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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1921)
3 w ill Ml "irj TWO NEW COLUMBIA ARRIVALS CREATE INTEREST ALONG AUTO ROW. IN DEDICATION IS NEAR TTIE SUNDAY OREGONIAy, PORTLAND, AUGUST 21, 1921 ACIFIC HIGHWAY x Price: Qisoini amiQ Ceremonies to Be Held, at Blaine, Wash., Sept. 6. :tfix' , DREAM IS COMING TRUE TT TT 11 "n Try in Tourists In 1925 Can DriT 1767 Miles From Vancouver, B. C, to Tia Juana, on Pavement. TACOMA." Wash., Aug. 20. (Spe cial.) The Pacific highway, a decade g so a dream in the minds ot some visionary men. today stands so ar completion that it will hav its offi cial dedication at Blaine, Wash., on September By 1924 or by 1925 at the latest every foot of its distance will be paved. Then a tourist can leave Vancouver. B. C, and travel 1767 miles to Tla Juana, Mexico without once driving his car from paving. The dedication of the highway will lay stress upon its Idealistic purpose as a peace bond between Canada, the United States and Mexico, rather than upon its attractions as a scenic thoroughfare and a business tie be tween the cities It traverses. On that account at its dedication a peace portal will be unveiled emblematic of more than a century of peaee on the Canadian border and a harbinger of the increased good relations that a neighborly highway wUl effect. Peace Portal at Blaine. This peace portal stands at Blaine on the Canadian boundary. Repre sentatives of the United States, Can ' adian and French governments are expected to Eee the dedication, and men prominent in the good roads cause from all over the coast are ex pected to be present. On the four sides of the portal are inscriptions conveying the high purpose of the road. They read: "Open for 100 Years." "May These Doors Never Be Closed." "Children of a Common Mother" and "Brethren Dwelling To gether In Unity." In the portal are implanted pieces f wood from the Mayflower and from the Beaver. The latter was a vessel of the Hudson's Bay company that waa the first steamship to ply in the waters of the north Pacific. The Pacific highway will be the first' transcontinental road to be paved throughout its extent. Of all transcontinental automobile highways It Is today the bst improved. Ideal Dawns in 1910. It was in 1910, when automobiles were coming into general use, that the Idea of a highway down the coast first dawned. Far-seeing men saw that such a road in the future would attract thousands of automobile tourists to the scenery of the "three Pacific coast states. The Pacific Highway association was formed, and a route for the road way was surveyed. Then the legis latures of Washington, Oregon and California were induced to proclaim the route of the highway In their states by statute, with the under standing that improvement should progress as rapidly as funds permitted. The result is that at the end of this year, when paving work now under way is completed. 1412 miles of the highway will be paved and 355 miles will remain for hard surfacing in subsequent years. Next year In Washington only 43 miles will be un paved, and in li2 this gap will be closed with the exception of 19 miles. This probably will be completed in 1923,-and Washington will probably be the first state to have all the high way within its borders hard-surfaced. Millions Are1 Expended. Paving in Washington which will remain to be finished after this year includes a streftch south of Belling ham and another in the south end of Lewis county and across Cowlitz county. In Oregon there will remain a stretch south of Albany and another of considerable length between Eu gene and Orants Pass, as indicated by the map. California will have left to finish a 176-nvile stretch from Red ding north to the Oregon line. Millions of dollars have been ex pended on the Pacific highway, but already much of that sum has been returned by tourists. The road is readily reached from the middle west. as it connects with the Yellowstone trail and the Evergreen highway in Washington, the Columbia river high way in Oregon, and the Overland trail, the Lincoln highway, ths Midland trail, the National Old Trail and the Santa Fe trail in California. All scenery peculiar to the west coast is traversed. The highway skirts salt water at places, it winds over mountains, it plunges through forests, it traverses the desert and touches nearly all