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TOE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON SUNDAY MORNINO. AUGUST P.O. W25 2 ft Trip Over the Oregon . ' Trail Told by Autoist F Editor Statesman: '" i After filling tip on 21 cent gaso line In East Portland, on July 23, afternoon, we hit the old Oregon trail on all four. Some contend this should read all six or eight, nnder the' erroneous Idea of Imag inary difficulties to be encounter td In road conditions, but in our simple optimism we expect to ''Dodge." The navies and get through In four, we .had a pur pose in mentioning the pride of fas on our start, but in order to rave time, pencil push and print ers ink. I will say that prices of this indispensable article seemed to be governed by altitude, dis tance, cupidity, and all other fac tors you can enumerate between SI and 35. ; The Columbia river highway is too well known all over the land to require mention here, but its wonderful beauty that finds its climax; in the Vista house we are sure has not been properly empha Klzed. Nowhere else have we met with the artistic blending so har moniously with rugged nature. All honor to those who conceived this master piece of art. Let t Corn orobably leads, wheat and oats in order. Potatoes every where, and as Idaho has eight large beet sugar factions, we are Hot surprised to pass large sec tions devoted to this crop. At Nampa we pass the hew million dollar plant of the American Fruit Express company, where in future' they are to build all their refrigerator : cars tor handling fruits. At Boise we go into the municipal cap grounds for the night. The keeper apologizes for having to hold us up for JO cent. The park s quite large well prov ided with shade trees, much nice sward, no gravel, and every con venience at hand. In the commun- w near the thriving little 'city of Black fort, where we go into camp In a most beautiful park with all conveniences' free to tourists. An excellent band dlscoured sweet sweet music through the evening, and the city turned out en masse. Possibly Brady had sent word we were coming. On the morning of the 29th of July we pass Idaho Falls, St. An thony and Ashton, on splendid mountain roads. At Ashton we fill up for the final forty mile climb to the west gate of the Yellow stone Park, which we reach in due course; but, as we are all tired, we will take a rest together. DINGBOT. SAFETY CAMPAIGN IS INSTITUTED BY NATION (Continued frtaa VJ the C. T. A. was to devise ways families could be accommodated i f the heat l"e,Jr ,l was viy uectucu iuai SSieiy Ol me nuer was ui yam- Sit one time. I believe waa gas, though at some camps we found electric heat for book ing. Ample laundry and bathing facilities, with all the ice you wanted free, made this an ideal camp all for .60 cents. It la a mighty good advertisement for the city, as the many campers attest ed. Boise is a beautiful city, somewhat larger, I : asume. than i Salra. full of bustle and stir. The everybody know more of the Vista hntAiw nf .n tnt famine i the house. On leaving the pavement Just out of The Dalles, we found the graveled road so perfect, we acarc t ly detected the change. This condition held all the way to Pen dleton. Crude oil, under heavy rollers, binds the mass into a semi condition of permancy. i It is for and away the best street t)f gravel road we have found In tour 3000 miles of trail. Harvest was -on In eastern Oregon, and the gold grain, was falling In rythmic tune to the himn of he fere combine eo generally in rise ! this wheat belt. The yield was lair to good, and a general plrtt of optimism seemed to prevail. Many herds of purebred cattle in the pink' of condition are passed. j Comfortable, even artistic homes fi are In evidenc all th k-i x Ontario, j The Oregon cities and towiiS we pass en route all seem to be prosperous, and most of . them growing heartily, f Any one will give you an ear full of great thinrs in the near future if you are generous" enough to give au dience. We passed out of Oregon Into Idaho from . Ontario, with opeii minds, ready to be convinced, If- ut we knew before we cross ed 9ie Snake. This would be im possible; that Oregon was the greatest, most glorious haven of Hatful statehood in good old America. I Yes, that's the generous open minded vay we meet ': all romers, and we win our case everytime t6 our. own satisfaction. You see Idaho at its best on cross ing ma riu;e, ior ii louas you on the famous Tayette bunch," covered by a. wonderful irrigation nystem that renders fruit and vegetable conditions ideal. Here we find the finest apple orchards the state can boast and, frankly, they are very extensive, and in splendid condition. 