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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1879)
2g2 THE WEST SHORE. October, 1879 saturated at 390 Fall., the average winter in Western Oregon holds 4 gallons; and 5,000 feet lii h, 23 gallons. A column covering in acre, 1,000 feet high, at 39" Fall., holds 2,061 gallons; and 5,xxfcet high, n,35 gallons. Re duce this temperature to ja, and a, gallons must fall out of the latter ( olumn over the acre. Again, a column covering nn acre, i , xx feet high, saturated at y Fall., the average spring in Western Oregon holds 3,278 gallons; and 5,(xx feet .high, 16,390 gallons, Reduce this tem perature to jje Finland ,o.Ss gallons must drop upon the aeie. Again, a column covering an acre, l,(xx feet high, saturated at 67" Fah., the average summer west of the Cas cade mountains-holds s,S. gallons; and at 5,000 feet high in the ha' e "I Ml. I Iii.hI il , holds J7,)i(j gal- " Ions. Heduielhe '. t e ill pe 1 ,1 1 11 1 e of " ' this column to " Si" F a h a 11 d 1 1 ,1 J0 gallons 45r must full ujKin ffl The ail Over the basin ol 'he U ppet 1 "li n hin, often in eat ly summci is raised i" 6 Fall., and miturated hj the .1 p ci 1 -laden m i' 11 11 w 1 11 d s. Hut when this 1 "i uis, the colli an 1 1 1 1 m 1 1 e mow covered Coeut d' Alone mount ains no the cast, and the Blue mount- mils nn the touth, and tin Simcoe and t'nM nde mountain! on the west, rushes down, meets the sea winds, funning j;u .itei 01 imallei whills,likc eddies in rivtfl cunents, cooling all tin- ail and causing the rain-fall ovet wide i paces, 01 torrents rom the whirling wain ipouta. It I 1. h ls N,ii 1 1 v l-iivl ,, Those places which cm lie healed . j 11 it k 1 ami intensely, and which have few cooling forest-., 01 green fields, gic occasion for the sudden and violent 1 "inleils.it ion of vnpoi M Winds fioin colder regions. The equilibrium of the air must he rOatOftd by local, or bj extraneous influences. Those who watch the summer changes in the up per country, will notice the regular in flow of ocean winds after two or three hot davs. The mountain winds are equally regular towards the hot plains Hut increase the orchards, and fields of grain and vegetables, the shade trees and timber groves, and the air will he kept cooler, and thus violent storms and especially waterspouts will hecome less freipient less destructive. The Willamette valley, and all the forest covered belt of country west of the Cascade mountains, are almost free from violent storms, and entirely free from water spouts. Were it possible to destroy all these forests, this region would he subject to more terrific storms of this class. HI! OREGON ITV FLOURING Mil l.. From a Photo by C. M. Kr.srFR. the lips of the Great Teacher. The physical and spiritual forces arc in har. mony. Body and soul must live by care and wise labor. Woe to the land without fields, orchards and forests! Woe to that people without homes, school houses and churches 1 CHANGES TO UK EXPECTED IN THE UPPER COI.UMIHA REGION. It has been styled a rainless desert, fit only for pasturage, and to be inhab. itcd forever by roving herdsmen and shepherds. By degrees the farmer and orchardist, the garden and the shade tree, the timber grove, the cottage, the village, the school house and the church are taking the place of herds and flocks, huts and wigwams. The dawn of a new era has come, which will make the desert to bud and blossom as the rose, wherein the season will have sunshine and showers, and wherein also the fe moral waters y will, it is hoped, be made to flour ish with the light and life of truth and virtue. Sure, by natural law, will the material elements under go changes of seasons by cul tivation, and by as sure natural law may the moral change" improve. 1 Palestine, denuded of forests, orch ards, fields and vineyards, Is exposed to storms more fierce, and more sudden, and less beneficial than were known in its earlier ages of forest covered moun tains and hills, an(j cultivated fields, olixc yards and vineyards. The words Of the Lord Jesus Matthew vii, 27 wcte seen by natural law. The dry wad dles of that land, once full Ol springs and water brooks, show how the de st Miction of forests and the arrest of cul tivation, will desolate the fairest coun try and make it people poor. I)c Itroj .ill true moral culture, and make a moral desert of any community and desolating Hoods will sweep them nil ' . by natural law, is the lesson Irom THE ORKCON CITY MILLS. It is always apleasure to Us to notice our manufacturing establishments, we therefore present our readers in this is sue with a correct view of the Oregon City Flouring Mills, of which Captain J. I). Miller is the enterprising propri etor. Located in the thriving manu facturing town of Oregon City, and di rectly on the bank of the Willamette river, the mill possesses most excellent shipping facilities, to which the swift steamer, A. A. McCully, of 240 tons burden, owned and run in the interest of the mill, contributes in no small de gree. The building was originally erected in i8V, for a paper mill, but 2 years