oc-plain-dealer 1924-07-26

MARKED ECONOMY SHOWN ON TEST Latest reports by "Knight-O-Gram" of the performance of the Willys-Knight car being driven thrue So. Calif. on a 20,000-mile non-stop test run reveal an economy performance that is considered remarkable by automotive authorities. Running in three shifts over three distinct routes which combine traffic driving, grades, and every other normal touring condition encountered by the average motorist, the Willys-Knight non-stop car is averaging nearly 4000 miles per week, says W. R. Shanbols, local distributor. The first 2770 miles of continuous running, night and day, it consumed 193 gallons of gasoline, 3 quarts of oil, only 3 plats of water, and made an average of 19.5 miles per gallon of gasoline. Pilots Estes, Potts, Purcell and Jordan report that the car is running smoothly and is standing up under the steady grind in surprising fashion. E. N. Culver, president of the Willys-Overland-Pacific Co., accompanied Estes on the daylight shift over Route No. 1 one day last week. They left the main branch building at 8 o'clock in the morning and stopped the car, but not the motor, at the plant of each Willys-Overland dealer in Los Angeles and Hollywood, Long Beach, Watts, Inglewood, Redondo, Venice, Santa Monica, Burbank, Glendale, Eagle Rock, Pasadena and Highland Park, and checked it again at the branch at 4 p.m. L. J. McCracken then accompanied Pilot Potts on Route No. 2, leaving at 4 o'clock and proceeding to Alhambra, Monrovia, El Monte, Covina, Pomona, San Bernardino, Redonda, Colton, Riverside, Coronna, Fullerton, Orange Santa Ana, Anaheim and Whittler. They stopped at each Willys-Overland dealer and left a "Knight-O-Gram," giving the time each stop was made, the total mileage to date and the average gasoline mileage, so that the scoreboards displayed by each dealer could be kept right up to the minute. They checked it again at the branch at 4 p.m. A. C. S. C. PAST 100,000 MARK (Continued from Page One) has averaged an increase of more than 4000 members a year, and today there are 29 branches located at population centers thru the 13 southern counties of the state, in addition to the million dollar headquarters at Figueroa and Adams streets in Los Angeles. More than 1000 employees are required to take care of the business of the organization, and 14 of the principal departments give direct service to members and visiting motorists. The club is constantly on the alert to meet all demands relative to touring, signposting, mapping, engineering, legal, theft, insurance, hotels and garages, car forwarding, licenses, outing, public safety and highway patrol. While primary organized to benefit members, the club has been equally active in community building. All So. Calif. has been served by the organisation's board, impressive policy in the promotion of good roads; in urging fair and desirable legislation; in advocating equitable tax measures; in co-operating with nation, state, county and community plans for highway development, and in attracting and serving hundreds of thousands of motor tourists that come from all parts of the country. MILEAGE OF 23 IN 12,250 MILES "I am a newspaper man and have to travel the whole year from one state to another. I have had four Chevrolets and if every Chevrolet I buy stands up as good as the one I how have. I'll always drive a Chevrolet," says Bob Etic Jr., of Los Angeles. "I bought this Chevrolet coupe in December, 1922, and have just returned from a six months' trip north on which I covered 12,500 miles. After driving all over our northwest and the Canadian northwest, I made a five weeks' trip to Alaska and back to Vancouver. I left Vancouver at 10 p.m." WEEKLY REVIEW OF OIL INDUSTRY (By Elwood J. Munger) New production at Torrance included some ten wells and eded the daily output of the back up to the 60,000 mark new production led off with bbl well by the Associated mingham No. 2; three wells Chanslor-Canfield ranging from 100 to 440 barrels; lowed by the Fullerton Oil No. 8 a 200 bbls well; by Root Co.'s No. 8 at 3800 bbl well; the Standard Oil bbl well on the Marble lease of the Shell company's three Ketter No. 12, 13 and 14 hurl barrel well pumping to the deep test well of the rance field is now being drilled the Chanslor-Canfield oil Francis property. Francis has drilled to 4900 feet since has found no oil. Hot opinion is still divided on the terrace of a deep sand for the rance field and will probably tinue until some operator down a 6000 foot hole. The feature of the Domine field for the week was the version of the northline of the by Union Oil Company ww1500 barrel well