1918-06-09-sr-p37-road-trip-over-nee-bridge
June 09, 1918 Spokesman-Review Page 37:
North to Addy and West to Columbia Is Delightful Trip
Motor Journey of 185 Miles Can Be Made Easily From Spokane and Return in One Day—Passes Historic Old Fort Spokane at Mouth of River—Most of Roads Are Good—Time for Fishing Enroute.
(This is the sixth of a series of special articles on one-day auto trips over the Inland Empire to be published by the Spokesman-Review.)
A most delightful one-day trip can be made north to Addy, west to the Columbia river and then south along that proud scenic waterway to its confluence with the Spokane, near which near is Old Fort Spokane, of especial interest in these war times. This 185-mile trip overr good roads was route logged for gpokesman-Review readers recently in a big Buick six party headed ‘by V. V. Rice of the Eldridge Buick company and W. B. Stewart of the Spokane touring bureau of the B. F. Goodrich Rubber company. By far the best way to make the trip is in the direction shown, as the grades in the hilly and wooded sections are more gradual, according to Mr. Stewart.
The Buick sent out on the trip had no trouble with any of the grades and only in a few instances, when a sharp turn or passing machine prevented # good start, was it necessary to shift from high gear to make any of them.
The fact that the Buick was equipped with over sized tires without mechanical adjustment to the speedometer, explains the variation in the mileage figures. The over sized tires account for the eight-tenths of a mile difference on the total run of 36.4 miles, which is the actual distance to the schoolhouse at Loon lake. Mr. Stewart furnished the following account and route log of the trip:
Good Roads to Chewelah.
“Leaving the Review building at 7:20 the Buick party sped over good roads to Loon lake in a little over an hour. Due north past the schoolhouse; on the left, the Cottonwood road to Chewelah is good and lies partly through the tall timbers. Just before entering Chewelah the big magnesite ore mill, so important to our governments war industries, is passed, on the left hand side of the road.
“From Chewelah and on to Addy the road skirts the hills that border the Colville river valley on the east. The town of Addy is barely entered when the road crosses the railroad and a bridge and swings to the south and left around a hill. The road on over the hills to the Columbia was unexpectedly good with no hills that the Buick even hesitated at. The broad Columbia was reached at Gifford at 11:40.
Columbia Scenery Is Beautiful.
“South along the Columbia over good roads and with an ever changing panorama of majestic scenery {ts undoubtedly the most beautiful part of the entire trip, Lunch was enjoyed beside Harvey creek at a choice spot revealed by the log. After lunch and an hour's successful angling for brook trout, the route on south through Hunters and Fruitland was resumed. A few miles south of Fruitland the left fork of the road leads to Detillion bridge on direct to Davenport.
“Old Fort Spokane being an important objective of the party, the right fork was taken. It leads over good, though not particularly well defined, roads to Lincoln, crossing the Spokane river at Nee Bridge. From Lincoln a 4.5 mile detour to the old fort should not be missed. Wonderful views of the two rivers can be obtained from the high road that leads along the cliffs to the fort.
“The return route along the river to Peach, thence up Indian creek valley and south to Davenport and in over the Sunset highway is also very enjoyable’. An evening ‘snack’ with hot coffee, to furnish up the midday lunch, Was enjoyed about sunset on the banks of Deep creek.”
The Route-Log.
- 0.0—From Review building north on Monroe.
- 2.5—Turn R with car line.
- 2.6—Turn L on to pavement (Waikiki boulevard).
- 6.1—Fork R.
- 6.6—Keep to main middle road.
- 9.2—(G) keep to L.
- 9.9—(G) to R across bridge.
- 13.3—Fork R.
- 15.3—(G) straight on.
- 19—Denison.
- 22.7—Cross railroad and through Deer Park on pavement.
- 26.8—Off pavement into Stevens county.
- 27—Turn R.
- 27.7-—Cross railroad.
- 27.9-—Cross railroad again and trough Clayton.
- 28.1—Turn R along. railroad and then L.
- 29.2—(G) turn R.
- 30.6—Caution cross railroad.
- 31.6—Keep to L down to lake.
- 31.7—Straight on (turn L for back to lake).
- 34.3-—Fork R.
- 35.—At-school om right.
Loon Lake.
- 0.0—North on Colville road, past school on left.
- 4.4—(G) turn left,
- 5.6—Turn left.
- 6.8—Fork right (left for Valley).
