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ITTE SUNDAY OltEGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JANUARY 1,. 1923 . NEW STEPHENS SALIENT SIX PURCHASED BY LOCAL RAILROAD OFFICIAL. HOOD RIVER VALLEY fciSTWW C T1 State Highway Commission Sends Out Bulletin. Development in Seven Years 'Is Remarkable. The Stromberg Gasoline Filter UPPER COLUMBIA CLOSED LOCATION IS FORTUNATE Q ww v pepnPT nsi i HI III III I Mill Mil ' " "l 1 Will W ; . -I, i HIGHWAYS ISSUED Ir l-F In r iND NEIGHBOR 4. r X Pacific and Lower Columbia High ways Said to Be in Excellent Shape, Ilowever. The Columbia river highway con tinues closed between Mist Falls and Hood Hiver on account of snow and ice, but the rest of the road 1s pass able, while the lower Columbia river highway and the Pacific highway In Oregon are both in excellent shape. Such is the report of the Oregon state highway - commission in Its weekly bulletin on the condition of the main trunk roads throughout the state. The report follows: Faciflc Highway. Portlaqd-Oregon City West Bide route through Oswego and Bolton, crossing Wil lamette river at Oregon City, paved. Loads restricted on Oregon City bridge. vast aide, route through MLlwaukle open, and paved. Oregon Clty-Canby-Salem Paved. Salem-Jetferson-Albany Paved. Albany-Corvallis-J unction City-Eugene Gravel Albany to Corvallis. Pavement cor vailis to Eugene. Kugene-Koseburg-Grants Pass - Medford Californla line Large proportion paved, balance good macadam. The highway over the Hlsklyou mountains Is kept open throughout the winter by snow plows if necessary. Only six - Inches of snow to tfate. Columbia River Highway. Portland-Astoria-Seaside Paved and pen. Portland-Hood River Paved entire dis tance, but closed account snow and ice from Mfst falls to Kagle creek and 'from Wyeth to Vlento. Hood Rlver-The Dalles Paved except four miles of macadam and open. Cuts through snow drifts are quite narrow and the road Icy and extreme care should be used In driving. The Dalles-PendlAton Macadamized en tire distance and open. Coast Highway. Afftoria-Seaside-Tillamoolc O pea for travel. Went Bide Facflie Highway. JPortland-MoMinnville Paved. (Mcllnnvllle-Amlty-Rickreall-Monmouth-Jn dependence Open except bridge over Yamhill river -between McMinnville and Whiteson, which is being replaced. Traf fic should detour from McMinnville via Three-Miie lane to paved road, thence south to Amity. Mostly paved, balance graveled. Independence-Corvallls Take road via 6uver, graveled to Benton county line, paved county line to Corvallis. Corvallis-J unction City-Eugene Paved. Oregon -Washington Highway. Pendleton-Walla Walla Open and paved. Pendleton-Pilot Rock Open. Pilot Rock-Butter creek-Jones hill Passable, muddy. Jones hlll-Heppner Passable, but slop py. Travelers between Heppner and Pen dleton are advised to use route via Echo. Heppner - Arlington via Rhea creek Passable. r McMlnnvMe-TUIamook Highway. . Portland-McMlnnville-heridan Paved, fiherldan-Wlllamlna-Grand Konde-Hebo-Tillamtok Good macadam, some pave ment, open throughout. Old Oregon Trail. Fendleton-Deadman's Pass Open, ma cadamized. De adman's Fass-Hllgard Closed by now. Hllgard-La Grande Open, but very rough. La Grande-Hot Lake Pavement and macadam, good condition. Hot Lake-Union Main highway closed for bridge construction, take foothill de tour. Union-Baker -Macadamized; one short detour at Telocaset overcrossing and two abort detours around bridge construction near North Powder. Baker-Nelson Fair county road, some now and Ice; slow going; use chains. Nelson-Huntlngtoiv New standard grade, detour 2 Vs miles in length from Gale's crossing to Weatherby bridge; use old road, which Is very rough. Detour of mile at Jordan creek, very rough; detour of 1 mile from Lime to Huntington over bead crossing; use old road, which is In fair condition; detours of half mile- from Pope and Stanfield ranch to Binder ranch; use old road. In fair condition. The de tours on this section are well marked, but care should be used, as they are very rough. Use chains. Huntington-Ontario Fair county road to Olds' ferry, but slippery; drivers cau tioned to use chains on this road; from Olds' ferry to Welser keep on the Idaho aide; Welser to Ontario excellent ma carl am. The Dalles-California Highway. Note See Sherman highway for better route) to central Oregon. The Dallcs-Shantko Open, but frozen and rough In places; Tygh grade narrow and dangerous. Bhanlko-Madras Closed because of now. Madras-Bend Good macadam; open. . Bend-Allen ranch Cindered road in fair condition. Allen ranch-La Pine-Crescent Fair con dition.. Closed by snow at Sand creek be tween Crescent and Fort Klamath. Fort Klamath-Klamath Falls Open for travel and in good condition. Klamath Falls-Merrill-California state line All macadamized and in good con dition except three miles near Mai in. Where not surfaced the road Is a little muddy, but passable. Ashland-Klamath Falls Highway. Closed via Green Springs-mountain. Cars' may travel, however, between these towns by way o Ager, Klamath Hot Springs and Topsy grade, turning to the right at the summit of Topsy grade and thence by way of Dorris, CaL, to Klamath Falls; It will be very essential to have chains on v car on this trip. Klamath Falls-La-keview Highway. Still open, with heavy snow on the sum mit, but the stage companies are still using autos. Lakevlrw-nurns 11 igh way. Very little snow and good going. Lake view-Bend Highway. All good road, with the exception of about one foot of snow near Fort , Rock, but this is easily passable. 