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Tiiz o:zco:i cui;dav jou:;:ial, pc::tla::d, gu:;day ::o::::i::c, julv .? TO SEATTLE IS pean nations. , The United Kingdom was a big: buyer of American carr and trucks during April. 1915, the" total be ing 1456. valued at 31.925,280." as against 687 ears, valued at 3C14.977. In April, 1914. During the 10 months' period these exjjbrts rose from 819, valued at 15,057,100, in 1914, to 7853, valued at 310.840.309 In 1915.' r France likewise is becoming a big buyer of our motor trucks and ears, the purchases having " Increased ' from 311, valued at $179,230, In April. 1914. to 1055. valued at 31,710,702, in April, 1915. and from 1011, valued at 1688, 4T1. in 1914. to 3951, valued at $10 935.842 during the 10 months' period of this year. ; . ' rope." which Includes all of -the Euro pean countries .. with the exception of the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy, surprising gains are shown, the exports -having increased from 500. aloed at-1372.857, in April. 1914. to 855. valued at 82.635,169, in April. 1915. and : from .2241, valued at $1. 777,828, to 2118. valued ..at 8,129,392 during . the 19 months' period. The natural - inference Is that trucks fig ured largely in the' exports, as the value of the exports increased in value almost five-fold during the 10 months' period. ' Italy roor Customer. Italy is a poor customer, that 'coun try's import from thla country having fallen from 39. -valued at 339.S40. in April. 1914, to 23, valued t 39983 In April, 1916, - while during the , 10 months' period the . exports to that country declined from .293. valued at 3203,048, to t8, valued at 858,388. Germany's contribution to American motor car makers was 234, valued at $163,101. in April, 1914. while in April last there were none of these exports to that country. During the 19 months' period- the exports decreased from 1185, valued at $840,448, in 1914. to 20. valued at $20,164. during- 1915. 4- ' HeaaaaMeaBaaaMiaBawiBaaaaw ' Thef , Had r Only. Fig Jjeaves. Hokus-Adam" and 'Eve couldn't run an auto. , ..''..-. Pokus I'll fall for it . Hokua They laeked attire. Big Tire Company . Increases Its Space STive Aoree Xs Added, AeoordlaeT to . Plans Which Have Just Been Ap proved; Work Begins at Qnoe. ! Five - acres of additional working floor space are Included In plans ap proved by the directors of the Good year Tire & Rubber company, which wli begin at once an extension of the Akron factory made necessary by - the Will give the plant a total, floor ?r ; of nearly 50 ncrem. The new buildings will be tra ij with machinery installed, by the V -ginning of the fiscal year. Novem'T 1, and will require for their use- t ) additional men, bringing the GoocJy :r working force to a total of 10,000. :: .Goodyear's present capacity.in suto ntoblle tire production is over 12,ooo a day. The new buildings will enlarge the capacity to well over 15.000 tires a day. The cost of the. plant nlarpe ment will be $400,000. All the build ings are to be of brick and steel, to harmonise with the present plant, anl room will be found In hem to extend BAKER HAS AUTQ FLU S HER iiOT DIFFICULT ONE-r BMEGOIIJGBAD f,S. Doernbecher, Writes of Experience, on Tour Taken Within Pa$t'Few Days, ;, Under the heading of "Other Eu continued growth of ihe business. Thla iu manuiMiun ox mecnanicai goodA. r i-r-. ; rr, ; LJ " , v- - ' " .1 f: ";; ls:: .1 10 . ... J .', 4W i I . , 5 a . .... The .Jollowlng la an account of -an automobile trip from Portland to -Ta vorna -taken by. F S., Doernbecher, of rie Doernbercher Manufacturing con' "I 1ft Portland tr way Of St-'Hel ona on the trip' to Seattle. -Th -road rlown -th west aide of the river wai In splendid condition up to 1 mllea aiutlr of Goble, whr it was some what rottttb on account - of the newly trrAA mad which was not macadam ized and had been roughened up . by the winter driving. . This. However. . a hAfnar ivld - down by trarrw. "We took Read's , ferry across the Columbia to Kalama. The rarry chiirrt . for lerare machines la $2.6. There are two ferries from which to choose. Then came the worst stage of tha Journey. For. several miles the roads near Kalama were good, although quite Wily. After leaving Carrolton, which la five miles from Kalama. we . ran into a road grading outfit. The roBd' here followa the contour r of the hllla and la : being widened . with a Kteam shovel which occupies most-of the road, and is difficult