The Oregon Daily Journal from Portland, Oregon • Page 53

SECTION SIX FOUR PAGES GOOD ROADS AUTOMOBILES PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDA MORNING, FEBRUARY 28, 1822. UNITED STATES USES OVER 10.500.000 AUTOS IN 1921 ROAD OK TO OREGON OLD DAYS AIDED IN HIGHWAYS First, Made" in 1864; Provided fo Road From Eugene Up i Fork of Willamette Into Klamath Lake; Four Others Made by U. S. to State; 2,500,000 Acres Given. 2 (Six States Show Decrease in umber of Automobiles Registered During Year; New York Leads Field, Nevada Brings Up 'Rear; Gain Over 1920 Is 13.2 Per Cent thiifih irtirle en-TSe Orroa TmiU Mr.

Johnion diruve i1m pUct TcliH'meni iu Ute Ifn-cve rovatry broucnt en by tbe land (nit ytirm tut military bifa7. R. C. Johnson Journal Staff CormpoBdeat. (all Bicbu Beeimd) 71" In the early years' of statehood came another epoch in highway develop ment through the granting of section of public domain, including timber Statistic jttve a total of 1I.S24.395 cars trucks registered in the country during 1)21.

This an Increase of 1.229,023, or 13.2 per crnt, over 1126, when tbera were 9,295,372 "motor vehicles registered. The figure re those of the B. F. Goodrich Rubber company. Tba rain, made urine the paat year warrants the consideration of the Iatrtomotlve The automobile business has gone through Its supreme test.

It has emerged victorious and there is no longer any room for pinsrmlsin. st and meadow iands of great potential value. The consideration for this waa the construction of roads into remote) parts of the state for military us and for the encouragement of settlement. In its history the federal government has made 13 of these road jranU, Anflwrttle enticed that over one embracing an acreage ot, approximately three and one half million acres. Of these 13 grants Oregon" was award original grant, but December Zt.

1814. congress passed an art indemnifying for ed five, covering a total acreage of near ly 2,500.000 acres. The five grants were made to the which, in turn, trans ferred them to local organizations, who pared with one for 11.1 in 1920. If this average were maintained throughout the world there would be 170.000,000 cars In use. The world registration today is approximately 12,600,000.

California and Iowa lead In the number of cars as compared to population, with one car for every S.2 inhabitants. South Dakota has third place with an average of 5.3. Nebraska, the 1920 leader, dropped to fourth place with 6.4 people for each car. Alabama makes the poorest show received them after the governor of the -'---rf -i-vwi wns. v.

ym sections already appropriated tb odd sections within six miles of either side of the road. This was for the purpose chiefly of indemnifying for lands within the Klamath Indian reservation and for patented lands between Eugene and the Cascade mountains. The grant contained approximately 861.72? 'acres of land. It -was made a-condition that the lands should be sold it) tots not to exceed SO sections at one time on the com pie- -tion of the 10 miles or road. This was) to enable the of the construc state had certified to the construction of the roads.

MEANDERING ROADS It is needless to say that these roads were not as direct In location as they might have been made." but meandered for the sake of a long distance through mrd of the ears running are owned by tfarfnera. Despite the fact that six large MgrloulturaJ states show a decrease over tii previous year, the industry has rforged ahead. It is remarkable that so few stales show a decrease. Wheat and nom in Un sold at extremely low prices, 'frequently far below the actual cost of production. This of itself would tend te restrict the use of automobiles by farmers, yet In such states as Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa, where the agricultural depression was most scute, the number of cars has Increased.

