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THE OREGOr. SUNDAY JOURNAL; PORT LAND, SUNDAY : MORNING. -JULY 21. '' 1918.
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RESIDENTS WANT
ROAD LINK BUILT
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Improvement of HoocT ' River
Mosier Stretch Demanded as
Necessary Link In Chain.
BROKEN PLEDGE IS
CITED
Wasco County Alleges It Kept Its
Part of Bargain on The! Dalles
Mosler Road.
IMPORTANT LINK MISSING IN STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM
There Is a 'growing dissatisfaction
among the people of Wasco, and Hood
river counties In particular and other
sections In central over tha delay of the
atata highway commission in - taking
oma daflnlta atapa towards beginning
tha Improvement of tha Colombia river
hlghway.betwsen Hood River and Mosler.
At the next meeting of tha commission
In August, it is sxpected that a dele
gation will be present from Tha Dalles,
Mosler and Hood River, asking that a
beginning ba made. It will not be urged
that tha work ba finished this year In
view of prevailing conditions, but that
It ba started and prosecuted during tha
coming winter. If H is not undertaken
thi fall it will be pointed out that It
can not be completed next year.
On stronjk argument to be advanced,
is that durlngy the winter months there
will . ba available labor teams which
otherwise will bldle. This will elimin
ate tha, labor difficulty now confronting
lil gh way work.
Another argument from another stand-
. point la that the commission should keep
faith with the people of Wasco county.
Nearly three years ago the voters of
: Wasco authorised a bond Issue for road
Improvement on the understanding with
tha old highway commission that if the
county would Improve the road between
Tha Dalles and Mosler tha state would
reconstruct tha road between Hood River
and Mosler. On this understanding
V&ajvt AAiintv w.nt ahi4 mil nnw ymm
practically finished the new grade from
Chenoweth creek to Mosler over the
hill. The state has done nothing beyond
making the survey and locating the
route.
The Missing Link
" There Is yet another another argu
jnent which la broader In Its scope re
presenting the Interest of the state at
large In the project.
Between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000 have
already been Invested In tha highway be
tween Hood River and the coast, from
which a full return cannot be had until
the 'connection with Eastern Oregon
la made. In the present situation the
highway is only a local road so far as
lis uses are concerned. The short un
improved link Connecting the state west
of tha mountains with the Eastern Ore
gon roads is a bar to traffic all the
year around. The Investment of so
much, money stopping just short of com
pletion. It Is pointed out. is "poor busi
ness, comparable to tha building of
a house and not putting a roof on It
One of tha arguments used against tha
adoption of tha $6,000,000 bond Issue was
that It did not provide sufficient funds
to improve all the roads outlined, and
tha result would ba that the money
would ba dissipated In local stretches
and that no main trunk roads would ba
eompisted. As time goes on, tha policy
of tha state highway commission is
cited aa proof to justification of tha
production.
Tha principal reason given by the com
mission for not going ahead with the
the -restriction put on bond Issues by
the national government. "If we were
to go ahead on this project" It Is said
. "we would be criticised for Inconsistency
In view of the fact that projects in
other localities have been postponed."
Case Is Presented.
In answer to this It is said by those
Interested in ttie forging of the final
link in the chain which connects the
. Willamette valley with Eastern and Cen
tral Oregon that it is just now the
most important project In the state, and
one. whose completion will be of the
- greatest benefit to the state aa a whole.
It la also argued that it la decidedly
a war measure In the way of relieving
the transportation system of the state
and facilitating the movementa of pro-
. ducta which Is now wholly dependent up-
: on a single line of railroad. r There is
no prospect, it Is said, that the railway
situation will be better next season than
this,' and that it may become worse. So
long aa highway traffic cannot get
through between Mosler and Hood
' River, it la useless. It Is pointed out,
to make any improvement east' of the
mountains beyond Tha Dalles, or at
)est It would not be good business to
do so.
The problem of financing the Hood
. Rlver-Mosler gap can be easily solved
it is claimed by local capital. It ia
understood that the banks and lndlvidu
als of The Dalles and Hood River will
either agree to take bonds or warranta
which they will carry without charging
interest.
It is estimated that the cost of the
, work will be approximately $350,000. By
.beginning the work this fall it is est!
