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. A nhflIVVIW1 I) t .....
yu do not lin vou wH 1 61 m a1 thinS8 that if
first weed pulfod ni in tH T T6.0 Rn eni The
ground, fiSSSiSlSff th-6 firl Td b the
first mile traveled on I S. 6 T88 bank' and
they mnke fiSii SnS T ""-P0 things;
Pllge, an assZice tl U Ut -B hoPe' a V10.
you hti nndrfT"Ce Hll,t y "e in earnest in what
outcast is now creen ml 8 P001-' idle' hesitating
the world who 3 H,"? V" ?? his wy trough
:t . .miFut uve held un h i haA iA J?-
a e-