Motor vehicles are becoming as essential ai farm implements. New York again leads the field with IftM.fllO care and tracks, an increase of the largest made In any state i over trie previous year. Ohio is second tilth a gain of 106.700 over 1920. Pennsylvania clings to third place with while Illinois Is close on its heel with 670.434. WHT ACTTTE the best sections of unappropriated land.

ing In this respect, with 28 persons for each automobile. New York, with the greatest number of cars, has an average of 12.7 people for, each one In use. If the leaders' per capita average could be maintained throughout the country we would now have 20.327,000 motor ve tion as it progressed. It was also stipu- Whether these land grants were fairly earned or not might be a debatable ques lated that the road should be finished- within fiv years. tion.

the time when they were made of the lands was but potential the vahi hie ROAD COM PANT PERSONNEL Judged by the quality of road construo- The grant was transferred by the state ion value was not accorded the state. The amount of construction was limited to sections -where it was Impossble for to the Oregon Central Military Road company, of which B. J. Pengra of Lane county and a former surveyor general of Oregon, was chief promoter. Associ the -traffic to make its own way through hicles in use.

The saturation point has hardly been reached. Car mobtalitt low At the outset of 1921 various authorities agreed that at least 600,000 automobiles would be scrapped during the year. National Automobile Chamber of Commerce and other production figures for the year, compared with thefncrease.in registrations, show this total to be well mountain fastness. ated with him were 16 residents of Eu trt connection with The Dalles mili tary road the story runs that when Governor Woods was taken over the gene: W. H.

Hanchett, Martin Branding. A. W. Patterson, J. G.

Gray. E. K. Skinner. Joel Ware.

D. M. Riedon. 8. Ells Th.

Urgent percentage gain was made hr West Virginia, where an increase of road to give it his the bridge across the Deschutes was considered so worth, J. B. Underwood. A. 8.

Patterson. T. MulhoUan. Harvey Small. A.

S. :tM.l per cent Is recorded over 1320. California and Florida reflect the popu unsubstantial that the team was de under the 400.000 mark. Cars are delivering exceptional service. Instead of being discarded at the end of the esti Powers.

J. L. Bromley. J. H.

McClung and Henry Parsons. larity of their climate and roads with tached from his carriage, which was pushed, by hand across the bridge. The story maye be apocryphal, but It is il The capital stock of the company was lustrative of the sentiment of the day, $100,000. with shares at 82S0 each. certification of the final completion of Judged by the instrumentality of the roads in aiding the settlement of the state east of the mountains, there may mated five year period they are delivering at least six years' service.

The total production of cgrs and trucks in 192 was 1.575,686. Registrations increased 1,229,023. It is reasonable to believe that the difference between these two figures, or 346,663, represents the number of cars that were junked last year. The rapid strides made by the industry have been a fair' compensation to the rriw tlve gains of 19.5 per cenj and i't per cent. It is Intereittfng to note that six states JtiTount for over one third of the' year's lnorviiFp In registrations.

Illinois, Indiana. Michigan, New York, Ohio and I'c-insylvanla accomplish this with a combined gain of 673,347 Any one these Mtates has more cars than the entire Kuropran continent. Their aggregate total of 3.7I1.S49 is greater than the total leclstration of the country in 1916. ami ureatrr than the present world reg the road was made in 1 ST 4. It was finished to the summit of the Cascades in the autumn of 1867.

This was the -most difficult section of the road. There had already come Into existence a trail over the Cascades down the middle fork of the Willamette, which had been nsed public. It is to be noted that the local companies which promoted the roads and received the granta did not profit greatly ii ve- i ftr f.Pira therefrom. In every instance the grant reflected in the steady increase of regis passed out of their minds to outside corporations who Were able to hold and trations each year prove that the motor vehicle it, a utility and is essential to the prosperity of the country, says the Fay Uses on them. The history of these land grant roads is a romance within Goodrich company.

Its recreational value itself and far beyond the limits of the in a minor consideration today. Auto present sketch. I.5D GRANT ROADS matically it commands the building of better roads. Through its use distant The first of these grants in aise and rural sections have been opened to pros by Immigrants, who had diverted from the old South road in Klamath county. This road formed the skeleton on whk-h the Oregon Central Military road began its existence.

