THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, MAY 21, 1922
TOURISTS TO VISIT
ROAD SOUTH FROM SALEM ON WEST SIDE OF WILLAMETTE RIVER MAKES ATTRACTIVE DRIVE.
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Scenic Spots to Be Opened
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'PEAK MOST PICTURESQUE
Forest Service Makes Rapid Prog
ress in Construction of Roads
and Receives Praise.
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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.
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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.
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OLD-TIME INDIAN SCOUT ON
100,000 MILE JOURNEY.
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"LEAD PENCIL TEST" USED TO SHOW LACK OF VIBRATION.
Chandler Car Will Be Driven Over
Unused Trails and Un
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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-
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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
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What few, If ar.y, of the tourists are
aware of the many points of historic
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traveled roads, yet these various
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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
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the Coast cord tires. .
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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
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