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TIIK SUNDAY OREG OXI AX, PORTLAND, JUNE 20, 1920 J 2iEW iSTORY flOJlfi OF THB MITCHELL, LEWIS & STAVER COMPANY IN NORTH BROADWAY, WALL STREET DULLS AND SOME OF ITS MODERN EQUIPMENT. 3Z2E SEATTLE VERY BAD lEETH ON AUTO DEAL Roadster Four-Pass Six-Pass. $3500 3600 3600 Mud Deep, Many Cars Stuck North of Castle Rock. Stutz Manipulator Makes IMMEDIATE DELIVERIES Best Gamblers Squeal. F. O. B. Indianapolis UP TO COWLITZ COUNTY $1,650,000 PROFIT GAINED Orriclals Could Make the Highway Passable for Shriners by ' Few Loads of Gravel. Pressure Fails to Shake Fox Who There is Corners More ' Shares Than Company I Las Issued. CIICHieiSYTO Onlg One STuTZ Car .'1 .4 ... i : ;.- '-:! v. "i Conditions on the Pacific hiphway between Chehalis and Kelso Wash.; are so bad Just now that no motorist should .attempt the trip until after several days of bright weather. There are mudholes along the route at pres ent that compare with those of last winter, when for several weeks cars hart to be towed at several points. The situation is particularly un timely just at present, when so many Seattle, Tacoma, Aberdeen. Hoquiam, Montesano and Olympia Shriners are planning: to drive through - for the Khrine convention here. But unless the county commissioners of Cowlitz county pet busy immediately and dump a few loads of gravel along some of the detours caused by new construction work, the Shriners 'will do a lot better for themselves by omir.fr on the train and leaving their ears at home. A few days of good sunshine, however, would very speed ily dry up the roads. This information about the high way in Washington comes from many sources, but principally from motor ists who managed to wallow through last week by dint of heavy exertions. Several brought reports of having to bo towed through the worst mud- holes. Keep Off la Official Advice. The following official advice warn Ing motorists for their own good to s-tay off the highway comes from the office of James Lane, state highway commissioner of Washington: "In regard to the trip from Seattle to Portland via the Pacific highway I wish to advise that it would not be advisable to make -this trip before July 1. and not then if the weather is had. The section of Pacific high way between Lewis county and Kelso is now under construction, which necessarily makes travel over this section of the highway difficult. especially in wet weather." Hut that is only a part of the story and goes Into no details. Some of the details were furnished by Mrs. Marie Stocking of Seattle, who. with Mrs. Tave Thacker of Yakima, motored to Portland for the Travelers' Protective association convention last week. They made the trip in Mrs. Stocking's 191S Oldsmobile eight. "The highway is in awful condl tlon." said Mrs. Stocking. "The main highway south from Chehalis by way of Toledo is closed for construction work. We drove as far down the pavement about seven miles from Chehalis, as wo could, but there the main highway was closed and we were detoured off it around by way of Olcqua and down the west side of the Cowlitz river Into Castle Rock over the bridge. One Car Stark Three Hoar. "'This detour road is in awful shape There are mudholes of red, Bticky clay, where it is next to impossible to get through. Cars were stuck all along here. One car had-been In a mudhole three hours when we came along. I don't know how we man ap:ed to get through without help. but give all the credit to the Olds mobile. In places we were just able to move in low gear. We had to take the pan off the bottom of the car to obtain clearance. "Farmers along here were cleaning tip.' good money towing cars out of mudholes. and the owners of the cars were only too thankful to get towed. Tho worst place was over a hill this side of Olequa, where cars were stuck all nlong the road. "There is also bad going between Castle Rock and Kelso over the main highway. New construction work has made a bad detour necessary. From Kelso we had no difficulty. We came on to Vancouver from Kalama and, though rough in some places, the highway was passable all the way." Another motorist who gives evi dence is William A. Monten, a lawyer of Spokane, who drove from Seattle to Portland with his family In their Locomobile. "At Toledo." said Mr. Monten. "on account of construction work, we de toured via Vader and the bridge at Castle P.ock. The hill this side of a hridge near Vader was steep, but can ho cllmhed without trouble. But chains simply must be used. Ttto Hoiti for 20O Tardn. . '"A short distance this side of this ' Mil the road is very