Medford mail tribune., April 28, 1929, Page 13, Image 13

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THREE FAMOUS OLD SOUTHERN OREGON INNS .
REDOLENT WITH SPIRIT OF TERRITORY DAYS
Wolf Creek Tavern, Rogue Elk and Blue Flower Lodpe Remind One of Times When Stage Coach and
Placer Miner Were There and Indiana Threatened Lives of Peaceful Settlers, i . ,
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Everywhere
PROGRESS OF
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WEDFOTID MXTE THIBUNE, rEDFORD; OKEflpy, SUNDAY. 'APTJTL 28, 1920.
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Another . mllpfctori"ln Crrilmm-
Paige progt'ffw waw "rpaelioti last t1
week, 'ylien fit lift '106f0Goih 'flra'. j
hum-Pajfie, oar .wuk liiillt. Sunt 16
months af t or the now .iiiui of hIxh !
ami eights" was Introduced , vt
. I'roduetion at the Gr'rtman'-Pa.Re
factory ia now running over &00 a
day, weUaheadi.of (he figures of
rnew firs I year sales volume rec
ord for the automobile Industry. !
Oraham-Pulgo motor ears, dia-;
tingulHheil by the-four-speed :
transmission with st'undurd shift, .
attracted Immediate and wide
spread acceptance when . Intro-j
duced In January, 1928, by the
three . Graham brothers. The
. steadily Increasing sales soon
taxed the already large und well
equippeu iiiunuiuciunng iacimies
of the plant, and since then con
struction crews have been at work
enlarging . existing plants and
- erecting new ones, spending more
than; $10,000,000.,' v . .
Crham-Pulge 'now owns and
operates two separate' manufactur
ing plants at ljotroIt, three large
modernly eq.uf0ped body plants,
one at VVayne, Mich.V and two at
EvaneVIUe, -Ind.; and a lumber mill
at Perry, Pla. . P .
New factories and aditlons have
more than doubled the floor area
of their plants since the three
r Graham brothers acquired owner
ship control. The totul Is now well
over 2,000,000 square feet.
Along with the growing demand
and the increased manufacturing
facilities, the dealer organization
has assumed world-wide propor
tions, extending Gramuh-Palge
bales and service facilities through
out the United States and Canada,
And into 63 foreign countries. The
total number of Graham-Paige
distributors and dealers hns been
trebled during the last 15 months.
ID I S- H
i . Photos copyrighted by Emmy Matt Rush. "',
TopAt Wolf Creek tavern the spirit of 67 has survived the elements,
fteloiv Hogue Elk Inn, another colonial type hostelry of the back coun-1
try. Itlfrht Hand-squared lugs 14 Inches thick were usod In the cnn-j
htructloii or Blue Mower lodge In IMS; in Jhe early duys this structtiroj
did valiant service an a blockhouse and later as a place of worvhlp. 4
Every Car Owner
Needs Reasonable
Amount Knowledge
An expert mechanic says: The
longer I'm In this business the
more I'm convinced that the car
f of knowlege of his car., -I-don't
mean for the practical purpose of
makinl his own ropairs-so much as
lor beln' able to tell what's wiong
with It and when it needs some
adjustment or repair. ,
"The incident that got me to
. thinkin' about that is one that has
happened many times in many
different forms. . ,
"A chap who'd been In here only
once or twice drove-in and left an
order for tightenln' up the bear
in's. He seemed . Very . positive
that that was -what was . needed.
1 assumed front his action that he
knew' what he wus talktn' about
and drlvln' the x car around the
block showed that the bearln's
could stand tightenln.. Well, we j
did It, and had the cur ready in
the evenln'. j
'The chap drove It away hut he
hadn't been gone five minutes
when he came back protestln' that
the knock was still there.
"I asked him what knock and he
replied the bearln' knock.
We settled it by taking another
ride. When we got hack I pot out
and tightened. a front spring U-
to holt.- The knock disappeared.
7 "The owner then got indignant
that' we'd .adjusted ' the bearln's.
Yete, that was-the order he left
and he ; appeared - very positive.
He didn't mention a knock and he
refused to take a. ride with the
trouble.-man before we' did any
work en the cAiv
"Now, you see If he'd known
just a little bit about the car and
hadn't pretended to know so much,
it would have saved both, of us a
lot of grleT. Out of the experience,
I think, he got a lesson that may
do him some good and the hearin'
job was needed, if not for the pur
pose he thought. Other car own
ers misrht nroflt by this lesson In
, gettln" the cooperation of the me
chanic In dlagnosln troubles.
