The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, August 21, 1921, SECTION SIX, Image 73

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Newspaper Page TextTHE STHSDAT OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, AUGUST 21, 1921 9 9 WB1ERL1D FOUND ON VISIT TD BEND Beautiful - Country Revealed ' on Auto Tour. ; GREAT WOODS INSPECTED 3IHIs, Lakes, TUvers and Peaks Vorni I'oints of Interest Enthusiastic Motorists. for BT J. D. THOMISON. HOOD RIVER. Or., Aug. 20. (Spe cial.) Every Oregonian with an anto mobife should not consider his tour ing knowledge of the great Common wealth complete until he, has jour neyed to the metropolis of central Oregon, the flourishing city of Bend, already nationally famed for Us amazing production of lumber and the excellency of its hostelry, the Pilot Butte Inn. Much has been written of Bend and Deschutes county, of the fascination of inspecting the mechanical perfec tion of the city's great sawmills, than which there are none larger any where, of the world's last outpost of preat pine forests, of the district's prigantic irrigation and reclamation projects. The casual reader may think he comprehends the vastness of the region and the enterprise of its citizenry, but a journey Into the .Juniper-covered desert, some of which today, reclaimed by application - of water, flourishes like garden spots that the ancients recorded In their historical lore, by automobile is re quired before one can fully under stand the true immensity of the cen tral Oregon country. Accompanying A. r. Moe, publisher of the Hood River Glacier, and Mrs. Moe, the writer motored from Hood River to Bend. A choice of two routes Is available after one leaves The Dalles. The greater part of the traf fic through central Oregon now goes by way of Wasco and Grass Valley. The worst feature of this route is a bad stretch of the detour, around a section of the Columbia river high way under construction,, on the west side of the Deschutes canyon. Bad Road Encountered. Our party chose to go by way of Dufur, Kingsley and Mautfin over the .route selected for the north end of "The Dalles-California highway. The road from The Dalles to Dufur is one of the worst bits to be negotiated on this route. Dust-filled ruts make driving hard. The five-mile grade down into Tygh valley should be taken with care as turnouts are few and the road In spots is rough. The motorist wonders, as he travels tip or down this long grade why coun ty authorities- lo not expend a com paratively small -sum and construct more turnouts Points a-plenty, where excaavtion would be easy, are avail able, and a crew in a few days could construct turnouts at frequent inter vals. South of . Tygh valley a,cut-off route through the Warm Springs In dian reservation, the road intersect ing the main-route again at Gateway, is available. . This reservation road, however, is avoided, as those who have negotiated it declare it exceed ing rough- and steep.- - - ' . The road between Maupln, and An telope and thence to Shaniko j In ex cellent shape, although unsurfaced. ine smooth earth surface is broader than the paving of the Columbia river highway and the motorist can make Just as much speed as he-desires. We left Hood Kiver on Thursday noon, July 21, but were held up an hour by paving operations between here and Hosier, and in consequence did not reach Madras, as we had scheduled. Atfer a roadside lunch on the porch of a deserted store on tho nntsiiin. of Antelope, we proceeded down through Trout creek canyon, where the road is slightly rough and a little narrow, traveling as long as daylight lasted. At 8:30 o'clock we were just 120 miles from home