- 8.4—-Keep to right.
- 12.4—At school on right turn left.
- 12.7—Fork right.
- 13.8—Turn right.
- 17.8—Magnesite mill on left.
- 18.1—Turn left onto Main street of Chewelah, Cross railroad.
- 18.3—Turn right for Addy.
- 19—Cross railroad.
- 20.4—Keep to right and straight on.
- 23.9—(G) straight on up valley.
- 26.8—Addy—turn left across railroad and bridge, then left.
- 27.2—Keep to R
- 28.3—Turn left.
- 33.4—(G) keep to right, straight on.
- 36.6—Left across bridge.
- 37.3—Keep to right uphill, Dunn—on left.
- 39.2—Summit.
- 42.4—Keep straight onto left.
- 43.5—Keep straight onto right.
- 46.6—(G) Gifford.
- 47—Down to Columbia river shore.
Gifford
- 0.0—(G) from Goodrich sign post (46,6) turn left through Gifford and up grade.
- 0.8-Keep to left.
- 4.0—(G) fork right.
- 7.5—Fork right up grade.
- 10.6—(G).
- 12.5—Cross Harvey creek
- 12.6—(Fork R down hill for creek, picnic and. fishing grounds.)
- 12.7—(G) Cedonia.
- 16.1—(G) straight through Hunters and up grade.
- 16.7—Good picnic grounds,
- 19.7—Fruitland, turn right and then left.
- 21.2—Keep straight on.
- 21.7—Take right fork, (Left more direct route for Davenport, via Detillion bridge.)
- 24.5—Turn right.
- 32—Take right fork.
- 34.8—Down winding road into Spokane river valley.
- 35.6—Cross Nee bridge and into
- 35.9—-Lincoln. After crossing bridge,
turn left up grade for 4.5 miles detour to old Fort Spokane.
Lincoln.
- 0.0—Straight west through Lincoln,
- 0.9—Fork right
- 5.2—Turn left through Peach,
- 5.3—(G) take left fork.
- 8.3—Take lower right road.
- 8.9—Keep to right.
- 9.7—(G) keep to right over bridge.
- 11.3—(G) straight on.
- 18.3—Turn right for Davenport.
- 23.6—Cross bridge and straight on to left.
- 24.6—Turn right and into
- 25.4—Davenport, main street.
- 26—Turn left off main street and on, over good, well; marked highway through Reardan (13.6) and Deep Creek (22.5) into Spokane, 37.5 miles official.
The accompanying views show scenes along the route followed by the Buick party in “logging” off the trip north to Addy and west to the Columbia river, following the course of the river south to old Fort Spokane at the confluence of the Spokane river and the Columbia and back to the city by Davenport, Reardan and Deep Creek. The small view at the upper left shows the Buick before the flagstaff at old Fort Spokane and some of the post buildings. The rugged scenery along the route ts shown in the upper right view, and the lower view shows a stretch of the dirt road along the, Columbia. can be seen in the background. The map shows the route followed.
Data of Trip.
181.4 net: miles covered,
4.5 Fort Spokane, detour.
185.9 total.
14.1 miles per gallon.
3275 pounds, weight of car.
Six adults, two children, in party.
Eight hours and 50 minutes actual running time.
ADD TO SAMSON TRACTOR PLANT
Heavy Demand Forces Factory to Increase Output.
The demand for Samson Sieve-Grip tractors has forced the manufacturers to increase the capacity of their plant in Stockton, Cal., and to erect an entirely new plant at the eastern headquarters, Pontiac, Mich, The Stockton plant will devote its energies to supplying the requirements west of the Rocky mountains and’ of South America. The eastern plant will attend to the eastern and European trade.
To make increased production possible at the Stockton plant two one-story brick buildings are nearly completed. One of these buildings, to be utilized as the assembling room, is 70 feet by 144 feet. The smaller building, to be the stores room, is 60 feet by 150 feet. These buildings will create considerable space in the old buildings, which will permit the installation of new machinery and rearrangement of the present equipment.
It is believed that following installation of the new machinery the present output will be practically doubled, making the production approximately 60 tractors per week to meet the western demand.
The company now produces only one tractor, known as the Model S-25, with 10-horsepower at the draw bar and 25-horsepower at the belt pulley. The reason for this was that it developed better results would follow if manufacture were confined to the one machine, a tractor small enough to be a success in the orchard or vineyard and yet powerful enough to work successfully on large farms.