'Central Oregon Highway. Bend-Burns Fair condition except 20 mile stretch between Gap ranch and Sage Hen hill, which Is quite muddy when not frozen. Burns-Crane Macadamized and In good Condition. Crane-Vale Rough and slippery; use chains. Valo-Ontarto Fair; chains are needed. 8 her man Highway. Columbia river high way-Shanlko, via Fulton canyon Some ?now, making travel difficult. Follow detour sign! to avoid new construction between Wasco and Jinrn. Shanlko-Madras Closed on account of now. McKenzie Highway. McKenzio pass Closed until spring. eisters-Redmond Graveled road; open. John Day Highway. Arlington-Condon Open and In good condition. Condon-Fossil Macadamized and In good condition. Fossll-Buttu creek-Summit Graveled nd in good condition, Summlt-Tilley's (mouth of , Sarvlce Creek) Dirt road, now frozen. Tilley's-Spray New road, fair condition. Bpray-Dayvllle Graveling operations un cW way in two or three places, but no delay to traffic on this account. Dayville-Cole's bridge Frozen; rough. Cole's bridge-Prairie City Graveled road In good condition. Prairie City-Baker Road closed to auto traffic on account of snow In mountains. Vale-Brogan Open; fair condition. Ochoro Highway. Redmond-PrinevIIle Graveled road, good Condition. PrinevIJIe-Mitchell Closed to cars, but open to team traffic. Crater Lake Highway. JiedfordProspect-Qpea, . AS c Haadaome new car jnat .old to Mr. and Hra. E. A. Kllpvrl, 69 J Eint Taylor mtrrrt, by the AntomoHve Sales rom panr. Stephens distributors. Mrs. Klippel is ahowa standing: beside the car. Mr. Kllppel la well, known In rail road circles, being- superintendent of the telegraph division of the Oregn-Waahlngton line. KEEP. TO RIGHT, CANADIAN PROVINCE ADOPTS V. S. RULE OF ROAD. . Motor Tourists From States Expect ed to Increase New Law Goes Into Effect January 1. VANCOUVER, B. C, Dec. 31. Ntw Year's day wllj mark a change in the "rule of the road" in British Columbia which will bring the Canadian prov ince in line with the rule of "Keep to the right" universally prevailing throughout the states. Hitherto Brit ish Columbia has rigidly 'adhered to the old English rule of "Keep to the left." This condition has always been confusing to motorists visiting the province, as it is impossible to forget the natural habit of a lifetime in a day or week. Behind the change of the rule of the road is undoubtedly the rapid growth of international motor tour :ng traffic British Columbia is a wonderful country to- touring, abounding in magnifice- i scenic at tractions. For years VI traffic over the Pacific highway rX the interna tional boundary har been Increasing by leaps and bour-is. At only two points of entry in 1920 nearly 15,000 cars with 78,000 passengers crossed the line, while the figures for only the first six months of 1920 showed an even greater total than for the entire previous year. During some week-ends the traffic ran as high as 2000 cars for the period. All this made it advisable to establish a road rule enforming with that of the states. One great difficulty in the way was the fact that the electric railways of Vancouver, Victoria and suburbs were all constructed and equipped for left-hand operation. To make the necessary changes in roll ing stock, switches and electrical equipment meant an expenditure of approximately $750,000. Last year the legislature awarded the street railway compensation of about $400, 000, and the necessary changes have been made to make It possible for the rule being established. One of the foremost advocates of the change of the rule has been the Vancouver publicity' bureau, which is largely responsible for the develop ment of motor tourist traffic to Brit ish Columbia. "With the establishing of the 'Keep to the right' rule for traffic" said Mr. Davison, manager of the bureau, "1 am confident that there will be a great increase in the number of tour ing motorists from the states during the coming season. I know that in the past motorists have often elimi nated British Columbia from their itinerary simply because they were afraid to trust themselves under our old rule. Now that we 'keep to the right' this objection is entirely re moved." PREST-O-LITE BATTERY DOWN Reduction Announced by M. 