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THE SUNDAY OKEGONIAN, FORTXAJTD, AUGUST 1, 1920 ILLINOIS FOLK TRAVEL FAR IN STUDEBAKER BIG SIX. Association Formed to Work for Willamette Highway. ALONG RIVER 75 MILES 13 ANOTHER MAIN ROAD WILL BE PROPOSE Q ' 4 'm i t it h v l V f L J Highway Commission to Be TJfrged tp 'Consider Route Serving Big - Territory In Valley. Vaf the purpose of developing1 a state highway through the Wil lamette valley, an association has been formed with Isaac L. Patterson of Eola at Its head, and having as mem ber . prominent road enthusiasts of Yamhill, Folk, Marion and Benton counties. The new highway will be christened either Capital highway or Willamette highway, and It seems probable that the latter name -will be elected on account of the fact that It will parallel the Willamette river lor about 75 miles. The present plan calls for a high way branching off the West Side highway at Dayton, (2.4 miles south west of Portland, and extending- up the west side of the Willamette river to a junction with the Salem-Dallae highway at West Salem. Which of the existing roads will be used is not yet determined, but in any event a connection will be made with Wheat land . ferry. This seotlon between Dayton and West Salem will be about 22 miles in length. It presents no difficult problems of construction and will open up a section that now has no railroad facilities. Independence In the Rente. From West Salem to Brunk cor ners the recently completed pave ment of the Dallas-Salem highway will be used, and here the Willamette highway will turn to the south and pasp through Independence. This section of road is one of the most heavily traveled in (he state and is In urgent need of paving. The association has not yet made up a route south of Independence, but if the plans of the etate highway commission prevail, and the West Side highway is extended south from Monmouth to Corvallis, then the as sociation will endeavor to get an ex tension of the Willamette highway south from Independence on a route nearer the river, to Albany, and thence over the river road to Corvallis.- The nast named section is already- established as a state highway by law, but no work has yet been done on it. It will be noted by an Inspection of the road map of the Willamette val ley that the proposed new highway wllj serve a great deal of territory not now served by good roads, and -a considerable portion is not even served by railroads. The proposed highway will also furnish several diagonal cross connections between the. West Side and the Pacific high- - r our cross Connections It will start on the West Side high way at " Dayton, touch the Pacific highway at Salem, and will connect baolc- to the West Side highway at Independence by means of the con nection with Monmouth. It will then connect with the Pacific highway at Albany, and finally with the West Side highway at Corvallis. 'This will make four cross connec tions, in all, and at the same time the highway will be very popular for thrcugh travel as well as for local service. Some sections are even now very-heavlly used. While at present no extension south Of Corvallis is contemplated, it would be jiOssible to get an excellent loca tion; Jpy crossing the river at Corval lis -and following the east bank to Hafcieburg, parallel with and several miles west of -the Pacific highway. At -Harrisburg the Pacific highway would be crossed and the Willamette highway would then extend to Eu- tenBby way of Coburg. In-fact, at one time the highway commission seriously considered rout- lng-the main Pacific highway through this, territory. From Eugene the new Willamette highway would merge wlth-the old Willamette highway up the" middle fork of the Willamette river" and over the Cascade range into eastern Oregon. The road as planned wonld be by far the shortest route to Crater lake and the Klamath country. Up to the Commission. Just what attitude the highway commission will take is uncertain, but It is probable that even if the new highway is placed on the map by the commission or by the legislature, Im mediate construction would be out of Jhe question until other roads are more nearly finished. It -is possible that the commission might be prevailed upon to take up some of the sections now, Including the stretch from Brunk corners to Independence, and between Albany and Corvallis, especially since the lat ter' piece is already provided for in the state programme. . One of the first actions to be taken by the new association will be to urge the commission to pave the sec tion of the West Side highway be tween Newberg and Dayton station. This stretch has already been graded and graveled, and is ready for hard surface. It la one of the most heavily traveled roads in Oregon, and is not only an Important connection with the new Willamette highway, but also serves Dayton, Lafayette, Dun dee, WcMinnville. all the Tillamook country and the points south of Mc Minnville on the West Side highway. The unpaved section is six miles longvsnd if a paving plant were to be set up this fall, the section could be completed early next summer. With the hardsurfacing of this section. there will be continuous paving for o. miles from Portland. MULTI-WHEELS TO COME HEAVY TRICKS OF FUTURE -.. SEED MORE SUPPORT. New.Bcsigns 3Iay Be Offered Trade Z as Result of Series of . Experiments. Is the motor truck of the future to fee . built with six and even eight wheels? TUB multiple wheel truck with tan dem, axle is now declared to be prac tical after two years of experiments conducted by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber company of Akron, Ohio. E. W.