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TITE SVsi OAT' OITEUOXIAN. PORTLAND, FEBRUARY IS, 1922
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ITS A TRIFLE EARLY FOR TRANSCONTINENTAL AUTOMOBILE TRIPS, BUT THIS OLDSMOBILE
PARTY FROM THE SOUTH CAME ALONG JUST THE SAME.
ALL AMERICA SOON
TO BE 01 WHEELS
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IN SLOWER SPEED
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Problem Presented for Mo
torist to PonderOver.
Motor. Transportation Con
stantly Growing.
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LAWS OF PHYSICS CITED
SERVICE HIGHLY RATED
Boxjee Brothers
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Air ICt-aiManre More at SO Miles
Than S3 and Gas Wastage
Is Increased.
S3 Per Cent of All Motor Cars in
Country Reported to Be in
Towns of 6000 or Less.
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fTAXhOKH. CaL. Keb. II. Here is
a proM-ni for the motorist to ponder
the nt time ho hits the open read
for a v-mile or more trip.
That an automobile traveling I
mites an hour on a aO-mtle run will
consume lefts gasoline than if it were
traveling 45 miles an hour is the
declaration of certain authorities on
physics and mathematics at Leland
Stanford Jr. university.
Try it out. Here is what tha ex
perts say:
The primary reason for this con
m elusion Is found in the fact, that the
greater the speed, the greater in pro
portion the resistance of the. air be
comes. Elated in terms of mathe
matics, the air resistance Is as the
square of the speed. Thus a car go
ing two miles an hour has to use
four times the pressure that a car
traveling one mile an hour would. At
40 mlirs an hour, the automobile uses
rouchly i.iZ times as much energy in
overcoming air resistance as one
traveling 25 miles an hour does.
Other l--aeere Eater.
Fevt-ral other factors enter Into the
problem, su.h ps the heat generated
by the engine which (toes to waste,
lias mixture incompletely burned, and
loss of tie power from the engine
II r"iih less traction on the road, all
tenilinu' to make the consumption of
gasoline htKher at hleh speed.
In running an automobile at high
speed there would normally be the
same number of revolutions and ex
plosions occurring; in the engine in
traveling a certain distance that there
would be at low speed. Hut the fact
that the automobile shoots forward
under a higher speed tends to raise
lis wheels a trifle off the road, by
tentrlfuKal force, an effect further
lnerease.j when the machine bounces
from the crest of one bump to am.
other, instead of ri'lin
the slopes of
the depression. This lesseninir ol
pressure of contact with the Kround
with a consequent sllppinir an
bouncing of the rear wheels from the
road at hih epeed. means that the
engine will race, much like the ensrtn
of a steamship when "the propellers
are thrown out of the water by wav
action. Consequently the enK'ne will
turn over a icreater number of times
In traveling a certain distance
Men peed than at a lower speed.
This -means the consumption of
greater amount of fuel at the higher
Deed
The heat of an enclne will vary al
most directly with the speed of the
engine. If the entiine were to turn
over the same number of times in
making the run at S3 miles an hou
that it did when traveling 45. the
wastage of gas from heat generation
woutd be very nearly the same
either speed. But. as has been pointed
out. the engine will probably have to
make many more revolutions to cover
the same distance at high speed and
the heat generated in those additional
revolutions is a loss above that sus
tained from wastage at 25 miles an
hour.
I. as Wastage Likely.
The question of incomplete com
bustiou of gas in the enine is one
ahich presents several anglea A
a general statement, it might be said
thai when an engine runs at high
speed there is a tendency for the ex
liauMt stroke to come so quickly arte
the firing of the gasoline vapor tha
a portion of the mixture is expelled
before all of it has burned and has de
livered its energy to the piston.
Whether this would make a per
coptible ilifference between the fue
consumption of a car driven at
miles an hour and 4 miles an hour
.would depend a great deal upon the
particular make of engine. The tim
ing and functioning of the valves is
usually adjusted by the manufac
turer so that the car will not have
tnis fault within the recommended
and guaranteed operating speed.
