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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, JULY 9, 1922 YELLOWSTONE TRAIL AUTO RACE AT TACOMA SPEEDWAY LAST TUESDAY DECLARED GREATEST BATTLE- OF ITS 1UAU 1SVEK WITNESSED ON PACIFIC COAST. IS Best Route Is From Butte Via Vigilante Trail. BIG-SIX SPEEDSTER REPORTED POOR 1 1 ax SEASON. WELL STARTED Roads AVithln Yellowstone Park Itself Rapidly Being Put Into Best of Shape. BUTTE, Mont., July 9. Frank Bell, a local business man, who has Just returned from an extended trip .through Tellowatone park and ad jacent territory on business, reports that the Vigilante trail is the best road leading to Yellowstone park from any direction this season. Mr. Bell is strong in his praise of the excellent work done on this historic road by the authorities of Jefferson and Madison counties. The Vigi lante trail extends from. Butte to the entrance of the park at Gardiner; and is declared much to be preferred by motor travel from the west than the regular Yellowstone trail route from Livingstone to Gardiner. - "The Vigilante trail is a boulevard all the way," said Mr. BelL "It's no trick at all to leave Butte early in the morning and make the west Yel lowstone entrance to the park the same day. That's a jump of about 200 miles, but with the excellent roads it is not a tiresome drive. 1 am sorry to state that the very op posite is true of the Yellowstone trail. This transcontinental road, which is adevrtised from Main to Puget sound, is in very bad condi tion, and its main artery, the Section on which the Yellowstone Trail as sociation makes its effort to con centrate all travel from Livingston to Gardiner is a disgrace to any trail association aTid to the counties which are supposed to take care of the trail. The road between Living ston and Gardiner is treacherously rough, badly cared for and in many Btretches should be resurveyed be fore it can- properly be designated as a road inviting the travel of all the country. Tourist Is Thankful. "On the day I left Butte I met with a tourist whose intention it was to go to Yellowstone park via the Yellowstone trail and Bozeman and Livingston. He had by mistake turned into the cutoff road for the Vigilante trail at the top of Cedar ridge. I told him he could get to the park the way I was going and that it was shorter, but I did not know the condition of the road. He traveled all the way to West Yellow stone with me and before we got there he thanked me for putting him on the best road he had trav eled for many miles." , Travel to Yellowstone park so far this season, Mr. Bell said, is lighter by private auto and heavier by way . of the transportation companies' busses- than last season at this time. One evening last week there were 14 Pullmans parked at West Yel lowstone on the Oregon Short Line, and business was very brisk with the transportation company which was taking the sightseers through the park. "The roads In the park have not yet been put into top-notch condi tion," Mr.' Bell continued. "The roads are rough in spots, but work is go ing forward rapidly and in another week or ten days the park roads will be in their usual splendid shape. Old Faithful is performing as usual this summer and, although I was pressed for time and making as quick a trip as possible, I stopped a short time to witness this won derful old geyser in eruption. , -"The old-time park personnel, many of whom are well acquainted with Butte people, are wondering when the local delegations will be gin to arrive for their annual visits. It seems that Butte sends more peo ple and more automobiles to Yel lowstone park each summer than any other city in the world. That, of course, is natural because of our close proximity to the wonderland." Yellowstone Trail Torn T7p. On his-return tirp to Butte, which was made by way of Livingston and Bowman, Mr. Bell reports the Yel lowstone trail torn up and In Very bad shape for travel at the present time west of Bozeman and almost into Three Forks. It will be an other week or more before the road crews are finished with this section and the highway will again be 1n good hape for travel. . At Three Forks Mr. Bell was informed that the trail was In very poor condition between thatpoint and Cardwell. He was advised to take the Cottonwood creek cutoff to Cardwell. While this 1 road was not in good shape, he says it is much better than the usual con dition of the Yellowstone trail in the vicinity of Jefferson Island and Harrison. From Cardwell to Butte the road could not be better. BATTERY ATTENTION URGED TVillard Company Says Three Necessities for Best Service. For low-cost battery service--the very thing that every autolst is in terested in a local battery expert says three things are necessary start with a standard make battery, service it properly with frequent and regular testing and filling, guard against overheating duo to overchargiiig. 1 These admonitions would appear simple enough and easy to follow but when one considers the fact that there are over two hundred kinds of storage batteries on the market, only relatively few of which can reasonably be c a 1 1 ed standard makes, that most people are ex tremely careless about giving any attention whatever to the battery on their car, and that fewer still know when they are over-charging their batteries, It ls no wonder that the manufacturers must maintain service stations all over the country. The Willard Storage Battery com pany of Cleveland has developed a service station organization whose motto is "Through Service We, Grow." ' . PARADISE INN ROAD OPENED Car Able to Drive Now Clear to - Mount Rainier Resort. The Paradise valley road to Para dise inn on Mount Rainier is now clear of snow and in good shape for traffio, according to a bulletin re ceived from the Rainier National Park company. Roads to the na tional park from Tacotma and roads within the park are in excellent shape, it is stated. Although the snow on the moun tain was heavy this year the warm weather melted it rapidly, and this together with the active road opera tions carried on to clear the high way resulted in t he road being opened over two weeks earlier than last yar, - . - .... ' 1 Photos by Harry T. Burrows. Above Start of tfce race, when the world' fastest drivers began their 250-mile grind before crowd of people esiimaiea at ou.ow. bciow me winner, jimmy fllurphy, t the wheel of his ear as It drew Into the pits shortly after he passed under the winning ting. AUTO IH TIP STA6E MERCHANDISING IS BIGGEST PROBLEM OF INDUSTRY. Increased