THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND, APRIL 2, 1922
NEWEST TRANSCONTINENTAL HIGHWAY WILL HAVE PORTLAND AS TERMINUS, AND WILL BRING MOTORISTS FROM CHICAGO TO NORTH PACIFIC COAST BY SHORTEST ROUTE.
PRETTY WELL KIVO
New Road to Be of Great Im
portance to Portland.
ROUTE IS SHORT ONE
Distance From Chicago to Pacific
Coast Is Reduced; "Work Is
Soon to Be Finished.
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Organization of the Grant Highway
Improvement association, formed to
boost the imprvement and use of this
treat automobile route from the
middle west to the north Pacific
coast, has gone ahead rapidly and
already the route is nearly as well
known as the Yellowstone trail or
the Lincoln highway. The Grant
highway will be of great importance
to Portland, as it is the shortest
automobile highway from Chicago to
the Paclfio coast, and has its term
inus in Portland. The highway takes
the direct route through Illinois,
Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming (touching
Yellowstone park), southern Idaho
'and Oregon, coming into this state
via the old Oregon trail and the
Columbia river highway.
The Grant highway occupies a
position about midway between the
Yellowstone highway, which goes
through the Dakotas, Montana and
northern Idaho to Spokane and
thence to Seattle, with a branch to
Portland via Walla Walla and
Pendleton, and the Lincoln highway,
which follows the southern route
through Denver and Salt Lake City
to San Francisco, with a branch from
Salt Lake City northward into Ore
gon over the old Oregon trail.
The following article relative to
the purposes of the Grant Highway
association and the condition of the
highway for travel this summer
appeared in a recent issue of the
Sioux City (Iowa) Journal, head
quarters of the association being
located at this point. The article is
by Malcolm MacKinnon, secretary of
the association, and follows:
"The Grant highway is the most
direct road from Chicago to Yellow
stone park and the wonders of Port
land and its vicinity, including the
Columbia river h'ghway, which is
conceded to be one of the world's
finest drives. At Portland there is
intersection, with the Pacific highway,
already paved nearly all the way
from southern California to the
Canadian line. Portland, by reason
of its being the metropolis of an im
mense territory of fertile land, as
well as a port of prime importance,
la undoubtedly destined to be the
chief city of the Pacific coast on
account of its adaptability as. a
manufacturing center.
"The key to the advantage of the
Grant highway over the other north
ern ways of travel lies in the laying
out of the Grant highways through
the length of the great valley of
Wyoming, which is the only rift in
the Rocky mountain district so far
as the northern states are concerned.
Elsewhere the mountains are high
and such roads as the Lincoln high
way and the Yellowstone trail, the
former in southern Wyoming and the
latter n Montana, attain altitudes
more than 7000 feet and maintain
them for long distances, hundreds of
miles at times, being on the top of
great 'hog backs' and following the
contour of ranges. But the Grant
highway, which is the only one of
these roads laid out primarily with
a view to the contour of the country,
reaches to the very foot of the con
tinental divide in the extreme west
ern part of Wyoming without having
been up higher than the altitude of
Casper, 62S0 feet, just a mile, and
just the same altitude as that of
Denver. In fact, the average alti
tude across Wyoming is less than
5000 feet and Riverton is about 4800
feet. The lift over the Rockies by a
road " built by the federal govern
ment, is short and the grades easy,
and after a few hundred miles in
Wyoming and Idaho, with altitudes
around 6000 feet, the tourist is on
the down grade along the Snake
river and in Oregon does not get up
higher than 4200 feet, this elevation
being reached in the Blue mountains,
between La Grande and Pendleton.
"By the end of the present year
there will be, a continuous concrete
pavement, 18 feet wide and reinforced
with steel, extending from Chicago to
Stockton, 111., through Elgin, Rock
ford and Freeport, and, by the end
of 1923 this pavement will be con
tinuous all the way on the Grant
highway in Illinois from the central
metropolis on Lake Michigan to the
crossing of the Mississippi at Du
buque. "Meantime the Grant highway in
Iowa will have paving completed in
Buchanan, Black Hawk and Wood
bury counties, and the road in other
counties, where not macadamized as
In Dubuque county, or gravel as in
Delaware, Hardin, Webster and other
counties, will be maintained under
the patrol system of maintenance, so
that it will be nearly, if not entirely,
a 365-day thoroughfare across the
Hawkeye state. In other .words,
there will be a good road all the way
from Sioux City to Chicago soon, and
a paved road in the near future.
