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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1884)
74 THE WEST SHORE. from Cliioii'io find tlmt fir floorim. first erado. finislie( nml Arv phi Iik frit!irlilil from T'artliiiul to that citv I11K inilil lit n nr. .fit I'mrol Koiiiul unnrx nrn uiilil in Xew York or IiivrNNl at h fair inurin. Largo trees, 7 to 8 foot in i i ... ..i . i i . . i diHiiii'N'r, iitrnioriv wnioii nrn now sinvcu nuo massive Ih-iiiiim for railroad or bridge work. Mills that Haw plank MO or 120 foot lonjj arn driven to fill their orders. Kail pmd earn of greatest strength aro built of Oregon yellow fir, Those HMM'ial diamonds will bo multiplied an traflic iucri'aHCH. Tli preservation of tinder differs from timlwr culture and fontit preservation, the care of which belongs to the I'niled Stales (lovcriiinent for the sako of climate and water supply. Private companies can, anil will, take n-U-r caroof their own tinilMrthan Government or small holders will 1m dinged to do. Their interests require it. It has boon the cukIoiii for thirty years for farmers to destroy llieir limls? id clearing land for cultivation. Mill companies keep and protect their tracts. Those of l'nget Hound, who aro said to own 300,000 or 400,000 nop, will preserve it more carefully for future use when needed than owners of a few hundred ncres ever would la I hey can, and will, hold for a larger profit than it would pay to le forced nixm n full market A monoioly f timlsT laud on this coast may prove the best means of iw preservation for ruturo jHipulations. 0. II. Atkinson. OA8TELLATED ROOKS OF THE MISSOURI VOT only in the grandeur of iU rugged canyons nnd 11 the ,K,wer and Uwuty of its waterfalls docs the .umsoun cou.mnml the admiration of travelers. Among many ,HHM.Iiar ..tlractions are the quaint forms and unique carvings of Nture seen ImiImw ... , r the Jud.th, known as the Castellated Rocks. No .-u t uesj-rip uon or them can bo given than that by C., ams ,w,s and Clarke, who viewed them i Jno IS". , while ,m,ss.k up the stream on their great journey U the mouth of the Columbia. Their re,H,r say ...eh Is nild r.vor cliffs exhibit a most extraordin y Hd Pm antie np,s.aranW; they ri j Ulmt I- dicularly from the water to the height of litweenZ ".Hhp. hum,, f,,,, ,, m In nclln.g down the cliffs the water has worn oukIv him!!.,..,.! 1 """oingH, with columns vur- cdllmilK. Koine III, ....i ' . . ' 7 lor,n of fUMS globular nests in the niches and hover over these columns, as in our country they are accustomed to frequent large stone structures. As we advance there seems no end of the visionary enchantment which surrounds us. In the midst of this fantastic scenery ore vast ranges of walls, which seem the productions of art, so regular is the work manship. They rise perpendicularly from the river, sometimes to the height of 100 feet, varying in thickness from one to twelve feet, being equally broad at the top as below. The stones of which they are formed are black, thick and durable, and composed of a laree portion of earth, intermixed and cemented with a small quantity of sand and a considerable proportion of talo or quartz. These stones are almost invariably regular parallelepids of unequal sizes in the wall, but equally deep, and laid regularly in ranges over each other like bricks, each breaking and covering the insterstice of the two on which it rests; but though the perpendicular insterstice be de- stroyed, the horizontal one extends entirely through the wnoio work; the Btones, too, are proportioned to the thickness of the wall in which they are employed, being largest in the thickest walls. The thinner walls are com posed of a single depth of the parallelepid, while the thicker ones consist of two or more depths. These walls pass the river at several places, rising from -the water's edge much above the sandstone bluffs which they seem to penetrate; thence thev cross in a straight either side of the river, the plains over which thev Wr to the height of from ten to seventy feet, until they lose uiemsoives in the second range of hills; sometimes they run parallel in several ranees near to each other ama! times intersect each other at right angles, and have the apiearance of walls of ancient houses or gurdens." w uue noating down stream on a ealm mmnlit !, one can readily imagine himself on the ancient Euphratres imttH1"S mrougn the rums of the mighty city of Babylon. The lights and shad with these eroded cliffs to form the most grotesque shapes and peculiar images, constantly changing and blending, lumanlf 1 i I t i ..." iupieieiy to the most vivid and curious fancies lira imagination can cnnoAi'va T ; . t, . - guiutj or irom Jiort uenton by Bteamer those An0liotQj , - """" iu are passea, and U,e tourist who can spare the time for such a trip will find it one of the most interesting on bi drrn,ie,C?;inent,n0tnlyf0r the parities here ' fr maDy ther nttracti stores of the river scenery. columns, wi,h .hsuV.1 ' T V,' ,,,rmo1 wiM by nicl,,!, of dosolaM .nagninV Ti r?M nryn,-'r-cmml by u lnilllUr J 110 ,s in. nanms ho have built their M. . -n AUAIVE. 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