'D. Baker, Local Representative. Another reduction In prices of au tomobile storage batteries has just been announced by the Prest-O-LIte company. This last reduction makes the present selling price of Prest-O-Lite batteries for Fords, certain types of Chevrolets, Buicks, Overlands and several other small cars and trucks, 31 per cent less than the price that prevailed during the greater portion of 1921, and 45 per cent below 1920 prices, says the factory announcement. "This last reduction In storage bat tery prices will bwe'lcoraed by the automotive public and is a further in dication of the purpose of the Prest-O-Lite company to reduce prices as quickly as possible to a pre-war basis," commented M. D. Baker of the M. D. Baker company, local Prest-O-Lite representatives. These new prices will apply to all type9 and sizes and are for the same type Prest-O-Llte batteries that are now standard LOCAL MEN HEAD NEW AUTHORIZED FORD SERVICE STATION. i " V i - J .1 II. WICK (LEFT) L. G. PENTECOST (RIGHT) Opening of a new authorized Ford service station, under the direction of L. G. Pentecost and H. Wick, both experienced Ford men, was announced last week. The firm, which Is known as Pentecost & Wick, has quarters on the second floor of the building at the corner of Fifteenth and Washington streets. Mr. Pentecost has been connected with the Palace Garage company, authorized Ford sales agents, for the past two years as service man and shop foreman. Mr. Pentecost began his Ford career way back in 1910 with the Ford Motor company of Pittsburg, Pa., and has been engaged in dispensing Ford service ever since then. Mr. Wick was also formerly with the Palace Garage company, being on the sales staff. Just prior to opening up the new business with Mr. Pentecost Mr. Wick made a month's tour, visiting 150 Ford agencies throughout Oregon and California, to study Ford service and re pairing methods, . . , . .4 v.oWDHfV..- equipment on 87 makes of motor cars and trucks." ELECTRIC TEST IS LATEST Device Tells Condition of Spark Plug and Electric System. News of an interesting device re cently prefected for testing spark plugs and electrical systems and now being manufactured in the east has been received here. The device is known as the Alrco ignition gauge and Is being made by the Air Re duction company of New York. The gauge consists of a small glass tube of neon, a rare gas obtained from the air. In it an electric spark will jump 75 times as far as in the air. The glass tube is enclosed In an insulating case in which a small window is cut. When the gauge Is applied to the spark plug or other part of the Ignition system of the auto mobile the state of the ignition sys tem is shown by the intensity and frequency of an orange-red flash which appears under the glass. The whole device is described as being about the stze of a man's little finger. M'KEHZIE ROUP PUSHED OVER $224,000 EXPENDED ON THIS HIGHWAY TO DATE. Government Contributes Almost Equally With the State and Lane County. EUGENE, Or., .Dec. 31. (Special.) A total of $224,643.08 has been ex pended on 20 miles of the McKenzie river .highway, according to a report given out by the bureau of public roads and . received at the office of the Cascade national forest in this city. The amount expended during the present year by the government was 1109.457.32, according to the re port, and by the state and county $103,181.35. . While the total number of miles under contract is 20, the amount of road built this year was 13.5 miles. E. B. Merrick of the bureau of pub lic roads, stationed at Portland, in company with N. F. Macduff, super visor of the Cascade national forest, drove over the upper Willamette highway between Oakrldge and a point four miles from the summit of the mountains during the past week to investigate the feasibility of mak ing a. permanent survey for the further Improvement of this road next summer. Mr. Macduff said they went as far as Beaver creek, where there was four inches of snow, and trappers and hunters informed them that there was only a foot and a half of snow at the summit. They found the road to be in good condition all the way except at a point 20 miles above Oakrldge, where 15 trees had been blown across it in one place. Someone preceding them had cut away around these trees. The road has stood up well during the recent storms, said Mr. Macduff, and the results of the work put on it last eummer are shown. FORD IS USING OWN LUMBER Bodies Built of Timber Shipped From Iron Mountain, Mich. DETROIT, Dec. 3 l.