the important farm lng regions and industrial centers of the three states that built it. Spo kane in Washington and San Fran Cisco in California are the only large cities not on its route, but good roads extend to both of these centers. Rich Districts Traversed. Starting at Vancouver, B. C, the highway is never more than a few miles from Puget sound until it passes Olympia, 234 miles from its beginning. In southwest Washing ton it traverses rich farming re gions and after penetrating hills and forests crosses the Columbia river at Vancouver on one of the finest bridges in the land. In southern Ore gon it begins its ascent, which cul minates in a passage of the Siskiyou mountains in northern California at an elevation of 4522 feet. This is its highest elevation. It then , passes through the timber of northern Cali fornia, travels through the rich in land valley between the Coast and Sierra Nevada mountain ranges, drops "into the desert of southern California, and at San Diego again mets its first love the salt water of the Pa cific. It passes within the shadows of the snow-capped mountains of the west. including Mount Shasta, in California, and Mount Rainier, in Washington The tourist can see from the highway Mount Baker, Mount Adams and Mount St. Helens, in Washington Mount Hood. Mount Jefferson, Thre Sisters and Mount McLoughlin, in Oregon; and Mount Shasta and Mount Lassen, in California. Roads lead from it to Rainier, Crater Lake. Yo- cemite and Sequoia national parks, s , Garage Light. A very satisfactory light for use' in the garage may be made by cutting the side out of an empty metal can of the sort that metal polish comes in. which has a screw top. A case o this kind obviates glare and also af fords protection to the glass blilb. By running a layer of solder in the bot tom of the can to give It weight It makes a stand for the light, which can be conveniently used on the work bench. v w-' , vl)6vt4jS.A:Vt HbA. LAKE TROUT NOT BITING " BUT F. W. AXSLEY FOUND MUCH SCEXERY XEAB SSOW PEAK. Trip to Lake Merrill Xear Mount St. Helens Made Up Xortli Fork ot Lewis River in OId3 Four. Much is heard of the beauties of the country about Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount Rainier, but be cause of its inaccessibility little is said of the scenery about Mount St. Helens. K. W. Ansley, salesman for the Oldsmobile compajiy of Oregon, with two friends drove last week to Lake Merrill, a sparkling body of water 12 miles southwest of Mount St. Helens, and returned enthusiastic about the scenery of that locality. With Mr. Ansley were J. W. McCrea and Dr. E. D. Hutchison, both of Port land. They went to fish, but the fish didn't happen to be biting that day so they had to be content with scenery instead. But there was plenty of that and of the most picturesque and rugged variety. Merrill lake is 65 miles from Port land by road, though much less by airline. It is reached by a mountain road that turns off the Pacific high way at Woodland, Wash. Mr. Ansley made the trip with an Oldsmobile four car and it climbed the steep mountain grades so handily and took the rough roads so easily that his total time from Portland to the lake was only 3V4 hours. And that in cluded half an hour for lunch' at Woodland. "The road follows the north fork of the Lewis river to within three or four miles of the lake," said Mr. Ans ley, "and 'from Woodland plunges quickly into the Cascade mountains. From then on it is one climb after another, much of the way through beautiful forests. "The road doesn't go quite to the lake. About four miles from there we had to leave the car and pack, up a 1000-foot ascent, too, and the sun was good and hot. We had heard treat tales of the big, gamey trout in the lake. I guess they are there all right, but as so often happens with lake rout, they weren't receiving visitors that day. Anyhow, we didn't catch enough of them to make a string. However, we ot-tur fishinz after all. We returned to -the car and then went a mile or two up the Lewis river, wnere we got all the fat trout the three of us wanted. The fishing in the North Fork was fine that day. -mere is no town at the'lake itself, but at the end of the road, where we left our car and took packs the three or four miles to the lake, is the ham let of Cougar, which consists of one store and a few houses. It is 30 miles from Woodland. "Any person