If the speed for which the car
question was designed was 25 miles
an hour there would probably bo. a
gas wastage from incomplete corn,
bustion when running at 4 miles at
hour. Kven high-speed engines, de
signed for use in automobile racing.
often exhibit the Imperfection of In'
complete combustion. The peculiar,
sickening exhaust gaa from racing an
tcmobiles has no doubt been noticed
by many.
It is a' well-known fact that is
making test runs, designed to show
small gasoline consumption, automo
biles are operated 20 miles an hour
Thus salesmen and automobile scien
tists take advantage of tha laws of
physics In their business.
SIOTOK LKAGCE IS FORMED
Organisation Announces Purpose
to Protect Motorists' Interests.
A new organization known as th
Motor Vehicle league has been
launched in Portland with the Inten
tion of extending Its membership
throughout the state, according to the
promoters The league, according to
a summary of objects given. Is de
signed to aid automobile owners and
operators from possible unjust laws
an1 unfair taxation.
The following are the officers: C.
II. Weston, president;
K. K. Beach. C
W. Cornel; and James
P. Hewitt.
vice-presidents: A. . lieming, necre
tary: John K. Pa'y. treasurer. Dlrec.
tors, in addition to the above, are
C. tl. Irwin. F. W. Vogler. Ir. J. F.
Worcester. H. J. Casey, H. W. Rob
erts and Kred N. Bay.
The purposes of the organisation
are outlined as follows, in a pamphlet
issued by the league: To protect
motor vehicle owners of the state
from imrn.cal legislation: to develop
a more equitable licensing system; to
oppose inadequate road and traffic
laws governing motor vehicles; to
prevent waste of public road fund
and he p In the more equitable spend
ing of same: to represent motor ve
hicle owners at all times for the pur
pose of bettering their condition.
New Standard Company Formed.
NEW TORK, Feb. 11. Formation
of the Standard Motor Car company
has Just been announced to take over
manufacture and sale of the Standard
EtgM. New interests experienced in
the automobile industry have Joined
with the Standard Steel Car company
la the formation of this company.
Don C. McCord. long a prominent
figure in the automobile Industry,
has resigned as vice-president of the
liankers' Commercial Securities com
pany of New York to accept a similar
position with the Standard Motor Car
company, and will he In direct con
trol of tno aalca and finance. ,
AJTT OLD TIME IS TOl'RKS TIME FOR THESIS TEXAS MOTORISTS. WHO HAVE JtST ARRIVED Mr PORT
LA.U WITH T1IUR MODEL. 47 LIGHT EIGHT OLDSMOBILE.
In the picture are Prank Carter and his family of six, all of Wetherford, Tex., the photo beinc; taken on their
arrival recently at the quarters here of the Oldsmoblie company of Oregon. They had just driven their Oldsmobile
light eight from Weatherford to Portland, distance. 2916 miles, in 14 days, an average of 210 miles per day, which
Is some traveling la mid-winter. They left Weatherford on January 2 and arrived in Portland January 18. Their
route took them via El Paso. Tucson. San Diego. Los Angelea and Sacramento, thence north over the Pacific high
way. They encountered very muddy roads in the Imperial vallejr of California and snow in the Sierras and
Siskiyous. but the car kept right on coming, despite ail handicaps. This is Mr. Carter's, second Oldsmobile. -
WILLYS-J(NGHT MOVES
WHOLE? PLANT TRANSFERRED
TO PONTHC, MICH.
Change Made In Less Than Nine
Week and Then Produc
tion la Renamed.
TOLEDO. O.. Feb. 11. In less than
nine weeks, the entire Willys-Knight
motor manufacturing plant of th
Willys-Overland company was liter
ally lifted out of the Klyria, 0 plant
and transferred to Pontiac Mich.,
where production has been resumed
This marks a record-breaking
achievement In Willys-Overland an
nals. The buildings themselves were not
moved, of course, but the entire equip
ment was. Including the very elabor-
ate electrical equipment. The work of
transferring this equipment began
lste in November. Over 600 machines
had to be taken down, loaded into
freight cars, shipped, unlaaded. set up
and adjusted. Some SO freight cars
were required to transport all of the
r.:aterlal.