"While this is going on at the east
ern end of the line, Oregon, which
has about 400 miles of the Columbia
river highway and the Old Oregon
trail completed at the present time,
half of it with hard-surfaced pave
ment and the other half, in the east
ern part of the state, with macadam,
built for high-speed travel, will be
constructing the remaining 75 miles,
making its 620 miles of the Grant
highway a complete surfaced road
from Seaside, west of Portland,
through that metropolis of the Pacific
region, clear on to Ontario, at the
crossing of the Snake river into Idaho.
"In other words approximately 1000
miles of the Grant highway route of
travel from Chicago to Portland and
the Pacific will be a well maintained
road by the end of the present year,
and nearly all of that mileage is in
good condition now.
"Such progress at the ends of the
Grant highway would not have very
great significance for through trav
eling of the future, if it were not for
the fact that Nebraska, Wyoming and
Idaho, the other states concerned, are
at work to make this great state-federal
road completely good in the not-very-distant
future. The Nebraska
system plans a pavement from the
Sioux City bridge by way of Water
bury, Allen, Dixon, Ltnrel, Belden,
Randolph, Osmond, Plainview, Bruns
wick, Royal, Orchard, Page. O'Neill
and other cities, clear to the Wyoming
line, and this is as arivable a road
as any other across the state provid
ing one does not venture into the
deep sand in the region west of Stuart
and somewhere east of Gordon. There
has been some improvement in this
region in the last couple of years,
especially in the vicinity of Valentine,
where the state has built a $15,000 per
mile highway east from the city limits
to the Keya Paha county line, so
Map of Grant highway, recently logged and expected to be open for traffic all the way this summer. The Grant highway,
starting at Chicago, crosses the middle-western states of Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska and surmounts the Rocky mountains
by way of Wyoming, touching Yellowstone national park. The highway then follows the main route through southern
Idaho and crosses Oregon via the Old Oregon trail and the Columbia river highway. The route Is declared to be the shortest
In distance of any automobile route from Chicago to the Pacific and also has the advantage of lower altitudes than either
the Yellowstone trail or the Lincoln highway. The route recognises the Columbia River gorge as the logical artery of travel
from the east into the Pacific region, because of the splendid scenic rosd already constructed down the Columbia and because
of the fact that the Columbia river affords the only gap In the Cascade mouataln barrier.
that it is likely that Valentine, with
its picturesque surroundings, its mu
nicipal camp for tourists and its other
attractions, can be a principal point of
interest and objective for tourists the
present year.
The sandy country ends about 12
miles east of Gordon, and from there
on to the continental divide, in west
ern Wyoming .there is no more trou
ble on that score, and the sand in
Northern Nebraska, pending road im
provement there, can be entirely
avoided by the detour in South Dakota
through Rosebud and Martin. West of
Gordon and in Wyoming the road
will be fair to good earth road, with
macadam in places until the western
part of the latter state is reached. In
the forest reserves along 'the Wind
river, over the mountains and through
he Jackson Hole country, just south
f Yellowstone park, the road has
been graded and surfaced by the na
tional government and Is passable, ex
cept In the winter season, when there
is heavy snow at the higher altitudes.
The map shows three ways of going
over into Idaho, one through Yellow
stone park, another by way of Jack
son and tha Teton pass and the third
irectly from the south entrance of
the park, skirting the . south line of
the latter and passing north of the
Tetons. The condition of this route
remains to be investigated before it
can.be recommended for this year.
In Idaho the Grant highway route
is on the chief state project partly
paved, and a main line of travel be-
ween the most important group ot
towns in the middle-mountain dis
trict. These cities are on or near the
Snake river and they get their sup
port from the grazing agricultural
and mining industries. Irrigation has
been largely developed and has still
greater possibilities. The climate is
remarkably salubrious and the popu
lation has been drawn from a highly
intelligent and enterprising class in
all parts of the country. Among the
chief towns are Boise, Pocatello, Nam
pa, Twin Falls, Caldwell, Idaho Falls,
American Falls, Ashton, Blackfoot,
Buhl, Burley. Fort Hall. Filer. Glenns
Ferry, Gooding, Meridian. Mountain
Home, Rexburg. Rigby and Shoshone.
OVERLAXDS SHOWN IX CHINA
At First Motor Show in Shanghai
Cars Attract Attention.
Willys-Knight and Overland cars
are well and favorably known in the
far east. Judging from a recent issue
of the Oriental Motors, the automo
bile trade paper published In Shang
hai, China, in connection with the
first automobile show ever held in
China. In an article in the maga
zine appears the following article re
garding the exhibit of the Central Oa
rage of Shanghai, Willys-Overland
distributors.