- Templin, designing engineer of the highway transportation department tf tioodyear. declares that the prin tipla: of the six-wheel truck can no longer be questioned and that the type he has been working on for the past.' two years is practical in every way; and needs only a few minor changes before jt is ready to be man- This ear reached Portland Inst week from Freeport. Ill-, with fsnr passenarera and s load of 1SOO ponnds, an told, the trip taking; 19 days by way 'of Yellowstone national park. According; to Nelson Celarer, who drove, with his father and mother and sister Rath as pasaensers, sne tire chancre was the only repair on the entire trip, the eost of which was only 950 for all hands. Of course, the party didn't atop at hotels for that figure, but camped along; the route. Mr. Gelgrer Informed F. M. L.eeston-Smlth ' f W. C. Garbe. lac, Studebaker distributors here, that 360 gallons of gasoline were consumed for. the 2821 miles of the tour, or 11 miles to the Ballon. The tourists wonld hire done better than that had It not been for five days of driving through awful mad In Iowa and soutn uaicota. i ne itinerary inpiunra snnou, icuownviK nauumai ufactured and placed on the market. The big idea behind the six-wheel truck is to carry a heavier load ,on smaller tires; reduce materially the weight of the truck; lessen expense and cost operation and above all speed the arrival of the freight on pneumatic tires. It, is said in favor of the tandem wheels that they will sus tain tremendous loads without over loading the tires and with five-inch clearance between the wheels the combined weight of truck and load is distributed in such a manner as to insure easy going on any highway without damaging the road. The type used by Templin was built with a 5x6 Hercules motor and 1-ton axles, solid tire rating of standard construction. Goodyear demountable rims are used with 21-inch brake drums. The truck weighs 800 pounds less than the average five-ton solid tire Job. The "six-wheeler," as it is common ly called around Akron, where experi ments have been going on, has a ground clearance one and one-half times greater than the average motor truck of five tons. The speed is gov erned to 30 miles an hour at 1400 rev olutions per minute of engine. It is equipped with seven-speed transmis sion. CANADA COMES TO FORE U. S. HAS OXE AUTO TO EVERY 15 RESIDENTS. America Ranks First In Production of Machines "With Great Britain Second. Canada in now the second nation in the world in the manufacture of auto mobiles, number of cars owned and per capita distribution. The United States takes first rank, with Great Britain second. Figures compiled by the motor bus and motorize the farm bureaus of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber company show that one person In every 15 in the United States owns an automo bile, while one In every 23 is the per centage in Canada. In Great Britain but one person in every 268 owns a car. The percentage in France is one to 102, one to 684 in Germany, one to 1000 in Italy, one to 2700 in Austria and one to 5300 in Russia. The total number of cars registered In this country is approximately 7,000,000, in the Dominion 350,000 and in England 180,000. Canada showed increased registration in 1919 of 13 per cent. Ontario was the banner province, with a registration of 127, 860 passenger cars And 11,428 trucks. Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec rank in the order named. Canada employes 15,000 workers in the automobile industry, which repre sents an investment of $50,000,000. In 1919, 94,000 automobiles were manu factured in the Dominion, with a total sales for the year of approximately $100,000,000. The annual wages of persons in the industry total $15,- 000,000. Rural Canada owns more than half the cars operated in the Dominion, and in the prairie provinces the per centage is greater. It is estimated that the total Cana lian .production of automobiles in 1920 will be increased 35 per cent over 1919. JEW PRESIDEST. OF THE W. H. WALLIXtFORB COMPANY. . An announcement of much interest in the wideterritory it serves is that made by the W. H. Wallingford com pany, distributors for Liberty and Briscoe cars, to the etrect that C. L. -Powell, formerly a wheat grower of ! Sherman county, who lately acquired j stock interests In the firm, has taken over the entire holdings of Mr. Wal lingford and becomes president of the company. Mr. Wallingford retires from active connection with the con cern. The remainder of the Walling ford organization has been retained practically intact. f i I'"- , i ' Waterloo, la.i gionx Falls, Mitchell, noise, loano, ana m uoiomDU LIBERTY Ci KEPT UP COMPETENT ORGANIZATION' IN MANUFACTURE CITED. Ability -to Produce Displayed in Spite of Shortage of Slate rials Due to Strikes. . The impression that it possesses one of the most competent organizations in the business of manufacturing mo tor cars has again been highly strengthened by the Liberty Motor Car company of Detroit, through its ability to keep right on producing cars despite the trying conditions that are again so seriously handi capping the entire industry, says W. H. Wallingford, Liberty distributor here. The switchmen's strike and the consequent