and were pitch ing camp in the shelter of poplars beside a farm yard. Camping- Out Is Plenaant. Camping out is a pleasant venture while on a central Oregon motor trip Just try it and you will become an enthusiast. By the use of adjustable rods, something like the seats you have seen on a bathtub, your cushions and a large canvas, the latter tied to the windshield and the rear stays of the top, you can rig up a bed as comfortable as the berth of a Pull man car. A mosquito-bar canopy can easily be draped over the top of the car, and thus night-singing insectsmay be eliminated. Mr. and iirs. aioe naa their car equipped in such fashion. The writer occupied a folding cot arranged beneath a Juniper tree, to keep out A pup tent was pitched the light cf the monn. wnicn seems to shinp ftraeflliiv brilliant in that central Oregon at mosphere. We were up at daybreak Friday morning, and after an appetizing breakfast, cooked over sagebrush branches, were on our way. From Metolius on into Redmond, while sections of the mighway, freshly treated with loose crushed rock, bid fair to be very inviting after they are packed by the winter rains, they are now difficult to travel and are wear ing on tires. At some points this rock surface was applied a year ago, and here the hard-packed surface is fine. The 18 miles of highway between Redmond and Bend, while compara tively good now, will be better next year. It is surfaced with gravel, which remains unpleasantly loose most of the distance. The winter's rains will leave this section well packed, and with a little maintenance it will be like a boulevard. Despite our delays we drew up to the Pilot Butte inn a few minutes after noon. Many Peaks to Be Seen. As Hood, River, has become a hub for activity in viewing scenic at tractions of the mid-Columbia Cas cade district, so has Bend become the center of such movement on the part of tourists who travel .' to see the Cascades in the vicinity of those beautiful snow peaks, the Three Sisters, Broken Top and Mount Jef ferson. Highland meadows and a chain of lakes extends all the way down the Cascades from Mount Hood on to Crater lake. Odell. Klk and Gold lakes are perhaps talked of most around" Bend. The sportsman en camped on their shores' is in a para dise. Marvelous are the stories told of catches of trout. While the fish ermen from the outside visit Klk and Odell lakes for the most part, the Bend angler plays Gold lake as his. favorite this year. While the motorist crossing central Oregon , and visiting Bend for only a day or two can get an eyeful of thrills, and feast on vast expanse any way he turns, this empire of natural resource and scenic attrac tion deserves a more leisurely visit. The mere.- brief stay whets one's appetite for a return. The Dalles-California highway pro ceeds from Bend over logged-off land, left in the wake of crews of the Brooks - Sca.nlon. and Shevlin - Hixon lumber companies, on into the virgin forest, yet untouched by the ax, to La Pine. - For 50 miles the way is through these great trees. The un derbrush is scant, and the traveler can imagine he is - riding through a, park. Since a .vieit of Steven a.'