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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, MAY 21, 1922 TOURISTS TO VISIT ROAD SOUTH FROM SALEM ON WEST SIDE OF WILLAMETTE RIVER MAKES ATTRACTIVE DRIVE. T ft "' ,, -A " itfl Scenic Spots to Be Opened to Limited Travel. SS v. :-:-:S-:;: 'PEAK MOST PICTURESQUE Forest Service Makes Rapid Prog ress in Construction of Roads and Receives Praise. Tht Smaller Eight Super-Sport X823 2 BAKER D1STR C BELLINGHAM, Wash., May 20. One of the last great scenic sections of the country, the Mount Baker dis trict, will be opened for limited travel this year. By 1925 the route will be improved bo that tourists may drive to the foot of the mountain, spend the day and be back here for their evening meal. Mount Baker's play ground is only five miles farther from Seattle than Paradise inn, Rainier national park. The first real start in opening; up the Mount Baker scenic country was made last year, when nine miles of new highway was built east and southeast of Nook sack falls. There has been a passable road to the falls for several years and a well graveled road to Glacier from Doming. The new construction will have for its terminal at the present Austin's pass, more than 6000 feet above Bea level. This pass liea between Mount Baker and Mount Shukshan, The ultimate objective of the road Is to swing on around to the south of Mount Baker by the Baker River route, back t,o the west along . the south fork of the Nooksack and con nect with the paved road a few mils southeast of Deming. This means that a highway will be built clear around Mount Baker, opening up one of the greatest stretches of highway scenery in the world. Peak Moat Picturesque. . A forestry department report on Mount Shukshan declares it to be ''the most picturesque peak in North America." Shukshan is not quite as high as Mount Baker, but is equally as attractive. It has many more glaciers than Mount Baker, although none is as large as the Roosevelt glacier on Baker. If one will take a map of the state and trace the proposed route. of the road it can be seen readily that un limited possibilities for scenic effect abound. Bad forest fires have spoiled for a time the general perspective in some places on the route, but this rapidly is being remedied by nature. The first contract for highway con struction to Austin's pass was let by the United States forestry department and the board of county commission ers of Whatcom county late in 1920. That contract, calling for the build ing of nine miles of road, beginning at Nooksack falls, was completed last year. And now the contract soon is to be let which will mean that nearly 14 miles on from the. end of con struction to Austin's pass can be completed this year if conditions prove right. At the latest the work will be completed early in 1923. It is planned to make this road into a mountain boulevard by maintenance so that the influx of tourists will find a broad, easy highway to travel clear up to the mountain. The new construction is on an easy grade. This has been obtained at the expense of some extra mileage, but it adds to the attractiveness of the drive. On reaching the pass there is the alternate of circling the last ridge or to tunnel through It If the tunneling method is adopted It will mean that the road will be almost ail-the-year-round road. Room for Camp Found. The end of the road for this year will be the Meadows at Austin's pass. The Meadows Is a large stretch of table land, timbered and dotted with many small, beautiful lakes. Here there is room for thousands of sum mer camps with plenty of fine water and good drainage. The camping site is easy of access and jvithin a short walk of all kinds of wonderful scen ery. In a day of hiking from the Meadows even the poorest climber can scale Table mountain, encircle Chain lakes, cross No-Name glacier, a wonderful slipping body of Ice not attached to either Shukshan or Baker, reach the fishing haunts of the Nook sack and Wells creek and hundreds of the most entrancing mountain Bcenic spots. Every mile of the new highway offers ideal camping sites. Between Glacier and Nooksack falls one can camp, load pack horses and in a short time reach Skyline divide, or Helio trope ridge, two of .the most inviting features of Mount Baker. From these vantage points the descent to the dome of the great mountain is easy for the average climber. It was back in 1916 that the first definite move was made here to tap the Austin's pass country. At that time, with the co-operation of the forestry department, a trail was built uo Swamp creek. Then followed al most endless talk of this and that plan. At that time there was a law which prevented a county from mak ing a direct contract with the federal forestry department lor roaa con struction. Nothing was done until 1919, when an amendment to this law was passed by the state legislature which stave hoards oi county com missloners the right to deal directly with the department for roads In the forest reserves. Nine Miles Built. In the summer of 1919 the whole natter was taken up with George H. Cecil of Portland, district forester. This