at Hellman 3. Hellman well ww4263 feet and in consideration deep drilling now being done over Southern California that represents just a little more than the average. Hellman 3 cemer on the north line of the field or a mile and proves up a lot of looking property. The biggest producer of the ingues field now boasts of Shell Co.'s Reyes No. 5. This well completed at 4152 feet making 4000 barrels and is due dering the field's usual 32 milliliter oil. The Union Oil world's rotary hole at Gardena No. 1 stretched from 727320 feet and is still going. Will continue in the hot finding a new and deeper than has ever been uned before in the Los Angeles Some oil experts have contended that some day some one will find another oil sand around L. J. McCracken then accompanied Pilot Potta on Route No. 2, leaving at 4 o'clock and proceeding to Albambra, Monrovia, El Monte, Covina, Pomona, San Bernardino, Redlands, Colton, Riverside, Corona, Fullerton, Orange Santa Ana, Anaheim and Whittler. They stopped at each Willys-Overland dealer and left a "Knight-O-Gram," giving the time each stop was made, the total mileage to date and the average gasoline mileage, so that the scoreboards displayed by each dealer could be kept right up to the minute. They checked in again at the branch just at midnight and R. J. Flynn, sales manager, took his place with Drivers Purcell and Jordan for the shift from midnight to morning on Route No. 3. Their course lay out Vermont, over Hollywood boulevard and Cahuenga Pass to Tahanga, over San Fernando road to Saugus, Santa Paula, Ventura, Santa Barbara, back to Oxnard and then over Santa Susana Pass thru Chatsworth, Van Nuya, Burbank and Glendale to the starting point at the Willys-Overland-Pacific Co. once more. R. B. Starkey, service manager, is keeping an accurate record of the non-stop run, and is endeavoring to keep his drivers running right on schedule so that the Willys-Knight will be kept right on the road under the same conditions encountered by the average car under the hand of the average driver. Italian scientist claims to have discovered remnant of celebrated legendary flexible glass made by the ancient Egyptians and Chandeans. TAGGART'S DEPENDABLE USED CARS CHEVROLET $550 Touring CHEVROLET $550 Coupe CHEVROLET $525 Truck CHEVROLET $425 Touring CHEVROLET $250 Touring CHEVROLET $175 Touring CHEVROLET $125 Touring FORD $425 Sedan FORD $125 Touring FORD $100 Touring BUICK $175 5 DODGES, TRUCK TWO WEEKS’ SALES Five new Dodge cars and a new Graham truck sold in two weeks of July is Charley Mann’s record so far this month, with several prospects likely to materialize into purchasers this week. The closed and special types of Dodge are more popular than ever, owing partly to the better springs and seating facilities. The Dodge never has been so comfortable as it is now. Purchasers this month include: Oscar Zahl of Anaheim, Type A sedan; S. W. Tulton of Placentia and C. J. Dick of Anaheim, special touring cars; G. H. Dow of Santa Ana and Anaheim, Graham truck, and H. H. McIndoo of Anaheim, business sedan. AUTOMATIC SIGNAL IN L. A. IS SUCCESS Is the automatic signal constructed by the Automobile club of Southern California at the corner of Pigueroa and Adams streets a success? The traffic officer at this intersection has some data from which anyone may draw conclusions. I bought this Chevrolet coupe in December, 1922, and have just returned from a six months’ trip north on which I covered 12,500 miles. After driving all over our northwest and the Canadian northwest, I made a five weeks’ trip to Alaska and back to Vancouver. I left Vancouver at 10 a.m., one day; drove all day and night, making Spokane via Portland over Columbia River highway at 8 a.m. the next morning—847 miles in 22 hours over very treacherous and mountainous roads. After Spokane, my route took me to northern Idaho, through Glacier National Park; south to southern Montana and over to southern Idaho. Then I went back over Yellowstone; through eastern Montana, again into northern Dakota; back into Wyoming; then to Colorado, and on to Salt Lake City, and finally to Los Angeles over the Arrowhead Trail. "I used but 32 gallons of gas for the 12,250 miles—an average of better than 23 miles. After leaving California, the car was not touched except to repair a tire. Anybody that has been over these roads knows how terrible they are and to what hard usage a car is subjected in making them—the Chevrolet coupe made a perfect record." Development work in the new west section of the Rosecrans has assumed proportions comparable with the possibilities of new and great field. Petroleum engineers have