The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-08-31
500 MILE AUTO TOUR
WITHOUT MISHAP

Accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs. F. Fl.
Blackman, Mr.. and Mrs. A. d. Moe
returned Monday from Dayton, WASH,
where they had toured for visit with
MIR. Noes brother, and the cousin of
Mrs. Blackman. Harry G. Moe, and
wife. Over 500 miles was made in Mr..
Noes big REQ Six without single
mishap, or the least mechanical trouble,
and the long tour is declared to have
been a most enjoyable one. The party
left here last Thursday.
On the road, to and from Dayton, the
party saw number of former Hood
River residents. At Pendleton they
called at the Sayre drygoods store,
operated by former Dayton man, and
met Mrs. C. H. Beltz, who makes fre.
quent journeys back to Hood River to
look after property interests. At Day.
ton Mr.. and Mrs. Moe called on Rev.
and Mrs. W. c. Gilmore. Rev. Gilmore
was formerly pastor of the Riverside
Congregational church for period of
six years. And since this article is
principally abOu. motoring it may be
interesting to remark that MIR. Gilmore
has recently purchased six cylinder
car.
In lone the party saw Gilbert Edg.
ington, who is there engaged in the
harvest of the great wheat fields, and
at Echo, H. d. Smith, formerly local
plumber who is now in the hardware
business at Echo.
The road from here to Dayton by
way of Pendleton is fairly good until
the John Day canyon is reached. There
more or less rock is encountered and
quite grade must be negotiated.
From John Day to lone the pace of O
machine must be slowed down because
of the winding rough roads. A good
deal of rock is also found on this
stretch, and for a long distance prog.
ress is retarded by the numerous chuck
holes.
From lone to Echo one may take the
choice of many routes. and whatever
road he takes, it is said. the motorist
always wishes he had taken the other
route. Between the two points are
three marked routes, the Blue and
White, the Yellow and White and the
Black and White trails. Residents of
the section of the country are at great
variance of opinion as to the merits OF
the different roads. One man will tell
you that one road is good and another
that some other route is best.
1--WE we're told by one man, says
MIR. Moe, "to be sure and not steer on
the Black and White trail, and on the
way to Dayton, relying on his words,
we avoided the road, but returning we
travelled this route for time by mis-
take, and we found it the best stretch
of road between Pendleton and Echo.
The three trails are winding and con-
verge at many points.
"When we left lone had garage
man draw us map of the roads that
he thought had been least cut up by
recent travel, and while we had some
difficulty in following his map, we
made our way over comparatively
smooth roads.
1.-THE Pendleton Round UP people are
placing a layer of straw over these
routes between now and the time of
the great frontier show, and thus going
will be made comparatively smooth and
dustless. II good rain prevails over
the region between now and the time
of the Round Up, smoothing the nu.
merous chuck.holes, the trails will be
like well kept pavements. But until
it does rain and as long as the heavy
traffic of wheat hauling continues. the
roads make travel very uncomfortable,
except where strswed.
'The road between Pendleton anG
Walla Walla, built of macadam mum
Der of years ago. is disintegrating anC
is rough. But for Is miles out of Pen
dleton we detoured over the hills anC