-r-Regular ship ments of lumber are being received at the River Rouge body plant from the Ford Motor company timber tracts in the upper peninsula of Michigan. This lumber 1s shipped from Iron mountain, where it has been cut and kiln dried and when it arrives at the Rouge body plant it Is ready for im mediate use in the construction of Ford sedan and touring car bodies. Approximately 1,000,000 feet of lumber has been used at the Rouge plant in body building, it is stated, and shipments are now averaging about three or four carloads weekly. R. I. Gifford Photos. r ' SKID PROBLEM TACKLED NEW DEVICE CLAIMED TO STOP CAR IN A HURRY. Portlander Invents Fifth Wheel to Drag Behind Car in Case of Emergency. A new device for stopping a car in an emergency and for preventing skidding on slippery or icy streets, a device which It is believed is some thing entirely new in principle so far as any application to the automobile Is concerned, has been Invented by a Portland man and is to be put on the market soon. The device, the invention of N. M. McDanlel of this city, consists of a small wheel arranged under the car between the two rear wheels in such a way that it .can be thrust tightly down against the road when occasion arises to stop the car. Roughly the device is based upon the same idea old wagon drivers had when they put a drag under the rear of their wagons to slow up speed in going down steep hills. The device consists of a wheel about a foot in diameter made of hardwood, with an outside band of manganese steel heavily studded. This wheel runs freely on ball bear ings. A heavy rod connects the wheel with a brake lever at the front of the car similar to the ordinary emer gency brake lever, and a strong spring spring holds the wheel up. un derneath the car out of sight when not in use. Operation of the device is briefly thus: The driver wishing to stop his car quickly or to straight en out a skid pulls back the brake lever. This action pulls the wheel downward until it is bearing upon the road. While the wheel ordinarily runs freely the pull of the brake lever tightens up two bands on each side of the wheel, causing it to run harder and harded. Thus the harder the pull on ine Draxe lever the slower the wheel runs and the harder it presses against the road. An extremely hard pull will bring the wheel to a stop and cause it to drag steadily against the road, bringing the car to a soeedv stop, according to the inventor. Whiste running lightly and Just touching the roaa with light pressure the wheel will enable the driver to run alone at a rapid rate over slippery pave ment wnnout aanger of a skid, it is claimed. A patent for the brake was received last week by Mr. McDanlel from Washington, D. C. He has associated himself with C. L. Starr, a local at torney, for the purpose of manufac turing and selling the device. Earl Official Is Here. James R. Findlater, vice-Dresident and Pacific coast manager for Earl Motors, formerly the Briscoe, was a Portland visitor last week. Mr. Find later recently returned from a sales convention of Earl representatives at Jackson, Mich., and returned enthus iastic over the new Earl car. now Just being put on the market. He spent tome time here conferring with Mitchell, Lewis & Staver, local rep resentat'ves. Business in the east is improving and automobile men expect splendid business after the national automobile shows in New York and Chicago In January, Findlater said. NEW The BROADWAY AT COUCH People Once Isolated Now as 3Inch Interested In Tonrist Business as Is California. HOOD RIVER, Or., Dec. 31. (Spe c'al.) The development, of automo bile transportation and the progress made in highway construction in Ore. gon In the past seven years has turned the Hood River valley from a com munity of comparative isolation into a close neighbor of Portland and the city of Hood River has become the hub for mid-Columbia Cascade scenio activity. , Seven years ago the motorist, to reach Hood River, had to stow his car on board a Columbia river steamer or ship it here by rail. The barrier of Shell Rock mountain remained, although two years before Simon Ben son had shown the practicability of construction of a scenic road along the south side of the Columbia, along with other stretches which not even a horseback rider was able to nego tiate. At the present time, although the road is blocked temporarily by winter's grip, a paved highway ex tends from Astoria through Hood River to The Dalles. Hoed River la Fortunate. x Because of the topography of the mountainous district. Hood River lying within the Cascade range at virtually the boundary between east ern and western Oregon, Hood River has occupied a fortunate location in sofar as Oregon highway construction has been concerned. The oldtlme isolation has been replaced by main line activity from east to west. In deed, motor traffic from north to south over the Pacific highway in a large degree reaches Hood River, for the Columbia River highway, with its nationally known scenery, at tracts nearly all motorists who visit Portland, and while a few of those who Journey out from the metropolis for an inspection of the gorge's rock embattlements and wooded crags tour no further than Multnomah Falls or Eagle creek campground, the larger portion of then! keep chugging right ahead to glimpse the snowflelds of Mount Hood from over the orchards of the Hood River valley. Where' tens and twenties of tourists formerly viewed the Hood River valley when it was available only by rail or Co lumbia river steamer, today they come by the thousands each