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THE OREGON f SUNDAY JOURNAL : PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. : APRIL 9.. 1916,; 5 COMPLAINT-TAKEN TO MEAN CEMENT PEOPLE VILL RGHT GUARANTY Letter to Roadmaster Says Road Roller Used on St. Helens Road Too Heavy, . PARTIALITY IS CHARGED Statement XquaX Trntrntat Aecotdtd, Zowmt, xrot Borne Out by fh Tacts In the cut. Wat. is regarded as a preliminary t step by the guarantors of the cement ' concrete pavement on the Mnnton road " to get out from under their 10 year , maintenar.ee guarantee, Ja the receipt . by Roadmaster Yeon of the following ; Utter from J. C. JSden of Seattle, pres - tdent of the Superior Portland Cement M company. ,1 am (tending photographs taken .' on the Llnnton road showing: the abuse ot the concrete pavement laid under the guarantee of Mr. Coates and my self. We desire at this time to enter ' a protest againrft the countv nerrnit- . ting the pavement to be used In this . way and to serve notice that we will , not undertake to make any. repairs on - account of damage done by the roller shown in the pictures. In 'the first , !lace, there is absolutely no necessity - for rolling the shoulders with a ma t chine of the sise being- used, neither Is there the slightest necessity for any .- part of the wheels coming in contact . with the edge of the pavement.' In - view of the fact that the shoulders Have onlv. been rolled alongside the . concrete, brick and wood block, sections u it would appear as though the work ' was being done in the manner it is In . order to purposely break up the con- -crete slab and in the case of the wood blocks to break down the curb ing. In order to discredit those types or pavement. I -am very much sur prised that the county officials would permit anything of this kind to be done. The photographs alluded to in Mr. , .Eklen's letter are views of the county"s road roller in operation along the edge of the pavement. In stating that the V shoulders are only, being rolled along the concrete, brick and wood block sections, Mr,.Kden seems to have been misinformed, as an inspection of the work shows that those along the bit- , ulithic section are also beine rolled. The record shows also fhat the breaks In the pavement were in ex-' istence long before the county began the work of dressing up the shoulders. They were due to the impact of the heavy traffic on the road and the poor sub base, There have been breaks in the bltu lithic section, but theyvhave all been repaired by the contractor without protest. Eoads NotjBuiltf ' For Temporary Use Roads are not Built for temporary use,, or for a single generation,, says Highway (Commissioner Allen, of Wash ington. If they, are rightly built and properly maintained, addsfhe, they will last forever. 1 V "The first thing to betaken Into con sideration," said the commissioner, "when a road is to be built. Is how and where It Is to be located. If you are going to attempt to please every per- ENJOYS DRIVING BIG GAR Figure Eight Will , Be Paved at Once x . , "Stretch Between Crows Point and toarell Was tsft aat Tsar so Couia Settle Hot. ; The work of paving the figure eight section of the Columbia river high 58 Way with brick will be undertaken in a few days. This section lies between Crown Point and Latourell and was 'not paved last season, for the reason ' that the grade had not sufficiently - settled. The contract was let to Boyajohn Arnold company. - It was the original intention to make the pavement only 18 feet in width, but owing to the many curves it has been decided to make it 24 feet "?,in order to eliminate the possibility of accident. It is expected to have the work finished by the middle of next month. u ; ; M 'pfc- . V P7 S" ; 'Z.r'WrJ If : . H ,'7s X-s.:,:::.-;' 1 11 if . C 10 ' ir .s it ir ?s . via i HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT COSTLY AS PREVIOUS TO ITS CONSOLIDATION Withycombe's Prediction of a Saving by Joining It With Engineer's Office Fails. SAVING COULD BE MADE Elimination of Castlse Would Help, Bat TWi ZmposslbU for Political Beasons. It will be recalled that the princi pal argument used by Governor i Wlthycombe 5n advocating the con solidation of the state highway de partment with the office . of state engineer was that a great saving could be made in administration ex I pense. ( , The consolidation was made by the legislature, but the results have not Justified Governor Wlthycombe's as sertion. The department is now costing the taxpayers fully as much as it did when Independent, despite the fact that the volume of work is not so great now as It was then. In (February, 1915, under the Bowl by administration the office payroll of the department was approximately $1200. For July. . after the consolidation ' had been made and Knglneer Can tine been 4ut Jn charge, the payroll was, according to the annual report of Mr. Canfine, tl239.5S, The September roll was 11571.27. In October. 