. Mather, chief of the national parks department of the government three years ago. Bend citizens and civic bodies have been working toward the preservation of a strip of pines the full length of the highway. Robert W. Sawyer, county judge and editor of the Bend Bulletin, has been accomplishing gratifying re sults, and the Brooks-Scanlon Lum ber company has agreed to leave a strip o.f timber 300 feet wide on each side of the highway. Judge Sawyer is a keen good-roads enthusiast, an arch-booster for Bend and Deschutes county, and sincerely imbued with the preservation of the region's scenic assets. He is watching with interest a bill that has been introduced in congress by Representative Sinnott, providing for the transfer, in part payment to the government for ripe timber in the national forest, of logged-off land. The bill contemplates the in clusion of portions of the logged off area in the national forest and its reforestation. Timber Keser-rea Large. - The Shevlin-Hixon company has a tract of timber approximately 60 miles long and an average width of 11 miles, enough to run its big mill, which has a capacity of 300.000 feet daily, for the next iO years. The Brooks-Scanlon company has suffi cient timber to operate a like pe riod. The latter mill, however, has a capacity 50 per cent smaller than the other. A large tract of pine, privately owned by another large syndicate, lies off to. the northwest of Bend. Huge areas of timber in the national forest will ripen and be available by the time the Bend companies have j cut tneir last scumpage. iiiua can look to at least a half century of activity as one of the nation's largest lumber centers. While agricultural activity in the immediate vicinity of Bend is negli gible, because of topographic condi tions, the center of irrigation activity for the country to the north, because of these same topographic conditions, must remain around Bend. The water has to be diverted from the Des chutes to the south of Bend. Al ready two large systems are supply ing life-giving water and turning the desert into productive fields of "al falfa, grain and potatoes. The region has gained a wife fame the past few years for its potatoes, which grow, to perfection in the vicinity of Redmond and-Bend. Grow-; ers are applying rigid inspection oi seed and. because of the freeness of-l disease of their tubers, they ' have created a Pacific coastwise demand for their output for seed purposes. The potatoes of this section bring a premium on the market, over those of most other sections. Bis Dlatricts Are Viewed. The irrigation concerns of this section cover areas of 100,000 acres, figures gigantic in comparison with the water systems of the Hood River valley, the largest of which supplies only 13,000 acres. A system larger than any already in operation is reaching the point where actual con struction on a huge dam seems im minent. This is known as the Ben ham Falls project. It will water the country around Madras. The sheep Industry in. the immedi ate vicinity of Bend reaches no small proportions, and the traveler Is im pressed by the great numbers of herds grazing in the district. The impression is not a favorable one when he has to travel through a blinding dust cloud raised by the- woolies. The cattle industry thrives in the sections off to the north of Bend, and the O.-W R. &. N. com pany recently began its annual Sun day schedule, moving out traln'loads of fat steers to Portland. The motorists in the Bend country wonder where all of the cinders used in surfacing many roads are. ob tained. They appear identical with those drawn from the ash pit of a locomotive or coal - burning boiler The Deschutes county road building material however, is derived from butte to the south of the city. The deposit was made by process of some volcanic upheaval. Just south of Bend, too. paralleling the Klamath Falls highway for a short distance, is a very wide deep cleft in the earth's surface. It is explained an earthquake fault. It 'extends far down toward the California line. Numerous evidences of volcanic action and the flow of lava are ob served In the country, and geologists find objects of interesting study