Demand for Closed Models Forecast by Hudson Essex Representative. The automobile Industry has en tered tibe third distinct period In it d.iininMt the period of mer chandising, declared Harry G. Moock, special representative oi me nuu-Bon-Essex organization, who was in onrtiand a week a.e:o on a tour of the Pacific coast visiting distribut ing organizations, wmie nere u. Moock was the guest of C. L. Boss of the CI Boss Automobile com pany, Hudson Essex distributors. Much of his time was spent In busi ness conferences with Mr. Boss and his associates, although occasion was taken for a tour up the Colum bia river highway and for a dinner at the chamber of commerce at which about 80 men were present. Including members of the Portland sales force of the local company and out-of-town Sealers. At the dinner Mr Moock spoke for over two hours, telling in interesting fashion the present developments in the indus try and the outlook for the future. "The automobile industry has now fairly entered Its third, and perhaps its permanent stage," said Mr. Moock. "that being the stage of mer chandising in which the distributor and the dealer will play a leading part. The first stage or tne inaustry was a stage of invention and me chanical development. Roughly it may he said that that stage lasted iin shunt 1S10. Bt that time the automobile had assumed in general its permanent physical lorm, al though of course many, many re finements have been made since then. However, the general con struction had been decided upon and the old carriage form brought by the automobile makers at first from the carriage manufacturers had been discarded; ' "With the mechanical development of the car brouerht to a practical point demami grew rapidly and the industry entered Its second, stage, that of manufacturing. It became a problem to produce enough automo biles to meet the demand and great factories were erected. Production methods were improved and econo mies devised until by 1920 the prob lem of manufacturing the automo bile in greatest quantity, in short est time and with lowest cost may be said to have been solved. "With the slump of demand in 1921 we may be said to have started on the third stage, that of mer chandising. There are now enough factories in this country to manu facture each year several times as many cars as could possibly be ab sorbed In this country and in the foreign trade. Therefore it becomes a race ' between the manufacturers to see which ones are going to get the business. It is a battle to turn out the finest cars possible at the lowest cost and to eell them through aggressive selling methods." Mr. Moock forecast an excellent fall business and declared that the demand ths far this year had far exceeded the expectations ' of eveir the most optimistic. The Hudson-Es sex plant is turning out more cars at the present time tnan ever oe- fore, he sala. Already tne produc tion record for the' whole year of 1921 has been exceeded, and pres ent indications point to the produc tion of 1922 exceeding even the rec ord mark of 1920. , A steady growth in demand for closed cars was forecast by the viistor. This demand has grown Tap Idly until now over one-fourth of all cars made in this country are closed models, he said. The -time is not far distant, he forecast, when over half of the cars manufactured will be closed models. The Hudson Essex factory has been a leader in this regard, having brought out the coach model last winter, a closed model selling for but slightly more than the open job, and as a result of the popularity of this model both in the Hudson and the Essex the factory has set the highest percent age mark for closed cars in its pro duction of any factory in the coun try. Thus far this year, said Moock, Hudson-Essex output has run about 64 per cent closed models, actually more closed models than open ones. This record has put Hudson-Essex in the position of second in the num ber of closed cars manufactured, be ing exceeded1 only by Ford. . . ROAD SIGNS ARE MISPLACED 111 Feeling Makes Motorist Suf fer as Innocent Bystander. BEND, Or., July 8. HI feeling against the town of Crane on the part of residents of other communi ties in that part of Oregon sent J. W. Spencer, traveling with his fam ily from Orofino, Idaho, to Bend, 140 miles out of his way, Spencer de clared on arriving in Bend yester day The epite of the eastern Ore gonlans was vented in "transplant ing" road signs, so as to divert travel from the Crane road, regard less -of the possible serious conse quences, said .Spencer. At Skull Springs Spencer, against his better Judgment, followed the sign which pointed out theroad to Crane and Bend and took a road which led to nowhere but Nevada, he' declares. "In getting hack to the right road hB broke down and was delayed several ays. Elsewhere along the road, signs were found torn down or turned around, while at other places there were none, "Spencer declared, mak ing the road difficult for a stranger to locate. Many of the corners which need better markings are on the high desert, where losing one's way Is a-s-erions matter. Cattle are responsible for disturbing many of the signs, Spencer declared. PAIGE SURPASSING RECORD This Year's Production Now Far . ; Ahead of Last Year. . ( Before 'the first six months of 1922 had come to a close the Paige Detroit Motor Car company, had built and sold 60 per cent more cars than It produced during the entire calendar year of 1921. 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These disc : wheels, complete with cord tires and tubes, are furnished without xtraeost. This latest Studebaker cre ation reflects Studebaker's seventy-year-old reputation! or building fine vehicles. In addition there is a handsome set of nickel-plated bumpers front and rear, courtesy light on the driver's side, a boilt-in. thief-proof tnnsn?ision lock which is operated by the same key tht locks tic ignition switch and tool compartment in the left front door. Ask for die Studebaker "Yanjatick." a measure of the greater value that Studebaker offer The Studebaker Corporation of America " Studebaker Building, Tenth and Glisan Sts. Retail Salesroom1 . Service Department' MODELS and PRICES LIGHT-SIX s-rw, nrw. b,4hk.p. . . $ STS . . . . 104S Ko.d.tr O-Pm , IMS. Conpa-Rawlatev (2-P -) .... TS7S . 1750 SPECIAL-SIX s-rw,nr w. a, eon. p. Ctunala ...... $1200 Tawing MTS RMUtr(a-PM.). 1S Katubtw 1475 Coop. (4-Paw.) . . 21 SO Smdmn ..... 550 BIG-SIX -TW.nsW.BOH.P. . . $1500 . . . . 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