to pass. We were informed It would be Impossi ble to pass as the shovel nlle , up a lot of dirt at the - side. : The party informing us. said ha had great diffi culty in getting by, However, we concluded ' to try, and found the crew In charge " of the shoyel most accom modating, stopping work when they found 1 we could u not pans over tha pile of dirt without sliding Into-their eouipnient. They even attached -a rope' to our car. and pulled us across the dirt, moving their apparatus .so ' as to make it jnpre convenient to : cross. , - ! ' " Soma, of Beads Excellent. "Further on we came across an outfit grading a road "with: scrapers, part of which was dangerous on ac count of undermining the old road, which Is much, higher up. This. how. "ever, should be finished by this time, as 1 ' pased it - more than one week ego.- . . "The roads from Kelso to- Caatle Rock are excellent as well as for many miles after leaving Castle Rock, f he' road having i been ' constructed on the old railroads grade which Is - level and in fine 'condition. ' 'About four miles below . Toledo the Pacifio highway signs and the new tour book direct you to continue on the straight road, whereas you naould cross to Cowlita river on the ferry operated by the county, and you 1 will find ' a good road 'to Toledo. As for myself, I had a bad road through taking the wrong fork. We. however, found a Rang. f surveyors on this Kaw apparatus for street work, test ad out last week la Baker. Machine proved highly successful. - Its advent does away with all .horse-drawn ve hicles owned by tha city 'except tbosa in the sanitary department, .two teama : -r-Phota by Hex all Store. - i being used to iaul rubbish. Seated be side the driver Is Mayor C. L. Palmer. Fire Chief F. H. Orabner stands on the pavement. City Commlaaloner Flnley on the wheel, and Street Foreman L Mahan on the back of the truck. The new apparatus coat 14400. , : AMERICAN-MADE CARS ARE - x . POPULAR IN, ARGENTINA Number, of Cars Imported Into That ' Country Increases From 10 1-2 to Over 19 Per Cent in Years From ; . ;;; : 1912 to J913. , ; : Washington, D. CJ, July J.-Amer' lean made automobiles axe steadily: gaining in popularity in the Argentine market, their proportion of the total Imports of automobiles Into that coun try having risen from 10 M per cent in, 1912 : to mdre than 19 per cent In 1913, the latest period for which de tailed official returns have reached the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce of the department of com merce. The Imports of automobiles Into Ar gentina during 1913 were valued at 36,194,200, supplied: chiefly by France. the United States,. Germany. Italy, the United Kingdom and Belgium, in the order ' named. While France still ranked first in the Importation of au tomobiles into Argentina. In 1913, the United States made a larger actual and - relative gain than any of the countries above named, and increased her rank from fourth place In 1912 to second place in 1913. In 1914, when the world-wide depression reduced the value of automobile imports Into Ar gentina to about t one-fifth of their normal total, thone from th TTnititd piece of road and they tell me they- States also decreased, our total expor wiiy soon begin operations on It. On t tation of "automobiles to Argentina our- return trip ,wa crossed the ferry t and other countries of South America end it saved a decidedly bad bit of traveL . h - 4 . TVery little work has been done from Toledo to Chehalis. Much of this piece of road la planked," and it look as if most- of the ' planks, had been in for 10 years or more, and are not fit to drive on. Three miles out of Chehalis we found a hard surfaee rond.' We stopped over night at Che halis after a hard day's drive. : On account of work on the highway be tween Chehallsviand Central la we had to - detour, We1 were told this piece pf highway will soon be ready for driving. Oood Oeneral Average &oad. ' "From Centralla to Olympia by way of Tenlno we found the roads In ex client condition except for a short distance out of: , Olympia, where the road has evidently had no care for fm time, and is getting very rough. The same conditions prevail from Olympia to Tacoma for about 10 miles. From Tacoma to1 Seattle the road Is paved all the way, but near Seattle some - of the old road is go log to .pieces and is pretty rough for. seven or eight miles. , "There Is work In progress every where improving the highway, and