on every hand. Benham Falls of the Deschutes, it is said, resulted when the stream was blocked by a flow of lava across its course. A short dls tance above the - falls Spring river, only about a mile in length, flows into the Deschutes. This large stream flows from the earth in two or three huge springs,, crystal clear and ice cold. Pioneer Spots Interest In pioneer times homeseekers trav eled across the sagebrush plains by wagon train, to the present site of the city of Bend. This was the only point at which they could cross the Des chutes, flowing at all other points in a deep canyon. They were guided by a large butte rising high above the plains here, and this eminence became known as Pilot Butte. The Des chutes curves around the great butte and the homeseekers, as they left over the" McKenzie pass for the Wii lamette valley, could look back to the east and see the silvery thread of the river's turn. They came to call it Farewell Bend. Later it was called The Bend, and pioneers of th section today so term it. The Big Bend country is not mere ly interested in big spectacula things, but its citizens are displaying a thrift characteristic of a steadily growing agricultural community Dairying has gained ground in th past few years, and the Central Ore gon Farmers" Creamery associatio is now doing a thriving business mak lng butter and ice cream. Companies have been formed, one at Redmon and the other at Bend for salvagin the juniper trees, really a species of cedar, its height dwarfed by desert aridity, for the manufacture of pen cils. The juniper much resembles the cedars of Tennessee, and it is de clared that it is Just as desirable in pencil making. For a few weeks of summertime outing in mountain camp, the motor ist can seek no more pleasant place in Oregon than the great outdoors around Bend. The central Oregon town, although one can easily travel it In a day and a half from Portland, Is considered fairly remote, but daily the great hinterland is becoming near er and nearer and its wonders more accessible. The completion of paving to The Dalles and the grading and macadam izing of The Dalles-California road will bring it within easy and com fortable reach of Portland. It may be safely prophesied that this gate way of a scenic wonderland will be come Increasingly popular with each succeeding year. Dry Bearings. One cause of insufficient lubrication In the bearings is found in obstruc tions In the grooves in the bearing holder. Sediment often collects in these grooves so that they cannot per form their appointed function of car rying lubricating oil to the bearing surfaces. An excess of graphite if that be used with the oil sometimes produces the condition. A A ' 71 Tj TTT o - r Epperson Apperson Motor Car Co., Washington at loth Phone Broadway 2668 4-Pass. Standard $3450 7-Pass. Standard $3700 4-Pass. Anniversary $4000 7-Pass. Anniversary $4250 4-Pass. Sedanette $5000 7-Pass. Sedan $5000 CoIeAero"8" Northwest Auto Co. . Alder at 18th Phone Broadway 1460 7-pass. Touring $3195 2-pass. Roadster $2950 4-pass. Sporster $3095 4-pass. Coupe ., $4140 7-pass. Sedan $4450 6-pass. Sportsedan $4545 Franklin N Braly Auto Co. 14th and Burnside ' Broadway 901 Touring ;....$2975 Runabout '. $2875 Sedan $4025 Brougham ............... .$3925 Demi-Coupe $3175 Chassis $2550 Cord Tire Equipment Lexington Oregon-Lexington Co. 632 Morrison at 21st Main 5878 Series S 5-Pass. Touring. . . .$2195 Series S 4-Pass. Thorobred. .$2325 Series T 4-Pass. The Lark. .$3175 Spcl. ST 4-Pass. Thorobred$2935 Series T 7-Pass. Touring... .$3125 Series T 4-Pass. Sedanette. .