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, - .
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' 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. Comparing
the first six months of 1922 with
the .same period of 1921, the in
crease is approximately 225 per
cent, according to the figures issued
by factory officials and received
here by Cook & Gill Co., local dis
"When we reflect thatwe were
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LIGHT-SIX
s-rw, nrw. b,4hk.p.
. . $ STS
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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
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250
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well up amongr the leaders of the
industry during the early part ot
1921, this record Is particularly sig
nificant," says a statement by
Harry M. Jewett, president of the
Paige-Detroit Motor Car company.
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