The Samson tractor is distributed by the Eldridge Buick company.
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WORK FOR UNIFORM AUTO ROAD LAWS
American Association Directors Sponsor Move for Federal Traffic Rules.
URGE OWNERS TO DRIVE
Endorse Movement to Conserve Labor ‘ theres
—Elect—Get Thonsands of
New Members.
4 ’ | sey was elected treasurer-for the 10th |
consecutive time,, while Yphn WN. Brooks of Connecticut continues as secretary .and A.;G. , Batchelder of |
Washington, D. C., as executive chair- |
man. j Among the clubs admitted to mem-
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| end of the project, callimg~ for con- struction of 35 miles of relatively easy work; The $104,000 did not do the
JUNE 9, 1918.
- Scenes on Spokane-Columbia River Motor Trip
[not transcribed yet] --- NEWPORT-SPOKANE ROAD STILL LAGS
State Highway Authoritiedy Said to Have Been Puttering Since 1913.
STARTED WITH $104,000
Then
the portions of improved road at either
more would complete the underhead crossing at Dean (Colbert) and put} the surface in a satisfactory. condition. We shamefacedly went back to the
tion of $40,000 road. and the Pend Oreille highway- is: still in-an uncompleted conditjon. maining §20,000 when spent will leave the road far cerely hope proposed, grade then Spokane and Pend Oreille coun-
cient gravel to overcome the bad spots which develop each season.
should be.
bership were the Dallas, El Paso and |
Cook county clubs from Texas,
the | ma
Northville and’ Ovid clubs ‘from. Michi- | gan, the Tul@a club from Oklahoma, the |
Greenville club from South Carolina, the McComb county, and Erie county cluts from Ohio, the Corning and Cincinnatus clubs from New York and the Macon, Moultrie and
Ric@and county |
Vienna clubs from Georgia.. The secre- | tary'’s report also showed the admission |
of ‘thousands of from all¢parts of the country.
Handles Maxwells at Hillyard. H.'E. Peterson. formerly senior mem-
individual members |
)KANE ROAD STILL LAGS
Have Been Puttering Since 1913.
Got $40,000 More, Half. of Which Has Been Spent, and
Work Is Not Finished.
By FRANK W, GUILBERT,
A number of us of Pend ‘Oreille and
for completing this highway between
work and,it was estimated that $25,000
1915 session and gained an appropria- to complete the same Of this. $20,000 has been spent
The re-
from perfect, but [ sin- it will take care of the separation. and. that
ties will-dress the grade with» suffi-
Grade Aligument Is Beautiful,
The grade alignment is a beauty, and Ditches are insufficient in places;
The greatest criticism was.that the state built’ several miles of unneces~- sary grade and placed some small amount of gravel thereon, between the Buckeye road and the top of the Chat- taroy hill. If the money spent on this mileage of the Pend Oreille highway had been applied from Chattaroy north the service, rendered would have been much greater, because the amount spent there, if spent in surfacing the portion north from Chattaroy, would have made a great difference in the finish of the road over its present con- dition.
The several miles between the Buck- eye road and the Chattaroy hil] are very little used. The old road {rom the point about two miles north of Colbert, where the Buckeye road in- tersects both the old and-thje new, a few hundred feet apart, has ,for years been one of the finest natural earth roads ‘to be found anywhere, and 99 out of 100 who travel north from Spo- kane through Mead, Colbert and Chat-
Spokane’ counties are wondefing how | ntuch” longer” the state highway’ au- | thorities are going to putter away at | completing the. Pend Oreille highway | (old state road No. | 23), connécting | Newport and Spokane. |
In 1913. $104,000» was. appropriated |
taroy use’ the old roaq to the top of the Chattaroy hill. Road From Chattaroy Is Good.
The road is good’ from Chattaroy north to Newport, except in spots. If the ynuged piece of road referred to had not been improved until the grade crossing had been. arranged for and
taken care. of the money used up in its construction would have permitted the taking care of the bad spots and de a great difference to all who use ‘this important road.
What we are wonder{ng now is: Will the grade separation -be *made this year, as promised for ‘the last three years, making the unused piece of
| roadway available, or.will our $20,000
unexpended revert to the general fund and the several miles of road gevert to the condition it was in before’ any money was spent on it? Olds Manager Goes East. R.,L. Striakle, secretary and man-
| ager.gf the Oldsmobile company of this
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