Crossing the Cascades south of Diamond peak the road ran along the shore of Crescent lake, across the headwaters of the Deschutes into the Klamath watershed. Crossing the Klamath, marsh it went up the Spragne river valley to Bly. where a rocky ridge into Quarts and Drews valleys and thence to Goose lake valley, passing near Lake-view Into Warner canyon, emerging in Warner valley, where it turned eastward running south of Stein mountains to ulations, excluding the United States. Nevada is on the bottom rung of the lruMcr with 10,300 cars. Delaware is only one step above with 21.413.

By comparison, these states are not as badly mired us It seems, for either. -one of lio in has more cars. than the entire Cliirfcse empire: OSK TO ItSl There was one motor vehicle for every ton people In the country in 1921, as com order of: time was made July 2, 1864 perous development. No other factor has contributed more to the happiness by "congress for the construction of and convenience of the neonle. State automobile registrations for 1920 military road from Eugene up the middle fork of he Willamette river into Klamath Lake, Harney and Malheur regions to the eastern boundary "pf the (Concluded ea Put Ftrar, Column Two) state, terminating in Jordan valley.

The grant was for the odd sections for three miles in width on each side of -the road There waa no indemnity clause in the Washington Folk to Ride Bus (Canrladed ea Pat Two. Cbituaa Tbrce) IV. 'Auto Auxiliary to Street Car Unhousing the Differential 8. 8 8 How Repairs Should Be Made 1 Washington. 25.

(WASHING-1 connection with Its power to require TON BUREAU OK THE JOURNAL) reasonable and adequate service," and "to require extensions, of lines and facui ties. The fare to be charged Is 8 cents or five rides for 35 cents, the same as on the car lines, but with a two-cent transfer charge to or from -the bus line. A second transfer, when required, will be Issued, without charge. A five minute schedule Is fixed for rush hours All differentials or rear ends of auto-j mobiles manipulate under the same general principle The rear assembly is composed of pinion gear, ring gear and ring gear housing and are alike on all makes of cars except that they vary in weight or quality of material In accordance ith the weight of the motor vehicle and its motor power against which these gears and housings must stand the strain. The spider gears are made heavier in proportion as the vehicle is larger and likewise- they vary both in size and as to the number.

Most makes, however, have three spider gears. The side gears or differential gears and ten-minute service at other times. The motor bus. which has come Into nee In many cities. Including this, as a rival to the street car, is now to be tried out as a car line assistant, under car line management.

The public Utilities commission of the DtHtrlct of Columbia, has minted per- mission to one of the two street car companies to operate a cross-town bus line, which will connect the end of one line with another line a little more than half a mile distant, ho cross-town passengers ran -save two or three miles ff travel in looping through the con-nested down-town district. The authority of the commission to srant a bus line permit to a street car corporation was questioned. The com-, mission In its findings says it has no doubt of lis authority under the law in The commission terms this permission axles fit into the differential gears vain-according to the type of rear end. If full floating and eemirioating types, the axles slide Into the differential gears and can be taken out by removing the adjustment hinges that hold the axles Into the gears. The "standard rear-end, such as those on the Ford, Chevrolet and old model Maxwells, fit solid Into the gear and a Woodruff key holds the axle from turning and the double lock washer on the of the ale keeps" the axles in place and prevents them from coming out.

On this type of rear end the strain Is all on the rear axle. And little slip washers hold the rear axle and wheel from coming out. To repair this type of differential the (Occluded on Pat Thme. Cohiwa Thrw) "an experiment." and reserves the righ to require permanent operation or to I order discontinuance after results hav been checked up. Operation may prov to Je so unprofitable, the order says that it may become a burden upon the street car patrons.

The company, is Speed Kings Of Air Get 1921 Prizes' manipulate and function Just the same on all differentials but the interior parts J. N. Willys, On Visit, Has Trade Guaged required to file a bond to be later ap MOTOR CLUB COWIWHTTEES FOR 1922 ARE APPOINTED proved, of the gear, the parts where the two N. D. A.