11S74.C7 was callejl for. The amount paid out In November was 11474.74. - Wo MaUrlal Saving Effected. In January the supreme court de cided that State Engineer Lewis was the y head of thfc department. - Under his administration the payroll for February called for $2307.52. It should be explained however, that a number of field men were included, and that this, roll cannot be fairly used for comparative purposes. 'Eliminating the field force the cost of the admin istrative office is about the: same as under the Bowlby regime. .. It will be seen that thus far no ma tarjat saving in the conduct of tin off Ice- has been made. - - At small reduction in cost was made by Engineer kewis when he,, took charge in January last by. a reorgan isation of the bridge department, i Political Reasons Zafluenee. ' Engl peer Iwis has suggested to the-state highway commission that a considerable reduction of expense can be brought about by the discharge of Chief ;.Deputy Cantine, whose salary is $1 jo per month, but it is . under stood "that for political reasons both Governor .Wlthycombe and . Treasurer Kay fare not inclined to agree 'with the state engineer. - - Not only does State Knglneer Lewis say that the wprk of the of fice does not justify : the retention ; of . a chief deputy, but he also Intimates that Deputy Cani tie is insubordinate and not conducive to harmony in the de partmfnt. ... . Thai there had been friction between the state enginer and the chief deputy ls weH known. The-- situation places Governor Withycombe In a peculiar positiom He is now made to appear in opposi tion to an "economy of. administration which, he proclaimed would be ef fected when the state highway de partment was consolidated with the office of the state engineer. TAYLOR BILL IS ONLY : -CHANCE AT PRESENT FOR MT. HOOD ROAD Wash i ngton Advices Indicate No . Prospect Congress Will i Appropriate. Money, TIMBER INCOME IS BASIS Certain Per cent of Bevenne AvaUable for Const ruction In Beserves If Act Becomes Xw. Advices from Washington indicate that Bere is no prospect that con gress wilt make a direct appropriation for- the construction of the Mt.- Hoed foop road, as provided for In a: bill introduced by Representative McAr thur asking for an appropriation of $200,000 f or ' thia purpose. . The - only encouragement for gov ernment aid for this road is found in the bill introduced by Representative Taylor of Colorado , providing for the advancement - of money; on timber in the forest - reserves. . The Taylor bill has been Indorsed by the United States forest service and is regarded as "a department measure. -.-.j--.-.- It has also been Indorsed by i the Portland Chamber of Commerce . and nearly every other commercial organ ization in the state to which it baa been submitted. Similar action. . has been taken In other states having for est reserves. ' It would seem, there- small amount of public pressure on members of congress to enact the bill into .a law.,; ; :':- r,:; ; f v, 77, , -Agreement Must Be Cooperative. .According to the text of the bill the sum of $1,000,000 is to be appropriated annually out of the,, national treasury for a term of 10 years, making 110. 000 000 altogether. , ' The money Is to be expended under the supervision of the secretary, of agriculture upon the request of the proper state and county officials for the. survey, construction and mainten ance of roads and trails within or only partly;, within the national for ests.: : :;.''.-.. It is provided however, that the state or county shall enter into a co operative agreement" with "the depart ment of agriculture. A further pro vision is that the aggregate expendi tures In any state or county rhall net exceed 10 per cent of the value of thf timber and forage Resources which are or will be available for income upon the national forest lands within the respective county or counties where in the roads or trails will be con structed, ---if: i , " M. Hood Boad Seads XJst. - Fifteen 'per -cent' of the 25 per cent forest Income which comes to : the county under the existing law is to be retained until the United States treas ury has been reimbursed for money advanced. In road and trail construc tlon. . ':.-,-;..,- ....-'7 - Should the Taylor bill become a law it is quite probable that the first work undertaken by tb,e department of agrl. culture would be the Mt Hood road. So far as known it is at. the . head of the list of pending projects, having been surveyed and located. 'All esti mates of cost have also been prepared and as. soon as money la available construction can begin. ; Furthermore the forest service , is very anxious to demonstrate what it can do in making popular the forests as recreation grounds for the pubilo. 