The most complicated task was that
of the transfer of the motor testing
department with Its SO stands- At
Pontiac there were seven buildings
the Flanders plant, and that -was all,
not even electric wires. It was neces
sary to install the conduits for the
high-tension current with the trans
formers and connect them up with
the elaborate elec:rical equipment
brought from Klyria. Then there
were toe exhaust water, gas ana
water-cooling systems which had to
be brought up to complete efficiency.
At the same time. In order to con
centrate all of th activities In
connection with manufacture of the
Willys-Knight motors at one point.
the aluminum foundry was trans
ferred from the Toledo, O., plant tc
Pontiac This, in itself, was quite an
undertaking. A host of difficult prob
lems had to be solved in a minimum
of time. Furnaces, molding machines
and a very complete set of handling
and conveying machinery had to be
taken down, shipped and Installed.
The new layout is considered as tha
finest of its kind in the automotive
ndustry today.
The success of this dual moving op
eration was the direct result of
whole-hearted co-operation on the
part of organizations at Klyria, Pon
tiac and Toledo factories.
The first of the long procession of
completed Willys - Knight motors
started from the new Pontiac plant
last week to its place on a Willys
Knight chassis, and cars from the
new plant are already on their way to
meet the. public demand.
nrniiER booklet published
Sates Company Tells Uow Money
Is Made Out of Tire Business.
After an extended Investigation.
which Included Interviews with 413
dealers, handling all makes of tires,
and 213 bankers with whom these
dealers transact their business, the
Gates Rubber company has published
a booklet entitled "How Real Money
la Being Made in the Tire Business, "
which sets forth what they found to
be the reason why some tire dealers
are prospering while large numbers
of them are barely meeting expensea
"The booklet Is entirely devoid of
nmninnila fnr btcv nar(li.nla. il.a
and the Investigation was conducted
solely with a view to finding con-
structlve merchandising and selling
suggestions wnicn couia Drontaniv
be adopted by any dealer, whatever
Irs he might handle," writes H. D.
Thoreau, director of trade research
for the Gates Rubber company.
It was found, for Instance, that
when our Investigator entered a tire
shop in the role of a customer and
imply asked to see a certain size
tire without naming any particular
make of a tire or saying anything
whatever about price. 83 per cent of
the tire dealers thus approached
NEW WILLARD
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Another Willard battery service station, the 11th in Portland devoted exclusively to Willard service, has been
opened at East Thirty-eighth street and Sandy boulevard. In Rose City Park, under the generaldirectlon of Harper
Burg. Inc., Wiilard battery agents. The new station is in charge of W. A. Alverdes, who has'been an employe of
the Harper-Burg company for over two years past. Th station, like th other tea In the city, i equipped to give
Quick, and complete battery and electrical service.
brought out their lowest priced tire
first and timidly felt their way along
to a sale on a basis of price appeal.
Only IS per cent of the dealers so ap
proached brought forth their quality
tire first and made an earnest, con
sistent effort to sell the better tire at
the higher price. .
"Here Is a clear indication that tire
dealers as a class are employing a
sales strategy directly opposed to
that employed, for instance, by the
most successful and prosperous mer
chandisers of clothing, who invari
ably show their quality suits first.
This Is a method of selling which has
proved successful and the i$ per cent
ATJTO
THIS department is designed to aid
motorists by asking and then an
swering In simple language ques
tions relative to motor-car operation.
The questions, prepared by experts,
are asked in one issue and answered
in the next.
Answers to last week's questions:
Caue at "Gassing" Battery.
1 Gassing of a storage battery1 is
hv nassirta- electric current
into it at too high a nate when the
battery is in fully or nearly charged
cwidition. When in this condition the
n ates will not receive current ex
rimr . i a verv slow rate, tict
current going to iorm sa.
is injurious to the battery If exces
sive, as the plates are iiaoie to inju'j
irt h hatterv will overheat. This
is possibl-e ever, in cold weather,
purpose of Valve Sleeve.
I The valve sleeve, supplied with
some tires and rims, is aesignea io
prevent moisture from entering the
t;re through tne vaive opeiuus -
elm The aleeve also excludes dust
and grit from the tire and. tends to
prevent the tire from Deing lurowu
from the rim in case of a blowout or
other difficulties . which may occur
when the car is In motion.