summer. Today the Hood River valley, only a few years ago an isolated com munity as far as auto travel is con cerned, is as much interested in the development of the tourist business as is southern California. Hood River citizens with an earnest eagerness voted a further investment of $350, 000 last June for good roads. The county will sell bonds to this amount if necessary to match a like amount from the state in the construction of a 20-mile valley trunk of the Mount HoodJoop highway, that magnificent scenic road that will encircle the snow peak of Mount Hood, and thus supplement the Columbia river high way in making available the Beaver state's unrivalled mountain scenery. Already crews are engaged in grad ing a portion of the valley trunk road, eliminating in the first unit of the work the old grade over Booth Hill, where in wintertime for the past years motor traffic has been impossi ble. The new valley trunk will not , be a mere scenic boulevard. It will serve as a watergrade market road from the upper Hood River valley to the city of Hood River, a market road in the strictest sense. Wilds to Be Opened. But Hood River fplk, even before the Mount Hood loop materialized, were spurred to the duty of making i available to the ever-increasing hordes of motor tourists her nooks of scenic appeal. Lost lake up to the past two summers, because of the rough trails penetrating virgin fir and cedar for ests to its shores, remained unknown except to the hardiest recreationlsts. fishermen and hunters. For this rea son it remained for the Hood River County Game Protective association 1 Effective January 1 Model 43 Four-cyl. 5-passenger touring $1145 Model 43 Four-cyl. 4-passenger roadster.. .. 1145 Model 43 Four-cyl. 4-passenger coupe 1645 Model 43 Four-cyl. 5-passenger sedan 1795' Model 47 Eight-cyl. 4-pass. Pacemaker...... 1595 Model 47 Eight-cyf. 4-pass. roadster 1595 Model 47 Eight-cyl. 4-passenger coupe 2145 Model 47 Eight-cyl. 5-passenger sedan 2295 Model 46 Eight-cyl. 5-pass. Thorobred. . 1735 Model 46 Eight-cyl. 7-passenger 1735 Model 46 Eight-cyl. 7-passenger sedan 2635 Oldsmobile Economy Truck chassis. 1095 Oldsmobile Economy Truck with cab. ...... 1175 Oldsmobile Economy Truck, express 1245 Prices F. 0. B. Factory OLDSMOBILE OF OREGON to foster a movement for opening up this scenio region, declared one of the most attractive in all the Oregon wilds. Three years ago, through pri vate subscriptions on the part of the game association members supple mented by county appropriation, mod est work was begun on opening a road into the Lost Lake country. The forestry service was interested, and eventually federal appropriations that have since aggregated $10,000 were secured for cutting the grade through the bounds of the national forest. By the time the accumulation of win ter's snows have melted from the forest floor around Lost lake, this emerald mountain jewel will be ac cessible to any Portland motorist who wishes to spend a day within the wilds. Gorge Ilotrl Landmark. The Hood River country bids fair to become as well known as years pass for its attractions as a nation's summer playground as it Is today for its orchard products. During the past summer, as result of the public splrltedness of S. Benson, one of the nioneers In urging highway construc tion over the state, the Colurhbla Gorge hotel, a tourist hostelry that will compare favorably with any re sort hotel of southern California, has arisen beside the Columbia, river high way just west of the city. In the few brief months of Its existence it has become a highway landmark. With regard to the Portland 1923 exposition, all of the foregoing re cital is b"t an Indication that Hood River county possesses a strategic position for the full enjoyment of all the benefits that may accrue from such a publicity and development venture. However much other sec tions of the state may view with dis pleasure the proposal of taxation "for the fair. Hood River citizens realize that they cannot affocd not to join in plans for the exposition. And here in this county, while some disagree ment as to ways and means of raising the necessary funds prevails, the sentiment is generally almost over whelmingly in favor of the 1923 fair. Tighten nuts ani bolts about once a month. ' PRICES PHONE BROADWAY 2270 Avoid Trouble! Be sure the gas is clean that flows into your carburetor. Remove the sediment, dirt and water the Stromberg Gasoline Filter does it It filters the fuel just before it enters the carburetor removes all dirt and water cleans the gas. Can be attached to vacuum tank, to carburetor or gas line. Easily attached. No mechanical knowledge necessary. Do it yourself. Needle valve shuts off flow of gas when sediment chamber is removed for cleaning. Makes gas easily obtain able for cleaning sparkplugs, patches, etc Prevents theft it locks the car. State name and model of your car. Dealers write u3-at once. 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