MANAGER COLLINS ADDS Til Hupmobile Coast Manager Reports 50,000 California Tourists to Gome To Oregon in 1922 Overland President, Completing Aero Club Urges Civil Aviation Bureau on Congress at Its Banquet in 'New York. Southwest Buying Tour of Country, Declares 1922 ACCEPTS NEW JOB Automobile Year. Oregon State Motor Associtaion Looks Forward to Big Year, With Capable Workers in Charge of Program of Development of Roads and Service to the AutomobNe Tourist. PEERLESS STAFF adillac Manufacturing Manager Resigns to Go With Former Chief; Others Follow. John X.

Willys, president Fifty thousand automobiles from California will tour the Pacific Northwest carrying "at leasj 200,000 visitors this year, according to Herbert Cuthbert, executive secretary of the Pacific North of the Toledo, A general feeling of optimism with regard to the future of aeronautics in the United States prevailed at the fourteenth Willys-Overland company of Thit business in the disposal of Hup-moblles Is better so far this year than last year Is the statement of H. R. Hoberls, Pacific representative for the Hupp Motor Car company, who has returned to Portland after a visit to his dealers in California, Utah and Arizona. Dealer conventiens were held in these states and the which Roberts obtained from his dealers Harry G. Moock to Be Director of Merchandising Department of Hudson-Essex Companies.

Ohio, visited Portland last Friday on a tour of the country, which Includes centers of the Southwestern, annual banquet of the Aero Club of America, which was held on January 9 reach out and bring into its fold by means of intensified and concentrated west Tourist association, who has been Middle West. Pacifie coast and Eastern effort in each section of the Unite; at the Hotel Commodore in New York Btates. While in Portland he conferred in confernce with the dtficials of the touring department of the Auto Club of Southern California. This is 100 per ity. Benedict Crowell.

president of 8t. K'b. After four I nhowi-d that a greater volume of busi with Harry Hayes, manager of the Organization of the Oregon State Motor association" for a big year during by the appointment of committees by President A. II- Lea was completed during the past week, and the association's activity under the new comrnittee-jnen will start at once. In view of the growth of the association in 1921, and the change in organisation which waa George H.

Layng has resigned as vice the club, was the presiding officer, and )cMra Kt'iKTal niKiuRer of the Na Portland branch? who goes! to "Seattle ness Is being done now than last year at this time. The orders which he president and manager of manufactur Suites every motorist in the land, wherever he or she may be located. It proposes to set before eacji individual motorist every conceivable variety of reasonable service that such an association should render to its members. Charles F. Kettering toastm aster.

The honorary guests were Rear Admiral W. F. centVnore than made the trip to Ore on March 1 to take charge of that branch, and with dealers in Oregon and placed showed a preponderance of ing of the Cadillac Motor Car company closed, models, indicating that price was gon. Washington and British Columbia last rear, but assurances have been Washington cities. to accept the same offices and responsibilities with the Peerless Motor Car com not so much of an object after all.

"We are bound to have good times in given Cuthbert that at least that many Feeling that its years of efforts to bring about a comprehensive road build ll'22. said Mr. Willys, president of the pany. He thus retumM his dose aaMOcl- California license plates will be seen Fullam. U.

S. N. Major Generat Mason M. Patrick, chief of air service Rear Admiral Wjlliam Moffett, U. S.

N. Hon. Fred C. Hicks Captain de La-vergne, French air attache Lieutenant Colonel A. Guidoni.

Italian air attache Captain St. Clair 8treett, A. S. Captain carried out) eliminating the social feature of the organization and getting it on a firmer basis, the coming year is ex pectetf to be the greatest in the history On his return to Portland Roberts received the pleasing Information from A. Manley, Oregon distributor, that WUlys-Overiand company, in an address tional association, Marty li, Moock hua resigned to become ll director t.f the ilrpai tment of wflh the llu.lnuii Motor Car iirl the Kavex Motors company of lelroit.