Valves Influence Compression.
j Improper valve clearance at tap
pet ends will cause loss of power in
the engine. If there is no clearance
K.twaen valve stems and push rods
there will 'be a tendency for the
valves to remain open Just enough to
l'se compression in the cylinders,
especially when the engine is fully
warmed and the stems have expand
ed. If too much clearance it will
cause clicking noises every time the
valves are opened. They will not
open, as far as Intended, tne ourni
gases uiuuvi ui " w -
chines of fuel cannot be drawn Into
cylinders, resulting in sluggishness
n engine operation.
Rear Tires Should Be Best.
4 Although weight carried by
front t'res is as great as that carried
by rear tires of a car, the best tiret
stolid be carried on rear wheels be
cause they bear the traction strain
In driving the car. they skid and
slide more, in turning and when
brakes are applied It is the rear tires
which hold back tho entire weight of
the car. Thus they wear more rap
idiy. Straws; Valve Sprlags Harmful.
Valve springs which are too
strong for the type of motor should
not be used. The extreme tension
will cause the valve to close with
force enough to hammer the valve
8,,at out ( haP. n ,my cause
breaking of either the valve stem or
in addition to considerable
.
noise.
Law Temperature IVwmbs Battery.
6 Low temperature has a numb
ing effect on a storage battery. In
cold weather the battery does not de
liver the discharge voltage It will in
moderate temperature, and its am
pere hour capacity seems less. If the
battery is well charged and main
tained in this condition there will be
no detrimental effects of the cold
weather upon it, the' cells will func
BATTERY STATION OPENED IN
ELECTRICAL SERVICE STATIONS
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of tire dealers In this Investigation
who followed this proved method
were the most prosperous ones.
"The first edition of the booklet has
been exhausted by requests for copies
from dealers all over the United
States handling nearly every "popular
tire. Another edition is now being
printed and will shortly be available."
Courtesy Club Plan.
Among the recent nation-wide auto
mobile organizations is the "Courtesy
club." Members plan to compete with
the Boy Scouts in their "one good
turn a day" and the Rotariana in their
campaign of national service.
tion satisfactorily and the battery
will be up to its standard when warm
days return. But If allowed to be'
come discharged, its response will be
sluggish, or it may not respond at
all when called upon to start the car
or burn the lights. It Is then that the
battery will freeze and the real
trouble begins.
Aato Tneft Numerous.
7 There were 30,046 automobile
stolen in 28 of the principal cities o
the United States last year. Of this
number 21,273 were recoveredi Chi
cago led Kew York with 345 more
cars stolen, but Chicago also recov
ered 1623 more of hex stolen cars than
New York. Detroit ran third with
recovery of 2563 from 3300 stolen ck.rs
and Cleveland fourth, with 2649 and
lib5 recovered.
Tire Sizes to Be Discontinued.
I There are a number of dlfferen
sized rims and tires which are to be
discontinued in future production, ao'
cording to decisions made by engin
ei representing the rubber and au
tomouve societies of this country.
S.zes to be discontinued are the 32
by 3ft. 33 by 4 and 33 by 4ft-lnch
regular size tires, 33 by 4, 34 by 4
and 34 by S-lnch oversize tires, and
as by 3 Mi. 33 by 4 and 33 by ihi
Inch rims. The straight side rim,
size 30 by 3ft inches, will be used.
although it was not considered
standard In the past, as also will be
the 31 by 4-inch straight side over
size tire.
Watch for Short Circuits.
9 It Is possible for oil-soaked wire
insulation of the electric system to
cause a complete short circuit, but
the usual trouble is a slight short.
causing gradual -weakening of the
battery and dim lights. This trouble
Is first noticed when upon cranking
the engine the starter seems weak;
also are the lights until the engine
is speeded up. when the generator
begins charging and the lights b
come more bright.
10 The central cell of a battery la
generally selected for testing as an
indicator of the general condition of
the battery.
This Week's Questions.
1 Should the electrolite of a bat
tery be made of chemically pure acid?