3Iiss Norma Redman takes great pleasure in driving a Chalmers Six. son whoi is to be affected by the pro posed highway, you are going to have a mighty difficult time of it. Here is the Idea; "A road has to be laid out for the best interests of all, and the future must be' taken into consideration-. If the best1 place to build that road is 20 feet in front of a man's property, the road ought to be built there; and If it needs the strip of land where that man's house stands, it will have to run through sthe man's house. "Where right of way cannot be got ten through friendly settlement, then condemnation should follow. But since I have been connected with the department, there has been but little trouble In obtaining right of way and the rights of way that, were wanted. Location is all important." Nez Perce Finds Use Of i Drags Effective The use of road drags has been found f great benefit, In the maintenance of roads in Nes Perce county. Idaho. The best results are obtained in theJ early spring, while the ground is wet and workable. Following the storms, the oili is In the most favorable con dition, and by being moved toward the center in thin layers, it is rollca into place by the . wheels of vehicles and hoofs of horses, , and hammered until a wearing surface that is practically waterproof Is provided. GOOD ROADS NEWS NOTES IN THE OREGON COUNTRY r.our Bridges Planned. Four bridges fall. The county court had been pe- are to be constructed before the As toria-Tillamook road is open to sum mer travel. tltioned to call a special election on the question of a $700,000 bond issue for road improvement Independence Bay Bet for Openiaft. otiusx 10 iinwayA Plans are being made by good roads i survey is Demg made ror a road be boosters of Astoria, Warrenton and 'tween Scottsburg and Reedsport, in Seaside to celebrate July 4 the formal j Iouglas county. The road when built opening of the four and one-half sec-; wlll connect the beach at Winchester BOTH DAY AND NIGHT WE ARE RUNNING OUR MACHINE SHOP, DOING CYLINDER GRINDING AND MACHINE WORK' will put on a night crew our patrons more prompt BEGINNING MONDAY, APRIL 10TH, we in our machine shop, so that we can rive! service, w or, cailea lor ana delivered in daytime. COOK & GILL COMPANY, INC., PHONE EAST 4814 C-1148 120.122 UNION AVENUE ' NORTH. I PORTLAND, OREGON Eqtop Your Oir With Bosch Ignition MORE POWER I LESS TROUBLE Official Distributors and Expert BALLOU & WRIGHT BROADWAY AT OAK Master lead all others in POWER, SPEED and MILES PER GALLON Save Gasoline, Save Time and Save the Engine 100 EFFICIENT. Reduces operating cost. "Money Back Guarantee." j t ' ' ARCHER & WIGGINS Distributors of High-Grade Motorcar Accessories SIXTH STREET AT OAK tlons of hard surface road between Columbia beach and West station. Work to Start Soon. Work will start in the near futtlre on the open ing of the. Columbia river highway between Astoria and Knappa. Whether the road will be opened for a further distance depends largely upon action taken by Columbia county. To Improve XcKensle Hoad. The county commissioners of Lane county have planned this year's workon the McKenxle pass road. The proposed Improvement includes the elimination of a bad hill between Foley Springs and McKenzle bridge, and quite a lot of heavy work in the neighborhood of Blue river. Direct Tax Is Pavored. At a meet ing of about 25 taxpayers, members of the old Umatilla County Good Roads association, a resolution favoring a di rect millage tax for road improvement Instead of a bond Issue, was passed. Kust Walt General Election. Ac cording to an opinion given by County Attorney Severs of Lane county a bond Issue cannot be voted on at the May primary election, but must ba considered at the general election this bay, Reedsport and Gardiner -directly with Scottsburg. giving a straight out let from the coast to the Pacific high way at Drain, without having to travel 20 miles of the distance by boat. When the road Is opened to travel it is the plan of Lakeside and Coos Bay residents to build a road from the bay to connect with it. This will give Coos Bay connecction with the Pacific highway. Independence Is Disappointed. Ac cording to the Polk County Observer the $3009 appropriation from the state highway fund for Polk county is to be expended on the road from Dallas to i Salem instead of the Salem-Independence road, as has been generally understood. The change is a disap pointment to the people ' of Inde pendence. Will Start Surrey Keart Week. The survey - of the ' Medford-Crater Lake highway will begin next week with a crew of 12 men under Engineer J. W. Ball of the' United States office of public roads. The work wlll probably cover a period of five months. In all probability the route will follow the course of the Rogue river as nearly as possible. Candidate Opposes Comprehensive Road AUTOMOBILE AND SHOP SUPPLIES SparkPIugs ,' TOOLS I v Brake-Lininc ;!' MOTORCYCLES AND ACCESSORIES ' 51 74 Sixth and 811 Oak Sts., Tool and Supply Co. Vbona tain 1683. 4.