The department is newly rreatd and Mourk'a work largely will be In naatliiK the Mudson-Ksaex dealers and rilstrlbutora wtth their merch-andinlnc Mook bee 1 1 in the automobile bulnea tMt years, five of which were along the Pacific highway through this ation with R. H. Collins, formerly president and general vnamttr of the Cadil ing program have advanced to a point where almost complete success may be boasted, the A. A. A.

now intends to at the banquet Friday. section. he was refcelvitjs more Inquiries than of this body. Just remember that in 1921. the Lott lac company and now head of the Peer The new map of the Pacific Northwest ever before for.

months from the coun The new committees present an un ed States imported In gold bring closer and make more readily available to its members all the lesser George W. Hamilton. U. S. M.

A-, and Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. issued by the tourist association is in try dealers with reference to the new usually strong lineup of ability, in the opinion of President Lea. who stated, in less company. Layng's service with Cadillac extended over a period of nearly 16 years. He went there In 1905 as fore-maii of the chassis department, making line of Hupps, with particular reference great demand by California clubs, which and reduced paper circulation by and the federal reserve against paper and 'deposits by-76 per cent.

These are After outlining the main purposes of comforts and conveniences for which touring motorists frequently finds to tne new coupe-roaaater. the Areo club. President Crowell pre have requested 20,000 in folder form for distribution and have arranged to bang -1 Henceforth, according to the execu fundamentals for prosperity in 1922. mgie-cyiiixier cars. giving out the list, that, the appointments were made strictly with the -r idea of getting things accomplished for the ciation.

Following is the list Of Roberts took In the San Francisco and Oakland automobile Shows and de tive- noaxo recent aecision, tne a. a. a. "The automobile Ind usury was sup-' Completion of the enrineerinir ataff if the wall edition in all the principal information bureaus throughout the state. sented for adoption a resolution recommending immediate and decisive consideration by congress of senate bill 2815.

creating a bureau of civil aviation in th Peerless company Is announced by shall bend its energies in obtaining for its members uniform traffic law's, na clares that the San Francisco show was the most beautiful he ever saw, the posed to have had a trying year in 192 Vet It ranks first among finished pro mourns, ine department is under th tional motoring reciprocity. reliable Finance F. StetUer, chairman Phil setting for the exhibition being mag' direction of M. H. AnibaL F.

M. Holden. ducts, measured by the volume of busi-j ness. the department of commerce. The olution was unanimously adopted.

Metschan, K. R. Wiggins. La Center-Woodland niflcent. In point of actual sales both assistant chief engineer, with supervision of research and experimental work.

garage service, dependable aid when accidents occur, the establishment of more and better regulated camp sites, and the Legislation J. H. Hall, "xhairman The Willys-Overland house As in or-! Next in order was the award of tro der. We have reduced our- inventory shows were ahead of former he said, with a big demand and great Interest being shown in the closed models. George O.

Brandenburg, Phil Metschan, 1 T7 UJ -TXT was formerly research of the phies and medals for exceptional feats in aviation during the past year. The considerably more than half, and our in Mtit ilealer automobile salesman, and the in association activity. He 'helped organise and became manager o( (he Kjcky Mountain Automobile Trade association, the first interstate automobile trade association in the rnlted States. When the national organisation was organized his record of accomplishment lih the Rocky Mountain association dijew immediate atten- Hon to. him as the logical head of the new national organisation and he was 1 placed In charge in 1S18 when headquarters were opened in St.

Ioais. prior to his entry in the automobile Moock was a bond and insur- a nee salesman. cantnac He was responsibi giving of better and broadened touring directions as well as a multitude of per Paving Plan Carries Kelso. Wash Feb. 25.