$4150 Series T 3-Pass Custom Built Roadster $4900 Princess Sedan, 5-Pass $3125 Oakland Sensible Six ' Automotive Sales Co. 475 Morrison St. at 14th 2-Pass. Roadster $1315 5-Pass. Touring .....$1365 4- Pass. Coupe $1875 5- Pass. Sedan $1975 eo Northwest Auto Co. Alder at 18th Phone Broadway 1460 Touring car , $1925 Roadster .... '. ....... .$1925 Sedan . $2650 Coupe $2600 Speed-Wagon Chassis only $1495 With express body and can opy top $1685 All Prices Quoted Are Cadillac Covey Motor Car Co. Washington at 21st Main 6244 2-Pass $45 4-Pass. $4425 7-Pass $4520 Victoria , ......$5205 Sedan $5630 Suburban $5820 Limousine - $5925 Town Brougham ..$5925 Imperial Limousine $6030 ' . .... -v Dodge Brothers Covey Motor Car Co. Washington at 21st Main 6244 Touring $1190 Roadster .....$1140 Sedan .$2060 Coupe $1830 Panel Delivery $1350 Screen Delivery $1240 1 and 3 Chassis $1065 V i Gardner Willamette Motors Co., Inc. 100 North Broadway Phone Edwy. 4184 Touring $1195 Roadster $1195 Sedan $2050 Lincoln Pragp Motor Car Co., Eleventh and Couch Phone Broadway 3495 7-Pass. Touring $4695 5-Pass. Phaeton -, ...$4695 3- Pass. Roadster v. .$4695 4- Pass. Coupe ; $5475 5- Pass. Sedan .....$5875 5-Pass. Town Brougham. . .$6075 7-Pass. Sub Limousine $6550 7-Pass. Town Car.. .$6550 Oldsmobile , Oldsmobile Company of Oregon Broadway at Couch St. Broadway 2270 , Four-Cylinder 5-Pass. Touring ......$1595 Roadster $1575 4- Pass. Coupe $2190 5- Pass. Sedan J... $2550 Eight-Cylinder , 4-Pass. Sport '...$1995 7-Pass. Touring $2145 4- Pass. Coupe $2550 5- Pass. Sedan I... $2750 7-Pass. Sedan $3145 Six-Cylinder 5-Pass. Touring $1650 Roadster ..$1625 Scripps-Booth Willamette Motors Co., Inc. 100 North Broadway Phone Bdwy. 4184 Roadster .$1535 Touring $1535 Coupe .$2235 Sedan ..,.$2350 r Chalmers Chalmers Motor Car Co. Maxwell Motor Sales Corp. Oregon at East Third Phone East 531 Roadster ................. .$1755 5-Pass. Touring ...$1795 7-Passenger $2065 Sport Model $1965 Coupe ' : $2595 Sedan ...$2750 Dort Northwest Auto Co. Alder at 18th Phone Broadway 1460 Touring Car $1190 Roadster .......$1190 Coupe $1875 Sedan '. $1960 "Own a Dort, You Will Like It" Haynes A. C. Stevens 529-531 Washington St. Prices on New Haynes 1922 Models 55 and 75 MODEL 55 5-pass. Touring ....$2065 2-pass. Roadster ..$2100 5-pass. Sedan ..$3175 MODEL 75 7-pass. Touring $2800 4- pass. Tourister- $2800 2-pass. Roadster .$3000 5- pass. Brougham $3525 7-pass. Sedan $3875 7-pass. Suburban $3875 Marmon Northwest Auto Co. Alder at 18th Phone Broadway 1460 7-pass. Touring .$4490 4-pass. Touring $4490 4-pass. Roadster $4490 2-pass. Speedster $4700 4- pass. Coup $5375 7-pass. Sedan $5875 5- pass. Limousine .., $6050 Overland Willys-Overland Pacific Company Broadway at Davis Street. Phone Broadway 3535 5-Pass. Touring '...$ 853 Roadster $ 853 Coupe $1195 5-Pass. 4 Door Sedan $1475 Willys-Knight Touring $2145 Roadster ..$2145 Coupe '...$2850 5-Pass. 4 Door Sedan $3050 Stephens Salient Six Automotive Sales Co. 475 Morrison St. at 14th 2-Pass Roadster $2175 4-Pass. Touring $2285 6-Pass. Touring $2365 4-Pass. Sedanette $3400 6-Pass. Sedan $3490 Delivered r Chandler Twin States Motor Car Co. 601 Washington St. Broadway 494 Touring $2095 2-Pass. Roadster $2095 Chummy Roadster $2095 Dispatch $2175 Coupe $3150 Sedan $3250 Cord TiTes, Standard Equipment. r Elgin-Six Weller Motor Car Co. 15th and Washington Sts. 5-Pass. Touring $1695 4-Pass. Scout .....$1850 2-Pass. Roadster $1850 4- Pass. Coupe $2695 5-Pass. Sedan $2695 - i Hudson C. L. Boss Automobile Co. 615-617 Washington St. Marshall 867 7-pass. Phaeton ......... .$2692 4-pass. Phaeton $2692 2-pass. Cabriolet ..,......$3400 7-pass. Sedan ....