for a large factory.
The new plant will be erected on
a Bite fronting 00 feet on Fort street.
the new route through Coburg is
chosen, before planning any big im
provements on either side of the river
at that point. It is the belief that the
highway commission will stand a
portion of the cost of a bridge if the
route through Harrisburg Is crosen.
STILL IS OPEN
CARS CAX CO TO HOOD RIVER
AT CERTAIN HOURS.
Paving Contractor Announces
Schedule That Motorists Should
Paste In Their Hats.
HOOD RIVER, Or., May 8. (Spe
ciaL) While two shifts of men have
been placed at work at the Sonny
paving plant, G. E. Kibbe, contractor
ln charge of surfacing the Columbia
rlwer highway between here .and Wy
eth, says that the route will be open
to traffic at certain hours. Mr. Kibbe
gives the following schedule of hours
during which traffic will be permitted
over the road:
Between 12 noon and 12:30 P. M. ;
between 4 and 4:30 P. M. ; between 9
and 9:30 P. M. and between 1:30 .and
AM.
With good weather, the paving of
the eight miles of unsurfaced road
between Wyeth and the city limits
will be rushed.
Burning Out Coil.
When the spark gap of'a plug is too
great, so that the current cannot jump
the gap, there is danger of burning
out the secondary wire of the coil
through heat caused Ijy the gerat re
sistance.
of it in air causes slight symptoms
of poisoning after several ' hours
time. An exposure for as short a
time as 20 minutes to air contain
ing 0.20 per' cent of it will make
most people very sick for hours. One
per cent of it in air will cause death
in a few minutes.
Tests have shown that the explo
sion of mixtures of gasoline vapor
and air produces proportions of car'
bon monoxide ranging from none to
14 per cent. No carbon monoxide
was formed when lean mixtures were
fired; that is, when sufficient air
was present to burn the vapor com
pletely. Other tests have shown that
.carboni monoxide may be produced by
an internal-combustion engine using
gasoline at rates varying from 10 to
35 cubic feet per minute.
People should be very careful in
running automobile engines in a ga
rage, especially with rich mixtures,
These mixtures often result in' the
formation of a foul-smelling or smoky
exhaust. . The effects of poisoning
may be nothing worse than a bad
headache, but may be much more
serious.
Garages should preferably be large
and well ventilated, and when the
engine Is running in the garage it
is best to have the automobile stand
ing close to wide-open doors. By no
means should an engine, be run so
as to produce a stnoKy or Daa-imeii
ing exhaust in a small garage.
Balanced Wheels.
Wheel balance is something that the
careful car owner likes to have just
right, as the racing drivers also do.
To get this take the tire off and note
whether the bare wheel balances or l
some section has a tendency to roll
around to the bottom. When the whee
balances without the tire put the cas
ing on and adjust the bearings so
that the weight of the valve stem as
sembly will Just overbalance the rest
of the wheel.
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building vocabulary. : We leave nothing to
chance in design, materials, men, measurements
or process. Every General Tire is built to stand
up to stand up and deliver mileage.
TFh. General Tire is Akron's great tire because it stands out
as the tire that stands up.
You want just the kind of a tire that the General is, and it is
priced at a figure you can afford to pay for tire satisfaction.
AMERICAN TIRE & RUBBER CO.
ON THE GENERAL CORNER BROADWAY AT OAK STS.
Broadway 180 Two Phones Broadway 2300
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Thf Kr-mt hanging on arrlmly tn the ramble Bent or tfcla eontravtlon is Wtll
lnm Peter 4 BUM Strandborg of the Hortlnnd iUilwiy, L,i;ht A Power
rnmpauj, orta-tnator and strand eaptaJn-aneml -direetor-nnperlntendent-and-energy-lnatlller-lji-eblef
of the Portland Ad elob'a northweat cara
van to Stockton. Cat, which leaves here May IS. . One look at BUI Indi
cate him to be an enthusiastic cnas. which he certainly la. The amy ta
front la Frederick William Voglcr, president of the ortbwewt Auto
company and chairman of transportation or aomethtna; 1 1 tie that for the
caravan. This plctnre la really all camouflage. Both Yogler and Bill
will ride at the head of the caravan tn a new Cole eight, not in this
battered-np. dUreapectablet trouble mioa of the Portland Railway,
I4aAt A Power cojnpajL.
