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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1917)
MTCDFQRT) MATL TRTTRtWT? MEDFOTtT). OREflON. SATURDAY. .TUNR Ifi. 191T. PAlTPV FITP! ' ir A Kemmder No matter what make of bat-; tery you have, you are bound to shorten its life if you neg-! lect it. Drive around today and have your battery inspected, tested and supplied with distilled water., , This will help you to prevent the little troubles from growing into big expensive ones. Repairs and Recharging No matter what car you drive, or what make of battery you use, we extend to you a cordial invitation to make use of our battery service. We carry a complete stock of neu batteries and battery parts for all makes of cars. We offer expert inspection, repair I and recharging service for all bat' ' tery owners. All work handled at reasonable prices. A New Battery for Your Car Sooner or later your battery will wear out, even with the best of care. When you need a new battery, remem ber, there is a Prest-O-Lite Battery of correct size for your car a battery designed and built to give you the utmost in power, service and value. C. E. Gates Auto Co. We have a Service Battery for yaa to oe tohih your i left with u tor repair or recharging. STORAGE BATTERY Service Station feAUTOSBILK M REGISTERED IN MAY 1 OTALS 1 823 The month of May, 1017, was (he banner period in all history for the sale and delivery of new automobiles in Oregon. A total of 1823 new automobiles were registered" officially by Oregon motorists last month as eompared with 15(18 new ears for the best pre vious month of history, Atay, 191(1. The outstanding feature of the situation is that already 80 per cent of last month's new ears wer. de livered in tho eounties outside of Portland. To date .18,2:!!) automobiles have been registered in Oregon under the 1!U7 series us contrasted with Xl.fllT for the entire twelve months of the 1910 registration period. These figures indicate that there are 431.'! new ears in Oregon, but as a matter of faet there ure nearly twice that number, 7130, uccoiding to Air. Wilkins' count of the new : cars on a systematic basis. I The reason for the discrepancy : lies in the fact that many used ears i that were in use last year have not yet been registered and placed on the road this year. This is proved by the fact that of the total rogi-il ra tion for last month, ll-l'ili, only 1823 were new cars, llus means that II ere are probably more than 40,000 auto mobiles in Oregon. Multiiomash leads with 12,405 ears, followed by Marion county with :!"73, Uniatillo 2000; Lane with 1G02, and Jackson fifth with 1002 cars. These warm davs increases the eroi of tourists and thev have homin in inquire about when they can reach crater lake. . . There arc still many people who consider the motor car as a luxury. said a local dealer receritly. Some figures just compiled which arc particularly timely und of inter est just now, show that the uutuno bile is an absolute necessity und util ity and not a luxury. They bring out the interesting and instructive fact that the motor ear surpasses the railroad today in the carrying of passengers. No one to date has looked upon the railroad or the. street car as a luxury und as the automobile is operating in the same passenger carrying field there is no reason for regarding it in this light. These figures, gathered by extrts, how that on n basis of 3,000,000 passenger cars in use this year, and an uverage mileage per car of 0,000 miles that the motor car mileage for 1917 will be 18,000,000,000. Assum ing an average of three passengers nor trip the passenger mileage by mo tor car for this year will be 51,000-000,000. Railroad traffic is now at the fig ure of 35,000,000,000 miles, which is less than that of the motor car mile age. Kven if we assume that the average load is two passengers in stend of three still the mileage by the year in motor cars is one billion miles more than by railroad. The recent shipment of 50 Fords received by the C. E. Gates Auto Co. .was the largest shipment of cars ever received in the county and those that were not sold in advance were sold within a week after they were received. That's sure going some. 'The government hns just distrib uted orders for 50,000 motor cars of all descriptions," said a repre sentative of the Hcrnard Motor Co. "This is the first of the war orders which shortly will demand practically all the cars of certain grades that can be manufactured. Wo can only con jecture what tremendous demands will follow when tho government be gins to mobilize the great army which will begin to take shape in a few weeks. "Automobile men know thev face a shortage. Tho general public also is beginning to lvalizc that the car murket will be short this year. It is not improbable, indeed, that tile shortage will be so acute that dealers who have ears on hand will be able 'o nsk almost any price- they wish for them. "If wc need- nn example of bow war strips the motor car market we can find it in France, or any other of the nations at war. France is now making five limes as many cars as it did before the outbreak of the war, and only n few of these nre available for nrivate purchase." Expert Repairing We now have in charge of our Repair Shop Mr. Bert O'Connor- of Seat tle, who is an expert me chanic and we are pro pared to do work on all ehusses of cars. Bring in your troubles. All work guaranteed. Riverside Garage Engineer l)avis and l'cail Davis, assistant, were down from Siskiyou Friday. They arc preparing for the work to begin on hard surfacing of the mountain highway in the near future. J. R. Rochon The Automobile Painter Work Guaranteed nt. Walker Auto Co. There's a Time for Everything Mow Is the time to have your auto fixed so you can us It to sleep in for camping. MITCHELL Does It We Mako and Ilcpalr AUTO TOPS and Do All Kinds of Auto Trimming i Dressing and dyeing old tops. Also Furniture Upholstering and Mattress Making. W. H. BROWN. 113 North Front r -. .'.w-.' ya-n ! V-PLEX Piston Rings Take your car to any garage and they will tell you the merits of this ring , V-Plex Ring Co. Medford, Ore. THE PLACE I To get your repairing done. See DAV1KS Pacific Highway Garage 29 Souih Bartlett PI one 59 ! ' Remember the price of the Chevrolet will advance on the first of July. J L CHEWRQt U J Are yon driving one of these wonderful little cars? If not, why not? Chevrolet Beats Time of Fast Limited Tr 9 All Previous Records Beaten with little "Four Ninety" Chevrolet. Shasta Limited time beaten 22 minutes from Union Depot, Portland, Oregon, to S. P. Depof, Eugene, official checked time : 3 hours and 49 minutes actual running time, 3 Hours and 29 Min. J A Car of Proven Worth for $625 F. 0. B. MEDFORD Thoto Showing Chevrolet Leaving Portland at 3 a. m. rl Buy a proved car. A car like the Chevrolet. Your in vestment lasts. The Chevrolet is good, for great care has been exercised in designing, in the selection of material, and l " kit" "XV 1 i fcW th building of each model. If we furnished an inferior motor but everything else of good quality what value would your car have? If we furnished a gord motor, Uil a poor tr;'.m;mis:;ion, would you be any belter (.If? And then again, suppose we equipped a car with a good motor and transmission, but a poor clutch, wouldn't your car still be weak? In the Chevrolet, the motor, the clutch, transmission, end rear axle system must be true true to each other and each must be a perfect mechanical unit. The Chevrolet is true all the way through. Tho Chnyroht hns ('cmonslrated by the most severe Icl-'.j to be all that is claimed for it. I 'Tio to bno wing Chevrolet Arriving Kugene at 5:49 a. m I'or further particulars inquire of W. R. DeLay West Main St. Phone 73 Claud Miles -Salesmen- C. A. Baer