THE CAPITAL JOURNAL TUESDAY, FEBRUARY. 17. 1920.
PA!
ROADIN GOODSHM
"rrcept for Jstreslng roughness fee
Aurora and Canby and between
k. and the outskirts of Salem, the
. from Portland to the Capital
te i excelelnt condition for
driving, nearly all of the orad
bard-surfaced with standard
nC'vable appraisals of several
. of road on the westslde of the
BUM '7ariver ,eading south ' from
TX Ind-nc and Corvallis
TSh by Merrill B. Moores of Port
? a Some of this road was plowed up
hn,t Tnter season and the result has
ZTils heartening to motorists who
MM to pass over it in wet wea
At times short stretches of it are
'balTbest course to follow
driving to Salem from Portland at
tTnt is by way of Sellwood. Mil
S Gladstone. Oregon City New
SVid the rest of the east side or
St Pacific highway route to Salem
Hr. Jloores reports.
Coast Willard
Dealers to Hold
Portland Meet
Millard battery dealers from Ore
n Washington, Northern Californm,
rtah Montana, Idaho and British Col
umbia will meet in Portland next
Thrsday and Friday at a convention
which will be addressed by officials of
the Wilalrd factory.
Dates for the convention are Febru
ary 19 and 20, and it will be held at
the Benson hotel. Fully 200 dealers
are expected to attend.
The Willard Factory men who will
be here for the convention ore S. W.
Eolph, manager of renewal saels; ft.
g. Bentley, manager of sales promo
tion; a E. Baldwin, advertising mann
ger, and E. Elmo Martin, efficiency
expert tor the Willard company,
HAVE NEW HOTEL FOIt ACTOISTS
A 20-room hotel will be built by
Swans Brothers ta their Lost Creek
ranch above Belknap Springs, on the
tipper M'Kenzie River highway this
spring, according to announcement
made recently. Thoy have purchased a
fcnall sawmill which they will take to
their ranch at once, and will begin to
saw out the lumber and shingles for
the building as soon as it is set up.
The Swaiz Brothers wil allso erect
a garage for tourists and will install a
iwimnilng pool nearby. Their ranch
has become quite a resort for tourists
and hunters.
10S ANGELES' NEW
HIGH SPEED TESTS
Los Angeles. Feb. IT. Calif ornians
heretofore have taken their 100-miie-per-hour
speed sport at long range.
They have read about races being run
over the eastern speedways at a pace
above the century mark, but It all was
far removed.'
Now this sport of extreme speed is
to be brought to the Culifornians jn
the construction of the'greatest gofast
plant of its kind ever built. One hund
red miles per hour will be visualized
right at home with the greatest ol
America's speed talent competing for
the sizeable purse" of $25,000.
When the new Los Angeles speedway
is opened at MBeverly, one of the most
beautiful of the city's residential su
burbs, on Friday, February 21, Califor
nia will have landed in the "big lea
gue", with a debut that win make mo
tor history. As the cnnstmptinn
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speedway is nearing the end, the entry
list is swelling up with the namwror
the great
The new course wil lbe thrown open
to practice next week and there will
be some highly interesting hours on
the boarfli rack. So Bteeply are the
curves banked that a car will have to
travel 80 miles an hour to go around
them without sliding down. And 100
miles an hour is figured by the engin
eers to be the safest gait
. From there on up.
Many States Put
Tax Upon Heavy
Motor Vehicles
It is coming to be recognized that
the exceedingly heavy load is ruinous
to highways, says the Reo Truck News.
In consequence many states adopt leg
islation placing heavy fees on hear
trucks.
Other countries are thinking along
the same lines. In New Zealand the
man who operates a heavy truck over
the road is responsible to the commun
ity for the result. At the end of each
year the highway engineers assess the
damage which the truck did to tne
roads and charge It against the owner.
As a result owners give thought in
buying a truck or loading it, to the
effect upon the highways. As with ev
ery legislative swing, this one already
shows a tendency to run to extremes,
as with the new Pennsylvania law
which applies its provisions to all com
mercial vehicles the chasslc of which
weighs mole than 2000 pounds. This
limit seems very low.
New Road West
From Eugene to
Be Senic Path
Eugene Or., Feb. 17. As soon u th
highway along the coas; from Lincoln
county, is completed, the finest coast
scenery In the state will be opened to
tourists, says R. S. Shelley, supervisor!
j of the Sluslaw national forest. In which
this territory is located. And If the rca,
from Eugene to Florence is made a
J highway under the plans of the state
highway commission and the foresjt
; service, Mr. Shelly believes Eugene
will become the western Oregon center
for toursits.
The forest service has a1nartv
i thousands of dollars on the construc-
toin of the road along the coast south
; of Waldport Much of the roaa
blasted from the mountain side. From
Cape Perpetua south to Heceta Head
and on to Florence, Mr. Shelley fkiyo,
there is the most wonderful -scenery
to be found anywhere between Astoria
and Coos Bay. In his duties s super
visor of the forest he has beenover
every foot of the route between the
mouth of the Columbia and Marsh-field.
JOURNAL WANT ACS PAT
B5S
The roughest part of the trip is be
tween Canby and Aurora, where a new
survey has been made along the rail;
road track. This new road when open
ed up will shorten the route materially
and eliminate dangerous rail road
crossings.
When kerosene is use,, as fuel in
the motor tractor it will be found ne
cessary in many cases to change the
oil in tho crankcase after every 20
hours of running. This Is because of
when it is noe properly heated, vvhere-
I upon it mixes with the oil and des'
JOTONATj W.AXT A1)S PAY BEST trovs its lubricating qualitie.
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