- nuiHi tflai li would on v rAoiiir
small Sum to carry It throuarh until
next January when the 1919 funds come
in. In any case vouchers for work done
In November and December could not
;. ba taken up until January. The main
point.' it will be urged. Is to get started
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favorable conditions.
Map showing northern portion of Oregon! trunk highwa7 system with dotted line between Hood- River -and 'Hosier indicating, where rlUI link
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Tractor Should Meet Need
Of Each Individual Farm
Sound Advice Given by Expert; Service of Dealer Should Begin toy
Placing Right Kind of Machine in Farmer's Hands at Start;
"Horsepower Not Figured on Basis of Horse Flesh.
By J. Chandler Zgan
The automotive dealer will demon
strate his fitness for the tractor busi
ness by tha quality of the service he ren
ders -and the degree of satisfaction he
produces among his customers.
He also must depend upon the same
factors for the profit he makes from the
tractor business. In a majority of in
stances, too, they are likely to determine
his permanency In the trade.
This merely indicates their Importance
and shows, how necessary it must be
for the dealer to consider them. While
service and satisfaction are coupled to
gether here they really should be consid
ered as cause and effect, the degree of
satisfaction depending directly upon the
quality of service. This emphasizes the
relatively greater importances the for
mer and makes clear the reason why the
dealer should clearly understand where
service begins.
The old adage, "A good beginning
makes a good ending," applies with par
ticular appropriateness to service, for
the reason that a mistake at the begin
ning almost always entails service with
out end. This is uneconomic and un
profitable. Service, then, should begin before the
tractor is sold. This broadens the com
mon conception of what constitutes serv
ice, and implies that the tractor dealer
should take some things into considera
tion that frequently are not given any
thought. A moment's consideration will
justify this widening of the meaning
of the term,' "service," and will make
clear the reason why the dealer must
begin to render it before the sale is
made.
What Hakes Profits
That the tractor shall fit the job ia of
the utmost Importance to tha man who
buys. Only where this is the fact can
It prove to be profitable investment
for him, can it be operated economically
and can it be productive of satisfaction.
And satisfaction, from whatever point
of view, is the end to be attained. It
happens, however, that very few farmers
who never have had any personal expe
rience with tractors, when they come
face to face with the proposition of buy.
lng one, are competent to determine off
hand just what type and else of tractor
they ought to have. They have certain
well defined and definite needs upon
their farms which must be met, but how
well this, that or the other tractor will
meet these needs they ordinarily cannot
decide without advice.
They are just aa likely as not to ba
attracted by some feature which Is not
essential to the efficient working of the
tractor in the conditions they have to
meet, or they are led astray by such an
Inconsequential matter as price. The re
sult is that a misfit between tractor and
job results.
An outstanding fact which appears in
every investigation of tractor usefulness
which has been undertaken is that in a
majority, of, instances where farmers
have reported uneconomic or unsatis
factory results the reason has been that
In the first instance the farmer made a
mlsjudgment and bought a tractor un
suited to his requirements, one too small
or one too large, or unwisely selected for
some other reason. -Where there'1 ia
proper coordination between the 'tractor
and the work whiHi It- will be. called
upon to do the results almost always
are satisfactory. This is eliminating the
human factor aa a disturbing influence,
which may be done safely In considering
averages.
Horse Is Basis
The reason the farmer Is unable us
ually to select wisely when It comes to
buying his first tractor Is because he Is
accustomed to estimating his work in
terms of horses only. He knows noth
ing about mechanical horsepower and
does not know how to convert animal
horsepower Into the equivalent terms of
mechanical horsepower. It -is natural
and inevitable that .he should look at the
tractor, which he buys ostensibly as
substitute for his horses, in terms of the
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only unit of power ha knows th horse.
He is led to this mistake more,' readily
because of the method of rating tractors
in terms of drawbar horsepower.. The
farmer maKes the error of considering
the horsepower rating of a tractor on the
drawbar as the exact and Invariable
equivalent of the power of just as many
horses as the rating calls for. For in
stance, a tractor rated at 10 horsepower
on the drawbar means just the same to
the Inexperienced farmer as the power
of 10 horses.
