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f Agitator of galvanized iron, attached 
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Notes from the Ox-team Express 
■Snowy Roads. —At last we have 
crossed the Blue Mountains, those that 
we feared most on the entire trip from 
the reports we got along the line from 
tourists going east from the Pacific Coast. 
They told us if we reached these moun¬ 
tains during the Winter season we were 
likely to be snowed in. Winter season 
begins here about the middle of October, 
and now it is January, 1924, and if we 
had reached the mountains one week 
earlier we should not have encountered 
any snow to speak of, but now there is in 
some place 3 ft., and it snows every 
night at some point, especially the higher 
places. However, the State Highway 
Commission has decreed they will keep 
the road open all Winter. How they will 
succeed when it gets 10 to 15 ft. deep 
puzzles me. They are doing quite well 
with 3 ft. by using caterpillar tractors, 
and with snow fences up where it drifts 
badly perhaps they can do it. I am 
writing this about 10 miles east of Pen¬ 
dleton, right at the foot of the mountain 
range, where it is said they usually do 
not have any snow, and right now there 
is a foot on the level. 
Impressions of. Oregon Roads. — 
Since we entered the State of Oregon we 
have seen so much to write about we are 
simply swamped, we have seen so much 
that is different from the States of Wy¬ 
oming and Idaho that if I had time to 
write it The R. N.-Y. would not have 
space to print it. One thing noticeable is 
the roadbed, right from the point where 
we crossed the‘line at Payette, Idaho. 
We crossed the Snake River and where 
we connected with the old Oregon Trail 
we saw them build gravel roads properly. 
The only criticism I might make is in 
many places the road is too narrow and 
the side banks around curves are too 
high. In some cases there seems to be 
about 4 ft. This is done to prevent the 
speed maniacs from breaking their necks. 
Even then it does not stop them entirely 
from either damaging themselves or 
hitting others. It is nice for them to 
swing around the curve at that angle, but 
it is not so nice for a slow moving ve¬ 
hicle. If one starts around the curve at 
the high side the wagon skids to the lower 
edge before getting half way around. 
That is on the gravel, and when there is 
snow on the road it is utterly impossible 
to keep a wagon, or even an auto, on even 
keel if moving slowly. The upkeep of 
these curves must be quite an expense. 
I thought the Cumberland Mountains had 
many curves, but on the whole trip we did 
not pass over a road with so many S and 
U curves as this Oregon Trail. If we 
had passed over during the height of the 
tourist season I very much doubt I would 
be able to write this tale. We have had 
some mighty close shaves, and one driver 
did hit us; not very hard, however, and 
as I did not have to shoot him to stop 
him I let him go with the advice he’d bet¬ 
ter travel on a railroad. 
Ready Repairs. — A good idea they 
have; at intervals of half mile or less, a 
carload of top-dressing, either gravel or 
crushed stone, with the clay binder mixed 
in, about 50-50 proportion, so that if a 
weak spot in the roadbed develops it is 
an easy matter to put a shovelful or bar¬ 
rowful in that spot. In that way the 
surface can be kept in good condition at 
all times. Why they cannot make just 
as good roads in the other States is be¬ 
yond me. They charge just as much for 
the grading; the same kind of material 
is just as available. Back ten millions 
years ago, more or less, when the waters 
of the Atlantic kissed the waves of the 
Pacific Ocean, they did not make any dis¬ 
tinction between what are now the divid¬ 
ing lines of Wyoming, Utah. Idaho and 
Oresrou. They pushed the same kind of 
gravel and mud in either place, so it is 
simply a matter of application. In Ore¬ 
gon they mix the gravel and binder to¬ 
gether and top-dress the road. In the 
other States they screen out the gravel 
and spread on top, and wait for the traffic 
to press it into the clay, which takes 
years to accomplish. By that time the 
road is worn out and another lot gets a 
job to mulct the State Treasury. Per¬ 
haps the people in these States mentioned, 
except Oregon, are, as P. T. Barnum 
said ; they like to be humbugged. 
A Wonderful Lake. —We saw one of 
the wonders of America, Hot Lake ; a lake 
that spouts water 195 degrees Fahrenheit, 
and flows two and a half million gal¬ 
lons per day. By the courtesy of Dr. 
Phy, who has a sanitarium built near the 
springs, we had the privilege of inspect¬ 
ing this wonderful freak of nature. The 
hot water is conveyed through pipes to 
heat all the buildings connected with the 
institution. A poultry-house where they 
have several thousand White Leghorn 
hens that never touch the earth is heated 
from the hot springs in Winter. At the 
sanitarium people who are troubled with 
rheumatics and kindred ailments are 
treated by mud and vapor baths by ex¬ 
pert hospital attendants. The railroad 
station is named Hot Lake; altitude 
2,702 ft. 
The thermometer has been hovering 
around zero for a week, one night 17 be¬ 
low zero, and our three-burner oil stove 
has to hustle at high speed to keep our 
hotel warm, but we are still plugging 
along. j. c. berrang. 
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