made a study rock pressure, possible gas curing and predict that it will possible to bring in 10, 15 even 20 thousand barrel well this northwest area. The Unite Athens well now flowing 680 reels of 37 gravity oil is considered the southeast edge well off field bearing the same relation to the Rosecrans field as My No. 1 did to the famous Santa Springs field. Athena No. 1 touched the deep sand, developments that will follow will Rosereans another Santa Springs field for the week incl the Julian Pet Corp’s Community LA, the Bankline Oil Co.’s well, the Federal Drilling Howard Townsite well, E. J. Reyes Howard Townsite well, drilling well under way of Sentinel Oil Co. and J. B. Dabriging up. Old Huntington Beach made oil operators sit up and take this week again with an barrel well. The Shell Co. spends the surprise by plugging back old water well that has not met commercial production for a year or more. Davenport No. 6 is well and was originally drilled 5087 feet. Bottom water bored the well for almost two years in fact the well never made me of a producer. A cement was set at 3542 feet and a gusher started to flow. The proves that the upper zone of old field still carries a lot of water and will probably be the start of drilling in old Santa Fe for doing drilling in old Santa Fe for the Standard has four strings tools running. Long Beach production took little jump this last week... AUTOMATIC SIGNAL IN L. A. IS SUCCESS Is the automatic signal constructed by the Automobile club of Southern California at the corner of Figueroa and Adams streets a success? The traffic officer at this intersection has some data from which anyone may draw conclusions. When interviewed he said that in the past six weeks he had given out only five tags, or less than one arrest a week. The first week the signal was in operation he was compelled to stop an average of 75 cars a day. After a few weeks of operation this number is reduced to 12 a day. The traffic commission check showed that, 69,797 cars traverse this intersection daily, indicating that only a fraction of one per cent of the drivers failed to interpret the signals properly. Plain Dealer Classified Ads produce results. Try this medium. TIRES ON CREDIT PAY 'AS YOU RIDE Small payment down, balance on easy weekly installments PARA BELL TIRES RELIABLE TIRE CO. ROY N. MENDOZA, Prop. 200 South Los Angeles Street Anaheim, Calif. WEEKLY REVIEW OF OIL INDUSTRY (By Elwood J. Munger) New production at Torrance inded some ten wells and boosted the daily output of the field took up to the 60,000 mark. The new production led off with a 225 well by the Associated at Cuningham No. 2, three wells by the Translor-Canfield ranging from a 440 barrels, and was followed by the Fullerton Oil's Cotton No. 8 a 200 bbls, well, the Sel-Root Co.'s No. 8 at 3800 a 300 well, the Standard Oil's 200 well on the Marble lease, and Shell company's three wells latter No. 12, 13 and 14 hundred barrel wells pumping to the sump. The deep test well of the Torrance field is now being drilled by Chanslor-Canfield on the Francis property. Francis No. 1 is drilled to 4900 feet and to have found no oil. However, Union is still divided on the matter of a deep sand for the Torrance field and will probably continue until some operator puts down a 6000 foot hole. The feature of the Dominguesd for the week was the extension of the northline of the field the Union Oil Company with a 400 barrel well at Hellman No. The Hellman well went to 3 feet and in consideration of drilling now being done all over Southern California the well presents just a little more than average. Hellman 3 extends north line of the field a half barrel well and proves a lot of good drilling property. The biggest producer the Domingues field now boasts of is the Bull Co.'s Reyes No. 5. This new completed at 4152 feet is being 4000 barrels and is proing the field's usual 32 gravel. A Mexican cathedral has a solid silver baptismal front and a solid gold altar rail that are valued at over a million dollars. DAWN-TO-DUSK FLIER'S PATRIIC AT 64, TAKES FIRST PLING AT FLYING THE RADIO PROGRAM KFI—CENTRAL STATION 5:00 to 5:30 p.m.—Evening Herald news bulletins. 6:45 to 8:00 p.m.—Hennessy's Paramount Players. 8:00 to 9:00 p.m.—Norman Kelch, bass, arranging program. 9:00 to 10:00 p.m.—Examiner Fullerton program. 10:00 to 11:00 p.m.—Popular song program. KGO—GEN, ELEC. 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.—Concert orchestra of the Hotel S. Francis, San Francisco, Vinton La Ferrera conducting. 8:00 p.m.