Running Board Passing?
Is the running board, so long a
familiar appurtenance of the auto
mobile passing? It must be grant
ed that there are few signs that It
Is. However, one of America's
sport cars supplants the conven
tional side member with two small
ornate steps. In Kngland, one of
the smartest of cars goes a step
further. The running bonrd and
step both arc . missing when the
f. door of the car is cloned. A
hinged step, connected to the door,
unfolds when the latter Is opened.
Another Good Reason.
"Having a dented fender re
paired Imedlately is advisable not
only to prevent rusting but also to
remove traces of what may char
acterlze the driver as one who is
prone to having accidents."
AVSTRATJA PRKFERS
AMERICAN MOTOR CARS
(By Emmy Matt Rush
in Oregnnlnn)
When the trail of the' covered
wagon branched Into two ..spurs,
one that led an army of weary
cross-country pilgrims into the
northland and Oregon, and the
other treading a cacti-swathed
unbroken territory into the south
and ' California, Oregon's legacy
perhaps became more distinctively
Is reminded here that
Ulysses S. Grant once maintained
his headquarters at Wolf Creek
tavern, during the days of the In
dian uprisings In Oregon. 1
Jae.k London completed his
"Valley of the Moon" at Wolf
Creek.
Roguo Elk Inn
Rogue Klk inn, on the Crater
Lake highway, about 28 miles from
town hull, a modern club house,
so to snyv where the young folks
of that regime were wont to gather
within its .spacious and hospitable
walls, s the danoe went on.
Old-Time Fiddle Recalled
In fancy, one hea,rs again the
mellow strains of an ancient fiddle,
as -the fiddler draws his well
trained bow across the yellowing
strings. A buck board rattles down
the highway, bringing Its quota of
General laughter-hiving young people, as
the dit nre went on. Out of tne up
lands, out of the lowlands, they
flocked into the spacious and hos
pitable walls of this historic Ore
gon hostelry.
One is loath to part company
with environs such as these. We
stood for a brief moment In the
silence of the noonday sun, within
the portals of this aged hostelry,
our gaze wandering afar, toward
tantamount with that of New Eng- Meflford, Is one of the newer re
land and the old south. I sorts. It faces that glorious! the glorious pine-clad hilltops, of
. For,, one may find in Oregon stretch of singing waters, laughing Oregon. In fancy we heard again
every" evidence, of this unique J waters, the Rogue river, laughing, j tne clatter of horses' hoofs und
legacy in the familiar colonial ' noisy, roeuish waters, lulling one. the rumble of wheel.. In fancy,
structures and civic edifices be- , into rest and sli. bv niirht. lurini? ' we vlsioned the stagehand six as
nno lr.tr. mMolrnnm nftor -tho1 It flUtlff arOUtU. ttlG bend In tll6
elusive trout by day, and fliling'the dusty road. We heard again the
wayfarer with no uncertain in-jlUHty caI1 of huccaneer, spurred
splration of soul and spirit, leaving 'and booted, several loaded Colts
his consciousness alive with that s protruding from his holsters. We
certain pride in America nnd,Haw "Kaln th new schoolnm'm,
Americanism ' i gracious, shy; the homesteader,
Blue Flower Lodge confident, filled with courageous
: awo anr.n,m(0,-D ...w.thm nt ' ambition, the missionary and .his
tho; pioneer ' i'oglme' 1 ill', colonial
Oregon, the Hlue FlowVr lodge, a
few miles south of Atcdford on the
Pacific highway, that was for
merly the "Old Oregon Trail." Its
rafters are steeped In tho lore of
time and man, and the havoc of I Oregon's yesteryears. Begun in
storm and wind. It is the same 1853, the edifice nov known us
old spirit that welcomed the dusty i Blue Flower lodge was completed ' pose in tho great plan of the
traveler by stage, back In the '60s. jn J855. Hand-squared logs 1 4 whole;, in the home building, the
In fancy one leaves his automobile - inches thick were utilized in Its , upbuilding, and the r preservation
or , w-neneamsm ana its ideals.
We saw again the soldier and tho
prleHt, a gallant processional of
valiant men and valiant women.