The state high McDonald-. debtedness by nearly- two-thirds. JOur for the of every step In the Medal of Merit of the Aero Club of America was awarded to the following "Auto Theft G. T. Brown, chairman; workmen are operating on a high plane development of the first eight -cylinder sonal services that will make the organization Invaluable to all who may be Dow Walker, E.

J. Blaser. cf individual and -collective efficiency Gity.iMay Purchase airmen To Bert Acosta for performing a car manufactured In this country. Her Touring L. Therkelsen.

chairman man Schwarze, electrical engineer, in way department has been advised that fortunate enough to" hold a card in the national body or one of its George O. Brandenburg, J. K. Slater. with a spirit of harmony a ad cooperation that Is- remarkable- Al of these factories 'fjgure toward the success of an charge of electrical design and equip Trubk Loadoineters affiliated clubs.

the federal bureau of roads has allowed $96,000 toward the La Center-Woodland record of 176 miles an hour in the aviation meet at Omaha, Neb. to Lieutenant John A. Max-ready, air service, for establishing a new world's altitude record of 37,800 feet and to Messrs. tin son automoDtie concern, -ojespwe- tne ad Public Safety Ralph -w. rtoyt, L.

V. Jenkins." TV. A. Rafferty. Highway and State George O.

Brand paving project on the Pacific highway mitted depression, many of "bur dealers McKenzie fioad Work The city council is expected to take and Bertaud for establishing an endur enburg, chairman L. Therkensen, George Auto Tank Is Used action at Its meeting Wednesday on the question of purchasing two loadometers have increased their volume of sales already." The following dealers were; present at a luncheon at the Bensoa, hotef Friday ance record of 26 hours 19 minutes and 15 seconds. Lieutenant Macready also received the Mackay army trophy. The Will Start March 1 Quayle. Ira A.

Martin. D. B. Segerv Membership D. B.

Seger. chairman to regulate loads carried in motor trucks ment, acted In the same capacity for the Cadillac organisation. Echwarxe la given credit for having made practicable the electric starting, lighting and Ignition principle as embodied in the IMS Cadillac, the first car to be equipped with the feature. F. W.

Slack, chassis engineer, has been with the Peerless engineering department for 12 years. His englneeriux experience began with the Packard Motor Car company In 103. W. n. Milm-r.

body engineer, recently resigned from n. similar position with the Cadillac To Make Moonshine over city streets. The recommendation Robert J. Collier trophy, presented "an afternoon with Willys and the Portland nually for the greatest achievement in Cahyonville Stretch 14 Of Highway Is Clear i Canyon ville, Feb." pacific highway through Canyon Week canyon brancn oiiiciais: j. i -irvwe, Albany-; Eugene, Or, Feb.

25. Work on 1 Is from City Engineer Laurgaard. City Attorney Grant has advised the bureau of public works thai the city has the aviation, was awarded to Grover C. Adam Wilhelm, Corvallis Turner Chrtstensen, McMinn ville C. J.

Shreye, Loening for his development. of the Loen D. J. SldwettVK. C.

F. C. Knapp, Rr R. Coster, Camp Site R. R.

Coster, Robert Fnlton, Hugh Shelly. Th Oregon State Motor association" parent body, Um American Automobile association, the world's greatest organization of motor Var owners, proposes to miles of the urper McKenzie'road. which will toe extended from a point 66 miles east of Eugene to about two miles east Walla Walla, Wash, Feb. 25. Sheriff Charles J.

Springer brought into his office recently a-still 'made of a -cop right to limit the loads of vehicles with ing flying which attained -a. speed Dallas; H. A Van Atta; Vancouver, In the city. Complaints have been re of 135 miles an hour and reached an Charles Greely, Rldgefield, altitude of 17,560 feet with four passen ceived that many tracks carry excessive 1 la in good condition. Tgurist-.

travel of the summit of the Cascades, will start per 'gasoline tank taken from a high loads. secm well started Wiwimmer, gers. March 1. ea Face Fmrr, Caiman Six.) priced automobile..