I believe In another year the trip from Portland to Seattle can be made easily In a day. r We found . splendid road signs In Washington, explicitly giving directions and . distances. -.'Taken as a, whole, the trip is not a . difficult one but is a good general average road, which Is being constant ly Improved.' . , -: .: ; - Uncle Sain Gathers -4 Highway Statistics "i m 'it,' i ' . f ' " '-' " K&'s- -V j : . r.v '. --'4 .:' - rurpose Is to- Asoertata How Many ' r. IMles . There i Are ta ' the United ' States at Present. .. The .United States government. Is trying to find out how many miles of .highways of all. kinds there are in the different states and Is making a .tabulation of them by counties. Blanks have' been! sent to each of the 3000 counties in the country. This assembling of highway '. statistics will prmlt comparisons which ? wlll tend to nationalise the work of road con structlon by the setting up of fixed standards asr te materials and meth ods of operation. ' r Officials of the good roads bureau of, the department of agriculture say that the information the inquiry will develop, win serve as a basis for esti mating the relative value of differ ent kinds of roadways, and will prob- - aqiy hasten the time, when congress will cooperate with the states in the - work of road building. - One card asks for Information as to road mileage of all kinds In the country, exclusive of roads in cities and towns. County roads are divided into 10 classes: Brick paved, concrete, macadam with - the addition. of such substances aa asphalt, oil or tar; plain . macadam, gravel shell, oth'er hard sur faced roads, sand and clay mixture property graded and drained, ordinary earth roads properly built, and unim proved roads. , t - Another card asks for Information e to the tax rate for road purposes eod the amount of money expended In the county; for road, buildig. - : Still another is for returns giving name's of county and local road of ft cials. . One of the -cards Is for figures on bond Issues and county roadway In debtedness. ' In that year being a little over one- third thatof the preceding year. The following table showing the number .and value of automobiles: Im ported into Argentina in the - period from 1911 .to -1914 t with details for principal, countries In 1913 and 1913 lg from the official publications of that country. . v 11 - IMPDRrS OP ACTOMOWtES" INTO ABOEIf . TINA, mi TO 1914 Year. - Number 1911. 1912. 1&13.. ....... 1914....... .........i.... 2,461 4.281 C.115 2,189 Vlu--2.814,600 5,159,000 a,lM,2O0 1.105,700 Imp. trozn - Number Talus. 1913 191S ' 191 mf France ....1,651 . 1,830 3252,600 31.914.000 U'ted State 70S 1,296 oermanr . . wzi Italy ..... 423' V. Kingdom 451 Belgium . . 295 Other countries. 127 71 4125 412 302 S9 644.0U0 ' 822,300' 547.200 430,500 433,900 128,300 1,003,600 B4H.SUO 402,500 471.800 861,200 lll.'lOO Note. Exports of automobiles : from the .United States to all countries In creased from 3291 valued at $2,883,154 In April. 1914. to 6345 valued at $8, 045,222 In April. 1916. This growth was almost exclusively in commercial automobiles, of which the export rose from 52 valued at $72,676 in April. 1914, to 2267-valued at $6,240,481 in April. 1916. .About one-half of these commercial ' automobiles - went - to France and - the remainder chiefly to England' and other European coun tries.. In the 10 months preceding May 1, 1915, exports of passenger ve hicles aggregated 14,641 valued at 312, 856,472, as against 23,167 valued at $20,664,480 in the corresponding period one year earlier; while those of commercial- automobiles . numbered 8580 with an aggregate valuation of $23. 977.968, compared with 695 valued at $934,380 In 1918-14. - 7 . . APRIL EXPORT OF TRUCKS . 4 SHOWS SEVENTY-FOLD GAIN Fifty-two Maphines Valued at $72,676 .Were Shipped in 1914 While This Year 2,267, .Valued at $5r ' ; : 240,000 Were Sent Away. . Truck exports-show a gain seventy-; fold since the ilast ; report Issued by the department of 'commerce at Wash ington. The- gross figures for April are of decided Interest to the motor car industry. ; The export 'of commercial cars In creased from 52. valued at $72,676, In April., 1914, to 2267 valued at $5,240.-8-1, In April 1916, an Increase of over seventy fold; while during the Iff months ended April, these exports in creased from" 695 ; commercial cars, valued mt S9a4.asA. : n itu valued at $23,977,968. . On the other hand.