$3800 4-pass. Coupe '. $3700 Touring Limousine $4050 Limousine $4500 The foregoing prices include " Cord Tire Equipment Maxwell V Chalmers Motor Car Co. Maxwell Motor Sales Corp. Oregon at East Third Phone East 531 Touring Car $1035 Roadster $1035 Coupe $1685 Sedan $1785 Commercial Chassis $ 950 Packard Portland Motor Car Co. Tenth at Burnside Broadway 521 LITTLE SIX 5-pass. Touring $3370 2- pass. Roadster $3370 5-pass. Sedan $4420. 3- pass. Coupe $4195 TWIN SIX. Touring ........$5450 Phaeton $5450 Runabout $5450 Limousine $7400 Duplex Sedan $7550 Duplex Coupe $7300 Cnassis $4700 Sedan ....$7550 Studebaker W. C. Garbe, Inc. Broadway at Burnside. Phone Broadway 616. Light Six Road. 2-pass. .. .$1540 Light six Tour. 5-pass.... 1575 Special six Road." 2-pass .. . 1845 Special six Tour. 5-pass... 1895 Special six Club 4-pass.... 1895 Big Six Tour. 7-pass 2325 Light Six Coupe 2-pass . 1950 Light Six Sedan 5-pass.... 2275 Special Six Coupe 4-pass.. 2795 Special Six Sedan 5-pass.. 2895 in Portland Chevrolet Fields Motor Car Co. Distributors Alder at Fourteenth Broadway 240 490 Touring $ 775 490 Roadster $ 775 490 Sedan .' $1220 490 Coupe $1220 490 Delivery $ 780 F. B. Baby Grand Tour.. . .$1180 F. B. Baby Grand R'd'str. .$1180 F. B. Baby Grand Sedan.. .$1875 F. B. Baby Grand Coupe.. .$1875 F. B. 1-ton truck chassis.. .$1440 i Essex C L. Boss Automobile Co. 615-617 Washington St. -Marshall 867. Phaeton .$1695 Roadster 1695 Cabriolet 2275 Sedan 2635 k , Hupmobile Manley Auto" Co., 11th and Oak at Burnside Broadway 217 Touring ..." $1765 Roadster $1765 Coupe : .$2725 Sedan .$2810 All models equipped with Cord Tires. Mitchell Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Co. Broadway at Everett Broadway 4675 5-Pass. Touring $1775 7-Pass. Touring $2110 4-Pass. Sport $2100 Coupe $2950 Sedan $3050 Paige Cook & Gill Co., Inc. Eleventh at Burnside Broadway 3281 Glenbrook $1940 Ardmore $2210 44 Coupe $2800 44 Sedan $2925 66 Lakewood '. $3230 66 Larchmont $3330 66 Coupe $4175 66 Sedan $4275 Daytona $3700 Velie 1 W. R. De Lay Motor Co., Inc. 58-60 North Twenty-third St. Phone Main 780 ' MODEL 34 2-pass. Roadster $1685 5-pass. Touring $1685 5-pass. Sedan $2385 MODEL 48 2-pass. Roadster $1885 5-pass. Touring $1885 4- pass. Speedster $2100 7-pass. Touring $2230 5- pass. Sedan $2785 Cord equipment all around Cleveland Twin States Motor Car Co. 601 Washington St. Broadway 494 Touring $1595 Roadster $1595 Coupe $2550 5-Pass. Sedan $2650 With Bosch Magneto. Cord Tires Standard Equipment. Ford Authorized Ford Dealers of Portland Touring $649.58 Runabout $602.73 Chassis $567.18 Coupe $842.21 Sedan $909.90 Truck (without starter). .$62354 Prices include electric starting and lighting system and demountable rims. Jordan Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Co. Broadway at Everett -Broadway 4675 5-Pass. Touring $2575 7-Pass. Touring $2850 Play Boy 3-Pass $2575 Sedan $3725 Nash Portland Motor Car Co. . Tenth at Burnside Broadway 521 SIX-CYLINDER 5-Pass. Touring $1835 2-Pass. Roadster $1815 4-Pass. Sport Model $1990 7-Pass. Touring $1990 4- Pass. Coupe $2730 7-Pass. Sedan $3045 FOUR-CYLINDER 5- Pass. Touring $1440 2- Pass. Roadster $1420 3- Pass. Coupe $2005 5-Pass. Sedan $2215 All models equipped with Cord Tires. V - Peerless W. R. De Lay Motor Co., Inc. 58-60 North Twenty-third st. Phone Main 780. 7-passenger $3390 Roadster 3390 Coupe 4120 5-passenger Sedan 4400 7-passenger Sedan 4400 Sfdan Limousine 4710 Wescott Weller Motor Car Co. 15th and Washington Sts. ' LIGHTER SIX C-38 5-Pass. Touring $2150 C- 2-Pass. Roadster .-...$2130 C- 4-Pass. Coupe ..$3350 C- 5-Pass. Sedan $3350 C- 4-Pass. Sport $2275 LARGER SIX C-48 7-Pass. Touring $2375 S C- Sedan .$4023 C- Limousine-redan ....$4250