Dees the term Imply full strength
acid?
2 Why do right tires of a car wear
faster than the left side tires?
3 For how long a time should the
radiator of a car be flushed with
water to clean It thoroughly? Can
sal be removed in this manner?.
-What trouble would cause the
lamps of a car to go out for only a
sr.ort time?
6 What is a test for broken trans
mission gear teeth, or wear In the
gears?
6 Does looseness of a front wheel
Ind cats wear in the bearings?
7 What would result if the ter
minals of the bat t err to the genera
tor were reversed?
8 How can oil be kept away from
the radiator hose connections?
& How does the fuel which is
drawn into cylinders of an engine
cause carbon deposit during combus
tion?
10 What instruments are used to
test a storage baVery?
(Copyright, Thompson Feature Service.)
ROSE CITY PARK.
THROUGHOUT CITY.
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J., Feb. 11
With motor transportation for pas
sengers .and merchandise now taking
Its rightful place In the transporta
tion of the nation, a few years more
wail eee America on wheels, with
minions of mo-tor cars and trucks co
ordinating their service with the rail
ways, waterways and trolleys." says
a recent article by Alfred Reeves
general manager of the national
automobile chamber of commerce.
More than 900,000 motor trucks
and 8,300,000 passenger cars are now
registered. This year's production
will be In excess of 1.700,000, and
with the demand continuing there
should be within six years at least
lo.uuu.uuo motor vehicles on the 2.500.
000 miles of highways in the United
states.
Truly we are a nation on wheels,
and the terrors of a railroad strike
are lessened by an assurance to the
public of transportation facilities that
will not make it solely dependent on
the result of the conflict between the
railroads and the unions. ,
Service Highly Valued.
"Our people demand the best form
or transportation and the motor ve
niele, wiiether for merchandise, for
dus lines or for individual se.rvka
Tvui, on meritorious performance, sa
cure its share of patronage with their
proper snare going to the railroads,
trolleys and waterways. Eaob. has its
place and each can be helpful bv in
creasing the efficiency of the nation,
lor it is admitted that nothinir, ex
cept printing has done so much for
civilization as transportation.
"With its 33,000 dealers and 35,000
garages; it z,o0.000,000 worth of mo
tor venicles; a billion-dollar tire in
dustry, its consumption of a billion
dollars In gasoline and oil three-quarters
of a billion-dollar parts and ac
cessory industry, including leather,
steei, copper, cotton and other raw
materials, anything that affects the
increased use of motor vehicles -will
seriously affect the entire country.
"The. highways programme is mak
ing (rapid progress because everyone
appreciates the tremendous increase
in land values that comes from high
way building. Bast, of all, the high
ways, like our waterways, improved
with public money, bring Increased
returns to the public. They are free
ior everyone to use. No motor vehicle
has exclusive rights over any high
way.
"In the interests of better service
to the' public progressive railroads
and trolley systems are adopting mo
tor trucks and motor bue-ses to re
place short lines or to act as feeders
to main lines.
Small Cities Beat Auto Buyers.
"To the farmer the motor car is
Indispensable. Big cities are the poor
est fields for motor vehicles, the reg
istration figures showing that 55 per
cent of all motor cars are in towns of
5000 or less, with only 9 per cent in
cities of more than 600,000 Inhabitants.
We now have 10,000 motor trans
port lines, 650 organized bus lines, in
cluding 150 in cities, exclusive of
motor busses transporting children to
and from 6000 rural schools.
We carry hogs to the stockyards.
logs and ore to the mines and farm
products to the markets. We carry
the contractor and the salesman: we
speed the ambulance and the fire en
gine, and the motor car which car
ries the doctor to us at birth also
carries us to our final resting place.
The motor car is universal in this
country, as It will be throughout tha
world, because It answers man's call
for independent Individual transpor
tation.
"South Dakota now leads with om
for every 5 per sons, with. Iowa
second. Now York state has only one
for every 16ft persons, while in all
the United States there is a car for
every 11 persons.
Largest Mileage for Business.