"The Central's display 'of Overland
models consisted of one stock coupe
and two stock touring cars, one ot
which had been repainted at the Cen
tral shops. These cars attracted much
attention from show visitors, probab
ly because they appealed to the ma
jority of show visitors as old friends.
"The Overland is one of Shanghai's
favorite cars, as is sufficiently.attest
ed by the number of them on the
streets. The other car produced in
the big Toledo factory the Willys
Knight was well represented in the
show, there being two stock touring
cars, a town car and a Central built
limousine. All of these cars were
equipped with wire wheels and they
presented a very attractive appearance."
1 SERVICE IS LAUNCHED
SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS AN
GELES GET NEW LINE.
Eight Stages Are to Be Operated
and More Will Be Added as
Soon as Needed.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 1. A
regularly scheduled commercial fly
ing service between San Francisco
and Los Angeles by a fleet of air
planes of the Western Airway com
pany was started . last Sunday, and
throughout the week regular service
was continued, the planes making' two
regular trips a day each way, leav
ing San Francisco at 8:30 and 10:30
A. M.
Flying time between the two ter
minals, at both of which fields have
been' established, is 'approximately
five hours, with, stops, at Salinas and
Santa 'Maria for rest and lunch
Eight big aerial stages maintain the
service, equipped with Hispano-Suiza
motors, carrying either two or 'four
passengers, in addition to the pilot,
and more will be added to the line as
the call for service may demand.
They have been thoroughly tested and
are claimed to be the last word in
safety of commercial flying." .
Last Sunday's trip, more in the
nature of a demonstration, included
the entire commissioned fleet flying
in formation over the cities between
San Francisco and Los Angeles. A
number of notables were among the
passengers. "
The Western Airway company,
which is offering this service to the
public, is the outgrowth of the
Thompson Aircraft company, which
has just closed its third year of suc
cessful operation During that time,
by using standard equipment, and
refusing to consider experimental
craft that have not been thoroughly
tried out, the company has estab
lished a record of no accidents dur
ing the entire three years. The pilots
of the fleet are all men with flying
experience and each with more than
1000 flying hours to his record.
Commercial operation of the com
pany is in the hands of men well
known in California travel circles.
Foster Curry, until recently manager
of Camp Curry in the Yosemite Na
tional park, is actively connected
with the direction, and his associate,
Wallace B. Curtis, will be resident
manager in Los Angeles. J. E.
Thompson, well known in hotel, auto
and financial circles, is business
manager, and his brother, R. S.
Thompson, a flyer of long exper'ence
and. for two years a United. States
army instructor, will have charge of
pilots, ships and equipment.
OIL RECLAIMED AT FACTORY
Nash Company Puts Cream Sepa
rator to Vntsual Use.
KENOSHA, Wis., April 1. One of
the most famous slogans to prove that
nothing is wasted is the one coming
from the Chicago stockyards. The
packers are supposed to use every
single part of a hog except the squeal.
Now comes the automobile manu
facturer a.r,d goes the packer one bet
ter. He is saving the oil used in grind
ing for lubrication, cleaning it purify
ing it and using it over and over
again.
It is just such economies, as this
that have brought lower prices and
greater efficiency in the industry.
The cream separator, heretofore
confined to the placid routine of farm
life, has been adopted by the auto
mobile industry and put to work amid
the hum and roar of factory ma
chinery. This is true at least in the
big factories of the Nash Motors com
pany where thousands of dollars are
saved each year in the motor" test
department by the reclamation of oil
through cream separators.
Oil tor reclamation is placed in a
large reservoir; from there it is piped
into two 150-gallon tanks which stand
on a platform just above a special
centrifugal cream separator. In the
overhead tanks the oil is heated by
steam to a proper temperature, after
which it is allowed to settle for a
period of eight hours. The fluid is
then run through the cream separa
tor, the centrifugal action of which
removes practically all remaining
foreign matter.
Light ends, water and other for
eign substance, by means of this proc
ess, are practically eliminated from
the .lubricant, with the result that the
reclaimed oil is very high in quality.
AXLE DISTRIBUTION PLANNED
Torbensen Company to Have Rep
resentatives All Over Country.
With the idea of supplying to users
of its axles a national distribution
for Torbeesen service parts the Tor
bensen Axle company of Cleveland is
establishing a chain of parts service
stations throughout the country, ac
cording to. word here from the factory.