was through the hoard of county commissioners. Mr. Cecil, already in terested in the forestry department setting in on the road building, agreed to make a preliminary survey, and this was finished that year. As a result of the survey Mr. Cecil be came sold to the proposition and he has been one of the main springs of action since. After the location sur vey, which was borne by the county and the forestry department, Mr. Cecil recommended that the depart ment co-operate with the county on a proportionate basis, and so a con tract was drawn up between Whatcom county and the department of agri culture, under which the forestry de partment works. An actual contract ti build the nine miles was let late in 1920 with the sum of 129,000 to work with. The. county spent Its propor tionate share between Deming and Glacier. This year the contract calls for the construction of 13 miles on from the end of the nine miles. Since the start of the project the forestry department has made a won derful record for going ahead. In less than a year after the agreement for the location survey had been reached the contract for road con struction had been let, and before two years had passed nine miles of road had been built. The actual con struction has been under the direc tion of the bureau of roads. The Smartest of Smart Cars SUPER -SPORT EQUIPMENT Disc Steel Wheals De mountable rinM, Fenders- BicycU type. 8tp-Ct eluminuat rubber tradt. Bumper Front ana ntc triple br iprinl tteeL Curtains Stmt k material u top, all ocea with doom. top Signal In combina tion with parkin! light. Windabield WingaBerel plate slats, friction lock adjustment. Ventilator -Cowl type, operated from dash. Spotlight-On left front fender apron. Steplighta For both tear doors. , Cigar L14hter-Cm mstra ment board. Windshield Wiper-Ces-veniently mounted. Rear View Mirror Bee elled plate glass. Rugs -In both compart ments. Foot Rest Sedan type. very restful, nubbers on the rear springs Mo to meter Qldimobile. monogra med. Robe Strap Tubulat. leather covered. Tire Carrier - For two apare tires. Ton Boot Detachable top damps. ABOVE HUPMOBIIiE CAR OS PAVED RIVER ROAD BETWEEN SALEM AND RICKREALL, BELOW, RIGHfr A GLIMPSE OP THE WILLAMETTE THROUGH THE TREES. BELOW, LEFT WEST APPROACH TO WILLAMETTE RIVER BRIDGE AT SALEM. GREASE CUPS IGNORED LUBRICATION NOT DONE AS OFTEN AS IT SHOULD BE. Machines Wear Out In Little While Unless Properly Oiled, i- perts Point Out. The furnace, representing an In vestment of perhaps $500, gets its regular cleaning and adjustment. The vacuum cleaner, sewing machine and washing machine all come in for periodical attention by the family head. But how about your motor car? How about this investment of more than a thousand dollars which is standing in your garage and forgot ten until you need it? Many motorists never look at the grease cups of their machines. Others do not realize that a clean motor will last longer and function better than a dirty one. A systematic tightening of the screws and bolts will save much wear and tear on a machine. A motor car cannot complain be cause of ill-treatment. It will run until the neglect has caused a de terioration of some vital part. And then it collapses perhaps to be con demnerT by the very person who is directly responsible for the collapse. A locomotive speeds along at from 20 to. 40 miles an hour over smooth rails, on ballasted (racks and on fa vorable grades. Its right-of-way sel dom cans tor emergency stops or starts, or sharp, quick, wrenching turns. Tet at 200-mile intervals the engine is put in the roundhouse for an overhauling. The average motor car is called upon to go from 20 to 40 miles an hour sometimes faster over roads where the going is oftentimes rough. The car sometimes is tugging through mud, sometimes weaving over rocky roads, making sharp turns, stopping and starting most of the time straining itself to the utmost tensile strength of the finest steel. High speeds are maintained for long periods of time, causing a great heat. All these things tend to tear down the mechanism and shorten the life of the car or some of its component parts. Sometimes 20,000 miles are covered before the owner will con cede hiB car the mechanical atten tion it deserves. And then some actually complain at a fair cost of repairs. ' Given proper care, an automobile will deliver transpdrtation at a rea sonable cost unreasonable use will make operating costs commensurate with the abuse. Remember, after all, an automobile Is only a piece of machinery, and ma chinery must have proper care if it is to function properly and give the maximum results. HAYNES SALES INCREASE April This Year Declared Record v Breaker for Company. Haynes sales in April of this year broke previous records for a Bingle month, and showed an Increase of 35 per cent over the sales for the same period last year,, says a report from the factory. Indications are that May will show an even greater percentage of increase over May of 1921. This increase in sales is significant of the fact that the new Haynes cars, which were introduced to the motor ing publio for the first time last year, have won