"Based on the false Idea that motor
vehicles are luxuries, our people have
been heavily overtaxed. Iast year
we paid taxes individual to our own
Industry of -more than $316,000,000,
including taxes on sales, registering
cars and drivers, gasoline, wheel taxes
and similar Imposts. A survey shows
that 60 per cent of all automobile
mileage Is for business purposes and
90 per oent of all cars are used more
or less for business, xet, in the
face of all these handicaps America
on wheels has become an acomiplished
fact.
This Industry second only to steel
among American manufacturing in
dustries, has gone through tho read-
ustment in fine fashion, primarily
because the advantage of lower prices
for cars was advertised and given
direct to the public
"American business in the hysteria
following the armistice violated the
laws of economics, wnicn orougnt its
punishment lust as truly as the pun
ishment which follows the violation
of nature's laws.
Let us be conservatively optimistic.
with an abiding faith in the stability
f the good U. S. A. car that may
occasionally have to go into low gear
to make a grade, but which has the
fundamental motive power to make
the grade and to go forward at in
creased speed toward prosperity -its
proper destination."
TOLEDO SHOW MAKES RECORD
Sale of Overland and Willys-Knight
Heavy During Week.
TOLEDO. O.. Feb. 11. Willys-Over
land and Its home city. Toledo, com
bined to break all sales records for
automobile shows in the local dealers-
show which came to an end last week.
In the four hours from 7 until 11
clock of the opening night, 40 bona
fide retail orders with deposits were
received, or one order every six min
utes. During the entire week there
were 115 orders entered for Over
land and Willys-Knight cars, which
stands as a top figure for any show.
Willys-Overland also took the lead
In a movement to crystallize tke gen
eral desirs of all good Toledo folk to
boost their home city and its indus
tries. At a desk, prominently located
In the Willys-Overland booth, the
visitors at the show signed a pledge
agreeing to further the interests of
Toledo and its industries whenever
possible and to silence the unfound
ed rumors calculated to be harmful
to the city's best Interests. The sheets
with the thousands of signatures are
now being bound in book form and
will be presented to Mayor Brough as
a publlo expression of the fighting
Toledo spirit.
Why not buy a now car?
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EDS GETS NEW FIELD
MOKE COUNTIES OBTAINED
BY CHEVROLET DEALER,
Portland Concern Named Distribu
tor Xor Light Car in Washington
and Yamhill Districts.
Additional territory in the form of
Washington and Yamhill counties has
een granted the Fields Motor car
company by the Chevrolet organiza-
ion, it was announced by J-ieKoy
Fields, head of the company, last
week. Mr. Fields was enthusiastic
over the new arrangement as Wash-
nerton and Yamhill counties are
among the richest and best developed
f tho state and are considered spien-
id fields for a light car such as
Chevrolet.
The new arrangement gives the
Fields Motor Car company Multnomah
county, the northern portion of
Clackamas county, eastern portion of
Columbia county. Washington ana
Yamhill counties.
Several new subdealers to retail the
Chevrolet in the larger towns In the
new territory have already been
named by the Fields Motor Car com
pany as follows: McMinnville, Homer
Ross: Forest Grove, Wiles Motor
company: Beaverton and Hillsboro,
Bernard and SUpe. '
Business has been unusually heavy
for tho Chevrolet thus far In fea
ruary, according to Fieldst who as
cribes considerable of the improve
ment in the industry to the automo
bile show. If the rest of February
maintains the record set thus far
since the first of the month this Feb
ruary will exceed any past Februaries
in the history of the company In point
of sales, he stated.
75 AT WORK OX NEW ROAD
Highway Eeing Built on North
Bank of Suislaw.
EUGENE. Or.. Feb. 11. (Special.)
Seventy-five men are at work on
the new road being built by the
Southern Pacific company down the
north bank of the Siuslaw r"ver from
Mapleton to Cushman, a distance of
13 miles, according to C. D. Will
son, contractor for the company, who
was in the city during the week.
This road is being built to replace
the one taken by tJie company when
it builti its road from Eugene to
Coos bay' and is to cost about $7,5,000,
Lane county having agreed to pay
S10.000 toward the expense.
