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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