- the exports of passenger cars dropped from' $239, valued at $2,760,478, in April, 1914, to 8078, valued, at $2,804,741. In April. 1916, while . the exports for - the 19 months' period dropped from ' 23.187, valued at $X0,64.480 In 1914 to 14.641, valued at $12,356,472, In 1915. t Exports of parts, not Including en gines rand tires. Increased in value from $626,133 In April, 1914. to $1, 807,567 In April last, and . from $5, 549.471 to $5,924J.75 during. thr 10 months period. k , , Naturally, the bulk of our motor ear exports are going to the warring Euro- AUTO LAMPS S,f 'vr2Lcription Rex Anti-Slip Brake Wafers Pedal Pads Ladies' and Men's Auto Caps, Gloves and Goggles, Flower Holders. Bumpers. Robe and Foot Rails. Water Bags. Master ; Carburetors. Diamond Tires, TOUR BOOKS - The Entire. Paciflo Coast. fSL50. ARCHER AND WIGGINS Oak -Street, Corner Sixth. . 'feverytbiiLs; for AntomobUes. ' That Was Only Way. -"I heard a new Ford etory-the other "What was itr - - " , "It was about a man who had never bard a- Ford story." u ...,--1.,- "For heaven's kake . where had he fn llvin??" "On a cieeert Island for- 20 years." - Oregon, Washington and California, in 1 vol, $2.50 T 4 Oregon only . . .$1.00 i j . . ; Washington only, $1.00 j - Cs. WRIGHT BROADWAY AT :OAK " AUTOMOBILE AND SHOP SUPPLIES - SparkPlugs ! : TOOLS Brake-Lining K' ST ASM A MSWM MM . I- .. ay i VKj tli.8 ANU ACCESSORIES ' f . f vj' and Siipply Co. 4 Bixth and SIX Oak Sis. -- - -; : - ' - mmamm HB IKH, A XOoS FEDERAL TIREIS IVIOIVAIVIOOILE Ll,'-" MOTOR CAR SUPPLY CO. IDiEiinnioEiidl TFE-IRilSS :-s& . 1916 &MMMey:Crs : more mi7 :& more stm and mm a Forty H: P. 7 -passenger FOUR at CMotorm"hore,5" stroke) T(S)S). a Fifty H. P. 7 -passenger tj? SIX at (Motor-r&A" bore, 5" stroke) 050 .!...:' 1 .... 3 ; This year the Studehaker announcement is more significant than ever before. It demonstrates more conclusively than ever Studebaker's leadership in the industry. For once again; Studebaker is announcing new cars at prices that completely recast all standards of value in the automobile industry. And never , before (has a dollar bought so much as it buys in these new S tudebakers. They are the best cars in every detail that Studebaker ever built . 1 ? , . : f But while the prices are remarkably low, Studebaker has made no effort to manufacture a small, low-price car, to compete purely on a price basis. THE PRICES ARE LOW SOLELY 1 Because of largely Increased volume of productions 2 Unriraled manufacturing resources I 4 -; 3 The Studebaker policy of manufacturing our cars com jplete in our own factories and thus eliminating parts i makers profits ; i 4 The creatly increased efficiency resulting from 4 years study and concentration, on the manufacture of two chassis: . . , 5 -The high percentasre of interchangeability of parts in the . two chassis. - . . And Studebaker is merely passing along to buyers of the new cars the FULL benefits of these notable economies, j You may question in your own mind the quality of these cars, considering the remark able 'reductions in price when compared with our last year's models. i",, .j ' : But we'simply hrvfte you to make any comparisons you like with last year's cars or with this year's models of other makers to see what resources and manufacturing experience such as Studebaker has at its command can accomplish, . . -.1 A whole Booh of Specifications couldn't begin to convey the impression that your first glimpse of the cars i y . will give- you must see the cars to appreciate them , -!-.' - j Four-Cylinder Models and Prices Touring Car, 7-passenger : - . - - v- , - $ SS3 Roadster, 3-passenger , - - - - - ' - - - - 850 Landau-Roadster, 3-passenger - - - ' lSS Panel Delivery Car - - - - - - - - - - 87S Open Express Car -- - - - - r " - ! - " - . S50 Station Wagon -. - - - - - - - . 87S v SixCyIinder Models and r Prices Touring Car, 7-passenger j - - . . -Roadster, 3-passenger -"'-w- Landau-Roadster, 3-passenger -. Coupe, 4-passenger ' - - - ' . Limousine, 7-passenger - I ' , V ' - F. O. B. DETROIT : - - 1CS0 - 1000 - 1350 - 1550 - 2250 Write at once for Catalog illustrating' all cars and giving complete specifications STUDEBAKER South Bend, Ind. : Walkerville, Ontario , , . "Address all communications to Detroit Detroit, Mich. Studebaker Corporation of America, Portland Branch V ' ' CHAPMAN AT ALDER . " : ivfain S969 ! - -t ' LOCAL DISTRIBUTORS' Oregon Motor CarCompsiny. CHAPMAN AT ALDER Phons Main 9402, A-765G