—Program given by Camp Curry, Yosemite National Park, California. Carol Weston, violinist; Edith Benjamin, soprano; Marian Provost, pianist; address, "The History of the Fire Fall," Don Tresiddler; Glenn Hood, character songs; reading, "Dooley on the Pullman Car," Mrs. R. D. Jilson. Part Two: Arlon Trio; Irwin Johnson, baritone; Hawaiian Steel Guitar Quartet; J. E. Barnes, travel talk; John T. Brown, harmonica selections; Edwin Bergenholtz, French horn solo; Mrs. Herbert Avery, pianist. 10:00 p.m. to 11 a.m.—Henry Halstead's Hotel St. Francis Dance Orchestra, San Francisco. NO TROUBLE ON LONG TRIP Mr. and Mrs. Jess Coykendall and Miss Tillie Morningstar have returned from Seattle after a trip in the former's Dodge coupe. Not a bit of trouble was experienced on the long trip. STOP ACCIDENTS SIGNAL PROBLEMS, many drivers fail proper hand signals or averitable crashes are recorded to records of department of the Air Careless hand signalling leaving its trail of wreckage. The hand signal given continuously for 5 minutes should be raised high arm should be raised high right-hand turn; strut for a left turn; and power ward the ground for a less driver is warned ure to signal properly many persons pay for damage. "STUDE" OWNER POINT TO REEKS (Continued from Page particular line of business necessary that he traw thousand miles in the country and to always feel and he has found his Stair great aid to him in cre optimistic outlook. Mr. Applebaum of the Hat Store after driving 47,000 miles says he is as sold on the Studebaker company the best and most service of any car ever owned. Mr. Albert Hesse, conquer Orange, who purchased from Harry D. Riley in driven his car 50,414 m during most of the time hauled a trailer. Car has given him the utmost se DePalma Driving Chrysler New Clim “MORE THAN WHEEL ROAD HEART-BREATH TOURING WHEEL, SHATTERED ALL CLIMB IN THE REMARKS “More power than as the hydraulic for Chrysler thoroughbread from the finish tape. “The power behind OLINE, “California’s tests of various gas Chrysler Distributor up the mile-high climb.” VENTURA GASOLINE VENTURA RIFIMING CO. EIMER BUYS OAKLAND L. Sass of Anaheim has puran Oakland touring car of L. Turton, Northern Orange distributer. Classified Ad for results. STOP ACCIDENTS; SIGNAL PROPERLY Regardless of repeated warnings, many drivers fail to give proper hand signals and many invertible crashes are resulting, according to records of the safety department of the A. C. S. C. Careless hand signaling, also, is leaving its trail of wrecks. The hand signal should be given continuously for 50 feet before a turn or stop is made. The arm should be raised high up for a right-hand turn; straight out for a left turn; and pointed toward the ground for a stop. Careless drivers are warned that failure to signal properly has made many persons pay for resulting damage. "STUDE" OWNERS POINT TO RECORDS (Continued from Page One) particular line of business it is necessary that he travel many thousand miles in the course of a year and to always feel cheerful and he has found his Studebaker a great aid to him in creating an optimistic outlook. Mr. Applebaum of the Keen Hat Store after driving his car 47,000 miles, says he is absolutely sold on the Studebaker car as giving the best and most satisfactory service of any car he has ever owned. Mr. Albert Hesse, contractor of Orange, who purchased his car from Harry D. Riley in 1920 has driven his car 50,414 miles and during most of the time he has hauled a trailer. Car has always given him the utmost service. We're Sure Doing the Business Yes Sir, our satisfied customers are sending us all kinds of business, and as a matter of fact every one that brings their car here becomes a satisfied customer. WHY DON'T YOU TRY THE SAME THING? Commercial Garage Corner Olive and Center Sts. Phone 511 Anaheim, Cal. Plain Dealer Want Ads Bring Results Chrysler Sets New Mt.Wilson Climb Record! "MORE POWER Than I Could Use" —RALPH DE PALMA HIRLING up the Mt. 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These qualities were more—he found in VENTURA. And it was regular service, VENTURA Gasoline—not a specially made product—the run—the same grade of VENTURA that every motorist in the car. The same "VENTURA" qualities that made the Chrysler re-possible can be utilized and enjoyed by every motorist in the car. VENTURA is distilled from high grade paraffin-base crude oil is free from "cracked kerosene substitutes." It is clean, sweet—vaporizes completely and mixes instantaneously into the air stream from the carburetor, delivering smooth, durable power that means economy and comfort. To get VENTURA, stop at independent service stations or garages that display the "RED BELL" sign. Ventura Refining Company