Mr. Willson said that the work is
progressing all along the route, eight
or nine crews Being employed at mr
ferent points. He said f weather
conditions are right he will have the
road completed by June. The con-
Lract calls for grading only and the
surfacing win De put on later, out
not this year, as the county has set
aside no money for that purpose and
the railway company will not sur
face it, as the road, destroyed In
building the Coos Bay line had no
surfacing.
The new road is being built on easy
grades and wrrle narrow In many
places there are many turning-out
points. The contract calls for
roadbed only eight feet wide; but as
a matter of fact, the contractor says,
It is much wider ttian that through
out.
This new road is destined to ba
used extensively after the beach re
sorts on the Lane county coast are
opened up.
Cracked Crank Chamber Cared.
When a big crack develops in the
orank chamber there is but one cure,
which must be administered by a firm
specializing in welding. If the crack
Sedan, $1440. Coupe, $1280. Touring Car, $880. Roadster, $850.
Panel Business Car, $980. Screen Business Car, $880. '
Prices f. o. b. Factory.
BRALEY, GRAHAM & CHILD, INC.
, Eleventh at Burnslde
Broadway 3281
ia small one, however, it can be re
paired by riveting a thin metal plate
over the whole area embraced by the
crack. If the break is very small a
hole can be drilled at each end of the
crack to keep it from spreading and
then the whole can bo burred over
with a hammer and chisel.
GASOLINE TAX IN 14 STATES
Oregon and New Mexico Only
Ones Having Tax of Over Cent.
NEW YORK. Feb. 11. In fourteen
states taxes on gasoline are now op
erative, according to a recent state
ment by Harry Meixell, Jr., secretary
of the motor vehicle conference com
mittee. New York City. Tho tax Is 1
cent per gallon, except in Oregon and
New Mexico, where a 2-cent levy is
imposed. The list is as follows:
Colorado, Kentucky, New Mexico,
Oregon, Arizona, Arkansas, Connecti
cut, Florida, Georgia, Montana, North
Caroliira, Pennsylvania, South Da
kota, Washington.
Bills aiming to impose gasoline
taxes were also considered this year
by the legislatures of nine other
states, namely:
California, Maine, Ohio, Illinois,
Michigan, Tennessee, Indiana, Nevada,
Texas.
In all cases the measures failed to
gain sufficient support to become
laws.
Glycerin for Radiator.
Many car owners make a practice
of using a small amount of glycerin
in the cooling water during the sum
mer months, naturally not as an anti
freeze agent, but to keep down scale
deposits. The prlycerin In the radiator
Wherever you are, there is a
branch or distributor of the
Bearings Service Company
near you. Thirty-two branches
and approximately one thou
sand distributors thronghout
the country make it possible
for you to get the genuine
new bearing which you need
when you need it.
Portland Branch!
24 NORTH BROADWAY
Broadway 1799. '
Bearfng.
has a tendency to keep down seals
and has long been used In steam
boiler operation fpr this purpose. Tha
proportions are a half pint to each
five gallons of water.
Scratches on Body Treated.
While a deep gouge in the car's
body work will usually call tor the
attention of the coach builder, still
the really skillful owner may be able
by running Into the scratch beeswax
and resin melted together and then
smoothing- off tha surface and re
painting to accomplish a satisfactory
repair.
The thousands of Wills
Sainte Claire miles sat 9
miles and the satisfac
tion of the car's many
owners deserve your
consideration.
The New Prices
Touring Car- - $3473
Roadster - , - - 2475
Coupe - - - - 3275
Sedan - - - - 3475
Imperial Sedan 3575
Limousine - - 3850
Town Car - - 3850
AH t o. &. Mmiyvill
WILLS SAINTE CLAIRE
Tho Mo-lyb-den-tzm Cmr
ttARYSVILUS - tnCHlGAM
Cpg, C. FAGAJT CO. Inc.
Chas. C IFagan, Pres.
Xlnth' and Barnside.
1.
MOTOR
TRUCKS
WE MAKE THEM
DIRECT FACTORY
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EASY PAYMENTS
WE CARRY THE PAPER
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See Our Service Shop
See Our Parts Stock
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AMERICA, INC
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CORNER BELMONT AND K.
WATER STS.