1 The town of the same, name is an ambitious little city, with many beautiful homes bordering, well kept paved streets; . j ' : "- . Toe old Oregon trail on through to Pocatello is graveled ; and' in fine condition. A few miles of paved highway is met with around Twin Falls. Everywhere it is plainly marked..; Caldwell and Nampa j are next ' passed. - . Large sections are under, irrigation pro ducing excellent crops. It" seems impossible that the desert wastes of a few years ago are today the ueauinui nomes or a prosperous, contented, happy farmer folks as you can find anywhere. They all seem to go in for flowers and clipped 4awns, and some of their yards are perfect bowers of beau ty. Many fine herds of cattle are met with and dairying seems to thrive. Mixed crops to the rule. most artistic and beautiful. I have j seen anywhere in the west. In i this Idaho certainly "blowed" herself a-plenty. . j Passing on you are advised to carry all the water possible to get Over the desert, with sharp grade, and on some days an Inferno of heat. We found conditions not so bad. Probably 10 or 12 miles out some enterprising chap had dug. or drilled, a well and built a road bouse. The water was free and excellent. Of course he had a filling station and was selling gas 1 cent cheaper than wa paid in Boise. A few miles farther on we espied another small oasis by the roadside a last filling sta tion, but scant water supply. Be fore entering his domain we found this sgn posted by the roadside in big letters: "City limits; speed 100 miles; Fords do your, best." Passing over 'this 60 or 60 miles of dry sage brush' plain, we again enter an irrigated section, that extends with slight interruption all the way to Pocatello, "These wide valley, or plains, of the Snake are immensely, rich, and are copstant- mount importance With this in view, expert bicy cle demonstrations were engaged and sent all over the country for the purpose of actually illustrating the doctrine of "Safety First These field men have been work ing for years, spending a full week in each city ylslted, calling at schools and giving the collec tive classes instructions in the proper way to ride bicycles; the proper observance of traffic rules and signals; the necessity for car rying lights at night; discouraging such practices as riding an extra passenger cn the handlebars; can ment to Inform "the readers where they can purchase bicycles and ac cessories. Bicycle Production" The C. T. A. has functioned for nine years. It serves some 15.- 000 bicycle dealers in all parts of j the country, helping them in every conceivable way to Increase bi cycle sales, dwelling particularly In impressing upon them the im portance of successful merchandis ing. It has aided many young men in getting started In the bi cycle business. AH IU executive officers are men who have been identified with the industry prac tically since its Inception. In these nine vears they have wit nessed a healthy growth in bicy cle sales, the annual production now being between four and five hundred thousand machines, val ued in the neighborhood of $15,- 000,000, in contrast with the out put of a dozen years ago when production was less than 250,000 machines annually. ! ' Has Nothing to SHI The C. T. A., Inc.. has absolute ly nothing to sell. It cannot take orders for bicycles or for accessor ies. It hap no recommendations to make for one machine in pre ference to another. Its sole ob ject is to help bicycle dealers to a bigger and better business and to stimulate safe riding by every bicycle owner. j In all but a few favored states, improvement was bound, in tim-. to come; but It might have been a much longer time in coming had it not been for the great wave of effort, agitation, and favorable in fluence tbat spread through the country with the coming of the bicycle. 1 may say in answer to your question that, without reser vation, I attribute the improve ment in the highway system of the United States directly to the influence exerted by the American bicycle. Whatever may come 'af terwards, the bicycle must go down in history as th pioneer of -road Improvements in thU coun try." ! -Father of Uoh1 Honda". One of the largest manufactur ers of bicycles in the early days of the sport, and for years after wards, was Col. Albert A. Pope. He wan known as the "Father of Good Roads." having spent vast sums of money in his advocacy of road improvements. He publish ed, at his own expense, a magazine called "Good Roads," of which S. S. McClure, publisher of M?; Clure 's Magazine, was the editor' This was Mr. McCIuer's first Job upon graduating from Knox Col lege. FORD BODIES ARE VACATIO.V IS TAKEN ID GREATLY Many, Improvements Made on All Models; Ford En gine to Remain Same Morris Race and R. J. Brady, salesmen with the Valley Motor company. Ford distributors, are on RALES FORCE MEET r Salesmen of ne 'Newton-Chev- rolct company met Friday evening in a general discussion . of new their vacations. They will be back! models brought out by the Cher Monday. W. L. Phillips, manager rolcl company. About 20 men at of the company is now in Detroit, tended the meeting. Keeping Fit at Hollywood Hollywood movie folk have to keep in the best physical trim at all times. Especially is this true of the army of cinema beauties. tioning the riders to regularly in- who firmly adhere to a- strenuous spect the safety, brakes on their J daily regimen of athletics to re bicycle, and, in fact, advising strain the waistline from wander- Bike Speeds . Service Telegraph that their Edsel B. Tord. president of the Ford Motor company, in a state ment Issued yesterday following tue announcement ot improved Ford bodies and chassis refine ments, said: "We do not want the impression to prevail that -we are producing new Ford cars. "Bodies for Ford cars have txen materially improved but the Model T chassis remains unchang ed except for a lowering of the frame and a few other important changes. Bodies, in four types, have been completely redesigned and built lower to contribute to better appearance, driving and riding comtort .and readability of the cars. "Body improvements and chas sis refinements at this time are more pronounced than at any pre vious time since the adoption j of the Model T