-1883 UNIVERSAL TIRE FILLER ls 75 th 'v .Lm r - way to end tire troubles. You take no chance. - Give it 3 free trial. - . t Phone East 6SI0. UNIVERSAL THIS HLLET? CO. 107 Fast 2Sth St N. Pendleton Man Declares la Platform Ha Will Devote Energies, If Elected, to Oettlxur Better Kesnlts for Outlay. K. W. Ritner, of Pendleton, who ls a candidate for election to the leglsla ture, has announced himself in favor of the abolishment of the road supervisor system. "If I should be elected." says he, "I will devote all my energies to ward securing a revision of the Oregon road laws, with the view of changing the present Inefficient and- extrava gant system under which we are now working, and nnder which the county received less -than 60 cents of value for every Si spent. I believe that, if any permanent road work is done,' the coun ty court should have the authority to place all such work in the hands ot a competent road engineer; and that all work should be done 'under his direc tion, rather than "to have each separate road supervisor handle the work In his respective district. At present Umatil la county has over 40 road supervisors, each working independently of the other. Consequently, we have 40 dif ferent methods of building roads. Automobile Club Has A Successful Season Reports Rendered at Annnal Meeting, Beyiew Activities of the Fast Tear Financial Condition Is So and. ' : That Portland has "now one of the most successful , organizations of mo tor owners in the Portland Automobile club, was ef f ectively brought out in the review of the last year, made by President Overmire at the club's an nual meeting, Wednesday night. - -The. club's activities have grown in number from-year to year and a re capitulation showed,, briefly that In the following things the organisation has had a successful part: In the' tourist rush of 191S the or ganization ' came to the - front in the matter of - giving the visitors all the touring information that was asked for. Also for the benefit of visitors to i- the : Columbia river highway the clubhouse and grounds were kept open to the tourists who could step in for refreshments and rest. : , The club also has been hacking with Its moral and physical support, the trafflo ordinances and the safety first commission ami again : pledged itself to continue thia work. . , 7Mr7 Overmire also brought out the i fact that the club stands .ready to help I the Oregon National Guard in the mat-1 ter of a motor auxiliary. Supervisor Systeny Plan Is Set Forth Deputy State Engineer Reports Sevan of Sis Investigations In Coos County Made During past Pew Weeks. A comprehensive plan for the im provement of the highways of Coos county has been set forth In a report made by, E. I. Cantine. chief deputy state engineer. The report was made under the direction of J. II. Lewis, the state engineer, under instructions of the Oregon state, highway commission, in compliance with a request made by the Coos county court and the Coos County Good Roads association. Mr. Cantine recommends that there be mad a through trunk road from the Douglas county line on the north, South through Lakeside.! on Tenmile lakes, to Coos Bay, and from the latter place to Coquille and Bswidon, and south to the Curry county line, and from Coquille .south to Myrtle Point, and from there east along the middle fork of the Coquille river, leading again to the Douglas county line by way of Camas valley, and to connect with the Pacific highway at Dil lards or Greens. Englneer'Cantine states that the out let toward the north would te an im portant one, and would be a route from Coos county to the Willamette valley by way of the Umpquas river and Elk Creek, to Drain, a water grade line, connecting the Pacific highway and coast road. The road to the north is only partially opened, and. If built, would be a new outlet. The road to Curry county also now exists, but it is recommended that this. like other roads now in use, be. improved. , Coos county has been expending , $200,000 a year for some years past on ! road work in all parts of the oounty. It was urged by the good roads asso ciation that some general plan be sought and followed so the money could be spent to the best possible advan tage. It will now be up to the county court and the Good Roads association to take some action on the report which has been submitted by Engineer Can tine. . , ' " working this out are now under way and a . demonstration of it will be staged soon. v7, " :r' ' -.7 " The financial report of the" club showed a decidedly healthier tone than the one of a year ao.' The clnb de cided some time ago to dispense with a steward at the clubhouse, and turned toe aomtionai'iworfcoveritoSGeormi Chambers, the managing secretary. : : A net gain on the grille of the club amounting to SS04 was reoortftd Plans for last year's report showed a loss of $900. 7 .1 V' Thl car Is the result of a definite purpose to supply a definite need with definite finality. It is built for the man whose purse cannot afford a big, expensive car-- . For the man whose pride cannot afford an unsightly, little, uncomfortable car , ; , . ! And it is a very definite success, i . . Beauty Is not necessarily a matter of size Neither' does size altogether control comfort. ' But skill, experience and facilities are required to build a small, beautiful, comfortable, economical car In a word, It required Overland organization And here is the small, light car complete to the last detail. Its performance is on a par with Its beauty, comfort -and completeness. 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