shortage of freight equip ment have proved worthy successors to the war, materials shortage, em bargoes and labor troubles which for so long interfered with production. Nevertheless, the Liberty company has again displayed the spirit and ability which made it the first mo tor car company -to break production records after the war's end, and, al though many factories have been obliged to close down entirely, it has continued to build cars In spite of the most trying difficulties. April was one of the largest months in the company's history and May ex ceeded any previous month since the company Btarted in business. The company's new factory, to gether with the old plant which is still being retained, provided ample room for the storage of stock in an ticipation of possible further mate rial shortages, and its admirable fi nancial position enabled it to provide itself with parts far in advance of actual need. As a result, there has been little difficulty over lack of parts, - since there are materials amounting to millions of dollars awaiting their call to go into the construction of Liberty cars at the company's two factories in Detroit. During the present railway shipping difficulty many of- the distributors near at hand again arranged for a drive-away of cars, so that produc tion was not stopped because of an accumulation of finished cars at the factory. In certain cases distribu tors even took -the cars allotted them and arranged for storage in or near Detroit when it was impractiqnble to drive to the points for which they were destined. It was largely through this loyal aid from distributors and dealers that the company has con tinued to produce when other plants were obliged to temporarily discon tinue. NEW ROAD TOPS MOUNTAIN Motorists to Trout Lake Urged to Make Climb In' Small Cars. HOOD RIVER. Or., July 81. (Spe cial.) Motorists who visit Trout Lake, Wash., should not fail to travel to the summit of a new mountain hiehway just completed to the snow line of Mount Adams, according to E. O. Blanchar, local banker, who with Mrs. Blanchar visited the dis trict Sunday. "Guler postoffice," says Mr. Blan char. "is at an elevation of 1900 feet. On Sunday we were taken to an ele vation of 5000 feet by Chris Guler. pioneer of the district. The road's end, however, is about a mile far ther up. The distance of the new REPU T JR. uc Roberts Motor Car Co. Vancouver, Wash. Portland, OrJ-Boise, Idaho Largest Exclusive Truck Dealer in the Northwest Aberdeen and the Black Hills. S. D. nver highway to Portland. road, which enables one to look right Onto the snowfields of Adams and at the glaciers, is 14 miles long. The view of Mount Hood and distant scenery of Oregon is fine. "I would advise only cars of the smaller type with powerful engines to make the trip. A number of grades are 18 per cent and some of the curves are too sharp for large cars. r rom the end of the road forest ran gers who are building a cabin on top of Mount Adams made the sum mit easily in three hours. The trip, it is said, is en easy one." ROAD "WORK IS STOPPED Crews and Equipment on Lost Lake 1 Highway at Hood River. HOOD RIVER. Or., July 31. (Spe clal.) Cointy Commissioner Hansom yesterday stopped work on the county portion of the Lost Lake road and crews and equipment - were returned here. It is likely that work of smooth ing up stretches of the road will be resumed after the rains set in. The crews of the United States for estry , service will continue to push toward the lake. Only about a mile and a quarter of grade remains. Ef forts will be made to complete the road by fall. TRUCK LIFTS LAND PRICE AUTO CONSIDERED FACTOR IN RAISING VALUES. Report Made by Field Men of Economic Division of Ship-by-Truck Bureau. AKRON, O., May 29.-One modern factor In the recent boom in land prices in many sections of the county is the motor truck, according to re ports made to field men of the economic research division of the ship-by-truck bureau, which main tains headquarters here and has a nation-wide organization. Land, which formerly was worth only $150 to $200 an acre, has sud denly doubled and trebled in value, it is said. For much of the increase the motor truck is credited, espe cially where farmers have found it possible, by means of it, to reach the most desirable markets, formerly re garded as inaccessible. In the Burley tobacco district of Kentucky, for instance, the bureau says. Blue Grass land which previ ously had not been planted to to bacco because the planter lived too far from a desirable market, has risen from $300 an acre on the aver age to more than $500 in value. Many small farms sell for $1000 to JlSoo an acre, it is said. With the advent of ship-by-truck methods, tobacco Is daily brought into Lexington, the world's largest loose-leaf tobacco market, by motor truck. It comes from points 60 and 60 miles distant in many instances. In this manner the grower is able to realize the highest prices paid for tobacco, whereas formerly hp was Compelled many times to accept less for his crop than it actually was worth. Many smaller- markets have been put out of business, it is true, but the farmer has profited immensely by this introduction of modern ef ficiency. Maxwell Production Booming. . One post-war Maxwell is being built every Vt minutes of the working LIC The fact that we have installed so many Republic Trucks locally proves two .distinct things: First, the superior character of Re-, public