bad, indeed. At on point two farmers were harvest ing the coin either at $2 apiece pull ing cars out of a hole or at to for permission to go about 100 yards through a farmer's meadow. It took is about two hours to go. 200 yards and there were eight cars stalled. "At the St. Helen garage at Castle Pock I was told that one of these farmers made $2700 in April at only a email fee per car. What the harvest may be during the exodus to the Shrine can only be guessed. I do not censure the farmers who kindly helped us. "Now I want to make my point: A few yards of gravel would stop all 1ir!s trouble, and this could be put in tho few holes in a day. The county commissioners of Cowlitz county could be doing this at once and make a passable dotour out of what should not be attempted by anyone. In 30.- 0(10 or more miles of driving, this is the worst road I have been over. . "Unless the weather turns fair for a few days, no one should attempt the Scattle-to-Portland road, and In any case chains should be used from the beginning of the plank road near Chehalis to Jvelso, or turn about. The chains, moreover, should be. so fastened with wire as to insure their staying on the wheels. ' "In the interest of the hundreds of tourists now visiting and about to .f f- r:-v v , - . -Z visit Portland, I think the Cowlitz I - J county commissioners should be urged I , I to do something. " I 1.1, - ,1 put iuad ox blixk I L S. . LsfSrft -I r If? ' fiT Skxo RAINS Motorists Having Much Trouble on High-way Near Castle Rock. KELSO, Wash.. June 19. (Special.) From Castle Rock north to the Lewis county line the condition of the Pacific highway has been very bad for the past ten days, owing to the heavy rainfall. Heavy grading work under way on this portion of the highway and at several places the road is very soft and muddy and teams have to pull many cars through. With two or three days of sunshine the road will be greatly improved. Motorists are advised to remain on the regular Pacific highway route, when it is not closed, and not to at tempt the west side detour road, which is very much worse than the highway.- Between Kelso and Castle Rock the highway is rough and in poor shape, largely on account of construction work. Just north of Ostrander there is a detour, which is rather slippery going in case of rain. However, auto- ists will have little trouble with this part of the highway. For a few miles south from .Kelso the highway is rather rough, but from then on to the Clarke county line the road is the best it has ever been. Via the .Ridgcfield detour road the highway into Vancouver is good. It a motorist is favored by good weather he -will find the highway north from Kelso passable, but in rainy weather he is lucky to get through at all, even with chains. CONTROVERSY GETS HOT ANOTHER VERSION' OP B&ST ROUTE TO PEXDLETOX. iJ?YifM$m --!, Until cff,T-yw HernUston Commercial Club Takes Issue AVitb Advice to Travel by Old Oregon Trail. HKRMISTON, Or., June 16. (To th. Automobile Editor.) Dear Sir: I am herewith inclosing a route to Pen dleton, Or., which we request you to print in the automobile section o; j The Oregonian. This route is muc: shorter and in better condition, as s whole, than the Heppner route, as it sticks to the water grade and a good portion of it is over the newly graveled Columbia river highway. We do not wish that the motorist traveling in this direction be de ceived as to the correct routes. Motorists desiring the shortest and best route to Pendleton should take the turn to the left at McDonald's ferry and travel via Arlington. Wil lows, Boardman, etc., on the Colum bia river highway, graveled . except for a few minor detours. This is in verification of the route designated by Captain A. C. Forres ter, which appeared in the automobile section of The Oregonian of June 6 and in direct and emphatic contra diction to the route submitted by D. T. Goodman of Heppner (his route No. 3) via Heppner over the old Ore gon trail. The road between Echo and Pen dleton, referred to by Captain For rester as being a little rough, is in much better condition now, due to recent rains in this locality. HERMISTON COMMERCIAL CLUB. By v. l'rime. CALIFORNIA RATIO HIGHEST But North Carolina Show Best Gain in Ownership. "California now has on car for every 6.07 people, while Iowa Is a breathless second with a ratio of one to 6.14. Bryan's home state is third with 6.54 and South Dakota holds fourth place with an automobile for every 7.2 humans," says John C Long, in MoToR. ""But before these westerners yell their throats out . let's turn to the figures on biggest registration, for