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9 nOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION Automobiles and Good Roads A Department Designed to Help Farmers With Progressive Road Ideas. rOXEY TALK 8. There are about 11 118,000,000 that are talking about coming to Oregon anil Washing ten next yea? but the probability is that most of them will stop somewhero else unless the Columbia Highway is completed. The money will be brought to the Pacific Coast by automobilista who visit the San Francisco Fair. 8. Benson, of the Benson Hotel Com pany, makes the estimate. It is found ed on data gathered in California, and i the result of a careful canvass. "It is estimated that at least 150, 000 machines will come to California for the fair, and that their occupants will spend $150,000,000 before they leave the state," said Mr. Benson. "Now, 'that is no rough guess. "A careful canvass of automobile associations and clubs was made through the country to find out how many expected to come to California next year. Even in years when there is no unnsu.il attraction 35,000 cars come to California from other states. "With three persons in a machine they can keep their expenses down to 20 a day. That doesn't provide for a chauffeur or for wines or cigars for the party. I can run a machine on that because I don't smoke or drink, and I drive my own car. There will be four and five persons in many of the cars. The machines will stay at least two months in the state. Three to a car figuring the least possible expense would mean that each machine spent $1,200 in the state." And here is where Oregon and Wash ington come in or doesn't come in. "The one thing that brings auto tour ists to California is her good roads. If we had the good roads we could at tract the tourists and profit by what they spent. There are 100,000 automo biles in California. About 30,000 of these make tours out of the state every summer. They never come to Oregon because we haven 't the roads to attract them. It is certainly taking the low est figure to say that 30,000 of the Eastern tourist machines would come to Oregon if we had the good roads and let the owners know about it. "Now ten days is the shortest pos sible time in which a machine can get into the state and out again. One sum mer 's crop would be $18,000,000 or $20, 000,000. By spending 10 per cent of that much we could have the tourists. Not only would the state be enriched by the wealth they brought in and left, but it would have the roads for its own use, with a growing number of tour ists every succeeding year. "The people of California have seen what riches the tourists bring with them, and they have become artists in attracting them. Oregon has never been brought face . to face with the possi bilities of the matter, and the state slumbers peacefully. In California they pick out a little hill, and first they build a road around it. Then they give it a fancy Spanish name and have its picture taken from 17 different points of the compass. These pictures are put into a pamphlet, surrounded by reading matter that makes you think your life, is misspent unless you see that hill, and! the books are sent broadcast. "Within an hour's drive from Port land, Tacoma, Seattle and Spokane there is scenery that can't be equaled in the entire state of California. Few people know it. The tourists from Cali fornia can't reach it now. They get as far as The Dalles, and there they run against the gate that bars them out. The good road from California goes that far. I saw an Eastern man there last week, who had to leave his car at The Dalles and come into Port land by train. He didn't want to pay $10 to ship his car here by boat. Be sides, the boats have so many cars now that they can't take all of them. "In addition to the tourist feature, the good roads will benefit every farm er within reach. It has been the com mon experience in California that if one of the good highways passes a place its value is increased automatically 50 per cent "It was a full realization of all these things that made the State of Califor nia appropriate $18,000,000 for good roads in the last two years, and the counties add $16,000,000 to that." Franca in 1913 imported food Tataed at l,642,117,0O0. Extravagance in Oiling THE winning car at the Indianapolis 500-mile race consumed less than two gallons of castor oil during the race, and another car which finished near the tail-end of those that completed the 500 miles used 35 gallons of oil. The difference between two gallons of cas tor oil and 35 gallons of high-grade cylinder oil must not be taken as any indication of the relative lubricating merits of these two products, but these two figures show the differences in lub ricating systems of some of the racing ecrs that competed in this speedway classic. If a car can average 82.47 miles per hour for 500 miles on two gallons of oil, then why waste 35 gallons in another car going the same distance and not averaging 70 miles per hourt It is in excusable extravagance where such quantities of oil are used. Using 35 gallons of oil for 500 miles is equiva lent to 1 gallon for every 14 miles. Aside from the expense factor in reality there is no excuse for such a condition of affairs.' It is impossible to use such an amount of oil effectively in a motor traveling 500 miles. The condition of the speedway before the race was half over demonstrated that the ail was not being used bu burned.. In some cases great quantities of oil leaked from the crank case of the motor or through the end bearings, and so was not made use of. There were other examples of where a fracture in the crank case allowed the A Light Wagon for Short Hauls, Showing the Carriers Filled With Berries. Jack For Believing Automobile Tires. The automobilo relief jack provides means for relieving the tires of motor fire trucks, and other apparatus, from the constant dead weight resting on a small surface of the tire while the ap paratus is in the fire station. The de vice consists of a heavy diaphragm made of ducking treated with rubber, placed between two concave plates, one fixed in position and the other acting as a piston. Tho jack is operated by forcing water or other liquid through piping into the diaphragm, which is then locked in position. lights Turn With Front Wheels. David Hughes of Racine, Wis., haB en gaged in the manufacture of an appli ance by mean3 of which motor car head lights are -ocused in the same direction as the front wheels. The device is be ing given a thorough tryout on all Ea cine fire department vehicles. Patents have been applied for. Students Build Fireproof Garage. A model fireproof garage is being con structed by students of the LaCrosse county agricultural school at La Crosse, Wis., as a part of the course in practical construction work. Tho building will be equipped for private garage and repair Bhop purposes and have room for a gym nasium. The structure will be prac tically a monolithic mass and all the work will be done by the students un der the direction of competent untrue-, foil to drain out and become a menace to the safety of others on the track. It is to be hoped that 1015 will not only see the Indianapolis speedway en t'rely eliminate the smoke nuisance due to the burning of oil, but that it will also be necessary for every racing car to be fitted with some compact style of metal undorpan which will prevent oil leakage from getting on the trucks to the danger of other contestants. It would be desirable that these undcrpans be provided with felt lining which would absorb the oil, and make it impossible even in case of a rupture of the crank case to have the safety of the track in terfered with. The consensus of opinion of many of the drivers is that it will be possible to have for 1915 speed averages of 85 miles per hour for the 500 miles pro vided the track is kept free of oil. In the recent race the oily condition of the turns greatly interfered with, many of the contestants by way of cutting down speed and aho making driving more dangerous. If we are to get that benefit from racing which we should, then the oil question must be taken un der consideration. Rigid regulations must bo laid down for next year's race and our manufacturers must build to meet these improved conditions the same as the foreign maker has had to do. It may be necessary to maintain a higher speed on the turns neit year. 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