This ishe case only under a certain
set of ideal conditions and only approx
imately correct even then. For instance.
horse normally exerts a pull on the
drawbar eaual to about a tenth of
Its weight. Now, If all farm horses
weighed exactly 1500 pounds, waited al
ways while at work at a uniform speed
of 24 miles per hour, and had level
ground to walk over, then every horse
in 1 minute would exert at the drawbar
the equivalent of one mechanical horse
power. Conversely, if all tractors were
built to run at a uniform speed of 2V4
miles per hour and had level ground al
ways to ' run over, then in 1 mmute
every tractor, too, would exert a pull at
the drawbar equivalent to one mechan
ical horsepower. Only so far as this
can the rating of a tractor at the draw
bar be compared to the power of as
many horses as the rating indicates.
But farm horses vary infinitely in
weight. In general, they merely approx
imate 2V4 miles per hour in speed. Trac
tors, In turn, manifest all speeds from
1 m. p. h. on low. gear to 9 m. p. h. on
high, although most of . them have a
much narrower range than this. Never
theless, every variation from the normal
in the' speed of a tractor profoundly
affects the horsepower developed at the
drawbar and destroys the relation the;
fanner imagines exists between the ra-
ing as given and the- equivalent in
horses.
In addition, there is a fundamental
difference between animal power and
tractor power, which would throw the
equivalence all out of proportion as soon
as the condition of absolute equality
is disturbed, and it usually is disturbed
most of the time. This . fundamental
difference Is that animal power la elas
tic, while tractor power Is absolute.
While the average farm horse may be
considered to exert one mechanical
horsepower in a minute of time at nor
mal plowing speed, he is capable, In
an emergency and for short distances
and for short periods of time, of exert
ing several times as much power, bring
ing his pull temporarily up to 500 to
700 pounds. This occurs when hard spots
In the soil are encountered id plowing.
In bursts of speed or in short uphill
pulls. In other words, horses' have a
reserve of power which may be drawn
upon in case of need.
The tractor,, upon the contrary. . has
no reserve of power. A tractor capable
of pulling .1500 pounds at the drawbar
on leyel ground and at 2 m. p. h. Im
mediately loses efficiency if these con
ditions are changed. For instance: If
the speed of the tractor which is rated
at 1500 drawbar pull at 2 ra. p. h. be
Increased to 3 m. p. h. the pull is re
duced , immediately to 1250 pounds and
falls to 1070 pounds at 3 m. p. h. Grades
have a similar, although hot as marked
effect.- The approximate rule is that
the weight of the tractor and its plow
which must be moved by the power of
the engines requires 1 per cent more
power for every rise of one foot In
distance of 100 feet. As an example, a
tractor weighing 5000 pounds, pulling
a plow weighing 650 pounds, must exert
a pull over that exerted on level ground'
or 565 pounds when climbing a grade
of 10 per cent, or one which rises 10
feet in 100. Obviously this must operate
to reduce the drawbar pull Available for
overcoming soil resistance by about
8 horsepower or cuts the power of a
10-horsepower tractor to SV4 horsepower
on the grade. As a tractor- has no re
serve power aa a, rule over and, above
its rating which can be drawn upon to
meet such an emergency, the efficiency
of the tractor must fall. On hilly
ground it must run slower, to compen
sate, or it must pull fewer bottoms or
at .less depth.
Conditions Vary "
It is obvious, therefore, that the
farmer who has had no experience with
mechanical power" easily falls into the
erroneous belief that because a tractor
at normal plowing speed will exert the
same power aa will 10 horses at the
same speed, it will do so under all cir
cumstances... He makes- no allowance
tor tne jack or . elasticity In tractor
power and does not appreciate tha ad
vantage wnicn horses have . in : this
respect. V-v-
For tha same reason he ia more than
likely to underestimate the power a trac
tor should have to meet the soli condl
tions o nhis farm. Estimating hla power
needs by tha number of horses ha has
been accustomed to using L. tha past,
wiucn is tne oniy standard, tie has to go
by, he very v- naturally thinks that If
six of hla horses cap pull a two-btttom,
14 tech sulky gang, he can do tha same
thing with a tractor which ratea at six
horsepower at the drawbar under the
same conditions, s.When he finds that
he cannot" he is much inclined, to blame
the tractor instead of his own . miscal
cuiatlon. -
From such mistakes tha dealer must
save him. ' This constitutes tha begin
ning of service and must be rendered
before the farmer buys. To do this the
dealer must know what limitations the
tractor labors under in tha delivery of
its power and .how varying conditions
affect the maximum power it will de
liver. .