getting ' all . about population. New York's on top' there with 566,511, Ohio is second with 511,031, back east again to Pennsylvania for third place totaling 482,117, then to Illi nois which holds tho fourth rung with 478,438. "There's another way of assigning the honors: The state which made the greatest per cent gain. Which is it? Hands please. "IowaT Wring. New York?" . That's two down. The answer's North Carolina. Dixie has shown the greatest motor progress for the year. North Carolina leads the list with 51 per cent gain. South Carolina is In second place with a R'OBTHffESTERN HEADQUARTERS. KOR JORDAN AND MUCH ELL, AUTOMOBILES AND JUMBO MOTOR Tni't'KS, The top picture is a view in the new shop, which occupies the entire fourth floor of the building, with space 100x130 feet, which is 13,000 square feet. It is a daylight shop, windows on three sides and six skylights maK ins electric lights unnecessary. This shop contains 230 feet of bench room Along these benches are electric conduits plugged every ten feet for press drills. The center picture, below, shows a corner of the parts room, which has $60,000-worth of automobile and truck parts in stock. Below is th new building, which stands at the southeast corner of Broadway an Everett street. Xi 43 per cent improvement over last year. Kentucky shows up fourth with a 36 per cent lead. Then conies Texas." CAR CHANGES ARE SUGGESTED Standardized Type of Auto Freight Carrier Is Proposed. A suggestion has been made to heads of the railroad systems by J. F. Richman, manufacturing manager of. the Allen Motor company. Colum bus, O., relative to a standardized type of freight car for transporting automobiles. The question Is most pertinent he cause of the increasing volume of automobile business and the appar ent decrease in facilities for hand ling it. i Mr. F.ichman's suggestion is that all automobile . boxcars be made 75 .feet long, mounted on six-wheel trucks. This would mean a reduction in the cot of the average automobile to the consumer because of decreased cost of transportation. As a further suggestion, Mr. Rich man asked the railroad companies to consider discontinuance of the com mon 36-foot boxcar and substitute as a standard 40-foot cars equipped with wide side and end doors. These cars could be used for ordinary merchan dise as well as automobiles and could be used to the same advantage, so far as the railroad companies are concerned, as the 36-foot cars. . Grant Road In Good Shape. BAKER. Or.. June 12. (Special.) Autoists who have made the trip from Baker to points in Grant county report that the roads are in good condition. Notwithstanding the fact that th,e season is yet early, a large number have made the trip and have experienced no trouble. Between Prairie City and John Day the high way is gradually being rounded into shape and the few rut holes' are being filled by road scrapers and graders at work. NEW TORK, June 19 That ele ment of Wall street which, being past master at the art of manipulating stocks, believes no "outsider" is clever enough to beat it at its own game, has lust lost $1,650,000 worth of its gold teeth as the result of hav ing "bitten off more than it could chew." With a firm hold on some thing of which it could not let go. this element admitted Its predicament and begged Allan, A. Ryan, chairman of the board and largest stockholder of the Stutz Motor Car company, to How it to escape. In other words. it has settled in cash Kb bet against Ryan's inability to outgamble it. Reviewing the brief but breathless history of recent activity in Stutx stock. Wall street agrees that, aside from its normal and nominal function of furnishing an index to the finan cial strength of those companies in which it concerns itself, there is a certain: coterie which la always at tempting to magnify or reduce the real value of a company, as it ts known among those with whom it does business. In brief, a group of prominent brokers, 56 in number, have Just compromised with Mr. Ryan by paying him a handsome premium in lieu of delivering to him shares of stocji which they had sold without owning them but in expectation of a lower price. It Coat 'Em Sl,650,0OO. Instead of the stock which they contracted to deliver, they have paid Ryan $551.25 a share. Involving 30. 