chassis. They are. entirely In accordance them in everything that would tend to promote the utmost safe ty at all times, under all condi tions. These talks are followed in every town by a "Safety First" parade, in which every man, wo man and child who owns a bicy cle is invited to participate. Suit able prizes are awarded for vari ous features, and hundreds of rid ers line up in every parade, with some cities turning out more than a thousand riders. Since the open ing of school last year, children in 75 cities have been instructed in "Safety First" methods. Bike Accidents Lowest As a result of this missionary work toy the C. T. A. field men. bicycle accidents have been re duced to minimum, and the aim ing, the poundage from increasing, and to preserve perfect girth-con trol. Among the stars the bicycle Is the favorite means of keeping fit. Hundreds of them pedal around the lots and on location daily. Viola Dana, for instance, finds it indispensable. "Cycling," says They Built Bicycles Many of the first manufacturers of motor cars were connected with the fair Viola, ,'is one of the best ! the bicycle industry, Henry Ford exercises for keeping the figure slim, the muscles supple, and for making one feel like a million dollars." , Miss Dana recently became the bride of Maurice Flynn, the film star and formerly Yale football hero, himself an ardent bicycle booster. ly extending their farming opera-! ual compilation of fatalities pre tions by enlargement of dams, im pounding more an4 still more water. At American Falls and again at Idaho Falls, immense ( dams are - being enlarged. The government project) ls below and has built up a prosperous com munity of considerable extent, with the little city bf. Twin Falls as its center. At pocatello we mee our. ojd friend,. 4. L- Brady, recently connected) with The Statesman, and his charming. wife. He is engaged in editorial . work in publications formerly establish ed by the late Senator Brady, his brother. They live! at the splen did "Hotel Bannock, another fine monument he left. the state and city. They showed lis every cour tesy possible, and while seeming prosperous, and contented, they sang the. praises of Salem and its i I good people. Pocatello Is a very prosperous city of ome7000 or 8000 people, with a number of wholesale houses to supply he in ter mountains trade It is import ant as a railroad center, as the map discloses, and the center f a grain growing region that reaches an altitude ot some 7000 feet. The trade of this jrieh country, particularly above Twin Falls. Is being diverted to California. Port- land merchants should wake up. t hey have a down j hill pull and ought to grease the skids. At Pocatello we leave the old Oregon trail and 'start north for the Pook." through lanes of thicgly settled farmsteads under irriga tion. - On the one j line ot tele phone poles we count. 50 wires as pared by the individual states shows bicycle accidents the lowest in percentage of all vehicular acci dents. Cooperative advertising is one of the leading accomplishments of the C. T. A., and several times a year more than 700 newspapers in all parts of the country are used to advertise the bicycle with ad--vertiaementB-by-4oeai -dealers sur rounding the national advertisc- Iiicycle is Responsible for Today's Good Road : One of the leading bicycle man facturers was asked the other day to what agencies and condi tions he attributed the great spread of the good roads move ment throughout ' the United States. i "The bicycle." -he replied. "With the inferior and wholly In adequate 'system of", roadways which obtained back in the 80's was closely identified and greatly Interested in the industry. He was a trainer and a rider in his day. Others active. In bicycle cir cles were Pope, Gormally, Jeffery, Ilaynes, Apperson, Lozier. They all built bicycles at one time or another, later branching into the automobile business. company to gtv benefit of every improvement w-hleh we find practical for Ford cars. I . companies estimate service in suburban I however. and rural communities has been with the policy of the Ford Motor improved at least 25 In late company to give to the public the years through the systematic use of bicycles. Some telegraph offices now sup ply their messengers with bicycles, while others make it easy for the boys to purchase their own bicy cles. In any event, the service Is vastly improved, the boys are kept in better physical condition, and their all-round efficiency is nota bly increased. "Ly preserving the design of the Model T chassis, the company is safeguarding continued good ser vice for owners of approximately D.000,000 Ford cars and trucks now in use throughout the coun try as well as for new car purchasers." THE VSEFl'L tXV In an out-of-the-way corner of a uoston graveyard stands a brown board showing the marks ot age and neglect. It bears the inscription "Sacred to the memory of Elen Harvey, who departed this life suddenly and unexpected ly by a cow kicking him on the loth of Sertember. 1853. Well done, thou good and faithful serv ant." Sheridan (Wyo.) Post-En terprise. ; HEADQUARTERS FOR . S Battery and Electrical Service "We arc fully equipped to civc crcry kind of battery and electrical service, and give authorized electrical sen ice cn 19 different makes of cars. . "We have added ansther Electrical Expert to our force, so we will be better able togive you PROMPT SERVICE! 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