who sroes to this lako will be repaid by the scenery, never theless it is more of a camping out irip man a pleasure tour. There are no accommodations to speak of at Cougar and none at the lake and the roaa there is stiff mountain going." LOW PRICES OX PISTOX RIXGS McQuay-Xorrls Manufacturing Co. Announces Redaction. The McQuay-Norris Manufacturing company of St. Louis has announced a reduction in the price of the McQuay Norrls "Leak-Proof" piston rings, ac cording to word received here. The new price is $1.25 tor all sizes and over-sizes up to i inches in diameter. This includes practically all makes of motor cars and trucks. In revising their prices to car own ers and the trade, the company calls attention to the fact that the prioes of its rings Were never raised during the war. An increased use of their rings enabled McQuay-Norris to hold down selling prices during the high priced war years, it is claimed; while this year s sales the largest in the company's history have made it pos sible to pass on to the piston ring user the saving that such quantity production has developed. Mffllirira"-' ' 'rrtwi tm inmiimf ft mil faUr ' il I II iW"-JTrs-J i i - c fJ VT? 4 "-"7 I i ZZyf't 'W,'! -jw ' ill ABOVE CLASSY POUR-PASSEXGER SPORT CAR. BELOW COLUMBIA . ROADSTER. MODEL E. Among the recent arrivals along the row are a group of new ColumblS models Just received from the Columbia factory at Detroit by the Russell H Luwson Auto company, 3o4 East Broadway, which took over Columbia d:s trlbution throughout this territory about two months ago. Two of the classiest of the new creations are those shown above, the four-passenger sport and thespont roadster. A recent sensational price reduction in the Columbia has created great interest in the car, according to Mr. Lawson, head of the local agency. The new "Challenger" model, a lighter and cheaper Columbia but with the same standard units as the larger model, has "been put out in response to demand, according to Lawson. The new model is made in the touring car, the four-passenger coupe and the five-passenger sedan Several of the touring., models have already been received and are being demonstrated by the East Broadway organization. , DIRT ROUPS ARE TORN UP WHEAT HAULIXG LX IXLAXD EMPIRE HARMFUL. The average for the 6,146.000 auto mobiles in use in the United States is valued at $1000 each. Complaints Made by Tourists but Hard-Surfaced Sections Make Up for Discomfort. WALLA WALLA, Wash., Aug. 20. (Special.) Wheat hauling operations in the inland empire are tearing the dirt roads to pieces and are also rav eling out the graveled roads, though they are not so bad. Tourists are complaining to some extent but there are enough hard-surfaced roads in the inland e,mpire : to make up for the discomfort. Road conditions in the inland em pire are summarized as follows: Walla Walla to Portland, via North Bank highway: Good gravel road to Prosser, thence good dirt road to Goldendale, with exception of a short stretch over Mabton hill; generally good from Goldendale to White Salmon, with one detour; good to excellent from White Salmon to Van couver. Walla Walla to Portland, via Co lumbia highway: Paved to Pendle ton; gravel macadam to Umatilla; rough to fair from Umatilla to Des chutes river; good to The Dalles, mostly good to Mosier: owing to pav ing work detour is necessary between Mosier - and Hood River unless the tourist goes through between 12:30 and 1:30 or 6 P. M. and 8 A. M. paved from Hood River to Portland. The Dalles to Bend, via Wasco: Fair; avoid Tygh valley route; Bend to Klamath Falls, via La Pine, dusty. fair to poor: Bend to Lakeview, via Fort Rock, fair to good; Bend to Burns, via Millican, good, exception of one. hill; Burns to Vale rough; Bend to Eugene, via McKenzie Pass, good, except about 20 miles on top, which is fair; Bend to Medford, via Crater lake, open, good, Walla Walla to eastern points, via old Oregon trail: Paved to Pendle ton; graveled to summit; remainder of road to La Grande poor; La Grande to Baker, good; Baker to Huntington fair with exception of detours and some loose gravel; Huntington to Hudson Super-Six $1895 Essex - - $1375 Lake, via' Albion, good; all roads' out of Salt Lake in fair condition. Twin Falls to Yellowstone nark via Poca rVllo, good; Mountain Home to Idaho Fals. via Hailey, good dirt road; La Grande to Wallowa, roads all open ranging