ruggedness, economy and per formance. Second, the superior character of our transportation experience, and our Service facilities. The Truth' About Tire Mileage Find Why do yon favor a "certain tire? Do you know that it gives you greater, mileage than another? Big tire users do not guess, at these things. On stage lines, taxis, trucks, etc, service is compared. Often a score of rival tires are compared with Millers, and on millions of miles of road. Miller is winning in these contests. And the records it is making are the talk of Motordom. Get the Extra Miles You are hearing of these records if you talk with Miller users. And they are not exceptional. Miller Tires are famous for their uniformity. Put a Miller Tire opposite the tire you are using now. Compare the mile age see which tire excels. This test, we think, will be a revelation to you. Tire mileage has beenvastlyiricreased in late years. You should know what Tread Patenters Center tread smooth with suction cap, for firm hold on wet as phalt. Geared-tt-the-road side tread i, mesh like eogs in dirt. day. 'This is at the rate of 100,000 cars per year asserts L. C. Freeman, executive eng-ineer -of the Maxwell Motor company. This Is one of the bis reasons why the list price of the car is so low, because of the gigantic saving in money the purchase of mil lions of dollars worth of materials means. KLICKITAT KOATS GOOD County Judge Blowers Motors From Hood River to Goidendale. HOOD RIVER. Or., July 81. (Spe cial.) County Judge L. N. Blowers, who ' motored to Goidendale with his son, Paul M. Blowers, and wife, and his mother-in-law. Mrs. A. F. Wise, of California, says the roads from BRUTE Complete Lin lyi-ton 22 -ton S'2-ton 5- ton 6- ton Double Reduction Notice to Dealers: Write, your territory may be open. W.'C. Garbe, Inc. Formerly Oregon Motor Car Co. DISTRIBUTORS BROADWAY AT BURNSIDE Phone Broadway 616 PORTLAND SEATTLE PENDLETON new-day Millers give on ithe car. yotj pse. We Never Guess We never guess on Miller serviced Over 1,000 tires yearly are worn out at our factory to show what Millers do. Eight geared-up machines each run two tires 650 miles a day. Four Pierce Axrows are run by our men 320 miles a Compared 116 Kinds The A. F. Wolke Robber Co-, of Lotus ville, say they have repaired 116 varieties of tires, exisnined the) wear ajxl csmpusd the) mileage. These) testa bar convinced them that the Miller Cord Is the best tira bunt. day. Scores of taxis, jitneys and trucks are also employed in these tests. Rival tires are constantly compared with Millers. Thus day by day we are proving that the Millers stay supreme. BUB 5 Cords or Fabrics White Salmon to the Klickitat county seat by way of Lyle are excellent. "We returned by way of Glenwood, however," says Judge Blowers, "and ths route is not so pleasing for mo torists at present. The new. Kllckl tate grade is being cut. This is a road that wiU be thrilling enough for anyone! as "It passes around points at a sheer elevation of 2000 feet, over looking the Klickitat river gorge." To Eliminate Sqneaks. Ordinary cotton braid makes an admirable silencer wherever sheet metal comes in contact with sheet metal. Heavy cotton tape is better where there is heavy wear, as, for in stance, under the hood. In the case S of squeaking fenders a length of cotton braid is bunched under the j fastening nuts which are then drawn up. STRENGTH UUBB Trucks Only Track Built With 3 Final Drives Timken Worm Internal Gear It Ouf B 0 e v TT res Now Everywhere Discussed Northwest Auto Co. Alder at Eighteenth Portland, Ore. 1 Trailers, Semi-Trailers Automatic Dump Bodies More than 200 units every one designed to afford an efficient solution of some haulage problem We are at your disposal; call on us at any time. .Authorized SaJcj and Service - SincJ903. till tmmm These tests are extreme, for we want quick showings. We use undersized tires, extra-heavy loads and hard rear wheel conditions. Yet Miller Cords on our factory machines average 15,000 mfles. Miller treads average 25 per cent better than the rival treads compared, They Do Not Vary We know that men everywhere, in" like tests, will get like extra mileage. For Miller Tires are uniform. Every tire is signed by thex maker and inspector. Both are penalized if a' tire comes back. So they don't le vfaults creep through, There are numerous large cities froni Which not a single Miller. Tire, came back last year. Under Miller Standards, also, ffie' tread must outlast the tire. So every day we vulcanize and test our tread stock in the laboratory. No bne Mil ler Tire has come back with the tread cone since this method ,wa adapted! See What You Get - V Mileage depends largely on Condi-' tions on size, on care, on load and road. Remarkable tales are being told about the Miller mileage, - But see what you get on your, car. The mileage you get will surprise" you, we believe. It will probably change your whole conception of good tires. You owe that to yourself. Miller Tires are winning countless contests " now. Hundreds of thousands of users are getting extra mileage from them. Learn what they mean to you. When you buy a new car insist on Miller Tires. Twenty car makers now supply them and there is no extra charge. THE MILLER RUBBER CO, Akron, Ohio Geared-to-the-Road gitttnd U. & PatmU Off-o Line Way Makes Motor Trucks Pay mi 60 N. Broadway at Davis. Broadway 321 San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles Sand Diego, Seattle, Portland mm