Matt Ba Ia formed
He must have a general knowledge of
how speed, grades, soil resistance and.
other factors - affect tractor . efficiency
and how much allowance must be made
for them. Knowing these things and
how to apply them, the dealer ia In a
position to advise the fanner as to the
type and size of tractor tha latter should
have which will be capable of meeting
the conditions upon that farmer's land.
In selling a tractor to a farmer the
dealer should know with a reasonable
degree of accuracy the character of the
Boil the farmer will have1 to plow, the
grades he will be compelled to sur
mount, the size of his fields and other
similar factors. These facts the dealer
can ascertain with sufficient accuracy
by observation or by inquiry so that he
will be able to say with practical pre
cision just about what the farmer actu
ally needs in the way of 'a -tractor.
There are dealers, and they have been
singularly successful In the selling of
tractors, who positively refuse to make
a sale until after they have secured In
formation on all these matters. In
stances, many of them, are on record
where the dealer has declined to sell
the farmer what the latter thought he
wanted because the dealer knew it
would not meet the conditions, would
not accomplish what the farmer ex
pected and would result In trouble and
dissatisfaction. These dealers knew
what was the probable maximum of dif
ficulty a tractor would have to encoun
ter on a given farm and Insisted upon
the farmer buying a machine which
would compass it. When the' dealer has
insisted it has happened almost invari
ably that in time the farmer has testi
fied to the superior wisdom of the deal
er and has acknowledged his obligation
for the service rendered.
Grading; Proposals
To Be Invited Again
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The United States office of. public
roads will read vertise in a few1 days
for proposals for grading the Pacific
highway between Canyonvflle ' - and
Galesville in Douglas county, a ; forest
road project. . The- Improvement Is a
very important one as it ia the last
barrier In the. way of making the high
way passable its entire length. to Ore
gon. One objection raised by contrac
tors to bidding on the work has been
that there was no assurance that the
road could be closed to traffic during
construction. This objection has, it is
understood, been removed by the Doug
las county court. , As the work will go
through the winter months, there will be
no great inconvenience caused by clos
ing the road.
. License Bill In Congress
Representative Sanders of Louisi
ana has introduced in congress bis bill
designed to abolish the practice of re
quiring registration and tagging of
automobiles in states other than, those
where their owner resides, and the levy
ing or taxes as wen. -The measure.
which originated with the American
automobile association, waa referred to
the committee on Interstate and foreign
commerce. ,
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Truck ; Growing m
The German Bernstein Motor truck
company, Lima, Or., recently completed
and ia occupying Its factory additions
which permit the adoption of the pro
gressive assembly . system. The two new
additions are larger than the nnlin body
of the original plant, not lnoludlng the
various departments housed In tha small
er buildlpgs going to make np4he entire
TRIP HARD ONE
BUT ENJOYABLE
and Mrs. foseph D. Merwin
. of Boise Arrive Here; by L
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After a 1000 mile Journey, through for
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hub-deep, and oyer some of the rough
est roads known . In the west. Joseph
D. Merwin of Boise, Idaho, accompanied
by" Mrs. Merwin, drove into Portland
last week at the helm of a Maxwell.'
Mr.- Merwin is the inventor of tha
American car atgnal and la traveling
over tne .western states eatabUshina:
agencies for hla patent. -
Mr. and Mrs. Merwin first drove to
Pocatello, Idaho, than to Ogden, Utah.
arter wnien they turned back to
Pocatello and then started across the
American desert to Reno. Nev, While
crossing tne oeeert taey ran into a
party' who - were stalled on the road
aide with a large ear. and. hitching onto
the ear. they pulled the unfortunates
out of trouble.
.Then they followed the Susanvllle
trail to Susan-villa, Cal- thia bain the
old Cumberland trail used Iry the Forty-
niners. This is now merely a tralL
and a had one at that, according to
Mr. Merwin. being almost impaaaable
to places. . The Truck ee road, the route
generally, followed, waa closed at the
time the Merwina were traveling, on
account of the snow in the Sierra Neva
da mountains.
Westward . through the- great timber
country of California, the Merwins
drove, the Maxwell pulling through mud
axle deep. Then on to Red Bluff, and
north to Dunsmuir, doubling back when
this point was reached to San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles, later driving on
to Portland. From here Mr. Merwin
left for Seattle, from which placa he will
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