the confidence of the public, says the bulletin, and their accept ance is now an established fact. TRAIL BLAZER GN TRIP OLD-TIME INDIAN SCOUT ON 100,000 MILE JOURNEY. Adjust the carburetor. "LEAD PENCIL TEST" USED TO SHOW LACK OF VIBRATION. Chandler Car Will Be Driven Over Unused Trails and Un . charted Highways. . -r OAKLAND, Cal., May 20. Colonel King Stanley, old-time Indian scout and trail blazer, accompanied by Wil liam Spohn of Oakland, noted hunter and sportsman, are on the first leg of one of- the greatest tire-testing trips ever taken. The men left Oak land this week for a 100,000-mile journey over unused trails and un chartered roads. The object of this trip is two-fold first, to render a complete and comprehensive daily report on the oerformanca nf cn.t cord tires and second to chart and creak roaag to various points of in terest off the main highways of the nation. The Chandler car used bv Cnlnn.1 Stanley is equipped with regular stock Coast cord tires. At the end of each aays run accurate speedometer read ings will be made and the condition of each tire will be carefully noted and a full report forwarded to the factory at the close of each day. Heretofore tire tests have been made in long transcontinental runs. In track and road races. Colonel Stanley, who is one of the original civilian colonels, appointed by the war department through a special act of congress and who was associated in the early campaigns with Buffalo Bill, has been in every state of the union as one of the few remaining "pathfinders." On this long trip the beaten trails and regular roads will be Ignored. It is the col- w A - 1 2X, 1 : :r y wxa K S. 3s. r ft- J CAPTAIN EDDIE RICKEIVBACKER MAKING UNUSUAL TEST WITH OXE Olf THE EW RICKE.MBACKER -CARS. . onel's firm purpose to find new beauty spots throughout the nation and to chart and mark the roads by which they may be reached. This In formation is then forwarded to the department of the interior and later incorporated in the governmental charts. Nearly every person is more or less familiar with the great transcontinen tal highways and the lesser roads that are feeders to the main arteries. What few, If ar.y, of the tourists are aware of the many points of historic interest, beauty spots, in the moun tains, desert or plains, nature's won derful geological formations and- al most unexplored retreats of game, animals and fish that lie off the main traveled roads, yet these various points will appeal to the Interest of scientists, hunters, curiosity seekers, adventurers or pleasure tourists. Such places as these are to be chartered on this trip. One hundred thousand miles are, to be traversed, over all manner and conditions of roads, in all kinds of weather, at every obtainable altitude and temper ature and a perfect log kept ascer taining the exact wear and tear of the Coast cord tires. . 'This will undoubtedly be the most thorough and scientific road test evf given any jnake of tires. , WILLS CAR SHOWN AT CHICAGO Cut-Out Power Plant Center of In terest at Marshall Field & Co. CHICAGO,. May 20. The headline feature of Marshall Field & Co.'s .'eighth annual motor show, held in their colossal building, Chicago, was the Wills Salnte Claire. This is a spring event, the open ing of thei motoring season, proper, and consists of a remarkable exhibit of all the new and approved accesso ries and appliances pertaining to mo tor cars. One American motor car manufacturer is invited to exhibit his engine and only one. No other cars "24th Year" , An incomparably beautiful car! A car that fairly sparkles with originality! A new, rich and striking cream-buff color; brown, finest grade hand buffed leather uphol stery; equipment so complete that there is nothing more you could require. Its lines are long and graceful, suggesting at once its predominate char acteristic power, and then more power. OLDS MOTOR WORKS. LANSING, MICHIGAN Division of General Motors Corporation Oldsmobile Co. of Oregon Broadway at Couch Phone Broadway 2270 FOURS and EIGHTS If AH Roads Were Boulevards Every automobile trip would be made in complete comfort if all roads were as smooth as boule vards. Grass Air Springs will absorb all road shocks and smooth out the roughest roads. Write for "Comfort, Economy and Safety" folder. BURNESS AUTO WORKS 12th and Everett Street Portland keJ?ll$oads Boulevards' Pneumatic Cushion Co., Patentee and Manufacturers, San Francisco. GO USED OB GARS 28-30 North Broadway C o v e y Motor Gar C dm p a n y Broadway 6244 are shown. The car so selected must have won national approval and be recognized as a distinct advance in design and engineering-. In the past two foreign cars, Peaugot and Re nault, and the Cadillac have been invited by Marshall Field & Co. to exhibit. This official sanction by Marshall S'ield is virtually considered a higrh compliment to the Wills Sainte Claire. A special cut-out power plant of the Wills Salnte Claire was shown and lectures on the engineering- and metallurgical advances of the car were given all week by E. Philip Merrill, sales department of C. H. Wills & Co. 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