from poor to good; possible to drive through from La Grande to Lewiston via Enterprise, Flora, Ana tone and Asotin: dirt road with heavy grades generally fair condition; toll gate road to Elgin open rough on west side to toll gate, remainder fair Elgin to La Grande, good. Walla Walla to Seattle; Good gravel road to, Grandview; paved from Grandview to Sunnj'Elde; de tours between Sunnyside and Zllla, owing to paving; Zillah to Selah paved; Selah to Ellensburg fair; El lensburg to Seattle excellent. Walla Walla to Spokane via Cen tral ferry: Paved to Dixie; goo macadam on through Waitsburg and Dayton to Colfax via Central ferry: Colfax to Steptoe closed for paving, detour is necessary; Steptoe to Spo kane, good. Walla Walla to Spokane, via Lyons ferry: Good to ferry if trip is made by Waitsburg and Starbuck, Ferry to Washtucna is dirt road first seven miles good, rest rough; Washtucna to Cheney, good; Cheney ta Spokane, paved. Walla Walla to Lewiston: Paved to Dixie; good macadam to Dodge; Dodge to Pomeroy rocky and bumpy dirt road; Pomeroy to Clarkston bad to good. Lewiston to Spokane, via Pullman: Good; Lewiston to Grangeville, via Walfa. rough to good; Lewiston to Troy or Genesee, 'good. Evergreen highway, from Lewiston to Weiser, open; good to ten miles south of White Bird; next 25 miles to Riggins, poor to fair, mountain roads, O. K. for good driver; from Riggins on, good. Spokane to points north and east: Spokane to Yellowstone park, via Missoula, mostly good, rough and dusty on Mission flats; " Spokane to Calgary, good; to Rathdrum. rough to Klngsgate, good to Calgary. ' Gear Xoiss. Most of the Ills of the mtor car are indicated by audible symptoms. A weaving noise in the differential case may be taken as an indication that the master bevel gear of the unit is running out ot alignment. A slight catoh, which occurs several times during each revolution of the driving wheels, is the sign of a chipped tooth Twin Falls good; Twin, Falls to 'Salt in the drive shaft pinion of ring gear. NEVADANS HERE IN COURSE OF LONG TOUR BY OLDSMOBILE EIGHTS. ;? 4'm& 8 CHASSIS f W if T .11 1 'a 1r i fir t i - "if ? 1 ITINERARY OF SOUTHWESTERN TOURISTS TO INCLUDE CAXADIAX ROCKIES, YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK AXD THE EAST. En route from their home city of Eureka, Nev., to far places, two Oldsmobile Eights bearing T. F. Plummer and L. T. Herchauer of that city and their families were in Portland last week. They had driven up the. Pacific highway from Los Angeles and were on their way to Banff in the Canadian Rockies, whence they expect to drive to Yellowstone national park, from there to Michigan, and then back home again, a tour that all told will cover several thousand miles. The photos were taken In front of the Oldsmobile company of Oregon. Both cars are 1920 Oldsmobile eights that already have traveled several thousand miles, but are In prime condition. They have averaged 16 miles to the gallon on gasoline so far. Mrs. Plummer, wife of T. F. Plummer (at the left in the pic ture), was for a time district attorney at Eureka, Nev., and had the distinction of being the only woman district fane said the first automobilexshe ever rode in was an old Oldsmobile curve dash car Of the 2,500,000 miles of highway In the United States only 6250 miles attorney In the country are subject to ths demands ot heavy (of the early 1900s. Though she has had several cars since, sbs remarked, that she had, never really been satis- duty tramc, ilea untu sue aaa anomer uiasmoDiie. Prices F. O. B. Factory Effective August 17 These Are the Lowest Prices at Which These Models Have Ever Been Sold You will understand something-of the value this gives to the Hud son SuperrSix when you remember that at $2600 it was the world's largest-selling fine car. Today's piace saves you $705. Essex Further Leads All in v Its Class Everybody-has always classed Essex with costly cars in perform anceendurance and appearance. It combines with those quali ties the economy of light cars in fuel, oil and tires. Thousands of owners report as high as 25,000 miles of service with scarcely any. maintenance cost. . More than 50,000 Essex cars are in service. For the performance and endurance given Essex had no rival at its last year's price of $1795. What can approach it today with this saving of $420? 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