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About The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1920)
AUTOMOBILES - - ACCESSORIES. 1 t 4. V " ft i' XT t? iX " tr 4 t 1 T r t - x J..., cv-Av- Muoy R4V6D KS.CZ. Ml. 0 3 Ml, INTERSTATE. eeiTBucnOM BRCX5rfe Z. Ml- IM wBT, ' MACADAM POKTLANl Y. 4- i A. i 'Cms Poad V 1 I ' I- 1 5 s - PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, .MARCH 21, 1920. Bridge if .i.v.'.:'.v.w.:'.:J 1.1 " if AS THE season for touring approaches, the road to Seattle becoinff inore and more of ah Important item to the man with a car who would Stain go far afield at times In search of customer or pleasure. Salesmen? I who drive automobiles' in preference to using trains and their name it' legion are the chief sufferers from bad roads, and at the present time. the'road to Seattle, at least as far as Kalama, Is no boulevard. Far from it There are two routes that -. may be taken to Kalama, which is theit Jumping off place on the route. One of these Is the Linnton road and the, Goble ferry, and the other isover the Interstate bridge to Vancouver and! bv th Pacific hitrhway. Both are had, but of the two, the road' by way of. Vancouver it the poorer. The expense of the ferry at Goble is to be Pre- ferrecUto negotiating the miles? of rutty clay and gravel between Salmon creek and Kalama. ' . To ascertain Just the condition of the Washington route. The Journa scout party left in a Dort car, sent out by the Northwest Auto company and: ry T' TrWim nrcil Irnnmri Tlnrt ulMmM. Th wnthr wan Ul i V CU UJ AX W W1MUHU " - - , rood In the morning. " There was every indication that the ground hog had,! failed to tee his shadow and that summer was just over me nut. rne iacfe that this delectable effect was somewhat spoiled during the later hoars .off ; There are two ways of going to Vancouver ?One of them la through! of them 4f one hat a good, voice, and in smelling distance or them ir the wind is blowing ifrom down the river. The new building where the live stock exhibition was held may be seen in the Jow ground near the 111, an on beyond the. bottom land near the river bears that' flooded appearance presenting more or less oC a dreary waste to the casual eye. bat, betokening' creels full of fish of a more or less mongrel breed to-the Intent gaze of, the Juvenile fisherman. - . I Paying the tax at' the bridge It a small matter when the money! 1 m 3 v 7 1 A V 4 V -T" ! VTA ,-ff TK . ft i A1S VV fa ;m mi At -''.it: ;y S'iJZfiTat., A 4 ' V i ill ; '!" '"'A"e, V ?v " ' - Jfr;yr 9''- - .r r . ' , Concluded on. Page , this " ctioa " ' i