000 shares of stock, the deal is re ported to have netted Ryan and cost the once hopeful speculators approxi mately $1,650,000. As a spectacular operation Wall street will remember the Stuts affair for a considerable time, if indeed it is ever able quite to forget it, for Mr. Ryan, in allow ing the street to organize a "bull raid" on Itself, trimmed the street as it has never been trimmed before. First a broker versed in the lore of Wall-street practice, second an auto mobile manufacturer equally well versed in the art of automobile con struction and finance, Mr. Ryan was more than well prepared for battle with his adversaries. When the con flict ended, Ryan, in addition to' the 80,000 shares of Stutz which he orig inally ow.ied, was holding contracts for the delivery of 30,000 additional shares, which made -,000 more than the actual number of shares in the entire company issue. Losers Were Poor Sports. On March 1 Stutz stock began to soar, rising in a few days from 100 to 391. The speculators played for a break in the price, but the .price did not break. If the great amount of Stutz stock which changed hands in those brief - days had been sold to hundreds of individual investors, a few panicky buyers might have been amenable to the pressure which was brought to bear in an endeavor to break the market and send the stock to low levels, with resultant profits for the shorts. But Stutz held firm, indeed it con tinued to climb regardless of all the any given point. Ryan, by methods quotlons. best known to himself, was outplay ing the players. The strength of the Issue was taken as evidence pointing to a corner in the stock, and the ex change, heeding the frantic appeal of the panicky shorta, ordered the sus pension of Stutz trading, pending an investigation of the whole proceed ings. The investigators found Mr. Ryan We are proud at the STUTZ. It it a fhorooghbred, born and reared on the race courses at America, It never shuns a brush with , the best. In the field of motmdorn, the name STUTZ spells leadership.. Back of STUTZ teadershfp stands an immense institution. Ths institution Js the Builder of bat one product the STUTZ ' car and is devoting all of its skiU, afl of its energy and resources, to the manufacture of that car. Only the STUTZ car, manufactured by the Stutz Motor Car Co. c( America, can measure up the reputation of the STUTZ restitution, i Stutz reputation is the accumulation of years of experience on ; the race track, of immense manufacturing facilities, of thousands of, miles of performance in the bands of owners. We are proud of the STUTZ reputation on the race track, but1 STUTZ racing successes were instrumental only in perfecting the design. The STUTZ car itself to the real achferement into which is bu2V the pregtigg of mechanical perfection, of user satisfaction, of umisnal dignity and class. Without its merry trials m racing, wfihout its efficient mana x factoring organization, without the beg capable institution behind it there could be no STUTZ car. The siut. car is a combination of aH fheec things impossible of duplication in a day. a month or a year, but onry after years of expert- , meriting, years of careful preparation, years of actnafly making good." AUTOREST MOTOR SALES CO. DISTRIBUTORS FOR OREGOX Main 3237. Tenth at Salmon. W ft: ''it STUTZ MOTOR CAR COMPANYAMERIGUNCL INDIANAPOUSUSA. mi!!!lllli!lll!!lllllll!lllill!l!l!lli!!illilllll!!l!!!ll!!lll!illll!in MOTORCYCLE FIRM IN NEW QUARTERS. Trucks Garf ord Trucks through qual ity and continued perform ance cut transportation costs. "USERS KNOW" Garf ord Oregon Motor Sales Company NORTH -EIGHTH AND DAVIS Win. Cornioot, Prmldtat T. M. Geoalieiran. K. N. Wheeler, V!ce-Ire. and Urn. Mar. Secretary-Treasurer J. A. Haley, Kales Mgr. ;MiV BCILDIXG OF THE STRIDE O YCI.K COMPANY AT FOCTITH smilinirly holding tight to more stock than the company had ever issued. Then Ryan called for a delivery of the shares which he had bought on contract. Not having; stock to de liver, the brokers who had sold short were obliged to cover with cold cash, which they finally did after a great deal of haggling-. Ryan Ont-Koicd the Old Foxes. Wall street has gone back to its ticker, which is again ticking Stuta Mr. Ryan and the Stutz company have gone bacic to '.ne man ufacture of automobiles. The Ryan coup is over but not forgtten. "Wall street, however, is a good loser. It is rubbing the sore spots on its bruised financial cranium and In. a statement to its membership it is say- '""The wide publicity which the Stuts company has received as the result of this deal has made that au tomobile almos as well known in the United States today as the Ford or any other popular-priced car. Not sinre 1915. when a Stutz stork car won the Astor cup race, has the nam been so well known as at present.' Wheel vehicles were first used lit America, durlnir the 17th century. 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