In outlining "this method of parts
distribution, R. C. Enos, vice-president
and general manager of the com
pany, said that each main service sta
tion would; have a complete line of
Torbensen axle parts for all models
and would be centrally located, so
that parts can be sent to any point in
its territory within 24 hours.,
Appointments for parts service sta
tion representation are now ' being
made and it is expected to have the
entire distributing organization com
pleted within the next 60 days.
focussed on the nation's tire bill and
while many agencies are at work
looking to keep this cost at a mini
mum the whole thing ultimately rests
with the tire user.
In .those words are summed up a
paragraph in a recent letter sent to
his agents by "Barney" Oldfield,
master speedster, now president of
his own tire company. "Too much con
sideration," the letter continues, "can
not be given to the matter of seeing
that the tire buyer not only selects
the right type of tire and the right
size but that he undersands how vital
it is to give the tire proper care.
"A tire is much more than simply
a rubber casing with a tube inside
into which one must now and again
pump a certain amount of air. To
drive an improperly inflated tire or
a tire with cuts, 'bolls,' bruises and
improperly applied repairs Is to se
verely abuse it, perhaps lose it."
"In my years of racing on the
world's great speedways," Oldfield's
letter concludes, "I came to know the
vital part tires play In safety and
satisfaction and when I decided to
build tirea myself it was with the
determination of bringing to the motor-owning
public not only the best
tire that I could build, but to kepp
everlastingly before the tire buyer the
need of giving his tires the same con
sideration as he does his car' impor
tant mechanl.m."
Before 1908 none of the revenues
received aa fees for tha registration
of motor vehicles were expended for
the maintenance and improvement of
highways. Today nearly 80 per cent
is set aoldn for this pnrpnue.
CADILLAC CHIEF HOPEFUL
AUTO MAKER '; FINDS CHEER
FUL FEELING GENERAL.
Manufacturers, After Tour of West
ern States, Reports on Trade
Outlook for Present Tear.
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FORMER RACE DRIVER NOW IS BOOSTING SHOCK ABSORBERS.
si f"
Eddie Pollen, for many years a leading contender at Indianapolis, Tacoma
and other nationally-known race centers, who Is now manager of the Los
Aageles branch of the Hassler Pacific company. The photo was received
from the Hassler company by the local branch. Fallen, It Is declared, has'
the most "dolled-np" Cord coupe In California, with everything, from
curling; irons down.
DETROIT, April 2. President Rice
of the Cadillac Motor Car company
Was the guest of honor at a "wel
come home" banquet tendered him
this week by executives at the Detroit
Athletic club on his return from an
extended business trip through the
west. Following the dinner Mr.
Rice gave some impressions of hi:
trip:
He had talked, he said, with bank
ers, business men, automobile deal
ers and farmers in various parts of
the many states he visited, and found
almost everywhere a more cheerful
feeling than had' been noted for more
than a year.
Beginning at the Chicago show at
the end of January, he witnessed
what was considered as probably the
most successful automobile show ever
held in that city.
At Omaha a somewhat better feel
ing was noticeable, and in most of the
agricultural sections the sheep feed
ers are once more feeling hopeful.
This was true also with hog and cat
tle feeders in the west.
In Montana copper mines which
long have been closed have reopened
and new demands are being created
for copper products. For instance, the
use of copper shingles is being popu
larized. While Seattle and Spokane, in
Washington, were perhaps the least
cheerful big centers in the west, it
was the general conviction that in
1922' there would be from a third to
a half greater business than in
1921. j
"The question is not so much
whether losses have been sustained,"
said Mr. Rice, "as it Is whether some
profits are. being made now. For in-
8tar.ee, in Portland, Or., the lumber
mills are running briskly, supplying
lumber for the orient and to some ex
tent for the eastern states, shipments
beipg made via the. Panama canal."
As for California, Mr. Rice dis
agreed with Roger Babson as to the
latter's judgment. Mr. Babson is re
ported to have said, the depression
has not yet hit that section, but that
it will do so this year. Mr. Rice, ac
cording to his speech, declared there
is so much eastern capital represent
ed there and the prosperity is to be so
affected by the returning prosperity
of the east that business depression,
if any, will be rather light and ol
short duration.
AUTO TIKE NEEDS GOOD CARE
Motorist Amply Repaid, Says Bar
ney Oldfield, Former Racer.
With the number of automobiles.
trucks and motorcycles reaching the
point where today there is one motor
vehicle to every ten individuals in the
country, attention is very naturally
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