October, i88d
278
THE WEST SHORE.
Ok !.(.). OAK A Jil.lA !..-.
A package of these very fine oak ax
helve among the freight on the Can.
ende IkuiI, n few day ago, marked lor
(ioldcitdalc, led to a discussion with one
of Portland' most enterprising furni
ture manufacturer respecting tiie value
of thin kind of timher. Its fine grain
nnd rich color, and smooth finish, its
toughness and strength and tcuhion all
ktamp it an (irsi-clas timher. Hi pur
pose K to make one or more oak sets to
test the market and introduce the style.
Oregon and Washington ash and maple
have already won a fair fame in house
finishing and furnishing. An arrest h;i
I urn put upon the wholesale destruction
of ash and maple forests fur wood, or
merely to clear the land. Tl.i lumber
i worth $rand (50 per M for furni
ture, Ilk value in furniture is live times
that mini $jx to $150 per thousand
feet. Thin ik the value which manufac
ture addk to our raw material. Sev
enty five )i-r cent is what we pay for
the lahor of others, when wc import
uch house furnishings. Those who
use our own raw luniher and work it
up add this sum to the current wealth
nf the community. They employ the
mlisun ami assure him the support of
Ins family, 1 hey invite him to come
and make his home among ns, nnd
make it possible fur him to do mi.
They give hi children a chance to learn
t unlet mid he industrious. They mi far
abate the hoodlum evil. They pro
mote h healthy kocial condition. '1 hey
add a large n-r cent, of value to 0111
forestk and give help and hope to the
owners. They make a home market
for pioduce, nnd thus aid the farmer,
oriluidist and gardener. Town and
country already U-gin to thrive from
uch manufactures. OA at furniture
lumber will add pcihups ten or even
twenty er cent, more to the value of
these productive enterprises. The huge
trunk nnd limit of the older (inks,
found in Marion, Washington, Yam
hill, I'olk, llenton, Linn ami I.anc
counties, can lc wrought by machinery
Into line and durable furniture. The
rich grain of the wood will reveal per
Imps as many vm it-lie a the ash.
OAK I IIAIH.
These arc intxrtel at large cost.
1 weitty-live hundred dollar a month
iv now paid by imixirtcriof these oak-
fiantc, cane-M-ated chair. Our grub
oak Keller than that in the iniiHutcd
chair. It only tired skill and ma-
cliinery to upply the home mai ket an I
to Isrconic an export.
OAK rokk Att KKI.MIK.
Carriage maker admit that selected
Oregon oak i cjul in tougltncs and
Hreitgth to eastern oak, but it i not
much used in their business, because it
it not fttlotl by machinery for use.
I land -made snukca and felloes and
helves cannot compete with those turn
ed out from eastern shops. This excludes
Oregon oak makes it marketable only
for wood. Thousands of acres of these
thrifty grub oaks arc annually cleared
to raise more wheat; hut the oaks will
he worth more standing than the wheat,
as the black walnut forests of Indiana
and Illinois would now he worth more
than all the crops raised on those lands.
1 his waste of limber is an evil without
a remedy. Once destroyed it is gone
forever. New England has been strip
ped of itH white pine forests, and now
its lumbermen search the Canadas for
supplies. Its massive oaks for ship
building are also gone lor the most
part. Its smaller forests arc fading nway
but the manufacturer turns these into
gold, making from a few trees a large
income. This is the true method for
our manufacturers, liev G. II. Atkin
son in Oregonian.
TIIK I'l'CKT SOUND I.UMI1KR MIII.S.
The irii'untic forests nf I'mn-t Swmnrl
have fed for more than a quarter of a
century ravenous saws, and filled hun
dreds ol slims and still the bunt
still the teeth of sleel sink into the trunks
of huge trees which have been dragged
from valley and mountain slope in an
swer to the insatiable demand of man,
and still ships laden with the spoil out
ride wave and tcmncst. mid bi-iir thi.
product of the forests of Washington
territory into lorcign ports. In a
financial point of view
TIIK l.l'MIIKIIINO INTKKKSTS
Of the Sound are vast ; in a commercial
view these interests reach tn th nm..
of China, Mexico, California and the
islands ol the sea ; in a local view they
hold out the banner of
sturdy, honest labor nnd build hundreds
of homes. A description of one ofthese
ensuing, noisy, milling ports suffices for
a description, with kliclit Vlll'iiltion in 1..
tail, of all. Kach one is pervaded bv tb.
busy hum of industry ; each has its mam
moth mountain of sawdust in tl, c..
ground, its straggling pilos of unsightly
slalts. Ill hllirn ..I : I ' . J
. .... r.,v-. u, ,i,liuil8 KIIKIS Ol
lunilier, its great
IIOOM OK WHITING I.OCS,
It ship loading nl the wharves, its new
vessc U up the stocks, while over each
and all lloats the resinous odor of new
lumlf r nnd the eternal din of the re
morselcw, Mw, , ,h lkVour
noisy gUsio hgC relic, of ,hc
mcval. 1 hive hundred thousand feet
IH-r day the record which the Port
Ludlow mill will reach when the new
bUlldim: IsCOIllnl.t,.,! TU- 1 . ..
Company here expect to realize the
pmt.aiH.ast f having the largest saw
mill in the world. ti, . 1. -? .
: tt r 1 ; putting
n the foundatton for this structure,
HuMmg wharvesetc, i, going on. ft
theUi.pyard, , hHUme pilot schooner
just ready to launch, a beautiful pleasure
yacht approaching completion, and the
KEEL OF A BARKENTINE,
140 feet long, recently laid, indicate the
industries in this line. The force of
men employed has a wide range. The
sturdy axemen who locate camps in the
depth ofthe forest and fell trees through
out dripping gloom of a northwest
winter ; the teamsters who drag the
unwieldy trunks to the water side, the
raftsmen who steer the logs down over
rapids nnd through tortuous channels
to the waters ofthe Sound, and thence
by easier sailing until safely secured in
the
IIOOM AT THE MILL
The men with pitch begrimed hands
and garments who bring them in reach
of the saws and gauge and convert them
into lumber ; the hands that bear this
into the yards and load it into vessels,
and the crews that work thescdast over
stormy seas to destined ports, all bear
their share in the prosecution of this
vast nnd important industry, while over
all the financial wisdom, that establishes
and directs these varied movements,
towers, making for itself a competence
while giving employment to hundreds
who can only labor when directed by a
sagacity more penetrating than their
own. The
CHIEF DANGER
In filling the wholesale lumber demand
is that the forests of Western Wash
ington will be swept from the face of
the earth. A contemplation of the in
roads made upon them during a third
of a century suflices to foreshadow the
fate that awaits them if greed does not
give place to a wisdom that would stay
its rapacity. Olympia Standard.
HETWKEN A MARRIED COUPLE.
" Take me to .o the opera to-night,
dearr
"I am afraid I can't, rf."
"Why not, wef
" I'd rather not, sv'tet."
"Hut why not. darlinef
"Because I can't afford 'precious."
" Why can't you afford it, Mr. Smithf
"Because it costs too much, Mrs.
Smith."
" Costs too much! Why the Browns
and Joneses go ever so many times a
week, man."
"The Browns nnd Joneses are fools,
then, woman."
" You needn't be more common than
you can help, sir."
" don't mean to be, ma'am."
" If you won't take me, I'll go all the
same, husband."
I think not, wife."
Here they found they could call one
another nothing worse, so dropped the
subject. 1
A, three-cent stamp becomes a acnt
stamp after you have mailed your
letter. ' .