TRUCKS HELP IN TRAFFIC
RAIL PROBLEM GETS AID
FREIGHT JAM.
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Industrial Transport Reaches Sncb
Great Development That Road
, Wear Is Bdg Item.
. EW YORK, -May 8. If Captain
Nicholas Joseph Cugnot, tlie French
man who in 1769 invented the first
self-propelled road vehicle, could visit
the United States today, ho would be
-astonished, perhaps, to find the horse
almost obsolete, the United States
government on the eve of spending
J633.000.00u for good roads and fac
tories turning out automobile trucks
at the rate of about 1000 a day.
Motor truck traffic between indus
trial centers in Connecticut and New
York city, Boston and Providence has
reached such great proportions that
state highway commissioners are urg
ing shippers to restrict the maximum
load on trucks to 25,000 pounds. Ac
cording to the National Automobile
Chamber. of Commerce, utilization of
the motor truck Is enabling the rail
roads to "catch up" with traffic
needs which mounted so enormously
during the war.
hows the distribution of motor trucks
in the United States:
No. of
DRIVING FORM HELPS i
Industry.
Wearlnc apparel.......
Baking;
Bottling-
Building-
Building material
Central supply stations.
Coal
Dairy
Department stores.... t
Farming-
Fire protection
Furniture
Gaa
Grocery
Lumber
Meat -
Municipal
Oil
Professional haulage
Street railway..
Telegraph and telephone.
Fifteen trucks wnn
Concerns
Using
Motor
Trucks.
608
, . 1.802
. . i!.478
. 2,109
. . 1.05!
6i2
. . 2.539
. 1.214
. . 1.293
. .23.160
. . 2.776
. . 2.005
. . 3J-.0
.. 3.114
. . 2.1K3
. . 1.6T
S56
. . 1.449
.. 7,84
332
201
No. of
Motor
Trucks
in Use.
l.24
4. .-..'.7
8.673
4.3S5
2.128
3.87
5.7:!:i
2.376
7.875
26.413
8.707
4.134
'2.132
6.S34
4.964
8.99
3.688
6,184
16.536
925
1.82T
demount
able bodies in Cincinnati, according to
F. W. Fenn, secretary of the cham
ber, "free for long freight hauls. 66,
OOO railroad care, replace 115 terras of
horses and mules and move more than
1000 tons of freight a day."
Indianapolis, he says, is the largest
livestock motor trucking center in
the world. Daily receipts In 1919, he
said, were 6800, or 2000, more than
the total carried by both steam and
electric- railroads. .
Xickel Gleaner. .
Ordinary silver polish, such as every
housewife knows, is ths best medium
for cleaning nickel parts about the
car. The polish is rubbed on and
A recent Burvex bx tlie. oraoiiaUonJ then rubbed oft with, a, soft cloth. ,
HALF PLEASURE OF MOTOR
ING IS IX HAXDLJXG EASE.
VelTety Stops and Starts Save Wear
and Tear on Motor and
Gas and Oil Bills.
According to a writer in American
motorist, half the pleasure in motor
ing comes with learning to manipu
late your car with ease and grace.
"Correct form in driving," says this
writer, "means minimum drain on the
pocketbook. "Velvety stops and starts
prevent unusual strains on the motor,
clutch, transmission, axles and tires.
They also cut down the consumption
of gasoline and oil. A well-made
motor, like a Swiss watch, is a sen
sitive thing. It resents abuse, but
responds willingly, capably, to gentle
handling. Starting an automobile is
an art.
Simple though the act may be. there
are plenty of drivers who never ac
quire the finished way af doing it.
The master driver aims to create a
steady pull on the driving mechanism
from the moment he slips Into first
speed until the car is under full head
way. Learn to accelerate simul
taneously, with, letting in the clutch,
The mechanical act of gear-shifting
can be learned in five minutes.
"As soon as you have the car in
high speed, assume a natural, comfor
table position. Avoid a strained, high
tension grip on the wheel. Driving a
car is not tiresome if one sits in an.
easy upright position. The driver who
slouches In his seat mustbe con
stantly shftlng. He cannot apply the
brakes 'without sitting erect. He
must change Ills position to shift
gears."
Leaking Valves.
Loss of power is not the only trouble
that is caused by leaking valves. -The
hot flame which escapes past the
valves distempers the valve stem,
softens the valve spring, corrodes the
stem bearing and forms a sediment
that prevents free action.
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