Our reverie was abruptly awak
ened by tho honk-honk of an nuto
mohilH. Port Rules Boarded Over
Originally this romantic old edi
fice of Oregon's ioneer days was
necessarily equipped with port
tavern first opened its 'hospitable (and the children against the at- j holes In the second story. Port
portals to the traveling public of j lack of hostile Indhins. We find 'holes, reminiscent of the hazards
the T0s. ' Then Wolf Creek vnl- i It serving the people as a plane of tho period. What tales these
ley was the center of much aetiv-I of worship, and itguiii as a state j aged rafters might tell, sacred to
Ity. There were the placer gold ; building,' where the affairs of the the early days of Oregon and the
fields of that region nnd regime. ' state, were curried on. We find Americanism of the spirit that
and men came from afar. Hand--this venerable edifice now serv- ; founded It. The port holes have
longing to the colorful regime fol
lowing the .advent of the coloniza
tion, an architectural Idea that
came into being as typically coloJ
niar or, American with the up
building 'of tho old south and the
New Kngland states by the design
ers of the new republic. .
Oregon, with its Salem, Port
land. Albany, 'Jacksonville, et -al.,
might well be called the Plymouth
Rock of the west coast.
At Wolf Crwk Tavern
At Wolf Creek tavern the spirit
of '57 has survived the elements of
far ;behlnd, In memory's lane, construction. They were dove
Somewhere In tho mental horizon 1 tailed together nnd made fast with
me vision encounters a- siage woouen pegs. j no , logs were
coach and six, tumbling , lustily drawn to their destination for
around that long. last bend in the many mile by oxen. Hero one
dusty, rugged highway. A long jfindS something so tangibly Ameti
whlte Atretch of concrete highway j can;: so typical of the early days
has replaced the dusty lnn& that back enst and down south.
ambled over mountnin and valley j in the early days this structure
In the olden days when Oregon was did valliint servlee as u block
young: when historic Wolf Creek J holme: a shelter for the women
lady, the gentloman and the -crook',
tho banker and the roguo,'' the
miner und tho minstrel . , . Ah,
John, and Robert und Peter and
Paul,
God in his wisdom created them
all . . . j
for somo sound, grave pur-
- All.
hewn beams and panels and a
characterful atmosphere of pioneer
hospitality and romance. Romance
fills tti hand-wrought rafters of
colon ta I Wolf Creek tavern. - One
I 1 ni Ihn viiiinir itcmila ft f Ihn nmiij
lace of the diiys of its prime, as j
FACTORY CAPACITY
been boarded over,
Htill survives!
but the .spirit
WXSHINOTON. (IP) In 1928
Australians paid the United State
23,474,73S for passenger automo
biles, 8,369,S4 for trueks nnd
buses and , 464(076 for parts nnd
replacements.
Australia Is the third best cus
tomer for passenger cars of Ameri
can manufacture and ranks first
as a market for United Slates
trucks and buses.
The department of commerce
MVS fullv half fif ths cars shinned
to Australia are sold to the rural
population ana mac mis nun in
come an Important factor In tho
economic development of the com
monwealth. ,
license Flatra If Is Hobby
COUNCIL. BLUFFS, Iowa. VP)
A railroad engineer, Kldo M. Kat
tenberg, collects auto license plates
a a hohhy. Ills trophies Include
Despite Increase of fnctory ca
pacity 200 per cent and production
boost of 100 per cent. Auburn Is
still unable to meet demand for Its
straight elKht and si models, says
1-3. j. Cord, president.
"Tho first three months of 1029
show a sales increase of 7t per
cent over the same period Inst
year," Cord said, "and the second
three months of the first half year
will show an even greater increase,
and more .Auburn cars will he
built nnd sold the first six months
of 1929 than during the entire year
of 1H2K, Auburn's banner year. '
. "The company at present hns
nearly 6900 unfilled orders on
hnnd and more than 5000 deposits
have been returned to customers
who could not wait but hud to
take second choice cars. f
"This demand for Auburn cars
is tire fruition of more than four
years of accumulated proof that
Auburn is building better rnrs.
more advanced types nnd giving
greater values for the dollar. Tho
fact that Auburn's policy of re
turning to the pubic the profits of
Its success In better automobiles
has met with unqualified response.
ComparifOi of Auburn's 1929 line
of cars La ample proof of this policy
of returning to the public the
fruits of success.
"Probably the most outstanding
factor In Auburn's sales is the de
mand of straight eights. It is the
nubllr's answer to a car of
smoother performance, longer life.
higher resale value and more eco-i
nnmlenl operation. I
"Production is steadily lncras-1
ing at the Auburn plants and thet
nubile whose first choice is an Ab-
burn, can be assured that their or
ders will be filled at an early date."
German brewers report Kngland
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